CH 83

Chapter 83 : Rescue

T/N: My last update for 2021! Merry Christmas and happy new year! Thank you everyone for reading my translation and supporting me! Even after I had almost a year hiatus…. I hope we can meet again next year! I love you all! (ꈍᴗꈍ)ε˘*)♥

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“Master.”

“…… Yes…”

“Please refrain yourself from going into the human town for a while.”

“Ugh… Yes…”

“No matter how many limited sweets are on sale.”

“…… Yes… Umm, the chocola-”

“Master.”

“………. Yes…”

Why did that soldier target me?

If I don’t know their true motive, I won’t be able to think of a way to deal with them yet.

And that was how I was prohibited from visiting the human city by Velke.

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After rescuing the lycanthropes siblings, we decided to hold an emergency meeting.

“So… Apart from lycanthropes, there’s another demon being held captive as well?”

“Yes, I’m sure of it.”

“Vii, if you’ve seen them then why didn’t you do anything?”

“Because I was only ordered to rescue the lycanthropes.”

Vii replied nonchalantly.

Viktor… You don’t feel any remorse at all….?

According to Viktor, the captured demons were being held in a separate facility in the outskirts of the capital.

And so we were trying to make a plan to rescue them.

“But for what reason did they capture those demons?”

“Perhaps the humans are thinking of keeping the other country in check by using the captured demons.”

“Well demons are certainly more powerful than an ordinary human….”

“And… There’s also another thing you guys have to know.”

“What is it?”

“It seems the humans are trying to combine multiple demons to create a chimera. They’re hoping the chimera they created will listen to their command.”

“Chimera?!”

“An artificial demon beast, huh…”

“Does the Hero know about this…?”

“No, if it’s the Hero, he’d just cut down any demons he sees. The Hero doesn’t know about this so… In this case, we won’t have to worry about facing him when we rescue the captured demons.”

“I see… Then the manpower in this castle is more than enough to commence with the rescue plan.”

I’m glad. If Killatur is involved, there’s no way we will be able to win.

“That leaves us with the final question, how do we rescue them without getting caught?”

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We decided to carry our plan on the next new moon night.

The participants for this plan were Velke, Vii, Gedo and Chaos.

We had the Dark Dragon to come with us because his power was a force to be reckoned with.

Furthermore, Dark Dragon was a species who specialize in darkness magic.

Chaos would be able to envelop the area in complete darkness.

Though if you were to ask me, I couldn’t say that kind of trick could be useful.

“I wish I could be there with you guys.”

Randolph, who was in charge of spying on the humans, had to watch over the castle since we couldn’t afford the humans to be suspicious of him.

He had to continue on his mission as our eyes so it was given he had to stay low during this mission.

And I….

“No.”

“I-I can fight too you know!”

“No.”

“I-I will wear my hood properly! I’m Maou after all!”

“It is precisely because you’re Maou.”

“Ve-Velke…. I also want to help with the rescue…”

“It’s too dangerous.”

This impregnable fortress aide! 

“Fumu. Velke-dono, I think it’d be good if Maou comes with us.”

“Why do you think so, Chaos-dono?”

“As a beacon of hope for the captives.”

“…..”

Oooh Chaos! Nice job!

“Furthermore, I will be there. I will never let them touch even a finger of Maou.”

Ugh! Chaos, you look extremely cool!!

Despite his reluctance, Velke finally relented.

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Shrouded by the darkness of the new moon night, we quietly sneaked into the facility where they kept the demons.

Perhaps because most of the demons here had good compatibility with darkness, we were able to proceed smoothly.

“There’s some guard watching over… How do we get in?”

“I will use my magic to put them to sleep.”

Vii was unusually motivated.

…… He must be anticipating the reward a lot for him to be this motivated…

I’m grateful for him but… In the end I will have no other choice but to wear something from Vii’s collection again….

After being hit by Vii’s magic, the people keeping guard fell one by one.

….. He… He only put them to sleep… Right….?

“Well then, let’s go inside.”

Then we proceeded to go into the prison.

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The prison looked extremely horrible.

It was dirty and the stench of rotten carcass was really thick.

“Master, don’t look at it more than necessary.”

Velke pulled down my hood to prevent me from looking too much.

Judging from the frown on Velke’s face, the sight in here must be more terrible than my initial expectations.

……I couldn’t believe a human could do something this terrible…

―No.

Maybe they were able to do such terrible things because they’re human….?

“What a terrible smell of death….”

Gedo frowned.

“Is there anyone still alive here?”

I used Detection to make sure.

LV 45 Lycanthrope

LV 30 Harpy

LV 80 Chimera

LV 20 Werewolf

…..

……

Seemed like there were several demons trapped in here.

We split up to search for any living demon.

Just how far did they abuse the demon here?

All of their cheeks were hollow and their bodies were badly injured.

“How cruel….”

There was a harpy trapped in the prison, their wings were plucked, leaving fresh scars all over their body.

There was a room that looked like an operating table, it appeared they were experimenting on the demons there.

Not only that, there were also jars lined up on the shelf.

Upon closer look, the jar was filled with various parts of the demon’s body.

“Uumu… I’m the one that told us we should bring Maou with us but now… I feel I shouldn’t have said that.”

Chaos groaned as he covered my eyes.

The shock was too much for me.

I already knew there was various stuff that we didn’t understand about the humans but to think they’d actually go this far…..

When I was with Killa, I felt for a moment we could finally reach an understanding between our parallel lines with the humans but…

Right now I finally found out how humans truly felt about us, demons….

It seemed an intersection between our parallel lines was simply impossible.

This realization made me fall into despair….

I approached the harpy whose wings were bent in weird angle.

“I’m sorry I’m late…”

“…………..A……Aaa…… This….Presence… Maou….-sama….”

I hugged him tight even though I knew his body was injured.

“I’m sorry.”

“Aaa…. You… You’ve come… To rescue us….”

Tears began to overflow from his dried up face.

The only thing I could do for him right now was to wipe his tears away.

―I could do nothing else.

While making sure the guards were still asleep, we quickly rescued all the demons we could find.

Perhaps because Gedo had been a slave for a long time, he seemed to know how to carry them in a way that put the least burden on their already impoverished body.

In order to teleport them all at once, Velke drew an extra large magic circle on the ground.

There were 15 prisoners we rescued, including small children.

“……There were still 35 prisoners left but they were already dead. We couldn’t afford to teleport all of their corpses with us.”

“You’re right…”

“Have we got them all? Did we miss anyone?”

“….. In the lowest floor…. There’s still another demon….”

One of the captives we rescued told us there was still one left.

“Chaos, follow me. Let’s go to the lowest basement.”

“I got it.”

I went down the stairs together with Chaos.

In there, I finally saw the artificial demon the humans had created.

“This is… Chimera.”

He had two heads, a lion’s head and a goat’s head.

His snake tail resembled a demon called Nue.

The Chimera growled at us, he was obviously delirious and had lost all of his senses.

….How many demons had been sacrificed to create this Chimera?

I approached the Chimera slowly even though my heart was filled with anguish.

“Come here. Let’s leave here together. This is not the place for you.”

“Gururururu.”

“It’s alright. I will make a place where you can belong.”

I will never let you stay in a place like this. There’s nothing but despair here.

After finally realizing we meant no harm, the Chimera stopped growling at us.

I broke down the prison bar and set Chimera free.

“Are you alright?”

It seemed the Chimera was afraid of Chaos.

He kept his distance away from Chaos as much as possible.

I couldn’t say anything as the Chimera tried to hide his much bigger body behind me.

“Come on, we have to escape before the soldier wakes up.”

We took the Chimera upstairs where the magic circle was already prepared for us.

“This magic circle is directly connected to Maou’s Castle, right? What if they try to catch us by tracing it?”

“No. Just in case, I’ve prepared 3 random locations and I’ve also tinkered with the spell so the magic will dissipate without a trace after we use it.”

As expected from Velke! His work is simply flawless!

After setting all of the prisoners on top of the magic circle, Velke activated his magic to get all of us out of here.

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Everyone got busy as soon as we got home.

Elk and Copper immediately prepared a hot bath and medical care for the injured demons.

“I’m glad we were able to rescue all of these demons.”

“Me too.”

I stroked Chimera’s body who was pawing at me playfully.

Finally,

I could finally breathe easily here.

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