277 â Secret manoeuvres restart
Now then, with my mood restored I now have to begin the secret maneuvers again. First of all, Iâve requested the Demon King to requisition some sweets and to set up a conference with the Divine Word Religion. Regarding the sweets, I was given the reassuring words âLeave it to me!â, so Iâll wait with anticipation. For the Divine Word Religion, I expect itâll mean waiting until they reply. One of the doll spiders is dispatched to the Divine Word Religion currently, so keeping in contact is simple. Since theyâve only just finished with the war as well they might not be in the state to be able to quickly open the conference anyway, so I guess we can just leisurely wait for them. Actually, for us we still have to withdraw the whole army before it can march, so weâre not in a state to be moving yet either.
Therefore, the only ones who can freely move around are pretty much just me, vampire girl and Felmina-chan. While in theory the Demon King could move if she wanted to, naturally the supreme commander canât just go wandering around of course. Eh? What about the 10th Army? I can just leave it all to Waldo-kun. Compared to me being in command, Iâm sure he can move them more accurately instead anyway.
Such being the case, letâs begin with having those who can move do what they can. Firstly, for the clones in change of the region around the System, theyâll investigate to see if thereâs a way to prevent the Goddess from tampering with the System any further. If it seems to be possible then theyâll try to do that. Breaking the Hero System is impossible. Unless I can make use of the tiny gap when the Hero is being substituted, then itâs impossible to destroy the Hero System. Since if I try to force it, it will then have a negative impact on the current Hero. In other words, on Yamada-kun. Even if that wasnât the case, it would still require consuming a huge amount of energy to destroy the Hero System, making it a situation of putting the cart before the horse, so Iâm not going to do it.
So, my main body meets up with vampire girl and Felmina-chan. I collect Potimasâs body, and temporarily store it in another dimension. Iâll analyse it later. For now, first of all I have to start preparations to do something about Yamada-kunâs homeland.
ăSo in conclusion, go and entice the Empire.ă
ăI have no idea what you might be concluding though?ă
Despite giving out my instructions, vampire girl canât even comprehend the words. What a useless person. Here you gotta use your feelings to perceive what the other person wants to convey. Itâs totally not the case that my words were insufficient. Itâs not, okay?
The human higher-ups in Yamada-kunâs homeland have been infected by Potimas. While I donât know what Potimas is aiming for by doing that, itâs obvious that it wonât be anything good if itâs taken any further, so I gotta do something about it before long. Specifically, secretly maneuver to wipe out Potimasâs clones, by killing everyone who was corrupted by them. Such as the king.
I think to save any of the humans once theyâve been corrupted, is probably not impossible. I think so, but it would require putting in a considerable amount of effort for a start, and it would probably be possible to only save one person. When one is saved the others would surely be killed. In that case, it would be simpler to resign ourselves to losing the whole lot of them from the very start.
So, since it means wiping out the higher ups of the kingdom entirely, itâs unavoidable for it to become a major incident. In addition, since they gotta be wiped out in one fell swoop, Iâm sure it would become a considerably blatant incident. If theyâre not wiped out in one fell swoop, then Potimas will be able to pick up on it. Accordingly, Iâm planning to have Natsume-kun take the role of the principal offender.
Iâve thought of directly doing it myself, but I want to conceal my existence from Potimas as much as possible. While he should have learnt about my existence to some extent with my recent killing of the Hero, he shouldnât be able to figure out that Iâm actually a god. Itâs better if Potimas mistakenly considers our greatest fighting force to be the Demon King. I bet Kuro wouldnât take action what with one thing and another, so he doesnât count as a fighting force.
Accordingly, the ones I selected were Natsume-kun and imouto-chan. Natsume-kunâs gone berserk in various ways so I intend to use him and then throw him away, and imouto-chan will be made to control him. This way Natsume-kun will be the center of attention, and Iâll avoid it. While at it, it would be good if the Demon King Armyâs movements could also be kept hidden.
So, Natsume-kun is the prince of the Empire. In which case, letâs use that connection to the maximum, basically. The amount of troops that Natsume-kun can control with his own authority probably isnât much, so vampire girl will use her Charm to manipulate the Empireâs higher-ups, and backup Natsume-kun. Natsume-kun himself has the highest rank skill of Charm from Lust as well, so at this stage letâs go overtake the Empire from the inside. In that case, it should become much easier when the time comes for the Demon King Army to depart for the elf village.
Yup. Even if I do say so for myself, itâs a wonderful plan eh. Just rather heretical. Itâs a bit too late for anything else though.
With supreme effort I explained all this to vampire girl and Felmina-chan. Phew, that was harder than defeating the Hero you know.
ăGot it. Okay then, letâs meet with this âimouto-chanâ person.ă
I dunno whatâs âokay thenâ though. Hey vampire girl, werenât you ever taught that when explaining something to someone you need to properly cover everything from A to Z? Use my feelings to make a guess? Iâm not an esper you know, so of course I canât do that. Sheesh, the youth of today are hopeless at using sufficient words. Well, from here on they might be working together anyway, so if she wants to meet then Iâll let her meet.
I take a look at imouto-chanâs situation through a clone. Since her onii-san Yamada-kun suddenly started acting suspiciously in class and then left, sheâs quite restless. Sheâs returned to her own room, but sheâs nervously pacing around the room. So youâre worrying about your onii-chan that much huh. I see, I see.
Well then, letâs raid imoutoâs dinner. We raid imouto-chanâs room via teleport.
Imouto-chan stiffens in shock when we suddenly appear. Vampire girl has fastened her eyes on imouto-chan. Felmina-chan, somehow seems to be looking at imouto-chan with eyes full of pity. Incomprehensible.
ăDo you want to know what happened to your onii-san?ă
In response to my question, imouto-chan gives a start of surprise. Itâs lovely that youâre so easy to understand. Well then, shall we get started on making a deal with the devil, or rather, Evil God.