“Is it possible that Demon King Tralzard will just kill due to this old grudge?”
After all, lvis had done sothing quite horrible to him.
“That…will not happen.”
“You just averted your eyes! Is there really a danger?”
“…I don’t think there is. But it might depend on what we say. Who knows?”
“I’ll be going ho now, thank you very much.”
I got up from my seat.
“Wait, Golan. Where are you going?”
“Let’s pretend that this conversation never happened.”
“Wait, it was only a jest. A jest… You will not be killed that quickly. So calm down.”
As I tried to leave, General Miralda grabbed my arm.
She was a Lesser Demon King. And I could not shake her off.
Well, it might be possible if I tried my hardest, but I didn’t have any intention of doing that.
“…Very well. I won’t run away, so please let go of . Also, I will leave if I feel that I’m being threatened. So, you have sothing dangerous that you want to tell ?”
“I wouldn’t say that it’s dangerous… I think. But now you know the relationship between Lesser Demon King lvis and my master, yes? Now I want you to et King Tralzard and ask him about the Lesser High King Yamato’s war. After all, he has gone to your country a number of tis before.”
It was obvious if you paid attention to how things moved in the Demon World. Kings were rarely completely independent.
They would team up with others who were of equal strength in order to defeat stronger enemies.
Such things were normal.
And so even now, alliances were being made and broken all over the Demon World.
It was not strange then for Tralzard to have gone to see lvis.
If this was soone who had made him cry, then it was best to form an alliance as soon as possible.
After all, they were direct neighbors. It would be bad to leave things unsettled.
“By the way, why is my country so small? If he used to be a Great Demon King, shouldn’t his land be larger?”
In terms of size, we were one of the smallest.
“It seems that King lvis had no interest in conquest at all. And so his lands were very small, even when he was a Great Demon King.”
“That ans the boost he got from the Orb of Control…”
“Yes, there would have barely been a boost at all.”
Apparently, lvis was strong enough without it.
It was no wonder he was able to drive back a Demon King.
“It’s my own country, and yet there are so many shocking things that I don’t know.”
“Well, even then, that country is abnormally small. He must have let go of his other lands at so point. However, no one seems to know anything about that. After all, it was a completely different age.”
“Indeed. Well, even if he did have more lands, it would only be the cause of more fighting. So I don’t think that it’s a bad thing.”
“Mmm. As for King Tralzard, he was then able to hear stories from both Bargman the Dragon King and lvis the Immortal.”
“I see! So that explains it.”
Who else but him was able to hear stories from people who actually lived through that history?
It was possible because they lived so long. I had not thought about it before.
“That being said, I have not heard much from King Tralzard. But there was one thing that ca back to after I heard the na of your race.”
“My race… You an Susanoo-no-Mikoto?”
I knew that it was from ancient Japanese mythology.
However, I never had any interest in that, and so I didn’t know anything besides that story about drifting to so port.
“No one knows what Lesser High King Yamata’s race was. Either it was ant to be hidden, or it was forgotten and lost in ti. …Not only that, but descriptions that were left of his appearance are not very unique. In a way, like the humans from the Human World.”
“That’s surprising.”
I had expected him to be soone with more of an impact.
Like having twenty horns on his head.
Or having a mouth that went from ear to ear.
Most of the residents of the Demon World looked like monsters from a video ga.
That was the standard, so people close to humans might stick out a little.
“Apparently, King Tralzard had heard the na of King Yamato’s race. But as it’s all hearsay, I don’t know if it’s true. And so don’t take everything as fact.”
“I understand. …So, what is it?”
“He said that it was Yamato Takeru-no-Mikoto.”
Ah…I thought.
So Yamato is his na, and his race was Yamato Takeru no Mikoto.
It was the sa, and also a bit on the nose for my liking.
However, it sounded oddly credible when it ca out of Miralda’s mouth.
Residents of the Demon World did not know of the Japan Chronicles or Records of Ancient Matters.
And so it was hard to doubt it when the exact na appeared like this.
“You don’t seem very surprised. I suppose it’s familiar to you?”
“No…uh…it does sound similar.”
‘Susanoo-no-Mikoto and ‘Yamato Takeru-no-Mikoto.’
It looked quite different in writing, but sounded similar when you pronounced it out aloud.
That was what had likely jogged Miralda’s mory.
“There are other reasons that I want you to et King Tralzard and ask about the past. The battle against the celestial beings. King Tralzard once said that the Eira institution had targeted Lesser High King Yamato.”
“You an it wasn’t just an invasion from the Celestial World that caused the war?”
“I don’t know any of the details. Though I did learn later that even the na ‘Eira’ was incorrect. But it was too late to change it, as that’s what they were known as in the Demon World.”
“Huh? What do you an?”
“That na was heard while they were fighting. So it must have been misheard. That’s what a fallen one told many years later. The na of the one great research institution is ‘Enra.’”
“Enra and not Eira? Well, that is very similar.”
“Aren’t they? They are similar, and this is an institution that doesn’t exist anymore, so it has no importance to us. However, I just thought it would be best for you to know their real na.”
“I see. I’ll rember it then…Enra.”
“Also, according to that fallen one, the leader of the Enra institution was called Hera. A lot of won worked at Enra, and so I can assu that Hera was a woman. Regardless, both her and King Yamato fought and ended up sowhere outside of this world.”
“They’re sowhere between ti and space, right?”
“Who knows? No one saw them disappear. Where they went…well, all we know is that he is alive, as his na is still on the Tablet of Control.”
“So…King Yamato fought Hera of the Enra institution.”
“King Tralzard should know about that ti. And so you can ask him all about it. Furthermore, I’m sure that King Tralzard also knows things about King lvis. He wouldn’t tell them to , but he might tell them to soone from the sa country.”
“I’m not sure about that.”
“There is a possibility. Your race might be related to King Yamato. In that case, you might also be related to Eira. And if you are related to King Yamato and the Celestial World, then you are also related to King lvis. And so I think you should go and et King Tralzard.”
“Very well. I will et him then.”
“Mmm. Good… Ah, I forgot to tell you, but we received a report from King Tralzard. It’s about the east.”
“The east. That’s where my country is.”
“Yes. Things are getting a little out of hand.”
Miralda’s expression darkened.
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