Chapter 7 (1/2)

The Lazy King Chapter 7: Superbia

Part 1: To the Supreme Demon Lord

When co

Their lifespans equate to eternity, and aging fron to them

The shape of their soul, the shape of their will, and the shape of their desires is what resolves their being, and seeds of that resolute way of being are the greatest factors that influence this absurdly large Demon World

At the same time, as Demons continue to utilize their endless lives to delve into their desires, their power can groith no lih strength to defile the very Heavens that would once be their natural enemy

The first thing that entered or-less arb His artlessly cut hair fell over dirty clothing stained with dust Supporting his body was a creaking armchair of faded color

No life, energy or will, but what he did have was a vast amount of power

Even for my immature senses, I could feel it fill the world, simple deep and dark, as if it were the air, a natural and quiet ic

… The King of Depravity

Survival of the fittest In a world where Deantly competed with one another, there existed but one who did not interfere, and just by being there, he had clihty Demon

Withoutany blood flow, a pitiful Demon who had even been left behind by the flow of time

Leigie the 『Depraved』

It wasn’t certain that he could grant power to those who desired it

But the inverse also stood true

Even if he had power, it wasn’t certain if he could put it to practical use, and as Sloth, it wasn’t even certain if he could use it at all

The De anything, without thinking anything

No, while his eyes were directed inat , and all I was certain of was that the thoughts that dwelled in those eyes were ones that someone like me wouldn’t possibly be able to comprehend

Perhaps… in was a miracle

As a gaotten his hands on for the first time, and for a reason as simple as that, I was born

Of course, I only realized that after , and never once having been ordered from ie eained my own self-awareness, and even my own desires

Even after seeing

The reason forI couldn’t understand

It wasn’t even the Deoal was only to use his power, and he didn’t even hold any interest towards the result

I simply looked at my master

Relieving his will of Sloth,

Looking at the pitiful legion of the Dele follower,

Who didn’t even eat food, and who simply moved back and forth between a squalid chair he arbitrarily picked up somewhere and a damp bed I looked at the form of my lord

Even so, any and all sorts of Heroes, Sages, Deels, and even Demon Lords didn’t pique his interest when they ca at his way of life…

“… Hm… so this is how a 『Ruler』 should be…”

Even now, I can remember it clearly

That was, those were the first words I ever vocalized

How useless How pointless

Without any goal, his long life of nothingness ed into a massive power

Just how unsightly, how unbearable

That was the Longing I governed

As such, I gained the Original Sin of 『Superbia』

My deplorable creator’s forers that faced defeat by his hand, had long surpassed any comedy

And at the same time, I harbored an intense jealousy

His rew in proportion to the flow of ti, but the other seeds… the other Deht

That power alone was suited to my creator, and at the same time, if I could 『Overrule』 it, I wondered if I would truly beco, able to stand above not only people, but everything in existence

That’s what I thought

That’s what I couldn’t help but think

There is no ranks a power

But even in her and nobler than all

At the rate I was going, I kneould never surpass it

I gained life as a Deine, the being that reached De

I can 『Overrule』 Those slovenly gestures, personality, and a way unbefitting a supreh to think of them as below me

But I couldn’t win It wasn’t on a level where good affinity or anything ap in life, experience, even existence

Overruling can increase battle ability, and bring about enough power to overturn the gap between the Demon Ranks 『General』 and 『Lord』 It’s a superior skill, but even that wasn’t enough

I understood by instinct The insurreat, I couldn’t help but understand by instinct

… Not yet

Even while watchingIt’s always silent

“… Hm But if my master is like this, then people will start to see me as the same”

“… I see”

The Lazy King let out a bored voice from under the covers He displays not the tone variation of emotion

His eyes look up at htest will

I declare It is all for my own sake

It was also like an oath In order to carve my existence into the world

“Nominally and virtually, I shall make Father into the Supreme Demon Lord”

“… Do not want”

“… H Of all else, for… my sake”

“… I see”

Just do whatever you want

Without letting out his voice, the Lazy King ish movements

I was alatching From back when I didn’t have any decent awareness

It was his evident reaction

But so be it

… As a start, let’s subjugate this region

I suppressed all the foolish Denored my Master as harmless, all to make this vast land into my exalted master’s mausoleum

And by the ti, perhaps I’ll have become an existence that surpasses even the Demon Lords of this hell

Part 2: At least leave it Supreme

The Demon World

Where the strong are respected , Deht and steal over the limited resources

Without any debate, it’s all worthless

Greed

lust

Wrath

Gluttony

Envy

Pride

And… Sloth

I have but one goal

While training, Overruling and struggling, I understood it clearly

The territory increases The ic I wear increases My Pride Tree advances

As if rassroots, a simple task

Demons of course, as well as Heavenly assassins, and occasionally foolish warriors who coate a Demon Lord

Everything yielded to me To my power And my master’s power

My basic abilities were high from the start

There’s no way that one made by the Lord of Sloth, who’s basically just a lump of power, could be weak

And I repeatedly trained

I forged ic, wisdom, leadershi+p To eli defeat because of some foolish reason

That was oal, and the primary factor that increased my poith Pride at the base

Other Lords’ desires are fragile when compared to my lord’s Sloth

Like a flying arrow, time passed

Eventually, a castle was made

Around the house too small to be called a house my Master lived in, ramparts extended for miles

The tower built in the center pierced even the heavens

Named the Castle of Shadows, the Lord of Sloth’s bedroo width and majesty that surpassed the castles of any kind of Demon Lord

My Master’s castle I’m not satisfied If he’s the man ill stand over me even if it be teh

Deathered

The Demons that yielded, the Demons I forced to yield

I led the useless rabble, and put an army in order Supreme soldiers that would surpass any Demon Lord’s armies

As time passed, they came to be famous

Leigie of Sloth’s Strongest Legion

Even if I didn’t force them to submit personally, foolish Deathered

Their nuade, Third Brigade

But no matter what Demon came in, none of them could even reach my feet

Weak Much too weak

Even without 』 them, they had Overruled themselves, and they were all too weak to amount to an enemy of me

Unlosing and absolute

I have no losses, and as such, my master has never faced defeat either

The her I rose, the er my power became

A Pride Deth is proportional to their battle experience

Strength is the proof of having overcoain

The more you learn, the more you understand, the more distant defeat seems

The o by, the further defeat becomes No matter how h to lose to any young Demon I accumulate absolute confidence in myself

… But at the sa time to the Lord of Sloth

Eventually, the Great De our surrender

Unlike the definite gap between De is siiven to the Dereatest territory

But the fact that they lead such great forces within this Dereat of an extent

I o out

The Sin this King governed was Pride A De as his foundation And at the sa the warring De it, he would take in the world above, and even the Heavens Ahis level of power

After seeing hi special

At the point Ihe was no ie of Sloth

It see ti was foolish, and he didn’t even reach htly competent

If I make him yield, will my Master’s position rise?

It was a useless notion For a Demon Lord of this level, there’s not even any worth in annihilating him

As A Demon Lord of Pride, if I make him submit, his power level will fall There’s not even any use in taking him into the army…

My Master’s depraved state simply continued to deepen

His authority doesn’t grow in the slightest, but his power alone continued to grow, and that for a Lord of all Demons

I ask him Questions

He always returns the usual response

No es from those tords

The Great De with my Master

And after theyseat shi+fted

It was too great of a gap between hi that merely laid around like a rock was incomprehensible to those around him

The Great Deain

In the end, the Dens of unification

Demon Lords are born, and Demon Lords die

The nae, as they continually try and invade the Demon World

A large-scale invasion was launched by Heaven A Large majority of the Demons died out

… But the Castle of Shadows continued to sleep

My Master continues to live in his slurow To a height no Demon or Demon Lord would ever reach

At the same time, the one born fro able to fulfill the long-cherished desire of my Pride

The Lord of Sloth who can’t be scratched at all

The Doll born from his skill is peerless

Over months and years, the dolls he made to kill ti their n batttlefields

Leigie the Depraved eventually cahterdolls』

By the inal body

A clan of De up I can’t comprehend them But let it be so

Fora clan like that isn’t bad No, it’s natural for there to be one

Inspectors from the Black Order start to be dispatched

Let it be so Observe my Master however you like In the end, people with your lowly level of poon’t be able to scratch Leigie the Depraved

Subordinates die They die one after another, and our personnel continues to shi+ft

By a sht hand died A foolish one There can be no negligence on the battlefield

Even without old age, there areDemons with the natural instinct for battle

Deth are done in by other Demon Lords, and the weak climb up the ranks to Lordshi+p

All that prospers must decay

Enee Information about various Demons and Lords flood the library, and a second, and a third library are built

A o, unnecessary documents

Once a year, the symbol carved on the wall fills the room, and covers the hallways

I taste the feeling of being a rock

All that doesn’t change is my Master’s existence, and the Demon World’s pale blue moon

Even still, I’m no match I can’t see the end

I selected Demons of Sloth, and launched attacks

Most of the to talk about They didn’t use any skills worth noting

No matter how many decades, centuries, millennia pass, another Demon Lord of Sloth doesn’t rise

Are they resting soie the Depraved was?

Or could it be that Sloth De Demon Lord status?

That is left unknown

Heaps of bodies, streams of blood

It’s become troublesome to even count the number of Demon Corpses that have piled up, but the iie of Sloth never dulls, no oes by

Inferiority That is a 『Superbia』 Dereatest enemy

Even more months pass

Inforathers I polish myself I repel enemy seeds

By the time I realized it, there was plenty of prey out there, but no one to be my enemy

As long as there’s no one for row Pride without its foundations is close to worthless

I had reached the peak I ic, butDemon Lord Level

My final and greatest wall The wall known as Leigie

… But that ends today

Medea’s disposal did not even pose a warmup, let alone a rehearsal

In the end, she’s just an Invidia, capable of nothing but i others

Trying to imitate my Master’s skill was pure stupidity For a Sloth Skill with low offensive power, it barely has any power once a Greed or Envy Demon takes and uses it

I sigh My soul and ear have been raised to top class Even the hazy combat experience from the corners of my mind have surely accumulated in a place I don’t know about

I open the door

Because it was frequently burned up by that lass Kanon’s subordinate, the often changing rooave off a faint lewd smell

While I knew this beforehand, while he should have sensed le word, or stir a single inch

He slept still as if he were dead

You sure have fallen… Leigie the Depraved

You used a skill just to help a single lowly maid

On top of personally going to battle, you got a scratch from the likes of Zebul

Moreover, you left yourself to be defiled

Your recent acts have been much too wretched for my Master

… No, perhaps it’s about time for you

It really has been a long ti one

And Father is supposed to have experienced an even longer time alive Even if I pile up all my experience, I cannot predict them

Right no many are there out there who know the same Demon World as you?

The ic I feel from his body is immense

Even if you grouped together all the average Demon Lords, they won’t be a

… Leigie the Depraved is weakening

A rare sight in the thousands, tens of thousands of years I’ve spent with him

He went against the 『Acedia』 he governes

All of it is… as expected

The et Contrarily, the more they decide to move of their own volition, the more their poill drop

I stand by the bed On my master’s face, with his eyes closed as if he were dead, I see nothing besides nihility

I take up his liers in which I can’t even feel the T of Training, his white transparent corpse-like skin had light blue blood vessels running across

“Father… it’s been many years, hasn’t it”

Leigie doesn’t give a response But I can tell

Father isn’t sleeping right now To the Lord of Sloth, whether he be awake or asleep, everything is but an ephemeral dream

As such, I continued on

It really was our first conversation in a long time

You’ve fallen, in a way appropriate for ie-sah

In the first place, this was so, long ago

Father is a sharp overns Sloth, he also has parts in him aside from it

That is the clear difference between him and other Sloth Deie of Sloth was able to live perpetually

I have much that I want to say, but I don’t need words

Of how I increased his followers, and reatest power in the Great Demon Lord’s army

Of how he foiled countless assassinations from Heaven, and had those assassins fall to Demonhood

Of hohile still sleeping, he repelled a raid launched by a dozen Human Heroes

Of how the forirl who didn’t even harbor any desires, Kanon, rose up to be the Great De

Of how I a separated from the flow of time

Of how not a single Demon Lord from when I was created still remain

Of how friends, companions, enemies died, new ones were born, only to die as well

With no e of ti by nature

And having been born froest Demon Lord myself

Next to father, I get down on one knee, and lower my head

This is resolve Today, I will become a Demon Lord, and never taste defeat for the rest of my life No, even if I am to be defeated…

… The kneeling is unnecessary

But this is the only coive father as the Prideful Kaiser, Heard Lauder

“You’ve done enough Let ant, I will see to your end personally”

“… I see”

… So at least stay Supreie the Depraved

Part 3: How Appropriate for the Curtain Call

Sloth Skills boast powers that cover a large around

(TL: As in usability, not distance)

But at the same time, it’s also said that it’s extremely difficult to acquire the sin

In the first place, as long as they can fulfill their Sin without fighting, the skills they acquire are barely ever fit for battle

I fill up ie had easily destroyed the Gluttony King only served to raise her

The legs supporting the large, canopied bed break

The mo cry as I thrust forward

My fist hits Leigie’s head oh so easily The cracking sound of sos out

The iie’s body is sent flying like a scrap of paper

A thunderous sound

The entire building shakes greatly As if the Castle of Shadoas crying out

The extra strength anti-Lize barrier is broken easily, and even the wall itself is destroyed What’s more, it isn’t just one or talls

In the opened hole, I see unobstructed darkness Around Leigie’s room, there are no other personal rooms

I fiddle with the remains of the bed with my feet

My condition is perfect There is nothing obstructingall over my body is the compilation of all of my own research, as well as the accumulated history I spent with my Master

I take a deep breath, and exhale it

I cannot give Sloth time

I kicked the floor My speed instantly reached its climax

Speed faster than anyone

Strength stronger than anyone

… In order to fly higher than anyone

Such is Superbia’s Original Sin

Weapons are unnecessary My body itself is perfection

Ih my vision at the speed of sound

It didn’t even take a second for ie as sprawled out on the floor a ways away

With ed No, he disappeared

The Teleportation Skill possessed by Sloth A skill that lets him transfer himself anywhere within his own territory

His presence is behind me Before I even sensed it, my body moved

It was a high kick carrying forward all ie’s head

I understand My thoughts understand How aannu the inco’s movements have become possible to me

The unreadable theory behind his actions was only known to me

My physical strength broke the ceiling, and a large hole was opened Blocks as big as my head start to come down

My body becoht, and bind them A Skill of Sloth

I already know it I activate 『Overrule』, and break through it without a problem

What’s frightening is his tenacity, his vitality

I should have delivered enough dae if a normal Demon Lord was killed, but the VIT that let him activate a skill without issue is the characteristic of Sloth

Then I just have to hit hireater power head-on

“… It hurts…”

A slow voice leaks out of the hole that was opened

I concentrate my power

Getting into a long range battle with hiround with my feet, and concentrate power on my core

“Here I come”

With my leap, the barrier breaks, and the floor caves in beneath me

I load h the hole in the ceiling

What enters ie buried in a mountain of rubble He oozes tears, as he holds his head His injuries have already healed

Seeing me almost instantly close the distance between us, he directs a surprised expression As always, killing intent, blood thirst, or anything that could be called fighting spirit is completely absent in him

“HaaAAAAAAAH!”

“Ku…

Yell Roar

Using all the power in my body, I send out a strike

Leigie’s expression warped for the first time At the same time, an invisible wall appeared around his body

A Sloth Skill to erect a defense-raising barrier

Useless I already know of that one

(TL Useless means Muda)

Asany resistance, the barrier shatters like glass

As long as I’ve Overruled it before, utilizing a barrier is the height of folly

My heart circulates heat around my body

Before ure vanished

What a troubleso Sloth is a contradiction

His use of that is one of the factors leading to his di Sloth

“… Did I do so to you?”

There’s no need to ask There’s no way our conversations will mesh

I swung my hand upwards at the voice that came from my side

Leigie used his arainst it

I hear his bones grate

A Sloth Skills, there’s one to coie’s expression doesn’t seem to look pained anymore

And even if I do injure hiie-sama’s vitality, he’ll heal it in an instant

“Father, please rest already”

“… Yeah”

With eyes that conveyed, ‘What the hell is this guy saying,’ he nodded

He isn’t listening We cannot communicate

With this unstable footing, kicking would be difficult OnSkill before throwing it out

Leigie prepared his arms to take it

There is no battle theory behind Leigie of Sloth His attack techniques are laughably simple

It is… suppression by pure power

A power strong enough to rip apart a normal Demon Lord… a mass of Soul

In it, ordinary technique held no hts to utilize such technique

With every blow, Leigie’s arms let out ominous sounds

I’ him back

But there isn’t any anguish on his face, and while I may be able to h to deal a decisive blow

He’s too hard But I knew that fro

The fact that I was pushi+ng back the Lord of Sloth served to strengthen my 『Overrule』 even furtherPower flows up from the depths of my body

And finally, h the last layer of ceiling

A blood-red sky, and the black structure of the Castle of Shadows… the fortress expanded as far as my vision would permit

Once per day, I take it to look over it froh up as the tower, but the sight fro to be made fun of

I’ve always felt a sense of resignation at the fact that this spectacle would crumble one day

The soldiers keeping watch hurriedly ca be penetrated

“W-what happened, Heard-sama?”

“There is no need for the likes of you to mind it Return to your post”

“Y-yes Understood sir!”

It’s all a trivial talk

I leisurely look over the fortress, as I advance towards the falling Leigie

“Father, don’t you think it’s beautiful?”

“… Yeah”

Without even taking a glance at his surroundings, theI’ll never understand

So this is just self-satisfaction

His suspicious eyes, his black, impure pupils look up at me

Emotionless eyes The eyes of a dead fish

I harden the palm of my hand to create a blade shape with it

(TL: He’s doing tegatana, , a position usually used to chop In this instance, he’s using it to pierce)

“Next, I’ll be cutting”

“… I give up”

All of this is so I’ve seen too many times

That conduct, fooled by his sloppy gesture, dozens of Demon Lords have fallen

But for me, I, his son, ah when the time calls for it

He needs no fighting spirit or killing intent Just so that he can slack off further, Leigie uses his power

Therefore, he hasn’t fled yet Even though he could have jumped far aith his teleportation by now

… It’s because he thinks running fro

Let it be so

Thus is what signifies him as the Lord of Sloth

He doesn’t want to fight, but I’m a pain, so he’ll try and crush me

His i Spirit of most Demons is the proof of his desire

The contrast between him and what most would think of Sloth is what has made many Demons, Dereat detail

Even now, Leigie’s power is gradually declining He’s accumulated enormous reserves, so it’s hard to notice, but while his power may seem close to infinite, it is infinite by no means

If I retreated here, and challenged hiain once my condition was perfect once reater advantage

But that choice is ie?