Volume 2 - CH 234

In front of me was the guy I had a problem with.

I don’t know who the guy next to him is, but he is looking at me with a very disinterested expression on his face.

He had horns like steel and silver colored wings.

He was wearing long clothes, with stiff-looking fluff attached to his collar and a number of dice hanging from his sleeves, tied together with fine threads.

To be honest, it’s a strange outfit.

Not only on the sleeves, but the dice are attached to various other places.

It looks like there could be dice in his pockets or something.

Is that guy involved in this case too ……?

But he is with Lequam.

There is a good chance that he is.

What do we do now?

Now is not a good time to be in this situation.

Behind me are three wounded and discouraged adventurers.

One adventurer, who is unharmed, seems to be extremely frightened of Lequam.

Come to think of it, that guy was a well-known scumbag.

This is where I can call a bad encounter …….

On top of that, I’m low on MP.

I only have a little over 200.

I don’t have the time to fight for a long time. ……

“…… Lequam. That guy is …….”

I don’t know who he is. He’ s the one who interfered with my experiments and left a lot of slaves dead. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

“That was your fault, …….”

“If you hadn’t interfered, I would have let them live longer. Otherwise, we would have run out of test subjects.”

I don’t know what he’s talking about from this point on.

In fact, I’m going to have to deal with two people here.

This is pretty tough. ……

“Hey! You guys give him some first aid!”

“It’s too late….! He’s already…..!!”

“……! …. died of shock. ……”

I don’t know if he would have survived this amount of blood loss by any means. ……

Damn ……!

“Hey, you two. Can you get back?”

“I i-i-i-i-i can, I can go…”

“Get the girl and run inside, and then explain the situation to them. Listen, just keep going straight. If you do that, the barrier will protect you.”

This time, I’ve made a larger pneumatic barrier.

He should be safe until he passes through the gate.

That is if that guy doesn’t do anything. ……

The guy did as I instructed, and went into the gate, giving the woman a shoulder to lean on.

The two guys don’t do anything special about it, they just seem to be talking.

I don’t know what they are talking about, but I need to buy some time for the reinforcements to arrive.

I need time to regain my MP if possible.

“Hey, you guys! What the hell do you think you’re doing?”

“What do you think we’re doing? We’re the one who should ask that! I advised the devil to destroy the inside to make it easier for him to attack the city! And now you’ve ruined it all!”

“It was you, after all! What the hell do you want!”

“What do I want? That’s pretty obvious!”

Lequam pulls out a new cane out of nowhere and starts to make a speech.

The person next to him…… is a devil?

That’s what he is talking about earlier.

I get the impression that he doesn’t really care about it and is letting it do what it wants.

He doesn’t seem to be making any moves at the moment.

“I want to destroy this country! This country must be destroyed! I’ve been using it as a base for experiments, but I have no use for it anymore!　But I don’t want it to be discovered. I wanted to use the technology I’ve developed to attack the fortress! And I can destroy the place where I was experimenting! Two birds with one stone, right?”

“What a scumbag. ……”

“I made a deal with the devil and got the power!　I’ve gained great power! This is a great thing!　But …… you’ve interfered with me again! Unforgivable! Unforgivable! I will never ever forgive youuuuuu!!!!!!!!!”

This guy …….

I’m sure he was doing something in the palace, but then he also made a deal with the devil. ……

I guess he can only be cured by death!

But wait a minute… …….

So that black blob is a kind of devil too?!

Probably so. ……

So this battle with the horde of monster was something that was initiated by the devil?

Let’s ask the devil.

“You devil over there! Which one of you is the main culprit this time! Is it Lequam! Or the devil?　Which is it?”

“………… It was us. And we are all in favor of destroying this country. Lequam is just a fellowship of people who share the same goal. We have no pact.”

“Doesn’t that include the knowledge you share about magical tools?”

“That little bit of knowledge is like a piece of junk.”

“Well, whatever. As long as I’ve gained more power.”

The magical tools ……?

Did they mean the magic crystals?

These guys were working together to make so many of them. ……

But why are they trying to destroy this country?

Just because they are devils doesn’t mean they are attacking us at random.

There must be a reason. ……

“What is your purpose?”

“I told you earlier. I told you, I want to destroy the country and all my test specimens!”

“I’m not asking you! It’s you, the devil! Why this country? Do all the devils agree with that? Or is it your personal decision? Or is it an order from above? Answer me, devil!”

Lequam is acting on his own will.

That is something we know very well from what happened before.

I don’t think he’s going to listen to me now and change his mind.

The devil scratches his head with a slightly skeptical look on his face.

He seems to have said something in a whisper, but the content of the whisper did not reach me.

After that, he threw some words at me.

“Just to pass time.”

“Just that ……?

“You didn’t hear me? I said, it’s just to kill time. In the devil’s world, there’s nothing to do but to kill time. In comparison, in the human world, many interesting things are happening. …… They treat something ordinary to us like an out of the ordinary. What do you think? What an interesting experience! This time, humans are running away in vain and being devoured by insects. While there are those who are fighting hard on the front lines, those who cannot fight lose their lives. What will those who fought on the front line look like after they return home? …… That look is the sweetest reward for us. What a nice… pleasant sight……”

I understand now.

This is what the devil is.

They don’t need a reason or anything like that.

The devil is a being that wants to cause this to occur for their own pleasure..

What they want is chaos.

“I’ll kill them.”

I have to kill them.

That’s what my instincts were telling me.