Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 295 Mission: 01-3 Game
Getting a demon king to appear at a festival is a very troublesome matter.

The Demon King's status as a Demon King stems from his immense power, which is only a small part of his identity. More importantly, he possesses the privilege of forcing others to participate in unfair games: the power of the organizer. The Demon King's games can choose participants at will, offer no prizes, and even dispense with established rules. Some games conducted by the Demon King are inherently unbeatable.

However, after Shiroyasha, using his authority as organizer and his [Thousand Eyes], wrote into the festival rules that "Participants holding 'organizer authority' are prohibited from entering the festival area without the organizer's permission" and "Participants are prohibited from using [organizer authority] within the festival area," even Pest, the Demon King, was subject to these restrictions.

——The premise is that Pest and the community [Hamel] are the "game participants" of the festival.

Against the rule-breaking Lin, Baiyasha's tactics were still too "unprofessional." Besides the community of game participants, the Fire Dragon Birth Festival also includes a large community of "exhibit makers." When the stained glass, representing the "Hamiel Grimoire," was delivered to the festival, its summons, such as Pest, Nero, and the others, were also invited. As long as they stayed out of the Gift Game and didn't become "participants," Pest's authority as organizer wouldn't be suppressed by the rules.

"You want... revenge on the sun?"

During the conversation a few days ago, when Nero asked this question with surprise, Pest replied: "It's not just me. This is the common wish of all 80 million souls who died from the Black Death."

Because Pest, before becoming the [Black Death God of Death], was a "representative" chosen by eighty million souls, her very existence would suppress the rules of the Sun's movement. Once she exerted her authority as a host and emerged as a demon king, during this period—during the "Black Death Pandemic" and before the game was cracked—Shiroyasha, the Star Spirit of the Sun, would be sealed by the rules of the game, unable to join the battle.

This was Pest's only chance of victory, but the downside was that it would make the opponent more aware of the crucial element of "time" in the game, potentially leading to the game's cracking conditions being noticed. It was a mixed bag.

"But what does it mean to be revenge? Do we have to kill Shiroyasha?"

But that was impossible. If the White Yasha who held the throne of the Yasha God were killed, the most likely result would be the return of the double-digit "White Night Demon King". Moreover, the White Yasha who held the sovereignty of fourteen suns would not even be able to be defeated, let alone killed.

Not to mention that Pest had already agreed with Nero not to kill anyone other than the members of Salamander.

However, Pest really didn't want to go into details about this matter, and Nero politely didn't ask any further questions.

"My first priority is to grow our community," Pest said. "So we need to recruit as many talented people as possible. Not only Bai Yasha and Sandora from [Salamandra], who His Highness needs, but also talents from other communities. Through this game, we can force them to join."

"Do you have strong feelings for this community?" Nero was a little surprised to hear this, because in her opinion, Pest had just been summoned not long ago, and there should be no reason for her to have a strong sense of belonging to the community.

"We were summoned by Hamel's Grimoire, so of course this is the only name for our community." Nero didn't understand Pest's response at first, but gradually began to understand. For a community, the sense of belonging that binds all members together doesn't just come out of thin air; it stems primarily from two aspects: identification with the "name and flag," and identification with fellow members.

The former requires a long period of time and history to develop, and naturally does not exist in the newly established community of Hamel. Therefore, Pest's sense of belonging can only be said to come from the latter. For her, her emphasis on this community is actually a subtle expression of her respect for Nero and Weser.

The three people summoned by the same summoning medium can be considered a "family" in a sense.

Nero later went to talk to Weser again. He still had some memories of the former "Pied Piper of Hamel" and obviously missed the disbanded "Grimm Fantasy Spellbook Group" very much. He talked a lot to Nero, like an old man reminiscing about the glorious days of the past.

A clue to the vibrant life of the Grimm Fantasy Grimoire Group back then can be found in the leader, "that man." With a low chuckle, Weser spoke of his former summoner, calling him "an incredibly foolish man." That man had taken it upon himself to become a demon king, creating countless "organizer privileges," each with its own unique rules and interests. To him, he, the Grimm Fantasy Grimoire Group, and the fairytale demons he summoned came into the world for a single purpose: to become stage sets that made the little garden even more magnificent and joyful.

"Stage set?"

"Yes, that's incredible, isn't it?" Weser said with a smile. "He sees himself as a stage set to entertain others, using his organizer authority to create a grand stage for everyone to perform on. So the game he created, with [organizer authority] and user authority, is a 'game that can make people feel happy.'"

"Even if it might cost someone their life?"

"Yes. He has never shied away from his evil ways, and has gone beyond the rules of the Little Garden. Therefore, it is only natural that he will be destroyed by those rules."

After carefully studying the gift game created by that person, "The Pied Piper of Hamel," Nero partially agreed with this view. As a man who took entertainment as his mission, the most important feature of the games he created was "fairness."

Because the Demon King, as the organizer, has the privilege of forcing others to participate in the game, the difficulty of achieving the game's victory conditions clearly favors the "players." To compensate for this, he hides the victory conditions and gives the Demon King the power to proactively give players hints to gain greater power.

That's right, in this game where the Demon King could have enjoyed many privileges, the game's creator voluntarily gave up many of them in order to achieve "fairness" between both parties. Because without fairness, it can't be called a game, and there is no entertainment at all.

And just like that, time passed again.

(End of this chapter)