novelraw Chapter 76 : Chapter 76
Chapter 76 : Chapter 76
Chapter 76. Events After the Collapse of the Demon King's Castle (1)
When I opened my eyes, a familiar scene came into view.
‘I’m back home.’
I had experienced it once, but to think something like this was possible.
In the original version of PP, there was no such thing as teleportation magic.
Thus, the only way was to somehow obtain a mount and move, but Noemi used teleportation magic as if it were nothing.
She said she could go to any place she had been to once.
‘It might be a unique skill that only she can use.’
Not all characters had them, but in the original version, some daughters had unique skills.
Indomitable Courage, 2x Experience, Counter, Combination, and so on.
Among them, what Adel had was ‘Indomitable Courage’, but I couldn’t tell if she had awakened it now or not.
‘I can’t see the status window, so how would I know. It’s so frustrating.’
However, Noemi’s teleportation magic wasn’t perfect either.
She said that if she made a mistake, she could get stuck in a wall crack and die, or overlap with someone else’s body, so it was necessary to refrain from using it as much as possible.
To overlap with someone else’s body, not like a chimera.
It was a terrifying thought just imagining it, but in any case, it was true that I had saved time thanks to it.
‘Next time, no matter where I go, I must take Noemi with me.’
Noemi was the strongest cheat key I possessed.
While I was thinking that, Anonymous suddenly looked out the window and frowned.
“Why are the demons wandering around on their own?”
Huh? Did the demons go outside?
Come to think of it, I don’t remember telling them not to.
I just warned them to be quiet, but I didn’t forbid them from going in and out.
But Anonymous kept saying things that were increasingly difficult to understand.
“Huh? Even that guy is next to them?”
“That guy?”
“The nobleman who fell for me at first sight. My, my. He’s even caressing their hands and drooling?”
Anonymous clicked her tongue and made a dumbfounded expression.
I couldn’t understand a single word she was saying.
The sun was high in the sky at this time.
I couldn’t feel any presence.
I left the Dungeon Core with my daughters and went outside with Anonymous and Mammon.
Then I ran into some girls. And Bruno.
Everyone looked at me with astonished faces, but setting Bruno aside, ‘I don’t recognize these faces, who are they?’
Especially the bald girl with the bulging belly was very impressive.
A character I had never seen while playing the game.
The word ‘utterly disgusting’ came out on its own.
Was Anonymous also upset after seeing the bald girl?
She raised the veins on her neck and shouted.
“How dare these bastards wander around on their own? Do you want to die!”
The flinching girls.
The sight of Bruno trembling all over next to them was truly a spectacle.
What on earth is that combination?
Their identities were soon revealed.
***
Even at this moment, Bruno’s synapses were diligently moving, sharing intense electrical signals.
‘What should I say as an excuse?’
Not only was his brain spinning, but his eyeballs were rolling along with it.
Roll, roll.
His already funny-looking face was becoming even uglier.
‘Of all people to get caught by, why did it have to be Anonymous.’
Wouldn’t it be fine to just say they met by chance?
After all, he hadn’t made a move yet.
Just as he came to that conclusion and was about to open his mouth.
Suddenly, with a bang!, smoke billowed up and the girls’ appearances changed 180 degrees.
They had human appearances, but they had hideous horns on their foreheads, wings sprouting from their backs, and their red skin was vivid.
And what about their muscular bodies?
Most of all, their gender was not female, but male.
“Uwaaah!!”
He fell backwards in surprise, but no one even glanced at him.
‘D-demons?’
They matched the appearance of the demons he had only seen in fairy tales 100%.
When he thought of demons, an arrogant or intimidating image came to mind, but strangely, they were bowing to one man with obsequious faces.
“Phew. I didn’t expect you to come so soon. I was feeling so stuffy that I was just getting some fresh air outside for a moment.”
However, the one who answered was not the man they were looking at, Frank, but Anonymous who was standing next to him.
“With whose permission?”
“I think you’re misunderstanding something, we are not slaves. We have merely formed a master-servant relationship with Sir Frank.”
What? Formed a master-servant relationship with Frank?
Aren’t their opponents the demons, the personification of fear?
It was utterly unbelievable, and wasn’t that Anonymous girl scared of demons?
Anonymous pointed her finger at them and poured out a fierce condemnation.
“This is why I hate demons. I’m not in the mood for word games. If you don’t want to die, repeat after me right now.”
“Wh-what do you mean?”
“I am Sir Frank’s slave. There won’t be a second time.”
Was there something they were hiding?
The demons made troubled faces and then repeated the words exactly.
“I am Sir Frank’s slave.”
At the chorus of six, a smile finally appeared on Anonymous' lips.
“Good. I’ll forgive you this one time. But why do you have that guy with you?”
The one who seemed to have the highest rank among the demons looked at him and opened his mouth.
“We happened to meet him on the road, and he asked for directions. Isn’t that right, Mr. Perverted Adventurer?”
His mouth was smiling, but his eyes glared as if to say, ‘give a proper answer.’
Bruno hastily got up and nodded his head.
“Th-that’s right! I asked them for directions.”
“Is that so?”
Anonymous narrowed her eyes and looked straight into his.
He felt like hiding in a mouse hole.
That aside, to think that Frank was in league with demons.
‘I must inform the kingdom right now.’
It wasn’t just the Marquis who had betrayed the kingdom.
Frank, whom everyone revered as a hero, was the true traitor.
‘This isn’t just our Benedict Kingdom’s problem. It’s a crisis for all of humanity.’
As Bruno was pondering how he could get out of here, his vision suddenly turned yellow.
Because Anonymous, who had approached him at some point, had hit him on the head and he had fainted.
But no one supported his limp body or felt sorry for him.
Because Bruno’s existence was the most useless and lowly among them.
Unfortunately, only Bruno was unaware of that fact.
***
Anonymous could no longer scold the demons.
Because Mammon had stood in front of his brothers and said this.
“I’d appreciate it if you’d leave this matter to me.”
“Ha? You’re the same. What gives you the right to act all high and mighty when you haven’t done anything?”
“If it weren’t for me, it would have been difficult to obtain the Dungeon Core so easily.”
Anonymous, feeling a little sorry for hitting Mammon when he was unconscious, took a step back.
“Hmph. Educate them properly. If something like this happens again, I’ll scold you first.”
“Hehe. Thank you for yielding.”
Mammon, as if he were the leader of the demons, led his brothers towards the gold mine.
Lucifer, who suddenly remembered something, opened his mouth with a cowardly expression.
“D-do we have to go so quickly?”
Mammon replied immediately without looking back.
“It’s time for a lecture. Stop talking nonsense and walk faster.”
“You were there too, so you should know, right? How narrow and stuffy it is. Since we’re out, it would be better to stay a little longer before going in…”
Lucifer couldn’t continue his words.
Mammon’s expression was serious.
‘We’re in trouble. He won’t leave us alone if he finds out we hid the treasure.’
He wanted to buy time somehow, but Mammon would not tolerate it.
The other brothers also tried to soothe his heart by chirping this and that, but Mammon silently went his own way.
‘Damn it. The Entrance to Hell is rumored to be the most difficult of all the ruins to conquer, right? To think they’d be back so quickly.’
The Entrance to Hell was a place Lucifer also knew well.
He had never been there himself, but it was known that not even a mouse could enter after Kaliditas, the first Demon King, had reinforced the ruin.
To think they had returned from such a place in such a short time.
Moreover, Mammon had even uttered the words ‘Dungeon Core’ just now.
‘The Dungeon Core is the nucleus of the dungeon located in the lowest level of the ruin. To have brought it back means they have overcome all the trials and conquered the ruin. Unbelievable.’
While he was feeling dizzy.
Mammon cast invisibility magic on everyone, passed through the gold mine, and opened the underground door.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
The door would not be visible to ordinary people, but it boasted a tremendous thickness and strength that would be fine even if an 8th-circle magic, Mega Explosion, were to go off.
It was a door that Mammon had spent a great deal of time and effort to make, and while it was easy to open from the inside, it could absolutely not be opened from the outside unless you were a designated person.
As soon as the door opened, Lucifer hastily moved inside.
He blocked Mammon’s view and forced a smile.
“You must be tired. Want something to eat?”
“Not interested. Get out of the way.”
“Phew. Why are you so injured? Should I treat you?”
“I said I don’t need it. Get lost.”
Mammon, after confirming that all his brothers were inside, closed the door and took another step forward.
At that moment.
Mammon’s pupils trembled as if there were an earthquake, and then he smiled a murderous smile at them.
“Ha, haha. Where did it go… my treasure?”
The tips of Mammon’s trembling hands.
His eyes were no different from the eyes of a beast that had lost its reason.
Everyone looked at the floor and mumbled.
Lucifer gave a bitter smile and pointed at the floor.
“Down there.”
“What does that mean? Huh?”
“I-it was just a joke, you’re not offended, are you? We’ll restore it right away.”
Lucifer sent a signal to his brothers, telling them to say something.
“Lucifer’s right. Let’s just let it go, brother.”
“Of course. A demon is nothing without amusement, right? It was just a prank.”
“Just wait a moment. We’ll dig it up right away.”
However, these words were merely kindling that strongly stimulated Mammon’s PTSD.
Especially since Mammon had been hit by Kaliditas' mental magic and the trauma of the past was still vividly resurfacing.
“You sons of bitches that I could chew up and still not be satisfied!!”
Mammon exploded like a volcano.
His anger was so intense that the ground shook violently, as if the Demon King's Castle were sinking, and cracks began to appear here and there on the walls.
After that day.
For a while, the gold mine was closed, and no one could see the demons.
They reappeared a month later.
***
It wasn’t just Mammon who had entrusted his body to anger and was causing a bloodbath.
“Die! Just die!!”
How could such harsh words come out of a slender girl’s mouth.
She stabbed the opponent’s neck over dozens of times with the dagger in her hand.
The hole widened with each stab.
A fountain of blood gushed out, but she paid no heed at all.
Her hands, face, and various parts of her body were spattered with the opponent’s blood, and the surroundings reeked of blood.
Nevertheless, her mouth was smiling.
“Stop. The opponent is already dead.”
A man in black, who had appeared from somewhere, uttered these words, but the girl did not stop her stabbing.
“Tsk.”
The man shook his head and grabbed the girl’s wrist.
“What! You want to die too!”
The girl’s eyes were dyed with madness.
She originally had red eyes, but now her eyes were a deep reddish-brown, so dark that even a demon would flinch.
Her eyes returned to their original state only after the man.
That is, after Number 1 said this.
“Get a grip, Iris. You must not entrust your body to anger.”
The identity of the murderer was none other than Frank’s second daughter, Iris.