I am an ogre who has lived for nearly a thousand years.

　I fought off a brave man once.
　Three times.

　It was my story.

　First time. That was about nine hundred years ago.

　This body, forged over a hundred years, was impervious to the swords of the brave and played the magic of the wise.

　The brave man ran away from the battle with me and then defeated the then Demon King without fighting me again.

　The brave man avoided a fight with me.


　And the second and third time, I fought the same brave man.
　It was about three hundred years ago now.

　The second time, I did indeed put a stop to the brave man.

　But he has resurrected and is in front of me again.

　The third time the battle was fierce.

　That brave man had become incredibly strong.

　But I still won.

　My seven hundred years of martial arts training would not yield to a being who happened to be empowered by a god!

　And the brave man I was supposed to have defeated killed the then Demon Lord.

　I heard a rumor that the brave man was able to revive as many times as he wanted with the skills given to him by God.

　Once again I was able to avoid a fight with a brave man.


　I don't get the idea that I'm stronger than the Demon King.

　If the brave men and women had come to me with the same strength to challenge the master, I would have been defeated.

　However, the brave men who gained enough power to defeat the Demon King, wanted to avoid a fight with me.

　It's a shame that I couldn't protect the Demon King, but I was respected by all the demons and demons in the world for forcing the brave man to abandon the fight.


　And today, the Demon King called me.

　It's the Demon King Sitree.

　Mr. Sitree wanted to add some members of my family to the Demon King's army.

　Although no one is as strong as me yet, they are all the best I have trained since I was a child.

　I decided to send them out with confidence. I'm sure they will be able to help Sitely-sama and Evil God-sama.


　Afterwards, Sitely-sama invited me to join the leadership of the Demon King's army.

　I was happy.

　It was because I had once been unable to protect the Demon King, and he had asked me to join him.


　But suddenly, ''Yes, gladly!'' I was a bit humbled, because my pride, having defeated the brave three times, did not allow me to do so.

　Then Citry-sama told me that he had created the strongest Demon King's army of all time and that he would prepare one of its executive positions for me.

　I was almost in tears.
　I thought that I would trust my life to this person and do my best to serve him.

　And that vow would soon be carried out.


　I went outside to introduce the young man from my village to Lord Sitree, and there he was.

　He is a monster with such immense magical power that I wondered why I hadn't noticed his approach before.

　It is said that he slaughtered my family.

　It has slaughtered my family, my warriors and my sons.
　All signs of it had vanished.

　He must be telling the truth.

　I was about to attack him with hatred, but I caught Master Citry out of the corner of my eye and I was able to keep my cool.

　I have to protect Citry-sama from this monster!


　I struck that guy.

　I hadn't stopped training since I defeated the brave man three hundred years ago.

　Maybe it was all to protect Citry-sama today.

　That bogeyman easily received my all-out blow.

　As I began to trade blows with him, I understood.

　The fact that no matter how strong the ogre clan was, if it wasn't for me, this guy would kill me, unable to cut me to pieces.

　That's how much of a monster he was.


　His swordsmanship is like a piece of crap to me after a thousand years of study.

　However, his swordsmanship is imbued with the sensation that he has slaughtered more than ten thousand demons.

　This is a sword technique for efficiently killing demons.

　One would be curious to know how this guy, who looks like a human race that looks like he's not even an adult, learned this sword skill.

　In addition to his sword skills, he also has a jet-black stick piece.

　This was tricky.


　My beloved Orihalcon sword was destroyed by that stick-thin blade with just one strike.

　I had obtained the sword when I defeated an adventurer who had attacked me a long time ago.

　My beloved sword, which had withstood my power for hundreds of years without spilling its blade, shattered so easily.

　But if I put all my strength into it, it can be even harder than the Orihalcon.

　I threw away my beloved sword, which was reduced to only a hilt, and struck him with all my strength in my fist.

　That monster kept preventing my fist, which even shattered a mithril lump, with a jet-black stick cut-off.

　Every once in a while he would hit me with a piece of stick, but it hurt a lot. Maybe if it wasn't me, I'd die in one hit.


　Even though I was desperately fighting, Citry-sama still wasn't trying to escape.

　No, he couldn't escape.

　There was someone blocking Master Citry's transition to the magical world.

　The number of monsters has increased to two.



　I managed to create an opening and escaped from the monsters. I forcefully held Citry-sama in my arms, but it's an emergency, so please forgive me.

　Something soft was against my hand, but I'm not going to lust after it now.

　For the most part, Master Citry may be older than me, but to me, she's like a grandchild.

　Grandpa, I'll definitely protect Citry!

　Then, quite a distance away from their presence, he released her into the sky.

　The demon Citry-sama can get away with it.


　I was naive in my judgement that it would be able to escape.

　The other monster appeared behind Citry-sama as she stayed in the air.

　Her wings were cut off and she fell, so I hurriedly received it.


　And now Citry-sama and I are surrounded by five bakemono.

　I thought it was over.
　There are five of these bakemono that are more powerful than me at my full strength.

　They surrounded me and Citry-sama and began to talk to each other.


　That's when I felt Sitry-sama's magical power swell.

　That's right, Citry-sama hasn't shown his power yet!

　I stopped Citry-sama in a hurry. If she was serious, she would be able to take down and escape if there were less than two of these buggers.

　We should endure for now.
　I decided to do so.

　I would regret to death that I had stopped Sitry-sama at this point.



''Good night. Even with five alter egos, was there a demon that couldn't be tamed?

　The master of the monsters has appeared.