Chapter 45: Into the Dungeon (Part 1)

I gave a brief greeting to Leticia, who opened the door and entered.

“You’re here?”

“…Yeah.”

“You finished sooner than I thought. I thought it would take longer.”

Around the time Leticia, who lost her mind at Charlotte, who spoke with a playfully raised corner of her mouth, as if it were annoying to those who saw it, Leticia let out a hollow laugh, Leo, who was next to her, grumbled.

“I’m sorry it ended so quickly. Does it seem like I don’t care about my friend because my girlfriend is in front of me?”

“You have your wives here. If you really want comfort, ask your wives to do it.”

“Is our friendship only that much? I’m so sad, really.”

“What’s so disgusting….”

I openly showed my sadness and distanced myself slightly, as if I was tired of looking at Leo.Even if the gender has changed, Leo was Leo.

Well, so am I, but it’s hard for a person’s personality itself to change just because their gender has changed.

There’s no need to change your personality just because your appearance has changed.

“Why are you being so cold? And the comfort of a wife and a friend are clearly different… No, why do you both have that look?”

Why, you ask?

It’s probably because I gave them attention right away, but I didn’t give them a single bit of attention.

I raised the corners of my mouth, looking at Irinia and Chloe, who were looking at Leo with rotten expressions.

I never thought I’d see the two of them, who were the most enthusiastic about Leo, make that expression.

“You’ve both changed.”

“……What do you mean by that?”

“I heard that dating and marriage are different, should I take note of that?”

“Is there a need to take note of it? It’s all Leo’s fault.”

“That’s right. It’s all Leo’s fault.”

Whose fault is it?!

There was no one in this place who sided with Leo, who shouted in frustration when even his wives, who were supposed to be on his side, didn’t side with him.

The expression of being full of injustice was quite a sight.

The original is a beautiful girl.

Even though I know that the inside is the hero Leo, I’m sometimes surprised when I see that face.

I looked at Leo with a slightly awkward expression and said.

“Don’t use your face like that.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?!”

“Because even though I know that the core is Leo Starfield, it’s quite a disconnect when you make that expression with the face of a beautiful girl? It’s a bit, how should I put it, just like that.”

At those words, Leo made an absurd expression as if he had been hit by someone.

Well, even when he was a man, I don’t know, but the women around him blushed at Leo, and the haughty young lady, who was considered the most beautiful in the kingdom of the west, blushed at Leo and proposed first, so it’s true that his face was good looking from the time he was a man.

That’s working hard even now that he’s become a woman due to the curse.

Rather, it may be that he’s shining because he became a woman.

As I stared at Leo’s face, Leo stammered in embarrassment.

“Wh, what. Why are you looking at me like that all of a sudden.”

“You should have been born a woman, not a man. Since your body has changed and there’s nothing wrong with it, how about living as a woman for the rest of your life?”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

“What’s nonsense! I’m in a situation where I can’t go back to being a man for the rest of my life, are you saying you’re the only one who wants to live?!”

“You became a woman even though you weren’t cursed, so it’s purely your fault! Who knows. Maybe Damian Radius was a pervert who wanted to be a woman from the beginning?”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

I don’t have that kind of taste!

“Ah, please. Both of you, stop.”

Chloe, who couldn’t stand it anymore, pressed her forehead with a tired face and stopped the two of us.

Is it a lie to say that her actions are like a mother calming down two five-year-old children?

 I, who became embarrassed, covered my slightly reddened cheeks with the palm of my hand at the gaze of Lumani, who was looking at this side with an interesting expression, and grumbled and apologized.

“Sorry. But it’s all Leo’s fault. His face and his insides are completely different.”

“You’re the same, aren’t you? You’re a dark man inside, but with the body of such a pretty girl… Wait. Why do you

both have that look?”

Leo, who snorted and refuted my words, asked with an expression that had a lot of complaints at the disgusted gazes of his wives, but there was no answer.

At that, I raised the corners of my mouth and said playfully.

“Oh. You’ve become quite bold in front of your wives, Leo.”

“…Please, don’t say disgusting things. Your face is my type, but that’s all. Ah, really, both of you, I hate being here with her! I just meant that her face is worth looking at. I didn’t mean anything else! You know, right?”

“Yes. Leo. We trust you, we always trust you. Right, Irinia?”

“Of course I trust you. Who would I trust if not Leo?”

Both of you really have no soul in your answers.

Around the time Leo was flustered by Chloe and Irinia’s indifferent answers, everyone smiled lightly at the

atmosphere that had lightened up thanks to Leo.

Even Lumani, who had been thinking about the aftermath with a heavy face until now, had a lighter face than before.

“……Thank you both, really.”

The two smile strangely at Leo, who says he’s not thankful at all.

In such an atmosphere, Leticia, who had been quietly watching the situation, clapped her hands and drew attention.

“Let’s stop joking around and get down to business…. Is that okay?”

“The curse on the hero is quite interesting, but well, that’s okay. It’s something that can be investigated later, so it

doesn’t matter when. That was the purpose of coming here in the first place.”

Lumani shrugs her shoulders, saying to talk anytime at Leticia’s question.

Leticia, who was looking at such Lumani, glanced at me once, then took her eyes off and sat in the office chair and spoke of the information she had extracted from the captured demon.

One by one, our expressions changed every moment at the truths that came out of Leticia’s mouth.

Only Leo, who had heard the story first, listened to Leticia’s stormily.

It wasn’t a shocking story.

Everyone in this place expected the result, so they had a bitter expression, but they didn’t express any other emotions.

And Irinia, who heard all of Leticia’s story, sighed and started talking.

“So, to summarize the story, this time the purpose was not the collapse of the academy or the destruction of the imperial capital, but a simple declaration of war.”

“That’s right. It’s the story of a prisoner, so I can’t believe it all, but most of it will probably be true.”

“We have magic that can instantly invade the airspace of the academy, so we can invade the imperial capital at any time. Is that what it is? It’s not even funny, really.”

Those guys are seriously thinking of starting the second war between humans and demons.

I sighed, sitting on the sofa with a troubled expression.

“Besides, if this time not only humans but also other races are drawn into the war, it could really be a war for the survival of the world.”

If things go wrong, the world could be destroyed, and they want that.

I never thought that those who consider demons to be the most noble among the races and humans to be inferior would think of drawing other races into the war.

“This is troublesome.”

Even in the last war between humans and demons, other races, who were forcibly dragged into the war because of the saying that shrimps are caught in a whale fight, despised humans and demons from then on.

From their point of view, humans and demons, who are other races, were nothing more than viruses that disrupt the world.

Come to think of it, elves are also other races, but elves are uniquely quiet.

They are originally a quiet race that lives in the forest, and they have formed an alliance with humans, so they may not like the situation where other races, such as beastmen or spirits, want to kill humans and demons.

In the first place, the elf princess who was part of the hero party to kill the demon king married the hero, so there’s no way she would have hostile feelings towards humans…?

Suddenly, I looked at Irinia.

Irinia, who noticed my gaze, made an absurd face.

“Elves won’t participate in this stupid war. What is it, a great war for the fate of the world? It’s ridiculous. Would you want such a war even if it destroys the world?”

There was no one who could readily answer Irinia’s question of whether they wanted a war even though they knew the horrors of war.

Even Lumani, who was ambiguous about the death of others, remained silent.

Because she also lost something precious in that war.

I closed my eyes for a moment, then opened them, looked at Lumani, and said.

“Anyway, as I said a little while ago, the important thing now is to track down Ryuryeon and the organization she belongs to, and we will do our best to help.”

“Thank you.”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, they say.

I never thought I would join hands with a demon.

And to catch a demon, at that.

I made a vow to never join hands with demons, no matter what, but it turned out like this.

I laughed hollowly, holding Lumani’s outstretched hand.

“Now, that’s enough.”

Leticia, who looked displeased, separated the hand that Lumani was holding, and glared at Lumani.

As if she was claiming that I was a snack she had already claimed, Leticia pulled me into her arms, Leo just shook his head, and Lumani just laughed.

“You can yield a handshake.”

“If you approached Charlotte knowing she was Damian from the beginning, what are you doing, you brazen fox.”

“That’s rude. I’m just purely interested in that fellow countryman, Charlotte.”

“Pure my *ss. Your eyes are impure. So take those eyes away.”

I wonder if they know that Leo and the others are here right now.

Even though I signaled that I could see the absurd gazes of the three from earlier, I was about to intervene in the actions of the two who were meaningfully checking each other.

Then, the door opened roughly and someone panting, and a man’s urgent voice was heard.

“It’s a big deal, Sage-nim! Dungeons are appearing in the allied countries of the kingdom, including the empire!”

“What…?”

The dungeon, which disappeared at the same time as the previous Demon King was killed, appeared.