Chapter 7 - Volume 1 (1/2)
Chapter 4 (Part 1)Chapter 4 – Romantic Deceptive Tactics (Part 1)▯Weakest Demon Lord, Rank 71st, Dantalian
Empire Calendar: Year 1505, Month 8, Day 15
Dantalian’s Demon Lord Castle
To leave one’s home only leads to trouble
I declare that that sentence was the truth
Traditionally, people gained life lessons froreat people
The one truth I was able to discover froh the history of mankind from time immemorial, was that every incident to ever happen was outside one’s hoh such hardshi+p was because he had run away from home The reason Caesar was assassinated was because he had uselessly wandered around outside
The most memorable death was that of philosopher Rene Descartes Thisnaps, however, his superior had suddenly ordered him to ‘co of overwork After learning of such historical tragedy, I had coo outside Then your safety will be certain
History scholars would probably gladly give a standing ovation to such a brilliant solution My name would be forever remembered as the advocate of theory in the history books
But, I couldn’t be happy
The world was overfloith people who begrudged geniuses It may be possible to impress the history scholars, but to receive the admiration of the public was incredibly difficult Recently, I had been experiencing ically eaten alive by the jealously and envy of the people……
“Your highness Dantalian”
The culprit to create this tragedy was Lapis Lazuli
Ironically, she was my first vassal
“It is already 11am Please wake up”
“Mm, mmm…… is 11am not still the crack of dawn……?”
“This one does not knohere to raise an argu then it is that 11am absolutely is not dawn”
Lapis Lazuli spoke cal the people, did her utmost to interfere withso was her duty by fate
I groaned as if I was a politician being assaulted by the nasty ht, said that 11am is not dawn……?”
“Sound common sense decided so”
I pulled my blanket over my head
To want to takeIf this wasn’t an uniinable violence, then I didn’t knohat it was Not only was that succubus’ period getting worse, but there was a loose screw in her head, I was certain
“Most people have aed on their own Therefore, rules for a mental hospital As a unique sane individual, such as myself, I shall not fall to the pressure of those psychopaths……”
“Haa Your highness has been sleeping for 22 hours now”
Show so I could hear frohter, displayingso firmly The world won’t co in 10 hness mention the end of the world just for 10 more minutes of sleep? This one cannot help but be aic”
Lapis Lazuli spoke as if she was dumbfounded
“It is a conceptual shi+ft I live life to the fullest everyday as if it was my last In short, I do ined that the word lazy and the word best had such a close relation to one another No hness’ use of words is always marvelous”
could be heard over my blanket
The moment after, my blanket started to ic I hurriedly reached up and tried to at least grab the edge of my blanket, but it was in vain
“Ah, aah! Wait!”
“Please sleep moderately There is no need to sleep excessively in one’s life Even if one were to die, then wouldn’t they be able to sleep for all of eternity in their grave?”
The blanket was sent flying across the entire rooic is cheating!”
“This one had thought that your highness loved cheating”
“The only one allowed to cheat in this world isfair and square That way I’ll be able to gain profit whenever I want, is that not right!?”
“By the looks of it, it see lord to serve……”
Lapis Lazuli let out a sht will be held on the day after to able to attend the ood Not attend Truthfully, that has a beautiful ring to it”
“You cannot If your highness Dantalian is absent fro in possession of a hness will receive heavy criticishness’ honor, then this one is prepared to use drastic ”
I snorted
“Sorry, but I don’t have parents or a family, nor do I even have a childhood friend that was separated froest! How you plan to bring down I, Dele weakness, is so I wish to see Go ahead, use that drastic measure that you seem to be so proud of”
“Yes Then as this one is ordered to”
ain
The pillow that was held tightly between rasp
“Nooooooooo!?”
“Then This one has done as your highness has co your chin up proudly!? Return my pillow immediately! That is not a simple pillow! That is ies”
It was then, with a ‘poof’, the pillow exploded
White feathers rained down
“My pretty soul—!?” lish)
I screamed
Like a hero who had just lost his childhood friend(engaged • 2 e to the Demon Lord, my body shook violently
“The soul has died”
“You Devil!”
“It is fine to call this one a Devil With Devil like ways, this one shall hness was to punish this one, this one shall remain loyal till the very end”
“Why is your side the one being conceited!? Has our positions not switched!?”
“Apologies Since this one is, in reality, quite the distinguished subject to your lord”
“It sounds like your repenting but it actually sounds annoying……!?”
“It has been one hness Dantalian During that short period of time, this one had met with no more than 72 firms and sold the cure to the disease In order to purposely sell the black herb at a high price, this one had released the supply slowly, thus allowing this one to sell the herb for an extraordinary price of 10 gold a piece Due to this, there is a total of 500,000 Libra in your highness’ vault There are still over 25,000 herbs that we have yet to sell This trade, with no doubt, will go down in history” (TL note: The author made a mistake here 10 x 5000 = 50,000, so he actually has 50,000 libra in his vault The mistake is fixed later by the author)</euished……!?”
“That is so One could say that this one was on a different dihness, who had spent the past ht it wasthat Lapis Lazuli could speak from start to finish with a completely stoic face Really
If I recalled correctly, in <Dungeon Attack>, the annual incoold Lapis Lazuli was able to earn an amount similar to that in only a month
Honestly, I admitted that she had an enormous ability
If she had not interfered with my sleep, then I would have even patted her head
However, she had not only plundered me of my blanket, but she had destroyedirreparable and had crossed the Rubicon River
Compromise was impossible
I, as a proud member of the Roman Res Republica elder council, sincerely despised the tyrant that didn’t know his place and was trying to becoood idea to celebrate your victory now, Julius Caesar In the end, you will be stabbed in the back by the child you thought was kind and gentle……
“…… What should I do Just because I had destroyed a pillow, theattroubled, I feel more shocked”
“Lala”
I warned her seriously
“It is fine to use ain authority It is also fine to fill your back pockets as you earn ardless of all that…… it is absolutely unforgivable to treat my pilloith contempt! Do you understand? This is a strict order!”
Lapis Lazuli looked atat unrecyclable industrial waste
▯Mixed Blood, Lapis Lazuli
Empire Calendar: Year 1505, Month 4, Day 18
Dantalian’s Dehness outside
According to his highness Dantalian, it has been four one out Ever since Riff’s adventurer group had invaded, he had shut hihness Dantalian not a Demon Lord but a vaht now One could only be astonished by his highness’ laziness
“T-The sun, it’s too strong……!”
As soon as we had left the cave, his highness screa his face with his arhoul? Are you the type of undead whose flesh melted when under the sun?
What orse was that it wasn’t even the afternoon It was the evening The beautiful glow of the setting sun was floating in the sky Even ghouls with rotten innards wouldthis time of the day As soon as I had pointed that fact out to his highness, his highness gave inally, people as weary of life as I a”
“That speech hness is the worst”
I still can’t believe it that well
Was this lazy man truly ‘the’ Dantalian that had vastly toyed with the Keuncuska Firh drifted out of h today I should be cautious to not let this becoic would be the fastest ue outbreak, all cities has placed a ban on teleportation We will be using a differentto put countermeasures for the disease, that sho coive them my respect And in that sense, I shall wait patiently for the ban to be lifted”
His highness turned his back and tried to move towards the cave entrance
However, without being able to take two steps, he stopped I had grabbed hold of his highness’ cloak beforehand
“This one will never let your highness go”
“damn forever-on-her-period succubus”
“It does not hness kno hness all the way here?”
“Uuuuh……”
“It does not hness makes a pitiable face as well In the first place, a pitiful expression does not fit your highness Please restrain yourself froer that it will cause the on looking party to vomit”
“You really are excessively honest!?”
I pulled out a pocket watch and checked the tiic wasn’t possible, I had called witches
The Berbere sisters They were one of the 5 talented groups in the dee, brooic, there was no other choice You had to et……
“They should be arriving soon”
The pocket watch pointed towards 11 hours and 55 minutes
This clock interlocked with the other party’s pocket watch It displayed when the other party would arrive This was an essentialpoint was 12 o’clock on the dot The further they were froly If it was 11:55 then itto arrive within 5 h
The sound of a song could be heard It felt like it ca from across the forest that was spread out in front of the cave
ical sky</e will spin</e stars will spin, everything will spin
Hand in hand, us witches will also spin
You thrice, I thrice, onceand add it together and we’d have spun three hundred thirty-three times”
(TL note: I swear this sounds better in Korean… it doesn’t)</erew closer
At first, it appeared like winter geese were flying across the sky Except, they were too large to be called geese In truth, the wings were a cape, and the beak was a brooracefully
All of the witches, in perfect sync, knelt down
“Sacred and inviolable representative that synity, one of the 72 lords that cost them, the witch that seeirl with short trimmed pale blonde hair
“It is hness’ presence”
“May the Goddess Hecate’s blessing be upon you all Raise your heads”
His highness Dantalian responded as per courtesy
“We will be in your care for the ti Do take care of us as much as you can”
His face was serious You couldn’t even see a trace of the person as childishly screa him earlier No matter who saw, you could only see a solemn and noble De
“Yes, great lord Us Berbere sisters will do our ut trip!
The witch in charge responded energetically
She probably had not noticed his highness Dantalian’s true for with the self-pride that she was able to serve a De round, the witches prepared for the travel busily Their bri that it covered hness Dantalian suddenly whispered in ?”
“…… Too close Your highness, please move away”
“Ah Sorry about that”
It was troubling that his highness would get so close to otten that I was an outcast?
Luckily, the witches did not know of ardless, just the fact that I had whispered with his highness alone was good grounds for a large problem to occur Demon Lords were sacred and inviolable representatives that synity For me, who used to be a hness should be i……
I sighed and— Oh dear, that was the 22nd sigh—
I straightened e witches by their outer appearance Once witches rowth stops for eternity If they appear young, then it meant that they were that talented of an individual and were scouted at a young age”
“Ho”
It was so
In the world of witches, the young did not respect the elderly It was the complete opposite The old worshi+ped the youth It’d be better to say ‘respect the young’, instead of ‘respect the elderly’
All irls It meant that they were all immensely talented individuals In addition to that, on their chest was a three-leaf badge A triphyllous Thusthat they had participated in the Viet war 3 times Due to the racial division method, the witches would have been on the front lines of the air battles, which was known to have the highest casualty rate They were the elite of elites (TL note: Yes, the book does mention the Vietnam war)
I wonder if the preparations had all finished The leader girl was hopping her way over to us She was most likely at least 200 years older than I was, and yet, I wonder why she appeared to be so cute…… It was an incomprehensible n here!”
The lead witch courteously held out a parchment
“Us Berbere sisters transparently disclose our travel fees to all of our customers No matter what happens, we do not ask for additional payments later on!”
The witch, as if she was very proud, broadened her shoulders
“……”
On the other hand, the co down at the parchment, was boundlessly dark What could possibly be written on it that would lance over his shoulder
<blockquote>
Berbere Witch Sisters
We shall always treat out custoic: Only 2 gold
Teold
Sound controland fantastical scenery old
Hot honey wine that can melt your insides: Sold x 12 people = 36 gold
</blockquote>
Hm
It felt a bit expensive, but it was still within the per 12 witches who all had a triphyllous badge Even if ere paying a soe amount, it was okay
“Hehe We calculated the price after thoroughly checking the current market”
The lead witchcheerfully
“In total it is 41 gold and 1 silver In the honor and glory of being able to attend your great lordshi+p, we ‘ll just shave that 1 silver off 41 gold coins Aha, if it’s this then it’s al!”
“…………”
Huh?
The edge of his highness’ h that only I had noticed it I couldn’t figure out why he was like this
Surely, the person who hadthe cure to the disease wouldn’t be stingy about this aold on buying a useless ring……
“Could you wait aI hness Dantalian put the witches behind hiain, he lowered his head At this point, I don’t feel like warning hihness”
“Why does it cost 41 gold just to get a lift on a broom once? This is a rip-off This is a rip-off for sure!”
For a y about the , and thus appropriate, employment fee Please consider the fact that this is not only a transportation fee, but an escort fee as well 12 of the most elite witches Even if ere to be assaulted by injustice during the flight, they will easily be able to repel the threat”
“da hands, his highness Dantalian opened his e
Due to hness Why is your highness grinding your teeth over soold coins? There’s 50,000 Libra stored in the vault And there’s still 25,000 herbs left to be sold Also, did your highness not readily spend 1,600 gold coins on so recently”
“Do you really not understand?”
His highness Dantalian glared at me
His voice was im a lazy bum but a cruel level-headed schemer
I auto that I had hness opened his lips
“Does the decrease of my money not mean the less time I’d be able to play at my leisure and not work?”
“……eh?”
I’m sorry
I couldn’t hear hio into the cave and swing a pickax all day, then I’d earn 1 silver If I were to try to earn 41 gold, then that one due to one trip!”
“……”
“Now Do you understand why I’ a coht it How could some trip cole hness Dantalian looked like a larva that was infesting rotten food
Was it truly a good idea to serve his highness as a vassal?
I started to lose confidence in my own decision
▯Weakest Demon Lord, Rank 71st, Dantalian
Empire Calendar: Year 1505, Month 8, Day 16
Niflheiht took 8 hours
Honestly, it was no different to torture Once again, I inal world
To sit behind a witch on a broom In words it sounded simple, but this hurtin Niflheim I couldn’t stand properly for fair aold I wanted to demand a refund i to buy you all a beer for delivering us here safely, would that be okay?”
To keep a good face on even in this situation, was the bastard so-called social life Was it not horrible? Was it not even more horrible that the witches had cheered “Thank you very ood place, the witches said and guided us there