Chapter 033 (1/2)

Volume 1

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 1 Chapter 32

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The road headed from the Edius Adventurer School to the Adventurer’s Guild.

Nino continuously looked up at Shion’s face as he walked along it.

Her usually displeased-looking face stayed as it was, however, she walked next to Shion without saying anything.

Nino wasn’t eloquent by nature, but for this girl who would say whatever she wanted to say without any reserve to bring about this kind of atmosphere was rare.

At first, Shion thought about whether or not he wanted to talk to her about how he was deep in talk with Luuty, but he suddenly noticed that Nino’s eyes, which he had looked down at, were tinged with a serious look.

They were eyes different from the usual Nino who would say that she didn’t care about things that she didn’t care about.

Seeing that, Shion was suddenly assailed by anxiety.

「……What’s wrong?」

As Shion asked that and awaited a response, Nino muttered a few words.

「Were you, influenced?」

「……?」

Nino muttered while looking up at Shion who was making a face that said that he didn’t understand what she meant.

「Your appearances are similar, and words could get through. That’s why, you felt sympathy?」

「That, is……」

Shion understood the meaning of Nino’s words.

Shion wasn’t Human.

Shion was the king of the Mazoku, the Demon King Vermudol.

Everything in this territory of mankind was built upon the destruction of the previous Demon King Gramfia.

The peace they desired did not include the peace of the Mazoku.

Both Shion and Nino who were only pretending to be Humans were not included within that either.

「It is impossible, is what Nino things.」

That is why Nino dared to choose bitter words.

Before Shion would hold expectations and get hurt.

So that it would be alright even if he didn’t hold on to something like hope.

「……I still, have a hand to play.」

「Nino, does not think so. But, if that is what Shion-sama desires.」

They are different living creatures where only words are communicated.

When Nino was going around killing the Majin of the west, there were things that made her feel that.

Self-preservation, small filthy pride, and then lust for power.

Without lending her ears to any of that, Nino tore all of that up with her swords.

Since she understood that it would be better by doing that, she did so.

However, what about the territory of mankind.

In this Shutaia Continent, there was large strife with four large countries at the center of it all, and there was strife even within those countries.

And then, most likely, that sort of stuff was surging even within the school from earlier.

In that case……there was no longer anything that could be done about them.

Nino thought that that was surely a disease that would spread to all that were in the territory of mankind, and the Majin that once existed in the west seemed to have received that influence.

That is why it was better to not have come here in the first place.

For Nino, she did not want to leave Shion in this rotten and poisonous continent.

Even so, Shion desired this.

That is why Nino was here.

She was here like this, even if she understood that mankind was corrupt.

「……」