The "Flowing Water Circle Law" and its creator, the past Four Heavenly Kings "Shunsui", General Reximeral.
　Dariel was able to explain all of this in a matter of minutes.

''I knew you were a genius, Dariel...''

　When did he realize that Dariel was a genius, and when did he realize that?

　Many dismissed Dariel as a failure.
　Because she can't use magic.

　That's all there is to it, but to the demon race, that one point was a fatal flaw.

　What use would a magic-less demon race be in the Demon King's army?
　Normally, they should be discharged from the army as soon as possible, but they were still able to remain in the demon king's army not only because of the backing of their foster father Grandfather, but also because the efforts of the person in question were indescribable.

　If he couldn't use magic and couldn't fight on the front lines, then at least to support the logistics.

　With that in mind, Dariel read ancient and modern strategy books and studied military science to master how to move a large army.
　There were many people who ridiculed Dariel as a 'brainless, futile effort'.

　Indeed, as long as the Demon King's Army was an army, it was not that they didn't need the commanding ability to move the group.
　Still, the first thing that stood in front of them was the power of magic greater than anyone else.

　Who would follow the weak?

　No matter how much he studied, as long as he couldn't use magic, Dariel would never rise to the occasion.
　Hence, he scoffed at it as a wasted effort.

　Lizet had once been one of that sneering group.

　Rather, there wasn't a single person who joined the Demon King's Army at the same time as Dariel and served as a dark soldier who didn't laugh at Dariel.

　Even Rizzet didn't know what kind of insidious isolation he would suffer if he didn't laugh in sync with them.
　But in his heart, he could not laugh.
　Dariel's mental capacity to keep going to the book, no matter how disrespectful or tormenting, without losing the sparkle in her eyes.
　It was impossible to underestimate him, and he was overwhelmed.

　The difference between those who ridiculed him and those who were ridiculed gradually began to diverge.
　And more rapidly than you can imagine.

　Not a single one of the peers who had dismissed Dariel as incompetent and useless still remained in the Demon King's Army.

　They all failed the aptitude test at a relatively early stage or dropped out because they couldn't bear the rigorous training anymore.
　Everyone who had mocked Dariel had left the Demon King's Army after being sent off by Dariel.

　In the midst of all this, Lizet was terrified.
　He thought that he too had made fun of Dariel, even if only formally, and that he too was going to drop out of the Demon King's Army like a matter of cause and effect.

　In fact, as a boy, Lizet was so stretched that there was a year when he couldn't learn a single new magic because he was so sluggish.
　If he didn't, he would be branded useless and dropped to a miscellaneous soldier.

　This would cut off all avenues for advancement and no hope of improving his life.
　Unable to bear this humiliation, the others left the Demon King's Army.

　What would I do?
　It was during this time of conflict that Dariel reached out to me.

　The boy, Dariel, who had already established himself as a logistics expert at the time, pointed out the problems of the sluggish Rizzet and even proposed an improvement plan.

　Just by following that, he was able to immediately master two magics and remain in the executive ranks.

　I once asked him, without understanding how Dariel, who was not supposed to be able to use magic, was able to instruct him on magic in such detail.
　At that time, Dariel answered shyly, ''Because I studied to use magic...''
　Dariel had put in dozens of times more effort than Lizet herself and her peers who had already dropped out.

　That effort was ultimately confronted with the futility of that effort as well, and it was the path that Dariel had walked that allowed him to overcome that as well and establish a new identity.

　Those who don't understand that and scoff at it, will never be able to achieve as much success as Dariel.

　For the one who scoffs at the effort is always the one who has never made even the slightest effort.

　Little by little, from that time onwards, Lizet had developed a friendship with Dariel.

　Dariel is good-natured in character.
　He would answer anything you asked him, and if his answers were always accurate and correct, his superiors liked to have him by their side.

　Even if he couldn't use magic, yet another talent would be essential to properly motivate a group of people.
　And Dariel had retained more than enough of that talent.

　Eventually, he was able to substitute his assisting abilities and was greatly selected for the position of Assistant to the Four Heavenly Kings as a rank and dark soldier.
　It was the first time since the beginning of the Demon King's Army that he was forced to make this appointment, and although there were many objections from those around him, he was pushed through with the supremacy of Grand Barza, who was in control of the military department at the time.

　When he received the news, Lizet recalled how he felt.

　He was amazed, and the great strides his peers had made, who had been denounced as incompetent ever since they joined the army, were simply appalling, but at the same time, he felt satisfied.
　I was proud that I was the one who had seen Dariel's efforts up close and personal.

　Was there also jealousy?
　It was a lysate that he couldn't deny.

　No matter how close they were to each other as friends, it would be a lie to say that he had no superiority over Dariel, who could not use magic at all.
　He wouldn't be able to call her a person without that level of self-affirmation.

　However, Dariel had jumped far beyond the path Lizete had taken and assumed the position of Assistant to the Four Heavenly Kings.
　Never before had Rizeto felt as keenly as he did at that time that he was just an ordinary man.

　What was that man?
　He doesn't have what everyone deserves to have, and yet he gets what only a handful of people get when they ask for it.

　I began to think that a true genius is such a thing as a one-in-a-hundred-year-old genius.

　I wondered if it was fortunate for Lizet to spend time in close proximity with such an extraordinary person.
　For an ordinary person who can only look at their feet, a genius so brilliant is like a poison that confuses them every time they see it.

　Whenever Dariel causes an unexpected incident at his side, his little heart is shattered and upset.

　Is there ever a story this annoying?

　It is now.

　Dariel and I were supposed to be acquainted, and we were supposed to have been in pain and suffering longer than anyone else.
　Why can't you see into the heart of your friend?

　Is it because he's a genius?
　Is it because he is a genius, or is it because he is an ordinary person?

　A man of no talent, trapped in the grip of common sense, can't even begin to imagine the thoughts of a man of great talent.
　Just as a mouse cannot understand human language, so an ordinary person cannot understand what a genius says when he hears it.

　Are you and he that different a creature?
　Was it also a misunderstanding that emerged from his own stupidity to think of such an opponent as a friend?

　Whenever he thought this, a fierce emotion rose from his mind.
　Anger.

　Anger at being reminded of his own insignificant mundanity.

''Don't be ridiculous........!　Don't look down on me...!

　Lizate has self-esteem, too.
　That mind, which he thought he had long ago completed controlling, becomes uncontrollable again when he doesn't understand what his friend is thinking.

'Dariel, you're always like that...!　You're supposed to be behind us, but you're always in front of us. You're underneath us and yet you always look down on me...!　Do you really enjoy watching these idiots get so worked up?

　Even Rizzeto has worked hard to become an ordinary person.
　It's the end of that process that made him rise to the position of dark general.
　His efforts should have been recognized as well.
　Just like Dariel.

　However, standing in front of that genius exposes your own petty satisfaction with such a small success.
　I can't stand that.

''I'll show you that ordinary people have the willpower of ordinary people!　My masterpiece!　'Blow away with the 'Flowing Water Circle Method', Dariel!'

　Reviving the depths of the past hero, the Four Heavenly Kings Lekimeral, in the present day.

　The Water Demon Method had been Lizet's stronghold since she was half a man.

　With Water Demon Law, he would not lose to anyone. He had come this far with that spirit.
　Even though he was able to recreate the depth of General Rechimeral's profound technique, which is touted as the best in the past, Rizeto can be confident that there is no mistake in his pride.

　If it's this profound technique........
　If it's the final destination of your efforts........

　Even the genius Dariel can be defeated.

　.........That's what I thought.
　As I thought, it must have come from Lizete's optimism due to her mediocrity.

　Dariel easily dismissed even the deepest techniques of Rizzet's longest running....
　The ultimate water stream and the ultimate water flow are both crushed.