What the hell is this?

　Why am I the first in the hierarchy of the Evil One's subordinates?
　The most powerful demon in the world, this Bael...


　You're getting beat up.

　...not good.
　Very bad.

　I can't resist at all.

　If I try to fight back, it will all be crushed in an instant.

　Oh, I'm just going to disappear here?


　Suddenly, I was reminded of the past.

　Hundreds of millions of years after the evil one created me.
　Many things have happened.

　I've ruined countless countries.
　Sometimes I even took the body of a king and did whatever I wanted.

　I've collected more than 10,000 souls.

　It was really fun.


　........huh?
　What is it?

　Why am I looking back on the past?

　Could this be........what we see when we die, a runabout?


　Well....

　I'm going to disappear here.


　As I looked at the supermassive pillar of light looming in front of me, I was reminded of how this happened.

　It all started with the sudden appearance of a single slime in front of me.


　──＊＊＊]──.

　The twelfth demon of the twelfth rank in the pecking order, Citry-sama, I was trying to find out where he was...

　He just appeared out of nowhere.


　The reason why I call Sitri with a 'sama' is because she became the Demon King.

　We demons gain power as a demon king by receiving blessings from the evil gods. At the same time, we are treated as the Evil Lord's entourage.

　In other words, even if a demon is low in the pecking order, if it receives blessings and becomes the Demon King, other demons will have to respect the Demon King.

　If that demon's rank is low and his power is weak even if he becomes the king of demons, he may be licked by the demons...

　Citry-sama is different.

　The seventy-two demons directly under the Evil Lord.

　Even among them, she, who was ranked twelfth in the pecking order, was the Demon King.

　Her power surpassed me.
　That's why I'll call her Citry-sama, a title of honor.

　Nevertheless, if I'm chosen as the Demon King, that would make me the most powerful Demon King.

　I was looking forward to the day when I would become the Demon King.


　Then one day, when Citry-sama had gone to the human world and hadn't returned, a subordinate demon under her command came to me for advice.

　Normally, the matter of the next Demon King being missing should be reported to the Evil One immediately.

　But for some reason, Lord Evil is currently sleeping for a while.

　That's why Citry-sama's messenger came to me.

　I immediately sent my men to the human world to search for Sitely.

　I received a report that there was evidence of Sitry-sama's presence in the human country of Glendale, but there was no further progress.


　The residue of Citry-sama's magic power had been overwritten by even more powerful magic power, making it impossible to track him.

　Ridiculous.........

　A demon of the twelfth rank in the pecking order has become the Demon King?

　There couldn't be a person in the human world with enough magical power to hide the traces of such an existence.

　If there is a possibility, it's only a brave man from another world, but Citry-sama has not yet reigned as the Demon King.

　So the brave man couldn't have come to this world.


　I was frustrated by the slow progress of the search, so I came to the human world to look for Sitry-sama.

　It was the first time in thousands of years that I had come to the human world in search of Lord Sitree.

　According to the reports of my staff, I felt the strongest residue of Citry-sama's magical power in the land.


　The slime made me fit in.


　...hmm?

　Doesn't it make sense?

　That's just what it means.


　I'm being contained by some lowly slime.

　That's not "absorption".
　It's "containment.

　I don't know why, but I know it.


　Ha-ha-ha.

　I don't know what I'm talking about.


　..........

　Why?

　Why would I, the most powerful demon in the world, be housed in a slime?

　You d*mn slime!


　You can't help it by shouting.
　No sound can be made inside this thing.

　It can't even release magic power.

　No matter what attack I make inside this body, everything is absorbed somewhere.

　Furthermore...


　It's a good thing I'm here...?

　It's a good idea to be able to have a good time with them.

　I duck it just in time.

　I've been stored in this thing for about half a day now.　Suddenly, spells of tremendous power began shooting out at me, one after another.

　It's not just magic.

　It's not only magic, but also slashes that can cut through my skin if I touch it, and blows that can shatter my bones.

　I knew the power of the slashes and blows because I got hit by the slashes and blows while trying to guard them first.

　The flying slashes and blows are techniques that are rarely used by people who aren't of the transferable hero class.

　Moreover, their power is really bad.

　I'm not going to be able to get out of it.

　I'm not going to die being stored in this.......this lowly creature!

　I am the greatest demon of all - Bael!

　I desperately continued to avoid flying magic, blows and slashes.


　─ ─ ─ ─ ********──.

　It must have been two days since I was stored in the slime.

　I was still alive.

　But... it was the end of the line.

　And then...


　Suddenly, I was spat out of the slime.

　I'm out!

"Bullshit you silly little toad, you lowly slime...

　He immediately tried to make the slime that was holding me disappear...


Guys, this is bad!　It's like the slime has turned into a demon.

　... eh.

　There was no slime there.
　Instead, the ones that were there were the bakemono.

　They were a level of monster that I, the most powerful demon, could only describe them as monsters.

　Three colored dragons.
　Three colored dragons. Two nine-tailed foxes.
　Three Spirit Kings.

　I'm sure you'll be able to see that many bad guys just from the quality of their magic and their appearance. Those bodies are covered by something that looks like auxiliary magic.

　These are the races that have the power to fight demons, even if only for the sake of it, but they were there with even more strength.

　The rest are the things.

　There was Tina-Haribel, a half-elf with the blood of a hero, Tina-Haribel. A woman who was a companion of the brave who defeated the Demon King Beret.

　And the most dangerous one is a black-haired, blue-eyed man holding a sword as big as his height.

　The magic power he wears is the master of the monsters.

　It's the master of the monsters that will win even if you take on all the monsters gathered here at the same time.

　By the way, among the monsters was Sitely-sama. She, too, is shooting murderous air at me.

　I understood that Citry-sama was now under the control of the black-haired bakemono.


　The master of the monster calls out.

''Everyone!　Let's go!

　It looks like the preparations for the attacks were already done before I got out of the slime.

　It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're looking for.

　The dragon's breath.
　The slash of a half-man, half-dragon.
　The blows of beastmen dressed in white scales.
　The magic of the spirit kings.
　The beam emitted from the nine tails.
　Citry-sama's magic...

　They're cutting down on my physical strength in a gory way.

　I see........all the attacks that were unleashed on me when I was stored in the slime were these guys'.


　Furthermore, my hands are sliced and diced by Tina and the black-haired man, no matter how many times I let them regenerate.

　There was no way I could fight back.


　Finally, I reached the end of my regeneration.

　I was lying on the floor like a rag, unable to do anything about it anymore.

　I suppose he was trying to put a stop to me.
　The black-haired man made a huge pillar of light appear.


　This is it.........

　I'm going to shout with all my might what I must say at the end.

''I am!　There is no such thing as a slime...
Holy Lance!

　Crushed by a giant pillar of light.

　Tsk. I didn't get to say the last word....

　My consciousness is fading away.

　This is the complete annihilation?

　I'm sorry, Evil God, I'm sorry.
　This is.........it seems that this is all I can do.

　The days when I ran amok as your follower....

　I've been interrupting the god of creation for years.


　It's so... so... so... so... so...