“Not really an army, but a party of sorts, five of them actually.”
“Wow, that’s a heroic party.”
When the Demon King appeared, a hero also appeared and saved the world by defeating and destroying the great villain.
It’s a super cliché, but in reality, it doesn’t work that way.
If you want to defeat someone who is powerful enough to influence the world, or has an army, then of course the hero must be more powerful than the army.
The hero > the demon king. This is the beginning of the story, but eventually it has to come to fruition.
I don’t remember being a demon king, but for goodness sake, the armaments over here should be known to some extent. five people how…….
“Oh, do those five guys have some kind of dangerous weapon?”
“I don’t think it’s just a sword, shield, bow and arrow like a knight. I don’t know the specifics of their armament”
I see. Then we need to be careful.
“They figured that attacking with numbers wouldn’t work, so they decided to play with quality and mobility. Aside from the joke of a name like ” Heroic Party”, it makes sense, doesn’t it?”
“The fact is that the Holy Land doesn’t have that much military power to spare. It is more efficient to attack the demon king himself directly than to attack from the Size Tide. I think you’re right about the emphasis on mobility.”
“That means the Size Tide will pass through and come to us.”
“I’m sure they’ll need to resupply along the way, so I don’t think they’ll go through it completely.”
He said it was still coming.
“But you can’t afford the armed forces …… So is now the time to attack?”
“If you want to.”
“Fuu~n”
“Well, if you can fortify your defenses without relying on human hands, like here, but the cities of the Holy Land are basically protected by human hands. If we consume our troops in a battle we can’t win, the country itself won’t be able to stand.”
“If you know you can’t win, why don’t you just give up?”
“It’s not like everyone understands what’s going on, and I don’t think we can ignore the will of the people to not allow the evil Demon Kingdom to continue. Unlike here, there’s no country without its people.”
“It’s humane if you just listen to words.”
“It depends on the interpretation of the recipient. Nothing is what it seems.”
Hee, as you say.
“Back to the topic at hand, you’re saying that the Holy Land didn’t originally plan to attack us with their entire army?”
“No, thanks to the fact that the Knights of the Size Tide were crushed and the territory was taken over, the power structure between the faction that wants to build up its own power and the faction that wants to destroy the Demon Kingdom has been reversed. They said it was scary in the Demon Kingdom.”
“Yeah. That’s not true, though. And that’s why you killed Johan?”
“Oh, are you curious?”
I don’t care about Johan itself.
“You can’t trust people who stab their friends to achieve their goals, can you?”
“Well, I guess so. But as for that one, it’s not the same as this one.”
“What do you mean?”
“According to what I just said, Johan was on the side that wanted to destroy the Demon Kingdom. And the faction that wanted to build up power in their own territory was in the way. Enough to plot the assassination of my employers and his faction.”
“He’s a bad guy, if the words are to be believed.”
If that’s what you’re saying is true.
“That’s right. And while I was working on your assassination, I also tried to assassinate the hoarders. He summoned me to his mansion to be dealt with by assassins disguised as spies from the Demon Kingdom. However, the assassin was a patient of our faction, and I had detected him beforehand.”
“Huh. You know so much about it.”
“I’m a well-informed man. I found out what happened after the investigation, but it was a scandal involving the top Saint of the Holy Land. It seems that they couldn’t bring it to light so easily. In addition, thanks to this incident, the “destroyer” faction has become quiet. ”
“You think what you did was only self-defense and you just took advantage of the consequences?”
And don’t even get me started on the trouble we’re in. But, well, whether it’s true or not, it makes some kind of sense.
“Well, that’s why I think the heroic expedition will continue for a while to subdue the will of the people, but hang in there, Demon King…”
“Don’t say “demon king.”
Damn it. Why did they have to give me such an embarrassing nickname? Did I do something wrong?
I only remember being cooped up most of the time.
“The fact that the heroic expedition continues means that the Holy Land still has at least the numbers and the technology to prepare armaments to counter us?”
“Well, I wonder.”
“If you give out this information, your employer might think you’re a threat and change his mind about attacking the Holy Land while he still has time. Didn’t you think of that?”
“I wasn’t worried about that.”
“Why.”
“He said he wouldn’t think so if he knew what the heroes were capable of.”
“That is……”
In other words, the heroes are abandoned pieces of stone. In order to suppress the will of the people, the Holy Land selects and dispatches powerful people.
The heroes can be defeated. Just send out the next one.
Of course, if the heroes just go and are defeated, the people will eventually become dissatisfied, but that is only if the fact that they are being defeated for nothing is brought to light.
If you can control how you communicate to the public, you can change the destination of complaints as much as you want by manipulating impressions. In other words, ……
“I see. “I’m trying to control the will of the people of the Holy Land while doing my best to develop my own country.”
“I know for a fact that’s what they’re planning to do.”
“I can finally see the merits of your side with this. Is that really all there is to it?”
“Come on, I don’t know everything either.”
Hey, Informant.
“But it’s not so bad news for you either, right?”
“What part?”
“The relationship with the Holy See began with the fall of the Foothandle. Regardless of how it happened, the fact is that you destroyed “Ameshirasu” and caused the collapse of its territory. As long as the other party calls itself a nation, protecting its territory is a natural act, and when it is taken and destroyed, it is normal to think of retaliation.”
“And we’re supposed to think that retaliation was reduced to a party of heroes?”
“Something like that”
“Well, if the debt is reduced from minus 100 to minus 10, is that an advantage?”
I feel like I overdid the whole Foothandle thing, but it shouldn’t be my fault.
I don’t agree with it, but that’s what the will of the people in other countries is like.
“Compromise with the status quo, huh? Well, that’s fine. I’m not going to be able to tolerate those heroes, depending on how they behave.”
“I’ll tell him that.”
A sacrifice offered to keep the country’s power intact.
I used to say hero.
I had an image of the heroes I knew as easy-going pot-splitters who went into other people’s houses in town and stole things, but reality is harsh.