Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon: Volume 3 (eBook)

Ryuyu (Autor)

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2023
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-9051-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Reborn as a demon lord in another world, Yuki's story continues! He succeeds in entering the royal capital to hunt down the crown prince, who's determined to threaten the sanctity of his peaceful dungeon life. What he finds there, however, is a darkly transformed city overrun with Undead. Deciding to go ahead of the hero Nell and company, he infiltrates the royal castle, where he stumbles into a misunderstanding with the castle's maids while also somehow managing to rescue the captive king. Then, after finding his princely target, Yuki launches his attack! The prince's behavior and the disturbing atmosphere blanketing the area strike him as odd, though. His suspicions aroused, he uses Analysis to figure out what's going on, and a shocking truth comes to light!

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“I don’t think there’s any point in hiding your face. You’re sure this is going to be okay, though? It’ll be a big problem for me if they find out I brought a demon lord here...”

“We’ll be fine, so quit worrying.”

“One last thing. If they deny you entry, I want you to accept that, all right? You can’t force your way in.”

“Yeah, yeah, I got it. Just relax and let me work my magic.”

In that case, I’ll just have to make my move when the time comes. Not that it mattered too much either way. Even if they let me just walk in, I still planned on doing my own thing; there was no need for me to join the Church’s side for real. All I wanted to do was overthrow the prince and have the Church take credit for it. I didn’t care about anything else.

If you’re thinking that that meant there was no real reason for me to have come all this way, you’re wrong. I did have a reason, and that reason was information. I wanted it, and I wanted it bad. You could call that my true motive for coming here. Oh well, there was no point obsessing over all that now. I’d figure out the details after I saw how the Church ran its ship, so to speak.

“That doesn’t reassure me in the slightest... Hey, Mr. Yuki.”

“What’s up? Is my mask so cool that you’ve fallen madly in love with me?”

“Ugh, as if! Look, will you?”

The hero was getting pretty snippy. I guess she was comfortable enough with me now that she didn’t feel like she had to hold back anymore.

“Right. That. Already knew about it.”

She slowly unsheathed her holy sword, a grim look on her face. I turned toward what she was looking at—a corpse. It’d found out we were here and appeared out of the dark alleyway, swaying bonelessly like the dead creature it was. One look at its face made it plenty clear that its life force was long gone. Not to mention that it didn’t seem to give a rat’s ass about its guts hanging out of its torso or it missing an arm and a leg. Absolutely disgusting. I could feel my sanity level dropping just from looking at this monstrosity. Yes indeed, it was a zombie, aka an Undead.

Remember what I’d mentioned earlier about the awful stench? My secret guess had been that these guys were the source, and boy was I spot-on. Looked like the same kind of uproar that had gone down in Alfiro was happening here too. I know I’d said this place felt like a ghost town, but wouldn’t you know it, I couldn’t have picked a better description, what with all these ghostly freaks crawling around. Well, undead freaks, if you wanna get technical. You know what I meant.

Jeepers creepers, for shit that looked like it was straight out of a B-grade horror movie, being on the receiving end still sucked hard. I’d said it before and I’d say it again, I could not handle gore for the life of me. And no chance it was just me either. Being chased by a corpse with its organs swinging around all over the place would make anyone’s stomach churn. Guaran-freaking-teed.

“There’s more? We don’t have time to waste on fighting them, though. Mr. Yuki, we’re taking a detour.”

“Roger that.”

I followed Nell down a narrow lane in the royal capital.

“Yo, Nell, walking dead that way.”

“Oh, you’re right. Let’s head down this road, then.”

Once I’d told her about Maps’s enemy alert, we made our way around the Undead obstacles.

“You’re amazing, Mr. Yuki. You can tell where they are without even seeing them.”

“Gotta make sure I don’t slack off, na mean? But seriously, there’s so goddamn many. Why the hell aren’t the troops taking ’em out?”

This was our fourth run-in with the Undead and counting. We’d managed to get this far without having to kick any asses, but cripes, their numbers were insane. I wasn’t sure how long we could keep this up.

“Hmm... If I had to guess, I’d say that either the chain of command has been disrupted, or they have explicit orders not to interfere.”

“You really think they’d have orders like that? But that’d mean the higher-ups are just letting all these monsters run wild. In the royal freaking capital, of all places. Why would they do that? And how would that even be possible?”

“Normally, it wouldn’t be, which is why I can’t bring myself to believe it either. Except...nothing is normal right now. Even though the Undead have flooded the streets, we haven’t seen hide nor hair of the garrison fighting them off. If anything, what’s strange is the fact that security is so stringent on the city’s outer walls. It’s almost as if they’re keeping things in rather than out.”

She explained all that with a bleak expression.

“Gotcha. Considering what you just said, there’s a good chance that these uggos are being left alone on purpose. Oh, hey, Miss Hero. Eyes forward, yeah?”

“Huh? Oh my gosh! U-Undead Away!”

When an Undead suddenly appeared in front of her, Nell instinctively thrust her hands out in front of her and chanted her spell. The minute she did, a powerful beam of light shot out from her palms, and the Undead dropped straight to the floor.

“Was that...holy magic?”

I remembered seeing that as one of Nell’s abilities.

“Phew, what an unpleasant surprise... Yup, they teach us at the Church. I abbreviate the chant, though.”

“Does doing that change anything?”

“Yes, it makes the spell much less powerful. Ah, since this is holy magic, it might actually work really well against wicked demon lords like you, Mr. Yuki.”

“Oh nooo, I’m quaking in my boots. I’ll have to be on my best behavior or else!”

While I replied to her, I grabbed a zombie that had gotten too close for comfort by the head and smashed it against a wall. I could multitask with the best of ’em, thank you very much.

Unable to withstand a demon lord’s overwhelming strength, the Undead’s skull exploded like a pomegranate. Then, I poured a colossal amount of magic through my palm and into the corpse. Its entire body convulsed violently before it finally stopped moving.

Oh, son of a— My fingers were covered in bits of flesh, and I sure did hate the nasty, squishy sensation. I hadn’t bothered taking out my beloved Zaien from Inventory because I couldn’t swing it around too easily in this narrow alleyway. If I’d known I was gonna have to deal with this horror show, though, I would’ve at least had a short sword or dagger on hand. This blows. I hate myself.

“O raving abomination, I bid thee return to your final resting place. Undead Away!”

I grimaced in disgust as I wiped my hand clean. At the same time, Nell chanted her spell. She chanted the whole thing this time around, so it was a hell of a lot more efficient, clearing out the Undead ahead of us and securing a way forward. Note to self: as long as she wasn’t taken by surprise like earlier, she could actually get shit done. Seemed like a good thing to know.

“You... Even though you’re such a scaredy-cat, you’re actually okay when it comes to dealing with zom—no, the Undead, huh?”

“Sh-Shut up. Besides, I can cut the Undead. I can’t say the same for ghosts, so that’s why.”

“Wait, what? That’s your baseline for not being afraid of stuff?”

“Well, I don’t think I’m alone in that. If a sword doesn’t cut through something, that means it can’t be attacked. Although, pure magic is a viable and effective weapon against non-corporeal monsters...”

Do people in this world really think like that when it comes to what’s scary and what isn’t?

“But don’t people like you have a responsibility to exorcize wandering souls?”

Nell was, for all intents and purposes, a part of the clergy. If she got scared stiff every time she saw a ghost like she had when she’d first shown up at my place, there was no way she’d be able to do her job properly. I guess it didn’t matter, though, since I didn’t actually know if wandering souls even existed. My wraith sisters didn’t count because they were just ordinary monsters.

“My main role is as a preserver of the peace, so you could say phantom extermination doesn’t really fall within my duties.”

“Is that right, Miss Hero? If that’s God’s honest truth, then I want you to look me dead in the eyes when you say it.”

The hero stubbornly refused to look at me.

After that, we’d done our best to avoid fighting, but after deciding that we couldn’t do it anymore, we’d eliminated the Undead as quickly as possible. A short while later, we’d managed to make progress on our journey to the Church.

“We’re here, Mr. Yuki.”

The hero stopped in front of a building that, at first glance, looked like a run-down shack. It sat in a back alley, in the middle of a row of other buildings. She didn’t bat an eye as she walked up to the worn-out door and knocked on it in a rhythmic pattern. Immediately, a man’s muffled voice responded from the other side.

“To the end...”

“...we weave our way.”

Slightly above the doorknob, a shutter slid open and a slot appeared. An arm reached out of it.

...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon
• Reihe/Serie: Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon
• Illustrationen: Daburyu
• Übersetzer: Kashi Kamitoma
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Game elements • Harem • Isekai • Light Novel • Magic • Overpowered • Reincarnation
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-9051-3 / 1718390513
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-9051-5 / 9781718390515