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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: shyan
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The red armor spoke an unexpected statement.
However, the moment I heard the voice and tone coming from him.
I knew who that person…
No, who she was at once.
“Y-Your Majesty?”
The Demon King appeared in a way that was truly unexpected from a place that was truly unexpected.
As shock and confusion washed over me, there was also a slight sense of relief.
And then,
Whoosh!
“Huh?”
The next moment, one person ran past us, standing in the center of the arena, and headed straight for the VIP seats.
It was none other than Commander Shamuël.
The Demon King and I exchanged glances, both of us instantly sensing that something was wrong.
And…
“It seems like we have to go.”
“Yes, I will accompany you.”
Although there was no danger to the Demon King’s safety, the fact that someone had attacked this place was still true.
With that, the Demon King and I started moving after Samuel to catch the culprit.
A short time later, the three of us arrived at the VIP room.
The inside of the VIP room was in chaos due to the thick smoke that had occurred at the same time as the sudden explosion, and injured demons were lying everywhere.
“Damn it!…”
“Are you alright?”
“Yes, fortunately, there are just some minor injuries.”
Belzebuth frowned slightly and got up from his seat in response to Samuel’s question.
Following him, the other demons who had fallen on the floor began to get up from their seats as if following him.
They all had minor injuries, but it didn’t seem like anyone had taken that much damage.
And, one person could be seen among them.
The demon wearing a veil and wearing the Demon King’s robes dusted the dust off her clothes and straightened her posture as if exuding the majesty of a monarch once again.
“Your Majesty, are you alright?”
“I’m fine. It seems that what affected this place was just a small explosion.”
The Demon King spoke as if nothing was wrong in response to Belzebuth’s question.
The real Demon King, who was standing behind me, let out a sigh of relief, and I was also relieved for the time being that there was not much of a problem compared to the commotion.
But then…
“Wait a minute, then what was that sound just now?”
“Huh?”
“What are you talking about?”
The next moment, Samuel spoke in a rather serious voice, unlike his usual ●△● face.
In response, we in that place automatically expressed our doubts.
And…
“I mean the voice we all heard just now. The scream—the one that warned of an intruder in the VIP room. Who was it that said that?”
“Come to think of it…”
“I heard that too…”
Feeling a momentary question at Samuel’s point, Belzebuth and I looked around at the demons standing around.
However, none of them said that they had said such a thing, and only testimonies that they had simply heard the warning.
And.
Immediately after confirming that fact…
“…Oh no…”
“!?!”
“S-Samuel?”
Samuel quickly started running out the window with a short sound.
In response, I didn’t have an accurate understanding of the situation, but I started moving together after her, just like before, and at the same time, the Demon King wearing the red armor also started moving, following me.
“W-Wait a minute, Your Majes… Ugh…”
Belzebuth attempted to stop the Demon King, but in this situation, where a decoy was being used, she couldn’t act rashly. Seizing this moment of hesitation, the Demon King rushed after us, leaving the VIP room behind.
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“Alright! Operation success!”
“We did it! To be honest, I was nervous until the very end.”
Bless and Dagon were talking with joyful voices, running across the roof of the building.
Looking at them, Pompey and Hector, who were moving one step behind them, frowned slightly and said.
“Be quiet and move quickly. It’s not over yet until we get out of this Jerusalem!”
“I agree, thank you for saving me, but it would be better to celebrate after the situation is completely over.”
“Yes, yes, I understand.”
They continued to move, feeling a slight tension, at the two’s advice.
However, regardless of this fact, the four people in this place at this moment were feeling relieved that they had safely passed a really dangerous moment.
Hector, the current Hero, had been caught after sneaking into Jerusalem, the capital of the Demon Kingdom, as a human.
Fortunately, it had not yet been revealed on the surface that he had tried to assassinate the Demon King.
However, in this time after the war, being here in disguise was enough to be suspected of having impure intentions in itself.
In the end, he would be interrogated in some way, and there was a very high possibility that he would be tortured in the process.
In addition, if he was taken to a place like the underground prison of the Demon King’s castle, not the temporary solitary cell, it could become almost impossible to rescue him.
Therefore, the remaining Hero party members came up with a way to rescue Hector as soon as possible.
To this end, they appropriately applied the method they had originally used to attack the Demon King.
Originally, the plan was that the moment Hector, who had made it to the semi-finals, entered the arena,
The plan was for Dagon to cause a magical disturbance, drawing attention while Hector, Pompey, and Bless joined forces to strike down the Demon King.
Although this plan became impossible as a result of Hector’s elimination in the first round of the main tournament, the method of causing a commotion to attract attention could create chaos to rescue Hector, who was imprisoned in a solitary cell.
First, they had staged a disturbance far from Hector’s holding cell.
Then, they detonated the magic that had been installed in advance in the place where the Demon King was, causing an explosion to cause confusion, and at the same time, Bless made a bluff that the Demon King had been attacked, deceiving the enemies in two ways and inducing confusion.
The reason for doing this was to break down the increasingly strong defenses of the enemies as much as possible as Hector was captured…
In particular, the biggest reason was to blur the attention of Samuel, the commander who had seen through Hector’s identity and even defeated him.
‘If we’ve done this much, even that monstrous woman won’t be able to do anything.’
‘A woman who saw through the fact that I was hiding my appearance with magic… But fooling her twice? No one’s that sharp.’
Thus,
The Hero party finally achieved their goal, avoiding Samuel’s eyes.
Although they didn’t take the Demon King’s head, they were thinking that they should be comforted by the fact that they had survived in the heart of the enemy territory, and the four managed to reach the outskirts of Jerusalem.
If they hid in the forest that would come out if they went a little further, they could rest assured from then on.
While thinking that,
The bowstring of tension that had been drawn in the hearts of the four people began to loosen slightly.
At that moment…
Whoosh!
“!”
“D-Danger…!”
Bang!
The next moment,
A huge boulder suddenly flew towards where they were.
In response, the four of them barely avoided it, and had no choice but to land in the open space right in front of them for the time being.
“Ugh!”
“No, how are they already here…”
“Damn it! We were almost there.”
“…Hmm…”
They were stuck with their destination right in front of their noses.
Immediately after,
Commander ●△●, wearing gauntlets, showed her face in front of them.
Samuel’s appearance began to be seen.
“Found you, human. And your companions. We won’t miss you this time.”
Samuel showed a threatening attitude in a dry voice.
At this moment, the four people could not help but feel as if they were overwhelmed by something as they saw her, who was exuding an unsuppressable beauty with perfect sculptural features as well as a sense of chills.
However, regardless of these feelings, they had not yet lost their will to fight or felt despair about this situation.
“Tch. At best, there’s only that woman here.”
“4:1, and we’ve already figured out what her fighting style is. There’s no reason for us to lose.”
With that, Bless and Dagon immediately began to prepare for battle.
Certainly, the opponent had fought almost equally with Hector, so from an objective point of view, their power was more than enough to deal with her alone.
Of course, this was…
Only under the assumption that she was the only opponent.
“Huh?”
“! W-What?”
The moment they finished preparing for battle, they suddenly began to feel another presence.
Immediately after, Samuel looked at the person who appeared behind her and said in a quiet voice.
“You’re a little late.”
“What can I do? You left first in the first place, and more than anything, only you could track their exact route.”
With that, an existence straightened his black greatsword and prepared for battle.
The moment he recognized who that person was, Pompey automatically frowned and muttered in a cold voice.
“The Black Hero… How did that guy get here…”
