Chapter 161 - Volume 8 (2/2)
“Shall I prepare eyedrops?”
“Eh, we have those?”
“It seems that such things exist in the city. Geas has purchased some.”
“…… Eyedrops were being sold, huh.”
The transmigrators from Terra really didn’t care about not being shameless.
Still, I am thankful for it and will use it. When Geas blew up the ground, the dust rose in great clouds, causing my eyes to tear up.
Geas has also turned back into a teddy bear again after forcibly turning back into his monstrous form and has been following behind me for a while now.
Ah, that’s right. I didn’t actually turn into a [Demon Lord].
First of all, Demons and a Demon Lord are very different things.
Demons were a part of the world, so if they destroyed the world, they would be removing the source of their own meals.
That’s why the real Demon Lord only appears when the world is about to end, and anything else is definitely 100% a “self-proclaimed Demon Lord”.
The entire purpose of this whole farce was to find a certain thing.
In order to rid the world of this sloppy trickle of a war, and push all of them into dire straits to use that thing.
So as a result of those varied considerations, I wanted to clean up all of the problems I’d been making in one fell swoop, so it turned out this way.
As a result of a combination of summoning the maid duo, Tina and Fannie, giving instructions to Noa and Nea, and forcibly injecting magic back into Geas to transform him into his monstrous form, I was quite tired.
There’s just so many things to do………
Originally, I was going to advance all of my plots slowly, but I didn’t want to spend all that free time thinking about Rinne.
……geh, besides wanting Rinne to manifest earlier, I also gradually missed Mother and Father more and more?
Ah, and even after only half a year in this world, I tired of it.
“So, what’s the situation?”
“One moment, please…… Right now, Nea is on their way back, so they will report directly.”
“Alright. Tea first, then?”
“Yes~, Lady Yurushia, your souls are waiting for you.”
As Fannie brewed up a tea with too many souls in the spirit of trying to replicate a beef bowl (but of magic power), Nea emerged out of the darkness, fresh from commanding on the battlefield.
“Lady Yurushia, I’ve returned.”
“Yes, welcome back. How’s the damage?”
“Well…… the Demon’s attack this time around hasn’t caused any damage to the humans at all.”
“………eh?”
This time around, I’d banned the killing of certain people: the heroes, or the ordinary soldiers who wouldn’t be tasty at all even when eaten. I would pray for the happiness of those who died whilst collecting their souls, but I’d prefer if more of them were left alive.
I’d told her that I would accept deaths of those who had exquisitely muddy souls, but nobody died?
“Ah, there were a lot of people who died because they were dragging down each other when they tried to flee. They were unworthy of collection, so I didn’t bother.”
“I see. ……well, that’s alright.”
Wouldn’t the plan be crippled with such souls? Well, although it ended safely, to kill each other like that, these humans really are beyond saving.
“Well, leave alone those people who have many [Skills]. They will be useful in our plan.”
“I understand~”
Nea smiled and saluted me in the Holy Kingdom fashion. …… You do understand, right? It’s important.
“How are we looking overall?”
“This time around, we employed 400 of our regular Demons. There were also 1200 new recruits who manifested in monsters. They were given those souls as a signing-on bonus. In addition, 2700 [Lesser Demons (part timers)]were recruited from the nearby Demon World with a daily salary of 2 kilograms of seaweed and the promise of Lady Yurushia’s live performance on their last day.
“………Nea.”
“Yes?”
“I told you not to use my name without permission……?”
“Eh…… but brother said it was fine.”
Noa…… you little brat……
I previously allowed for a meet-and-greet handshaking session, but how did I end up being bait again? …… I guess it can’t be helped, I’m going to have to practice singing again.
“…… Would you like a new dress made?”
“………”
It can’t be helped.
“Have the Demons try their best to not kill indiscriminately. Fannie and Tina, you will help me here, but as for Nea and the rest, I’ll have to trouble you all to take care of the human-tempting along with Touka and Mizuki’s parties. I’ll let Noa and Onzada-kun know too.”
“““Yes!”””
For the time being, we’re fully ready to go.
Having some of them place on the finishing touches will work better than if I intervened personally.
Well………
“I wonder who will be the first to fall into the “trap”……?”
Author’s Notes:
Next time, wielding people~!