Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon: Volume 12 (eBook)

Ryuyu (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-9069-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Our errant, determined antihero Yuki heads off to Alisia's royal capital to team up with Nell and the demons on a mission. Unfortunately for him, he finds himself kidnapped! Thankfully, the Supreme Dragon, Lefi, rushes to his side, and they manage to stop trouble in its tracks, which means they can return to their peaceful, bickering-filled, frolicsome days.

One day, Yuki and the gang decide to visit the dwarves' homeland. What better place to search for clues about the divine weapons in his possession than the holy land for weaponry? Off he goes to the shrine revered by the dwarves, where he discovers a stone slab with instructions written on it. After following the instructions, he touches the slab, only to lose consciousness-and awaken in a stark white, empty void where a variant of the God Spear awaits him!

Will Yuki's trip lead to a sudden job change from demon lord?!

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Prologue: Strengthening Bonds, Bit by Bit

After the end of the Great Corpse Dragon War, which the surrounding countries and races had gotten tangled up in, all kinds of things were finally sorted out. But that didn’t mean everything was settled, and I still had a job to do for the Demon King soon, but you could say the situation related to that war was mostly done and dusted.

The only thing that mattered to me was my family. My official marriage ceremony with Lew. The slight change in my relationship with Leila. And Lefi’s pregnancy. Slowly but surely, my relationships were moving forward.

I thought of myself as a hopeless man. A selfish, hypocritical, decidedly immature man you’d be hard-pressed to call an adult. But I was way past the point in my life to complain. As long as the people who loved me were by my side, hopeless as I was, I would do everything in my power as a man to live. Time to get this show on the road, then.

◇ ◇ ◇

The day after the Demon King, his subordinate Runougil, and I had enjoyed a night of drinking.

“What, you have had enough already? Even though you were so needy yesterday? Should you wish for it, I am more than amenable to pampering you further, hm?”

“Sh-Shut it. I was just plastered, okay?”

Lefi cackled at me while I turned away out of embarrassment.

I didn’t really remember much, but I had a vague recollection of hugging her because I’d wanted to feel her warmth and telling her a few things that made me wanna crawl into a hole and die. Drinking as heavily as I had last night was pretty out of the ordinary for me, so of course my memories were a hazy mess thanks to the drunkenness. Lefi, on the other hand, probably remembered everything I’d said and done. I would’ve bet good money on it. Ugh! Damn you, past me! Exposing your system vulnerabilities like that!

“Here, shall I hold your hand? If memory serves, last night, you spouted something or other about ascending to the heavens when we held hands.”

“I-I have no notion of what you might be referring to. Perhaps you misheard? I simply cannot recall uttering such—”

“I see, I see. Then I shall sequester the sight of you yesterday in my heart. ‘The nape of your neck...tastes so good. So sweet, so soft.’ You murmured sweet nothings like that to me while nibbling on the aforementioned part of my body. I found you quite adorable, you know.”

I abruptly stiffened up.

“Ah, yes, what else was it you said? ‘Your lips look tasty too, all soft and plump.’ And with those words, you brought your face close to mine—”

“Gaaaaahhh!!! Stooooop!!!”

I ran away.

◇ ◇ ◇

“Argh... That damn Lefi... She remembers everything I said and did clear as day!”

It felt like the more time passed, the more of my weaknesses she had in a vise grip. My bad temper wasn’t because she’d been exaggerating but because she hadn’t been, since I had vague memories of doing and saying the stuff she’d mentioned. I remembered seeing her face up close in my drunken stupor, and I’d automatically— Gaaah! Nooo!

“Grr?”

I heard a voice from next to me as I writhed in agony over my humiliation. The questioning rumble was asking me, “Um, are you all right?” It was my pet Rir, whose real name was Fluffrir.

Right now, I was in the Demonic Forest. I’d left the meadow area and come out here to check on my pets after my trip.

“Hrgh... Ahem. Don’t worry about me. Just dealing with some stuff. Anyway, you guys doing good? Thanks for looking after things while we were gone, by the way.”

At my words, my pet army bowed their heads one by one, starting with Rir, then followed by Orochi, Yata, Byaku, and Seimi. I praised them a bit more before giving them the souvenirs I’d bought in the ovine village. It was a special kind of feed that monsters liked and that monster masters known as “tamers” apparently used. Naturally, the stuff had cost a boatload.

My pets didn’t seem too keen on it at first, but it didn’t take them long to show me their delight. Then, they all chomped down on the food. All except Rir, who walked over to stand next to me, leaving his souvenir for later.

“What’s up? Why don’t you dig in too?”

“Grr.”

His answer to my question was “Well, my apologies, but I wanted your advice on something.”

“Yeah? You want my advice? Don’t hear that every day, huh?”

Another rumble from him, this time saying, “I’m sorry to bother you” as a preface to his explanation. Turned out that he wanted to ask me a personal favor concerning the monsters under his command—the clever ones who feared Rir’s power and had decided to become his subordinates in order to make it through the struggle for survival.

I’d known about them for a while now. They saw all my pets, especially Rir, the leader, as their masters. However, I was Rir’s master. And his pack had grown even more, meaning a lot more monsters didn’t know who I was. In short, they thought Rir sat alone at the top.

Personally, I didn’t care what his followers did as long as they left me alone. But Rir himself wasn’t a fan of this state of affairs. As my subordinate and a defender of the dungeon, he wanted to make sure his own subordinates knew both of those things. To sum it all up, his favor involved me showing my face to them.

“Man, you’re as earnest as ever, huh?”

“Grr.” That and a bow of his head was his response.

Hmm... I mulled things over in silence for a while.

“Hey, Rir. I want you to know that you’re important to me. I think of you as my partner.”

He was my pet. But he was also a precious friend. A companion with whom I’d escaped the jaws of death countless times—one I knew would always have my back. Though there might’ve been an element of master and servant in our relationship, we still protected each other and believed in each other as we fought to the bitter end together. He was important to me in a different way from Lefi and the others.

“I know we have the whole master-servant thing between us, but you can live how you want, dude. That includes going wherever you want and leading your subordinates however you want. I won’t butt in if you want to live your life more independently.”

I wanted to be on a more equal footing with him. Since he was my friend, if he wanted to live his life unrestrained by anything, then that was what I wanted too. Of course, I’d be in a pickle and super freaking sad if he decided to leave us, but more than that, I didn’t want to quash his potential.

If Rir had been born in another time or place, he could’ve ruled the world. That was how powerful he was. A monster with such overwhelming potential that even Lefi had struggled to fight against his kind. As someone under my command, he was bound to the Demonic Forest, so he didn’t have a lot of opportunities to venture into the world outside. Otherwise, his name would’ve spread far and wide by now.

“Grr.”

The first thing he growled softly at me was “Thank you for your consideration.” Then, he shook his head and continued rumbling deep in his throat. He would never leave this place, he said. That it was just as important to him as it was to me. That he thought of it as home, which was exactly why he didn’t want to leave and why he wanted to live here with us. He told me all this with a sincere expression while gazing intently at me.

Strangely enough, I detected a hint of anger in his face too. Like he was saying, “How dare you underestimate my resolve.”

“Huh. Gotcha. And my bad for saying something stupid.”

He smiled suddenly then, as if saying, “Not at all. Your words made me happy,” and rubbed his head fondly against mine. In return, I buried my hands in his luxuriously silky fur and patted the heck outta him. A few minutes later, I jumped onto his back.

“Okay! Take me to your followers! Time to introduce myself!”

◇ ◇ ◇

Rir took me to a clearing deep in the Demonic Forest, where his followers had gathered.

“Uhhh, is this all of them?”

“Grr.”

My pet nodded affirmatively from under me as I rode on his back.

Now this is a monster army. They stretched as far as the eye could see. Or at least, that was how it felt. Waaay back, Rir had brought his troops to meet us in the meadow area, but the number of monsters back then didn’t even begin to compare to the number that were here.

Five hundred... No, more? I wasn’t surprised to see that the largest population of his followers consisted of wolf-type monsters just like him. Although they were really fluffy in their own right, unfortunately, none of them held a candle to Rir’s fur. His fluff truly was a special fluff. Nothing like it in the whole world.

The next most common monsters were snake- and bird-type monsters, which probably had to do with Orochi’s and Yata’s influence. Conversely, because of Byaku’s and Seimi’s unique races, I couldn’t spot a single monster similar to either of them among Rir’s army. The remainder was made up of a variety of monsters that didn’t seem to have anything...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2025
• 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: 1-7183-9069-6 / 1718390696
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-9069-0 / 9781718390690