The Unfortunate Girl Wants an Easy Mode in Her Second Life – Chapter 155

Chapter 155: Fanatic Demons
ㅤAfter our audience with Queen Renaria of the Mistradia Tree Country, we immediately departed the capital and headed for the Mist Forest.
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ㅤ”Oh, it’s been a while, Minato. Or should I say, Your Majesty, Minato?”
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ㅤSherry-san said that inside a tent that had been set up in the forest.
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ㅤ”Please don’t call me ‘Your Majesty.’ Minato is fine.”
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ㅤ”I thought you’d say that. And you are?”
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ㅤ”I have heard so much about you. I am Almirash.”
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ㅤAlmy bowed as she said that.
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ㅤ”You’ve heard about the situation from Lewis, haven’t you?”
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ㅤ”Yes, that Hamilton has occupied the Dungeon Ruins in the Mist Forest and is calling it the 『Demon Co-Prosperity Sphere』.”
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ㅤ”I wanted to ask you, Minato, what happened to the Dream Weaver and the Undines?”
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ㅤ”Oh, sorry. I had them move to the Demon Kingdom a little while ago.”
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ㅤ”I thought as much. But I wish you had told me. Well, we didn’t tell you about Cretias’s escape either.”
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ㅤ”Y-Yeah, that’s true. Hamilton naturally knew that the ruins were empty, so I think he set his sights on them. The core has been recovered, and since the Dream Weaver, who was the Dungeon Master, is gone, it’s no longer a dungeon.”
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ㅤ”If he’s going to use it as a military base, it might be more convenient if it’s not a dungeon.
ㅤDo you think that stray knight—Cretias—has joined Hamilton’s group?”
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ㅤ”I don’t know… But I don’t think it’s likely that Hamilton helped Cretias escape, do you?”
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ㅤ”What’s your reasoning?”
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ㅤ”Simply put, it’s a matter of power. Imsoda, the strongest of the Four Heavenly Demon Generals, awakened Cretias, but Hamilton can’t do that. I don’t think even Imsoda’s Awakened could have bitten through the iron bars of a cage and broken them.”
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ㅤ”Certainly, none of the Awakened during the Imsoda incident awakened such extraordinary powers.”
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ㅤSherry-san and Lewis were on the side that hunted the Awakened during that incident.
ㅤSherry-san is a first-class knight, and Lewis’s skill as a magician is also guaranteed.
ㅤHowever, if there had been an Awakened who could do what Cretias did, the Knights would have suffered more casualties.
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ㅤ”So far, there’s no information that a person resembling Cretias is in the 『Co-Prosperity Sphere』.
ㅤHowever, there is something that concerns me.”
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ㅤ”What?”
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ㅤ”Apparently, demons are gathering from outside the Mist Forest to the 『Co-Prosperity Sphere』. Hamilton has probably made arrangements in advance and is calling in disgruntled demons from the surrounding area—no, in the worst case, from all over the world.”
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ㅤ”Maybe Hamilton pretended to negotiate with the Tree Country to buy time for the demons to gather from various places.”
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ㅤLewis added.
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ㅤ”So he was planning this from the beginning. It wasn’t that he was swayed by the demons while trying to persuade them.”
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ㅤ”That’s right. I was wary of him at first when I heard he was a demon, but when I met him, I thought he was quite the warrior. My intuition was wrong.”
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ㅤSherry-san said regretfully.
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ㅤTo get a feel for the situation, a group of us, mainly myself, Almy, Sherry-san, and Lewis, approached the Dungeon Ruins in the Mist Forest.
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ㅤ”—Halt! From here on is the land of the demons!”
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ㅤA demon-like soldier stopped us.
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ㅤOf course, we didn’t stop.
ㅤWell, Sherry-san and the others stopped, but Almy and I didn’t.
ㅤThat’s because there’s no demon who can “stop” us, the Demon Kings.
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ㅤ”I said halt!”
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ㅤA demon who looked like an adventurer in his early twenties and a demon who looked like a mercenary in his early forties pointed their spears at us.
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ㅤI said, releasing magical power from my whole body.
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ㅤ”—Who are you talking to?”
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ㅤThe two demon soldiers trembled at the magical power I emitted and knelt on the ground against their will.
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ㅤ”I’ll only say this once. Call the traitor Hamilton here. Immediately.”
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ㅤ”Wh-What? You dare call His Majesty Hamilton a traitor!”
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ㅤ”His Majesty? Don’t make me laugh. A small-fry demon like Hamilton, who can’t even reach my feet, has gotten carried away by being worshipped by his followers.”
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ㅤ”Y-You… Then…”
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ㅤ”I don’t have a name to give to lowly underlings like you.
ㅤNow, go get him quickly. Or do you want to die a pointless death here? It’s quite commendable that you want to be sacrificed to show you the extent of our anger.”
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ㅤ”E-Eek!”
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ㅤThe demon soldiers ran away.
ㅤThey ran towards the entrance of the dungeon.
ㅤOriginally, there was only one entrance to the dungeon, but now that it has completely ceased to function, the dungeon is just a cave.
ㅤThey’ve dug holes here and there, turning it into a small underground fortress.
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ㅤ”…Phew.”
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ㅤI sighed when no one was around.
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ㅤ”That was quite a performance, Minato.”
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ㅤSherry-san said.
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ㅤ”Ahaha… I don’t think I’m very good at it.”
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ㅤAs I replied and waited, a demon with a bow in hand emerged from the dungeon ruins.
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ㅤHe immediately nocked an arrow and shot it.
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ㅤI caught it easily.
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ㅤA piece of paper was attached to the arrow.
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ㅤ”Let’s see… 『We have no words to exchange with the false king who tramples on the feelings of the demons. Soon, our justice will spread to our fellow demons, and this land will become a paradise for demons. After that, we will conquer the human nations and massacre the humans. Tremble and await that day.』”
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ㅤWhile reading, I infused the arrow I had caught with magic and threw it back at the archer.
ㅤThe arrow hit the archer’s shoulder.
ㅤAlmy instantly approached the archer.
ㅤAlmy came back with the archer tied up behind his back.
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ㅤ”What are you going to do?”
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ㅤWhen I asked,
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ㅤ”I thought we should at least hear him out. It can’t be helped if Hamilton-san doesn’t come out.”
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ㅤAlmy said with a bright smile.
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ㅤ（That’s scary.）
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ㅤI haven’t been able to ask Almy how she feels about this whole thing.
ㅤWill Almy be able to stay calm when she faces Hamilton?
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ㅤThen, the captured demon soldier shouted.
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ㅤ”His Majesty Hamilton is different from you! He swore to us that he would fulfill our long-cherished wish!”
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ㅤThe demon looked like a teenage boy.
ㅤHowever, age doesn’t matter to demons now.
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ㅤ”How?”
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ㅤI asked coldly.
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ㅤ”By throwing our lives away and killing the enemy until the last soldier!”
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ㅤ”Do you realize that there’s a huge difference in numbers between demons and humans?”
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ㅤ”Th-That…”
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ㅤ”Even if a demon kills a thousand humans by himself, it’s probably still not enough. Your long-cherished wish cannot be fulfilled.”
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ㅤ”E-Even so, we cannot overlook the deception of you who falsely claim to be the Demon King! Even if it is a hopeless wish, if we fight with the spirit of one killing ten, one hundred, the humans will tremble at the depth of our demon rage!”
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ㅤ”Did Hamilton-san say that?”
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ㅤAlmy asked in an eerily quiet voice.
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ㅤ”Yes! We will struggle until the very end and show our will to heaven and earth!”
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ㅤ”It’s pointless if everyone dies.”
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ㅤ”Even if it’s meaningless, it’s significant! We have a righteous cause!”
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ㅤThe demon soldier stubbornly insisted.
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ㅤ（This is no good.）
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ㅤI thought maybe we could call for the surrender of the other demons, except for Hamilton, the ringleader, but it seems difficult with this situation.
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ㅤ”…This is troublesome. Should we go back and try again later?”