Demon King Daimaou: Volume 8 (eBook)

Shoutarou Mizuki (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
237 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
9781718300927 (ISBN)

Infos

2V, with the newly-awakened First Demon King, Zero, has successfully taken over the Empire. All Liradans, including Korone, are under her control. And with Akuto out of commission and no one allowed to use magic, no one can stop her from commanding every aspect of the citizen's lives. What is 2V's true goal behind creating this Liradan-centered, magicless society?
Meanwhile, the injured Akuto has taken refuge in a black mage village with Fujiko, Keena, and Yoshie. What will he do when he meets someone who holds the secret to his mysterious birth...?

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1 - A New God?

After the students returned from Virtual Phase Space, Constant Magical Academy was in a state of panic. Korone, the Liradan that served as Akuto Sai’s observer, had suddenly shot him with a cannon.

The compact laser beam she’d fired from the beam weapon she kept in her bag was powerful enough to slice a human body in half; it was clearly an act of attempted murder.

To make matters worse, Akuto was injured. He’d been attacked by Zero in VPS, where he couldn’t use his body’s recovery abilities, and he was almost dead. An attack on him in such a state couldn’t possibly be written off as one of Korone’s frequent bad jokes.

All the students there were too shocked by her sudden action to move. Everybody had noticed there was something wrong with Korone, but it was also clear that there was something wrong with everything else, too. In the distance, below them in the city, they could see black towers of smoke rising up.

“Every Liradan in the city has gone out of control...” one of the students whispered as he looked at the breaking news displayed on his student handbook. “Then...”

All eyes turned to Korone. Everyone began to step away from her.

Korone was still holding her beam weapon at her side as she began to walk down the path the students made by backing away from her. At the end of the path, Akuto was lying on the ground. Keena Soga and Fujiko Eto were leaning over him with expressions of shock.

“Wh-What happened?”

“S-Stop it, Korone...”

But Korone didn’t seem to hear them. She was still walking forward with the barrel of her gun pointed towards Akuto.

“I cannot kill humans. Please move to the side.”

Keena was shielding Akuto’s body from Korone as she leaned over, and this had evidently stopped her from firing.

Fujiko’s expression froze when she heard Korone’s words. “...It looks like she didn’t go crazy and lose control.”

“Is somebody controlling her, then?” Keena whispered. But there was nobody there to answer.

Korone walked up to the both of them silently, and looked down at them.

“C-Come on... If you can talk, tell us why you’re doing this!” Keena said with a quavering voice.

Korone put her gun back in her bag. For a moment, Keena smiled.

“W-Whew...”

But then Korone spoke again. “I am doing this in order to eliminate the current Demon King.”

Keena couldn’t speak. And then Korone took out a thin rod from her bag. Fujiko looked at it in terror; she knew immediately that it was a melee combat weapon. It was shaped like a sword, with a stick for a blade.

“This is a stun stick. It will enable me to remove any resistance without resorting to lethal measures. Resistance is not advised.” Korone ran her hand along the stun stick, and it lit up with electricity.

“Looks like we’ll have to fight...” There was sweat on Fujiko’s face. She’d just fought Korone inside VPS, even if it was just a game. She knew that if Korone was serious, she could move far faster than a human could react. “This... might be a problem.”

It was worse than a problem. It was a lethal situation. None of the other students would want to try to fight back against Korone. In a melee fight, the only other person she could count on was Junko Hattori, but when she finally saw the class rep in the corner of her eye, she seemed to be in some kind of state of shock.

“If I only had a moment’s opening, I might be able to do something...” Fujiko tried to find an opening in Korone’s movements, but failed.

“If you refuse to move, you will be eliminated.” Korone raised the stun stick.

“No!” Keena clung tightly to Akuto’s body. Fujiko closed her eyes, ready to face the end.

Just then, a shock wave violently shook the air around them.

“...What was that?” Fujiko opened her eyes and looked around.

Korone was frozen, her body twitching slightly. “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa....” Her voice sounded like a broken tape recorder, and she wasn’t moving at all.

Fujiko had no idea what had just happened, but this was just the distraction she needed.

“Cerberus!” she shouted.

A demon beast came bounding out from the school building in answer to her call. It was a huge dog monster, with three heads. She’d trained it before to listen to her commands, and now it was her favorite.

The beast picked up Akuto’s body with one of its mouths, then jerked its head to flip him onto its back. Keena was still clinging tightly and refusing to let go, so she went with him. Fujiko leapt on the beast’s back as well. She ordered the beast away from the schoolyard, but when she realized that Junko was still too shaken to move, she ordered the Cerberus to put her on its back too.

“Hyah!” The shock of being picked up by a giant dog mouth and flung upwards brought Junko back to her senses.

“Fujiko, what are we going to do now?” she asked as she looked into her eyes.

“We have to run. We still don’t know what’s going on. The only thing I can say with certainty right now is that this ‘First Demon King’ we saw inside the game is what made Korone go crazy.” Fujiko started to make the Cerberus run from Korone.

“Wh-Where are we going to run to? Ackie’s tough, but he’ll need time to get better, right?” Keena said, worried.

“We don’t have a lot of options. Our best choice now is to go to one of the black mages’ hidden villages.” She said “now,” but the tone of her voice made it clear that she’d been planning on this for a while.

“Hidden villages?” Keena asked, surprised.

“That’s right. There’s a spot where some of the black mages I’ve been dealing with make their home. It’s a little out of the way, but that’s what makes it a perfect place for us to hide.”

Junko raised her voice in objection. “Fujiko, that sounds like you’re admitting he’s the Demon King...”

“Of course I am,” Fujiko said, as if she was surprised there was any question about it at all.

Junko looked uncertain. “I don’t know if that’s what’s best for him...”

“We’re not in a position to worry about that now. If every Liradan in the country is under that thing’s control, the whole empire’s been taken over.”

Junko didn’t seem to have anything to say in response to that.

“And if it has, the only ones who can fight back are the black mages. We’re rebels anyway.” Fujiko grinned. Then she turned to look behind the Cerberus. “We don’t have time to talk about it, either.”

Korone had recovered, and was skating across the ground towards them.

“Tch... But even if that’s true, I can’t go to a black mage village...” Junko said, pained at the thought. She looked from the unconscious Akuto to behind them, then back again. After glancing over and over at Akuto, she looked sad for a moment, and then jumped off of the Cerberus’s back.

“I’ll hold off Korone!”

“...If we get separated here, I won’t be able to tell you where the village is!” Fujiko said as Junko began to recede into the distance.

But Junko didn’t look back.

“Get out of here!” She raised her katana up high.

Meanwhile, Korone skated closer and closer.

“Yah!” With a short cry, Junko brought down her sword.

But in the next instant, Korone’s stun stick landed square on her stomach. There was a sharp sound of crackling electricity.

“Gwah!” Junko grunted and passed out cold.

From the Cerberus’s back, Keena gasped in surprise at Korone’s merciless blow. “Even if she was serious, normally Korone would tell a joke right now...!”

Korone knocked Junko out without a single sarcastic remark, however, and continued to follow after them. She was moving faster than the dog could run, and before long she was right at its tail.

“But this time, I can fight back!” Fujiko raised her hand to cast a spell.

But then she lowered it, confused. The mana wasn’t coming to her hand.

“What? My magic...”

“You can’t use it?” Keena asked in surprise.

“Have the gods gone out of control too...?” Fujiko gasped just as Korone jumped up, holding her stun stick out as she attacked from above.

“Fine then...!” Fujiko tried to use the code for black magic — magic that wasn’t controlled by the gods — but Korone was just a little bit faster. “I won’t make it in time...!”

Fujiko’s eyes went wide with fear, but then the same strange phenomenon struck Korone again. Her body began to vibrate, and she fell from the sky like she’d suddenly passed out.

“Again? I’m glad it saved me, but... what just happened?” Fujiko asked, when suddenly the Cerberus began to drop in speed. “What’s wrong?” Fujiko looked forward again to see Keena pointing to the front.

“There’s someone there...” Keena said. On the hill away from the school, where the Cerberus had fled to, there was a single girl standing. She held some sort of box in her hands.

“Who is it?” Fujiko tensed up for a fight, but the girl waved as if she recognized them.

“You’re Fujiko Eto,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2018
• 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-13: 9781718300927 / 9781718300927