Chapter (408) And to beco a Demon Lord
With Hag’s defeat, we could now use magic so we returned to My World along with the Dark-Elves.
I believed that I had enough resolve but it seed that I didn’t.
Or at least, my resolve was nowhere near what Hag had shown.
Was our path we believe in, truly right?
At the very least, tias and Minerva were working to save the souls of everyone living in this world.
To protect this world from calamities that will soday cover it.
Was it right to ruin that goal and work only for those who are currently alive?
What if I was ruining the first and last opportunity to protect the world from calamity?
“Onii, it is wrong to kill everyone alive now for the sake of the souls that will be born in the future. That is a dangerous thought process.”
“I know.”
I could rationalize it but it couldn’t convince my heart.
“ … Miri, why did the current Demon Lord join hands with the Demon God?”
“I don’t know. I don’t want to know either and I don’t even know who the current Demon Lord is. But I can imagine.”
“Eh?”
“Onii don’t have to think about anything extra. Just quickly beco a Demon Lord.”
Even if you tell with a tone like ‘Don’t play with your food and quickly eat.’.
“So what should I do with this jewel to beco a Demon Lord? Should I just eat it?”
It would be a little hard to eat it as it is so I would like to stew it in a pressure cooker for about 3 hours.
I was having such pointless thoughts.
I cracked jokes to dispel my uneasiness.
“If you want to swallow it, do you want to first practice swallowing the Lemonade bottle bead? Centaur seems like it will be able to do that much.”
Centaur, who has been left unattended by the Heroes, was still in My world consuming tomatoes at such a high rate that he might actually be swallowing them whole.
“But you can just absorb the power.”
“I can!?”
“Yeah. It is not normally done but it should be possible in theory.”
“Then let’s please do it the normal way.”
I refuse to die and leave things behind, like how I was kicked to death by a horse on the way to my interview, by suffocating to death while trying to absorb the Demon Lord power.
“Follow then.”
Miri replied and led the way.
We were headed to the first build we built in My World. The observatory-like building built by Libra-sama.
“Can I help you?”
Libra-sama appeared inside the building.
Eh? Does becoming a Demon Lord involve borrowing the power of a Goddess?
“I have so matters here. Move aside, Libra.”
“Use honorifics when speaking to Goddess-sama.”
“ … Libra-sama. I have sothing to do here. This place is just nice the centre of this world. Here is the perfect place for the coronation of the Demon Lord.”
“Demon Lord coronation? But Miryu, you’re already a Demon Lord.”
“The one becoming a Demon Lord is Onii - Kusunoki Ichinosuke.”
Libra looked at and pondered after hearing about it.
I wonder if she wouldn’t allow it since Demon Lords are antagonistic toward the Goddesses.
My heart was pounding and I was sweating nervously.
We already had the Hero, current Demon Lord, and Demon Gods as our enemies but now if these superior Goddesses turned into our enemies as well, we would truly be surrounded.
Libra-sama closed her eyes for a second and,
“I can sowhat understand what you are planning. He should be fine.”
She said and nodded.
I sighed in relief and suddenly wondered.
“By the way, why is Libra-sama here?”
I heard that the Goddesses were taking action to form counterasures against the Demon Gods.
“This location is the centre of this world and also the first place you arrived when you first visited this world. As such, it receives strong influence from Otherworld and the rip in space is strong. Using that, it is a great way to explore this world and the spaces of the other Goddesses at the sa ti. I am investigating Tet and Minerva’s spaces from here.”
I see. I intuitively thought it was an observatory but it was actually a heaven observatory - - a building capable of investigating the world of Gods.
“So did you find anything?”
“No. I wondered if either of them would be there but Minerva’s space is a hollow shell. Tet’s space is filled with miasma and, strangely, it can still sohow maintain the space. At the mont, Koshmar-senpai and Torerul are performing purification works and investigating at the sa ti but tias and others are probably not there.”
“Does that an the three gods are working in another dinsion?”
“Is it that simple to create another dinsion?”
“It can’t be created. It is the sa for my Space-Ti Magic and item bag. It would be difficult if your way of thinking is limited to three-dinsional, but the Goddesses can move in four-dinsional space and even if the superstring theory is an exaggeration, if you can prove that Space-Ti Magic is the space-ti described in the Kaluza-Klein theory of five or more dinsions, there would be endless hiding places.”
She completely lost .
I would prefer if she explained it in a way that a junior high school physics level student could understand.
“Unfortunately, there is a possibility that all the Demon Gods have escaped to another dinsion. I have observed that currently, monsters are surging out of the 12 dungeons around the world. For the Demon Gods to exert their powers, they either have to be in a space that has a strong connection with the dungeons, like our Goddess Space, or - -”
“On the surface. Okay, understood. Furthermore, the only Goddess Space that tias can enter is here.”
I couldn’t really catch up to the conversation but Miri was convinced so I guess that was true.
The Demon Gods were sowhere on the surface.
And the most promising candidate would be the Arundel Kingdom where the Hero is waiting.
If that was the case, there was an even stronger need for to beco a Demon Lord.
“Miri-sama, thank you for waiting. I asked the Dark-Elves to prepare it.”
“I think it suits Ichino-sama very well.”
Haru and Carol brought the items Miri requested them to bring.
I looked at them and doubted my eyes.
That was because they brought a red cloak, a sceptre and a crown.
Were those necessary because this was a coronation?
“Onii, a king can’t be alone. There is no king if there are no citizens in the country. Just like how you can’t play a ga of shogi with just a king piece. The king only becos a king after sobody acknowledges them. The first Demon Lord appeared after there was support from thousands and tens of thousands of people.”
Thousands and tens of thousands was impossible!
Only about 50 people were living in My World?
“This ti, we’ll use sowhat of a secret trick? I invoke the divine right of kings.”
“Divine right of kings? Oh that? The word of the king is the word of God because the king receives the right from God. Isn’t it reversed?”
“It does sound like that when taken as it is but it is originally a word for a special ritual in this world. In other words, by receiving God’s permission, a person can beco king with just only a few witnesses. And when demon power is gifted, that person becos a Demon Lord.”
Now that I think about it, the royal family in this world are born with the royalty job.
It is a job that receives recognition from the Goddess-samas, was it that great?
“Naturally, the form of the ritual is important. Because the witnesses have to firmly recognize the person as their king. For that aspect, I believe Haurva and Carol are the right people?”
Haru and Carol would certainly recognize as a king.
“It’s perfect timing. Libra-sama, lend us your power too, okay?”
“Yes, no problem.”
We obtained Libra-sama’s aid too.
All right, in that case, we should quickly - -
“Please wait. Please let us witness that coronation as well.”
Rarael and the other Dark-Elves ran to the location just as we were about to start.
“We heard of the condition for Ichinojo-sama to beco a Demon Lord. All of us wish to be witnesses too.”
How did they know?
Oh, Haru and Carol did ntion that they had the Dark-Elves make the crown and sceptre.
In that case, they would naturally inform them of this coronation.
All the Dark-Elves knelt on one knee.
With these many witnesses, my prestige will rise as a Demon Lord.
I was about to gladly accept when Miri chided them.
“Are you all truly aware? To witness the Demon Lord coronation directly ans becoming the kin of the Demon Lord. Haurva and Carol are already Onii’s kin so there are no problems but if this goes ahead, all of you will beco kin too. Furthermore, since your entire race is here and would beco the Demon Lord’s kin, any individual born from your race in the future will also be the Demon Lord’s kin. When everyone in Otherworld forgets the sins of the Dark-Elves after hundreds or thousands of years later, the reality that you will be the Demon Lord kin will be engraved in your status even after returning to the surface. Won’t it be difficult for you to live a normal life once that happens? It was the Church that denounced the Demon Lord as evil but it has perated as common sense in society.”
I was shocked after hearing that.
I planned to be responsible for the Dark-Elves here but it was a different matter if every future mber of the race was affected.
“That can’t happen, Rarael. The ones here are sufficient - -”
“We are here because we have that resolve. To be Ichinojo-sama’s kin engraved in our status will be the pride of our race. We will never be ashad of it.”
“ … That’s their reply, Onii.”
I looked at the Dark-Elves.
So all of them are placing their trust in .
Resolve - - that word weighed heavily on .
The resolve that Hag displayed and the resolve that the Dark-Elves are showing.
My tiny resolution was incomparable to either one.
To be honest, it was dazzling.
“All right. Everyone, please witness my coronation to beco a Demon Lord.”
I held my tiny resolve in my chest and wore the red cloak that Carol extended toward .
Kneeling in front of Miri, the forr Demon Lord, and listening to her words, I received the sceptre and put on the crown.
The light gradually disappeared from the jewel that sealed the power of Famiris that Goddess Libra-sama was holding and I felt it enter .
Haru and the other witnesses watched over that scene as they held their breaths.
“Ah, I forgot to ntion, once the coronation is over, your first job will automatically be replaced by Demon Lord, so you can’t return to being unemployed anymore. Congratulations on your employnt, Onii.”
In that heavy atmosphere, Miri suddenly chid in and,
【Job: Demon Lord is now available】
【1st Job has been set as Demon Lord】
And I was probably the first person in the world to change jobs from Jobless to Demon Lord.
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