Episode 153
“Whew.”
Frey, who lowered his head and let out a short sigh, soon raised his head.
“”…………””
An innumerably vast army of demon lords are looking at him.
“All, focus.”
Frey, who was slowly looking around at the demon lord, began to speak in a cold voice deeply tinged with coldness.
“What I’m going to say from now on is so important that I can’t stress it enough times, so listen carefully. If there’s someone who tries to tell you something, you’d better be prepared.”
Frey, who said that, looked sickly and exhausted, and looked as if he would collapse if I even touched him with a finger.
“Do you understand?”
“”…..yes.””
The Demon Lords, who were crawling across the sky and the earth like ants, simply answered Frey with machine-like voices.
“From now on, I will be serving the imperial palace.”
To that demon lord.
“Wear the warrior’s armor that was used by the warrior a thousand years ago to protect the empire, and bring down the empire.”
Frey, wearing the warrior’s weapon, calmly declares.
“And, by killing the princess, I will create a magic circle that will rule the world… I will float it in the skies of the empire.”
Saying that, Frey pointed to the sky in the direction where the imperial palace was located, and the demon lords all raised their weapons toward the sky.
As if it were a golem.
Without a single unnecessary movement, without a single individual actor.
The Demon Lord’s army, which was staring at Frey with an expressionless face, had suddenly become a war machine that sacrificed its life for Frey’s orders.
“The ones going into the final battle are me, the combat executives, and Chief of Staff Lemerno.”
Frey, who was looking around at the Demon King’s army from a high platform, pointed to the combat executives behind them and declared.
“So, my loyal servants, see with your own eyes today the sun sets and the black sun rises.”
“”Wow!!””
Soon, Frey came down from the stage with his hands in his pockets while receiving thunderous shouts, and headed towards the tent with his subordinates behind him.
“…Fray.”
So, Frey entered the tent to check the operation one last time before heading to the imperial palace.
“what?”
Seeing the serious expression on Lemerno’s face as he came in with the combat executives, he began to tilt his head.
“I have something to tell you.”
“…..?”
Lemerneau was looking at Frey blankly.
“Surrender.”
Soon, his expression changed to a cold one and he said that.
“What do you mean, surrender?”
“Why did you murder Dmirkan in the mansion today?”
Looking at Frey asking questions with a calm expression, Lemerneau began questioning in a cold voice.
“He tried to commit treason. That’s why he was executed.”
“Don’t lie, I saw the whole thing.”
“You were watching?”
“You can’t even find out that there is a surveillance magic device installed in the mansion. You are powerful, but you are not very resourceful.”
Lemerneau said that in a cold voice, looking around at the combat executives standing behind him with puzzled expressions.
“Currently, the hearing of the combat executives has been canceled with my magic.”
“okay?”
“Yes, and I cast an absolute obedience spell on myself.”
“So, what does this do?”
Lemerno, who heard Frey’s question, raised the corners of his mouth and answered.
“It’s simple, to carry out a plan to control you.”
After saying that, Lemerneau put down a fairly familiar piece of paper on the desk.
“It’s an old document that you always carry with you. Aren’t you letting your guard down just because it contains text that only you can read?”
“How did I get it? I must have kept it.”
“Did you know that I, a staff member of the Demon King’s army, would not be able to intercept a defenseless piece of paper without a copy-prevention spell without your knowledge and strength?”
Lemerno, who was frowning, soon crossed his arms and continued speaking.
“After cloning, I analyzed the text and realized that it was identical to the text left behind by a warrior from a thousand years ago on the Western Continent.”
“so?”
“I compared them and analyzed them. Not just for a few days… but for years. I stayed up all night, constantly.”
Lemerneau pointed to the dark circles in his eyes with a slightly tired expression.
“After several years of painstaking analysis, I understood.”
“what?”
“That you are a ‘great evildoer’, that if you are caught, you will receive a ‘penalty’, and crucially…”
Immediately, a sneer appeared on his lips, and he wedged himself in.
“…You ‘might’ be pretending to be the Demon Lord.”
Looking at Lemerneau, who put considerable emphasis on ‘maybe’, Frey chuckled.
“Seeing how you speak like that, it seems like you really have an absolute obedience spell cast on you?”
“Yes, as I said before, I cast an absolute obedience spell on myself to make myself less confident about you. Of course, to avoid your eyes.”
“Is that possible?”
“It is possible, the Demon Lord has confirmed that the spell has been successfully cast.”
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“Demon King?”
As Frey tilts his head, Lemerno speaks with a proud expression.
“If the Demon King is imitating the hero… conversely, who was the hero imitating?”
“…under.”
“Based on that guess, I secretly visited the hero after giving myself an order not to be ‘sure’ of everything about him… I was finally able to meet the true master I should serve.”
“So, you’ve been a spy for the Demon King since long ago?”
When Frey asked that question.
“That’s right, so stop surrendering.”
Lemerneau had a cold expression.
“surrender?”
“Yes, surrender. If you don’t surrender, I will tell the truth about you to the combat executives behind you.”
He takes out a scroll from his pocket and continues talking.
“I’ve already prepared a video scroll containing proof that you are a hero.”
“Video scrolling? What is that?”
“If you just touch it without tearing it, the image will be transmitted to the brain of the person you want in less than a second.”
“hmm…”
When Frey groaned after hearing those words, Lemerno said to him with a cold expression.
“The Demon King, who is probably real, made an offer to you, the hero.”
“It’s a suggestion…”
“It is an offer that if you surrender and become his, not only will your life be spared, but we will also rule the world with you.”
Frey, who heard those words, smiled and answered.
“What if you don’t like it?”
Then, Lemerneau opened his mouth with a puzzled expression.
“Hey… this is the Demon Lord’s ‘generousness’ towards you. You have no choice.”
“Do we really have no choice?”
“Ha… I can’t say it in words.”
However, when Frey crossed his legs with a calm expression, Lemerneau said with an annoyed look on his face.
“Once you get at least one penalty, you’ll think differently, right?”
Lemerno, who said so and placed his hand on the magic scroll, began to look at Frey with a triumphant expression.
“…uh?”
For some reason, Frey was fine.
“W-what is it?”
“This is so…”
Frey looked at Lemerneau, who was starting to look embarrassed, and spoke in a pitiful tone.
“…That’s what happens when a duckling imitates a phoenix.”
Lemerneau sensed something was wrong with Frey’s words.
“W-what? Why?”
I hurriedly looked at the other combat executives and fiddled with the scroll.
“”…………””
They just stood in the tent blankly.
“Are you curious why things are like this?”
Frey, who was quietly watching the scene, slowly stood up.
“D-you…what. What did you do to the combat executives?”
To Lemerno, who began to sweat while looking at Frey like that, Frey answered in a cold voice.
“…What are you going to use by showing the truth to those who are already dead?”
After saying that, Frey takes out the hand that was fiddling with the ‘Stone of Domination’ that he had kept in his pocket.
– Shake it off…!
Then, the combat executives who had been alive and moving all at once collapsed.
“Uh, how… how…?”
“If you have read the prophecy, do you also know about the ‘trial’?”
“…test?”
“Oh my, I guess I didn’t understand everything.”
He looked at that figure blankly and then looked at Lemerneau, who looked dumbfounded at Frey’s question.
“That is one of the reasons for your defeat.”
Frey started talking with a smile on his face.
“I don’t know about you, but the fourth trial of the system… targets people who ‘care’ about me.”
“W-what do you mean…”
“For me, who was imitating the Demon King, having the entire Demon King Army ‘worry’ about me was a piece of cake.”
“…!”
Even though he didn’t know what the ‘Fourth Trial’ was, Lemerneau was the only person who could somewhat compete with Serena with his brains.
“Ahhh…”
From Frey’s tone and context, and the word ‘system’, I was able to roughly infer how things went.
“Ahhh…”
It would have been better if I couldn’t infer it.
“”…………””
The numerous demon lords outside the tent she had run out of with a glimmer of hope were looking at her with soulless expressions.
I had no choice but to force myself to understand how things were going.
“After that, it was simple. All the demon kings who were worried about me were caught up in the ‘fourth ordeal’, and as a result, they were all unable to overcome the ordeal and became ‘monsterized’.”
“Damn, turn into a monster…”
Frey appeared behind her and put his hand on her shoulder, stabbing her.
“Of course, you were the only one who ‘suspected’ me and didn’t worry, so you didn’t get caught up in the ordeal.”
After saying that, Frey continued speaking while looking at Lemerneau’s face, which was starting to turn pale.
“At that time, you were busy comparing the prophecy I deliberately leaked with the language of the Western Continent.”
“You said you spilled it on purpose…?”
“And even after that, I was unable to notice the abnormality of the Demon Lord’s army because I was busy carrying out the orders I gave and at the same time communicating with the ‘Demon King impersonating a hero.’”
When Lemerno opened his mouth at those words, Frey took out the ‘Stone of Domination’ from his pocket.
“Well, there is a reason why I have been able to control the Demon Lord’s army with the ‘Stone of Domination’ until this very moment.”
“No way! With just a human’s mental power… that’s not possible!!”
“…the mental power of a mere human?”
After hearing Lemerno’s words, Frey quickly bursts into laughter.
“It was so easy it made me yawn.”
“That can’t be possible! There’s no way that a mere human’s mental power could control so many demonized Demon Lords…!”
“…I’ve gone through countless regressions and experienced all sorts of things, so I don’t have the mental power of a mere human.”
Eventually, when Frey answered like that, Lemerneau started making a stupid expression.
“Oh, should I tell you something interesting?”
“…..?”
Lemerneau, who was desperately analyzing the meaning of what Frey had just said, tilts his head as he sees Frey speaking with a pitiful expression.
“The absolute obedience spell cannot be cast on yourself.”
“…what?”
Then, her eyes widen at the words that came out of Frey’s mouth.
“What nonsense! I clearly had a spell cast on me! The Demon King also confirmed that an ‘absolute obedience spell’ was cast on me…!”
“The previous Demon King who invented the magic, the current Demon King, the Demon Tower Master, and even Irina in her prime. Those who were able to use the ‘Absolute Obedience Magic’ have never cast that magic on themselves.”
Eventually, Lemerneau raised her voice and spoke, but Frey ignored her and calmly started talking.
“There was no need for that. There was no reason to cast the absolute obedience spell on yourself in the first place.”
“Well, then… how do you know that?”
“Because I walked.”
At Frey’s very simple answer, Lemerneau’s eyes went blank for a moment.
“I was tired of countless regressions, so I tried to cast that spell on myself to exclude my emotions… but it didn’t work.”
Nevertheless, when Frey spoke with a sullen expression, Lemerno urgently asked him:
“How can you use ‘Absolute Obedience Magic’? That’s nonsense…!”
“…I don’t remember the details, but I learned how to use it about halfway through the regression. Of course, my interest waned when I realized that I could only bet on one person.”
“You’re regressing from earlier, but what the hell is that… no, wait a minute. How can you, a swordsman, use magic…?”
“I can use magic thanks to the energy found in the forest near my house. This is a fact I discovered at the beginning of my return.”
Lemerneau was desperately shaking his head as he looked at Frey, who answered without hesitation in a soulless voice.
“…uh?”
I soon came to one conclusion.
“Your… if what you say is true… what is the ‘absolute obedience spell’ on me?”
A terrifying conclusion that brings goosebumps all over your body.
“If you can’t cast the absolute obedience spell on yourself… then what on earth is on me?!”
“…You noticed it too, right?”
Looking at her like that, Frey answered calmly.
“The obedience spell cast on you was cast by me.”
“……!!!”
“The orders you thought you gave yourself were actually orders I gave.”
“…ah.”
“I gave the command, ‘Make the mistake of thinking that you are the person who cast the absolute obedience spell.’ So, of course, you had no choice but to make that mistake.”
After hearing that.
“And in the first place, there’s no way a bitch like you could use that magic that only a very few of the strongest people can use, right?”
Looking at Lemerneau, who collapsed on the floor in shock.
“Do you understand now? You and the Demon King were playing into my hands from the beginning.”
Frey said with a cold expression.
“You duckling.”
“Say, please save me.”
And from that point on, Lemerneau began begging with a terrified expression on his face.
“Well, I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything you ask.”
“…………”
“When everything is over, I’ll lend you my head. So you can live the rest of your life a little happier. And, if you want, I’ll give you my body too…”
“…I never thought I’d say this line again.”
Frey looked at her like that.
“You shouldn’t have touched the child.”
Pulling the sword from his waist.
“The sacrificial magic circle that awakens the devil by sacrificing countless children. That was your work?”
“Ahhh…”
He whispered coldly.
“I have done countless things in those countless timelines… but I have never once touched a child.”
And the next moment.
Lemerno’s head was flying in the sky.
“With this, your last strategy will also fail. Demon Lord.”
Frey stood still in the blood-stained tent, taking in the sight with his eyes.
“…I command all the Demon King’s army.”
He said while fiddling with the ‘Stone of Domination’ again.
“Once the battle is over, everyone will be neutralized.”
In that way, all those who had circumstances and those who had the potential for rehabilitation were selected in advance.
Thanks to that, Frey watched the group of monsters, only those steeped in carnage and evil, quietly nod their heads.
“You guys, follow me.”
He spoke to the fallen demonized combat executives.
“…I have to go to the imperial palace to fight the ‘final battle’.’
Heading to the imperial palace, which was right in front of him.
.
“…..hmm.”
Fray arrives right in front of the imperial palace and sees familiar faces in front of him.
“Frey Raon Starlight.”
“…….”
“…our enemy.”
Sub-heroines are lined up in front of the imperial soldiers who are looking very nervous.
“I will stop you until the hero’s awakening is complete.”
Frey looked at the sub-heroines who coldly looked at her and said those words.
“Suppress it.”
He gave an order to the demonized combat executives standing behind him.
“Don’t kill, don’t hurt.”
And so, the ‘final battle’ began.
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