Was Bought by the Demon King Right Before the Ending 17

Chapter 17 – The Hero

Champion, Artorius.

The first time I met him was about a year ago.

An idiot who came to the capital, Oz, with a friend to play, accidentally pulled out a legendary sword, fell for the candy coating of King Oscar, a cunning old man, and accidentally went to kill the devil.

At the order of Master, the owner of the Mage Tower, I joined the warrior’s party to support such an idiot.

Actually, my impression of him wasn’t bad from the beginning.

Even so, as a man with only two people in the party, he often gave me counseling about my worries, and because of the six-year age difference, I followed him well while walking away from him.

Then, the decisive moment between the hero and me was when I met Mephisto, the Scarecrow of Death, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s Army.

The hero, who was horribly defeated by Mephisto, the Four Heavenly Kings, after winning victories with his overwhelming talent, which was cheat key itself, felt the fear of death for the first time in his life and chose to escape because of it.

The one who forcibly dragged the hero out of the room, who had closed the door to his heart due to the shock of defeat, was the gorilla guy who had clearly liked him from before.

Well, it is a story that has often been passed down from the past that a man who has stepped on the threshold of death can regain his peace of mind with the help of a woman.

Anyway, thanks to the warrior’s dedication, the warrior was able to safely overcome fear, and we were able to go on a journey to assassinate the demon king again.

Actually, looking at it this far, it would have been a happy ending.

Because the two people who had a crush on each other eventually connected through this opportunity.

But after that it was a problem.

Didn’t Zhong say that if you taste meat, bed bugs won’t remain in the temple?

The hero who had once tasted a woman’s body would leave the party whenever he had a chance and secretly kick rice cakes with the warriors. Like the warriors, he even touched the sages and priests who showed their liking for him.

In fact, the cleric didn’t even know he had been eaten, but one day when he received a heal, the effect was reduced by about 30%. Fuck.

Thanks to that, the potion value increased.

The bigger problem is that since all the girls in the party belong to the warrior, she has started to subtly keep me in check, the same guy.

It’s me, I thought it would be possible to make rice cakes with young people looking into each other’s eyes, but it seems that the warrior who had no dating experience before was afraid of me taking away the other party members.

Gradually, as time passed, the use of honorifics while talking hyung and hyung changed to short words such as ‘ya’ and ‘you’, and whenever I had time, I wiped out the demons walking around by myself, and when I came back, I didn’t say thank you like I always did. It became.

Well. As I explained, I became a bastard who was not enough even to say that I was ungrateful, so what should I do?

This is all thanks to the steady accumulation of karma stacks.

And I am a person who never forgets old grudges.

***

“Then I’ll leave it alone, so let’s talk.”

Vanessa, who kindly guided me to this place, said that while walking towards the chair at the entrance on the 3rd floor.

It looks like he’ll wait there until I’m done with my business.

I glanced at Camilla behind me.

“…Why is that?”

However, if you look closely, it doesn’t seem that she will change her position as easily as Vanessa.

Well, I’m not going to talk about anything important, so I guess it doesn’t matter.

I called a hero who didn’t move with his head down in prison.

“Hey.”

“…”

However, the warrior sitting with his back against the wall did not react.

Did you pass out from the harsh torture? Or it could just be a normal sleep.

However, I have come all the way here, but can’t I go back without any income?

I glanced at Vanessa, who was sitting near the entrance, and snapped my fingers.

Chaaaaagh!

Then, as the mana in the body is transformed, a large amount of cold water pours on the hero’s head.

“Cool! Cool!”

Perhaps startled by the sudden baptism of cold water, the hero coughed and lifted his head.

“…Kaldrash?”

The hero’s blurred eyes were out of focus and couldn’t stare at me properly.

Compared to the other guys who were relatively fine, seeing that only the warrior was so battered, it must have been severely tortured.

Well, it’s the same as being arrested on the spot for trying to kill the head of state.

I waved his hand and lightly greeted the warrior whose body was in tatters.

“Hey, it’s been a while. Hero. Was the devil’s bean rice delicious?”

However, his response to his return was cold.

“…Did you come to laugh at me?”

Calmer than you think

I thought, of course, that he would get angry as soon as he saw my face.

He examined the shackles binding his limbs.

As the demon king said, it must have been specially processed, and the mana generated from the warrior’s body was not condensed and was constantly being scattered outside.

Even if that’s the case, not the sword master, but the sword master’s grandfather, he won’t be able to escape.

Camilla was watching the game from the side, so I deliberately smiled like a villain and took a step forward.

“Hero, do you know why you’re still alive?”

Then the hero was silent for a moment, and then answered with dry lips like a dry field.

“It must be because there is a corner to use something.”

Hearing that, I shook my head with an exaggerated gesture.

“No, I asked for help. I wanted to see with my own eyes how desperate you were in prison.”

Then, the calm warrior’s expression distorted.

“…Your hobby is bad.”

Instead of answering, I shrugged my shoulders and spoke to the hero.

“From now on, as a magician belonging to the Demon King’s Army, I intend to become the faithful guardian dog of the Demon King. At least it will be much better than when I was in the warrior’s party, where I was treated worse than a dog.”

Then the warrior who was listening to the story looked at me with a complicated expression.

“What made you that way? At least I know you weren’t the kind of person who sold out your colleagues for money.”

At first, I intended to simply bully the hero, but I, who was laughing leisurely, slightly rolled my eyes when I heard that.

Bang!!

So, he hit the bars in front of his eyes with his forehead and said.

“Are you saying this because you really don’t know? Don’t you think you remember how I was treated while you and those bastard bastards worked hard? I betrayed you for a legitimate reason. You, more than anyone else, have no right to comment on my actions.”

Camilla, who was standing behind her, caught her breath.

Maybe it’s because it’s the first time I’ve seen myself genuinely angry.

Without even thinking to wipe the red blood that ran down her forehead, I roared over her iron bars and looked straight into the warrior’s eyes.

At first, he also stared at me without avoiding my eyes to avoid losing, but as time passed, he secretly looked away, perhaps because of his stamina.

Only then did I take a few steps back from the bar and brushed my feverish hair.

I’m not asking for anything grandiose.

Still, if there was such a thing as a fucking conscience, I thought that if the party executive had even betrayed the demon king right before killing it, he would have reflected on something, but there was no sign of it at all.

He is a selfish guy from start to finish.

You think the world only revolves around you.

I felt like I would only get angry if I talked to him any longer, so I took a few deep breaths and spoke as if warning.

“By the way, it’s better not to think about committing suicide. If you die, the rest of the party members who have less useful value will be executed amicably.”

At that moment, for the first time, the blurred eyes of the hero came into focus.

“Mo, are they all still alive?! Where! Where are they?!”

This is surprising

If they were imprisoned on the same floor, it would have been possible to confirm whether they were alive or dead by voice, but the warrior was completely unaware of their survival.

When I glanced sideways, wanting something, Camilla whispered in my ear.

‘As far as I know, all the walls of the third floor have special soundproofing magic. A person imprisoned in this room cannot hear the voice of a prisoner in another room.’

Indeed, something like that happened.

I said mockingly to the hero who was clearly excited.

“They’re still alive. I’m not completely cold-blooded either. In the future, depending on your attitude, I might release them.”

Of course, this is a blatant lie.

Like the hero imprisoned here, I had no intention of freeing the others.

The moment even one of them gets out of this dungeon, the fact that I betrayed the warrior party will be known to the world.

Buying time by putting them in prison is the next three months… No, 4 months would be the limit.

If the hero’s party disappeared for over half a year after entering the demon’s territory, it would normally be assumed that they were wiped out.

If this fact reached the ear of the old fox sitting on the throne, he would immediately select a new hero and send a new scout.

According to my hypothesis, as long as the hero of the time is alive, if another hero does not appear, he will be relieved, but if not, it will be like a grand shovel.

At the news of the couple’s survival, I said, leaving the hero with an anguished expression behind his back.

“I’ll come back next time. Have an answer ready until then.”

Now that you’ve seen the face of the unlucky warrior, it’s time to take care of the real business that came down to the dungeon.

Camilla carefully held out her handkerchief to me as I went back the way I came.

“Use it to stop the bleeding on your forehead.”

I hesitated for a moment when I received it, but then I told her with a bitter smile.

“Thanks.”

Camilla is a very caring woman.

She was sure she would make a good bride.