It's early in the morning for the demons who live in Monsters' Delivery, an all-you-can-eat store run by the demon hunter Lasse.
　Some are busy competing for the right to wake the Lord, some wait until their body temperature rises, some lay eggs.

　And some fly off to secure their meals.
　To the east of the town of Dexsi, a huge shadow covers the sky of the great demon forest where demons wriggle.
　The demons in the forest have stopped moving under the sudden cloudy sky.
　No, it's not. No, it's not a cloud.
　The forest monsters sensed this coming and hid so that their presence would not be noticed.

　But this kind of childish hiding won't work with them.
　His eyes, which are more powerful than those of a hawk, are in the middle of observing the demons on the far earth to determine which monsters are suitable for his glasses.

　For Sole, the demons' hiding act is nothing more than the food on the plate revealing itself to you.

　The shadow moved. You have chosen today's prey.
　Your victim does not yet realize that he has been chosen.
　It's coming in a straight line.
　When it had come so close to filling your field of vision, the monster finally realized that it had been found.
　You were too late to realize that if you had fled before it had moved, you could have survived with a chance as small as a grain of sand.
　No, even if you could have escaped immediately, this monster's fate would have been ruined when Sole found you.

　That is the fate of the one chosen to be the food for the strongest demon dragon.

　As a result, it was sucked into the dragon's mouth with all the dirt around it and flew into the sky.
　All that was left was the bite mark of the giant creature that had opened a gaping hole in the forest.

　.

"Hey!

　A high-pitched girl's voice echoes through the shack that is the office and residence of Monsters Delivery.
　No, this voice is not that of a girl. It's the voice of a full-grown woman.
　It's a child's body with large bird feathers, raptor feet from the knees down, and tail feathers sprouting from her hips.
　It's a harpy, the bird monster.
　The harpy has a very light body that allows it to fly.
　It has a small, childlike body. Its body has few bumps and has a clean, streamlined shape to prevent wind resistance.
　And perhaps because of the mental pull of their bodies, the harpies were generally of a childlike disposition. And of course, the voice.

...... Oh, good morning.

　Hearing the Harpy's voice at close range, Lasse rubbed his sleepy eyes and sat up.
　His ears were a little deafening, but he decided that they would go away in time.

Phew! ......

　Lasse changing clothes while yawning loudly.
　His clothes had been washed clean by Lamia the day before.
　The Kelpie, the water horse, spits out clean water into the tarai, and Lamia uses the bellows of her tail as a washboard to clean the dirt.
　Then the dragon scale iron held by the salamander is used to clean out the wrinkles in the clothes.
　Ironing the clothes in place will damage them, so use a torrent leaf to protect the fabric.
　By the time the wrinkle removal process is finished, the smell of trentwood will permeate your clothes with the scent of sandalwood.

　Thus, Lise wears ordinary clothes that have been cared for to the highest standards with tools that are coveted by all who see them.
　Incidentally, Trent's scent makes you less vulnerable to demons in the forest, and your fellow trent will be friendly to you.

Anyway, I'll just get a cockatrice egg for breakfast.

　Lasse's secretary, Lamia, is a perfect caretaker of the household, but she has a fatal weakness: she is a reptilian demon that is extremely vulnerable to the morning cold.
　Therefore, breakfast is exclusively Lasse's role, and comes with a drink of clean morning dew water prepared by the dryads, one of the most hygienic luxuries in the world where raw water is dangerous.

　As Lasse steps outside the hut, there's a thud that feels like an earthquake.
　But Lasse is unfazed. He knows who the sound belongs to.

"There he is, Lord.

　It's a dragon.
　The dragon goes out to the Great Demon Forest every morning to get breakfast and make sure that the carnivorous demons living in the ranch are fed.
　His work is very important to the diet of Lasse and his friends. Demon materials, such as fur and bones, are sold to the mayors of Dexhi as proof of their contract with the town's mayors for monster trading.
　It is an important source of income for Monster's Delivery as an all-around shop.

Lord. The number of monster children is increasing in the forest. During the breeding season, more demon children will soon be coming out of the forest in search of food.

　The dragon will warn Lasse.
　The dragon's job is to weed out the demons, but he won't hunt child demons that aren't food.
　Moreover, the target is too small to hunt.
　Even a human being would not pick up grains of rice scattered on the ground one by one with his claws.

Okay. I'll talk to the head of the Adventurers' Guild.

"Mm.

　After saying that, the dragon leaves everyone's food demons and heads for the high hill where he is stationed.
　The little demons are watching them with sparkling eyes.
　The strongest demon dragons were like heroes to them.

　The strongest demon dragons were their heroes.

"Huh. ......

　He was such a hero, but for some reason he was sighing with a melancholy look on his face.

I want to be useful as a jack-of-all-trades: ......

　Too huge, too powerful, and therefore his troubles were deep.