Heads. I'll be fine.
We'll risk our lives to protect our master!

　The deformed demons - goblins and kobolds - comfort me in my depression.

　Even the slime, which looks like a dull puddle, shakes its body and encourages me.

'Ongh!　On!

　Wolf licks my cheek and gives me a gentle look.

　I am now in an abandoned house deep in a deep forest.

　I am surrounded by a group of monsters that have been identified by humanity as the enemy.

　That day, the day my smartphone received a single text message.

　--I had become a demon king.


　　◆

It had been 63 days since I became the Demon King.

　I was stuck.

　The human race, which calls itself brave, had destroyed my maximum strength - the Kobolds in full gear.

　Yesterday, the controlled territory of the same city was liberated.
　That controlled territory was located in the center of the city, so they were targeted as a priority.

　The liberation of the dominion area - that meant the death of the Demon King.

　My dominant realm would be released to humanity in the not too distant future if it continued like this.

　--that meant my death.

　No, no, no..... I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die........

　Anxiety crushes me.

　This world was full of unreasonableness.

　Even before I became the Demon King, when I was human, the world was full of unreasonableness.

　Even after he became the Demon King, the world was still full of unreasonableness.

　It's strange......... It's unreasonable......... Why do the invading humans grow with each passing day?　When humanity learns that it is beyond its power, it defeats monsters, gains experience, levels up, and grows.

　But that kind of freedom is not allowed to the Demon King.

　Freedom and chaos-loving [Chaos]?　Don't make me laugh, you're not free!

　The only way for the Demon King to grow is to defeat the invading humans.

　Truly, it's unreasonable.

　My power is still the same. But the invaders are growing in power every day.

　At this rate, it's clearer than the fire that my area of control will be liberated.

　Do I have to die like this?　No!　I want to live!

　I would use all the knowledge I knew to find a way to survive.

　And I have come up with the only way to survive.


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　The year 20XX.

　One day, when the world was heading for destruction.

　I, Kanon Sonosaki, was walking on my way to school, looking at the same scenery as usual.

　The final exams are over, and the classmates I pass on the way to school are happily chatting with their friends with bright smiles.

　One classmate is talking about her summer vacation plans.

　A classmate is discussing final exam results with an eye toward studying for next year's exams.

　While the boys and girls - in the midst of their youth - were enjoying high school life, I walked alone to school.

　Since I was a little girl, I was very shy. I wasn't good at exercise. I wasn't good at interacting with people.

　When I went to kindergarten, I think I had a friend I could call a friend.

　When I was in early elementary school, I think I barely had friends and existence.

　By the time I entered the middle grades of elementary school, I didn't have a friend to call a friend.

　I didn't fit in well with the community that children create on their own, and I became increasingly isolated.

　Children are cruel. They are capable of behaving with malice toward others without a care in the world.

　I thought that my classmates around me were mean because they were stupid. So I studied hard. Elementary and middle school are compulsory and you have to give up, but you can choose high school by yourself. If you study hard, you can choose a high school with high academic standards. Believing that if I did, I could part ways with my stupid classmates.

　And so I was admitted to one of the best schools in the city.

　What awaited me there was not a wonderful high school life, but the same isolation I had experienced in elementary and middle school.

　People are cruel. When people get together and form groups, they always form dissimilar groups.

　I was never very good at interacting with people, so I became a heteros*xual and isolated myself.

　Isolated, I fled to my creations.

　Books are great. They give me another life.

　I've gotten used to being on my own.

　One day while I was living such a masterful high school life - all of humanity in the world received an email.

　--The World Salvation Project.

　Such a ridiculous email would change my life forever.

　As a result of conducting an aptitude survey according to the government's recommendation - I was sorted out as 【Chaos】 and became a Demon King.