Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 13 - Chapter 31

Chapter 31: 31

13-31 . Demon Lord Shin

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"Wlcome~"

"Welcome back nanodesu!"

Tama and Pochi jumped to me, so I quickly equip the mask, stop them with both my arms and then we descend to the ground together .

It seems these two saw me when I had teleported back in the sky .

Mia also played a BGM with my arrival, she must have found me from the spirit light .

Arisa runs as if rolling toward us who have landed on the ground .

"Mou, where have you been! I couldn't reach you  even with 『World Phone』!"

"Sorry, sorry . I was getting rid of a space kaiju in the void sky . "

Arisa's telephone probably didn't reach me because of the effect of the space magic's [Planet Guard] that I used to protect the earth and the world's tree from the wave of after-effect from my attack magic .

It's a version of [City Guard] spell I found in the forbidden library during my catalog search that I half-jokingly remodeled .

I didn't think that it would have its turn when I remodeled it, but I'm glad that I made it .

Putting that aside, since Liza and Nana are rushing here, I turn to them .

"Master, thank you for your rescue . "

"Master, is it a result of the new magic chant, so I ask . "

"That's right . Look, ■■■ Breeze . "

I hand Tama and Pochi over to Liza, and demonstrate a chant to Nana .

Lulu and Mia who are left alone on the grove beyond are waving their hands, so I pick them up with [Magic Hand] .

"Eh? Wasn't there something strange just now? How did the chant succeed with that . "

Arisa found some fault in my chant .

Certainly, I do feel that the intonation isn't elegant, but the magic properly activates and gets listed in the magic column, so it's fine right .

Demanding everything to be perfect is not good .

"W-wait . Rather than that, why are you able to use magic in the magic void space?"

Hikaru asked some strange question .

Come to think of it, I feel that the effect of [Seal Binding Ice Coffin (Shield Coffin)] earlier was a bit lower .

I try creating some magic arrows, and then they begin to break down after several seconds .

After confirming the demon lord's unique skill, I found the reason why Mito couldn't defeat the demon lord .

Apparently, it has a Unique Skill with bad affinity for Hikaru who's specializing in magic battle .

--Huh?

I noticed something unusual when I saw the demon lord's name as I was checking its stats .

"Isn't this Shin boy! Why did a hero like him turn into demon lord?"

"That, you see~ We don't know either . "

Both Arisa and Hikaru shake their heads to my question .

Shin boy's title has changed into [Demon Lord], his [Hero] title has become a hidden title .

There are other hidden titles too, [Artificial Demon Lord], [False King] .

I can somehow guess that there's something in his body from these titles .

I'll pay no mind to his level turning into 50 from a single-digit number .

" . . . . Two hero Nanashi?"

Looking at the voice caught with my Attentive Ears skill, I see the dying Heim of Shiga Eight Swords lifting his head .

For some reason, Princess Menea and Souya boy who are unconscious are lying near him .

I don't understand the situation, but I make him sleep with [Anesthetic Sleep] magic, and heal his wounds with healing magic .

"Then, I'll ask Shin-kun his situation for a bit . It'll be bad if any damage happen here in the Royal Capital, so I'll be going to the desert . "

Before that, I'll defeat the greater demons .

I thought of using them for our girls' power-leveling, but we can find as many strong monsters as we like, so there's no need for some misplaced inclination here .

I invoke the forbidden spell of destruction magic [Divine Ash], turning a demon together with the shield coffin into black dust .

"No way, wasn't now a forbidden spell?"

"Yeah, there's no damage to the surrounding despite being a forbidden spell, it's a convenient spell, see . "

I explain it to the surprised Hikaru .

This was also something I found in the forbidden library during my catalog search .

It turns even the adjoining space into ash, so it's a convenient spell against a foe like the sakuramochi demon from before . It seems it can defeat monster with no substance and barrier too .

It's a single object magic, so I use it again for 15 times continuously .

The magic requires 300MP for one shot, so I use a mass-produced holy sword as a battery along the way .

"F-Forbidden spells, chantlessly?"

Hikaru leaks out voice of surprise, but for some reason, I can use forbidden spells from the magic column normally .

Being able to instantly use forbidden spells that normally need several minutes to several dozens of minutes chanting, I think it's quite a cheat .

I open the [Gate] of space magic, and throw Shin-kun together with the Shield Coffin's pillar into it .

I hold back Arisa and the others who were going to follow with my hand .

"I-I want to go too . "

"You can't . A demon lord can use unusual attacks in various ways, so everyone should wait here in the royal capital . Furthermore, a state of emergency happened here, so there are many things that need to be taken care of right?"

When I say so, everyone besides Mito pulls back .

Bringing Mito who's a hero along should be fine, but I want her to do something, so I ask her before she can talk .

"Mito, please go to the royal capital and tell them that the demon lord has been eliminated . "

"I can do that after he's been--"

"Master! Can you turn him into a human again like you did with Hisui last time? Is it impossible to turn him back, not killing him?"

Arisa desperately spoke, interrupting Mito .

Mito who sees that Arisa is having a complicated expression with resignation mixed in .

She's probably seen many things during her time as Ancient King Yamato . Next time I'll listen to her complaints and hardships together with some liquor .

"That's my intention from the start . I can't guarantee that he'll absolutely turn back, but I'll try to take as many measures as possible . "

"U-un . Master can surely do it . I believe you!"

I undertake that while patting Arisa who has tears on the corner of her eyes .

As an insurance for if anything happens, I have to turn that back into human by all means .

After teleporting everyone to the places they want with Unit Arrangement, I take a wand that's specialized in expanding range from my Storage .

It looks like a dead twig with a lot of emerald-colored branches .

It's something manufactured from a branch growing on the world tree in the void sky, so calling it a twig isn't necessarily wrong .

I use the mind magic's [Flat People] toward the people of the royal capital .

This is an original spell I've created from mind magic's [Shepperd] and [Brain Wash] in order to suppress panic and unrest of people .

After confirming the effect on the map, I move to the desert where Shin-kun is waiting with Unit Arrangement .

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The shield coffin where Shin-kun's imprisoned is waiting among the dry air where the sun is blazing .

It's a composite of space and ice magic so it's not something so fragile it can melt from heat .

Nevertheless, I can hear the sound of ice crackling from inside the shield coffin .

Demon lords really can't be sealed with just this much after all .

When I look better, violet mist has begun to ooze out from the inside .

I reach my hand to see if I can touch it like with magic and barrier, but my hand just passes through it . It somehow looks like when I tried to cut a [God's Fragment] with a holy sword .

It'll be troubling if he forces himself and gets his demon lord-fication progressed, so I decide to release the magic myself .

Oops, before that let's move to a better place where I don't have to worry about environmental damage .

I make a sub-space using the forbidden spell of space magic [Another World] .

The enclosure doesn't surpass the sub-space created by the goblin princess Yuika's Unique Skill, that one is just in another league compared to this .

By default, there's nothing inside the sub-space, so I set it to transcribe the surrounding terrain .

The sub-space is as vast as the current desert, so it'd be alright even if we fight .

I restore my magic power that has been used up in large quantity from the mass-produced holy sword, and then move to the sub-space .

After closing the entrance to the former world, I release the shield coffin that imprisons Shin boy .

I put a troublesome-looking recovery item called [Magic Crystal Pillar], that has been imprisoned together with him into, into my storage .

Shin boy appears while scattering white chunks of ice .

"W-where is this? Has my magic turned the royal capital into a desert?"

Shin boy made a guess while glaring at me .

Unfortunately, his articulation was a bit strange .

It seems to be the initial stage of a broken soul vessel, so I have to make him stop using his power .

Looking at his Unique Skill's name, it should be a passive-type, so its effect to the [Soul Vessel] should be lower compared to active-type ones that have number of usage limit .

"Do you want to know where this is?"

"Say it!"

In order to intimidate him, I destroy the [Sand Spear] magic that Shin boy used with [Break Magic] .

"Impossible! Erasing a magic invoked by me, the ruler of magic?"

Next, he began to summon greater demons, but I hindered it by using [Break Magic] whenever their heads showed up, forcing the greater demons back .

"Duaamnnn you out-of-bounds reincarnated personn"

Shin boy roars, but his magic has been used up, so I can only hear it as sour grapes .

Far from even fighting, he probably can't even use a reinforcement magic .

Shin boy notices that the [Magic Crystal Pillar] is gone when he was trying to recover his magic power, he looks around the surrounding restlessly .

I cross my arms while examining him .

He seems to be a child without patience, I'll answer him once as a bait to pull information out of him .

"I'll talk to you so calm down . This is another world . "

"Another world? What do you mean . "

Shin boy asked another question to my vague answer .

"The so-called sub-space see . "

"S-sub-space? . . . . That means you used the age of gods magic, 『Another World』!"

He can see through the magic name from the 'sub-space' term probably because of his [Master Wizard] Unique Skill .

I think the age of gods magic refers to [Magic used when gods were living among people], but please stop adding a new category since it's confusing .

"You're all questions huh . I'd like you to answer my questions sometimes too . "

"Hmph, what do you want to know . "

--Huh? He's awfully obedient .

"Who made you into a demon lord?"

"I wanted to become demon lord myself . "

He wasn't forced by anyone huh?

"Not that, I mean the people who cooperated with you in order to turn you into a demon lord . "

"The one who gave me the Demon Lord Orb was my shitty father . "

--Demon Lord Orb?

Looks like the theft disturbance in the Royal Capital was actually aiming for that Demon Lord Orb .

I tried searching on the map, but the thing called Demon Lord Orb doesn't exist around him or in any known area .

Still, an item that changes a person into a demon lord huh . . . .

Don't tell me, the shitty father he's talking about is the demon god?

"You shouldn't call your father shitty . "

"I don't care about someone who thoroughly caused troubles to me and my mother, and then became a demon lord in another world after dying . "

Good . Apparently he's not the demon god-- .

Although it'd be bad if the father is the type of a demon lord that could mass-produce demon lords like himself, guessing from Shin boy's [False King] title and what I heard from the Dog-head, his father probably turned his own [God's Fragment] into the shape of the so-called Demon Lord Orb and gave it to Shin-kun .

Nevertheless, even though Shin-kun is saying whatever, he's still explaining it properly, it seems his nature is still a virtuous one . Having the interrogation easy is truly nice .

I have to visit his father once I've finished talking to him .

"Answer my question this time . "

Turn end huh .

Well fine . Looks like we can have a discussion for now .

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"--I wanted to be strong enough to beat that shitty father . "

After some long dialogs, the reason why Shin boy used the Demon Lord Orb is this .

There are also other desires like wanting the power needed to survive in this harsh world, but the biggest one seems to be that .

His line of thinking of wanting the result immediately is very like a boy, but there are things that you should not choose in order to obtain the result .

"Then you could have just become a hero . "

"Hmph, only the elites chosen and summoned by God Parion can become heroes . A human that can only grovel on the ground like me can only become a demon lord . "

No no, normally you don't become a demon lord either .

Still, it's a failure . . . .

It's too late now, but if I just talked about his hero title when I met him, he wouldn't become a demon lord .

Well, it's really too late now .

There's no way anyone can know that unless they have the ability to see the future .

--Right!

I wonder if he'll agree to turn back into human if I tell him about the hero title, making him lose his attachment to demon lord?

I should try to persuade him by leading him .

"You have the qualification to become a hero . "

"Grandma said that crooks whisper the thing you want to hear to play with people's heart . "

What grandma said is right, but it's the truth in this case .

"Then you should check it yourself and see . You can use magic to check your own title right?"

"Ah, that's right . "

Shin boy begins to chant, I copy that through my ears .

The chant is of the magic version of appraisal skill .

>[Mimic: Magic] Skill Acquired .

Oh, it looks like quite an useful skill .

I have to activate it .

" . . . . I really have the hero title . "

"Do you have any idea? It seems you've defeated an overwhelmingly powerful enemy and obtained it . "

It's about what the [No-Life King] Zen talked about back then .

"I do . . . . When many monsters appeared in the Royal Capital, I fought a monster while guarding the orphanage kids . . . . When I was swinging my hatchet around and almost getting killed . . . . I might have died if a light arrow and an invisible cannonball didn't fall from the sky and defeated the monster . "

Ah, the time when red rope monsters appeared en masse huh .

Shin boy probably talked about [Remote Arrow] and [Remote Stun] magic that I used .

"However, I'm a demon lord--"

Regret dwells in Shin boy's voice .

I guess now is the right timing to persuade him?

"You can just start over . I have turned a creature that had turned into a monster back into a normal bird . I'm certain that I can turn demon lord back too . "

Since Hisui changed into a God Bird, Shin boy might turn into a High Human or something, but since he'll be upwardly compatible then, do pardon me .

Hearing me, Shin boy looks downward and repeats a monologue from his mouth .

--He really can't believe it after all huh .

I listen to it carefully, waiting for his answer .

"C-can I really start over?"

"Yes, of course . "

I answer Shin boy's shaking voice with a dubious smile .

It's not visible since I'm wearing a mask though .

"--Like I'd say that! You hypocrite!"

Shin boy assaults me with a sword sparkling like a diamond created from magic .

According to AR reading, it's called Dragon Rending Sword with performance that exceeds the original holy sword Excalibur .

The chant spell that he's been chanting in low voice since a while ago is probably the forbidden spell  [Dragon Rending Sword (Dragon Slayer)] .

I think the Dog-head from before said that it's the sword that the demon god uses . I was lucky to get the spell from a windfall .

It has terrific performance, but there's no meaning to it if the user is clumsy .

"I-Impossible! Stopping a sword between hands?!"

I strike the Dragon Rending Sword stopped between my hands with my knee, destroying it .

Looks like the durability isn't that big of a deal .

It seems there are still rooms for improvement for this magic . I'm thinking of fully remodeling the spell, dyeing it with my preference .

"A magic sword with Indestructible attribute--destroyed?!"

Shin boy is surprised exaggeratedly .

In the first place, there's no way it can be broken if there's such an attribute .

I'm interested in the [God Dancing Armor] that the Dog-head was saying too, but I'd be putting the cart before the horse if his demon lord-fication progressed because he forced himself, so I restrain myself .

I didn't stop him from chanting the Dragon Rending Sword spell because I thought it'll be easier to persuade him if I broke his trump card .

By no means it's because I was interested with a code I had never heard before, forgetting to stop him .

--Nope .

His magic power must've run out again after using the Dragon Rending Sword, so he can't use magic for now .

Time to persuade him before it's too late .

"Now then, do you want to retire being a demon lord or stop being a human, choose what you like . "

I turn a cheerful smile toward Shin boy .

Of course it was just a little threat . Just as I've promised to Arisa, I don't intend to kill him .

Shin boy is desperately thinking his next move while leaking gununu voice, but he probably won't come up with a good idea .

Now then, after this I just need to take out the [God's Fragment] from him, and then everything is settled .

Truly a happy end!