The Sended's
Chapter 88: If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!
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I thought hell was a bad place with a lot of yelling and interesting things going on, but it seems to be very quiet here
Not exactly a hell.... But this is where the demons live.
Is it usually this quiet or is there something strange?
"Where is everyone?" Ask As
"Minos? Samaelian? Megera's? Where're you?!" Cried one of the Devil men
They all searched every house but found no demons
"Even Aeacus and Rhadamanthus were not in their posts,"
There is a guard post here, although it looks ancient but it is clearly visible a post
So where did everyone go exactly? Why don't we find any demons here?
For that question I have the answer.
"Your previous situation was apparently experienced by all the villagers, you were all controlled to go out and create chaos in Qing city up there," I explained
"What do you mean?"
"I heard there was more than one hole open to the surface, if it is, then there are more people coming up to the surface" I continued
They seem to understand my explanation well
"We should split up and look for them! Then we must close the holes to that surface world! The longer it will take, the more races will hear of our existence" As said
"Asmodeus right! We need to get them home!" Oh so his name is Asmodeus
They began to divide the group into six with three people each in each group, I counted....
We split up outside the village, returning to the labyrinth of caves that branched quite a lot, this time not with the same path as before of course
I'm with As and that Devil girl named Verinne is one group, thankfully because I'm with them both... You see, it seems easier to talk to these two Devils than others
Rather than no topic, I have a lot of questions about the Devil that they certainly know better than the fairy tale books in our library, so I tried to ask As and this girl
"Do you know nothing about us humans?"
"I told you, we and previous generations have only heard the name of your race this time" he replied
"It's true, because even in the ancient books we didn't mention the existence of your race" said the girl named Verinne
Perhaps what our book says is true, humans have not yet come to the surface as the great war unfolds
Now if we look again at our situation as if exchanging with them, we can enjoy Kelfia without fear of outside threats because of that big lie, while they start creeping and end up burying themselves
I put a little taste of cassi..han...? Wah-wah apparently what Kyouka said is true, it seems slowly my sense of indifference towards the creature from this world began to disappear
"Do you really not have the strength to fight anymore? Where exactly did your king go? Why are you led by an elder down here?"
"War you said...? That word never again came out of the mouth of a Devil, our generation has only heard of it from our books kept by elders." As said.
"Is the war so bad as?" Ask Verinne
"I don't know... But isn't that why so many of our people have fallen? Even that which took our King and his entire family, leaving us no man, no home, no purpose" replied As
"The two are the wisest among the Devils, those who replaced the vacant King for 13 generations" he continued
Hm... So their king died? But I have also never heard of how he died, I think if he died in battle then the winner can give a good heroic story, unfortunately it does not exist
"What about you, Rune? Do you think war is as bad as I say it is?" Ask him
Verinne was also curious about my answer
"Well, I can't argue with that, but in every war there must be a goal to be achieved. In the end, especially the losers like you will indeed condemn the war, but at first I thought your nation was very patriotic against the enemy" I replied
"Well! I don't know about that, which you definitely need to know that the current Devil will not want to fight anymore, I say this because there is a possibility that we will become the people of your kingdom," As said seriously
He helped me and Verinne to get up on a rock that was blocking the way
"Normally everything has to serve the kingdom anyway, but we also can't possibly demand conscription against a family traumatized by it, I guess I can exclude you guys," I took his hand and climbed onto the big rock
Behind this stone are dozens of other Devils who have been lying unconscious, and like the previous hole seen behind them there is already a seal iron that closes this one hole
"They're not dead, are they? Come As! We must immediately bring them back to the village!" Verinne said worriedly
He went down and ran towards them first, while I waited for As to do the same. But he seems to want to ask me something
"You sound like you have great power within the Ruby Kingdom, can you really make your King grant your request, our request?"
"No need to worry, my power in the Kingdom is very large, besides Ruby is led by a Queen instead of a King,"
Me and As finally came down and came closer to Verinne and the dozens of Devils that were sprawled, they tried to shake the body of one of the Devils but the result was still nil.
So like before, I used magic to wake them all up forcefully, this time I used water magic that was dull to each of their faces. It was very effective because they all woke up and coughed on my water
"What have I done?"
"We're out of our hiding place?!"
Ah, I forgot to deactivate the magic tools in each hole... Where the...?
Meet me!
Again a container containing the same statue, I immediately deactivated it after I held the statue
Thanks to this the Devils no longer felt the headache of clashing their body controls.
It also made me learn that to control the Devil completely not only need this container and statue alone, I think the second material is sunlight
"Eh? The pain just goes away,"
"Right, what is it exactly?"
"Rune, did you handle that?" ask As to me
"That kind of thing, I just deactivated this magic thing," I showed him the statue
"That's..."
"The statue we found in the river near the waterfall!" Verinne
Oh?
"Verinne was right, we found it and threw it into the corners of this cave labyrinth because items from the surface could tempt us to go up," As said
Hm... The clues are many but I still can't figure out who's behind all this
"Asmodeus, who is this girl?" Ask one of the newly risen Devils
"Ah, he is a human being, a race that lives above us," replied As who made them all instantly wary of me
Again it's all because of their suspicions will I not?
"What does he want to do down here? Does he want to avenge his partner's death up there? I'm sorry for that but we were controlled then so please forgive!" Said the man looking down
Uh....
"The ones up there were not people from my kingdom so there's no need to think about it, now we need to look for others right? I'd like to see your elders soon,"
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It's second week, damn it! Why are their defenses so persistent?
"Sir Kyouka, their logistics line has been successfully overcome, but even so according to Maou Kak still need two more weeks before they start starving," said Yuuna who just returned from her mission
Two weeks? That's too long...
"Can we hold out that long, Yuuna?" Much
"In terms of economy I'm sure I can, the war chest that Brother Ryuu told me to fill has been collected a lot so you don't have to worry about that, but the problem is...."
Our warrior fighting spirit is quite bad, in contrast to when Ryuu led, they are currently fighting because I am here. There was no sense of wanting to win, no spirit to fight, this was all because I never spoke about war....
"When Ryuu returns, I'll have him teach me how to talk..."
"I think you're very good, maybe that's why Kak Ryuu chose you to lead this, Kak Kyouka," Yuuna comforted
I don't think so....
"Is your reaction no problem with this? Will they lose because of it?"
"First of all industrialists are not 'my faxes', they may think so but they are not. At first they were ready to protest, but still.... New lands, new sources of money for them and the kingdom" he replied
"The problem is only with the intelligentsia who are always against war, but look at them out there right now, dabbling with their obsolete tools in the lab,"
"You are right, brother, but with the unification of the voices of industrialists, neutrals, and the military, there is nothing they can do" Yuuna said
"That's.... You are wrong in one thing.... This time the military is neutral,"
"Eh?! Those who thirst for war?!" of course Yuuna was shocked
Those who fully support the delivery of weapons and logistics to the Joseon rebels before have decided to remain silent, it looks like something is wrong, right?
"If Ryuu pointed to a replacement among them then all this would be easier..."
I realized that I kept blaming Ryuu like he was blaming God, but he was the one to blame!
It suddenly disappears when needed.... It really makes the hard work he gave me even more difficult!!
Huh.... I hope the Ming wall collapses after being hit by our artillery....
"Whoah!"
"I can't believe it,"
Hm? What's the fuss outside?
The curious Yuuna and I finally came out of my tent to see what was fussing about
"Y-Your Majesty the Queen, it seems that the Ming wall is not as solid as it counts,"
....Uh...?
