Chapter 196 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 10

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「Now then, was it around here?」

When Vermudol was just about to arrive at Ykslaas’s room, the sound of something falling over was heard all of a sudden.

「……Nn?」

Next, there was the sound of something struggling about.

It seemed to be a bit different from the sounds of interior construction work that continued in the Demon King Castle even now.

The place he heard it from……was Ykslaas’s room.

It wasn’t big enough to be called the sounds of a battle, but it was clearly not a normal daily life noise.

「Kuh……Why you!」

Ykslaas’s voice, which he could hear intermittently, sounded as if she were opposing something.

An enemy attack──the moment that thought crossed Vermudol’s mind, he reflexively started running.

Considering Ykslaas’s circumstances, by no means was it an impossible story.

After immediately running up in front of the door, Vermudol kicked down the closed door.

「……Are you alright!?」

Unsheathing the sword that hung on his waist, he immediately rushed into the room.

Within the room that Nino named the lace-filled room, there was Ykslaas whose clothes were disheveled……and the figure of Ichika holding down her hands.

「Ah……」

Comparing the red faced Ykslaas and the expressionless Ichika with his eyes, Vermudol slowly looked up at the ceiling.

After that, he compared Ykslaas and Ichika once more with his eyes……then Vermudol nodded with a *fumu*.

「……Sorry about that. I didn’t read the atmosphere. Ahh, I didn’t see anything.」

Vermudol promptly said that and tried to leave the room, but the voices of the two detained him.

「Wait, hold it right there!」

「Please wait a moment.」

Although the hand that was closing the door had pretty much stopped, Vermudol had no intention of interfering with those sorts of private relationships. Him leaving this place was wishing them luck.

「I get it. I saw nothing, and I didn’t even come here. That should be fine, right?」

Ykslaas shouted while still being restrained by Ichika.

「It isn’t fine at all! Try saying what it is that you’re thinking!」

「Even if you ask me what. The matters of an individual’s love is……」

「You’ve got it wrong, stupid! Just where did you place your insight on things other than politics!」

Even though he was told something like that, Vermudol was also troubled.

He intended on paying attention to his subordinates’ needs as the Demon King, and he also proactively communicated with them as much as possible.

He had absolutely no idea as to what the problem was.

「Vermudol-sama. Ykslaas and I do not have that sort of love relationship.」

「Nn? Is that so. Then, what are you doing?」

After Vermudol said that and once again opened the door, the angry-faced Ykslaas fixed her clothes, and Ichika was holding some sort of outfit in her hands.

Having purple as its basic tone, it resembled clothes that Vermudol had become completely used to seeing.

「……A maid outfit?」

That’s right, what Ichika held in her hands was a purple maid outfit.

The design was similar to Ichika’s and Nino’s, but going by the size, it didn’t belong to either of them.

「Yes, I had it prepared for Ykslaas’s use.」

「I said that I wouldn’t wear it, jeez!」

「Ahh, so that’s how it was……」

It was there that Vermudol finally understood the situation.

In other words, Ykslaas had opposed Ichika who tried to make her wear maid clothes.

「Still, what’s going on? Since you had something like that prepared, you must have some kind of reason, right?」

Putting aside if it were someone else, in Ichika’s case, there would definitely be some sort of meaning to her actions.

By no means would she ever prepared clothes for reasons like because it seemed interesting or because it would suit her.

「Yes. It is the result of taking Ykslaas’s position into consideration.」

「Nn……」

Certainly, that was also something that Vermudol was concerned about as well.

Being the Demon King, Vermudol was able to create Mazoku.

That is why even if a Mazoku that hasn’t been seen before in the Dark Continent appeared, no one would mind it.

They would probably accept them with a level of thought that went “so it’s a new comrade”.

However, the problem was Ykslaas’s role in the Demon King Army.

For example, Nino was a Maid Knight that served Vermudol.

Sancreed was a trump card that was prepared for the fight against the Gods and the Hero that might come some day, and Gordy was a shield meant to fortify the Demon King Castle’s defenses.