Chapter 188 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 2

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Fainell, who was carrying Ykslaas, and Sancreed walked through the partially destroyed Demon King Castle.

Even the places that they were currently advancing through when Fainell was avoiding the rubble were severely destroyed from the attack, and they were in a state where they were fully visible from the outside.

Ykslaas was silently watching the figures of the Magic Operated Armors that were busily running about here and there and cleaning up the rubble.

Magic Operated Armor.

Armor Mazoku that were empty on the inside.

Seeing Ykslaas gaze at them looking somewhat nostalgic, Fainell made a puzzled face.

「What’s wrong?」

「……It’s, nothing.」

Incidentally, there were no surviving Magic Operated Armors from the previous Demon King Gramfia’s era.

It was said that they were all killed by the Hero Ryuuya, and all of the Magic Operated Armors that were currently here were ones that Vermudol created.

And then, they didn’t exist in the Shutaia Continent, which was mankind’s territory, to begin with.

Magic Operated Armor was actually said to be a rare Mazoku. That is why Fainell interpreted Ykslaas’s gaze to be a manifestation of curiousness.

「Them huh. They’re called Magic Operated Armor. Just like how they look, they’re hard workers.」

「Magic Operated Armor……」

After softly repeating that in a mutter, Ykslaas displayed an expression of a bit of dejection and understanding.

「I see. I’ve got it.」

Was that face similar to one made after learning that things were different from what she expected?

However, neither Fainell nor Sancreed, who was talking behind them, knew the meaning behind Ykslaas making that sort of face.

「……The place has been quite, destroyed, hasn’t it.」

「Most of it was due to your Blue Knight though.」

That’s right, due to the Blue Knight──Brutus turning into a gigantic metal snake with Bale Killer, the Demon King Castle was destroyed.

The Demon King Castle had a special structure to it so that it could endure sudden attacks from the outside.

For example, even if it were to receive Fainell’s Voltenix magic, it had a design where it could endure it.

On the other hand, this was only obvious but, it was unable to endure the weight and impact of an enemy becoming gigantic inside of it.

The result was the current situation.

「……Sorry. I apologize on Brutus’s behalf.」

「It’s troubling if you apologize to me. Please say that sort of thing to Demon King-sama.」

While talking about that sort of thing, the three of them descended the stairway and arrived at the Demon King Castle’s first floor.

Close to the front entrance that even had its doors gone, the removed rubble was piled up, and to make sure that no one would carelessly approach it, Mazoku called Beastia and Magic Operated Armors were doing security.

The Demon King Castle was at the center of the capital city, Arkverm, and just the fact that it was destroyed all of a sudden was big news.

Furthermore, joining that news together with the news of the mysterious castle that appeared then vanished in various places of the Dark Continent, rumors that it was the Hero’s attack came out at the beginning.

Receiving the news of the attack, the citizens of Arkverm came in droves to the Demon King Castle with weapons in hand, and it could be surmised that the hardship of the Central Army that was somehow able to pacify them was quite considerable.

And then, right now, the mountain of rubble where there was no telling when it would tumble down, and the front of the Demon King Castle that had become very well ventilated now had more than sufficiently told the citizens of Arkverm of the size of the damages made.

The way the people of the castle were busily moving around in an easy to understand way like this was done in order to bring the situation under control for the time being, as well as make an appeal that the Demon King was in good health.

As a result, learning that the Demon King was in good health, this time, the citizens ended up flooding in wanting to participate in tidying up the Demon King Castle as volunteers.

They were grateful for their feelings, but since a large number of people that they couldn’t lead had gathered, they were instead troubled on how to handle them. Due to that, they told the people that had gathered to wait until requests made through the Guild come out in the future.

「He is quite adored, isn’t he.」

Voices filled with energy could be heard from the castle town.

Listening carefully to that, Ykslaas muttered that, and Fainell boastfully smiled.

「Of course. He is our Demon King-sama after all.」

Demon King Vermudol had unified the chaos filled Dark Continent in the true meaning of the word, and developed it.

Fainell seriously thought that there was no way that he wouldn’t be adored.

Fainell herself could be said to be devoted to him.

It was quite different from the 「loyalty for now」 that she had towards the past Demon King, Gramfia.

She had the resolve to literally throw away her life if it was for Vermudol’s sake, and that went the same for the Mazoku that were currently gathered in front of the Demon King Castle’s main gate.

That’s right, anyone could understand it.

This was a proper reign, and he──Vermudol was their King.

Sensing the emotions of those citizens, Ykslaas made a complicated face.

The more she learned of the Dark Continent’s current state, their clownishness became all the more prominent.

After thinking about how they didn’t notice the truth up until now, she was so vexed that she couldn’t stand it.

And then, the three of them moved to the Demon King Castle’s rear garden.

Even in this place that had escaped the large-scale destruction, some of the rubble had poured into it.

Was the fact that Ichika’s potato field a small mercy?

Right now, within that garden, a single gigantic stone statue was enshrined.

It was made out of a material that had a black lustre, and was a knight statue that wore full body armor and possessed wings.

It had a pose where it was down on one knee, and held both arms up towards the sky.

However, red magical power light was emitted from the eyes that were within the full-face helmet, and that made it clear at a glance that this was not a mere stone statue.

Above all, the fact that two men that seemed like knights were caught and tightly gripped in those hands stood out.