Demon Girl ~Tale of a Lax Demon~

ichi wasn’t taking damage either.

It might be that she was wary of Minkichi’s offensive power as a hero, but in the current situation, all it was was frustrating and embarrassing.

“Minkichi-Samaaaaaaaaaaaa……”

“Miss Cocoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”

It seems that the greataxe wielded by “Chi-chan” finally broke through the shield, and “Rena-chin” burned through it with fire magic, taking down “Miss Coco”.

If Minkichi hurried over to heal her, there might still have been a chance of resuscitation.
But Fannie wouldn’t allow that.

The two mad women began to attack each other again.

“Get out of my wayyyyyyyy! Get out of my waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!”

“Why?”

The truth is that Fannie always smiles and looks as if she’s enjoying herself, but internally, all of her thoughts raged darkly.

This world…… even though she was being commanded by her most beloved of all the worlds, most respected of all, her Mother, her Creator, the Sun of her being, her [Mistress], she had still been drawn to those human beings called Heroes for a long time.

They surely must be tormented and their souls taken away.
So Fannie had determined.

“Ubohhhhhhhhhhh!”

“Guh!?”

Something impacted Minkichi strongly on the back even as something shouted behind her.

“F-Fia-tan……”

It was “Fia-tan” who ought to have been taken down by the flame magic of “Rena-chin”.

She was cruelly burned all over, but still, she snarled and attacked Minkichi with her battered body, her eyes flashing dangerously like a drug addict’s.

“Fia-tan” usually used the martial arts of the “sumo-wrestlers”, making use of her immense girth, but Minkichi, thanks to her bodily fat, had [Impact Nullification], her body was still immobilized by the incoming impact that exceeded the threshold of her resistance.

“Stop it, Fia-tan, come back to reality!”

“Ubooooooooooooooohhhhh!!!”

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

’

At the same time, the balance of power finally collapsed, and Chi-chan’s greataxe cut “Rena-chin” from shoulder to heart.

“RENA-CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!”

Minkichi’s scream of grief at the loss of another friend drew the attention of her killer, “Chi-chan”,

“Stop, STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPP!!”

Minkichi was forced onto the defensive by the combined offense of the two hero-class fighters.
But even under such circumstances, Minkichi was able to seize the gap in their offense and strike them down.

Yet, she was unable to lift her hand against her own comrades, even though they were being manipulated.

Fannie, the manipulator, was watching Minkichi from a distance, laughing as though she was declaring that dealing with Minkichi didn’t require her to get her hands dirty.

Actually, Fannie wasn’t able to completely control the so-called [Hero class] people, so was instead showing them a nightmare, where she too would be getting attacked if she got closer.

“…… It’s about time?”

“…Wh-!?”

It happened suddenly.

Until now, Minkichi had only been wary of the greataxe attacks, and the attacks by the martial arts that would hit vital points that weren’t covered by [Impact Nullification], but the strikes suddenly began to hurt.

And not only was that happening, but the [Automatic Skills] like [Evasion] and [Parry] weren’t working well.
Minkichi, who was used to [Skill Combat], was still able to move, but found herself unable to even defend, much less attack.

“Well then, let’s go~”

And as she said that, Fannie used the [Lava Summon] that she’d used in her first battle against her.

There was no way that anyone could survive it in this narrow cave if they were human, but Fannie didn’t have to worry about it.

“……………”

Even while she was being attacked by her friends, Minkichi stopped moving as the heat of the lava approached her feet.

As it was, she was surely going to die by her comrades’ hands.
So………

“Fire Storm!!!”

So Minkichi gave up her mercy.
It wasn’t about survival, but about her giving up the odds of surviving with her companions.

For some reason, it took longer for her to use, as she’d lost access to her [Magic Skills], but Minkichi drowned her former comrades with the high-ranking flame magic.

“Absolutely…… I will absolutely kill you!!!!”

*

In that dark cave, there was a human figure that walked as if every step were their last.

To be honest, it resembled crawling much more than walking.

Its body had been torn to pieces, and the combined blood loss and magic loss now meant that it was moving only by survival instinct.

“……Magic Jewels…… my magic jewels……”

At the same time, what was in her head was the image of herself adorned with beautiful [Magic Jewels] that made her the envy of all who saw her.

“Come on already…… my magic jewels……”

Even as she dragged himself forward in a daze, she noticed a figure that was in an even worse state than she was, covered in deep burns all over, crawling down one of the passageways.

“………Min… kichi…?”

It was the hero of flame, Minkichi, who had killed her irreplaceable companions who she should have trusted just to survive.

She had been kidnapped into this world, and indulged herself to conceal all of her anxiety, and now she had lost everything she had gained.

Still, she feared to die.
Collapsing into a sitting position, she burned her life force to generate [Pure Magic] to heal her own wounds.
There……

“Gurhhk! sssu”

Minkichi’s heart was stabbed through by Kanzo creeping up on her with a knife.

“……Ka-… Kanzo……”

“Fufufu…… Yes! I finally found it!”

Kanzo and Minkichi had been getting along like oil and water ever since they had met.

Still, she had been a hero who was the hope of humanity, and because they were both in the position of being accomplices to each others’ crimes, she had never aimed at the other’s life directly.

’

But now, Kanzo rapturously took away Minkichi’s life.

“Now, please die…… For me!”

“Kanzo…… why, me…”

As the words [So this is how it ends] left Minkichi’s lips with her final breath, Kanzo twisted the blade, and as the light faded from her eyes, her pure magic flowed into Kanzo.

“Ahhhhh, this is it!”

Kanzo had taken a potion from Noa, Yurushia’s butler.

After drinking it, she didn’t need to threaten the other heroes to extract their magic power, instead becoming able to turn a [Hero’s] life force into pure magic power for the creation of [Magic Jewels].

Under the effects of the potion, the pure magic power flowed from Minkichi, and was absorbed by Kanzo, only to flow back into Minkichi’s corpse again, infused with the potion’s power.

Now Minkichi’s body would produce the pinnacle of [Magic Jewels] just like how monsters would produce magic stones.

“It’s here…… it’s here it’s here it’s here it’s here it’s here it’s here it’s here !!!!”

And so, on the surface of Minkichi’s corpse was an egg-sized [Magic Jewel].

It had an iridescent beauty…… Both in its size and the strength of the magic, it surpassed any [Magic Jewel] she had seen thus far, clearly a gem worthy to be a national treasure.

“……Wh-why?”

Kanzo’s face turned from joy to annoyance.

The growth wasn’t stopping.
Despite all of the pure magic from Minkichi being converted into the gem, the magic flowing from Kanzo didn’t stop.

“Wait, stop…… STOP!”

Kanzo tried to grab onto the [Magic Jewel] in a bid to stop it, but she was repelled by the strong magic, unable to even touch it.
Kanzo would have been able to touch it if she squeezed pure magic out of himself, but since it was flowing out of her already, she was helpless.

“This is……”

As the life drained from Kanzo’s skin, her muscular body withered, becoming thin.

“Oh my, you finally got the [Magic Jewel].
My congratulations.”

Kanzo looked up toward the voice and saw the boy who primly wore his finely-made butler clothes looking back at her, smiling softly.

“……Noa…”

Without even wondering why the boy was here, Kanzo stretched out her withered, twig-like hand towards the boy.

“Ple…ase……help me…… Noa……”

“I can’t, Sir Kanzo.
This is all accordingly to the wishes of “my master”.”

And at those words, the scales finally fell from Kanzo’s eyes.
In Kanzo’s hazy sight, there was the figure of a man, standing behind Noa.

“You……”

It was Kanzo’s deputy.
The one who had completely turned over a new leaf, who had become Kanzo’s capable deputy, was looking at him with a rictus grin that wasn’t quite human, like Tina.

“Ah, he’s also one of Milady’s more capable contracted servants.”

And then she finally noticed.

The true identity of the maid, Tina, that had fought them.

If their master, Yurushia, was also the same, then her deputy…… and the boy in front of him were……

“……[Demons]……”

“Yes, how very observant of you.”

Leaving only that, the hero of earth Kanzo expired from despair.

Noa recovered the black souls and the magic jewels that was dyed in the despair of the two people, and, grinning sweetly to himself, he hurried back towards his beloved lady.

Author’s Notes:

This one was a little long.
The Demons appear quite a bit.

Nea is protecting the children outside.

Next time, Saint vs.
Hero!