The Demon King's Reincarnation Starts a New Life From Zero

V2 Chapter 22 If Wrong Steps

“Nn, ahh ..... what is it?”

“There's one thing I want to confirm.”

Sechste raised his index finger, and thrust it into Borkio.

“If you do not return ..... what effect will it have?”

"That's ……"

Asked that, Borkio stroked his beard as if pondering over it.

After doing that for a while, he returned his gaze to Sechste.

“...... Well, various possible suspicions will occur.”

"That's right."

"How's what?"

Hearing the conversation of Borkio and Sechste, Varvatos, made a puzzled face, joined in.

“It's easy. A state ship that has not returned despite having traveled the sea route that should have been safe. The place the ship departed from was the country that advocated the Demi-Human rejection argument. So what are the possibilities that will be suspected ....?”

“Attacks by Kingdom of St. Altlis .... yes.”

“That's how it is.”

Sechste nodded at the comment that Dreigo, who had remained silent until now, had muttered.

“Nobody can prove what exactly happened. Moreover, even if the ship was repaired, and safely passed through the [Faraway Sea]. This will be a story of how they will explain the details.”

“Is there some kind of problem?”

“Yeah, Var-var. Have you forgotten who we are?”

Sechste recited a sentence that appeared in a book carried by Varvatos from the territory of mankind.

“[Village Monster smeared with hate. They attack, steal, kill, attack the village.]”

“[These actions are meaningless to them, and are only done because they all have an infinite hatred towards humanity that can only be healed through death.]”

“[Their joy-stained eyes only represent their evil, and show their evil meaning to the world.]”

“Legenda Hero yes ....”.

Sechste nodded at the mutterings that made Varvatos sound disgusted.  

“Persis. We are evil Monsters, you know what? Have reached the fortress of people like us and saved by us, who will believe it.”

“But, if they are shown the truth, they will believe it, right?”

“Naif, Ver-cchi, the naive ”.

Sechste shook his index finger, and turned his chest away.

“I'm sure humanity will think of things like this. Must be the Monster has some kind of ulterior motive. No more than that. The fact that Monster has made a lot of comebacks is a problem. They need to be handled.”

“Uu ....”.

Maybe because something came to his mind, Borkio gave a small nod.

After Dreigo looked at that Borkio with a glance, he returned his gaze to Sechste.

“In that case, I am sure that the world will move on a large scale.”

“They will not have free time to fight among fellow human beings ...... right?”

Sechste nodded at Varvatos words.

Right, that must be how it turned out.

With the threat of a new Monster and Demon King before them, humanity will temporarily unite.

And then, there is no mistake that the swelling tension and discontent among the human race will be thrown towards the “absolute” evil known as Monster.

In that case, it is possible that the pretentious assertion said for the sake of peace known as the Demi-Human denial argument will be blown away.

At the very least, it should turn out to be enough "facts" to delay the problem.

And then, if the leaders of the Kingdom of St. Altlis was incompetent, it could be predicted that they would take advantage of the chaos from the Demon King's awakening, and make all the current problems that occurred due to the Monster's fault.

"……I get it."

“No, wait a minute. It was a story if we could go back .... right?”

Seeing the display of Varvatos' understanding, Borkio hurriedly interrupted.

“Sure, I cannot say that such a possibility does not exist. But, the possibility of passing the 'Farthest Sea' is close to zero, you know?”

“Honestly, the fact that we're here like this is some kind of miracle. And we have no means to report your whereabouts.”

“Ahh, that's right.”

Varvatos said that and nodded.

Borkio's words just now were basically him begging for their lives.

If they were to be tried as risk factors for the Monsters, they would all probably be taken his life here.

Borkio feels that the flow of talk has become dangerous, and tries to somehow insist that they themselves are harmless.

Following the general knowledge of mankind, Borkio's insistence that they cannot return is true. However, that was not the case with the general knowledge of Monsters.

Monsters can use Transfer Magic. There would be no problem to send the group of Borkio back to the Cylus Empire.

At first, Varvatos came with the aim of seeking the possibility of achieving peace with humanity with the group of Borkio as material for it.

However, when everything changed now, such a way of thinking was wrong, and he felt that Sechste's worries were right.

“Monster rescues members of humanity found floating.”

Something like “Be it Gramfia or Shuklous, Alva is not a friend to the Monster of the Black Continent”.

“Honestly, this is a very complicated problem. If we take one wrong step, it will rush with a quick attack into the war with mankind.”

Hearing Sechste's words, Varvatos fell silent.

Right, as he said.

Things that are too hard to get in.

What he needs to think about is not what to do for the right thing to do, but what to do to produce the best results.

“King of the Devil.”

Behind Varvatos who was thinking, Eina appeared.

“...... So you, Eina.”

“Preparation for rescue is complete. First wave of personnel and supplies will arrive soon.”

“Ahh.”

Varvatos nodded, and for a while averted his mind.

“For now, I will guarantee your safety on behalf of the Demon King. It would be better to heal the sick and injured.”

“As for your acceptance after that, we will let you know later ..... We will not kill you, so you can have peace of mind with that part.”

"……Thank you."

Hearing Borkio's reply like that, Varvatos replied with a nod, and after a slight silence, he opened his mouth.

“...... Do we, really look evil?”

Perhaps because he felt the resignation shown through those words, Borkio showed a face that he was worried about how he should answer.

“...... Seeing how we can talk like this, you guys don't look like that to me. But, for the belief that people in my home country will believe my story ...... Me, don't have.”

“I'm sure that's the problem. The fact that you have not disbanded your prudence is proof of it.”

Varvatos answered like that, then gave instructions to Eina.

“Start rescue. All hands, go through them so that they are in perfect physical condition.”

“As you command.”

After nodding with a beautiful bow, Eina immediately moved to take him out.

Varvatos stared at the gray sky with an expression filled with complicated thoughts.