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　When I arrived at the throne room, I found my men in full force.

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　Godreve, the Dwarf chief,

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　The vice-chief of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata Toshizo,

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　Hanzo, the Kobold ninja, is also there.

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　The only one who was not here was Kotaro Kazama, who had joined our group the other day.

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　I thought so, but I was mistaken.

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　As soon as I sit on the throne, he appears.

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　Dressed as a soldier, he peels off his mask. Out of it came a masked ninja.

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　He looks the same as when we first saw him.

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　Is this his default?

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　I asked him. He smiled wryly and said, "I don't know.

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　He said that he is always transforming into something and has forgotten what he is supposed to look like.

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　He is like a 20-faced monster or Arsene Lupin, but I wonder what kind of face he has under his mask.

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　I am curious, but the fact that they are wearing masks suggests that there must be some reason why they do not want to expose their faces to the public.

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　Forcing him to do so would only lower the king's dignity.

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　He gave permission to Kotaro Fuuma to wear the mask in any place.

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"He is indeed an able king. He respects the individuality of his subordinates. He is worth working for."

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　It seems that Fuuma Kotaro smiled under his mask, but was it an illusion?

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"I can give you something worth working for, but what can Kotaro give me?"

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"Information, of course. This time it concerns the success or failure of a plot.

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And you succeeded?

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"Yes."

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　Kotaro nodded lightly and explained the details.

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"Your idea was to have the caravan full of counterfeit gold coins take three routes through the DeKalabian territory. I gave this information to the three guilds in Decarabia: the Thieves' Guild, the Beggars' Guild, and the Merchants' Guild.

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"So if each of them sends separate or duplicate information to the ruler, DeKalabia will not be suspicious."

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That's the Demon Lord. That's right.

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　Kotaro continued.

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"This is the basis of information disruption. I thought something like this might happen. I've checked the number of moles and the number of mistresses of each of the important persons in each guild. I chose the most greedy of the informants.

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"Greedy people are easily trusted. Greedy people are easy to trust because their motives are based on . DeCarabia may not respect the informant's character, but he appreciates their greed and audacity."

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"Exactly. Decarabia danced in the palm of your hand and attacked the merchants."

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Are the merchants under false pretenses injured?

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"No. I told them to run as fast as they could when the army of De Caravia arrived.

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That's good. We don't want anyone to die in an operation like this.

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　Eve immediately adds, "As expected of the master." I raise my hand lightly in response, and continue to ask Fuuma Kotaro, "What did you do with the fake gold coins that you took?

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"It's good that you took the counterfeit gold coins, but did you know they were fake?

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"No. DeCarabia is happily gathering arms and provisions and recruiting mercenaries.

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Then his army will fall within a fortnight.

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Maybe.

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"Will you remain calm?"

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　Eve asks me demurely.

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　I nod my head.

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"I could watch him dance in the palm of my hand. I don't like the idea of an ugly demon king dancing in the palm of my hand, but I'll let the beautiful dancing princess dance later.

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　With these words, he waited for the time to pass.

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　Two weeks later, the effects of the project began to show.

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　The mercenaries who received the lump sum realized that the money they received was fake.

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　After two weeks had passed, the fake gold had lost less than half of its mass and had become less than scrap iron.

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　The money-hungry mercenaries immediately protested.

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　The owners of the whorehouses and bars where the mercenaries had played with their one-time money also protested.

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　The merchants who had given arms to DeCarabia also protested.

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　The circle of protests gradually widened, and rumors that DeCarabia was a swindler of the highest caliber gained ground in the territory.

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　Hearing this rumor, DeCarabia was furious. Not only against me, but also against the mercenaries and merchants who insulted him.

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　They are his subjects and are supposed to follow his orders even if he doesn't give them money. They must have had this mistaken understanding.

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　Not an uncommon type of demon lord.

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　DeCarabia gathers in the city square and suppresses the protesting inhabitants with his own troops.

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　This should have quieted the inhabitants and restored peace to the city, but this time there were those who sided with the inhabitants.

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　These were the mercenaries who had been overcharged.

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　They gave up on DeCarabia, who had overcharged them and harmed the residents, and attacked them.

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　Maybe the mercenaries had a sense of justice,

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　Or they might have thought that they might be hurt if they did not do what they were told.

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　Or they may have thought so.

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　However, one thing we know is that one of the infiltrators and instigators among the mercenaries was a ninja from our army.

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　Kotaro the Wind Demon disguised himself as a mercenary, and sounded out DeCarabia's disapproval of the mercenaries who had tricked the residents into paying fake money to the mercenaries, and fought against the mercenaries.

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　The angry mercenaries, with the cooperation of the residents, caused a commotion in the castle town of the Demon King DeCarabia, but there was one person who remained calm in the midst of it all.

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　A mercenary asked.

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　A citizen wondered.

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"If we continue to fight, we may get our revenge, but in the end, DeCarabia will catch us and execute us, won't he?

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　That is true.

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　That is true, but the king who devised this scheme was not a king who would abandon the people and the mercenaries.

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　Kotaro the Wind Demon, disguised as a mercenary, said in a loud voice: "Hey, you!

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"Hey, you guys, it's true that we're going to be beaten by Dekarabia if we don't do something. He is a brutal king. But not the demon king Ashtaroth who is now attacking our city. He is called ruthless and ruthless, the king of the two sides of the same coin, but he is a very deep-hearted demon king. Let us rely on him.

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　Rumors of the demon king Ashtaroth were heard by the inhabitants and mercenaries.

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　The rumors were half good and half bad.

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　The good ones are about a very smart king, a general who defeated the demon king Sabnak in just one month.

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　The bad one is the opposite: a king who is too smart. The bad ones are the opposite, too smart and too reckless, who will do whatever it takes to win.

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　Some of the mercenaries knew that they had killed a young hero.

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"Will it be safe to rely on such a king, or will he be a snake?

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　His voice was not small, but he was brought down by the voice of Kotaro Fuuma.

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"The Demon King Ashtaroth may be the king of intrigue, but he will not distribute counterfeit money, nor take offense at those to whom he distributes it, nor execute them. His castle town has been developing in recent years. If you don't like it, I don't recommend it, but I'll cooperate with him even if it's just me.

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　That line was the deciding factor, but in the end, it was a relative assessment.

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　He cooperates with a demon king, neither from the sea nor from the mountains, in order to fight against the most recent evil.

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　The people and mercenaries were not convinced.

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　They just had no choice.

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　Knowing this, I quickly mobilized the army and sent a messenger to the castle town of Decarabia.

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　I wrote a letter of relief to the inhabitants, assuring them that their safety and property would be guaranteed by Ashtaroth the Witchking.

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　The letter, which was part of the staging, greatly encouraged the hesitant rebels, and they gladly opened the gates of the castle of Dekarabia.

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　Thus, I was able to advance my army to the castle of Dekarabia without having to attack the castle, which is the most troublesome part of warfare.

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