Chapter 195 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 9

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Several days after the sightseeing conference.

Vermudol was in his new remodeled office, and was surrounded by piles of documents.

Going through them one after another, when he reached a place where he could rest, he raised his head.

「……Fuu.」

The Demon King Castle repairs were progressing, and as if induced by that, repairs here and there were being performed even in the town of Arkverm.

It wasn’t because the town’s prosperity was good, but Ichika’s opinion that they were trying to match the new Demon King Castle.

According to her, it was their feelings of wanting to become even a bit closer to Demon King-sama that gave an effect on the town and buildings that they themselves lived in.

Vermudol felt that it was a bit off, but being told that, it didn’t feel bad to him.

However, when the large number of construction plans that went with those town changes started coming up to him one after another, as the one in the position to process them, he ended up having some mixed feelings about it.

「……Nn? Come to think of it……This sure is rare.」

After grandly stretching his body, Vermudol looked all around the room.

Normally, Ichika would appear bringing tea with timing that matched with Vermudol taking a break like this.

Although he was impressed and went “as expected of Ichika”, it somehow became an everyday scene……but today, that Ichika didn’t appear.

「Well, even she’s busy. Rather, her timing up until now was too good……」

While muttering that sort of thing, Vermudol took a document into his hand.

The South’s Sightseeing Manifest──In the end, it was the Central region that had to put their draft together.

For Vermudol, since it would be troubling if he were to leave it to Raktor and he put together something like a drinking tour that was limited to heavy drinkers, it was fine that the Central region be the ones to take responsibility for it, but he was racking his brains over the crucial plan drafting.

It wasn’t like he was calling Ichika and Nino weird, but he wanted opinions from senses and viewpoints that were a bit more normal.

Just to say it one more time just in case, by no means did he think that Ichika and Nino were weird.

After carefully looking around for some reason, Vermudol reseated himself deeply into his chair.

However, in that case, it was probably good to seek opinions from others.

The opinions of the men were rejected. Putting aside the married Altejio, Vermudol could only think that the others had manly viewpoints just like he did.

But even for Altejio, there was the possibility that he had an opinion that had his wife Margaret as the criteria.

In that case, what about Fainell and Gordy?

First, if he were to talk about Gordy, since she had no interest in amusement and luxury items, she was probably unsuitable for comments on accessories and such.

Well then, what about Fainell?

After thinking about it for a while, Vermudol muttered “nope……”.

It wasn’t to Gordy’s level, but he didn’t think that Fainell was strong with that sort of thing either.

「……Fumu. What should I do?」

For example, it would be good if he had someone who possessed normal senses like the poster girl of the Steel Fish Store that he was at when he was in mankind’s territory──Carol, but the current Vermudol didn’t have that sort of acquaintance.

In that case, would it be alright to take Rokuna along with him?

Among those in the female camp that Vermudol knew, he felt that she was the one that was relatively close to normal senses.

If it was Rokuna, even if it was for things in mankind’s territory, she probably knows things to a certain extent.

「……Nn?」

As he thought that far, Vermudol called to mind a single person.

Come to think of it, there was one.

A person that had been in mankind’s territory until just recently, seemed to be well-informed on the culture and fashions over there, and moreover might possess senses that are close to normal.

That’s right, it was Ykslaas.

If it was her, she might be able to draft up a sightseeing plan that could grasp mankind’s hearts.

Depending on the situation, it would probably be alright to leave all of the decision making for the South’s sightseeing plan to Ykslaas.

It would reduce Vermudol’s work as well, so it was nothing but good things.

Now that that’s been decided, he needed to meet with her right away.

If it was at this time, she would either be somewhere in the Demon King Castle acting as the site foreman, or taking a break.

Doing a bit of thinking, Vermudol started walking to the place that was allotted as Ykslaas’s room.

「……Still, it sure has changed.」

The previous Demon King Castle was to the very end Gramfia’s Demon King Castle that they used as their base.

There was furniture that was of the extravagant type, but a lot of it was simple and sturdy.

However, right now, rather than a Demon King Castle, it felt more like a royal castle.

A somehow refined atmosphere hung in the air.

The entire castle was finished with a bright tone, and it seemed that the furniture and decorations were made even more beautiful.

For example, in the places that had suspicious stone statues placed down in the previous Demon King Castle, currently, full-bodied armors made of holy silver decorated them.

They didn’t have the flashiness of the armor that Shironos and Brutus’s group wore, but possessed holy silver and freely capitalized on elegance.

Armor holding a single longsword caught Vermudol’s eye.

Somehow, it seemed to emit an air of intimidation that only masterpieces possess.