6
The full-scale war with the Demon Lord’s Army—or rather, the one-sided massacre by a single Supreme Leader—comes to an end.
Thanks to Heine’s quick surrender, there weren’t too many deaths, and our self-proclaimed medic, Alice, has tended to most of the wounded, leaving the recovering demons to rest in a single spot.
And in front of Lilith…
“Lady Lilith, we’ve brought one of the Elite Four, Heine of the Flames.”
“Keep walking, you damn heifer. You want those tits ripped off?”
“E-eeep! S-stop…please…”
With Alice and me grabbing her from either side, Heine, after her complete surrender, is dragged to face the music.
“What’ll we do with her, Lady Lilith? This Heine of the Flames, one of the Demon Lord’s Elite Four, has gone around causing all sorts of trouble for me. This bitch always finds a way to create new headaches.”
“Yeah, she keeps showing up and bullying us.”
“What?! Wait, I don’t remember doing anything like that…! I mean, sure, I’ve tried to foil your plots, but it’s more that you’ve been victimizing us…!”
Forced to her knees before Lilith, Heine pleads in her own defense as Alice and I rat her out.
Seeing our behavior…
“…You know. You two have gotten worse by the day since you got here.”
“I just take after my boss.”
“I take after my creator.”
Lilith purses her lips in frustration at the immediacy of our response.
“So what’ll we do with her, Lady Lilith? We gonna court-martial her? I demand she be sentenced to three years of titty torture.”
“I think we should make her work like a dog as a bottom-tier Combat Agent.”
Heine begins shuddering at our proposals.
“I’m not going to conduct a court-martial. Yes, the Kisaragi Corporation is in direct opposition to the Demon Lord’s Army, but only as a private military contractor that’s deploying our Combat Agents to the Grace Kingdom. We’re basically mercenaries. It’s the Grace Kingdom that’s at war with the Demon Lord’s Army, which means we have no right to punish her.”
As Lilith sighs, Heine blinks in confusion.
After a moment, it seems a faint spark of hope is starting to glow in her chest…
“Wow, that’s pretty awful, Lady Lilith. So you’re saying she won’t even get the minimum rights guaranteed to her during the trial, huh? That’s great.”
“Damn, that’s impressively evil, Lady Lilith. Model behavior for an evil organization’s Supreme Leader.”
“Hold on, that’s not what I said! I have no intention of doing anything like that! Don’t look so scared! You don’t have to listen to these two!”
Lilith quickly reassures Heine, who sinks into the pits of despair.
“I can’t quite let you go yet, but I don’t mind releasing you once you answer a few questions. In fact, depending on the information, I’ll even listen to a couple of your requests.”
“…?! R-really?! Th-then, while I know I’m being presumptuous…”
Heine looks toward her wounded troops…
“Um, could you move your Chimera away from the wounded soldiers…?”
“Hey! What are you doing over there?! I told you not to eat the bodies of monsters that can speak human languages, but you also can’t eat the ones that are still alive, either!”
We already warned Rose not to eat the dead demons, but…
“I-I’ll make sure to drive that point home later. Anyway, there were a few things I wanted to ask you…”
“Ways to get into the Demon Lord’s Castle?”
“Yes, that’s right. You need to gather some sort of item to get into the Demon Lord’s Castle, right?”
Lilith is asking Heine how to either slip into the Demon Lord’s Castle or remove the barrier protecting it.
“…Um, well, if you put the sorcerer stones, otherwise known as ‘release keys,’ into the towers to the north, south, east, and west of the castle…”
“We already know about that method. The problem is we can’t gather all those sorcerer stones or whatever they’re called.”
We’re out of luck if there’s no way in without them.
In which case, Lilith will either blast it with massive amounts of explosives or take the entire Demon Lord’s Kingdom hostage and demand that the barrier be dropped.
“…From what I’ve heard, the sorcerer stones have the effect of suspending the protective features of the towers. Which means if you can destroy the towers themselves, they can’t protect the castle. Of course, destroying towers is a ridiculous idea…”
“Oh, I see. Well, it wouldn’t be hard for me to destroy a few towers.”
Huh, that was quickly sorted.
“B-but a particularly thick fog shrouds each of the towers, hiding them. You can’t remove those mists without using the treasure from the Tower of Duster. O-oh, and I only know the location of the Flame Tower! Th-that’s the truth! I swear!”
“…Hey, Alice, didn’t we hand over the treasure from the Tower of Duster to the kingdom?”
“Yeah, the missing Chosen One had it on him. Which means the treasure’s missing, too.”
How useless. The Chosen One is completely useless.
Lilith speaks up suddenly.
“Well, in that case, there’s an easy solution.”
Sounds like she’s thought of something.
“What is it, Lady Lilith? A giant fan? We’re gonna blow away the fog with a giant fan and find the towers?”
“Why would we bother with something like that? No, the four towers are always covered by fog, right? Then the answer is simple.”
Lilith says this as though stating the obvious, and a particularly evil smile plays on her lips.
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