CH 316

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“Ah…”

When I saw the crystal ball flashing, I thought that I haven’t heard from Bequa on how to use this thing.

Bequa only told me to contact him. What am I supposed to do from this blinking state?

“Zeros-san, did you hear from my brother Bequa?”

“It seems so, but I don’t know how to use this thing…”

“Oh, you can use it like this.”

I was staring at the magic tool by myself when Carina came over. She seemed to know how to use it.

“Whoa.”

Carina fiddled with the magic tool for a bit, and the blinking went away. Then it just started glowing.

“Now you can communicate with my brother Bequa when he answers.

“Thank you.”

Thanks to Carina, I managed to get in touch with Bequa. I was looking at Carina, but all I could see was that she was stroking the crystal. I would never have been able to do that without Carina.

“Yo! Zeros! It’s been! A few months?”

“Hey! Long time no see!”

After leaving the magical tool for a while, Bequa’s face suddenly appeared on the magical tool and his voice was heard.

“I’m calling you because I’ve finished the preparations for the tournament to decide the beast king. I’ve been busy and haven’t been able to move lately, so I haven’t been getting enough exercise…”

“Good job.”

I felt that Bequa’s face was scruffy and dark circles were forming on it. I had thought that preparing for a tournament was out of character for Bequa, but I guess I was right.

“If it’s over, will you join us here? Is there time before the tournament?”

“There’s still two months until the tournament, so I could come if I wanted to, but I had a bigger, badder problem that was more important. That’s what I’m here to tell you.”

“A big problem?”

Is there some kind of trouble with the convention management?

“Yeah. Apart from the small matter of my father and Zeros being entered in the tournament, there’s a big problem.”

“No! Wait a minute! There was a big problem that couldn’t be solved by a little problem!”

Something about me being entered in a tournament to decide the King of the Beastmen, which is the biggest problem of all from my point of view!

“If Zeros doesn’t want to be the King of the Beastmen, he can just abstain from the tournament as usual. Abstaining after entering the tournament is like a symbol of weakness for the beastmen, but we know we’re not like that, and that’s fine. That’s not the big issue.”

“Uh…yeah.”

I’m not entering, so I’m abstaining, but that still makes me a weakling to the beastmen… Does that mean I might get looked down by the beastmen in the future?

Well, I don’t have anything to do with the beastmen except for Bequa and the others, so that’s fine.

“The big problem is that there are also people who are considered to be demons entering the tournament.”

“Huh? As I recall, you can’t enter the tournament unless you have a contract with a beast, right?”

Bequa said that before. On the contrary, I guess that’s why I, who is not a beastman, entered without permission.

“I thought so too, so I looked into it in detail. To become king, you must have a contract with a beast. But the tournament is not only to choose the king, but also to compare strength. So even if you don’t have a contract with a beast, you can still participate in the tournament. I didn’t know that either, because of the common knowledge that if a beastman doesn’t have a contract with a beast, there is no point in competing, because he will just lose.”

It’s possible to participate in a tournament even without a contract with a beast, he said. So even Sophie, Elira and Shana can enter the competition.

“Even if all of us beastmen lose and the demons win, there’s no political problem because they cannot become kings. But if we handicap the whole world, they will know that we lost to the demons.”

Is this a good opportunity for the Demon Tribe to peacefully compare strength?

“Hmm? Handicap?”

“The handicap is that magic is forbidden. In the actual stage of the fight, there is a magic tool that prevents the use of MP. The magic tool is for beastmen, so demons and Zeros can break the tool and use magic. But at that point, you’re disqualified.”

For example, if I forcefully enchanted, it means the magic tool would be broken and I would be disqualified. That means neither spirits nor devils can be used in this tournament.

“We have taken measures to prevent anyone even remotely resembling a demon tribe from entering the country, but if they are already in the country, we can’t afford to mess with them.”

Even if they find out that this guy is a demon in the country, they can’t force their hand because it would cause damage to other beastmen. Even if they could kill the demon tribe they found without causing any victims, if there were other demon tribes and they went berserk, there would be many casualties.

Of course, if a demon tribe makes a move on them, they will fight back.

“In the opinion of the royal family and their entourage, they would allow the demons to participate in the tournament as long as they did so. Then, in order for the demon tribe to decide that they cannot win against the beastmen without magic, they will lose in the tournament. And then we will ask them to leave promptly after the tournament is over.”

But just in case they get roughed up by magic, they invited the elven bigwigs, the heroes, and the saint.