A few days after Luna and the heroes broke up, Kyousai suddenly asked Zero.
The other slaves are not here.
“All of a sudden. What’s wrong?”
“Well, I think I’ll go to Makai soon. And I want new ingredients.”
“In short, you got bored?”
” I’m not denying it.”
“Hmm… Shujin, don’t fret.”
” So, where is the Demon King staying?”
“What is the Demon King?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
The two people were puzzled at the same time. It was Kyousai that began to talk first.
“Where … Isn’t the Demon King one person?”
Then, Zero answered with a slightly disgusted face.
“It’s not natural. Like this human world, there are a few kingdoms in the devil world as well.”
Hearing the words, Kyousai was convinced that there was something off.
(… After all, was it a lie that it would be possible to return after defeating the devil… Well, it was quite a lie.) [TN in previous chapters the author always named the enemy as ‘Majin’, which I translated as ‘devil’, but now he uses ‘Maou’ that is translated as demon king or demon lord.]
Then something broke out in Kyousai.
“……Shujin?”
The subtle changes in Kyousai seem to have been noticed by Zero. He laughed a little to answer the question.
Then——.
“I will talk about some important things. I will call Misha and the other, Zero will be waiting here.”
Kyousai made up his mind to confide to his subordinates.
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“Are we finally leaving?”
Misha asks Kyousai that gathered the girls in a few seconds.
“Oh, we are leaving today. But that’s not what I’m going to do right now.”
Kyousai said in a more serious tone than ever, so the subordinates hold their breath. And then Kyousai continued talking.
“-About my true identity”
For a moment, the time stopped, but it also starts to move immediately.
“The true identity of Nushisama…………”
Luna said so.
“Yes, about my identity. First of all, let’s apologize to everyone. I haven’t amnesia. I am —”
“You are not a human of this world, right?”
Zero interrupted Kyousai’s words and said so.
“… Did you notice?”
Then, Zero giggles.
“What now? We all know that.”
When Kyousai looked around, everyone nodded.
(No way, they were really aware…)
He recalled that he had such a conversation with Zero before.
“… How long have you been aware?”
After all, that’s what bothers him.
Everyone nodded with conviction, so there was supposed to be a good reason.
The first to answer was Misha.
“I noticed when Kyousai was having a nightmare. Because he used words that are not from this world.”
“Same as the former”
Leia seemed to have the same reason as Misha.
“What about Luna?”
He asked Luna because she was a little embarrassed to be poked at what she was doing.
“I am a little like Misha and Leia. It was from nushisama’s word, not from a nightmare.
“… what did I say?”
“Before we met Zero, I could hear the word “Stun gun”… It was clearly not the language of this world if you were listening to the continuation.”
(Oh … that time … …)
Kyousai had no choice but to laugh hard.
Luna was able to use summoning magic normally, and it was the beginning of things that I thought about Luna’s close combat.
(After all, I was not able to complete a satisfactory stun gun …)
Even now, he thought a little about trying to make it through trial and error.
However, the idea was shaken off, and he finally asked Zero.
“… How was it Zero? You have less time with us.”
He asked her lightly, but the answer that came back was a tremendous and destructive answer.
“Eh, because I have been in another world before”
“… Waa?”
Kyousai couldn’t move for a few seconds. But a few seconds later, Kyousai squeezed his voice and tried again.
“Zero … what the hell did you say?”
“So, I’ve been to a world that’s not this world. It’s a different world.”
Then, Zero looks at something far away. However, Kyousai doesn’t care about that and keeps asking questions to Zero.
“Do you know what the world was called?”
“I’m sorry. I don’t know.”
“Okay……. no. Then, how did you come back from that world to this world?”
“I don’t remember that well……. no. It’s as if the event was a dream. Well, it’s a long time ago, and maybe it’s just forgotten.”
Zero laughs so nostalgically. However, this was enough for Kyousai.
(Maybe I should have told them about it from the beginning……）
Yes, the fact that there is a way out of this world was enough. However, at the same time, Kyousai had a heartache.
(Yes … yeah. I’m going to say goodbye to these guys …)
In spite of being a little happy to be able to get out of this world, his heart hurts.
“Kyousai-sama?”
It seems strange to Misha.
“… I don’t know.”
Kyousai muttered bit by bit. The words were guessed by everyone.
Yes, that means-.
“Why don’t you ask me if I’m going back to the Old world?”
That’s right. It was zero that answered the question.
“It doesn’t make sense to ask for an answer… Because the master decides it in the end. And —”
Zero glanced at everyone and said:
“Sometimes I don’t want to hear the answer.”
At first, Kyousai did not understand the meaning of those words.
After seeing this Zero continues talking.
“… You are loved by us, that’s all.”
Zero’s smile at that time was a few steps more beautiful than usual.
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“Well, before we leave, we need to check our status.”
The previous topic was closed, and they decided to check the status that they had not done in the last few months.
“Speaking of which, I have never seen Shujin’s status.”
Zero says so and saw Kyousai.
“Oh … that’s right. Well, this is an opportunity. Check the status of everyone.”