Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 336

35. Flee from the Heroes (9)

#5 Their Circumstances: The Circumstances of a Demon King

Bombardments pound my body. 

I block, slash, and push back using the power of evil, but the bombardments continue.  

Is that all?

The monster before my eyes hums a tune as he evades the bombardment, wounding my body.

An imperial magic bombardment.  

There can’t be anyone on the continent who doesn’t know about it.

Even those only worked under very specific limited conditions for the most part.

But the attacking side also had various restrictions. Namely, once a bombardment was dropped, not even the magician who used it could do nothing about it.

If there were allies at the blast site, the allies would die together with the enemies.  

That was only natural.

“Gah!”

Blood trickles from my chest.

I can only be perplexed by this absurd situation.

“You should be more careful, Senior.”  

The smiling girl’s appearance sends a chill down my spine.

At the same time, using the power of the fragments of evil, I slash above my head.

“Damn it!”

A huge block of ice splits in half.

But a small fragment that was falling from the huge ice struck my shoulder.

I hurriedly defend, but my shoulder is smashed to bits.

No matter how much of a Demon King, a serious wound like this will take time to heal.

“An opening.”

But my opponent isn’t the sort to casually give me time to heal. 

“Are you crazy?”

Even I, who became a Demon King to take revenge, can only think this being’s actions are insane.

What can you call someone who isn’t crazy after asking for a bombardment to be dropped on their own head?

“I’m just doing my job, Senior.”

An expressionless face and quick, powerful blows.

Evading the falling bombardments before I can even see them and the sense and courage to execute it.

“Were you a hero?”

Since I saw her when we first clashed with the imperial army, I thought she was part of the imperial army.

But the being before my eyes has everything a hero should have.

While she may seem crazy, couldn’t all of that be seen as courage in order to defeat me, a Demon King?

“Hero? My instructor said that’s just a job for fools, so there’s no way I’d do that!”

However, she herself denied being a hero with her words.

In that case, she must be part of the imperial army.

“What unit are you with?”

“I’m Mirea, captain of the Ast Kidnapping Squad.”

Clang!

My sword clashes with her dagger.

She answers my question while continuing her attack.

– Do not stop attacking just because the enemy speaks. There is no need to lend an ear to the enemy’s words.  

A chilling voice echoes in my ears on its own.

“As expected of the instructor’s disciple.”

Her speed exceeds mine. But my strength surpasses hers.

That’s why she tries to avoid clashing blades with me as much as possible. 

“Yes, that’s right.”

I try to evade the falling bombardments above my head and flee by stepping on the fallen ice fragments, but she doesn’t let me go so easily.

“With just this, it will be difficult to defeat me. What’s your next plan?”

“The instructor said to ignore the enemy’s words! I’m not Number 1, so there’s no way I’d tell you something like that!”

She continues attacking while evading the bombardments here and there. 

Stepping on fallen ice fragments to leap through the air and using the small fragments falling from the sky as footholds to move through open space, her figure is truly like a beast.

Ignoring spatial constraints and attacking from all sides with barrage after barrage, she is the most troublesome opponent I have faced so far. 

“Gah!”

On top of that, she has the talent to tilt the battle in her favor.

Wide field of vision, and the sense to grasp where the fragments will fall.

Additionally, she has the mind to utilize all of that.

Even now, she intentionally shows an opening to put me on the offensive, resulting in me missing the person-sized fragment falling from the sky.

She knows how to fight. 

She knows how to fight while surveying the entire battlefield and utilizing everything.

“Is this… The end?”

Even in an ordinary place, she’d be a difficult opponent to defeat.

I didn’t feel I could defeat such an opponent in this bombardment.

– You’re tired, aren’t you?

It seems so.

– The fight with that man weakened you.

That also seems to be true.

When crossing swords with the instructor, it felt like I was fighting as the instructor’s disciple rather than as a Demon King.

– Is your revenge over with this?

Is it… Over?

It felt like it was. The instructor is growing further away, but I couldn’t press forward.

– Have you forgotten? The reason you fight?

Forgotten? There’s no way.

Her smiling face still seems to appear clearly in my mind.

I feel like if I reach out my hand right now, I can grasp her hand.

But she no longer exists in this world.

More than anyone, wasn’t I the one who knew that best?

That’s why I vowed revenge. 

In order to destroy the world I once saved with my own hands.

Because the price of salvation was their deaths, I dreamed of revenge against the world.

But… it seems to be over now.

– Over? At whose convenience? 

I sense a strong will in the voice I hear.

– Our existence is to destroy the world. Be it hatred, revenge, or amusement, it matters not.

– Simply destroying the world, that is our objective.

– To fight with everything on the line to destroy the world, that is who we are. 

– If something blocks your path, smash it. 

– Do not stop until your body shatters.

– That is the Demon King, the embodiment of evil!

– You who inherited the Demon King’s name, are you determined to sacrifice everything to bring about the world’s destruction?

My abilities alone are insufficient to destroy the world. I realized that from clashing with the imperial army.

But my desire to destroy the world was genuine.

I wanted to see the world’s destruction with my own eyes, but…

“It can’t be helped if my abilities aren’t good enough.”

“Huh?”

My sudden words seem to have caught the being before me, Mirea, a little off guard.

Of course, she doesn’t halt her attacks just because she’s startled.

“I’m sorry.”

I wanted to fight you until the end, but it seems my time is up.

“From now on, I will no longer be Demon King Wreaf, but merely a Demon King.”

Clang!

I could feel something inside me breaking. 

At the same time, I could feel something inside me gradually leaving my body.

“…This is…”

“Yes, this is…!”

Evil. 

Shattering the fragments of evil within me, and entrusting everything to what’s inside!

“…Is what I wanted to say.”

I tried to describe the final scene, but the subject I was supposed to describe disappeared before my eyes.

“Fast.”

The moment Mirea said ‘…This is….’, she disappeared using spatial magic.  

It was too fast to say she had activated magic.

She must have had a teleportation magic tool with her.

“Thorough.” 

She must have had a teleportation magic tool prepared in case of an emergency.

“No. Isn’t it more surprising that she used it?”

Normally, someone would keep attacking to not miss an opportunity for victory, or carelessly keep fighting.

But the moment she realized my condition was not normal, she chose to retreat.

-Retreat is not defeat. Only death is defeat. If you die, you cannot complete your mission, but if you live, you can always challenge again.

“As expected… The disciple of Instructor.”

As the instructor’s advice naturally came to mind, I smiled ever so slightly.

“Arielle…..”

The moment I recalled her bright smiling face, I could feel myself losing control over my body.

-We will have our revenge for you.

-For the ruin of the world, we will keep moving forward!

My closing eyes and the voices becoming clearer.

Feeling all that, the Demon King Wreaf died, and the true Demon King was born into the world.

#6 Their Circumstances: The circumstances of some elves

There were some watching the fight from a very far distance.

“Graaah!” 

“Die!”

“Ugh! Annoying.”

The golden sword rays flying about, the darkness covering the world, and the seemingly unmotivated little girl running around.

Those who were watching briefly shared their impressions out loud.

“Crazy.”

“That’s a human?”

“One is a Demon King.”  

“That’s not important, is it?”

“I guess not.”

“Even if she’s a hero, isn’t that too much?”

“Right. Just looking at the appearance, she doesn’t seem over 30 in human age.”

“What’s 30. That girl over there doesn’t look over 20.”

“Looks like it.”

“But she can fight so well?”

“If she lived 100 more years, she could probably subdue the demons?”

“If she lived 1000 years, she could even fight the great gods.”

“Indeed… The great gods….”

“Balancing races by age…”

While watching the fierce battle between the Demon King and the two humans, they continued their useless chatter.

“When will we fight?”

At one person’s words, the others around turned their gazes to that person.

“Not yet.”

The one receiving the gazes of the others was staring at just one person, ignoring the others.

“It’s not our turn yet.”

She was not looking at the Demon King.

Nor was she looking at the woman fighting with him.

“Lord Ast…”

Her gaze was fixed on just one man.

One man watching from afar as the Demon King and hero clashed.

“Princess, shouldn’t we make a move in advance?”

“Yes. It would be advantageous to secure it first.”

“Since we’ve come this far… mmf…! Mmf mmf!”

“Shut your mouth!”

“This pervert is ruining the elf’s reputation!”

“Send him away before he puts strange ideas in the Princess’ head!”

After some commotion, the elves tidied up and bowed their heads to their princess.

“Princess, it is time.”

“Not yet.”

“What is the… Reason?”

More than anyone, the princess had wanted to meet that human over there. 

So why was she not moving yet?

“There are annoying things around.”

“You mean the forces of evil god?”

“No. Things more stubborn and tricky.”

“Huh?”

The elf princess raised her hand.

“Check over there and over there.”

“Understood.”

Using elf magic and magic tools to inspect where their princess pointed, the elves could not help but be shocked.

“How, how?”

The two mountains she had seen across and diagonally. 

Both were filled with unidentifiable personnel. 

“If we move first, we’ll be attacked from both sides.”

It would have been just as the princess said.

If they had moved first to secure Ast, the human, they would have had to fight enemies from both directions.

“How did…”

It was an extremely far distance invisible to the naked eye.

They could barely see it using magic tools and magic. How did she notice?

“Sense.”

“Huh?”

“I sensed enemies would be around there.”

As the elves blankly stared at where the enemies were, the princess commanded in a voice full of strong will.

“Never make the first move. Whoever moves first… loses.” 

“Ah, understood.”

At her words completely different from usual, the other elves nodded.

And around the same time.

For similar reasons, they noticed their enemies and chose to observe the situation.

Thus began the patience showdown where the first side to make a move would be hunted.

#7 Their Circumstances: The circumstances of those fighting the Demon King 

“Gwaaah!”

The hero who had been fighting the Demon King for 3 hours now shed tears as he yelled.

“You said reinforcements were coming!”

“Bother…”

The unmotivated girl replied to the hero’s words.

“Why!? There’s the Beresseryl Kingdom’s army behind, the Empire’s army nearby, and alliances of hundreds of thousands from kingdoms and tens of thousands from churches, plus heroes alliances of over thousands nearby!”

Clang!

Spitting blood from the recoil of swords clashing, the hero held up his holy sword and yelled.

“Why is no one coming!?”

Clang!

The place where the hero and Demon King were fighting.

Due to various circumstances overlapping, only the hero and a girl were still giving their all against the Demon King.

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