Chapter 80 – Chapter 6 – Raising the Demon King
“As far as I remember, I never cut my hand. Just open it and come in.”
Klaus said that while sitting in his seat.
Then, from outside the door, a sigh was heard, and after a while, a loud laugh was heard, and the door to the professor’s office was thrown open.
“Anyway, you haven’t changed in years! This is great. The people I know were honorable during the war, but after that they suddenly changed and became drunk with power!”
Trudging-.
At first glance, a demonic man with a large body approached Klaus.
It seemed that the atmosphere was going to go as far as whether they would pull out their swords in order to have a duel like this, but the demon just chuckled and sat down on the sofa in front of the desk where Klaus was sitting.
“It is more surprising than that. I never thought you would ask to meet me.”
“Come to think of it, there’s no one as easygoing as you.”
“Yes, yes. It has no choice but to be. In the middle of the war, he said he was crazy and took a few of his subordinates to visit him. Do you like cars? Or do you like coffee! I mean, you asked! Haha!!”
This demonic man who spits out a real laugh, not a pretense, is the crazy commander.
It was the commander of the demon tribe who suddenly came to Klaus in the middle of a war and asked if he liked tea or coffee.
‘He’s also the one who unknowingly helped me when I ate Yulia later.’
He’s probably one of the few men Klaus takes care of every episode.
He was Klaus, who kept repeating over and over again that unless he was really useful, he had no intention of taking the same thing with him.
“Long time no see. Ferdinand Else.”
Finally, Klaus turned around and met the demon man’s gaze.
Then the man called Ferdinand grinned and waved his hand very plainly.
“Long time no see, Klaus.”
It’s a demon that hasn’t changed a thing even after several years have passed.
Seeing that appearance, Klaus murmured, “It’s a trustworthy card as expected.”
Ferdinand Else, a military figure who made quite a name among the eastern demons, is also the head of the Else family, which is in charge of one axis of the neutral faction.
It is said that one axis of the huge Neutral faction, which is much larger than the Loyalist faction and slightly smaller than the faction that supports Yulia’s uncle, is a fairly prestigious family.
‘Even if it’s not level of level right now, I can say it’s right below it. More than anything else, Ferdi’s arming style is such that many soldiers follow him.’
It is not yet that many years have passed since the end of the war.
That is why the support of soldiers was still a very important basis of power.
In that respect, the Else family could be said to be the best among middle-ranking nobles.
Klaus was going to use that man right away.
By attracting neutrals, he will destroy all the happiness circuits that Yulia’s enemies dream of, and will literally pull the nervous opponent into the ring in a very urgent state.
“Rather than that, why did you suddenly call me to the academy? Not anyone else, but me.”
“First of all, there is one thing I need to check and move on to.”
“I came here as quietly as possible, as you requested. Don’t worry, just talk.”
He was like a man who proceeds coolly and coolly once in a while.
It’s a style of acting right away, not wasting time calculating profits and losses.
Klaus himself was the part he avoided as much as possible, but he was fond of those who acted that way.
“Actually, I wanted to tell you one important fact.”
“What is important? Oh, don’t you think you’re going to say that tea is better than coffee now?”
“If the car gets better, what will I do then?”
“Of course not! How proud I was after returning from the war! Klaus likes coffee, not tea! I went and asked myself! The Devil of the South directly answered that it was coffee!!”
“… Tastes change at any time, so I don’t think it matters.”
“No, no! Doesn’t that make it look like I must have lied! Is the car really good? Isn’t it? Even if you say you’re better, you say you like coffee! For my honor!!”
Those are the things that the head of the Else family sees.
It was even more funny knowing that it was coming from the heart.
In the end, he couldn’t stand it and Klaus giggled, and Ferdinand amplified his laughter by shouting, ‘I’m serious, Klaus!’
Klaus, who laughed for a long time after such a long time, cleared his throat.
It was time to get to the point, because if you procrastinate like this, that demon could be mistaken for calling you to tell you that you really changed your taste.
“That is not important. Ferdie. Actually, I have something to tell you.”
“Do you have anything other than coffee?”
“Yes. It looks like I’ll be going east sometime soon.”
In an instant, the pleasant energy disappeared from Ferdinand’s face.
And staying in that vacant seat was a vigilance and a little bit of fear.
“… What are you talking about? Why are you coming to the East?”
“It is as you hear. Not right now, but probably heading east in the near future.”
“Maybe, maybe. Is the Western Union planning a war?”
“…”
“Really? Is there really a war going on? And you are the commander-in-chief of the invasion force? Coming to the East is not possible to explain other than that.”
Klaus deliberately waited without answering.
For the past few years, he’s been kept quiet by the trash man aristocrats, and he doesn’t feel any of his achievements faded.
In such a situation, he has an opponent who watched him from closer than anyone else.
From now on, his reaction would soon be telling of his hardships over the years.
“… I will be thrilled.”
Ferdinand let out a heavy sigh and grabbed his face with his two hands as if he was going to be really excited, and at the end he grabbed a handful of his own hair and began tearing it.
A man who is unmanned to the bone, even a demon who is not a human can say that.
Come at me, come if you come, I’ll kill them all, it’s not like that.
Seeing Ferdinand’s reaction, Klaus smiled in satisfaction.
Still, his 7 years of high school weren’t in vain, and he felt really good no matter how many times he met them, so he opened his mouth while enjoying the afterglow.
“Ferdi.”
“Did I put my mind on it all this time? It’s a big deal, it’s a big deal The demons of the south are now out of human territory and pushing eastward, this is one…”
“Ferdinand.”
At Klaus’ call, Ferdinand looks at him.
Klaus, noticing that such a demonic man’s face, expression, and eyes were full of serious energy, couldn’t help but burst into laughter once more.
The moment Ferdinand gave a strange look at that reaction, as if asking why he was laughing again.
Klaus crossed his arms and tucked himself deep into the back of the chair as he opened his mouth.
“I think you’re misunderstanding something, but it’s not like that.”
“Isn’t it like that?”
“You don’t seem to know it yet, but I’m nothing on the human side anymore.”
“… What are you talking about?”
“I was completely kicked out of the military. The commander’s seat was half forcibly given to another aristocrat, and now I’m just a commoner man.”
“What?”
How embarrassed, and how stunned.
Ferdinand stood up from his seat and showed disbelief in his eyes.
“No, what are you talking about now? You, who wrote the hero of the Continental War and the legend of the South’s invincibility, were kicked out of the military? Did the humans, as a group, even lose their temper?”
“I guess so. Like you said, it might be crazy as a group.”
“Heh, heh heh. What kind of nonsense is this. No one else, Klaus, kicking you out? Are humans truly sane? Even if all kinds of treatment are not enough.”
“Well, it’s their heart. That’s why, I pretended to be crazy and started working.”
“You’re working.”
“I told you. I’m going to the east, to the land of demons.”
The words of Klaus that came up again, the story of heading east.
This time, Ferdinand didn’t misinterpret the meaning, thought it over, and then exclaimed, ‘Ah?’
“… Really?”
“Yes.”
“There’s no way they’re going to come to our land alone without anything. Who is it? The demons who persuaded you, who had nowhere to go, and led you to us. Someone on earth brought you, Klaus, to the land of demons after ending the evil of the long war.”
Originally, there was no need to answer that question.
But right now, there are some things I’m sorry about, so it was better to answer me calmly.
“Okay, one problem. Who’s here at Continental Academy right now? Among you demons, who is here as a student? Just name one woman that comes to mind.”
I had already thrown out all the hints. Even the demon, the cadet, and the woman.
If you didn’t notice it, you wouldn’t have anything to say even if you heard the sound of an asshole.
“Klaus, you can’t… Did you contact His Highness the Demon King?”
“Yes. I have already finished the story, and from now on I have decided to give my allegiance to the demon king Julia Agnesa rather than to the human kingdom.”
“Uh, what…”
“Originally, I was going to keep it a secret, but since you’re one of the few demons I’ve seen decently, I’m telling you in advance. You can think of it as a kind of special treatment.”
Even at the word of special treatment, Ferdinand couldn’t reap his dazed expression.
That Klaus, the man who fought bloody battles with demons as a human, would follow the demon king?
This was shocking and not easily believed.
However, the person who said that was none other than Klaus himself.
If it was the Klaus he knew, he wouldn’t be a great person to play with nonsense.
Everything he says now is only true.
“What the hell, what the hell is this? No, it was embarrassing enough for His Highness the Demon King to go to the academy as a cadet, but to think that you suddenly became a servant of His Highness the Demon King. Why the hell…”
As Ferdinand thought so, the image of Yulia flashed in his mind for a moment.
Although he is said to be a demon king without any real power, he is the monarch who rules the entire eastern demon tribe.
Since she was such a noble woman, all she did was see her from a relatively far distance.
Even so, Ferdinand couldn’t forget Yulia’s noble and shining figure.
Even herself, who is not particularly interested in her woman, is shaking so much, but maybe the demon king…
‘Perhaps the Demon King Julia used herself as bait to kill Klaus…’
The moment I thought about the part with a relatively high possibility of realization.
“From the looks of it, it seems like you’re spreading your imagination quite interestingly.”
“… What are you talking about?”
“Ferdi, what do you think of me? The guy who fought against the demons for 7 years is the one who was only piled up in the skirt of a demon woman and left as it was?”
At one word that hit the mark, Ferdinand bit his lip.
At the same time, he said that he had to say something that made sense to himself for thinking that way, and he bruised himself strongly.
“I’m sorry. Even though I know what kind of person you are better than anyone else, I had a strange thought.”
“I like it because it’s recognized so quickly. If you were like the human nobles, you would have reacted in reverse.”
“… Is it really more than that? That you decided to follow His Highness the Demon King.”
“If you want to take it as a joke, do it. It doesn’t dry.”
“Damn it. Saying that only increases trust.”
It was Ferdinand who sighed as he grabbed his face once more.
It is more shocking than Klaus leading the Western Allied Forces and advancing to the East.
It was truly unimaginable for him to leave the human kingdom and follow the demon king.
Each of them had tremendous hostility towards each other, and the goal of that feeling would still be deeply dented, and the scars would still remain.
Ferdinand groaned like that for a while, then opened his mouth as if he had suddenly remembered something.
“Rather than that, why are you telling me the news? I just don’t understand why they judged me as decent.”
At his question, Klaus raised the corner of his mouth.
This demon was asking something too obvious.
