Chapter 177 – Amaranth Monastery (1)

A cry for help comes from the mouth of the head of the Demon World branch. I was able to realize my position from that word, and I was able to intuit that her request was not simple. As I stretched her out to relax, Milia looked around her room with her relaxed face.

“I’d like to have a simple cup of tea, but don’t you have any tea?”

“How about a drink? It is famous for its wine here.”

Millia shook her head. He looked like a high-class ace, but surprisingly, he didn’t seem to have a taste for drinking. She said, scanning the cupboard.

“I like cars. It’s hard to find a good car in the Demon Realm.”

“I guess you’ve liked tea since you were a human?”

“Of course. I really liked the car. I didn’t drink much.”

“What were you doing in the first place?”

According to what Sophia had said before, she was also born in the human world, but she was a woman who moved to the demon world. I wondered what she was doing when she considered herself human. Milia heard my question, blinked her light purple eyes, and answered like this.

“I don’t know.”

“Hmm?”

Milia’s answer made me frown. Rumia narrowed her brows and she nodded her head as if realizing something. Sofia flicked her tail and looked back and forth between Milia and me. I asked.

“What are you hiding between us like that?”

“Evan. It’s not hiding, it might be something you really don’t know.”

My playful question was cut off by Rumia. She put her hand on my shoulder and looked at Milia.

“Milia. You are an acquired demon.”

Milia nodded her head obediently at Rumia’s question and smiled.

“Do priests study things like that? That’s right.”

“An acquired demon? Are you talking about the kind of demon I created by imbuing Carlson with demon energy?”

I thought of Carlson and the corpse of an assassin from the Thieves Guild, who had been infused with demonic energy. They were all painted ugly black, and had huge horns on their faces. But Milia was no different from a human except that her face was slightly pale and her eyes shimmered like jewels.

“Similar. But I didn’t do it in such a barbaric way, but with a contract. I became a demon in exchange for my human memories. So I don’t know what I was originally doing.”

Milia said so. There must have been quite unfortunate circumstances, but she was a person hundreds of years ago from now. It was impossible to come and find memories or learn about them. She didn’t seem to care too much about her memory either.

“Sorry. So, what are you asking for?”

The story leaked and stretched in a different way. Milia meanwhile found her tea in the cupboard and started boiling water. The flame from her fingertips heated the kettle in an instant, and the lid rattled and released steam. Sprinkling tea leaves into a cup, he asked me.

“Would you like a drink?”

“It’s okay. I prefer alcohol.”

Milia laughed and poured her boiling water into the teacup. She gave off a pleasant scent as the tea leaves brewed. Sophia seemed intent on drinking her tea with Milia, but I grabbed her by the tail to keep her from moving forward. Milia savored the tea and nodded her head in satisfaction, then looked at me and said,

“Did you ask for a favor? It’s not a difficult request. Do you know that it is Amaranth Monastery?”

“Ah, there. Know. I also went A madman lives there.”

“You’ve been there, so it’s easy to explain. This time in the North, that Drek-Cy demon ran rampant. That’s why we also made a plan to expand our power a little. As the first start of the plan, I was going to swallow a closed monastery…”

Milia rolled her eyes. When she thought about it, she couldn’t see the brown-skinned succubus that always followed her around. She was 11 years old, and her abs were also desirable, and her manner of speaking was also cheeky. She was a woman who thought she would definitely rape her someday, but did she not come with her today?

She said, “I sent Kelly to the advance party, but she seems to have gone awry at the monastery. The news just stopped.”

I frowned. The Kelly she faced at the academy said she wasn’t a formidable force, but she wasn’t even talking about where she was easily defeated.

“Was it such a scary place?”

Come to think of it, it was a place with a lot of suspicious corners. The religious leader was praying to a suspicious god, and in fact, ‘something’ showed the way to answer the prayer. If the object the leader was praying for was a powerful demon, it was no wonder that she subdued Kelly with ease.

“Well, maybe the Western branch manager was hiding there. Seeing that Kelly can’t even reach me at all.”

“The head of the Western branch, suddenly a big man appears. What is he doing?”

“It was the Demon King faction. I don’t know the details. He’s been living in seclusion ever since he was cut in half while fighting a hero in the demon realm.”

“It was cut in half, but did you live?”

“Because he was a very strong guy. Now, when the warriors came in, the branch leaders changed a few people. I also sat in the vacant seat because the hero killed the branch manager of my previous squadron.”

“Didn’t you fight back then?”

Milia nodded her head. Rather, she looked at me with a look that seemed to ask why she was fighting.

“Do you have a reason to fight? Most of the demons didn’t like the previous demon king. Because he wants to live peacefully with humans and pushes strange policies. At least, the branch heads tended to follow the demon king, so their lives were attached to it, but since those branch heads died, they scattered along their own paths to live.”

“It’s a bitter end.”

“Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say that it is a mutually beneficial transaction? The hero is good by defeating the demon king, and we are good by getting a chance to select a new demon king.”

Millia looked around. A look of satisfaction bloomed on her face every time she drank tea. I nodded her head and said.

“So, you’re asking me to rescue Kelly from that Amaranth Abbey, right? Why don’t you go directly?”

“Oh, we are not suited for direct combat. I have confirmed that there is a strong demon in Amaranth Monastery. We need to put some energy elsewhere. I don’t think it will end quietly if I go to Amaranth Monastery myself… In that case, I thought it would be nice for Evan, who is talented and cool, to help me.”

I twitched my lips because I was in a good mood to say that I was capable and talented. Sophia looked at Milia and me alternately, keeping an eye on her, and Rumia whispered.

“You must not fall for the tricks of the enemy. Evan. It must be their intention to take away our strength and make themselves stronger. The devil must strike the back of the head. In particular, succubuses are a very despicable race enough to be called the epitome of treachery.”

I pointed alternately at Sofia and at me. As I looked at Rumia with a reproachful gaze, she said, avoiding her gaze.

“…Except for Evan-sama.”

“It’s a joke.”

I patted Rumia on the butt once, then looked at Milia again. She said.

“Because I’m afraid to come back, I want you to decide today. Isn’t it too bleak here? I can feel the death from the ceiling, and the priest next to me is also eager to kill me. Evan. We’re getting married, so it’s really sad.”

Is her melancholy way of speaking true? Seeing as he noticed Taffy hiding in her attic, the branch manager was the branch manager. I shook my head and replied.

“It’s because you’re too loyal. Please understand that you are generous. If you get married soon, you will be able to receive this loyalty.”

“Okay? Then… I finished the tea, so I’ll come back later. Will it be all right around 12?”

Milia pointed at her watch. The time now showed 6:30 PM. She waved at me and gave her a wink. Her body was covered in purple mist and shimmered like a mirage before disappearing. A strange voice lingered in my ears.

“Then I will wait for good news. Our darling.”

Her mist dissipated and the teacup was clean and empty. Sofia was looking at me, blinking her eyes, and Taffy, who was in her attic, came back to my side. Rumia said.

“What are you going to do? Evan.”

“Apart from whether or not she is trustworthy… Don’t you think this is something worth talking about? I think this is a pretty good thing.”

“Wouldn’t it be hard? We don’t know what power the monastery has, and we’re few in number. Even if we destroy the monastery and rescue the demon named Kelly, it will be our loss if we lose even one person.”

I grabbed Rumia’s ass. She felt her grip on her own ass and looked at me with her startled startle and her blushing face. I said, touching her lips with her finger.

“Rumia. Now Rumia should play in the big water too, right? This incident will be the trigger.”

Rumia looked at me with her puzzled eyes. I closed my eyes and started laying out the plans I had in mind. If this plan worked, we could rob the monastery without losing money.