Sekai Saikyou no Maou desuga Daremo Toubatsushinikitekurenainode, Yuusha Ikusei Kikan ni Sennyuusuru

Chapter 2. [Episode 2]
“Conversation of the Demons”

 

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[Pfft, it’s true that my boy now has only human strength. You can’t stand on your feet much …… lovely human boy.]

Asmo looked happy and pushed my face into her chest.

She sucked in as much as she could …… and that’s probably why I’m sluggish and sleepy.

Asmo picked me up limp and laid me on the bed. She pressed down on top of me.

[I’ve sucked up all your unfulfilled sexual desires. Can you still afford to enjoy your fantasies of assaulting other women?]

[I can’t ….…]

[No matter how much you retain your human form, you’re still a demonic god inside. The strength of desire is not so easily suppressed. Even if you have sex with your beloved wife every night, worrying about the time will cause you to be distracted. I recommend that you devote yourself to the fullest act of lust for a few days, okay?]

[I can’t do that when I live as a human being. …… But if I have too much free time, this is what happens. It’s a problem. ……]

I managed to speak in a tone of voice like a demon god, but all I can do is open my mouth. ……

However, the agony I had been feeling was completely gone. Maybe this is the state of mind of a wise man.

[It’s inconvenient to spend time as a human being, isn’t it? If you like a woman, why don’t you just take her in your arms? What woman wouldn’t enjoy being loved by you, my love?]

[I will not condone a woman who turns on me with hostility, but I will not …… willingly attack a helpless woman myself. I will not, I have decided.]

[I see that you are still holding on to the feelings you had when the “Lucifer of ……” was still alive. You are a very disciplined person. But then again, that’s one of the things I find attractive about you.]

[But then the tag of the reason is about to come off. It’s a bad habit of mine. …… Asmo, get out of the way.]

Released from the demon girl who obeys meekly, I sat up in bed.

I don’t want to remember the time of the previous Lucifer. As a result, I was able to destroy that thing and the demon tribe’s outburst was quelled.

But before that, I had also given in to my impulses and gone as far as tyranny. There was certainly a time when I was laughing at and killing mere mortals.

Remembering this, I said in a weak voice.

[Asmo, thank you. You’ve made me feel better.]

[No, it is I who should thank you. It has been a long time since I have been able to enjoy the full vigor of my lover. It would be best if we could make love for one or two more nights, half a month, a month, a year, or more.]

[This body will dry up on the first day. Give me a break.]

[I’m already exhausted from just kissing you. It’s no wonder. I think you should teach …… Rena a few more charm tricks. If she can absorb your energy, she’ll be in a better mood.]

[Have you met with Rena yet? I thought she would have been back here by now.]

[Yes. While you were hard at work rebuilding the city, I got in touch with her. I asked if I could borrow you for a moment.]

[I’m going to have to leave you alone after ….…]

[I think it would be best if you did. If you want, we can spend the night with her.]

Asmo, who had put her head on my shoulder, said amusedly.

As much as I would have liked to be swallowed up by this atmosphere, I was glad I was not in much of a mood for it at the moment.

[I’ll see you soon. –I’ll see you later. Why are you here in Mildiana?]

That’s what I wanted to ask her earlier.

If she were her usual self, she would be sitting on her throne in her palace, enjoying the taste of the finest fruits around the palace and spending her time in elegance.

[You know that my household members visit the empire from time to time, don’t you?]

[Oh. You must miss the taste of humanity once in a while. …… Just out of curiosity, you haven’t been getting laid too much, have you?]

[Of course. I am obeying my lord’s orders to the letter.]

Asmo is also the demon god of sexual desire.

Her subordinates consist of incubus and succubus, who are called lewd demons.

After I destroyed the previous Lucifer, I forbade the demon tribe to eat people.

However, it is not forbidden to do so concerning whores. For it is a person’s energy, not the body itself, that is consumed by whores.

However, if too much energy is sucked out of them, they will naturally die, and Asmo has told them to strictly refrain from doing so.

I also put a limit on how often they come to the Empire because I don’t want them to become accustomed to the human taste.

[I received a call from one of my dependents. There has been a series of suspicious events in the western territories of the empire.]

[Westward? Be specific.]

[Do you remember how many temples there are in the Western Territories?]

[Of course. Though, that too is a memory of more than 500 years ago.]

The western territory of the empire is just a stone’s throw from our Tenebrae Demon Kingdom.

If the empire dispatches heroes or we demons invade the empire, we will be the first to be placed in the fierce battlegrounds. The area is a fierce battleground.

Among them, the fortified city of Granden, which awaits after breaking through several forts, is the capital of the west and the key site of defense.

If the demons were allowed to take control of the city, it would be a very significant war result for the demon tribe.

And we, the demon tribe, have sent our heroes to Granden several times over the past nearly 1,000 years, and several times we have invaded Granden in retaliation.

Since this was a so-called “show-and-tell” act, the war would end with the fall of Granden. The empire will have no choice but to defend the capital if it loses the fortress city, so it will not bother to dispatch additional troops.

Granden had been hit by war many times, but the measures taken by the humans against the demons were not as foolproof as one might think.

They will deploy renowned magicians in temples located in various parts of the west, and when the time comes for the demons to invade Granden, they will use strong anti-virulence barriers and magic depletion techniques from a distance to obstruct us.

[Belphe told me that he had a hard time with the remote techniques from the temple. His household consisted mainly of goblins and orcs with little or no resistance to magic, so it must have been tough.]

Belphe is one of the seven pillars that support the Tenebrae. Officially, he is called Belphegor.

He is a belligerent demon king who is not gifted in the field of magic, but he is a tyrant with his overwhelming swordsmanship. He is a hardliner among the royal family.

[I miss it. He was the only one who went out to the battlefield in high spirits as a measure of retaliation for sending a hero, but ended up coming back without taking Granden.]

[He was unbeatable against swordsmen and beasts, but when it came to magic ……, oh, I’m sorry. It was so nostalgic that I couldn’t help but break off the conversation. Continue with your business.]

[Yes. There have been reports of a string of deaths in temples throughout the West.]

[Did they die in some unusual way?]

[It’s not so much that they’ve changed as that they’ve been wiped out.]

Asmo continued in a matter-of-fact tone.

[Not just the priests, but the congregation, everything. Everyone who was there was killed. There have already been three such incidents. The number of victims is said to be over 100.]

[ Is there a piece of credible information?]

[My man told me that he heard about it from a priest in a church he knows very well. Such incidents began to occur a little over a month ago, just about the same time you arrived in the Empire.]

[…… I see. I didn’t know that happened.]

[Lumiel, who has returned to Tenebrae, has already told me the details of the case that you have helped solve. It was hard to have to correct the trajectory one by one because she kept jumping to the topic of meeting you every turn.]

[That’s the kind of woman she is. …… forgive her.]

[Well, I’m happy to talk to her, and I don’t hate her.]

Asmo in front of me is the same way in terms of colorful love affairs, but this one is still better because it is more self-controlled.

[So, I came here to talk to you…….Well, my main goal was your energy, after all.]

[I am sure that I am concerned about that matter in the west. It’s just that I’m only a student at a military school right now. It is difficult for me to go directly to find out what is going on.]

[I would be happy to investigate on your behalf, but the one guarding the west is General Claude Duras, that great hero who was proclaimed to be the greatest of all heroes. I saw him for a moment when he came to …… this land of Mildiana, and he returned my gaze almost at the same time. He might have sensed that I was a demon, even though I had suppressed the power of enchantment. It was a bypass. ……]

[I thought there would be no one who could tell you apart from an ordinary human woman, even if you were in the form of a demonic god, but it seems that the power of the empire may truly be something to be reckoned with.]

Asmo is a moderate member of the royal family.

I don’t hate fighting per se, but I don’t like it either. There are more fun things to do than that. That’s what she always says.

And it’s not that she is bad at fighting. Once she gets serious, she is so strong that she becomes untouchable.

It can’t let her …… roam around the empire too much. If by some chance she lets her power get out of control, an entire city could be destroyed.

[I am a little bit nervous because of this. I will continue to gather information from my dependents as often as I can, but I would like to return to Tenebrae.]

[It would be better that way. You did a good job of letting me know this time.]

I pat Asmo’s head and she purrs like a spoiled cat, then hugs me.

[My dear, please return to Tenebrae as soon as possible. The other royalty has already heard of your presence here.]

[I have to find this ‘goddess’ first.]

[Oh. You’re a wretched man.]

Muttering this, Asmo gently kissed my cheek, then released my body and instantly transformed into the form of a bat.

[Rena will be back soon, and I will leave you now. Have a nice evening.]

[Yes. You too.]

She flapped her black wings and effortlessly slipped through the walls of the room and disappeared into the darkness of the night.

I think in the room left alone.

Do the disturbing incidents in the western territories have anything to do with the earlier last drop incident?

It is unlikely that all the people in the temple would be killed.

Some of the priests who guard the temple are so strong that ordinary soldiers cannot stand up to them.

Those who are particularly strong are so strong that they are not inferior to the special students of our alumni.

There’s no way they would be killed all by just bandits or night robbers of any kind. ……

Some great force may be at work. It is best to be cautious.

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