Name: Puppy.
　Occupation: Skydragon level 66
　skill
　Flame emission level 60.
　Bite Level 58.
　Aerial killing level 45.
　Yell level 38.
　Physical resistance level 40.
　Magic resistance level 40
　chain of servitude

I pledge ... my loyalty ... to you.

Yeah. Good luck in the future.

　In front of me, a dragon with a blunt collar - Puppy - bowed his head and said so.
　The verification was a success. Apparently, I found out that you don't have to be dying to mentally drive it to become a friend. But Puppy was able to get through to me because I could understand his language, though.
　We couldn't drive him into a corner if he didn't understand our language and was going at us like "Guo", right? Can you attack the lower half of your body to block their movements or something like that? We'll have to test that, too.

"So, Puppy...

My name is...

'Mr. Puppy, nice to meet you!　I'm Bow!

"--Hey!　A lowlife like you...

What did you say, Pappy?

"................ ...No, it's nothing.

　I've already decided. His name is Puppy in the Analyze screen. By the way, I'm sitting down, and Bau is on my lap right now.
　Puppy is still in a somber mood. If you fought like a normal person and made him a normal friend, I'd still give him a normal name. He was so one-sided in his disrespect for me. He doesn't need any mercy, does he?

Bau has seniority over you, you know. You just have to be obedient.

"--Hey!　Gugu........!

'Master!　I'm low level!

I'll be fine. There's a seniority system at my place.

d*mn you....this is humiliating....my dear boy...!

　Well, I didn't decide on a seniority system or anything. And if you think about it that way, Milo would be the greatest.
　But it's good enough to break Puppy's elongated nostrils.

'Well, so there you go, Puppy. I've got a few questions for you.

You want to ask me...?

Yeah. You know a lot about witchcraft, don't you?

I only met one person once, a long time ago. That's all.

He was weak?

　It's strange that there was a demon user other than me. I've never heard of it before.
　I'm sure there are no legends about it. I'm sure there are records of demon wielders who led demons to battle.
But Puppy nodded to my question.

'Oh. It was a woman.

Oh, it's a woman.

I had some pretty inferior demons with me. I don't know how many years ago, but it was your....

I'll pull out my fangs.

My master had demons with him, just like his master. Lowly goblins and orcs and other things of no consequence to me.

　Hmmm.
　Did the woman know a lot about demon users? I, I have no idea.
　I was hoping someone would teach me, but I didn't expect to learn from a dragon.

I was surprised to meet someone who could understand my language for the first time. I remember what the woman told me about the demonslayer at that time... well, I remembered it. That's all I remember.

''Hmmm ... did the woman say something about the skills of a demon user or something?''

Oh I laughed then, saying it was a trivial matter. I scoffed at the idea that it might work if she could defeat me, but the woman fled with the annihilation of her men. I'll make sure you're one of them," she said, and ran away, but I haven't seen her since. I've changed my territory.

Well how long ago was that?

Hmm....

　I'd like to learn a lot about the woman, if she's still alive.
　Specifically, the conditions of 'not being able to fight'. Also, what changes as the level of demon training and demon capture goes up, and so on.
　As soon as I made Puppy my companion, the level of the demon user went up to 6, and their skills went up to 6, respectively. But that doesn't mean that I have no idea what changed.

''Probably about a thousand years ago.

Pow!

　It's too long ago, as expected. I mean, how long-lived are dragons?
　It's a clue that we found, but it's hard to believe that someone from 1,000 years ago would be alive. It was useless to expect it.
　Well, I was able to gain the knowledge Puppy remembered. Let's hope that's enough.

So, Pappy. I just wanted to ask you a few more questions.

Mm-hmm?

'How did Puppy get to talk to me?　You weren't even under my command.

Well, to my surprise. I've never heard of such a lowly creature as Wild Dog having a mind of its own.

What?

　What do you mean?
　Baugh has been talking since the moment we met, though.

"A demon is a group and an aggregate. In a group, there is only the will to kill a human being engraved on them.

What do you mean?

It is as they say, but they have no individual will. They are nothing more than a mere mere mere skeleton, on which is carved the basis of 'killing humans' as the reason for their existence. Therefore, they just wander around without any will. The only demons that can communicate with you are those that have lived as long as I have, or those that are too high up to be able to communicate with you.

....

　A demon has no individual will.
　But Milo, Gilanka, Chappie, and Bau all have selves. Milo is the rough and tumble one, Gilanka is the gentlemanly and kind one, Chappie is the frightened one, and Bau is the cute and sweet one.
　Why do they have their own agendas like that?
　In a roundabout way, I'm not sure.

''I, too, can control demons. Right now, the demons in this forest are under my control. Therefore, I've ordered a group of them to turn on me and destroy every settlement in my territory. But that's it. But that is all I have ordered my men to do. I only gave direction to the group's cause of existence. I did not speak to my men.

....

"But you........the demons under your master are different. I've never heard of a single one of them having a will and swearing an oath of allegiance. I, too, am under a spell that makes it impossible for me to rebel against my master. So much so that I feel I must do something useful.

....

　In fact, it's the other way around.
　Because I recruited them, Milo and Gilanka and Chappie and Bau, they have a will. Because their individual wills were born, they are loyal to me.
　Giving the will to a demon that has no will - perhaps that's the power of skill demon training.

　However.
　Why do they give it a will like that?
　If it's just a 'demon user', then it would be fine for it to be a doll that just follows simple commands, just like the puppy.
　What is the reason for implanting a will into it--.

'Therefore ... I think ... a little bit. I am not going to create a subordinate like Me, who only obeys simple commands like a puppet. A man who can use his will to find a way to best serve his master's interests, who sometimes acts in his master's best interest, who can judge what he should do without his master's command, that would be the ideal man for the king.

....

Isn't that what they call a demon king?

　No, I mean...
　It's a bit of a stretch to say I'm the Demon King, don't you think?