CH 81

At Pindus mansion, garden in the early afternoon.

As I sat in my easy chair, looking at a picture, I felt my sister’s presence approaching.

“Hermes, what are you doing?”

“Ah, I was just looking at this.”

Saying that, I showed my sister the photo that Kaori had forced on me.

She bent down and looked at the picture, but I wonder what did she think, she snatched it away from me.

“So~i!”

With her skirt fluttering and her legs raised above her head, she threw away the picture of Kaori with a splendid form.

The photo of Kaori disappeared into the sky.

I made a palm shade on my forehead and looked at the picture that had flown away.

“It flew greatly”

“No good! Hermes, that’s no good!”

“Eh?”

“You can’t have a child that young, no matter how much you want to! Onee-chan doesn’t remember raising you like that”

“What are you talking about, nee-san?”

“Don’t tell me I’m too late!?”

Gagan! Nee-san looked at me with a surprised face while leaning back.

“No, today is the first time I’ve exposed him, and I’m sure it’s not too late. I will put his body on the right path. ……”

“I don’t know what you’re determined to do, but that’s the Demon King.”

“……Heh?”

Kyoton, nee-san makes her eyes wide.

She’s alternating between me and the picture that flew away.

“Maou?” (TN: It means demon king, written in hiragana)

“Demon king”

“…… Ma-ou?”

“I’m not talking about the names of people or places like that. It’s a picture of the Demon King Kaori, the King of Comotoria.”

“Are you saying that’s the …… Demon King?”

“You don’t believe it, do you? It’s the real thing, that.”

I still can’t believe it either.

No matter how I look at her, she’s a child, and even though she’s lazy and a bit silly, in terms of strength, she’s stronger than any opponent I’ve ever fought.

She was someone with whom I was dangerously forced to show my seriousness.

“E,err……”

“By the way, that was forced on me by the Demon King. At that time, she said it to me with a straight face.”

“Wha,what was it……?”

“『This is proof that we are friends who have spoken with our fists, and if you lose it, you will be cursed with your species extinction* and a short life』, was what she said.” (TN: literal meaning would be impotency and loss of sperm count)

“You’ll have no offspringggg!”

Nee-san changed her complexion and dashed towards the direction where she threw the photo away.

It was a ferocious dash while pinching her skirt――Ah, she ran over Midea.

Well, what she said was the truth, but nee-san will find it, so it should be fine.

“However, it was hard huh……”

“That seems to be so”

“Uoh!”

She spoke to me out of the blue, and I was so surprised that I fell out of my easy chair.

“Y,your highness Lina”

“Lina”

“Eh?”

“You can call me that. Since you’re my master.”

“Ah…… that’s true. What’s the matter all of a sudden. You startled me.”

I rose and stood up in front of Lina.

“I have received compliments to you from His Majesty. I’m impressed that you could really do something about the Demon King.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, His Majesty is greatly pleased.”

“I see. I was a little anxious, you know, but I became a special adviser to the Demon King without permission, and then a grand duke? I’ve received that level of status.”

“Understanding the greatness of Sensei is something the little girl of a demon king has an eye for, so he said.”

“She’s so superior! No, I think Kaori is by far the older one, though”

I didn’t get the details, but she said something about knowing the first generation of the Canoe family, and it sounds like she’s normally several hundred years old, or maybe even a thousand years old.

She looks like a loli, but her age is definitely not that of a little girl.

“And”

“Hmm? And, you said, what is it?”

“I am the Inspector”

“Do you have any work to do?”

“Ah, I went to the place where you and the Demon King fought and made an inspection.”

“……eh?”

Ins,pection?

“The power remains too strong in there, and it’s getting worse with the passage of time. It’s at a level where it’s no longer accessible to humans.”

“Eeeeeeeeh!?”

“I left that area to my subordinates and came to take the testimony from your mouth.”

“Haa…… wait”

“What is it?”

As the inspector, Lina stared back at me with the same hard-edged beauty she had when we first met.

“What do you mean by your subordinates?”

“I have my subordinates inspect the site. I have been informed that it was on a fairly large scale and, of course, I would not be doing it myself. You know it at that time with the Slime Lord, right?”

“Certainly …… wait, that is …… no way!”

A tremendously bad imagination went through my head.

It was a carelessness that made me want to punch myself, wondering why I had forgotten about it until now.

“There are many…… witnesses?”

Lina nodded quietly.

“There are lots of rumors.”

“Nooooooooooooo!?”

I held my head and screamed, almost falling to my knees.

What the hell.

What the hell.

What the hell.

I never thought something like that would happen, what the hell……

I wanted to pick an unpopular place for the match, partly to reduce the number of witnesses, but I forgot about the inspection and the traces of the battle.

“Oh no……”

I was seriously crestfallen.

“What’s the matter, nephew-chan?”

“Kaori……”

Kaori approached me with tremendous force, but squatted down and peeked at me from below with a very cool face.

“Demon king……”

Beside me, I could see Lina gasp at the appearance of the demon king.

“Nephew-chan, do you have a stomach ache?”

“No, I don’t have…… or rather, what are you doing here?”

“That’s right. Nephew-chan is terrible. I had a feeling that you had thrown the picture away somewhere.”

“How do you know that!?”

“I put a spell on it so I’d know if you’d lost it properly in order to put a curse.”

“Ah, so that’s what the magic power which was hanging on to it for……”

I thought that if I threw it away, it would just come back to me, but I thought it was strange because nee-san threw it away and nothing happened.

“Nephew-chan is terrible.”

Kaori said and swung her hand sword with a hyun.

It was a frighteningly fast hand sword; I avoid it, draw my sword, and counterattack.

The tip of the blade grazed the tip of Kaori’s nose. Kaori warped like a metronome, dodged, and then head-butted me.

For a brief moment, less than a tenth of a second, there was an expectant color mixed in with Kaori’s eyes.

I had heard a lot of things after that about 『the sunset and friends who had a fistfight under the iron bridge』, and I somehow understood what Kaori wanted.

Sighing in my mind, I intercepted her with a head butt.

Dogon!!!

Head colliding with a head, shock waves spilled out.

The easy chair was blown away and the grass on the ground was peeled off, forming a crater.

Kaori came to play around, and I went along with her.

After a light preparatory level of hand-to-hand combat, Kaori stopped with a smile on her face.

“Yup, I feel refreshed”

“Next time you do something like that, I want you to say something.”

“Nephew-chan will be fine. Besides, we’re true friends who can speak with our fists, instead of words.”

“That(friend) is really troublesome.”

“By the way, who is that woman? Her face looks like a snub pigeon’s.”

“Blow off pigeons!”

The woman there is Lina, right? What the hell kind of face does she have――

“Heh?”

The moment I turned to Lina, she looked like a pigeon that had been hit by a peashooter.

Lina was dumbfounded.

She looks like she has seen something incredible, something unbelievable.

“What was that…… just now?”

“Eh?”

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“The fight just now, was beyond that of a human level. …… Can humans be that strong?”

“……Ah”

I’ve done it.

When I was keeping Kaori company, my senses were paralyzed.

Even the “playing around” with the Demon King was on a “tremendous” level for ordinary people.

I wonder if I can …… make her mouth shout ……