3 Sudden Emergence of the Order of Diabolos?! (1/2)

It's been almost a month, I guess.

While thinking of the day I got my hands on that lump of meat, I sigh deeply while standing in that same abandoned village.

How did things become like this.

The experimentation on the lump of meat went well until around halfway through. Since it was not my own body, I had no qualms about pouring in tons and tons of magic. Not this, not that, maybe this way, maybe that way, oh I just had tons of fun with the experiments day after day. Damn it was fun. I got closer to the essence of magic, and felt my own strength growing at a visible rate. Everything was good.

I improved on my magic control, making it denser, finer, and stronger, until the moment came that I was able to completely suppress the magic deviation... then suddenly I found a young blond elf girl in front of my eyes.

I was too absorbed in controlling my magic that I didn't notice the lump of meat turning into a blond elf until that moment. It's pretty amazing, being able to return from being that lump of meat. So I pretty much decided to send her off like ”You're free now, so return to your home!” or ”May you be happy in the future!” But then she was like ”I can no longer go home” and like ”I must return this debt of gratitude.” I mean, seriously, I wasn't helping you, you're just a coincidental outcome, alright?

It seemed like a pain, and I considered just running away, but in the end I agreed to have her become my very first subordinate as a power in the shadows. Doesn't seem like she'll betray me, and she seems pretty smart, and kind of possesses an unnecessarily capable aura. Even though her age is 10 just like me, but apparently the rumor that elves mature mentally much faster wasn't a lie.

”Which is why, from today onwards, your name will be Alpha.”

α, Alpha, either way is fine.

”I understand.”

She nodded. Blond hair, blue eyes, white skin, outstanding beauty, she's very much the stereotypical elf.

”And as for your duties...”

I stop talking and take a moment to think. This part is important.

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Her job is to support me as a power in the shadows, that's for sure. But then I'd have to clarify exactly what a power in the shadows means, and what my actual aim is. In other words, I have to tell her the fundamentals of my role in this world as a power in the shadows.

The setting of any plot is important. If the reason for fighting is ”because I got pissed after losing at pachinko” then that'll just be dumb.

In that area, I am thoroughly prepared. Before coming to this world, and certainly after coming to this world, I've continuously dreamt of my best idea of being a power in the shadows.

Combining together the several thousands, several tens of thousands of patterns that I had thought up previously, I instantaneously arrived at the optimum scenario.

”From the shadows, we shall interfere with, and stop, the resurrection of the demon Diabolos.”

”The demon Diabolos...?”

Alpha tilts her head in puzzlement.

”I'm sure you already know that in distant history, the demon Diabolos had almost completely destroyed the entire world. However, three heroes – one an elf, one a beast person, and one a human – stood up and defeated Diabolos, thus saving the world.”

”I've also heard that before, but isn't that just a fairytale?”

”No, it actually happened. Though the truth was much more complicated than the fairytale...”

So saying, I smile wryly.

For someone of my capabilities, combining this world's various legends into a believable struggle in the shadows scenario is a piece of cake.

”Right before he died, Diabolos casted a curse on the three heroes. That is called the Curse of Diabolos.”

”The Curse of Diabolos? I've never heard of such a thing...”

”No, the Curse of Diabolos truly exists. But it is commonly known by another name – 'demon possession.' Indeed, it is exactly what you had been suffering from.”

”How could that be...”

Alpha's eyes open wide in shock.

”The descendents of the heroes who defeated Diabolos will forever suffer from that curse. However, long ago, that Curse of Diabolos was treatable. Just as you were.”

The fact that Alpha's skin is now white and unblemished – as if she had never been afflicted with demon possession – is the greatest proof of what I'm saying.