Chapter 008 (1/2)

Volume 1

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 1 Chapter 7

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Several weeks after the meeting between Majin Orel and Demon King Vermudol──

A certain rumor was spread out with a speed that could be called abnormal in the Dark Continent.

A new Demon King, Vermudol has appeared.

And then, it seemed that Demon King Vermudol intended to divide the Dark Continent into four parts, the east, west, south, and north, with the exception of the center which would be under his direct control, and would leave their rule to the ones that were loyal to him.

Furthermore, there was already a Majin called Orel who sensed the Demon King’s revival that hastened to join, and it seems that as a reward for this, the Demon King placed him as his subordinate.

When the rumor is summarized, it pretty much went like this.

Incidentally, the helpers in the spreading of the rumor, or rather, the ones that scattered the seeds of the rumors at the beginning were the Goblins.

The fact that Goblins didn’t even possess the intelligence to make lies was famous, but the fact that they didn’t possess the smarts to differentiate lies from facts was also famous.

It was bullshit level authenticity that one would hesitate to even treat it as gossip, so to speak.

However, even if it were something at that level, the entry of a new Demon King and the name of an existing Majin, with information whose odds and ends could be seen and couldn’t be ignored, many Mazoku gradually ended up believing in the rumor.

If the ones that were a bit smart were to consolidate and refine that, then the gossip that was talked about just now would be completed……That’s what it meant.

And when that happens, what would happen.

The intruder that came to the Demon King’s Castle at lunch time came bringing that result.

「So it was you guys’ doing dammittttt!」

Raising a voice that wasn’t clear if it was an exclamation or a lamentation, Orel jumped into the Demon King’s Castle.

He didn’t forget to a subsequent dropkick when coming in, but he was repelled by Vermudol’s put up Attack Guard Magic.

Having bounced from the force of being repelled and rolling on the floor, Orel immediately stood up and shouted.

「So it was you guys’ doing dammittttt!」

「I heard that earlier.」

「So it was you guys’ doing dammittttt!」

While ignoring Orel’s exclamation, Vermudol poured the potato soup that he had grown accustomed to into his throat.

「If it’s about the rumor, that’s pretty much the case though. Is there something wrong?」

「Like hell there isn’t anything wrong!」

Vermudol frowned from Orel stomping his foot on the floor.

「Don’t be so riotous. Since this place is crumbling, what are you going to do if the floor collapses.」

「Who gives a damned about the floor! I, I’ve been goin’ through terrible things you know!」

It was something at a time immediately after the rumor was spread with a definite form.

While exploring the Lulugal Forest that was in the eastern part of the Dark Continent, Orel was suddenly got in a fight with a Majin he didn’t know.

They had long golden hair and long slit blue eyes. Their white skin was smooth, and they possessed a body line that was clearly that of a female.

She wore clothes that had white as the basic theme, which was rare for a Majin, and on top of that, she carried a pendant with a yellow Magic Stone fit into it.

「Are you Orel?」

「So what if I am.」

At the woman who made a confirmation like that, Orel replied with a fearless smile.

Having picked fights here and there, Orel was confident that a number of them bore grudges against him.

Though, he had never picked a fight with a woman Majin. However, there was the pattern of the lover of a Majin that he beat up coming to get revenge.

Because of that, he thought that it was that sort of thing this time, and was confident that he could turn the tables on her.

He had no intention of making the challenge himself, but if it came to it, he practiced gender equality.

That was the arrangement in Orel’s mind.

「If you’ve got a complaint or something, try displaying it with force.」

At this time, Orel didn’t know about the rumor.

That’s why, to the woman, Orel’s words sounded like this.

I’ve been promised with a high status from Demon King-sama. If you want that, then beat me and take it……that’s how it sounded.

Naturally, the woman, who was a Rank “AA” Majin, answered like this.

「Very well. I am the Majin Fainell. The meaning of my other name, Thunder Blade, I shall carve it into you.」

Fainell the Thunder Blade.

That was the name of the Majin who had unfolded several fierce battles with the Hero party.

Of course, unless Orel picked a fight with her, he would have never have met her.

Orel couldn’t even recall a reason to have someone pick a fight with him by name.

And while talking about it, this was also definitely an opponent that would leave him half killed if he were to fight her.

「Take this……Thunder Rain!」

「W, wait wait……Dowah!?」

A rain of thunder rained incessantly in the Lulugal Forest.

Seeing Orel desperately evade that, Fainell smiled looking like she was having fun.

A sparking thunder resided in that arm, and it formed the shape of a blade.

「So you could evade that just now……However, I am the one worthy of being Demon King-sama’s right-hand man!」