
“...... An intruder?”
The West side of the Black Continent.
One of the many dungeons scattered in many places there, within the Meshram Underground Palace.
Devil Meshram, who was the owner, furrowed his brows at his subordinate's report.
“Goblin makes a fuss, but I can't get important information.”
Meshram declared himself a Demon King, but he had the appearance that Amoeba might have if it forcibly took human form, practically no Devil would follow him.
If anything, the higher ranked might be the single G rank Devil who was currently standing in front of Meshram.
Other than him, there were only Goblins and Beastia who were collected and forcibly added to his subordinates.
The Meshram Underground Palace Room was extremely luxurious, and was even better compared to the Demon King Castle that was about to collapse.
Why is it like that, since he had only locked himself underground when the Hero invaded the Black Continent, he usually declared himself a Demon King and only enjoyed the delicious food and laziness in this palace. No one could have followed him from the start.
Talking about Meshram himself, even though he said things like a true Demon King was something he did not understand, or that there were too many people who were fooled by other false talk.
These were words that the western Devils would definitely say at least once and irresponsibly misrepresent themselves.
“The intruder is not a Hero, right?”
However, even he knew about the “Turutan” Dungeon Attack that had been done when past Heroes had invaded.
Party Heroes invade the dungeons they find in the west starting from the edge, and repeatedly commit massive murders and looting - At the time of the incident, he is terrified.
“What about Beastia? They speak better than the Goblins.”
“Yes, I headed there to confirm things earlier but ...... They still haven't returned.”
With those words, Meshram started aimlessly wandering around inside the room with a restless look.
The room they were in now── Throne Room was on the lowest floor of Meshram Underground Palace.
If the Hero were to attack, they would probably be satisfied with the treasure placed on one of the upper floors for the looting used for deterrence, and go home.
It was something he made after hearing that there was a Devil who escaped danger by doing so at the time of the past Hero invasion.
It was also to aim to buy time if he escaped from the secret door while they searched for treasure.
When he hypothesized about such a situation ...... Suddenly, he heard the sound of the door of the throne room opening.
“Oh, ohh! So you're back, how?“
While trying to maintain as much majesty as possible, Meshram pointed his face at the door.
However, what was there was not Beastia.
“...... A Knight Maid?”
The subordinate demon muttered that.
What appeared was, a single young woman.
Although he could not be considered small, but it did not mean that his height could be said to be average.
He had short bluish-green hair that only covered his ears, and green eyes. He was wearing a maid uniform that was dark green like a dense forest as his basic theme.
And then, the armor that covered his chest. Having swords on both sides of her waist in sight, she was such a young woman.
Looking at the young lady who was making an unhappy face for some reason, Meshrem frantically moved his small Goblin-like head.
Knight Maid.
They are the ones whose fate is to serve the appointed ones.
Generally different from ordinary knights, it was a high-level job that demanded their expertise in performing various jobs including battles.
Naturally, for the Conferred Knights, those of high rank would gather a lot of them but ...... Because of this, there were also many Maid Knights who were looking for a master that was suitable for them to serve.
It was said that such Maid Knights would promote themselves to the masters they recognized as the only ones.
Meshram, he came to the thought that he himself deserved it.
“...... Devil Meshram. Is he here? “
Therefore, Meshram answered the young lady Knight Maid's question with a full smile.
“Absolutely. But I am not a Devil. I am the Demon King ... “.
“Mr Zweita wants a big cleanup from a big trash like you.”
Meshram and his subordinates the Devil froze on the spot because of those words.
“M, sir ...... Could .....”
“A, who is that big trash! Saying that to the great Demon King Meshram! “
The shrinking Devil and Meshram subordinates drew closer to the young lady angrily.
Upon seeing Meshram with eyes that looked like he hated her from the bottom of his heart, the young lady disdainfully told Meshram as if she was spitting on Meshran's face.
“On behalf of Demon King Vermudol, Zweita will destroy everyone here.”
Two curved blades glistened in the young lady's hands.
At the same time, the subordinate Devils started to flee along with shouts. While moving the throne, he fled to the exit below him.
“O, yes! Kulu ... Somebody get in here! There's intruders!”
Meshram raised his voice.
It was for times like this that he included the skilled Beastia here. They would definitely twist and destroy one lowly Maid Knight. Believing that, Meshram shouted.
“No use.” said Zeeita coldly.
Meshram trembled at Zweita's words.
The light of the curved sword. And then, his faintly green eyes glittered. The instincts that were inside Meshram muttered that it was Magic Eyes.
“Because they are not on standby and are hiding in a secret room somewhere, then Zweita has destroyed everything.”
“Y, you lied ....”
“Zweita, no lie. In addition, Zweita is too busy.”
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
With a curved sword prepared in both hands, Zweita stood before the eyes of Meshram, who had been frightened and was already unable to stand up straight.
While staring at Meshram with eyes that saw him as trash, Zweita muttered.
“That's because Zweita is a hard worker. There is still a lot of cleaning to do.”
The curved sword once again shone.
With one strike, he chopped off his head.
With a single strike, he tore his body in two.
With the following series of attacks, he slashed that head smoothly.
It was only a few seconds.
In an instant when the throne room was turned into a pool of blood along with the sound of the screams of the victims, Zweita was already heading to the exit.
With this, the cleaning of this place is complete. However, Zweita still has a lot of work and things to do.
After all, lowly self-proclaimed Demon Lords.
“Zweita must work hard, for the Demon King to praise Zweita.”