CH 36

[Crime Sisters: Yuri & Seele-chan’s Grand Debut!]

“Mou, mou, mou, seriously mou! Why did you declare war on someone else’s channel?! I’ve put so much work into the channel so that I could get my name out there you know?!”

“Well, look on the bright side, your channel itself has become popular, hasn’t it? Isn’t that great?”

“That’s true, but still!”

An hour after I eliminated the PK group. Together with, Seele, the leader of the PK group, I finally arrived in the far east.

In front of me was a huge fortified city illuminated by the moonlight, ‘Helheim’. It was already night by the time we got here.

“I mean, why are you even following me, Seele?”

“G-gugigigigigigi~~~! I-I wanted to give you a piece of my mind at first, but before I knew it, I couldn’t go back anymore! The mob monsters around here are level 40?! I’d be dead if I tried to go back by myself!”

“Well, we’re at the far end of the game world. Don’t you worry, I’ll protect you.”

“Why are you acting cool now?! It’s your fault that I came here in the first place!!!” Seele-san violently scratched her red hair. You’d go bald if you do that, you know?

“Haaa… I mean, Lord Demon King, why did you come to this city, anyway?”

“To take over the control of this city and make it my guild house, obviously. Looking at the world map, this is the biggest city there is, after all. Plus, it has a castle in the middle of it too; it’s the ideal city to be my guild house~.”

“Wait, whaaaat?! What the hell are you saying?! There’s no way you can do that.”

“Not necessarily. In the guild’s establishment explanation, it’s written that you can set a ‘lot’ as the base of your guild as long as you have the right to its ownership and a ‘Guild Home Establishment Permit’. It doesn’t say there’s a size limit.”

After I said so, Seele said “No, no, no, no, no, there’s no way… right…?” then opened up the menu and began to carefully read through the establishment explanation page.

Eventually, she slumped her shoulders, admitting that there was no such a description, “Ah, there’s really nothing written about the size limit… the devs of this game are too damn sloppy…

“And there’s you, how did you even come up with the idea of taking over an entire city…? Normal people would never think of that.”

“I believe there’s nothing humans can’t do, that’s why!”

“No, why is someone with the looks of a heroine who’s fallen to darkness so hot-blooded…?!

“Anyway, Lord Demon King, how are you going to seize control of the city? Don’t tell me you’re gonna kill the feudal lord NPC…”

“You think I’m an idiot? If I do that, I’ll be pursued everywhere as a criminal. My plan is to first get into the city and then figure something out, so no worries.”

“So you basically came all the way here without a plan, huh…!!!” Seele-san released a deep sigh while looking up at the sky. She had worn an evil look on her face when she first showed up, but now a weary look never went away from her face.

Well, she was a wicked woman who’d been playing as a PKer, I was sure her evil will had been sapped away due to the long exposure to my justice hero aura, making her exhausted. Learn from me and become a decent human being, okay?

And so, I took Seele with me and entered the ‘Holy City Helheim’.

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All the buildings in the sacred city of Helheim were painted white. Church-like buildings were scattered throughout the city, and we sometimes passed by old men in white cassocks.

It seemed that religion was thriving in this city. By the way, I was a believer of the ‘Spirit and Guts’ faith.

“He~y, Lord Demon King, I just asked for some general info about this city at a stall. I also bought some snacks while I was at it.”

“Oh, thanks. By the way, a little correction there, I’m a hero, not a demon king.”

“No, there’s nothing hero-like about you…!”

After I received the frankfurters that Seele bought, the two of us took a walk around the city.

“The NPC at the stall said that people of faith hold a lot of power here, like what you may expect from a ‘Holy City’.”

According to Seele, this city was a holy ground for the state religion, the ‘Ymir’ faith.

The Ymir faith didn’t tolerate evil. The doctrine was to mercilessly slaughter the evil monsters spread by the Demon King, the final boss of this game, to bring peace to the world.

Hmm, what a militant faith. Just as I liked it. By the way, I also had a lot of monsters under me, but they were no longer evil because their evil nature had been purified by my hero aura, so they were in the clear, probably.

“Then, let’s try finding someone from the church. Maybe if we clear a ‘There is a monster that even the head of Ymir faith can’t defeat. May we ask you to subjugate it?’-like quest, they’re gonna give us the city as the reward.”

“No, no, no, no, no, no, I don’t think they’ll hand over the city to you just like that… but a quest like that may really exist.

“I’d like the monetary reward, so let’s try talking to an important-looking NPC. The important ones usually give out better quests,” Seele said.

“Right. Then… whoa, isn’t that guy walking over there look super important?”

Some distance away a priest was walking in the middle of the street. He had some young priests in tow behind him, and he looked very pompous. Passers-by all bowed their heads toward him.

As I stared at him, ‘High-ranking NPC: Pope Gregorion’ popped up at the edge of my vision. His name sounded like the name of some mecha.

In any case…

“Whoa, that guy’s the pope! He may be the top guy in this city!” Seele exclaimed.

“Whistle~, I expect no less of my extreme Luck! Look how lucky we are! Let’s try talking to him right away.”

The two of us headed straight for the old man! Our future was bright!

““Excuse us, please give us a nice quest!””

It was when we called out to him. The old man named Gregorion widened his eyes and…

“My ‘Pope’s Mind’s Eye’ skill is reacting… Red-haired girl, you’re a murderer?! You are what the warriors called a ‘Player Killer’!”

“Giku?! Y-you can tell?!”

“And silver-haired beauty, you are… how in the world?! I can feel the presence of a boss monster from your boots?!”

Eh… ahhhh! That reminds me, my boots are possessed by the Armor Knight Maa-kun.

But it’s okay!

“Don’t you worry, Maa-kun is a good guy. He’s not an ‘evil monster’.”

“Eeei, shut up, shut up! Everyone related to monsters is ‘evil’ that must be eradicated! Men, capture them! Bring down the death penalty upon them!!!”

[Yes, your holiness!!!]

A bunch of guards came out of nowhere in response to the pope’s cry.

They had us completely surrounded as we were still trying to process what was going on.

Then in front of me and Seele, a message popped up: [You have broken Helheim’s law. Violations: “Trespassing into the city when your player kill count (outside events) is 20 or more”, “Being accompanied by a monster inside the city”. Since NPCs have discovered these violations, you will be taken to the Helheim Great Underground Prison].

Thus, just about five minutes after entering the city, we ended up on death row.

…What bullshit is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis?! I’mma raze this city to the ground!!!!!