CH 33

“Who in the world is it this time? It doesn’t look like a hero… does that mean the girl isn’t a member of the hero party, too?”

…This guy who is speaking in front of me, is an Incubus. Faunus one of the Three Heavenly Demons. I know of course.

In the game I played in my previous life, the opponent appeared in the latter half of the storyline, and by that time, the level of the hero I was controlling had risen to nearly 40, so he was not much of a formidable foe.

“Soo, hah…”

I breathe deeply to calm my mind. …Calm down, me. The skill of being able to manipulate shadows at will should be more applicable in this world than in the game. It is probably more troublesome than the level. So I have to fight as carefully as possible…

“Ugh…”

“Ah!”

I heard Nina’s little voice as she flinched behind me. She’s in tatters. Who the hell did that to her… such a thing must be this guy faunus in front of him.

Calmly? Carefully? I can’t.

“Hmph!”

I unleashed my skill [Thunder Rage] in anger. There was nothing to be calm about. I just hate this enemy who probably made Nina suffer right now, and with that single thought in my mind, I thrust out my spear.

“Ghuu?!”

And the electrifying blow pierced the faun mercilessly. Then, his body crumbled like burnt-out coal.

“Tsk, I knew it…”

He looks around. Then, without a sound of flapping wings, I see the faunus about to take off into the sky. It seems to be the main body.

…It was the same in the game. When you think you’ve beaten it, it’s actually an alter ego created by the shadow, and the main body is somewhere else. So hateful fellow.

“I’m not going to let you get away with it!”

Skill, [Ballista]. My spear pierces the wing of the flying faun and blasts it away. And I also ran after him.

“Shit? He’s already noticed me?”

“I’ve already learned your tricks and weakness! In the game!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about… then how about this!”

While being blown away, the faun used his skill to create shadows. They took the form of wolves and boars, and then ran towards Nina.

“You can’t be serious!”

“Hahaha! That girl is important to you, isn’t she? If you don’t go back now, my shadows will chew her to shreds!”

“Shit…!”

Just as I turned to go back…

“Gustav-san! I’ll take care of this one!”

But Spela-san was standing in front of the shadows, protecting Nina on her back.

“Burn up!”

Whoosh! The shadows are burnt away by the extensive flame magic that appears with a sound.

“I will protect her, Nina-san, even if it costs me my life! So, you take that thing!”

“I’ got it!”

I accelerate, stamping on the ground harder, and finally catch up with the faun. I pull out the spear stuck in his wing and give a flying kick to the faunus away. His body flew through the air, snapping the trees outside the village into pieces.

“Ugh…! What a barbarian [Shadow Revolver]!”

The faun stood up dazedly. Against me, who came to the front again, he shot out a small shadow ball from his hand as a shotgun barrage. But it doesn’t matter.

“Hnnnnn!”

I spun my spear around and blew them all away.

“That’s crazy!

“Don’t think you can rest…!”

I immediately performed the skill [Thousand Strikes of Fluid Thrusts]. It’s an attack that can attack 10 times with 10 hits in one breath, and then repeat it 10 more times in a superb wave of attacks.

“Susususususu …”

“Ughhhh?”

“OraSusususususu …”

“S-shit what the hell is going on?”

“.Susususususu..Susususususu”

“Ughh, F*ck am I going…. to ….die…”

“Susususususuusususususu..”

“Guhhh!”

The faun, who was riddled with stab wounds everywhere and in rags-like clothing, rolled around on the ground miserably without any strength. I thought, “Now, I’m going to give him the finishing blow [King of the Spears]…”, but then I suddenly thought better idea before that.

“Hey Faunus, let me ask you before you die. Why are you here, One of the Three Heavenly Demons?”

“…Ggh, I didn’t think that there was a strong man like this other than a hero…”

“Hey, Come on, don’t die yet.”

“Aahhhh!”

He poked it with the tip of his spear and jumped up. He looks like a caterpillar on the ground.

“Your post should be further south from here, around the town of Kainis, right? Why the hell are you in the Devil’s Forest, then?”

“No, why do you know that…?”

“Answer only what you’re asked. I’ll stab you again.”

“No, no, no… I’m just here to take a look at the new Three Heavenly Demon Candidates and the Elven Village…!”

“Three Heavenly Demon candidates?”

“The leader of the bandits, Yzma. I was recruiting him to be one of the Three Heavenly Demon Candidates for the Demon King’s Army, so I came to get an answer to that…”

“I see, Then what do you mean by ‘what’s going on in the Elven Village’?”

“The Elven Village was the place where we suffered the most damage when we invaded the Kingdom 300 years ago, so I’ve come to see if there are any disturbing movements…”

I see, so this is where the difference between the game and reality comes into play. In the game, there was no event anywhere that the Demon King’s Army was going to create a new Three Heavenly Demons just because one of them were defeated. However, from a realistic point of view, if there is a shortage of personnel, the organization will move to fill the vacancies.

In addition, there is the element of history. There is a scenario in the original work [Let’s Go Crush the Demon King] in which the Demon King’s Army appears once before 300 years ago. However, there is little information beyond that… it seems that there was a bit of a grudge between the Elven Village and the Demon Lord’s Army.

“Damn… if only I was smart enough to predict how things would turn out after changing the scenario in the middle…!”

“Anyway I don’t need you anymore. Thanks for sharing information with me honestly.”

“What? No, no, I answered you that’s not right.”

I pierced the head of the faun so that he would not suffer from the skill [King of the Spears]. … I don’t hear any sound of level up. Let’s check the status at least.

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Gustav Lv 43.

Experience required to next level 2,112 ⇒ 238

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Hmm, it seems that I got about 1,900 experience. That seems to mean that I’ve managed to defeat the faun properly. Good, good, good.

Well, by the time I reached Faunus, I had probably defeated most of the bandits. So this settles the matter.

“But only if you think of it in the context of a game…”

And this is real life. The same mistakes can’t be made. I have to think carefully about the future.

I have once again defeated one of the Three Heavenly Demons. That would not be taken lightly by the Demon King’s army. The Demon King himself may come to this Elven village this time if it is left unchecked. If that happens, this village will surely find itself in an even worse predicament than before.

“If I explain… will Spera-san and the others move to the castle town?”

With my head in turmoil, I hurried back to Nina and Spera-san.