Chapter 89

The demons which suddenly broke into the castle were disorderly scattered around. Knights and mages had weapons in hand as they faced the demons, while those with no way to fight were escaping to a safe place. There has never been a situation where demons appeared in Alvina Kingdom’s castle and began attacking people before. It was unthinkable to even be able to breach the city, much less the castle, with all the adventurers and the country’s elites stationed.

But that belief broke easier than a thread, and the people fell into a panic.

“Damn it, what happened all of a sudden! Riya, purification please!”

“Ye,yes!!”

There were unsuppressable number of monsters even with the purification powers of the priestess Riya combined with the innate light magic of the Hero.

“Where did Yuu and Naoki go?!”

We seem to have lost them. Touka took a look around, as he swung his sword.

And he met my eyes. He cut down the demon between us and moved closer.

“Marius! You’re back! …That, your back!?”

“…that, that, you were an angel-sama?!”

Riya’s were sparkling. Like a maiden dreaming of a fairy tale. Legends and folk tales were looked up to and praised as good.

‘“I’m not an angel, just part of the angelic race! [1] Forget that, what happened?”

“That’s the thing, I don’t know either! Nii-chan and Hana suddenly appeared and just as I thought that they were being swallowed up by a red magic circle, demons started to pour out instead. And so the whole place is panicking. In fact, I want to ask someone to tell me what’s going on!”

Take a look, he prompted me to taken a look at where the stained glass was. Where Touka’s brother had put into a miserable state, was a huge, bright red magic circle, swaying as if it was alive. As if it was twisting space. That was connected to another space.

“Argh, damn it! There’s no end even if I defeat them!!”

Even as we were doing this, demons continued to come forth from the red magic circle. I too took the sword at my waist to deal with the demons, but as Touka said, there’s no end in sight. First, we need to do something about that magic circle. Making up my mind, I moved away from Touka and flew towards the red magic circle.

“This, is”

I noticed as I came closer. The spell from magic circle was made using ancient letters and spelling. And it was a particularly old set of letters. Making use of this to cast space magic, one must have a large amount of magical power for that. And the number of people who can do so are limited.

Just who’s doing this, I mumbled. At that moment, the magic circle flashed. I prepare myself for a new demon which might appear.

But what appeared, instead of a lion shaped demon, was a completely bright red person. Dusky red hair that looked as if it was thirsty for blood, with dull eyes the shade of a crushed pomegranate.[2] Dark brown skin which reminds you of someone who lived in a dark, dank cave instead of looking lively. And sinister, red, bat-like wings stemming from it’s back.

It’s clothes fully exposed it’s arms and back. It looks like a man from it’s build, but Demons were famous for being genderless. They could take the form they liked.

As I was thinking that a Demon had appeared through the magic circle, it glanced at its surroundings expressionless.

I wonder if it is searching for something.

―― Wait a minute? A Demon? But Demons and demons shouldn’t be related. Although their existences were similar, they were fundamentally different. And anyways, the world’s agreement this round didn’t only involve the kingdoms. The angelic and demonic race would also be troubled if the world they lived in were to disappear, so they have at least publicly consented to the agreement.

Why would such a Demon, appear from the magic circle where monsters were appearing?

…I see, it could be Demons from the demonic race with outdated ideas.

Flick, those red eyes suddenly meet mine, making me tremble.

“The great devil-sama?[3] …no”

“Great, devil…?”

The great devil, is a name that is as old as the times where we used to be called ‘angels’. It’s name was just passed down as part of the fairy tale read just before bed.

“The great devil, is it referring to, the demon king?”

“You know it?”

It was a bad decision on my part to react. The Demon swiftly flew right in front of me. Realising that that bony hand was about to come close and touch me, I hurriedly shook it off.

“You Demon…! Don’t touch me!”

The blood of the angelic race in me instinctively rejects Demons. The demonic and angelic race were incompatible. The past few hundred years, they had no conflict nor huge public relations at all, it was no exaggeration to call their relationship like those of cats and dogs. Demons have corrupted uncountable members of the angelic race. And they see it as nothing more than a game. I don’t even want to think about having my wings dyed the detestable colour of the demonic race.

“Are you, an Angel? …I see, then, don’t, interfere”[4]

That was the first time that expressionless face crumbled. A face with wrinkles above the eyebrows approached.

“Guh..!”

His extended arm grabbed my shoulder, and my body was instantly thrown toward the ground. It was so sudden that I couldn’t deal with it. At this rate, I’d just be rammed into the ground. I couldn’t even breathe for a moment because of the shock to my back.

With my wings held down and being sewn into the ground, right ahead of me, were the squinting, pomegranate coloured eyes of the Demon.

“Not, demon king-sama. Great devil-sama. You, don’t know. No, want.”

“Just what are you calling different…! You guys’ old man boss is the demon king isn’t it. Even if you add a ‘-sama’, it’s the same either way!”

“…how carefree, they are, completely different, you don’t, understand”

My lips distorted, forming a twisted arc.

“Demon king-sama, became human. No, want. Great devil-sama, stopped being human. Have, want”

The demon king became a human? I’ve heard of that Demon called Maji from Vito, but this is the first time I’ve heard that he became a human.

“Blue eyes, black hair. That one too be come our new ruler of demonic realm.”

It’s language ability must have been pretty meagre, as only a mess came through.

“I can’t communicate at all here?! As I thought, it’s impossible to have a proper discussion with a Demon— eh?”

I got hooked by what the Demon said.