(Author Note)
Summary until this point
Impression A “What!? Dina’s lone thin presence characteristic has been broken!?”
Impression B “There’s soone that rembers her!? Can’t be!”
Impression C “It’s a lie!! Must be so mistake!!”
“Impression D “It’s a lie don don ko doooon!”[2]
Dina “I’m going to cry if you say anymore!”
(Author Note end)
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Although Aries and I had so trouble with Aigokeros’ unexpected statent of “I rember Dina”, after joining up with Aigokeros, we safely returned to the city.
For now, I had made Aigokeros take on a human form.
His appearance was that of a human man in his pri wearing a black butler clothing and a monocle on one of his eye.
His hair was white and dried up just like that of a goat, all-back. His height was most probably around 175.[3]
It seed that he was capable of hiding within soone’s shadow and at that mont, he was hiding in my shadow.
Hey, you didn’t have a skill like that when it was inside the ga.
—was what I was thinking. However, now that I thought about it, I seed to recall a setting in the ga where the devil-type monsters ‘lived in people’s shadow’.
Ahhh, yeah, yeah. While I’m at it, I’m going to check out Aigokeros’ status.
[12 Heavenly Stars Aigokeros]
Level 800
Species: Lord Demon
Attribute: Moon
HP: 72 000
SP: 10 100
STR (Strength/Attack Power): 3150
DEX (Dexterity): 4148
VIT (Vitality): 3453
INT (Intelligence): 6183
AGI (Ability/Speed): 4140
MND (Mindpower): 5280
LUK (Luck): 3000
Fum. Well, a subtle magic type... is what I should say huh.
There was no mistake that he was a magic main but he wasn’t too lopsided with his specialisation.
Well, that was fine as his main role was to use magic to interfere. Therefore, it was quite important that he was not defeated by the enemy.
Afterwards, I fixed up Aries’ clothes.
Even if I was aware that Aries was male, a risqué appearance was no good.
It was really worriso that he might be targeted by so strange person.
Anyways, it’s all nice and all that we’ve returned but........ What should I do?
The situation was such that citizens were all enraged, both sides surrounded the castle in the middle and stared down at each other.
The debuff should have long been removed, however, there was no sign of the bloodlust disappearing from their eyes.
Aahhhh, ain’t no gud-at-all. They’ve self-debuffed.
Nevertheless, the reason this had yet to turn into a full-on confrontation was that there was a man remonstrating and diating in the middle.
Green.... No, maybe it was more accurate to state it as erald green hair.
It might have been well organised normally, however, he looked like he was a re shadow of his forr self with the appearance of soone that had lost all his weight.
Clouded blue-coloured eyes, and unnecessarily expensive-looking white vestnt.
Above that, he wore a blue overcoat. And on one side, his large white wing could be seen sticking out.
His appearance was quite different from what I rembered, however, there was no mistake.
That was one of the 7 Heroes, rak.
Just in case, I checked his status.
[rak]
Level 500
Species: Flugel
Attribute: Wood
Class Level:
Acolyte: 100
Priest: 100
Esper: 100
Archer: 100
Monster Tar: 100
HP: 55 200
SP: 5301
STR (Strength/Attack Power): 3750
DEX (Dexterity): 2920
VIT (Vitality): 3009
INT (Intelligence): 2003
AGI (Ability/Speed): 2444
MND (Mindpower): 4980
LUK (Luck): 2711
[Bad Status] One-Winged
[Bad Status] Loser’s Stigma
“..... You got your wing stolen, huh.”
I looked at rak’s status using [Observing Eyes] and reflexively cast my eyes down.
For Flugels, wings were their pride and their standing.
If the inside of rak was in the sa situation as I was, he probably would not care much about it.
Even if one were to have lost half the organ that they did not originally have, it would finish by rely saying “so what”.
At the very least, they would think that it was better than losing one their arms or legs.[4]
However, if rak was the original inhabitant from this world..... If he was the sa as grez...
... In all likelihood, there was no other circumstance that was harsher and more severe than this.
Even whilst being a hero of the Flugels, he was no longer able to fly.
He might be able to substitute it using divine magic. However, substitution, in the end, was just substitution.
“Yes. After defeating the heroes 200 years ago, the Demon King took away a part from each of their bodies.
grez and Phecda lost their legs. rak, his wing.
Alioth lost his eyes and for Mizar, it was his arms. Lastly, Dubhe had all his fangs and claws.....”
“....he did quite a brutal thing huh. By the way, how about Benetnash?”
“She did not participate in the battle itself. After you were gone, she seed like soone who had lost her soul and stayed in her coffin for a while.”
“What is she doing?”
I was in a state where I could comnt neither on the tragedy that befell them nor on the mystery of why the Vampire Princess acted the way she did.
In the ga, we had joked around and called him as The Demon King-san (lol). However, when it ca to a reality, he was this horrifying of an enemy.
Perhaps I should say ‘intimidation as expected of the official last boss’.
Even if there was no one shot-calling, since he had defeated the heroes who had defeated , his fighting ability must be higher than mine.[5]
Well, if he could be defeated in a one-on-one fight, he couldn’t be nad the official last boss.
“Stop, my people! Conflict and hatred are all that the demon race wishes. Why do you not try and grab each other’s hands!?”
rak was desperately trying to diate, however, there was no effect on the rioters.
No, there was probably so effect. If there was not, the civil war would already have started.
The re fact that a hero was standing in the middle already had an effect.
However, it was not enough to stop the conflict.
With what was happening, I could see sothing small serving as the last straw to trigger the start of the civil war.
Now then, what should I do.....
“That’s as far as you go!”
As I was thinking as such, sothing broke into the middle of the populace.
Yes, “broke into” – exactly as written.
Plunging in, in a straight line from high up in the sky, cutting through the air whilst resonating a thunderous sound, sothing dropped onto the ground. Shattering the ground upon impact, soone descended into the place.
Of course, there was no need to inquire who it was.
Not as a taphor but in a literal sense, it was an appearance of a doll with a light brown hair.
With Sky Jet deployed on her shoulders, she was holding onto a very pitiful looking demon-like man who seed to have been viciously beaten.
It was the entrance of one of the 12 Heavenly Stars, Libra.
“So you made it in ti, Libra.”
I unconsciously pumped my fist.
It’s here, the main Golem is here! With it, we can end it!
As promised previously, she brought along the demon so there was nothing more I had to say.
Well now, she will fully expose that demon as the mastermind behind everything and end this whole incident.
“Y, You are..... That appearance, could it be.....”
rak whom of course, knew about the appearance of Libra showed a surprised expression on his face, however, Libra stopped rak with her hand.
Furthermore, she followed it up by spouting a white lie.
“No, I’m just a Golem passing by, Brudzewski XVII.”[6]
“Umm, I thought it was Copernicus IV......?”
“You could also say that.”
Oi Libra, don’t change your alias.
You’re even getting tsukommi’d by so random citizen.
She threw the demon that she had been holding down in front of the two camps with a ‘poi’ and looked around at the surrounding and spoke with a volu loud enough for everyone to be able to hear.
“Now, do as you please with this man, please enjoy!”
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Wait what, oi. No one will understand with that.
Look, rak was frozen in place, and even the populace had the face which showed “what the hell is she saying?”.
You know... he’s the mastermind or was the instigator or sothing like that.
Isn’t there sothing else you have to say?
However, Libra did not say anything more.
The surrounding populace also seed to be curious about the demon, and a few white-winged n who recognised the face had started turning pale.
Nevertheless, leaving things like that would not develop into anything.
—she’s no good at all.... She’s not suited for persuasion at all....!
“Dina, please do sothing about it. No one will understand with that.”
“Y, Yes. Please leave it up to !”
I kept my face hidden and sent Dina forward.
It seed there was no other option but to leave the diation to her.
If only it was possible for to show myself in front of others, I would have done it myself.
Dina jogged into the populace and raised her arm and shouted out, “Attention!”
“Everyone, for now, please calm down and listen to what I have to say.
Cutting straight to the chase, the na of the man that is lying here is Jupiter. He is one of the 7 Luminaries who serve the Demon King.
Amongst the white-winged populace, I believe there are a few people who recognise him.”
Demon, the archenemy of the humanoids.
And even amongst that, it was one of the 7 Luminaries who stood at the top as a representative. It was a topic which was more than enough to grab the attention of the people in that place.
Her tactic was most probably to start with a statent which would attract attention even if the listener was not interested in what she had to say.
The populace’s line of sight shifted towards Jupiter as if they were nailing him down, followed by a commotion that was of a different type compared to before.
Distrust, bewildernt, fear, confusion....
A situation where there was soone from the 7 Luminaries in this place. Furthermore, he was familiar with the constituents of the city.
This fact cooled the heated heads of the people present.
“Currently, you feel hatred and want to exterminate each other. But pause and think about it for a mont. If sothing like that happens, who is going to benefit the most?”
‘She’s good’, was what I thought.
By stating the main point first, she was able to have an impactful follow-up statent of “you are all just dancing on his palm”.
In this way, she was able to hamr in a wedge on their actions.
It was true that this was more effective in getting through to calm people down who were agitated.
The thod left people unable to ignore what she had to say.
“Yes, the ones who will benefit the most are the demons.
By having you kill each other, they would be able to bring this country down, and that is their aim.
So please, clear your head and think about it. Who is it that you really should be hating?”
While I was hiding in the shadow, I could not be unaware of the fact that my own face grimaced.
An enemy you should hate, huh. Is that how you would word it?
‘Hatred gives birth to nothing’ was an idiom that I had often heard before.[7] Nevertheless, if people were easily able to bend their emotions and take a loss, no one would ever experience any hardship.
However, if you diverged or dispersed the vector, the degree of difficulty in tackling the issue was far easier as compared to its counterpart.
Psychoanalysis of the defence chanism.
One of the tactics, “displacent” was in play.[8]
When a person felt a desire or a craving and they were unable to fulfil it, their minds beco unstable.
As such, in order to protect their own minds, they would try all sorts of thods to try and fulfil that craving.
Currently, the populace wanted to crush the opposing town, they wanted to destroy it.
But unfortunately, there was a problem with that. If it was carried out, then the demons would beco greatly overjoyed.
To that dilemma, the mastermind demon was thrown in with ‘please enjoy’.
The craving which could not be fulfilled – he was the perfect subject in directing their hatred towards.
Aahh, I know already.
It could not be helped.
Not to ntion, he actually is the mastermind behind everything, so Dina is not wrong. And above all, it was that had ordered Dina to conduct the way she did.
That was why. This was just an emotion.... The civilian inside of was screaming with his emotion and not logic. It was just a boring emotion blurring my judgent.
..... That was how it should have been.
“You..... You bastard!!”
As I was thinking that it was unwarranted interference of sentint, Jupiter who had been staying quiet this whole ti started shouting in a loud voice.
His face was warped with a hatred worse than the citizens from a while ago. He was staring daggers at Dina as if she was the target who had killed his parents.
It was probably sothing like he had finally realised the situation that he was in. It was a little late though.
He had probably finally understood that Dina was making him out to be the scapegoat. With an angered look, he scread out of anger.
“So that’s how it is! No wonder Libra returned so quickly! From the very beginning.... From the very beginning, you had planned to trick eeeeeeeee!!!”
After shouting, Jupiter beca one with the wind and charged out.
This is not looking that good....?
I prepared myself at once to be able to get in between them at any ti.
He was definitely pretty fast. Fast.... but, compared to he’s still slow.[9]
Even from this distance, I could easily get in between the two whenever I wanted.
However, it seems there was no need for to do that.
From behind Jupiter, Libra stuck her arm out, piercing through his body.
“A, g.... a!”
“I had already given you the warning that ‘you would be disposed on the spot of if you attack anyone without permission’.”
“Wa, it.... Listen, you guys ar..... e”
“I will not listen. You have already fulfilled the condition of termination. Therefore, I have made a judgent.... The promise made of your petition to be allowed an audience with my master will now be void.”
It looked like Libra made a promise to allow him to plead for rcy from in exchange for calming down.
Nevertheless, I had the feeling that he would have been killed by the people of the country before he had gotten to et .
..... Ahhhh, actually. Probably not.
He was level 300 so he probably would not have died.
Or perhaps there was a promise that he would be rescued before he was killed.
But by trying to attack Dina, he had broken the promise made with her, and he was disposed of.
That was the conjecture reached from listening to the exchange.
“That’s not, it...! You guys are.... All, dec.... by...h....”
Jupiter was trying to say sothing, however, Libra quickly cut his head off.
Oi, so rciless. I did not know whether to say ‘so reliable’ or ‘I’m glad she’s on our side’.
She proceeded to squash the head that was on the ground with the weight of her foot then without expression started dusting away the dirt on her skirt.
On her face, there was not a strand of emotion nor disturbance. It was not even possible to fetch a reaction at the level one might have received when a nearby bug was killed.
Jupiter who had been squashed to death pitifully disintegrated in that place, not even leaving a corpse behind.
....I’m so glad that Libra’s on our side.
In any event, I was quite curious about what he had shouted in his last seconds.
Planned to trick him from the very last..... There was no questioning about that.
Libra would capture him and stick him in front of the people, bringing his sin in broad daylight and turning the situation around. It was just as planned.
But that roar, and the deep resentnt he had directed towards Dina.
I could not help but feel that there was more to it than what I thought.
.....I really felt as if I had made an oversight.
And it definitely was not just my imagination.
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