[Evil Icon, Yuri-san!]

“Let’s go!! It’s war!!!”

[Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!]

Hundreds of Summoners echoed my shout. And the same number of monsters as them roared.

After we got out of Helheim Underground Prison, the battle became one-sided. Sure, the number of guards attacking us was getting higher, but so what? My friends and their familiars were unbeatable.

“Lend me your strength, ‘Darkness Wyvern’!”

“Kishaaaaaaaaaa!”

“We can finally fight alongside each other, ‘Silver Tiger’!”

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The Summoner NPCs’ summoned beasts were powerful.

They were all high-level monsters that spawned around this area; the weakest of them was level 40. With there being hundreds of them on our side, the guards posed little to no resistance to us.

Tail-swept by the wyverns, rammed by the tigers, the guards were all sent flying while screaming out of their lungs.

Welp, I can’t lose to them. Holding up my bow, I shot Pontaro and the gang, blowing the guards away.

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・A warning to Player: Yuri and Seele. You have attacked the dispatched guard NPCs.

Each time you commit an offense, your penalty becomes heavier. It is recommended that you turn yourself in.

Each time you receive a death sentence, the special death penalty: Level Down you are going to receive will be stacked.

You are currently sentenced to 5,000 death sentences. In case you get executed, your level will be subtracted by 5,000.

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“Ahahahahaha, did you see that, Lord Demon King?! 5,000 death sentences! I’ve become a great villain thanks to following you~!” Seele said happily as she swung around her greatsword, sending guards flying.

“No, this is pure bullshit! I’m doing this for justice! Why the hell am I getting death sentences?!” I shouted angrily.

The guards hit by Seele’s ‘Purgatory Sword Gullveig’, the greatsword I’d given to her as a gift, met a tragic fate. It had a high probability of inflicting the status ailment ‘Conflagrate’; they screamed as their bodies were on fire, rolling around the ground.

Although the HP didn’t decrease in the city, you might still get inflicted with a status ailment, and NPCs didn’t have a pain limiter. How pitiful. As a hero of justice, I couldn’t watch them suffer.

Alright, I’d show them mercy. It was gonna serve as a good example for the Summoner NPCs who had almost no life experience, too!

With that in mind, I summoned the suicide bomber chimera ‘Genocide Firebird (No.2)’. It dove to the ground and blew itself up, burning the guards with hellish flames until they fainted from the pain. The city of Helheim became dyed in hellfire.

“Take a good look, Summoners. This is how you end a futile battle—as soon as possible. Our main goal is to eliminate Pope Gregorion. To that end, don’t hesitate to use any means to get rid of the guards from your way, and make it quick so they don’t suffer too long! Violence is salvation!”

[Oh~…!]

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・NPCs are affected by the involved players.

Summoner NPCs’ disposition has changed from normal to ‘evil’.

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Why?!

There was no way! How could they become evil when they were following me?!

Ah, the faces of the NPCs who originally had been trembling in fear in the corner of their cells gradually became more and more malevolent?! What the hell was wrong with these guys?!

“Hyaha! Follow after our Lord Demon King!”

“As a Summoner, as a man, I’ve had enough of being looked down upon! Let’s kill the shit out of the Pope and take over the city!”

“Oraa, let’s go Silver Tiger—no, Torajiro! Activate art, ‘Power Burst’!”

The NPCs underwent mysterious transformations. At the same time, their favorability of me rapidly rose from 0 to 30, 40, 50, 60—it seemed unstoppable!

“Hey, Seele, the NPCs are getting more and more evil?! They’re even calling me a demon king influenced by you, what do we do with them?!”

“What do you mean influenced by me, aren’t they copying you…?”

“Eh, for real?!”

So they became like that because of my influence?!

…Hmm, though the NPCs were acting like bunches of thugs, they looked strangely manly, indeed! Their naming sense had become better, too!

They couldn’t be ‘evil’, so it had to be a bug in the system. I’d report it later.

For now, I needed to locate where the Pope was. So I tried asking a guard trembling in the corner—of course as I wasn’t a thug, I went about it as gentlemanly as possible. “There’s nothing to be afraid of, Mr. Guard. We have no intention of killing you. We Summoners are just fighting for peace. Can you please tell us where Pope Gregorion is?”

“Wha…?! I-I won’t be deceived by you! I will never tell the location of His Holiness the Pope to villains like you!”

“Huh?! Who the fuck do you call a villain, huh?! Do you have a death wish, huh, ya shmuck?!”

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek?! T-the castle in the middle of the city! His Holiness has returned to the castle after his inspection!”

Oh~, I see, I see. I’d suspected it, but he really lived there, huh. A clergyman living in the castle instead of the church; sounded as fishy as hell, I’d say.

Thanks to my gentlemanly way, I got the crucial information. I pointed to the huge castle illuminated by the moonlight as I shouted out to my friends.

“Alright, you guys! Onward to the castle! That’s where the bastard Gregorion is! Let’s defeat him and seize control of this city!”

[Uooooooooooooooooooooo!]

Summoners and monsters roared.

Our great rebellion was unstoppable. We sent flying the guards who tried to surround us with their advantage in numbers and forced our way to the castle as the residents trembled while they watched us (most likely because of how cool we looked).

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·Information update. Player: Yuri, you have received 10,000 death sentences.

Hidden Condition: ‘Receive more than 10,000 death sentences cleared!

You have acquired the skill, ‘King of Evil’!

‘King of Evil’: NPCs you come into contact with are more likely to become ‘evil’. In addition, evil-dispositioned NPCs will be fanatical about you, while justice-dispositioned NPCs will be unconditionally afraid and intimated by you.

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Again, why?!

Grrrrrrrr… I was just leading the oppressed people to fight for peace! Why were you calling me ‘King of Evil’, you crazy system?!

Ah, fuck it. Just the fact that it appointed Gregorion who held monster eradication doctrine as the pope indicated that this game had a broken sense of ethics. I wasn’t gonna follow the system’s judgment anymore. No matter what it says, I’m righteous!

As I clenched my fists having made up my resolve, Seele suddenly asked me, “By the way, Lord Demon King, I know you said you’re going to eliminate the Pope and all but how are you gonna go about it? I mean, the HP doesn’t decrease in the city.”

“The answer is simple. We just have the monsters kidnap him, throw him out of the city, and kill him, then.”

“Wow… I’m impressed you can even think of a such method, you really live up to your title as the Demon King~.”

As a villain player, I must learn from you, Seele-san nodded admiringly, for some reason.

As I was dissatisfied with her words, we finally arrived in front of the castle.