We are invading the Royal Capital of Nordland. When the Demon Lord died and a new one took over, I sent letters to influential demons, and they started clamoring, “I’m the new Demon Lord,” “I’m the original Demon Lord,” or “The same taste since we opened.” Nordland is in a state of warring states.
While leaving it to the new Demon Lord Koharu Sasaki to “unify the country with harmony,” the White Lily Corps has the job of clearing the path until then. Dirty work has always been the job of mercenaries.
There are no other countries that would meddle with Nordland, including Harm. Anneliese is rebuilding the country with the new king as a wet nurse, and Fleet Helm, a former demon, has abdicated his title and begun serving as a butler.
Yuma Bashar hasn’t shown his face or offered any thanks since that incident. What’s worse, he actually became the Lord of Anaheim Offen. I’d like to drop a meteor on him later, but I’ll refrain for my sister’s sake.
My sister, Selina Hasse, was forced to choose between having her limbs replaced with prosthetics or undergoing rigorous rehabilitation with magic. She chose magic.
The treatment was carried out in Nordland, home to the world’s foremost mages. However, the rehabilitation was still difficult, and I visited many times to help.
She no longer has trouble with everyday life. My help seems to have been effective. I am especially grateful to my partner, as my lower body started to move well first.
“Ahhh… Ahhh… Nnn… nh… ah…”
I’m in my office, buried in paperwork. Of course, I can’t do it alone. Manon Guiyu’s skills, who transferred from Hasuhanto to the White Lily Corps, are proving helpful both professionally and personally.
“Aah… nn… So… ooo… nna… hhh ah”
I hear a knock on the door. They’ve knocked on the heavy door so many times that pretending not to be home won’t work. If only I had a little more time, we could have reached a mutual understanding.
“W-Wait a minute! Manon, someone’s here, so I’ll finish up!”
“Ah… such a shame…”
I finished with Godspeed, and Manon peacefully fell asleep. I pray the last loud moan didn’t reach the hallway. I laid Manon down in the adjoining nap room and sat in the pompous chair in my office.
“Please… Come in after I say please!”
“What were you doing? I’ve been waiting quite a while.”
Alma, the former demoness. She’s also sided with the new Demon Lord. I hope she’s deployed to a dangerous front line soon and dies in battle.
“I smell a woman.”
Lia, a succubus with a keen sense of smell. She also leads an army of succubi and never leaves my side. After all, succubi treat me like a god. Though their treatment has been a bit harsh lately.
“I’ve come to report.”
Iris, one of the six Dark Elf sisters. I promised her freedom after this battle. When I told Rufana that I would grant her freedom, she said, “When men and women get together, they get married. If they have children, their bodies will no longer rot.” Perhaps believing her words, she stayed in Nordland and followed me. Currently, Reina is pregnant.
“Good work. Whose report is it?”
The White Lily Corps and the Annihilation Brigade are deployed on various fronts. While Oberstein Castle will be undermanned, guarding Nebel Bridge is all that’s needed, and only unauthorized adventurers will be coming through.
“Before who’s report! Alma! What are you making me! You said it was for combat. Who said it was for play!”
Alma is the research specialist among demons. You could say she’s Orietta’s demon counterpart, and she’s the one who created the gleaming Undead Knight.
We don’t have enough personnel to replace those who die or are injured in battle. However, the gleaming one reminds me of a cockroach. That’s why I had her create homunculi, artificial humans.
“Did you like it? It turned out quite well.”
My sleep time was taken up by work and guard duty. The first time I returned to my own bed after a long time, a naked homunculus was waiting for me. I thought it was for combat, but it approached me with a blank expression. I told myself, “It can’t be helped, this is an experiment to test the body’s durability,” and took off my clothes.
“There was no durability! Its skin tore, revealing muscle, and it dissolved into a mess. I couldn’t escape when it hugged me, and it was a gruesome sight right before my eyes! Gore is forbidden in Nordland!”
“I’ll make it properly this time. I’ve already finished making two thousand Undead Knights.”
Are there two thousand of those things!? They’re disgusting, gruesome, and I’d faint if surrounded. I’m glad they’re not enemies.
“In that case, hurry up and head to Priscilla’s aid! You’re going over Nantoka Pass, right?”
“That’s where Priscilla’s First Corps stopped.”
“…Why!?”
“I have a report regarding that. May I give other reports first?”
Well, well, if Iris says so, I suppose I have no choice. Are there any other urgent reports? If so, they’ll both be good reports.
“Regarding Christine’s Annihilation Brigade, a treaty has been concluded with the Vampires.”
That’s good news. We had already made arrangements with the Vampire Lord living in the east, and all that was left was to sign the treaty. They recognized our Demon Lord, liked the artificial blood, and all we had to do was sign the non-aggression pact.
“That’s great. Christine, return to… ”
“There’s more. This is a report from Iris, who is accompanying her… After the treaty was concluded, there was a party, and there, the Lord’s son took a liking to Christine…”
The report is taking a turn for the worse. I don’t want to hear any more, but I am a high-ranking official of the country. I’ll listen to the end.
“The son proposed to Christine… and then…”
“And then?”
“He stole Christine’s lips! Christine turned the vampires in the mansion into dust and is now capturing all the vampires in the territory, exposing one each day to the sun!”
“Eh!? …You killed them? Someone we just made a non-aggression pact with…”
“Only the male vampires! The female vampires were dealt with by the Annihilation Brigade…”
That idiot. He should have considered a kiss a form of greeting. And outright slaughter! I wanted to unify the country with harmony.
“What did Christine say…?”
“U-Um, she said she would offer a daily sacrifice until a righteous person bestows a pure kiss upon her…”
A sacrifice to whom!? I certainly wouldn’t want to be one! But this is bad. I need to stop her quickly. I’ll kiss anyone as much as they want!
“Understood. I will head to Christine immediately.”
As I stood up from my chair, Iris’s report stopped me. But it’s Christine who really needs to be stopped.
“Lady Orietta, this is a report from Rufana…”
I sat back down. I had entrusted the negotiations with the Red Dragons to those two. Dragons are surprisingly intelligent and can be reasoned with. Perhaps that’s why the negotiations didn’t go smoothly.
We knew that high-purity magic stones could be mined in the mountains where the dragons lived. For the sake of securing our income, we wanted the dragons to give up their territory. Of course, we had found a better location than their current one, and they would be relocating there… It’s just like a shakedown.
“Did the negotiations go well?”
“Regarding the negotiations… according to Iris’s report, after “Move” and “Refuse,” combat ensued.”
“Is ‘Move’ a negotiation tactic?”
“It appears so. We annihilated one Red Dragon and twelve Thunder Dragons, acquiring the mine.”
Should I have gone myself? Killing them so easily, where is the animal protection law? They were precious creatures, and we might have understood each other.
“Th-That’s… I suppose it can’t be helped. Please send the Dwarf settlement team from Shidenzach to the mine.”
“About that… the battle intensified… and well… for people to live there…”
“It became uninhabitable!?”
“Yes. The area has become contaminated and uninhabitable. And so… perhaps because of that, the two of them started saying, ‘We will make this our research facility’…”
More idiots have appeared. What will happen to our source of income? I didn’t send you there to create your research facility.
“F-For now, stop the settlement team. I’ll go and talk to them.”
I stood up from my seat. No more of this selfishness, not even if God allows it, I won’t. I need to hurry and attack the Royal Capital and get Koharu Sasaki recognized as the Demon Lord by everyone around her!
Rhys’s action stopped me. He put a box on the desk. Could it be a gift? More importantly, why is he here? I asked Lia to oversee all succubi and to scout and pacify those who claim to be Demon Lords.
“This is why Priscilla’s First Corps stopped.”
Right. Priscilla stopped her advance first. And the reason is this box? Could it be…? Could it be Priscilla’s head inside!? No, that’s impossible. The box is too small.
I opened the box and sighed. It’s Priscilla after all. She truly is my wife. Let others learn from her! She stopped advancing for me to go mushroom hunting.
By its shape, these are matsutake mushrooms. They exist in this world too. Fragrant pine, flavorful shiitake. I picked one of the matsutake mushrooms and sniffed it. It was a very large mushroom, but perhaps because of the time that had passed, it lacked its scent.
Then, it would be good to make it into an clear soup and let the flavor seep out. Dobin-mushi is also tempting, or maybe just grill them and sprinkle with salt. Ah, I want to eat rice.
“You used the corps for mushroom hunting? It’s not good, but please forgive her. Iris, please tell Priscilla that I’ve received it and she should resume her advance.”
“Do you remember what you said when you entrusted your corps to Priscilla?”
Hmm? “Do your best”? I still can’t forget the feeling of my wife’s breasts and the subsequent impact on my groin at our parting… Was it bad to fondle them in public?
“I forgot.”
“You still can’t remember when you see this? What about the incubus?”
That’s right! I remember! Incubus! The male version of a succubus. I believe I was told to come along because there would be a shortage of men, including the White Lily Corps.
I had work as regent, so I asked Lia to find a substitute male. An extremely potent incubus. They would be a suitable replacement for me…
“Could it be… this…”
“It’s an incubus’s.”
I touched it, smelled it, and licked it a little! Incubus, my male partner! It’s huge! It’s indeed huge for an incubus.
“I don’t know the exact circumstances. Even though he’s a highly skilled incubus… perhaps he wasn’t satisfied, or perhaps he touched a nerve.”
Those fools! They wanted it, so I provided incubi, prepared for infidelity! I hired ten of them, right? Five matsutake mushrooms, and the rest?
“S-So, the report is that from Priscilla, ‘The First Corps will not move one step unless Michael comes.'”
I’ll go! Everyone, wash your necks and wait for me! I’ll show you what happens when you anger me! Wash your whole bodies, not just your necks.
“I will be absent from Oberstein Castle. I must tell them! I’ll leave Sophia in command! Those who interfere, annihilate them! …Ah, no, let’s be friends with harmony.”
I headed to report my departure to His Majesty the Demon Lord. It’s always at times like these that Sophia is in the nursery. Entering there makes me a little uneasy.
I take a breath before opening the nursery door. I must enter with determination, as it is a dangerous nursery. I knock on the door and slowly open it.
A dark shadow approaches. With Godspeed, I embrace her and gently release her onto the floor. Alice, my eldest daughter with Alana. Her way of greeting is inherited from her mother, an unforgiving tackle. Without even having time to stroke my head, I release my second daughter, Maris, onto the floor.
My third daughter, Nels. I catch her, and re… While catching Nels, she disappears in my hands, and an unforgiving headbutt strikes my side.
“N-Nels. You’ve learned to use afterimages, haven’t you…”
“Mom taught me.”
She taught her something unnecessary. Will she learn cloning next? A frightening daughter. Please go easy on your father.
“W-Well, please do it in moderation. It hurts. And Raphael! Don’t swing that adult halberd around! It’s dangerous.”
Raphael, my child with Priscilla. He’s a half-Lycanthrope who easily swings a halberd that’s heavy even for an adult. A true handsome young man. He must have taken after me.
“Father! I want to be of use to you soon!”
How admirable. Who did he take after? It’s undoubtedly me. When you grow up, we’ll share drinks together. Until then, I’ll create a world where you don’t have to fight.
I patted Raphael’s head and headed towards His Majesty the Demon Lord and Sophia. I also have a child with Sophia. Her name is Lianne, named after Sophia’s older sister.
“Lianne, don’t draw pictures on the castle walls with lasers. Richarda said it’s hard to erase them.”
To be able to shoot lasers at this age, I’ll worry about her boyfriend for different reasons. Not everyone can dodge them with Godspeed.
“Michael, did something happen?”
Koharu Sasaki, the Demon Lord, who looks like a middle schooler despite being the age of a high school girl. In this nursery, she takes care of the children, learns love from Sophia, and studies governance with me. In the future, she will have to bear the burden of Nordland.
“There’s a bit of trouble. I will be away from the castle for a while, but I plan to have Sophia take command.”
“W-Will you be able to return by the tenth of next month?”
“The tenth? That might be a bit difficult…”
“Please finish quickly and come back.”
“Did something happen?”
“The tenth is a dangerous day, so I was hoping to get impregnated…”
“I’m leaving!”
Will this country be alright…?
The journey on the carriage doesn’t allow for leisurely travel. I intended to go alone, but Alana is sitting next to me under the guise of escort.
Escort, you say? My left arm, right leg, and right eye are prosthetics, so anyone else would probably be retired. Popular people are busy.
“It’s been a while since it was just us two.”
A moment of peace amidst busy times. Alana placed her hand on my thigh and looked at me, a little shyly.
It feels like a distant past since I first came to this other world, was chased by goblins, and was saved by the White Lily Corps. Alana also almost ran me over with a carriage.
It feels like a distant past, yet like yesterday. It felt long, and yet it passed in a flash… I had forgotten that spring was also coming to Nordland. Perhaps it’s because the change of seasons is subtle in this southern land. Plants are budding, and the days of battle will continue again…
God. Bless this ugly yet wonderful world. Even if the world is engulfed in darkness, grant us a single ray of light.
My prayer to God was answered faster than any major online marketplace. The single ray of light that descended before me pierced through Alana’s hand, my thigh, the driver’s seat, and the ground.
“Ngya!”
“Ouch!”
I can hear it carried on the wind: “No making out in the carriage.” Do you know how far this is from the castle!? And a laser from directly above, the Demon Lord must have lent you his power!
Ah…
Ah, it’s not easy coming to another world.
The End.
