Volume 14 Chapter 18 (Unwanted Story) The Demise Of The Demon Lord
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
This is the route that doesn’t get chosen.
Yaalan Route (Yaalan does NOT join the ‘another world monster’ subjugation battle)
*Kent’s Perspective
Yaalan sat there, dead quiet for a while.
Then he looked up and locked eyes with me, all sharp and hungry──like a hawk that just spotted its prey.
”I refuse to join you. And now, you all will serve as the stepping stones for me to become King.”
Yaalan snapped his fingers.
From the ceiling──where I’d thought no one was hiding──dark shapes dropped down, dozens of them.
Looking closer, these shadows weren’t just monsters… they were succubi and incubi.
With His Majesty Shifa present, almost everyone at the meeting had come in unarmed.
The few guards who had swords?
Already knocked out──poisoned and dropped, thanks to the assassins that just landed.
”Yaalan!! You bastard, you snuck assassins into the palace! This is why no one ever trusts you!”
Nokin shot upright, chair nearly flying back, ready to tackle Yaalan──but an assassin pressed a dagger against his neck.
Nasty green slime smeared along the blade.
”Easy now, stay still. That dagger’s smeared with a Dream Demon poison──ours. Even you, Mr. Legendary Tough Guy, take one scratch and you’re dead before you hit the floor. And no, nothing cures it.”
All around, assassins leveled their daggers at the meeting guests.
After hearing Yaalan, nobody dared to make a move.
Damn it… Got blindsided.
I didn’t think Yaalan would pull something this crazy inside the palace.
Trusting Aldo with security just blew up in my face…
Since Shifa was hosting, I hadn’t brought Miriel or the others as shadow guards.
Yaalan delayed this meeting on purpose──to buy time so his agents could sneak into the royal palace.
”Yaalan… you… you don’t care if the Demon Continent gets wrecked?! Even now, ‘another world monsters’ are swarming everywhere!”
I’d been holding back, but Yaalan’s actions… I’d had enough.
”Those ‘another world monsters’? Easy. Once I’m the ruler of the Demon Continent, I’ll crush them. But first… I’ll take the title of Demon Lord.”
”Sir Yaalan, here.”
”Heh heh heh, those fools are so weak…”
Yuri, standing beside him, handed over a poisoned dagger.
Yaalan grinned, then threw the dagger toward his target.
THUD!
”Gah… Yaalan… why… Why?! If we fight now, the Demon Continent will fall… I… as Demon Lord… as ruler… I can’t ignore the people’s suffering…”
Yaalan’s poisoned dagger pierced the Demon Lord Shifa’s chest.
Something snapped inside me.
My body moved on its own.
”UAAAAAAAH! Yaalaaaan!”
I kicked away an Assassin trying to slash my neck.
Then, with Martial Arts, I locked down every other Assassin around the table.
Fire Arrows flew, too fast to see, piercing the Assassins.
They were out of the fight.
”Ho, you’ve gotten stronger from your training in the Southern Region.”
Yaalan smirked.
He’d blocked the Fire Arrows aimed at him with a magic barrier.
His face was locked in a grin.
”But, Kent, you can fight those ‘another world monsters’. While you’re busy, I’ll seize control of the Demon Continent. I’ll become the next Demon Lord. Fuhahaha!”
”How could a usurper who made an enemy of the Demon Lord ever become the Demon Lord himself?!”
Fabulanova, seething with anger at Yaalan’s actions, interrogated her with a menacing aura as if she could transform into a dragon at any moment.
Yet Yaalan, with a sneer, carelessly muttered without changing her mocking expression.
”Lady Fabulanova… it seems your dear brother is plotting another coup. My sources say he’s already framed Nord Dracul as a traitor to your side, refuses to recognize you as king, and is promoting Lady Delariona as the new ruler, with himself as the regent.”
”Ba, nonsense! My brother would never scheme another coup again!”
”Believe it or not, that’s up to you, Lady Fabulanova. But you’re just a woman of the Black Dragon Clan now. Hahaha, how pitiful. Even the once-feared Lady Fabulanova, the Black Snake Woman, seems to have lost her touch with age.”
Miriel had reported on the internal strife within the Black Dragon Dukedom, but Yaalan’s revelation of Ugno’s coup seemed like a plan being executed behind his back, to be revealed only at the last moment, leaving no room for retreat.
”And, is it really okay for you, Lord Nokin, to be dealing here? Lady Hendric seems to have seized the Capital City out of fierce jealousy towards Lady Alonsa. Reports say Alonsa’s loyal ministers have been exiled, and half the national army has sided with Lady Hendric. A woman’s jealousy is terrifying. But there are also rumors that Kent had been plotting this Hendric coup all along.”
Nokin’s piercing gaze stabbed through me.
Sending Hendric was definitely my doing, and Yaalan’s words seemed to plant seeds of doubt about me in Nokin’s heart.
”N-no! That’s not true! Don’t lie! I would *never* do something so cowardly!”
”Let’s just say that’s true… Whoa there!!”
It was my father-in-law who threw the Assassin’s dagger I’d defeated at Yaalan.
He looked furious.
Combat mode was fully engaged, with his 8 arms on display.
”Yaalan! You dared to harm Your Majesty Shifa! I won’t forgive you!!”
”I don’t want to fight you seriously, the Lion of the Kingdom. Yuri, let’s retreat for now. Now, you fools… keep dancing on my hand. Fwahahaha!!”
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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