Chapter 43: Hero Party (Part 3)

“I’m sorry to have visited without notice.”

“Are you being sarcastic about my lack of manners?”

“Of course not. I don’t take my life that lightly.”

“Hmph. You’re still good with your words.”

The suddenly appearing Lumani Tepes snorted, crossed her legs on the sofa, and sat down with an elegant motion,

apologizing to us.

“I heard that you stopped Ryuryeon. It wouldn’t have been easy to deal with that woman, but I guess it’s

understandable if it’s you.”

“Excuse me?”

“Cook. There are always beings outside of common sense, but that’s not important right now. First, as the

representative of the Demon King, I apologize for the academy incident. Our demons were too complacent.”

“……The apology is unnecessary. More importantly, does that mean you knew about the organization Ryuryeon

belongs to?”

“Well, I knew roughly. Didn’t you see it last time? The movements of the hardline demons were unusual these days.

Surveillance and control of the hardline demons. That was the mission that His Majesty secretly gave me.”

Most of the demons who do not follow the Demon King belong to the organization, and their movements are

unusual, so monitor them and sometimes restrain them.

Never let them come to the surface.

“‘If they do something that harms both demons and humans, you can kill them without mercy.’ I’ve been killing them

until now with that mission. I thought it was just a gathering of losers anyway. No matter how many they gather,

worms are worms. I thought it would be quiet if I killed one or two as an example, but this is the result of being

complacent.”

Pathetically.

Sighing, Lumani’s eyes flashed fiercely, and she swept her bangs back with one hand.

“I didn’t think one of their executives would be Ryuryeon, one of the traitors.”

Lumani added with a ferocious expression and a mysterious smile.

“Yes. That b*tch is the only one who survived among the former apostles except for me, so I should have been more

wary. If we had killed her for sure in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened…… I’m really sorry about that.”

Perhaps it was because she didn’t like Lumani’s calm attitude.

Or maybe she just didn’t like the demon Lumani herself.

Irinia, who had been silently listening without saying a word, frowned, pointed her finger at her, and shouted.

“Ryuryeon is one of the few demons who can match Damian! You know very well that she’s not a demon who will be

defeated so easily! But you…!”

“I missed her. Who would have known that she would break through the siege of hundreds of demon regular troops

while wearing handcuffs that suppress her strength and magic power and escape? Who would have known that the

demon, who was looking at the sky with dead eyes where no hope could be found, would suddenly change and

slaughter all the demons around her and run away.”

“….”

“In the first place, our demons don’t care much about their comrades. I don’t either. Ryuryeon, that traitor, would be

the same. It’s not strange since she’s a woman who’s been madly obsessed with strength since the time of the

previous Demon King, but still… I wish you knew that I’m also frustrated that I couldn’t kill that woman at that

time.”

But if you want to blame someone, you can blame me as much as you want.

Chloe calms Irinia, who is upset by Lumani’s words that she can curse herself calmly.

But Chloe’s eyes were also cold as ice.

It was a look that said it was useless to listen any further.

Sighing at the two of them, I intervened in Irinia and said.

“Both of you, please stop. Really. Irinia, you stop too. The important thing now is about those guys who attacked the

academy. Put your Unnecessarily personal feelings aside.”

“…Charlotte.”

“We barely made a peace treaty. Both humans and demons lost a lot in that war. It’s a peace that we finally found.

But it’s about to be broken, is there anything more important than that?”

“No… I’m sorry. I just got upset without realizing it.”

Chloe slightly comforted Irinia, who retreated with a gloomy expression, and I deliberately turned my gaze away from them.

Lumani also frowned at this situation, as if she didn’t like it, and just looked at me without saying a word.

She didn’t seem to have anything more to say.

No, from the beginning, she came to apologize and to annihilate the demons who attacked the academy.

This place was not a place to discuss whether the war between humans and demons was right or wrong.

“Ms. Lumani, you seem to know a lot about the organization Ryuryeon belongs to. Can you tell us more about that organization?”

“Hmm. You can call me something more friendly than Ms. Lumani, but well, now we have to distinguish between

public and private. Yes. I’ll tell you the facts that I told the hero and the sage before I came here.”

She shrugged her shoulders and continued, as if she had no intention of hiding her unpleasant expression.

“The organization Ryuryeon belongs to is, simply put, a gathering of guys who extremely hate His Majesty the

current Demon King. It seems that most of the survivors of the demons who followed the previous Demon King, as

well as the hardline demons who don’t like His Majesty, are the center.”

“You just let that happen? Power is everything to demons. Shouldn’t you have crushed them with power?”

“It’s true that our demons pursue power and only the strong survive, but there are quite a few of them. If they all

were executed because they had impure thoughts about His Majesty, it’s obvious that more troublesome things will

happen in the future.”

In the first place, execution is not easy.

Lumani shrugged.

“The days when power was everything are now in the past. Not all demons are stupid. His Majesty took over the

throne and kept demons who have both strength and wisdom as his hands and feet, rather than demons who only

pursue strength, so now their power is stronger.”

“There are many things that can’t be done with strength alone. I heard about the situation of the demons. The

Demon King’s choice is wise. It’s a reality that you can’t take anything if you’re only strong.”

Chloe nodded and affirmed Lumani’s words.

When I first heard that story, I had all sorts of thoughts.

Finally, the demons are also thinking properly.

Recalling one by one the former demon army commanders who tried to crush them with strength, I was truly

relieved that the current Demon King was wise.

If the newly enthroned demon had only war in his head, the same tragedy would have been repeated over and over again.

If that had happened, one of the two races would have been exterminated.

In that sense, the Demon King is just as worthy of respect as the hero Leo.

Even if there was a rebellion from within, considering that there has never been a single case of humans and demons

signing a peace treaty in history.

I looked at Lumani, smiled lightly, and said.

“Both sides don’t want war. There aren’t enough supplies or troops to fight in the first place, and above all, I don’t

want to see the newly bloomed buds being driven to the battlefield and dying.”

“Hmm, you’re right. It’s not a disappointing part if the buds that will be responsible for the demons in the future die

before they can even bloom. If another war breaks out like this, our demons may not be able to avoid extinction.”

So Ryuryeon and the organization Ryuryeon belongs to must be stopped.

I erased the smile from my lips and nodded with a firm face.

“There are probably traitors on our human side who have joined Ryuryeon’s side. No matter how strong Ryuryeon’s

organization is, it’s not easy to break through Leticia’s barrier and invade the academy.”

“You mean there are humans who cooperate with traitors. Well, there were always those who betrayed their own

people by becoming corrupted even during the war.”

“We can’t rule out the possibility that there are people cooperating with them.”

Maybe there’s a rat hiding inside the academy.

To use space movement magic, there would be a need to connect the coordinates of the hideout and the academy, so

I’ll have to investigate this secretly.

I scratched my head and sighed.

Since my identity was revealed to Leticia and the war was over, I was planning to raise the junior hero party, a

human weapon that would be useful somewhere, and live with Leticia until I die if I can’t find a way to return to

Earth, but I didn’t expect a hindrance to that plan to appear.

“I was always bothered by the fact that the goddess chose a new hero even though Leo is still alive, but was it because

of this?”

I thought the goddess had gone senile because she chose a new hero, but if she chose a hero considering this

situation, it’s a different story.

You gloomy goddess.

While cursing the goddess inwardly, I thought about Chloe.

Honestly, I don’t want to send that child to the battlefield.

There should be no children dying on the battlefield.

Even if it’s a hero.

But I can’t let such talent rot in the academy, and I think she’ll do well if I leave it to her.

While I was suffering from a difficult situation, I was startled and stepped back at Lumani’s face, which had come close to me.

“Wh…What is it, suddenly…?”

“No, I was just curious why Damian Radius. You, a human, became a vampire, the same race as me, and changed

genders to a woman. Well, you seem to be only half-vampire.”

Can you tell me the reason?

I was forced to freeze with a startled face at Lumani’s question, who smiled mysteriously.

……I forgot.

That this woman has a demonic eye that can see through the essence of the soul.