Lord Demon is behind you

——That girl said scary things in a natural manner.

"Hero," the Demon King patted the brave man's shoulder sympathetically, "It's really not easy for you to act with this kind of person for a long time... Thank you for your hard work."

The brave man defended her with complicated emotions: "No... Ms. Stella is usually a serious and reliable person. Only that time—"

...I can't continue talking halfway through.

——Only that one abnormality?

it's not true.Being able to say such abnormal words meant that some part of her heart was already broken.

"Of course a gay demon like you can't understand normal human beings," the girl said calmly at the other end of the video, "The meaning of human existence is to have children with the person you like. So, even if you don't get him It doesn't matter if he loves me, as long as he gives me the cells. That means he gave me the right to have a child and recognized my legitimacy as a 'human'. However—”

She suddenly became excited and glared at the Demon King.

"I only had this small expectation, but it was denied by the brave man. At that time, I thought that the brave man might be the type of 'hoping that his children will only be born by the person he loves'-but he actually admitted it You, he actually accepted a man! I can't understand this kind of thing...why would he like a man? Shouldn't all outstanding human beings aim to leave offspring as their goal in life?"

Faced with this kind of questioning, even the Demon King was speechless for a while.

——She is serious—she really wants to realize her value as a human being by "creating" an artificial human of a brave man.

"Master Brave is infallible, you must have deceived him. So I will never accept it. Only you, I will never forgive."

"...I didn't accept him," the brave man sighed, "I don't like men either."

"In that case why...why won't you give me a little cell!"

The girl asked without hesitation.

"Master Brave, who has always been so gentle... treats artificial humans like me equally, and treats me as a human being. Why do you refuse to give me this little mercy! Then I can get happiness... All I want is this little thing, as long as you promise, I will immediately open all the organs, leave the Demon King City, and never hinder you again!"

"I'm sorry, Miss Stella. I—"

The brave man was a little flustered, but still insisted, "But this won't work, no matter what."

"……yes."

The girl regained her composure, "If it doesn't work, then there's nothing you can do. Please continue to work hard. I will wait for your arrival in the deepest room, let strength prove everything."

The magic image snapped off.

"that……"

"No, please don't say it," the brave man pressed his forehead with a headache, "...you have to go to her quickly, no matter what..."

He reached out to pick up the stone plate on the ground, but the back of his hand was gently held down by the Demon King.

"Let me do it," he said, "it's faster this way. The hero just needs to tell me how to operate. This is not a pursuit behavior to please you, it's just out of efficiency considerations, to unlock the mechanism quickly , so you don't have to worry about it."

"Well,... oh. Then, let's go together."

It's a bit uncomfortable for a character who is usually inexplicable to suddenly show such a serious expression.But because of this, the brave man couldn't even say the words of refusal.

The two pushed the stone plates onto the slide rails one by one, and moved gradually according to the orthodox way of solving the Tower of Hanoi.

"... move this disk here, and then... wow!"

The stone plate suddenly lost its balance and fell down.The devil's eyes were sharp and he grabbed it quickly, but instead of being able to hold it up, he fell to the ground together with the stone plate.

"Are you okay?!"

"Well, for the time being...but..." The demon king tried to lift the stone plate on the ground with some puzzlement, but failed.No matter how hard he tried, the stone plate would not move.

"What's going on? Has this stone suddenly become heavier..."

"—This is a special service for you."

With a snap, the magical image on the water surface popped out again, and the girl opposite said calmly.

"Every stone plate that your hand touches, the gravity will increase by 500 times, that is, the original 50 kg stone plate will become [-] kg - this is only for you, sad of the devil bug."

"What... that is to say, do you deliberately want this mechanism to be broken only by the brave man himself?!"

"Yes," Stella's brows sank slightly, "I don't want to make wedding clothes for others. I finally made a mechanism with my own hands, but it became an opportunity for you to flatter me. Don't think I don't know, you want to Use the opportunity of helping to increase the favorability of the brave man towards you."

The image is turned off again.

"What are you talking about, that guy!" The Demon King couldn't help but lose his temper, "I obviously don't want to make the hero feel good about me anymore, I'm just helping you! That guy thinks who made us work so hard! ? Hey, although the video is cut off, you must still be eavesdropping, right? It’s you, the panting puppet!”

"...Okay, okay, you can go and rest here first, and I will do the rest." The brave man comforted.

Unexpectedly, after the Demon King got angry, he suddenly showed a weird smile.

"Heh heh heh... just relying on this little trick, I want to defeat the Lord Demon King, how is this possible? Just 500 times the gravity, let me easily break it for you to see!"

"Wait, don't mess around, you!"

The brave man tried to block it with his hand, but the Demon King didn't force himself to carry the stone plate, but stretched out his hands in a pose, and recited a long series of mantras.

"All the mysteries of the center of the earth are in my hands, soar up! Anti-gravity—light!"

As if the ground had cracked, beams of white light majesticly shot out from under the stone plate.Under the light, the stone plate seemed to lose gravity a little bit, and slowly floated towards the sky.

"How about it!" The Demon King proudly mounted the stone plate and pushed it, and the huge stone weighing tens of kilograms flew forward like a balloon, "Gravity alone wants to crush me, This is really a big mistake! But it can force me to use the anti-gravity spell that I originally kept hidden, which is pretty tough for a puppet—"

"……Amazing."

The brave man stood behind the Demon King in astonishment.

"It's amazing! I've never heard of this kind of magic. Is it a spell unique to the demons?"

"……Eh?"

The brave man's eyes lighted up in a rare way, shining with pure "curiosity" and "envy".

"Although I don't know anything about magic... but Miss Stella did say before that the magic of manipulating gravity has no attributes and is the most advanced type of magic. Even she can only weaken or increase gravity. As for the 'anti-gravity' ’ But I’ve never even heard of it... As expected, you are worthy of a Demon King level figure, you are indeed very powerful!”

"Ah... well... it's not very deep, hahaha..."

...It seems that this is the first time, being praised so generously by a brave man... As expected, even the Demon King is a little embarrassed.

"Anyway, this spell can be used to carry it easily! Hurry up and finish these and go to the next path!"

The Demon King hurried away, covering his flushed cheeks with one hand.

...It's really bad.I don't know how many times I have been hit by the hero's pure smile——

■

After disarming the mechanism of the Tower of Hanoi, a huge transparent bubble appeared on the surface of the water, and its volume was large enough to hold two people.After the brave man and the devil entered the bubble, the big bubble took them and sank to the bottom of the pool.

This pool is much deeper than it appears.

I don't know how far into the water, the surroundings are pitch black, only the lighting spell lit by the demon king shimmers, reflecting each other's faces.

"Speaking of which, Brave, you don't... like magic very much, do you?"

During the boring waiting time, the Demon King suddenly asked.

"It feels like you were very excited when you saw the anti-gravity magic before."

"If I say I like it... I don't like it much, I just look forward to people who can use magic." The brave man replied after thinking for a while, "I have felt that way since I was a child. Magic is very powerful and handsome. Wave your hand You can release the fireball wind blade, knocking monsters away from a distance, and so on—ah, sorry."

Suddenly remembering that the person next to him was the former Demon King, he quickly stopped talking.

"It's okay....Since you like it, why didn't you study it?"

Brave is a pure physics department, as he himself said, "knows nothing about magic".

"If you want to say why... it's impossible to learn, right? I have neither talent nor money."

The brave man scratched his cheek and smiled as usual.

Practicing magic requires innate talent.Although noble children who do not have enough talent can get the opportunity to study as long as they pay tuition fees, for poor boys who have neither, only "giving up" is the only suitable option.

"However, probably because I couldn't learn, my yearning heart has deepened," the brave man recalled, "I respect people who can use magic, and I also like to learn about magic... At first, I met with Miss Stella. This seems to be the opportunity for the relationship to improve.”

Stella was assigned by the kingdom to join the brave team.

She has a very cold personality and does not fit in with others. She only eats three meals in her room.Everyone in the team does not speak, and almost only speaks when chanting mantras throughout the day, and occasionally expresses opinions at strategic meetings, and the voice is also inorganic.Every move is like a dummy.

Until a certain battle, seeing her use a large-scale compound elemental spell to eliminate more than a dozen enemies in one go, the brave man finally couldn't help but go up to talk to her.

"That...Miss Stella, you are the strongest magician of the younger generation in the capital right now?"

The girl turned to look at him.

Eyes like glass beads, flat eyebrows, no ups and downs at the corners of the mouth,...a flat to blank face.Like a dummy.

"Yeah." She responded in a small breath.

This kind of dialogue simply cannot go on.

If it were someone else, they would probably think that she was expressing rejection, so they should retreat here.However--

"It's amazing," the brave man sighed from the bottom of his heart. "Magic is indeed a very powerful thing! It's powerful and dazzling. Miss Stella who can use this kind of magic is also very powerful! I heard that magic It is basically divided into four elements: water, fire, earth, and wind, but your spell doesn't look like any of them, can you explain it to me? Ah, sorry...would it be too much trouble for you?"

The girl stood there quietly.Just when the brave man was at a loss——

"……Won't."

She finally spoke.

"That is, the spell of compound elements. The power of different elements is driven in proportion, and combined with a special spell—"

Facing the theory that he had never heard before, the brave man felt very novel and listened very carefully.

After the explanation was over, Stella asked an extra question for the first time: "If I have time later, let me explain the magic to you."

"Is it really possible?"

"...Well. It doesn't matter."

After that, the hero gradually became acquainted with Stella.With him in the running-in, Stella finally integrated into the team little by little——

"Eh—so this kind of thing happened."

The devil held his chin with great interest: "Although I have been observing you through the crystal, I can't usually see such small details. Then what happened later? It feels like you are like masters and apprentices at the beginning. She asks for advice, she is the master. But now it seems to be the other way around, she respects you very much. How did it become like this?"

"Actually, I don't know much about it. It seems to have become like this unconsciously..." the brave man recalled.

Unknowingly, she was called 'Master Brave', and unknowingly became her dependent object.

"Probably because, after getting acquainted with her, I found that she is not as indifferent as she looks on the outside. Miss Stella is just not good at talking and is very shy. In fact, she has no bad intentions. I think she just lacks an ability to communicate with the outside world. An opportunity for communication, so..."

"So you acted as her guide and took her for interpersonal communication?"

"Guide? No, no, it's definitely not such a great thing. At most, it's just... a middleman."

While talking, the two finally reached the bottom of the pool.

"Brave..." The Demon King sighed, "Maybe I shouldn't be the one to say this, but... this matter should be your fault."