Chapter 202 (1/2)

Volume 3

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 16

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「……Nn?」

Having come out from the underground Grand Library after several days, Rokuna discovered the figure of someone that was busily moving about the reception hall that was on the Demon King Castle’s first floor.

If they were to be described in one phrase, it was pure red armor.

But, it was clearly different from the Red Knight that was Ykslaas’s subordinate, Olred.

The armor in front of her was far smaller when compared to Olred.

Plus, the armor’s design and silhouette were feminine, and looked like maid clothes.

If she were to describe it, armor that was imitating maid clothes was moving about, that was the situation.

「……I wonder, what that’s all about.」

It seemed to be polishing the floor with a device that had what looked like a wet cloth attached to the end of a pole.

「……Tooh……Ryaryaryaahー!」

It was headed towards the direction Rokuna was at, and came running while raising a cute voice.

However, what was that really?

No matter how she looked at it, it was armor, and she had a bit of reluctance to call it a maid.

「Ryaryarya……Ourarirariaahー! Tte, uwaーoh!?」

When it, which had been vigorously been plunging forward, came to a stop right in front of Rokuna, it wielded the pole that it had been using to polish the floor with up until now like a spear and took a stance with it.

「A suspicious person that looks sort of ill has been discovered. Eei, who are you! If you don’t tell me, my cleaning pole will make you groan, you know!?」

Seeing the armor shout out loud, Rokuna somehow guessed what the situation was.

「By some chance, could you be that. A new maid that Ver-cchi created?」

「Ver-cchi!? With no need to guess, are you talking about Demon King-sama when you say that! What is with that intimate way of calling him! Hah, could it be that you’re his wife or something!」

「It’s unfortunate but that’s wrongー. I’m Rokuna. The Guardian of the Library.」

Hearing Rokuna’s self-introduction, the armor, after groaning with an *uhーn*, hit its hands with a *gashan*.

「Ahh, ahh! Come to think of it, I’ve heard about you! The shut-in person that’s always in the library! Yes, I know about you!」

「Wait a second, who was the one that said that?」

Completely ignoring Rokuna’s question, the armor started its own self-introduction.

「I’m sorry for the delay! I am the maid Krim!」

「No, more importantly, who was the one that said I was a shut-in.」

「Ah, come to think of it, it was rude of me to not show you my face!」

When Krim took off its full-face helmet, a truly cute face appeared out from within it.

Red shoulder length hair that resembled shinily polished Blood Metal, and big and round red eyes that were a similar color.

Expressing a whole faced smile with those looks that the expression of innocence would really match her, Krim made a salute.

「No, like I said. Who did you hear it from……?」

「The truth is that I was just born yesterday, so I haven’t remembered everyone’s faces! But, Rokuna-sama, I’ve already memorized your face, so it’s alright, you know!?」

「……Ahh, is that so.」

Giving up in various ways, Rokuna nodded.

「By the way, you said that you were a maid, but how did you end up like that?」

「Eh?」

「Un, how should I put this. Rather than maid clothes, you’re more like maid armor, aren’t you.」

Even if she put it conservatively, Krim’s figure was maid armor.

「Erm, let’s see. For us, I suppose that the quantity was necessary.」

「That’s true.」

It was originally that sort of story.

The origin of it all was that since there was a part of the culture of mankind’s territory where the number of maids would be proof of one’s power, the opinion that the number of maids should be increased came from Ichika at the time of the serious start of the sightseeing plan.

She had heard that Ykslaas would be the one to take command of that maid unit but……wasn’t that Krim’s appearance a bit, too original?

「Erm, about that. It seems that it was hard in various ways to create a lot of us, but it seems that he also found it questionable to have us all have the same face when lined up.」

That certainly was true.

They would become unable to differentiate them, and it wasn’t like it was fine as long as they filled up only the numbers.

To display nothing but maids that had the same face, that would definitely give fear to mankind in a different way from the image that the Mazoku had up until now.

「So, after being troubled by it, it seems that he thought that he might as well make us something like Magic Operated Armors.」

「Hou.」

Thinking “he must be really tired”, Rokuna felt sympathy for Vermudol.

Rokuna could only guess at how difficult Mazoku Creation was, but she was at least able to understand that it wasn’t that simple.

To do that in his spare time during the colossal work that he has right now, it should be considerably harsh mentally as well.

「Then what. Are you a Magic Operated Armor?」

「Yes! It seems that some group of people called the Four Knights were used as a reference!」

Rokuna thought “I see”.

Vermudol made practical use of the Mazoku’s Majin transformation.

Even for Mazoku that can’t be differentiated from the rest of their race at a glance, since the contents of their souls are individually different, that difference turns into a disparity in outward appearance when they do a Majin transformation.

Even if Vermudol were to make them with the same design, once they did a Majin transformation, maids with their own different respective appearances should be made.