Lord Demon is behind you

"The former demon king?"

The brave man tensed his nerves.He didn't forget that the ten girls turned into demons because of the demon king's confession.

"If you want to say 'how do you feel'...it's not that bad, right?" He leaned against the head of the bed and answered carefully, "Maybe it's more reliable than imagined?"

At the beginning of the fight, he really didn't have any expectations for the demon king, he just wanted to use it as a combat power for magic output.However, he climbed to the fourth floor unknowingly, and he has saved him several times.

Thinking of this, he carefully revised his wording: "It's much more reliable than expected."

"—Is it just 'reliable'?" Olga sighed inexplicably, "In that case, even I can't help but feel sorry for him meow. Bet your life to fight by the side of your sweetheart, but in the end it's just In exchange for a 'reliable' label meow."

"It can't be anything else, right? He's a man. Although he has a good-looking face, a man is a man. I don't think I like men. "

"Olga thinks that gender doesn't matter, meow," the cat girl tilted her head with a smile, "as long as the hero likes it, meow."

This seems to mean something.The brave man felt a little bad: "You don't really support that guy, do you?"

"How is it possible, meow," Olga vetoed, "I will always support the brave man to fall in love with anyone you like, no matter men, women, young or old, but the 'everyone' is the only one that does not include the previous generation meow. Only him, I will never I don’t agree—he is absolutely not allowed to get involved with the brave man. Although I don’t hate him that much, it’s meow.”

"...And why is that?"

"Because he's not even a meow."

I always feel that there is a heavy sense of disobedience in her words...

Even though it was so narcissistic, the brave man still had the cheek to forcefully ask.

"Well, Olga, you said you liked me before, right? Then why..." Can you say something like "supporting you to fall in love with anyone you like"?

The brave man stopped talking halfway through.But Olga seems to have fully understood.

"Because Lord Brave doesn't like me." She replied bluntly, "Since you don't like me, then I can only take a step back and give my best wishes, meow."

"But if that's the case, you...why do you want to become a witch?"

What drives them to become witches is the resentment that they can't ask for the hero, right?If she had no resentment in her heart...

"Indeed, I don't have any resentment for being rejected by the Brave-sama. As for becoming a witch..."

Olga was silent for a moment, as if thinking about how to speak.

"Well...it can only be called a coincidence, meow."

"coincide?"

"It's a coincidence."

She stayed there with a smile on her face, quietly looking at the brave man.After a while, the brave man had no choice but to ask, "What kind of coincidence?"

"How about..."

For the first time, Olga put away the smile on her face, and also put away her tone when entertaining guests as a catwoman.

"Master Brave should know that the act of 'becoming a witch' is led by Her Highness the Princess."

The brave man nodded silently as he recalled the past.

On that night, the actions of the girls were clearly directed by the princess.

"However, if I tell you that Her Royal Highness...she didn't know that it would cause such consequences when she practiced it, would you understand?"

"...you mean..."

Olga nodded: "In the final analysis, it was just an accident."

"At the very beginning, Her Royal Highness just called us together in private, saying that the suspected Demon King was not defeated and captured by us, but defeated on his own initiative because of some schemes. In fact, he still has a part of his power hidden all the time. .”

"..." Did they care about such serious things at first?And it was not wrong in essence, the demon king did hide 30 blood bars and the last two transformation stages.

"Why didn't you discuss it with me, instead—"

"His Royal Highness," Olga continued, "I suspect that the target of the Demon King is you, Mr. Brave....Of course, we didn't think about love at first, but thought that he might take revenge on you. Do something that will harm you."

"In order to avoid the worst situation, Her Royal Highness said that she has found an ancient secret method that can transform people into demons—she said at the time that if the demon king burst out with a hidden force that we cannot deal with, we can at least become demons." The demons fought against him.

"This is just a backup plan for emergencies. The reason why we came to talk to you is because this secret technique needs to gather the mental power of ten young women to activate it. As for why I didn't tell you..."

She stared at the brave man. "Is it a little selfishness of ours? We who have been guarded by the brave man all the time want to protect the brave man with our own hands."

"..."

The brave man was speechless.Something stuck in the throat.

"However, the development of things went off the rails later. On the day the devil asked you to talk outside, we hid not far away, always on guard against his violent attacks. I didn't expect what he said would be... a confession of love... ..."

"After hearing your response to him, Her Royal Highness, as well as everyone else, must have... fallen into a state where they couldn't think about it." Olga recalled, "Even I..., knowing clearly It is not the fault of the previous generation that you refused, and it is inevitable that you will harbor resentment towards him for a while."

——Why can we, who have been with him for so long, be politely rejected in the end; the kind of guy who has been standing on the opposite side can instead be gently comforted by the brave man?Not reconciled, very not reconciled.

"I think, at that time, Her Royal Highness must have thought that the devil cast some kind of magic on you. He must have charmed you, and he must have done something wrong—the anger blinded everyone's rationality, and they couldn't even think carefully for a while. Impulsively, Her Royal Highness activated the secret technique to gather the hearts of the ten of us, just like that..."

——"Ten Witches" was born.

"How?" Her tone suddenly brightened, and the smile on her face returned to normal, "It's an interesting 'coincidence', isn't it meow? My Lord Brave."

This is just a coincidence, a mistake, a product of cognitive errors and extreme blindness.

And has the whole world been subverted for this reason?

...can't laugh at all.

Before he knew it, the brave man stood up and walked in front of the magic image.

"...Later, why did you want to destroy human beings again?" His voice was extremely dry.

"Master Brave, you should know that the way of thinking of demons is completely different from that of humans. After becoming demons, we discovered that many things are not what we thought before."

After becoming demons, there is little "humanity" left in them, and their obsessions and desires have been strengthened instead.

"Her Majesty's original desire to defeat the devil and protect mankind has been distorted into the desire to occupy the devil's city as the devil and bring a large number of mankind under the rule." The paranoid monster. The most serious one is Miss Xuelu, probably because she is too friendly as a human being, but she turned out to be the remnant of the queen...and became like that."

Xuelu, she has become—a blind lunatic who only aims to get the hero.

"Then..., what about you? Olga, you should still—"

She shouldn't be broken, right?Because, she can still see all this clearly with a calm attitude.

"Me? Ahh, Olga is the same meow!" She said with a bright smile, "Olga is also a reinforcement of obsession, just a residue of human spirit meow. The reason why she can recognize reality is probably because Olga The 'obsession' is quite special meow."

"……yes."

"Master Brave."

She lowered her head slightly.

"What happened before was just a coincidence. Olga told you this just to prove it, meow. If it makes you feel unhappy, isn't it counterproductive meow? So..."

"Don't... feel sad about this kind of thing."

"...Aah."

After cutting off the image, the hero pressed the upper half of his cheek with one hand to cover his eyes.

This feels really bad.It couldn't be worse.

So, did the companions make such preparations to help him in the first place?

It was because of his improper response that it caused the incident to happen.

——What to say, 'coincidence'... all of this is clearly his own responsibility.

It's a sad man who can't bear the expectations and admiration of others. After screwing up everything, he drags down the results of others instead.

He clearly claims to be a "brave who fights for mankind", but in the end, he can't even save his companions.Not only that, but it has become an inducement for people to fall...

...Perhaps, I—the so-called brave man—is the one who should be excluded from this world the most.

In the long dark night, the brave man felt a strong self-loathing like never before.

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"Ah, you finally woke up, Brave! How did you sleep... eh? Didn't you sleep well? You don't look refreshed."

When the brave man went out, the demon king had already squatted outside.

"well enough."

The brave man simply responded and quickly turned his head away.

——This is just venting anger.However, as soon as I saw this guy, I couldn't help but think that it was because of his initial concealment that led to a series of subsequent events——

No, this is really just unreasonable anger.It's because it's hard to admit that everything is my responsibility—it's too heavy—so I instinctively want to shirk responsibility outside and vent my anger.

However, he couldn't get rid of the negative emotions in his heart for the time being, so he couldn't face the other person's face for the time being.

"—"Is it okay?" The Demon King chased after him relentlessly, "However, your complexion is really not very good. What's the matter, did you suffer a new attack last night?  … Or, did that catwoman say something to you? It wouldn’t be something bad about me, would it?”

He really is unusually sensitive.The brave man sighed, and responded half-heartedly.

"Yes...is it..."

In the end, he himself was surprised: "Have I done something bad that deserves your attention? No way, it stands to reason that you know everything about me."

The brave man didn't speak for a while, wondering whether he should explain the matter to the Demon King.

After all, they are companions, and they will break through the upper floors together in the future. If they feel grudges now, it will probably be even more troublesome in the future.

"Go ahead first," he said finally, "I will tell you slowly on the way later."

The walls that imprisoned Xuelu yesterday have been broken, and Xuelu is nowhere to be found.The two of them were not in the mood to delve into the matter for the time being, but continued to move forward along the newly-appeared corridor in silence.

Although he promised to explain, the brave man didn't know where to start, and finally decided to start from the beginning in the order of Olga's story last night.

However, this corridor is surprisingly short.

After twisting and turning a few turns, before the brave man could sort out his thoughts, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him——

A double door the size of a city gate stood there impressively, before the two of them approached, it opened by itself.

There was a blaze of light inside the door, which for a moment made it hard for people to open their eyes.

There was crackling sound from both sides, which seemed to be the sound of firecrackers bursting, and the sound of fireworks flying into the sky, mixed with the explosion of cracking cannons, and it seemed that an unknown band played an unknown happy song.

The noisy human voice poured out from the door, getting louder and clearer——

"—"

The blinding white light dissipated, and what was inside the door was——

"Is this the human... street?"

The Demon King opened his eyes quite curiously.

Inside the door is a bustling scene.The straight stretch of the street is full of various shops and stalls on the left and right, with colorful banners and signboards hanging everywhere.Countless seemingly ordinary and ordinary human beings walked through the period, shoulder to shoulder, very lively.

There is a group of seemingly wandering artists on the street, walking back and forth while playing.There was a billboard with colorful writing on the street, and standing next to it were—several identical owl girls in maid outfits?

Even the curvature of the smile on the face is exactly the same - these are probably the familiars made by Olga according to the image of the deity.

After the sound of "beep beep", the magic image lit up at the door, and the cat girl in the image smiled exceptionally standard.

"Master Brave, welcome to 'Olga's Special Custom Carnival'——! Is this an exclusive service for you? Because you looked very unhappy before... In order to make you happy, Olga and I stayed overnight This special level is prepared. Well, please come and enjoy the carnival!"