newbobooks #508 - The Red Demon Clan is in great crisis!
#508 - The Red Demon Clan is in great crisis!
“Listen to me, everyone! The Crimson Demon Village is facing a huge crisis!”
“...Haven't you sobered up yet? What kind of nonsense are you spouting?”
Aqua was shouting loudly first thing in the morning.
Last night, they held a lively celebration to celebrate Yunyun, a member of their party, becoming the next chief of the Crimson Demons. Aqua and the others were really noisy, drinking until they were completely drunk and acting like fools.
Only the Crimson Demons, who don't care about the small stuff, can put up with them. Otherwise, ordinary people would have kicked them out of the venue long ago.
“Kazuma, please pass me the soy sauce.”
“Here.”
“--Hey! Why are you all so carefree! Are you even listening to me? The Crimson Demon Village is facing a huge crisis, you know!”
This girl is really noisy.
Kazuma Sato rolled his eyes at her and said grumpily, “If you haven't sobered up yet, you can go back to your room and sleep. Besides, every time Aqua says something like this, isn't it always about drinking and proselytizing?”
“What do you mean by that!”
“What I mean is that you, the high priestess of the Axis Order, have absolutely no credibility, you useless goddess!”
“Ah! Kazuma, you called me a useless goddess again! That's too much!”
Aqua cried and stuffed the steamed bun she snatched from Kazuma Sato's mouth.
See, if she could be a little more serious, it would be fine, but a high priestess who argues with her companions over a bun in the morning really doesn't have much persuasiveness.
“More importantly, why are you guys eating breakfast at my house like it's nothing?”
“...What are you talking about, Megumin? Gathering at your house has always been the norm, right? We're comrades, aren't we? It's always been like this before.”
Kazuma Sato said this as a matter of course.
“That's not what I mean.” Megumin looked at Yunyun and said in an unfriendly tone, “There are three Crimson Demons in the party, but you always gather here... Okay, let me be blunt. Why is the person who became the next chief of the Crimson Demons yesterday here?”
“...Allow me to confirm something. Megumin, you wouldn't happen to be unwelcoming me, would you?”
“How could I be?”
Megumin smiled brightly, but her sweet smile was obviously fake, and even her voice was affected as she said, “It's an honor for my humble abode to be visited by the next Crimson Demon chief, especially since you prepared breakfast. It's just that you're emitting too much magic power, and my house is prone to explosions, so I have to ask you to leave for now.”
“--That's just a roundabout way of saying you're not welcome!”
Yunyun was on the verge of tears.
Ever since she passed the trial and became the next chief, she thought she could surpass Megumin, but she was always being bullied, even more so than before.
And Dust knew that this was just Megumin's pointless pride. Because she didn't want to admit defeat and didn't want to be inferior to Yunyun, she used sharp words to disguise herself.
“By the way, last night, Dust and I already slept in the same bed. And it was on the second floor, in a heart-shaped bed.”
“...Eh!?”
“Wasn't it because of Auntie Yuiyui?”
Dust rolled his eyes.
He didn't know what this mother was thinking. She probably felt that her daughter's position was in danger, so she used various methods to deal with Dust last night. Including, but not limited to: sleep magic, getting him drunk, and romance plotlines.
But what she didn't expect was that Dust's God-Slayer physique made him immune to all negative effects, but in the end, he lost to his mother's pleading.
But nothing happened.
Because Auntie Yuiyui's little tricks attracted the attention of his companions, and to prevent the guys in the party from deliberately peeping, he and Megumin didn't do anything--mainly because Megumin was shy, and they only hugged each other to sleep.
“By the way, everyone, what are we planning to do today?”
“If possible, I want to go back.”
Kazuma Sato immediately raised his hand.
He remembered that there was a beautiful adventurer fan waiting for him in Axel. Now that Yunyun had successfully become the next chief of the Crimson Demons, their purpose had been achieved, and it was time for them to leave.
However—
“I said, everyone.” Darkness suddenly spoke up while everyone was chattering about what to do today, “I think Aqua is right.”
“...What?”
“The village might be facing a big crisis.”
The female knight's long reaction time couldn't help but make everyone sigh.
“Still talking about this?” Kazuma Sato scratched his head and said, “This is just Aqua's fantasy, isn't it? This girl always wants to do something earth-shattering here, and then make people grateful and believe in her. It's always been a problem. There's no need to pay attention to it.”
“What did you say--”
“No, I want everyone to think about it.”
Darkness stopped Aqua from blowing up and asked, “Don't you think it's strange? Fenrir is a Calamity-class ferocious monster. How could that kind of guy appear in the area of the forest near the village?”
She looked at everyone again.
“Of course, I'm not saying that Yunyun isn't strong enough. In fact, being able to defeat a Calamity-class monster alone is already very strong, but we can't be negligent about this kind of thing.”
“...Eh?”
“No, considering my aura, it should be normal to attract Fenrir, right?”
That night, Dust was emitting a powerful Overlord-level aura. Weak monsters avoided him, and only powerful monsters like Fenrir, who were fond of fighting, would come to him.
“But, what if it wasn't deliberately looking for trouble, but thought its territory had been invaded and mistakenly thought it was being provoked?”
“Well…”
“And Dust didn't specifically expand his range, right? Otherwise, there wouldn't have been only Fenrir that whole night. Other powerful monsters should have appeared too.”
What Darkness said made perfect sense.
The companions immediately fell into deep thought.
Aqua even slapped the table and shouted, “I see, this must be the Demon King's army's doing! A cadre who can manipulate monsters is planning to drag the world into chaos! There's no mistake, this is my goddess's intuition!”
This girl inexplicably put the blame on the Demon King's army.
Although it's a common trend to attribute bad or unusual things to the Demon King's army, and the Demon King's army, which is a neighbor of the Crimson Demons, is also very suspicious, it's not important whether the Demon King's army did it now. What's important is to find the source of the problem.
“Ah ah ah! No no no!”
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“Kazuma! What are you going crazy about!”
They saw Kazuma Sato rolling back and forth on the living room floor, while wailing loudly, as if he had been stimulated somewhere.
“I don't want to deal with this kind of thing!”
“...Ah?”
“I said! I don't want to deal with it! Why do I always get dragged into this kind of messed up thing! I'm just an ordinary adventurer, the most useless adventurer! The Demon King's army, Calamity-class monsters, and all that stuff shouldn't have anything to do with me! So, I'm going back!”
A true escapist.
Once there is danger, he turns around and runs.
In fact, not only that, everyone knows the real reason why Kazuma Sato is so resistant.
“Darkness, Darkness! Look at this guy. Just because there's some inexplicable beautiful adventurer fan waiting for him, he can't wait to run back. He's really hopeless.”
“That's right, Kazuma! Think about it carefully, this must be fake! How could a scumbag like you have fans! Face reality!”
“--Be careful, I'll hit you two!”
Kazuma Sato said angrily to Aqua and Darkness.
And Dust looked at Yunyun.
“What do you plan to do?”
“...I can't leave it alone.”
After all, she is the next chief of the Crimson Demons. If she knew that there was a crisis lurking near the Crimson Demon Village and didn't care, it would be a violation of the chief's duty, so she planned to investigate.
“Then…”
“I'm going too!”
Dust's words were interrupted by Megumin, but she wasn't going to help, but—
“Fenrir? Hmph, a mere Calamity-class monster. This time, I don't know how powerful monsters will be lurking in the dark, but they will all be blasted to ashes by my Explosion magic! You just watch!”
She obviously didn't want to lose.
Yunyun's ability to defeat the Calamity-class Fenrir alone greatly increased her reputation in the Crimson Demon Village, and she almost secured her position as the number one arch-mage of the Crimson Demons.
And in this situation, how could Megumin, who is called a failure and a show-off mage, sit still?
She plans to prove herself!
“Okay, then it's decided that we'll go together!”
Aqua said excitedly.
“Hey, I didn't say I was going.” Kazuma Sato interrupted her and asked somewhat resentfully, “Besides, it's understandable for Dust and the other three, but why are you two so excited?”
“What are you talking about, Kazuma? This is a problem that the party members encountered, so naturally the party will solve it!”
Darkness looked serious, but Kazuma Sato didn't believe it at all.
“So, what's the real reason?”
“I don't know if we'll encounter monsters more powerful than Fenrir this time. If we're surrounded by them... Ha... Ha... How wonderful!”
Yeah, the same old Do-M.
“Then what about Aqua? You're always afraid of trouble, so why are you getting involved?”
“Isn't it obvious? Of course, it's to thwart the Demon King's army's plan! Moreover, the Crimson Demons have established a strategic cooperative partnership with the Axis Order. In this situation, as a goddess, how could I possibly sit idly by!?”
...I forgot there was this setting!
Honestly, after clearly seeing the Axis Order followers and the Crimson Demons, these guys with problems in their heads, Kazuma Sato felt that it wasn't the Demon King's army that was scary, but these guys!
“Then you guys go, I'll just…”
“Ah! Speaking of which, I remember Komekko saying that Kazuma seems to be pretty good too. If he can help the Crimson Demons find the root of the problem, he might win her heart.”
“--What are you guys waiting for? Let's set off quickly!”
Kazuma Sato took the lead and walked out of the house.