Chapter 1 (2/2)

Considering all this, the de shed tears

Seeing this, as though surprised, the eyes that peeked through the hero’s face plate widened, and as though having noticed sorimaced

And then for what seean to think about soh they had co out words from their throat

“It wasn’t… a lie, huh”

For so felt from that voice a human kindness that he hadn’t up until now

Even though the hero’s gaze had been filled with that o, the de could feel warmth from their voice

Because of that, the de suddenly followed a whim

At the very, very end, he decided to throay his despair, and the hatred he couldn’t abandon, and decided to try honestly speaking what he already knew

“Of course… Hero …Right, this is the end… I shall tell you the truth… That up until nohat you and I have done, and ill continue into the future, is nothing hter Can you understand that whether the demon race, or the human race, when it comes to what matters, there isn’t a difference at all?”

“What are you saying…?”

To the hero who had been taught that killing the de that they couldn’t understand

However, right now, having come to this very moment, the eyes of the hero were not stained with hatred

They were in the true sense of the terhteous person

They were the eyes of a person ould truly look at the truth

The de in himself, he decided to speak some of the truth

“…Hero You ht by the church that we demons are the envoys of evil, but you probably understand fro at me That how demons behave, and how humans behave, are completely the same… If you do not believe it, then it’s fine for you to check this with your own eyes from here on You’ll probably see it You’ll probably feel doubts about the slaughter of all demons by the orders of the chuch… At that ti… then for the future of the demon race, no, of humanity and demonkind…”

His consciousness became distant

He could feel all of the substance that coic {ether}

The hero looked like they were brooding over it

They went over the deh they could understand it

Seeing this, having at least planted so close to satisfaction

His consciousness became dark

And then, a voice suddenly reached his ears

“Understood… I’ll, believe your words I’ve decided to look properly at the de suspicions”

At thatnoticed for the first time

That certainly, he had thought that their voice was a little high for a man’s, but in fact it was a different matter

Because after all, what caentle voice of a woman

The hero, was a woman

Whilst feeling shock at what he realised at the very end, he felt a the underworld

In his steadily darkening field of vision, what he saw at the very end were the faces of the hero’s companions

For an instant, the face of the holy woht

Though he’d have thought that she’d look refreshed, having defeated the de

Even though the hero and the other teren’t gri… why?

Even though he thought that he was prepared to die, he felt regret at just that issue

However

‘If it’s that hero, then surely, they’ll consider the future of the demon race as well, won’t they?’

Dying with such an opti

And thus, on that day, the deest demon in the world, had his life taken by the hero, and disappeared from the world completely

‘And they all lived happily ever after The end’, in other words

[‘medetashi+, medetashi+’]

It was said that souls existed

Far in the distant past, the aliven birth to all living things as equal

It was a legend passed down in the demon race

It was quite different from what humanity believed in

However, that didn’t ainst them as a race

Because humanity had attacked, the demons had certainly held hatred towards theht to existence as a race, or any such vein of thought

Huic beasts, demi-humans; their characteristics varied,but their souls were created the same, and once they died, they would reincarnate eternally; so the demon race believed

Because of this, when the 100th De Luruslia Nord opened his eyes, he was not all that shocked at what he saw before him

“…My, , Luru”

It was a beautiful, human female

Silky black hair like the night, and red eyes like blood Sure that it seemed that someone had carefully sculpted her

Standing there oman so beautiful that even women of the demon race, and ancient race{elven race}, the so called beautiful pair, would run away in shame

For a hts of prejudice, whether they were hus as beautiful was a matter of course

Because of that, the hu that merited particular shock

‘However, it’s just…’, thought the de

‘No matter what, for a huht

For the dest demons, their sizes were really very different

Of course, it wasn’t as though there weren’t people that were larger than hier than he was

There was no conclusion other than the fact that this woman was of a different race

A woiant race{titan race} perhaps?

If that was the case, then her size wasn’t impossible but…

However, having thought that far, the de mentally tilted his head in confusion

After all, he already knew quite clearly what race the person in front of him was

Froe, it was clear from the start that they weren’t a antic body, but what could be called a human

Despite that, ere they so big?

Wondered the de, when suddenly,

‘No, it ht be the opposite,’ it occurred to him

It wasn’t that she was big, but that he was small

Such a thought struck him like divine revelation

And thinking about it like that, he naturally grasped the situation

Not long ago, the woman before his eyes had called him Luru

The de was far smaller than the woman before him

And, right now, he could feel that he was face up on some kind of soft cloth

This was… that kind of phenomenon The one handed doithin the demon race

So thought the de, in that instant

In other words

“Now that you’ve awoken, it’s lunch time”

The woman bore her body just a little fro

For a moment he wondered how exactly this was supposed to be lunch, but if the situation was as he had predicted, then what she was doing was understandable

He happened to catch sight of his own hand

His shtest resemblance to his old ones

It was as if… right, it was as if they were a baby’s

The ht this, he could feel his consciousness beco distant

It was unlike sleepiness; the way he lost his consciousness was extremely abrupt, and moreover it seemed that it was absolutely unopposable

Why, he wondered, whilst he could feel his body beginning to move on its own

The body that held its hand up, as though searching for so,

Seeing that, with a smile, the woman held his body in her arms

That sweet, ht to o

That was…

“Mn,to feed you now”

Mother

Right

The woman before him, was his mother, huh

The instant he was convinced of that, the little remains of his consciousness were sed by darkness

He only realised that his reason was being subed in darkness by instinct later on, after this kind of thing had repeated over, and over again

After a few days had passed, the de discovered a few facts

First of all, that he had been reborn as a human

His mother, or at least the person that see―――― currently named Luru it seemed ――――with deep love

She gave him meals, faced him with smiles, took care of his business, and always looked happy around his were a lie

Whether a hus, there wasn’t very much difference

To the de, this was an obvious fact

Furthermore, souls reincarnated

Humans, demons, and all the other species had the same soul

All hu their bodies would be reincarnated as other species

If they had behaved badly, they would be reborn as a s

So it was said, back when he was a de Because of that, he didn’t feel the situation was particularly unnatural

He was certain that he had been killed by the hero, and surely after that, his soul had been reborn as a human

Luru was flexible enough to believe that

Moreover, that hue number of social positions was a fact that he had known since he was the de

The huardless of the fact that they were the same race, they established a wide nu systems

Monarchies, republics, federations etc ――――a number of different types of countries had existed, and the position that their household, or their fareat ireat power over their lives

The demon race had collected as one, but the other humanoid races were not so

Because of that, besides just knowing that he was a human, Luru felt he needed to knohat position his family held, and decided to listen in on the conversations of his ather knowledge

And then, the result he arrived at was that his house was located in a dom of Renard His family was a lower class noble faht, and was not at hoone to the royal palace

To Luru, these findings were not particularly bad

That he wasn’t exter down, because of the number of people that walked about the house nors like his mother’s complexion, and the people who seemed like servants that occasionally came to the rooood enough to be relieved

However, what he did find strange was that he had no recollection of the country’s naic that his ic he knew

The Kingdohbours, or so it seeht conversations that his mother and the servants had, but if so, shouldn’t he have known about Renard? So wondered Luru

At any rate, they had fought bloody battles with the hudoms

He clearly remembered where each country was, and what kind of country it was

But no matter how much he searched his dom of Renard

This was so bizarre

It was essential to investigate further once he grew a little bit older, and was a little ht

As for the ic, it had definitely existed in his previous life, so thatto talk about

However, the way they used it was strange

First of all, for sos or wands[/staves] as aincantations

What they used was nothing but low class ic could be used without aabout it

But despite that, it seemed they couldn’t do so; this was extremely mysterious

Besides that, the chants were strange as well

For exaht in the e was,

『Light… Call… Start… Burn』

and such and such – a chant rammar and vocabulary

Just as this happening?

This too was soht Luru

Finally, there was the case of Luru himself

Luru heldin his past life

assuht not have been such a strange situation

However, in the first place, when it canormal

This was because when Luru was the de, almost nobody said that they had memories of their past lives On top of that, even if they did, they were nothing more than the lies or pranks of madmen

Despite this, Luru could clearly recall his memories of his past life

When he was lying about as a baby, he clearly established that his mented

There etfulness, but there was no case of any unnatural loss of memory

It was to the degree that he could clearly re stabbed by the hero

Certainly hiswere hazy, but it was to the sa unable to remember the moment when you fell asleep

At any rate, the fact that he could clearly ree situation

However, he felt that there was probably no chance that these were mistaken memories

To begin with, Luru was a baby

It could be said to be ie and stories without anybody teaching him

Nevertheless, if you asked why he knew such things, res, the conclusion should probably be that he had inherited them from his previous life

Being the case, then was there so to this?

Or was there noat all?

No matter how much he pondered this, he didn’t know

Just, if there was so…

He wanted to one day find out what it was

/Chapter 1 END