Chapter 64 - Volume 4 (2/2)

Something was lurking in the forest…

Using their bestial instincts, they sensed someone in the shadows, and the movements of the Beast King’s army became sluggish.

Relying solely on their animalistic night vision, they were able to run through the woods at night, but it seems that their fellows that were beside them had run into [Something] unfamiliar.

“……Hieee,”

Someone’s muffled screaming was heard, and then a couple of the Beastmen Daemons burst into tiny pieces.

“Wh, what!?”

“An enemy!”

They could faintly discern a distorted figure in the darkness of night.

When someone cast a magical light quickly to try to illuminate things, there was the figure of a [Demon], wearing tattered clothes, laughing while holding up the face of a beast and slurping on fresh blood.

“Hiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?”

“GyaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The brave soldiers of the Beast King’s Army screamed out at the presence of the [Demon] that evoked the fundamental [Terror] of living beings.

Not restricted to one place, the screams of terror arose throughout the entire army, and the massacre began.

“Steel your hearts! The Demons will take advantage of your fear!”

Gretel scolded his men even though he was confused as well.

Why had these Demons appeared here? Furthermore, they weren’t simply Demons. [Greater Demons] that had manifested within a vessel… and there was a presence that felt even stronger than those.

In front of Gretel, a huge and stout Demon appeared.

“……Gollow…?”

The Demon’s face and body shape greatly resembled the 3rd Army’s Pig Beast General, Gollow.

“Did you make Gollow… your vessel… aaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

With the righteous fury for his friend whose soul had been devoured, Gretel slammed his huge battle axe against the Demon.

[…Buhahahaha]

The Demon picked up and crushed the battle axe as it roared and grabbed into Gretel’s chest, eating the heart while it was still beating, savoring the desperation and hatred that it was full of.

*[Nya]*

In that instant, with that slashing sound, the Demon and Gretel were sent flying in little pieces.

A golden blade cut through the night, and a single girl emerged from the darkness.

“Hey~, that’s no good, you know? I thought I told you that you could only have one soul (snack) a day?”

Her voice was not particularly loud, with the tone of an older sister in high school scolding her younger brother, but all of the Greater Demons in the area straightened their backs as their faces stiffened.

The Demon who had been scolded with that carefree voice, seemed to have had his existence blown away with a single blow, but Nia herself seemed to not care at all.

The number of Daemons that Millaine had turned into Vampires and transferred over to Nia were in the thousands. They had also used a large amount of souls, and had raised the number of the [Newtype Greater Demon] by the thousands.

Nia just did not have the patience to educate all of these new Demons.

Along with Tina, they had split the 1500 Demons between the two of them, and came here for practical training and soul collection.

“Al~right, Everyone~, stop moving~ The bad children’s meals, will be that thing, okay?”

Nia’s voice sent the Demons scrambling in panic.

All the Demonic pleasure and smiling disappeared from their faces, and 749 Greater Demons tried their best to slaughter them all.

This time around, the boxed lunch for Nia’s cohort of Demons was 15 kilograms of dried seaweed and one octopus. The snack was one soul.

The Demons spoke together.

“[To be frank we’re getting tired of eating seaweed… But unlike Tina-sama’s cohort, we don’t have any octopus. Compared to that, we’re better off, but I prefer Fannie-sama after all. She will give us [Black Candy] if we do our best. She rarely takes anyone out with her, but if anyone is taken along they’re the envy of everyone else. Besides…… that thing is dangerous……]”

It seems that [the naughty children’s meals] Nia spoke of was a terrifying existence.

The moment their Master Yurushia had her face cramp up from the gem from that [Seal], the Lesser Demons whose egos were weak had multiplied and prospered, squealing with a “[Kisha, Kisha~]” and had had their mouths ‘willingly’ stuffed with that dreamlike [Seaweed].

Thanks to Noa using it properly, the Demons had stopped complaining about their meals.

And thus in that way (?) the Daemon King’s Army had their numbers quietly reduced in fear and deep darkness.

Author’s Notes:

It’s the promotion of the mysterious seaweed.

There are a few chapters to go before the end of the first story part.