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He asks for the hermitage where Kongming resides.
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This is the third time he has done so, and this means that he has given him a three-column salute.
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When Hijikata Toshizo points this out, Jeanne is buoyed up.
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"Now that Chinese guy, Khoomei, is as good as one of us!
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And Toshizo,
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"Well, if things go as usual, he'll probably join us.
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But I didn't have such high expectations.
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There was a good chance that the three-guide thank-you's would turn into four-guide thank-yous and five-guide thank-yous.
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After talking to him, I found out that Kongming did not seem to want to be a public figure.
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When I told him this, Toshizo said
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"But Liu Bei Xuande managed to persuade that military strategist to join his side, didn't he?
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"Yes, indeed. But I'm not Liu Bei Xuande.
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"I think he has more charisma than Liu Bei."
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This was Toshizo's comment, but he was not that conceited.
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The Kongming of this world had just given up on the demon king De Carabia.
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He would not serve another demon king so soon after that.
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I had guessed so, and I was right.
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When I arrived at the hermitage, the little boy was cleaning.
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When I spoke to him, he looked disappointed,
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He bowed his head and said, "The Lord is ill now.
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He bowed his head.
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"He was fine last time! He must be sick!
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Jeanne screamed at him, but he silenced her,
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"Well then, take care of yourself. Tell her that the demon king Asito was worried about her.
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Jeanne left with these words.
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"You are so easygoing," was Toshizo's comment.
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was what Toshizo said.
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"As I said before, I don't mind if the three visits turn out to be four or five. I will wait until Kongming changes his mind.
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"Until then, you are the lord of the castles of DeKalabia and Ashtaroth, aren't you?"
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To be precise, I'm also running half of Eligos Castle.
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Three. One drink and no more than two women.
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These are the words of a senior citizen, but I think it's not right to equate the castle with women, so I ignore them and continue onward through the forest in silence.
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If I keep walking at this pace, I will be out of the forest in a few minutes.
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--Just as I was about to do so, I heard an explosion from deep in the forest.
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"What's going on?
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The three of us on foot instantly assumed battle stance and turned to look in the direction from which we had heard the sound.
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Smoke was rising from the depths of the forest.
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"...... that area is near Kongming's hermitage."
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"No one lives in this forest but him. We should assume that his house was damaged by necessity.
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"But why? He seemed to have a bad character, but he's not the kind of person who would be a threat to anyone's life.
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"But why? He seemed to have a bad character, but he's not the kind of kid who'd be a target. Kotaro Fuuma told you he has a grudge against DeCarabia because he ran away from him. He said he was attacked several times.
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You mean he was attacked again?
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Maybe.
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Then we have to go help him.
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Of course. We can't abandon people we've talked to three times.
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We turned around and ran the way we came. On the way, I told Jeanne that we were going to separate. I had a secret plan. She readily agreed to do so.
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When Toshizo and I returned a few minutes later, the place had turned into a battlefield.
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Decarabia and her men, orcs and goblins, surrounded us.
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When Dekarabia appeared from the back of the room, he said to Kwon Takaku
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Is the rumor true that the demon king Ashtaroth is coming to you, Komei?
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A calm and unmotivated voice is heard from inside the hermitage.
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"Yes, it is true.
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You said that you had left me and would serve no one.
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You're not a king I should serve.
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You're not the king I should serve. I'll ask you one more time. Serve me! and I'll spare your life. Use your wits and kill the Demon Lord Asito.
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I refuse.
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Kongmyō declines, and the goblins and orcs all light their fire arrows at once.
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He attaches it to his bowstring and fires it without hesitation, setting Komei's hermitage ablaze.
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Out of the burning house comes the boy who takes care of Kongming.
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The treacherous DeCarabia instructs him to kill the boy to make an example of him, but he can't do it.
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He cannot, because the boy is not a
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He instantly transforms from the form of a child into that of a hexenbiest.
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He became a two-headed dog called Oltros and cut off the heads of goblins and orcs one after another.
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If it had been only orcs and goblins that DeCarabia had brought with him, he could have wiped them out in a matter of minutes.
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In fact, it seems that in the past raids, he has almost wiped out the entire pursuit force.
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This time, however, not only DeCarabia's minions but also the Demon Lord himself are present.
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Oltros is a powerful demon, but it was not a demon that could be used against the Demon Lord.
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As DeCarabia's pentagram body glowed, a monstrous ray of light struck him.
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Oltros, who was unable to avoid it due to its speed, injured his right leg.
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His mobility is thus taken away.
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The next blow would surely finish him off.
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Just as DeCarabia thinks this, a warrior comes cutting at him.
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The warrior was, of course, Toshizo Hijikata, the strongest warrior in the Ashtaroth army.
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He silently slashes at her.
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He strikes a blow as if the demon king, a scoundrel, does not need to be named, but the demon king, as expected of him, somehow notices and defends himself with a defensive wall.
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With that blow, he seems to have finally noticed our presence.
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He turns his hate-filled killing intent on us.
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"Are you not the Demon King Ashtaroth? My sworn enemy.
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"My arch-enemy is nothing of the sort. You and I are but strangers whose lives have crossed paths for a moment.
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I see. You mean that for the Demon King who lives for hundreds of years, this encounter is only for a moment?
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That's one way of putting it, but your life ends here, DeKalabia. That is what I mean.
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Hearing these words, Dekarabia's pentagram body turned red and she became angry.
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"Pull it out!"
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He spits a beam of light toward me.
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I block it with my magic defenses.
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I let him get away last time, but I'm not going to let him get away this time.
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This will be the place where he dies.
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That's how I'm going to fight.
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