Chapter 81 – Chapter 6 – Raising the Demon King
“The Western Union side is also really confused, but I heard that you demons are suffering as well. For example, you aristocrats are divided into three factions and are fighting with each other and fighting over the question of whether or not we should change the king.”
“How do you know that?”
Ferdinand’s expression changed fiercely in an instant.
It is not pleasant to hear that such a sensitive matter has reached the ears of a human, not the same demon.
He looked at Klaus for a while and thought that maybe the demon king was talking to him.
That expectation was the most realistic, but Klaus’ words that followed made Ferdinand no choice but to give up on that idea.
“Did I simply fight well? As far as I remember, that’s not the end.”
“Ah…”
Ferdinand let out a shot ceremony as if he had forgotten for a moment.
That human in front of me wasn’t just a commander who was good at fighting.
Force is power and strategy is strategy, but more than that, it raised Klaus’s reputation.
The part that demons like himself were most afraid of was Klaus’ ‘information gathering ability’.
No matter how careful he was or how secretly he moved, he managed to catch the movement on this side.
Then he hit the front row first, then cut off the trailing one, then tore his torso to pieces and devoured it.
There was no use in finding the spy or acting in strict secrecy.
His intelligence gathering was unparalleled, to the point where it was widely said that there really wasn’t a single top-secret thing that Klaus couldn’t figure out if he wanted to.
‘Actually, it’s not about gathering information, it’s just coming from experience.’
Ferdinand, the demons, and everyone on the continent will never know until they die.
In fact, Klaus literally has an ability that can be called a cheat or a hack.
“Don’t doubt my new lord for nothing. I feel pretty upset.”
“… Did you really decide to follow His Majesty?”
“Since I only got hit in the back of the head, let’s say I’m desperate for an owner who won’t hit me in the back.”
“Is it. Well, if it’s you… Even if you have such a heart, no one will say anything to you.”
At the time when he was in the middle of a winning streak, the human command suddenly fired Klaus.
And he seated an aristocratic commander in that vacant seat, and immediately after that, he had a very big impact on receiving a crushing defeat that would go down in history.
Thanks to this, the Confederate Army, which Klaus had painstakingly created for several years, was almost annihilated.
‘But, still, that human really abandoned the human kingdom. I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.’
He is a man who defended the southern part of the country by defending the front line to the end even in a hopeless situation.
Without loyalty, without the slightest wavering, very absolute loyalty, it was absolutely impossible.
Klaus returns to the demons who fought so bloodily a few years ago?
You swore allegiance to the demon king, the lord of the demons, and fell on his knees?
After hearing this, how many people can truly believe it?
“Back to the point, Ferdi. Even though I was humiliated and despised by the nobles, I made the best use of what was left of me to gather news. As a result, they say that you are a member of the neutral faction, one of the three factions of the eastern demons.”
“… Yes.”
“Great. Then say it in an introductory way. Ferdinand. Support Julia Agnesa, Your Highness the Demon King.”
I said in advance that it was a one-way introduction, but it was really straight forward with no corner to talk about.
Neither the demon aristocrats nor the members of the loyalists have ever spoken so directly.
I’m careful because I don’t know when or what kind of trap the words I’ve uttered will be used.
Klaus didn’t seem to care about any of that.
“Don’t talk nonsense about neutral pie and what, just decide. Become a loyalist who follows the demon king, or become a traitor who promotes a reverse revolution.”
“… You’re talking too much, Klaus. Aren’t you a human, not a demon?”
“Yes, I am human. But does that matter? While you, the demons, were also hesitant to follow the demon king, I recognized her potential at a glance and recognized her as my lord. If it’s like this, I’d rather think I’m better than you demons.”
At Klaus’s mockery, Ferdinand let out a sigh.
Now that man knew how complicated the situation in the East was, so he said such a thing.
There is no way that the loyalist faction and the reverse revolutionary faction would not know that the size of the neutral faction was quite large.
Nevertheless, not recklessly approaching neutrals and attracting them was to be cautious due to concerns that neutrals might be absorbed into the opposing camp as a reaction to it.
In addition, the neutral side is also a group of nobles who insist on neutrality only on the surface.
In reality, it was a gathering place of forces that were only paying attention to the fact that they were preparing to change ships at any time.
Of course, there were some people who purposely kept their distance because they were not interested in political strife like himself, but most of the neutrals were waiting for their superiors.
So you have to be even more careful.
It’s because they don’t want to face a situation where they try to tilt the scales in their own direction and the balance is completely destroyed.
It would be difficult for the revolutionary faction to turn to the loyalists after stimulating the neutrals.
As for the loyalists, if all of them join the reverse revolutionaries, they will be defeated unconditionally, so they will remain silent.
Even the neutrals were just waiting to see if they would split into quarters.
“… Klaus. Ask me something Did the demon king even make a request? Do you want me to persuade the Neutralists?”
“No. At all. If the king was weak enough to make such a request to a servant in the first place, if she was a woman without such a thoughtful mind, would I have stepped forward to comply?”
Yes, that word. That part was the biggest.
It is said that Klaus follows the demon king, the same Klaus who shook the west and east with his name alone, follows the demon king Julia Agnesa who has nothing!
How brilliant he was in the Continental War, and how honorable he was, but couldn’t he have made a hasty decision to follow the Demon King because of something stupid!
‘Damn it, what the hell is it? There was no way that human, that man would have said that he would follow Demon King Yulia for nothing. If so, then there must be something. The Demon King, whom I thought was just glaze, was actually hiding something. Klaus recognized that at a glance!’
A perfectly verified blank check in the Continental War, that is Klaus.
When the man faced the demon king who had been beaten back and forth by his uncle, and all he had was the demon king, who had everything from the lineage of the proud demon king family, and he suddenly decided to support it, it was a rational thing to think that there was something.
This is why Klaus suffered so much in the Continental War.
To make those around you, as well as your obvious enemies from the past, firmly believe that when you point to a place, they look at it and believe that there is something there.
So he did everything in the direction he wanted.
“As a side note, I’m suggesting this not because I need it, but because I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, do you make an offer?”
“What the demon king likes is that he wants to attract you one by one and place you in an important position. Even if you want to hang them by beating their necks, they will wear a hat.”
“…”
“However, if you kill and eliminate all the revolutionary and neutral factions, there will be no people to work for. On the vast land of the East, only an empty place without an owner appears. That seemed a bit disappointing.”
“Are you threatening me now?”
Ferdinand distorts his expression as he pretends to be angry.
What Klaus is saying right now is clearly a clear threat.
If you don’t want to die, you’re telling me to stand on the devil’s side even now.
Any other normal person would have realized his mistake and changed his mind or apologized.
However, Klaus was a veteran who had done this many times and was rotten water.
“That’s right. Exactly. You are threatening me.”
“… What?”
“Then should I call you and ask for a favor, or should I make a deal? This is an obvious blackmail, Ferdinand. If I follow the devil, my queen, I will live; if I rebel, I will die. I will definitely make it.”
If someone else had said this, Ferdinand would have responded with a big smile.
As a bonus, he must have had the energy to ridicule him a little for making threats that the kids wouldn’t use.
However, since the opponent was Klaus, I didn’t think of anything like that.
Follow my queen or die, I will surely kill you.
Each word seemed to become a dagger and fly to the heart.
At that bleak and chilly tone, Ferdinand involuntarily swallowed dry saliva.
“I have no intention of picking up those who are weighing it. It’s only reaching out to people you can trust, like you, and I have no intention of stepping out like that scumbag.”
“Should I be happy? I was recognized by you, because this is it.”
“No. It was recognized by your king, not by me.”
It was Klaus who pointed out the important part.
Thanks to that, Ferdinand frowned even more.
As his head pounded, he tried to find an answer to this incomprehensible situation.
Julia Agnesa, a woman who accidentally ascended the throne simply because she met her parents well.
Doesn’t that mean she’s actually keeping an eye on him secretly?
Even in the midst of having my limbs cut off, even in the midst of traitors appearing around me, I thoroughly concealed myself and prepared to turn the tables with a single blow.
‘Just Klaus alone is shocking, but the king that man follows is our demon king.’
I didn’t want to think hard. No, there was nothing difficult to think about.
In fact, Ferdinand himself was fed up with the political strife within the royal family that had continued since the middle of the war.
The uncle who pushed out his nephew and became the king, and the demon king, who sat in the king’s seat and couldn’t even raise his voice even once, was pathetic.
So whether others change the king or keep it.
He had a complacent thought that it would be okay if he just showed his allegiance to the survivor.
He shouldn’t have done that, but he came to stupid conclusions and believed it was right.
“Klaus. It wasn’t you who was making this proposal to me right now, it was the will of His Majesty the Demon King.”
“Yes. I am merely conveying the will of my queen.”
“Great. Then, before answering, I want to ask you one question. What kind of person is your queen, our demon king?”
Of course, Ferdinand still doesn’t know Yulia’s real face.
I just believe that I am in the position of the devil because I am lucky and there are people who are loyal to me because I am beautiful.
Without knowing at all that there is a fiercer and tougher temperament than any demon tribe hidden within it.
“It’s hard to sum it up in one word, but if I had to say it anyway, I could say it like this. To the extent that I am a queen who deserves to hold me.”
In response to Klaus’ answer, Ferdinand muttered, “Is that so?” And smiled.
I just made up my mind with that answer.
With this, one of the most basic parts of raising a demon king has been laid.
A fairly well-known demon who had been neutral up until now passed over to a persuasion that didn’t sound like persuasion.
With the thought that if Klaus was a woman she recognized as king, she might have something she didn’t know.
In the future, when you return to the land of the demons, you set the spark for the gathering of loyal forces that will be needed.
Now, for a while, there will be no spirit among loyalists and anti-revolutionaries due to the sudden turbulent neutrals.
While their eyes are distracted, Yulia and herself must focus on very simple things.
It was the beginning of raising the demon king in the true sense of the word, raising the level of the demon king several steps higher.
