I am Citry.

　I'm a demon, under the direct control of the Evil One.
　I'm the twelfth in the pecking order.

　I'm almost as powerful as the eleventh-ranked Gsion who infiltrated the Holy City Sanctum.

　I am the twelfth in the pecking order, but I am the strongest demon in existence.

　That's because I was the next Demon King, and I was the most evil demon in the world.

　Because I had received powerful blessings from the Evil Lord to become the next Demon King, I was now much stronger than Guzion. Of course, more so than all the other demons except him.


　I was already as powerful as the previous demon kings, but I had yet to reign in the human world as a demon king.

　The reason for this was because I had been stopped by the Evil God-sama.

　It seemed that there was still a lot of negative energy stock under the Evil Lord, and there was no need to hurry to make me the Demon King.

　Therefore, I waited.


　It has been almost a hundred years since the Demon King Belet was defeated by the heroes.

　I heard that it was finally my turn.
　Finally, my debut as the Demon King!

　─ ─ I was thinking, but I was stopped again.

　Apparently, the Evil Lord seems to be concerned about the existence of the brave man.

　Demon King Beret was originally a demon of the thirteenth rank in the pecking order. Even though he was one rank below me, there was not that much difference in power between me and him.

　Even though such a Belet was blessed by the evil gods like me, he was instantly killed by a brave man who was transferred to this world by the creator god.


　Brave people are cheats in their very existence.

　From the moment they arrived in this world, they had the power to easily defeat high-level demons, and they also rose through the levels at a very fast rate.

　In the blink of an eye, they can acquire the power to slaughter our demons.

　Until now, when the Demon King reigned in this world, within a few years, or at most ten years, a brave man would always come.

　The moment the brave man comes to this world, the Demon King's defeat will be decided.

　Then what should we do?

　In the years before he is defeated by the brave, the Demon King desperately wants to terrorize the world and scrape up negative energy.

　All for the sake of the evil God.

　The demon who becomes the Demon King is defeated by the heroes, but the negative energy gathered before his defeat is a source of sustenance for the Evil God-sama to maintain his existence and also to prepare the next Demon King.

　The Evil Lord does not assume that our demons will be defeated.

　Each time, he will devise and give our Demon King a strategy for the heroes against.

　However, the brave ones are cheats.

　No matter what moves we use, he will blow them all away with his overwhelming status and unintelligible skills.

　All the demons who could be demon kings understood that. They had given up.

　They said that they couldn't win against a brave man──.

　Even so, the Demon King would do his utmost to spread fear and despair in the world of mankind, to the best of his ability, to the best of his ability, and to the best of his knowledge, for the sake of the evil gods who were suffering for our sake.


　The Demon King Beret was outnumbered.

　He created many demons and spread them throughout the world. Each one was weak, but their numbers were overwhelming.

　I think it was a pretty good idea.

　Because no matter how strong the brave man is, one person cannot stop the stampede happening all over the world at the same time.

　Beleth was defeated by the brave men.

　It's probably a big part of the reason why he couldn't keep too many strong subordinates around him to send the demons around the world.

　He was prepared for it, too.

　What was more of a problem was that most of the demons he sent around the world were defeated by the brave(er) and unbrave(er).

　At the time of Beleth, two brave men had come to the world.

　Until now, there has always been only one brave man who comes to this world.

　The holy knights and saints that accompany the heroes are quite an eyesore, but this is the first time, at least as far as I know, that two heroes have arrived.

　The power of the original heroes was overwhelming.
　From the speed at which they were leveling up, that one must be the regular brave one.

　The one who crushed all of Beret's plans was the man who was called the guardian hero.

　I thought he was a sub-brave because his speed of becoming strong was slower than that of the normal brave.

　That guardian hero kept flying around the world at high speed and stopped the stampede.

　Tina-Haribel, the half-elven woman who was with the guardian hero, was also a nuisance.

　Because Tina, who had the blood of a brave man, also possessed an unusual amount of power.

　As a result, although I managed to accumulate energy to make the next Demon King - that is to say, me, the Demon King, the Evil God-sama didn't seem to have the luxury of time.


　Such an evil God-sama devised a new plan that would allow the evil God-sama to reincarnate a brave person.

　I didn't understand the meaning of this at first, but after the Evil God-sama explained it to me, I understood it.

　He said that before I could reign as the Demon King, he would reincarnate an otherworldly person as a hero and put a curse on his soul.

　I thought it was a great idea.

　If a curse is placed on your soul, no matter what kind of curse it is, there's no way you can be straight up strong.

　Moreover, it was the curse of this world's most powerful incarnation of malice, the evil god.

　It must have been a tremendous curse.


　Probably, the person who was reincarnated as that hero is already dead.

　They were under the curse of the evil gods.


　It seems that the Evil God-sama has consumed quite a bit of his power to reincarnate as a heroic person, and he is now resting.

　When the Evil God-sama woke up, I was going to reign in this world as the Demon King and spread fear and despair.

　 The brave man won't be coming for a while.

　Because Evil God-sama said, 'I've consumed quite a bit of energy in the God Realm.

　It's my heaven for at least a hundred years!
　I was thrilled.

　I can picture the face of the Creator God in my mind, frustrated at not being able to transition the brave man and having this world that I love overrun by me.

　Finally, I can be of help to the evil God.


　That's what I thought.

　Until that monster appeared in front of me.