The location for the Ruling will be a park located 3,240 meters west of the Zhuzhou City Hall. If the Ruling is successful, the enemy (Demon King Zion) will suddenly appear 240 meters away from the humans holed up in Suzu City Hall.

　The secret to the success of the Ruler is that the enemy doesn't find out.

　If they find out that you have set up the Ruler, the humans in Suzu City will start to defend themselves. If that happened, it would be impossible to eliminate everyone within a three-kilometer radius of the city in 180 minutes.

　The means of transportation to the place where they would carry out the 《Governance》 -- the large buses and large trucks that they had captured in the past.

　The vehicles are driven by goblins who are highly compatible with human civilization and are very dexterous. It's only a few of the fiefdoms that have taught the goblins driving skills. Although they haven't taught them any traffic rules or anything like that, I've received reports that they have no problem just driving.

　Ten large trucks and ten large buses are available. Packed with the main family members and 1,000 subordinates, they left the controlled territory at 23:00 midnight.

''Hey!　That's with karaoke!　Agupoyo~
Shut up and sit down and shut up.
'What?　Don't you sing, hawks?　Seriously?　I can't believe we're not singing on a bus field trip.
It's not a field trip. I mean, can you even sing?
'Ha!　Listen to your beautiful voice!　And then you'd be scared to death, hawk!
I don't listen and I don't freak out...

　Takahara treated Sarah, who was frolicking with high tension, while she was fed up.

''Ha!　You said it!　I'm going to give you my human-carrying voice.
Sarah, shut up. Didn't you say covert action?

　I give orders to Sarah, who is still making noise, while giving her a cold stare.

　After that, the bus heads to its destination in silence.


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　It's been an hour since we left the realm of control.
　We arrived at our destination.

"Hibiki. Take your squad and scout the east.
"If your master commands it,
Chloe. Take a squad and scout the north.
Yes, sir.
Lina. Take a squad and scout the south.
Yes, sir.

　The most dangerous are Hibiki's troops. The east--the direction of Zhuzhou City Hall--must be kept on maximum alert. I've left the maple trees to scout ahead of time, so the role of the former demon kings led by Hibiki is more of a scouting mission. They are to eliminate the enemy when they encounter them.

　I watched the troops move in the direction I was ordered to, and checked on each troop while operating my smartphone.

　An hour later.

　As far as I could see from the troops, there was no sign of humanity. If they were hiding in a building, I'd be completely out of luck, but according to the information I'd researched beforehand, the humans in Suzu City were living together in two main locations. One is an inn along the coast in the backcountry. And the other is Suzu City Hall. Considering this information and the current situation, it was assumed that there were no humans who refused to live together and lived in buildings.

　--Governance is now in effect. Put yourselves on alert.

　I'll telegraph the information to all my men.

　--Rule!

　I meditate, hold my right hand on the ground and remind myself that the ground is shaking, and at the end of my held out right hand, a black vortex about 30cm in diameter occurs that seems to swallow the space around me.

　The familiar text appears on the smartphone screen.

''We have begun to [rule].''

I have declared you to be sovereign over any hostile force within your effective radius.

You have 180 minutes to complete your reign.

Do you want to show a map of the active area?　[YES] [NO]

　I tap [YES].

　A simple map within a 5km radius is displayed on my smartphone.

　I look at the map displayed on my smartphone and make a small gut pose.

　I win the first bet - the number of red dots indicating humanity within a 3km radius of the displayed map is zero.

　However, the area outside of the 3-kilometer range covered by the circular circle - the area near Suzu City Hall - is bright red.

　Don't notice..... Let's just let this 3 hours go by.........

　I kept praying, looking at the screen of my smartphone.

　An hour has passed.
　Humanity hasn't found out yet.

　Two hours left..... I continue to pray for this to pass.

　When one hour and a half has passed.

　--!

　The map on my smartphone showed two red dots moving disturbingly on the screen.

　The two overlapping red dots were moving northwest from Suzu City Hall at a considerable speed.

　This speed is........a car?　No, the bike...?　Encounter?　Date?　Or is it just a drive...?　Either way, you are an annoyance to the human race!

　Either way, we're going to get within 3km of them at this rate.

　--Sarah!　Move north with your troops!　If you see a motorcycle or a car, instantly magically shoot it down!

　Oh, no. We can't let it get out of control.　I impatiently give the order, watching Sarah, who is good at long-range attacks, move.

　--!

　The blue dot indicating Sarah is moving around the area in a droll manner.

　--~♪

　My cell phone plays a lilting ring tone. The caller is-- it's Sarah.

"Hello?　Which way is north?　Tell me right or left--

　--Beeeeeeeeee!

　A fierce electronic sound blares from my smartphone that cancels out Sarah's voice.

　I immediately cut off the call with Sarah and check the screen of my smartphone.

'Alert, we have confirmed the presence of hostile forces within the effective range. Please eliminate them immediately.''

　Shit!　We've allowed humanity to invade.

　--Go to the left, with Suzu City Hall in front of you!　Take out hostile forces as soon as you see them!

All hostile forces in effective range have been eliminated.

　The smartphone screen displays a sentence that should be rejoicing ... but now it's the worst of it.

　--The enemy has escaped!　Don't let him get away alive!　Make sure you get him!

　I give the order, and with a sense of urgency, I watch the blue dots on my smartphone - Hibiki's troops and the red dots - the fleeing humanity.

　This time it's okay. I'm headed in the right direction.

　With sweaty hands, I follow the movements of the blue and red dots on my smartphone.

　--!

　The two red dots that had been tracking the movement disappeared from the map.

　Phew......... I let out a sigh of relief.

　It's all managed. ........No, wait a minute!

　The red dots in Suzu City Hall are active.

　The current time is 2:37 a.m. Normal humans would be asleep at this time of day.

　A small number of people would be convinced that there are nocturnal humans as well, but - as I can see on the screen - all the red dots are moving in a hurry.

　Did they find out...?

　--All hands, gather round to Hibiki and his men!

　Assuming the worst case scenario, all the dispatchers are moved to the nearest location to Suzu City Hall.

　Thirty minutes later.

　More than a thousand red dots began to move westward from Zhuzhou City Hall.