Lord Demon is behind you

"...Sorry, really, really sorry!"

Until the end of the next fork and the opening of the next mechanism, the demon king was still apologizing endlessly—God knows how a demon king who was originally high above could humbly express so much apology to a human being.

Just now he was trapped in the middle of the magma pool and couldn't move forward or backward. In the end, the brave man chose the right path and rescued him.

Because of his unauthorized actions, the floor tile mechanism was messed up, which added a lot of trouble to the brave man's puzzle solving.In the end, he had to go around a long way, and it took a lot of effort to successfully get the fire elemental stone on the opposite side.

"I didn't want to cause trouble for you, but... I didn't expect that mechanism to be so complicated..." the Demon King whispered, "I think I should be better at deciphering, obviously the mechanisms I saw through the crystal before, I can untie it in the air. Why can't this one work?"

Does that need to be said?Observing from a distance and solving puzzles in the field will of course be different.Just like real road idiots will not get lost when playing board games.

The brave man was a little tired, but he still cheered up and comforted the other party: "It's okay, it's over anyway. As long as the matter is resolved, everything will be fine."

"No, I'm not good at all," he hung his head, "The matter is resolved, but I, who boasted that I would dedicate the elemental stone to you, failed! Brave, you...you won't hate Me?"

"I originally wanted to make you happy, and then like me a little more, but if it makes you feel disgusted..."

"No, I won't hate my companions for this reason." Anyone will accidentally screw up, and the so-called companions are to tolerate each other and make up for each other's mistakes, right?and……

"Actually, I'm a little lucky," he exhaled lightly, "It's a good thing you didn't succeed. If you really brought the elemental stone, I wouldn't know what to do."

After all, in the eyes of human beings, if the pursued party accepts the other party's gift but does not respond to the other's feelings, it is a proper scum behavior.

"As I said before, I probably don't like men, so I shouldn't have accepted your gift... You shouldn't have been asked to get the elemental stone by yourself."

Although at a certain moment, he did have the idea that "it's fine to just accept it like this", but then he realized that this was really a big mistake-this is a dirty act of taking advantage of others and playing with other people's feelings.

——How can I have the mentality of relying on the "pursuor"?

He blamed himself for the kind of laziness that clashed with his moral values ​​so far.

The two are now at the end of the northern passage, facing a huge pool, and the strange-looking mechanism beside the pool-three tall and upright stone pillars, with sliding rails between the pillars, and the leftmost one is from top to bottom. Six stone discs with increasing radii are hung.

This time the brave dared not let the Demon King intervene in solving the puzzle anyway, and only planned to do it himself.

Although he didn't think he was very smart, and he hadn't studied for a few days, at any rate, such a clear puzzle didn't require a high IQ.

This should be a long-standing game called "Tower of Hanoi".Just move the plate on the leftmost column to the rightmost in order, and you should be able to open the mechanism.

"...Anyway, this time you just wait on the sidelines," the brave said while bending down and began to move the stone plate onto the slide rail, "Leave this kind of matter to me...to handle... …call."

The stone plate is quite heavy, and even with the strength of a brave man, it is a bit strenuous to carry it.

"Ah, let me help you—" The Demon King put his hand on the other end of the stone plate.

"No need," the brave staggered slightly, "As I said just now, I cannot accept your help."

"What are you talking about, brave man!"

The Demon King grabbed it again without any explanation, easily snatched the stone plate, stood it up and rolled it forward.

"Aren't we companions? What's wrong with helping each other for the same purpose?"

"……Eh?"

The brave man was stunned.Not because of these words, but because of the strength of the opponent.The stone plate, which was difficult for him to move with both hands, was snatched by the devil with one hand.

As a melee fighter, I'm not as strong as a mage?

"It's nothing to be surprised about," said the Demon King, leaning on the stone plate. "The upper and lower limits of muscle strength basically depend on the race, right? In terms of talent, human beings are inherently lower than us demons by more than one level. Although I haven't exercised on purpose."

Just like no matter how weak a human being is, he is stronger than a bug.

...This is really a blow to self-esteem.But the brave still insisted: "I can do it myself, I don't need your help."

He stopped in front of the second stone pillar, trying to take the stone plate back into his hand.

"But, you just said that companions should help each other and tolerate each other." The demon king lowered his face, looking aggrieved, "Now I have to reject me for such a trivial matter, it really is... You smashed the mechanism over there and made you angry, so you don’t regard me as a companion now, do you?”

"No, that's not the case, but..."

But the Demon Lord is not just a simple companion in the first place.

In addition to his teammates, he is also an active suitor who unilaterally declared "I like you" as soon as he came up.

"...But I'm also a man. I don't want to be taken care of, I just want to use my own strength to solve the problem." That's all he could say.

"How is that possible!"

As if hearing a joke, the Demon King waved his hands again and again.

"Regardless of men and women, human beings, no, all creatures are counted, and there is no one who does not want to be taken care of! Everyone hopes to live a relaxed and labor-saving life. There is no life in this world that asks for trouble, and there is no suffering. On the contrary, a living body that feels happy. Even if you feel happy after hard work, it is for the benefits obtained after hard work, not the hard work itself!"

……Again.

The brave man found out that this demon king unexpectedly likes to preach.

"However, human beings have to create their own set of moral logic to limit the behavior of themselves and others; in essence, it is just because everyone hates hard work. It is precisely because they hate hard work that they will give to themselves. Require reciprocal returns, and establish the so-called rule that one party pays physical strength or money, and the other party returns affection. But!"

Holding the stone plate with one hand, he raised his cloak suddenly, "But the me in front of you is different. Of course I hate hard work, and of course I hope to get something in return, but the demons don't have any strange logic of equivalent exchange. It's just success and failure! Everything I give has nothing to do with you. You just need to observe quietly and finally decide whether to choose me. Even if you give up on me in the end, I have nothing to complain, because I obey For my own sake—”

"It's disgusting."

The girl's cold voice interrupted the Demon King's soliloquy.

The magic power directly above the pool flowed rapidly and merged into an image, and the girl on the opposite side had a rare look of disgust.

"It's obviously just a dirty bug in the devil world, but it doesn't even have the consciousness of causing trouble to others. It only knows to be entangled with others. The brave man has a good temper and is willing to pay attention to you, but you don't know how to restrain yourself. It's really disgusting to do things willfully and only care about your own happiness. Didn't you see Mr. Brave's troubled face? He wouldn't like a dead gay like you. Stalking on the premise that the other party doesn't like it is just to please It's just disgusting behavior."

"S...Miss Stella?"

The brave man was shocked.The impression that Ristella has always been too quiet, and rarely speaks except to discuss business matters, but now she spends so much space talking viciously at the Demon King...?

It seems that she really hates this Demon King.

"Eh—is that so?"

Instead of being angry, the Demon King smiled mysteriously at the screen.

"However, when it comes to causing trouble for the brave... Aren't you the ones who caused him the most trouble? You say you like him, but you turn into a demon and destroy human beings just because you are rejected, completely disregarding his position. I don't know if he will like me, but I know, he will never like you."

Probably because she was hit by a sore foot, for a moment the girl pursed her lips as if shaken.

"...That's okay, because I didn't expect him to like me either."

"No expectations? But you also confessed to him, right?"

If you don't want to gain the other person's feelings, then there is no need to confess.Wouldn't it be enough to continue unrequited love?

"That is--"

"Miss Stella!" The brave interrupted hurriedly, "Have you... seen Miss Emily?"

He just randomly found a sentence to divert the topic.

He didn't want to mention Stella's confession at all.

"Emily, ah. I saw it." Stella said coldly, "I took her in for now, but I didn't talk to her after that, I don't know where she is now. Please be careful, Mr. Brave, she It has been completely demonized, almost losing its mind, and I will definitely attack you directly when I see you."

"...Aren't you companions?"

"I can only say, let's stand on the same front." Stella was indifferent, "Anyway, the relationship was not very good. In the past, we were in the same team only because of the relationship between the brave man. People I recognize Only Mr. Brave, there is no one else. I can't leave him. I need to stay with him. So..."

She finally smiled slightly, "I don't expect him to like me, it's just..."

"No matter what, I just want to give birth to his child."

……puff!

For the first time, the Demon King was overly frightened.

"Having a baby...! What are you talking about, little girl!"

"It's no wonder you reacted so violently," the girl said, "This is something you can never do, no matter how envious you are, you can't learn it."

"Brave, brave man," the demon king threw the stone plate, and climbed onto the brave man's shoulders with trembling hands, "This little girl...is that what she said when she confessed?!"

... She still said it.

The brave man stared dead: "Yes."

That night, Stella broke into the brave man's room suddenly, locked the door without saying a word, and claimed to give him a child——

"I know that Mr. Brave has no love feelings for me, so I don't intend to ask extravagantly. As long as you leave me with a thought, it will be fine. With Mr. Brave's integrity, it is impossible to have anything happen to someone you don't like, but I am Artificial human, so it doesn't matter," she said, "as long as the brave man is willing to give me your cells, I can use my technology to cultivate him into an adult—"

"Please leave me a little bit of your cells, just a little bit. I will definitely raise him to be as outstanding as you, and then let him stay by my side instead of you—"

"No, isn't this just trying to create a clone of the brave!" The devil finally understood, "What did you say about having a baby, it scared me to death..."

"However," on the opposite side of the image, the girl stroked her abdomen, "that 'child' will be hatched in this container, right? The cells of the brave man are dividing, growing, and biochemically forming limbs in my body. And the five sense organs... the split and dead part melted into my body, and the growing part absorbed my nutrients. In that case, it would be like the brave man is always by my side."

"I only have this small expectation. It will hardly cause you any trouble, and I will definitely take 'him' to do research behind closed doors, and will never appear in front of you again to disturb your life. "

Stella said the same thing that day.

"So, please give me your cells—"