Demon King Daimaou: Volume 12 (eBook)

Shoutarou Mizuki (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
222 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0100-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Marine's use of the Faceless Power only worsens the war between the Empire and the Republic. But this was only the beginning of The One's plan. Will Akuto's rage at losing Junko be enough to save the world? What is this power that comes from outer space? And what is 'The Fictional Nature of the World'?

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Marine's use of the Faceless Power only worsens the war between the Empire and the Republic. But this was only the beginning of The One's plan. Will Akuto's rage at losing Junko be enough to save the world? What is this power that comes from outer space? And what is "e;The Fictional Nature of the World"e;?

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1 - The Prelude to Destruction is Always Silent

It was clear from the expression on Morlock’s face that his confidence had instantly abandoned him.

He was shaking. There was a cold sweat on his skin. These reactions were natural, but not to the degree he displayed here.

The sweat wouldn’t stop dripping down his face, and his shaking was sending it scattering everywhere.

Morlock was a veteran spy and saboteur, and he was only this scared because it was Akuto that he was facing. Akuto’s expression was that of a demon. It was a handsome one, and thus when it became twisted, it became more terrible than anyone else’s.

The look in his eyes was purely murderous. He was ready to kill.

“I was trying my best to come up with a reason to kill you... and I just found one.”

When he said this, all the mana in the surrounding air disappeared. There hadn’t been much to begin with, but the very atmosphere within the empire’s borders was suffused with mana. If it all disappeared, it could only mean that Akuto had instantly collected it within his body.

“Impossible!” Morlock shouted.

No one had ever been able to do such a thing, no matter how powerful they were. Even if you had the energy to do it, you still needed a mind capable of manipulating the mana down to the individual particle.

Akuto waved a finger. That alone was enough to freeze his body in the air, arms stretched out like he was nailed to a cross, and bring him in front of Akuto like he was being pulled by a magnet.

“Please don’t kill him!”

“Don’t kill me!”

Two voices overlapped. One was Morlock’s. One was Keena’s.

“Don’t kill him, huh? That’s smart. It’s better for me if I don’t kill him.”

Keena’s expression turned to relief. But Morlock had been through enough dire situations and deadly battles to know there were fates worse than death. The sadism hadn’t vanished from Akuto’s face.

“P-Please! Please, no!” he begged, but Akuto silenced him with a wave of a hand.

“If you’re going to beg for forgiveness, you shouldn’t go around attacking people in the first place.”

As he screamed, Morlock’s body began to shrink. He’d always had the power to grow or shrink at will, but this time it clearly wasn’t intentional.

“P-Please, no!”

Morlock’s shrinking ability didn’t actually give him the power to change his size. Instead, he sent most of his body into virtual phase space, and then built a new body with mana. Akuto had used this fact to his advantage.

“Ugyaaah!”

Morlock screamed and screamed, and his screams gradually began to get quieter. Akuto had sealed him inside the VPS, and reduced his body’s size to that of a few mana particles. Morlock was now the size of a few grains of sand, too small to even scream.

“Aaaah!”

Inside VPS, he was screaming and crying. But his voice went underheard in the real world. All he could see was a colorless, microscopic world. Even the particles of dust in the wind seemed the size of asteroids, and the salty breeze blowing over the ocean struck his body like a hurricane. He would be trapped in that tiny, lonely world for eternity, until the day that the mana ran out. As he watched, helpless and afraid, a wind blew up off the ocean, and carried it away with him inside its current, and he disappeared from sight.

“Ackie... What... what did you do?” Keena asked, fearfully.

“I trapped him inside virtual phase space. And I shrunk his body down to microscopic size.”

His tone was cold, but she could feel the fire behind it. The flames of his anger remained stoked.

“Ackie...”

Keena’s voice held a mix of fear and sadness.

“Y-You can’t do that... Because...”

“I didn’t kill him. I did just what you told me to,” Akuto said coldly.

“No... You know that wasn’t what I meant! The Ackie I know wouldn’t be so mean to me!”

Keena began to cry. There was a flash of emotion in Akuto’s eyes.

“But he’s working with the people who killed Junko...!” he said, angrily.

Keena fell silent. The silence continued for a moment, until suddenly it was broken by Korone.

“If you want revenge, that’s fine... But are you aware of what’s going on here?”

Korone was a Liradan, and so she was perfectly calm. Akuto seemed far from calm, however. There was a chance he didn’t even know what was going on.

“Of course I understand what’s going on. The guy behind all this is right over there!”

He pointed with a finger toward the airship that The One was aboard. Akuto was aware that a member of CIMO8, as well as the leader of the Republic, were aboard it. He knew that Marine, the Republic leader, had used the Faceless Power as well. But the conclusion he’d drawn from this beggared belief.

He would attack the airship and defeat them both. That was his only conclusion.

Only anger drove him now.

“Woooooah!” Akuto howled.

He leaped off the ground. As he jumped, a tornado formed around him.

Keena covered her face.

“No!” she screamed, but Akuto was already high in the sky. A shockwave formed around him as he flew straight toward the airship.

“Empress, please seal the Demon King’s power away.” Korone said sharply.

She gasped and nodded. Until now, she’d forgotten, but the Empress — that is, her — had the power to seal away Akuto’s power. She’d been using her power to “unleash” his full strength, when he needed it, but now she could use it to shut him down.

“As Empress, I seal...” she shouted. But her voice trailed off.

Confused, she looked down at her hand.

“...What’s wrong?” Korone asked.

“H-Huh...? I can’t do it.” Keena shook her head, trying to recover the sensation that was now lost to her.

“You can’t do it?” Korone asked, confused.

“N-No...! I need this power...! Come on! Come on!” Keena waved her hands again and again. But it didn’t help.

“She can’t use the Imperial power...?”

Korone considered the source of the Empress’s power.

—The Faceless Power.

It was the power of will, completely separate from mana. Probably, she thought, it was some kind of collective consciousness. If she couldn’t use it, it meant that Keena had lost her ability to access the Faceless Power. There was no way to tell if this was due to an external cause, or an internal one...

“Why...?! I want to stop Ackie! Just this once, I have to stop him!”

Keena’s cries went unheard, and Akuto was now practically on top of the airship.

Bullets and energy beams were pouring out from its gunports, but Akuto was ignoring them. A small plume of smoke rose up from the airship’s disc-shaped side. Akuto’s body had easily pierced its armor.

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Marine was shocked at the results of his actions. He had made it possible to use the Faceless Power, yes. But he’d had no idea that this would be the result.

He’d intended to use it to stop the nuclear attack, but instead, he’d wiped a part of the Empire’s coast off the face of the Earth.

“The Faceless Power reacts strongly to collective will. The people of the Republic must have wanted that very badly,” The One said.

The One resembled a talking dog, but according to him, he was an alien being of pure mind merely possessing the body of a dog. And a servant of the devil too, at least by Marine’s estimation.

He’d baited Marine into using the Faceless Power, knowing full well what would happen.

“You tricked me!” Marine screamed.

But The One just smiled back.

“Hahaha! Give power to a life form, and it always ends up the same way. That’s all there is to it.”

“And if that’s not trickery, what is?” In this moment, Marine gave up on negotiating with The One. He accelerated his body to smash his fist into the dog’s face. But...

—Why?!

Marine’s body froze. He couldn’t move forward. He couldn’t even raise a fist. It was like his body was moving through a sea of heavy mud.

“Ha, hah!” The One laughed.

“I’m using something like hypnosis! I subjected you to it when I saved you. You can’t attack me. When I’m up against someone strong like you, it’s important to take precautions.”

“It can’t be... an implant?!”

There was no way to control another person’s mind with normal magic. With one exception. You could implant a device inside their body, where their mana was strongest.

“Very perceptive. That’s right. I can’t just take over completely, after all. I need you to use the Faceless Power...”

“Tch... You’re going to make me use it again? We’re already at the point where a world war is unavoidable...”

“Yes, we’ve succeeded in causing a world war. But I’m interested in what happens after that,” The One said.

“There’s... more?” Marine’s face twisted in even greater terror. He’d never even considered that they were planning something greater than a world...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Demon King Daimaou
• Reihe/Serie: Demon King Daimaou
• Illustrationen: Souichi Itou
• Übersetzer: Adam Lensenmayer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Battle • color wars • demon king • Light Novel • Magical academy
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0100-6 / 1718301006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0100-9 / 9781718301009