After retreating, we rushed to the southern area of the magical forest, a place almost to the human city at the end of the forest.

"Hey!　What's the situation!

　When you ask that question while preparing to intercept at a rapid pace, the scouting Yata responds with a distant story.

　--I'm going to be the same as before, the evil bastard is heading towards the human city, that is, towards us.

　Although my spirit magic and the sacrifices of the poor demons along the way have bought me some time, Yata thinks that he will be arriving here in less than 30 minutes.
　While preparing to intercept them, I glanced at the map and saw that they were indeed about that far away.

　I'm going to be the first to know.
　I'm just trying to keep Nell from sending out ridiculous requests for a kill shot.

　...... I knew I had to do it.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make your life easier.

I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about it. That's definitely a strong demonic presence.

"............ Um, Mr. Leffy. How long have you been there?

　When I asked Leffy, who was standing next to me, what she was thinking, she replied in a detached manner.

I'm not sure if this is because of the fact that you have a strong demonic presence in your area of control. This might be something that happened, just in case.

　...... Honestly, it's very reassuring.

　I hadn't planned to call for backup yet, but ...... if he breaks through to where we are now, we'll be at the human city in less than an hour.

　I've been thinking about what will happen if this plan fails, and I wanted to ask her to stay with me just in case.

"...... Leffi, I'm really glad you're here, but--

I know. I don't want to get in the way, do I?　That was my original intention. ......, but if you ever get out of control, you can cry to me at any time. As the guardian of your big boy, I will take responsibility for your actions, however.

　I'm sure you understand perfectly what I mean and say it in a frightening way.

　...... Normally she is helplessly goofy, but as usual she is a very reliable woman in times of emergency.

I'm sure you'll be able to help me out with that. But, well, now we'll see. I'm going to show you that I'm not piggybacking on you when it comes to dealing with the strong!

Kaka, I see. Then let's see how you've grown up.

　The impatience you had been feeling inside gradually calms down just by exchanging words with Reffi.

　I even feel like I can do anything.

　I proceeded to prepare for the intercept, secretly grateful for the reassurance of having her next to me.


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"-- You're here!

　Soon after that, a creepy evil bastard emerges from deep in the forest.

　As if it had been eaten by a roadside demon, blood was dripping from its mouth, and it was approaching me while chewing something.

　All of the pseudo-life forms of spirit magic I released have already returned to normal spirits and are nowhere to be found.

You misbehave: "You misbehaving bastards!　I'm gonna knock some manners into that evil bastard!

　At my words, my pets let out a spirited cry.

　The evil bastard doesn't show any reaction at the sight of us, he just comes towards you as if he is going to go on his way.

　...... is there, but it doesn't even look scared.
　I'm sure he's got something wrong with his head.

　I'm not sure if that's true.

"Hey, come on over here, you freaky monster!　Just looking at those tentacles and bodies and all that stuff, it's scary!　I really don't want to be nauseated!

It's more of a provocation, or more of a plea from the Lord.

　I'm not going to be the only one who has been in a position to do this.

　The evil bastard doesn't even try to avoid my magic and is eaten head-on by the water dragon, but he doesn't seem to be damaged at all, and as if on conditional reflex, he strikes back at me with his dark magic.

　His dark magic is so deadly that there is no hope for me to take a bite out of it, so I'm flying into the air to escape, while he continues to unleash his water dragon without stopping his attack.

　The evil bastard looked up at me as he caught me, and in a moment, I activated the dungeon trap.

　At the same time, the ground he was standing on disappeared "...・・・・・".

　What appeared there was a pit with a radius of about 50 meters, which opened its mouth.

　Obeying the laws of physics, the evil bastard begins to fall.

Do it!

　My pets start moving as soon as I give the signal and start pouring the prepared sediment into the hole.
　I don't know if it will work on Orochi and Seimi, as they are poisonous, but they are mixing the poison into the sand as fast as they can.

　The flying me is also pouring sediment packed to the limit into the item box from right above the hole, like a waterfall.
　At the same time, I made several dragons that I had created beforehand head for the hole, and I was in for a treat.

　--I've come up with a plan to intercept them, and it's called "Come on, underground world!　I'll kill him!

　We're going to dig a pit about a kilometer deep and drop the evil bastard there, then pour sand and earth from above to bury him.

　We knew from past battles that our attacks wouldn't do any damage to the evil bastard.

　Therefore, I thought that in order to defeat it, we needed a means of attack other than our own: .......

　When I was observing the evil bastard, I could clearly see its lungs moving, as it had no skin at all and its internal organs were almost visible.

　So even the deformed monster was breathing.

　So I aimed for asphyxiation.
　If it could not breathe, it would die, because it was a breathing creature.

　I was mostly digging this hole in preparation for the intercept.
　We had placed many, many pitfalls here in the dungeon, plus we were digging them ourselves, but we wanted to dig as deep as we could, and we were almost there before we could finish.

　It would have been hilarious if we hadn't done it in time. No, it's not funny at all.

"Whoo-ha-ha-ha!　Fall down, you idiot--ah, fall down, Katumbo!



Why did you bother to rephrase?

　All of us pouring more and more dirt into the ground filled the hole in a matter of seconds.

'Hardening'!

　Then we'll use Hardening, a feature that protects the dungeon from coming out of the underground world, in a one-kilometer radius.

　That's all I can do.
　If I can't make it this far, I'll go to ...... and ask Leffy for help.

　And then there's a bang under the ground and something explodes.
　Next, a series of rumbling vibrations, like the ground is being shaved, travels up here.

　An evil bastard must be rampaging under the ground.

　Nervously, you keep bracing yourself to deal with whatever comes your way - and then nothing.

　I checked the value of the DP and saw that it had grown absurdly large compared to a few minutes ago.

　The guy is safely in the ground.

Phew. ...... It worked out. You're lucky he doesn't have wings.

　I'm going to have to let out a great deal of stuffed breath out of relief.

　I've been thinking about the possibility that the demon of the forest of the demon world will crawl up there and deal with it somehow.

　The power of the dungeon is strong after all....... If I were a normal warrior or something, I wouldn't have been able to beat him.
　Thanks, dungeon. Thank you, demon king's body.

Wow, that was great. I was sure this would end up coming back to me in tears.

"See that, Refi? That beast would not be my enemy if I had the power of the dungeon. I don't know if I'll ever need your help again.

Well, next time I'll trust you and I'll eat a piece of candy no matter what you come up with.

I'm sorry, that's a lie. I might need your help after all, so if you can't help me, I'd appreciate your help.

I think it's good to be honest, but you're quick to snap: ......

　With a dumbfounded laugh ......, Leffi suddenly glanced up into the sky.

?　What's up?

"...... Is this guy OK? No, he's fine. Then I will return to the castle. What about you?

I'll clean up and then go home. I'm going to be home before dinner, but it might be late, so if I'm not back by the time, you all eat first.

"Mm, okay. I'll tell him.

　She replied and flew back to her home.

Okay, well, let's go to work. You guys need a little more help. We've got to do something about that evil bastard who wrecked the place.

　Each of my pets responded to my words, and then Yata sends me a report that there is a shadow approaching us from above.

　I immediately opened the map to check ...... and saw that there was indeed one hostile reaction.
　I left it open to confirm the location of the evil bastard, but I guess that's why I didn't notice it.

　I thought it was another intruder, but its hostile response is already within the range of my search-and-seek skill, but it hasn't responded to you.
　Since the search-and-seek skill detects and reacts to the hostile intent of the target, the lack of response means that the target does not have hostile intent toward you.

　And this response can be found at .......

　If you wait there for a little while, a shadow that Yata noticed will eventually descend to where you can see it with the naked eye.

I'm not going to be able to say that I'm going to be the only one who can do that.

　It was a lone dragon.