After Eltria left the drawing room to take care of some business, Sati, who was sitting beside me, gave me a curious look.

'Master, what's a seerservant?'

　It was Lilith the Succubus who answered for me.

'As usual, you are a clueless little girl. A sea serpent is a big snake that lives in the sea.

　I'm tempted to butt in and say that you're not going to lecture others, but it's true, so I don't say anything.
　Although she is a girl with a small brain capacity, but she is on the edge of the demon race, and I guess she has some knowledge about demons.

　I point to the painting that Eltria showed me earlier.

'It's just that picturesque monster. Bigger than a large sailing ship, and with its enormity it wraps itself around the ship and sinks it.

　I explain.

'Such ghostly creatures live in the sea...'

　Sati is frightened, but I agree with her.

　Even in the oceans of the prehistoric world, great whales as big as thirty meters, and squid like kraken that are nearly twenty meters long, are real.

　In a world where dragons and goblins exist, it's strange that the Sea Serpent doesn't exist.

'Well, judging from that picture, it must be bigger than a blue whale in size.

Are you bigger than a whale?

'From the drawings I'd guess. And from what I've heard about Eltria and the fear of the sailors, I'm guessing that thirty meters isn't much more than thirty meters.

　It looks like a dinosaur from the Cretaceous or Jurassic period.

Now, how do we defeat such a monster?

　I bothered my head.
　Seeing the situation, the one who approached me fluently was the elf Anemone.
　She raised her hand modestly and asked a question, may I ask you a question?
　He asks.

'No problem. And this isn't a place for a military council. No need to raise your hand.

　When Anemone heard those words, she prefaced her question with, "I see, that's very helpful.

''Um, Ike-san, you're a demon race, right?

Sort of.

　He is now disguised as a human, but he is the head of the Eighth Legion, the one who will be able to cry when he returns to Ivalice. Although sometimes I almost forget it when I'm surrounded by these noisy girls.

''If you're an executive of the Demon King's Army, aren't Sea Serpents like your friends?　Can't we use it in a normal way?

　Okay, it was indeed a good question.
　There are many demons in the Demon King's Army, and they borrow their power.

　From the point of view of the humans and sub-humans who don't know the actual situation of the 'Demon King's Army', the Sea Serpent and other demons would only appear to be companions of the demon race.

　Sati has a similar question.

''Sati also wondered the same question. There are a lot of monster people in the Demon King's army, right? Can't we persuade them to join us, Sea Serpent-san?''

　Lilith made an 'idiot, if you could do that, it wouldn't bother you so much' kind of face at that question, but I won it over and explained to Sati and Anemone.

It's not only the demon race that participates in the demon king's army, but also many of the species called demons. However, there are exceptions to everything.

An exception...?

　Anemone interjects.

'Dragons, for example. I'm sure you'll find a lot of people who are very proud of their intelligence and refuse to fight with the demon race and live quietly in the woods and mountains. Low-intelligence wyverns are often used by demons. However, according to human scholars, wyverns are not classified as dragons.

'I'm sure there was a unit in the Eighth Corps that had a wyvern. I've seen orcs being fed.

''That's how they tame demons in some cases. In many cases, the demon race is very good at taming demons. That's why the Demon King's army is full of demons.

So the demons are very good at training demons, right?

'Well, you're right. Maybe we're more comfortable with each other than with humans. Or maybe they're more compatible with the pheromones coming from the demon race.

　As a human, I didn't understand that, and I never really thought about it, but anyway, taming demons was the demon race's specialty.

　Maybe God gave me preferential treatment in that area because of their inferior technical skills to humans.

''Ike-san, you said that there are exceptions to everything, but the Sea Serpent is the dragon species (dragon) of that exception, right?''

''Yeah, I don't know why, but dragons are the only thing that doesn't go well with the demon race. I think they'd rather be compatible with humans.

What do you mean?

''Although we don't have them in Rosalia, there are some knightly orders in the human kingdom that have tamed flying dragons. They're called dragon knights.

...a dragon knight?

'Oh, fortunately, we've never met on the battlefield before, but I heard that the commander of the Fourth Legion fought and suffered a heavy defeat before.

''Well that's horrible. I wouldn't want to fight it if I could.

I'm with you on that one.

　I said casually, and then returned to the subject.

''So, it's impossible to use a Sea Serpent. I don't know if the Great Sea Serpent is a type of dragon, but not all demons will listen to the demon race.

　When I said that, Anemone seemed to agree with me.
　From now on, he no longer spoke of 'using the Seasurpent'.

''Well, in that case, we'll have to exterminate it, but...''

　When I uttered that, Lilith interrupted me to say that she was waiting for me.

''It's muddled, like using a messenger or sacrificing Yulia. It's time to quickly defeat the Sea Serpent and solve the problem. Then Etria will provide food for the Demon King's army.

You're still a simple girl, aren't you?

　This time he clarifies it out loud.

'It's not that simple,'

Why?　Didn't that work out for you last time?

　By last time, he's probably referring to the last time he defeated the red-haired pirate Carossa.
　Plus, she had saved Yulia from the bandits.
　But still, she wouldn't be able to move on that alone.

''Indeed, she's Miss Julia's mother. However, she is also the head of this Zenobia and the leader of the Trade Federation. She won't act on personal feelings alone.

So you're saying that he's just working for free?

　Lilith says, dumbfounded.

'I suppose it could be,'

　I say that. Lilith lets out a big sigh.

'You're as sweet or sweet as ever,'

　I can't argue with that because it's true, but Sati is protective.

'But I think that's what's so good about you, Master!

　Anemone nodded, "I agree with you," but is that a good thing as a leader of the Demon King's Army?
　Let's not think too much about it.

''In any case, it's Miss Julia's crisis right now. In the midst of my daughter's crisis, it's not polite to bring up the subject of negotiations, and the other side can't make a normal decision. Besides, with the Sea Serpent trolling the seas, we won't be able to get our food imported by sea routes.

''So you're saying that the Sea Serpent must be defeated, right?

　Anemone concludes, and I shake my head, "Yeah.
At the same time as he summed it up, the door to the drawing room was opened.
　Eltria, who had been absent from her seat, had returned.

'You've kept me waiting,'

　With a word, she spread the chart she held under her arm on the table.
　The map had a red dot on it.
　Perhaps it was the point where the Sea Serpent had attacked the merchant ship.
　There were more of those red dots than she had expected.