Oh, um! Is it true that the person named Aulum Trace is a demon?


As the night sped up even faster, and the wind passing by my ears prevented me from hearing normal voices, Leah raised her voice behind me.
I froze for a moment, oblivious to Leah's presence.
It's a bad habit of mine to concentrate too much when I'm thinking.


'Yeah,' the night assured me. I'm sure of it. Besides, I've confirmed it too. That magic power can't be anything other than a demon race.


Where Amelia's bloodstains had been left behind, there was a residue of magic power that I couldn't remember.
I don't care if it's blood or something that has magical power itself in it, it's impossible even for my magical power level to leave that much colorful magical power in the air.
There are only a few people who have more magical power than me, who have higher magical power than the elves.
In other words, it's the demon race.


''I see. ....... If the demon tribe has begun to move, it means that the demon king has begun to move. I don't know if the demon king has been replaced, but when the demon king started moving before, the demon movement became so active that demons flooded out of the labyrinths of each continent. ...... I wondered if the demon attack this time is meant to be something other than kidnapping Amelia-sama.


I nodded at Leah's words.
Then I suddenly asked a simple question.


''Why would the Demon King attack other races?''


I've never thought about why the demon king and the demon race and demons attack other races, perhaps because I have the impression that the demon king is a bad guy and demons and demons are under the control of the demon king .......
You want to conquer the continent or make the humans into slaves ...... of the demon race?


"I can't understand the Demon Lord's intentions, but I heard that the first Demon Lord attacked the other races in revenge for driving the demons to the Volcano Continent.


Come to think of it, there was a scene like that in the myth Commander Saran told me.
As I recall, the only demon race that could control demons was abhorred by the other races, and was driven to the Volcano continent, where it was the most difficult to live, or something like that.
Maybe it's because I'm living the most intense time of my life so far, but my memory is quite vague.
It hasn't even been a year since then, but it feels like a long time ago.

At that time, I never would have thought that I would be riding a demon to rescue the elven princess with the beastman princess.
I really didn't think anything of it, but it's a pretty dense group of men.
If Amelia and Aulum Trace are together, we'll have all races.


''I see. Are the other Demon Kings the same?''


The night nodded at my question with its eyes forward.
At the same time, I stepped on a demon that was in the direction of my path.


I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this in the future. There are some fools who admire the heroes and come to the demon king's castle on their own. I've heard of people like you who are good at disguising their presence, and who were admired for their bravery and therefore were a perfect match for their warriors, sometimes breaking into the demon king's bedroom.


My eyes widened.
No, the Demon King's Castle is not well guarded!
It's called Laitis, what are you going to do when you get invaded by a whip.


It's a shame, but many of the demons are more brazen than the other races because their magic power is superior to that of the other races, and it's not just the brave party that raids the demon king's castle more than once.


Well, most importantly, I wasn't born yet, so it's all in the record," the night said and continued.

In the middle of the conversation, I instantly killed the boss of the twenty levels in the middle of the conversation.
After slashing and trampling so much, Ria didn't react to anything, as expected, as if she was used to it.
The pace is much faster than when I reached the tenth level.
At this rate, we might reach the bottom level in a few more hours.
That's my buddy.


''In it, some generations ago the Demon King had his wife killed by an intruder.


A mournful voice rang out.
With the wind passing by their ears, only the voices of the night could be heard clearly.


''That demon king hated fighting and never touched the beastmen and elven race, let alone the human race. On the contrary, he avoided fighting to the extent that he even proposed to other races to make a peace pact with them. He was a kind-hearted demon king who loved his wife, his children, his friends, and his demons. And yet, he had his wife killed just because he himself was a demon king.''


I knew exactly what you meant.
It felt a bit like that, where the relatives of a murderer are exposed to the cold eye of the public, even though they had never done anything to be hated before.


'So you're saying that a hero-willing idiot did something stupid.


Popular psychology is really quite simple.
People who do bad things are bad.
People who do good things are good.
There is no context.
There is only good and evil.
That's the only thing that determines everything about a person, and we praise and blame them for it.
Some people may be truly brutal and irredeemable, but others may have had no choice.


'That's right,' he said. ...... Then the demon king revoked the peace agreement that was about to be made and destroyed two cities of the same species as the man who killed his wife, the Beastmen.


Does this mean that you have returned what was done to you many times over?
The night said that the man who killed the wife of the demon king, his family was slowly and tortuously killed in front of the man's eyes.
In front of the man's eyes.


...... disgusting. For the man who killed the Demon King's wife, that he killed that Demon King's wife successfully with justice, that's what should make him a hero, but it's rather like he killed his family with his own hands.


If what I did came to harm my family, my mother and I, I'd rather give myself up to be tortured or whatever.


It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you can get your hands on a new one. ...... So, Lord Lord, please act on this.''


I can't turn around at night without stopping to look at him, but his voice is the most serious I've ever heard it.
I think for a moment and answer.


'...... Now, I don't know.'


The shaking became a bit more intense, perhaps because it wasn't a crisp reply.
The night, which looked like it wanted to say something, checked him out before he opened his mouth.


'Let me tell you first, I didn't say I wouldn't listen to the Demon King's side of the story. But in fact, this is how Amelia was kidnapped, and several people from the beast race have died in this attack. The situation is different from the Demon King that came up in that story.


I'm not saying it's double payback.
At the very least, you have to pay back what was done to you.
That's proper etiquette.


I'm not going to forgive the demon king if this attack was ordered by the demon king himself, no matter what the night says. Got it?

"...... Yeah, okay.


After all, the night cannot be separated from the demon race as much as it can be talked about.
They say the demon king is the creator, and it's not unreasonable.
But the word "mercy" no longer exists in me after Amelia was kidnapped.
It's true that what you just said is heartbreaking, but that's not the same as this.

Well, unless Amelia is willing to forgive me.