Chapter 1926 – [Return of the Great Demon King]

Of all the Demon Lords, the one with the greatest impact is, of course, Phantom. As the Lord of Darkness, the appearance of the Giant of the Abyss itself was intimidating, so it was natural.

Gooooo!!!!

A huge abyss gathers, and a giant as tall as the stars looks down upon the Aiol Empire. The giant’s head is as big as a continent, and its red eyes are as big as a major city in a country. The giant itself is overwhelming.

“W-what?!?!”

“In the sky!!! In the sky!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!”

“Monster!!!! Monster, depressing!!!!!”

Normally, they would have come out with the power to lower SAN levels just by showing off their abyssal power as a performance, but they remained relatively sane. When I see what they do, I wonder if they are sane, but they are sane if they clearly recognize the target and are terrified.

Unless a person is really sane, they can’t afford to do that. When I think about that, I’m almost sane now.

Eventually, utopia appears. He appeared through the dimension, circled the planet several times at the speed of light, and eventually stopped next to the phantom.

[It’s a hassle to find out because it’s a magical civilization. If it were a scientific civilization, we would have figured it out a long time ago.]

[So are you going to abstain?]

[It’s not like there is no information at all. Don’t worry, we’ll fill the space.]

Afterward, Sienne appeared. The Great Demon King of domination, who tore through the dimension, looks down on the Aiol Empire with the eyes of a stern and arrogant ruler.

It’s similar to Phantom, but it’s a little different. Phantom is the eye of someone who looks down from above, but Sienne is the eye of someone who clearly rules and rules. In short, dominance is also a matter of responsibility.

That’s why Sienne and Nuri are close. She is in charge of the conflicting concepts of freedom and domination, but at the root of it all, there is something in common: responsibility.

[It’s not relatively bad, but… Did you say the agenda was a dimensional invasion? Then it’s obvious.]

[The time has come for the main characters to appear. Oh, is it because the main character always appears last?]

[Who is the main character?]

[If you reported this issue, investigated it, and even convened it, wouldn’t you be the main character?]

[I can’t deny that… But it was Nuri who reported it.]

[Aneunghajeyet!!!]

[Welcome, Nuri. But did you find it at the right time? If we had been a little late, we would have invaded the dimension.]

[I was lucky because I came here after hearing about it from Ruri. Anyway, let’s get to the point. The results may seem obvious even without looking at them, but you still have to follow the procedure.]

Then we looked back at the phantom.

Since he is the strongest among the Great Demon Lords, he also takes on the role of chairman, and his role is important as he handles tasks such as the judging process and synthesis of opinions. At least when Phantom is present, both I and Utopia respect his opinions and procedures.

Phantom, realizing the meaning of our gaze, entered into full-scale judgment. He declares that the great abyssal giant looks down upon the Aiol Empire.

[I will now enter judgment. The judges are all five Great Demon Kings. The target is the Aiol civilization, including the Aiol Empire. In order to be acquitted, three out of five people must be found not guilty. I will make a judgment on him from now on.]

First, the phantom first.

Once Phantom looked around the continent, the red eyes of the abyssal giant narrowed. This is his reaction when he sees something disapproving and angry. Not only did I understand the situation in advance by looking at the data I gave, but I also felt like I learned about the feelings of the Earthling victims who died here through the abyss.

[They treated them as an inferior and barbaric race simply because they lacked magic and made them slaves.  Even though the level of civilization of the people of Earth is not low, and they have achieved a certain level of civilization through science, you view them as uncivilized things rather than people. Are you saying that human rights are not given to those without magic? In that case, we cannot acknowledge the existence of you who do not know how to understand and care for races in other dimensions. It is absurd for you to advance into a dimension where you would treat people with the appearance of monsters equally, as well as places without magic.]

Phantom, who is in charge of ethics, cited as an example that they treated the people of Earth as slaves and ignored their human rights.

The concept of human rights exists here too. If it were a class-based society, people would have been told to obey and not care about public sentiment. There were some human rights, but the kidnapped Earthlings simply did not have them.

I can do it, you can’t!!! The same naeronambul mentality cannot be tolerated. Phantom made his decision.

[I will find him guilty.]

Of course guilty. It started with a guilty verdict from the beginning.

Eventually, the next turn was Utopia. What he was in charge of was technology, but since this was a magical civilization, science and technology were not his specialty. However, looking at the development of technology and its uses regardless of genre, the verdict is also obvious.

[Next is my turn. I’m not an expert in magic, but at least I knew that the civilization here had advanced enough to advance into other dimensions. Perhaps, in a few decades, we may have developed further and entered a dimensional civilization. But you used that dimensional technology to create slaves and invade other dimensions. It is truly pathetic that a technology that was not developed for war purposes and has infinite uses is being used to kill people and wage war.]

I don’t think it’s right for a utopia that evaporates the entire planet and kills humans if it’s wrong, but… Well, it’s still not wrong.

Dimensional technology is not a technology that can only be used in war. It is a technology that can be used in many areas, such as distribution issues and space development, but they used that technology viciously. There is no crime in technology, but there is a crime in the humans who use it, so Utopia’s verdict was naturally guilty.

[I will find you guilty.]

Second guilty pleasure. If you are found guilty one more time, the Aiol civilization will be judged.

And next it was my turn. As the Great Demon King who presides over society, I watch over their social problems and make decisions.

[I saw you kidnapping people from Earth and using them as slaves. I saw them enjoy fighting and killing each other as a game in the arena, and manipulate people as cheap prostitutes in the brothel. Since it would be absurd to use the people of their own country like that, they arbitrarily kidnapped people from other dimensions, put them under the control, and exploited them. Do you think this is a society that has become right? If happiness and peace are built on someone else’s one-sided sacrifice, it would be better to ruin it.]

Soon I made a decision.

[I am guilty.]

This is the third time. Sienne and Nuri are left, and since their decision was obvious in the first place, there is virtually no need to look at it. It’s already over half the number.

But you have to be sure. Isn’t there a difference between there being some room left and there being no possibility at all? So, at least we had to inform them of certain despair rather than pitiful despair.

When I gave a quick glance, the phantom seemed to have noticed it and soon continued with the judging. Then, he passes the turn to Sienne.

[Actually, this is the third conviction, so the majority has passed, but the children must also be given a chance to express their opinions, so I will allow them to speak.]

[Then it’s my turn.]

Sienne, the great demon king of domination. She makes her judgment by looking at her ruling class.

Even in a democratic society, there is virtually no civilization without rulers because people who are delegated their rights rule. In addition, if you look at the simple dimensional kidnapping, the situation of the emperor and nobles who used it publicly rather than privately is not evaluated well, so in fact, he is the only Great Demon King who was able to be found not guilty.

But if you add dimensional invasion into it, the story is different.

[As a person in power, I think what I did for the citizens or the people was right. But apart from that, invasion is a different matter. War should be the last choice, but it is difficult to defend it when it is simply planned and committed for the sake of the colony. Therefore… I will declare guilty.]

Fourth guilty pleasure.

As many as four demon kings, who were quite flexible, declared themselves guilty. It’s a disastrous result.

Since Sienne had made it to the final decision, it was Nuri who would make the decision. And since she was the one who brought this issue, the outcome was obvious, so even if you don’t watch it, it’s a video ruling.

[The last one is me. I don’t have anything to say at length. For someone like me who values ​​freedom, it would be difficult to look favorably on a civilization that has things like one-sided slavery, right? Freedom comes with responsibility, and if you turn someone who should have enjoyed freedom into a slave, you must take responsibility for that. So I will also plead guilty.]

Phantom, Utopia, I, Sienne, Nuri.

In this way, all five Great Demon Lords were declared guilty. These cases are not rare, but usually the civilization that receives such a unanimous decision is truly a hopeless civilization.

Of course, time is fair, so it would be different if they took hundreds of years from now to properly establish and revise the concept of human rights… But leaving such an element of uncertainty is causing great damage.

Even just now, they were trying to go beyond the dimension and take over the Earth and make it a colony. If it were an economic invasion, they would have at least shown courtesy, but instead, it was an attempt to commit it by brainwashing politicians through mental magic.

But should we watch that? Uh? These bastards are hopeless, so we should just destroy them.

[With this, the verdict is reached. Unanimously guilty. In response, the Aiol civilization begins the incineration process. The judge is…]

The phantom looked away and then turned to me. Of course, since I was the one who called the meeting, it seemed like an appropriate appointment, but the person who would actually do it was decided, so I shook my head.

When I refused, the phantom turned its head to Nuri. Considering his merit in this case, Nuri was actually higher. I just take care of it, but Noori is the Great Demon King who personally found out about this incident and reported it.

[If so, that’s fine. I will leave the execution to Nuri. However, we plan to separately rescue the Earthling victims who were kidnapped before that, so there will be a slight delay.]

[Before that, I think I need an example. If we don’t judge it right away, there are people who will burn their happiness circuits by mistakenly thinking that we don’t have the power to destroy this civilization. Wait a minute, I’ll do that.]

I was wondering what to do, but Utopia was a satellite around the planet of the Aiol civilization… A moon, roughly? I stretched out my finger toward something that looked like that.

Sigh!!! A cute beam is shot out. In fact, a satellite like the moon is not that close to the star, so it would take some time to reach even the speed of light, but something like a beam fired by Hanon, who breaks the laws of physics, reached the moon in a matter of seconds.

And the moon shatters. It was smashed to pieces and scattered in all directions. In one fell swoop, a star was destroyed, making it visible anywhere at night.

[Hey, is it okay to break something like the moon like that? Damage caused by manpower?]

[It will be destroyed before then anyway, so is there any need to worry? The aftermath will hit in a few days, but by then the victims will also be able to be rescued.]

[I guess so.]

[So, please take care of the rest.]

[Look at the kid being beaten… If it were a scientific civilization, they would have dragged him over to deal with related issues.]

[If you look at it, shouldn’t there be a great demon king who was a wizard?]

[Why don’t you try recruiting him?]

[There is no one I am attracted to. Let’s think about it later.]

Anyway, that was the decision. The Aiol civilization will all be unanimously guilty and punished. There is only a moratorium until the kidnapped Earth slaves are rescued.

The rest of the cleaning and such is up to me. After that, Nuri will use his hands to destroy it.

And so the judgment of the Great Demon King came to an end. Although not immediately, another civilization will disappear. The population here is several billion, but everyone but a handful of people will die. I don’t know how long they will live, but I think the survivors of the Aiol civilization are at most tens of thousands.

“I’ll be here until I confirm the execution of the judgment, so let’s take care of it for a while. I don’t think it will take a few days anyway, but something could happen again.”

“Oh, me too. Perhaps because of the postponement, I want to see the ugly struggle of human groups on the verge of destruction.”

“I’m also quite interested in what the ruling class will do here.”

“I’ll get you a room at Horizon. You can stay there.”

“Yes, thank you. Honestly, I was treated like a slave in the past, so things like that really piss me off.”

Come to think of it, when Phantom was in his prime, he was taken to what seemed to be a noble family and made into a slave. I remember it because it is a story that often comes up while drinking.

What if they had shown the victims of slavery a piece of the Aiol civilization… I wonder if the housemaster would have been involved in the verdict, but the story ended because he went in and slept in the first place, and was found guilty regardless of that. Even if it wasn’t for that, Phantom would have been found guilty. Oh, did you already give it to me?

“It’s my job from now on… So I have a lot to do.”

“I’m helping too.”

“Yes, thank you for that.”

First, the three of Phantom, Utopia, and Sienne decided to stay for a while to make sure the execution was carried out. And Nawa Nuri, who investigated and convened this civilization, moved to rescue the kidnapping victims and some people from the Aiol civilization.

Since there is no need to worry anymore, I boldly move to where Ruri is. Many people from Earth, including Ruri and Argo, were gathered in what seemed like a hall, probably because they had already prepared separately.

“Oh, you came, did you come?”

“Hey, don’t be too nervous. You don’t have to worry about dying anyway.”

“Yes, yes… Thank you. Look, I was rude in the past…”

“It’s okay. What kind of rude behavior have you committed? But do you have a family? If Ruri asks you, you will even save your family.”

“I’ve already disowned you. There’s no need for that.”

Watching him speak tremblingly and then speaking clearly, it seemed like he didn’t have a very good relationship with his family. It was like watching Tianlong Gate with me in this episode.

Honestly, I don’t even know what they’re doing there anymore. Seeing as he is quietly doing nothing even after becoming president, he seems to be behaving well. If you just stay still, the halfway point will pass, and if I don’t buy anything, I plan to treat you with indifference. It’s better to stay quiet than to get caught and get screwed.

“I don’t know what the problem is with the family, but I’m sure we’ll see a lot of interesting things before the execution.”

“It’s kind of fun… Oh, maybe?”

“Of course you are kidnapped Earthlings, but if you rescue some of the citizens of the Aiol Empire, there will be a lot of people flocking to see them. Perhaps even the emperor will kneel before you?”

“…”

“It’ll be really fun to see arrogant guys bend their pride and get angry.”

As Utopia says, the sight of human beings struggling in an ugly way as they face destruction seems like it will make you drink without complacency. I would have felt a bit uncomfortable if they had been found not guilty in one or two cases, but wasn’t it unanimously guilty this time?

I am very curious to see how they will come out.