Volume 11, Chapter 2: Trying Out Going to the Newly Developed Southern Territory - Part 6

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In the end, since the rain didn’t end, they decided to stay in the village.

At first, they were reluctant to jump into the holes but……

After going in, it was surprisingly wide enough for them to stand and walk.

The standing trees were used as pillars, and the surface was hardened with clay.

It was nice and cool, yet had a moderate amount of moisture, and although it had a slight beastly smell, it was a pleasant environment.

Above all, since it was underground, the raindrops didn’t come falling on them.

Diablo got a more detailed location on where the town of the Races was from Feneri. It seemed that there were signs hidden on the trees of the forest. With these, if the weather cleared up, they wouldn’t get lost.

At night, covering themselves in the blankets they borrowed, the three of them slept while leaning their bodies on the mud walls.

The next morning──

Since they were inside a hole, there was no sunlight, and it was hard to tell the time and the weather though.

They awakened from the countless footsteps that were approaching.

More accurately, the one who noticed was Rem, and Diablo and Shera were poked awake by her elbow.

「Mu?」

Before they knew it, they were surrounded by some brawny Kobold men.

『They’re Demi-Humans?』

A red-furred, remarkably large man put himself on guard.

Diablo half rose to his feet.

Coming before things became troublesome, Elder Yorda and Feneri came out from deeper in the hole.

They explained that they were invited as guests yesterday.

Rem spoke with a soft voice.

「……It would seem that red one is the boss.」

Although she couldn’t understand their words, going by Yorda’s and the red furred one’s attitudes, she seemed to have sensed that.

Yorda said that he was the elder……I see, I guess there’s no guarantee that the elder is the most important person.

The red furred one stood in front of Diablo.

『So you can understand our words?』

「Umu. I will allow it, introduce yourself.」

『He really talked!?』

「Of course I did. Are you unable to understand words?」

『Hahn! This place is my settlement. You cocky bastard!』

「……」

『Whatever……I am Patriarch Borbos! To think there would be a time where I give my name to a person of the Races.』

「Umu. So, did something happen? You looked like there was something unusual……」

Borbos and Yorda looked at each other.

Since Diablo conducted himself as if he were a king even though he was in a position of being a guest surrounded by a large number of people, they were probably bewildered.

However, that couldn’t be helped.

Although he had recently gotten quite used to speaking with strangers, he still wouldn’t be able to skillfully put out words if not for his Demon King role play.

Borbos spoke.

『It’s something unrelated to you.』

「I don’t really mind if you say so……」

They had a debt of gratitude for being put up for a night and a meal. If they were troubled by something, he felt that he wanted to be of help to them.

That being said, it would be wrong of him to demonstrate his true abilities and force them to say it.

He turned his gaze towards the ones other than Borbos.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on the thing that one of the men held.

It was a fragment.

It was something that looked like a bulky, metallic shell, had a clearly chipped cross-section, and was dirty with a sticky black substance. He noticed traces of it being burnt.

──Could that be.

「The Spriggan……」

Borbos opened his eyes wide from his mutter.

『You know about it!?』

「Ah, no……Umu, isn’t that obvious? As I am a Demon King of another world, I have tremendously extensive knowledge after all.」

Three days ago, I hit it several times with high firepower magic, and drove it to self-destruction──he couldn’t possibly say that.

Naturally, they surely didn’t think that he could do something like that either.

Borbos folded his arms and opened his mouth.

『This is, our Guardian Deity.』

「H, hou……?」

He had a hard time hiding his discomposure.

Wild animals that made a Spriggan their Guardian Deity──that was, in other words……

『It was three days ago. There were trespassers on the path along the valley. Our Guardian Deity headed over there. After a while, there was a loud sound.』

「Fumu.」

『It would seem that our Guardian Deity had fought against someone. It was there that it turned into this sort of appearance……』

「I see.」

Borbos glared at the ground looking vexed.

『I do not know the reason. Why the Guardian Deity turned into very small pieces.』

It’s because it self-destructed in a flashy way──Although he thought that, he didn’t say it out loud.

「Is there anyone that saw what happened?」

『This time, it was really sudden. It was like this by the time we arrived.』

「I see……」

A guy that had a tanuki-like face where only the area around his eyes were black asked a question.

『What do we do, Borbos!? The Guardian Deity is gone. We, can’t fight!』

『What foolish talk! Our hands, they have already reached the Human race’s large town. We will win, with just us! We will chase them out from this land! Absolutely!』

His roaring intensity, it was quite something.

But there was one thing that bothered Diablo.

「Did you say the Human’s large town?」

『Yeah……If I remember, the name that they gave it was──Caliture.』

「You’re planning on attacking Caliture City!?」

Rem’s complexion changed.

「……ッ!?」

「You can’t do that!」

Shera raised her voice, and Borbos and the others made puzzled faces.

『That woman, what did she say?』

Purposely not answering that, he asked a question so as to confirm.

「The wild animals in this land that made the Lifelia Kingdom’s fortresses fall, that is talking about you all, right?」

Borbos narrowed his eyes.

『We, are not wild animals! We’re people. If you call us a beastman race, I would allow that.』

「Just answer my question.」

『Hmph……The ones who made the Human race’s fortresses fall, were us. We borrowed the Guardian Deity’s power though.』

As he thought, these Kobolds, so they were the quest’s subjugation target.

It seems that their main force was the Spriggan. And Diablo had crushed that.

「This has turned into something troublesome……」

『You, you’re a Demi-Human. Despite that, are you going to ally with the Human race?』

He was troubled.

With Diablo’s position, that is how it would turn out. He had received the request to subjugate them from the Lifelia King after all.

He thought that it was a quest where he just had to defeat the wild animals that were attacking the town of the Races.

However, he had a debt of gratitude to the Kobolds.

On top of that, if their story was true, the ones living here first were the Kobolds.

In the story he heard from Rem, about 100 years ago, it seems that the Lifelia Kingdom expanded its territory and ran into them.

Wouldn’t that mean that the Human side was the invader?

Diablo glared at Borbos.

「We have been taken care of by you all……Especially by Feneri. I am not thinking of returning the favor with enmity.」

『I see. You can understand our words. Since you are not of the Human race, there is also no resentment. But, there are also some here that will go wild if it turns into a fight. If you value your life, get out.』

「…………」

Diablo couldn’t make a response.

His thoughts couldn’t be assembled over what he should do.

Borbos spoke once again.

『Right now, there is a storm outside. Once the sky clears, you should leave.』

Truly, these guys, they weren’t villains. Which was a problem for him……

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