Madman in a Fantasy World

143. to the groundwater

“Okay. George.”

“Did you decide to go catch it after all?”

“of course.”

After a short thought, I finally decided to stop drinking. Even if you know everything, you don’t have to be stupid and wait for the opponent to surprise you. I’ll hit it first, and I’ll make a “Oh my!” sound come out of the devil’s mouth.

“Then are you leaving right now?”

“No, that’s not it. I have something to prepare.”

Even if you go, preparation is essential. You can’t go into enemy territory without lifting anything.

“First bed.”

“·······?”

At the same time as I said, I put the bed in the inn into my inventory. I’ll come back later, but I’ll return it then.

“And the pot and the meat and…”

“Now, hold on!”

“Why.”

“Why do you need something like that to go to the underworld…?”

“Of course you don’t need it? Richie, don’t you eat? Aren’t you sleeping?”

What are you immortal?

“Why do you need that to go fight the Demon God?”

“If you go to the demon realm, the devil will come out to meet you?”

Hey, who says there’s a demon right in front of you when you go to the demon realm? In the original work, there is no mention of the demon world except that it is in the worldview.

In other words, I don’t know what the demon world looks like and what it is. It’s a place like that, so I don’t know if I’ll be there for a few days, but I need to prepare food and bedding. What, sleeping on the bare floor and eating at least demons?

I just said that to Richie. Do I need to explain something so basic?

“After hearing and seeing it, there is a point… but it seems that the ingredients are going somewhere to play.”

“By the way, Mr. Luke, will we have time to eat and sleep there?”

“If you don’t have it, you have to make it. There’s nothing more difficult than not eating, not sleeping, and fighting.”

Sometimes I can’t even sleep

We may be superhumans, but we are not transcendentalists. So even if you don’t have to sleep for a few nights and not eat, you still have to eat.

Anyway, I had just packed all the bedding, and I had all the tools for cooking and lighting in my inventory, so I was half ready.

“Then, is there anything related to the battle to prepare?”

“No, there is. But in order to prepare it, we need the help of a person who is the core of the Demon Goddess.”

“A key figure in the Demon Shrine…?”

The protagonist of this world and a person with a destiny of standing opposite to the demon god. A walking divine vending machine that can use the light attribute, which is the only one in this world.

Yes. The first preparation required the help of a toilet.

***

“Here you are.”

“Wow! Thank you sister!”

A boy taking a small bowl of stew with meat.

“Don’t run, it’s dangerous!”

Looking at it from behind, Angela smiled. A benevolent middle-aged woman approached Angela.

“Ms. Angela, thank you as always. Thanks to you, I don’t know how much the kids love it.”

“Nothing to say. I was just sharing what I had.”

“How many people in the world can’t do that.”

She is in an orphanage on the outskirts of the empire. The Empire was the largest, most powerful, and richest country in mankind, but not all the people in it were like that.

Some have children whose parents get sick and have a hard time surviving, while others lose their will to live because their children have been killed by monsters.

Angela, a commoner, understood and sympathized with the situation, so she always brought food to the orphanage even with the little money she had.

“I hope one day the day will come when everyone can share.”

Angela watched for a while as the children enjoyed their food, then got up to tidy up their seats.

“Then I’ll go help somewhere else.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you.”

Responding with a small smile, Angela opened the door and left the orphanage.

“hi?”

“······!”

Then, what I see is a man with black hair and red eyes. He was waving his hand and saying hello.

Behind him were the silver-haired little boy he had seen before, a werewolf woman who had been abused by him, and a woman he had never seen before.

“Why don’t you talk. If a person greets you, you have to answer.”

“What are you doing?”

Angela’s tone was cold enough to be heard by no one else.

“It’s nothing, I just need your help.”

Luke took out the magic bomb he had bought earlier from his inventory. Naturally, the inside of the magic bomb was empty.

“I’m sorry, but I won’t cooperate with you.”

Angela sees Luke as evil. She was a firm believer in the existence of goodness in all humans, but Luke in front of her was an exception.

A demon wearing a human mask… That was Angela’s perception of Luke. So she had no intention of cooperating with Luke.

“No? I don’t care what you think.”

“···What do you mean? Even if you use violence against me like before, I will…”

“If you don’t cooperate, I’ll kill all the kids in this orphanage.”

“······!”

Angela couldn’t help but be surprised. My heart felt like it was going to drop when the man in front of me said something that would have been creepy even if someone else said it.

The man Angela knew in front of her was not an ordinary madman. The recently announced S-class adventurer, nicknamed madman. That was the person named Luke in front of Angela’s eyes.

Others might end up with simple threats, but this man would kill me without blinking an eye.

No, they wouldn’t hesitate to torture them by cutting off or breaking all of their arms and legs instead of just killing them.

How can you say such a thing? I stopped worrying about that a long time ago. The idea that everyone can regenerate and understand is changed by that in the past.

“So finely put your light magic into this magic bomb.”

“Why me?”

“what?”

“As far as I know, Arthur can use the same light attribute. Why did you come to me, who I don’t even know where?”

“Ah… Actually, we were going to go to the toilet too.”

Who would have liked to roam around the empire looking for you, who didn’t even know where you were?

Of course, since the academy is closer to the dorm, and catching demons is originally his job, I went to the toilet first. But I went to the academy and didn’t see it?

-Why are you here?

-To find the toilet.

-Unfortunately, Arthur is not at the academy right now.

-Where does he go other than the academy?

-···We don’t know that either. Something is strange about Arthur these days. It disappears somewhere every day and returns late in the evening.

It was Luke who headed to the academy to shake off the toilet’s magic, but Tia’s reply was that Arthur was not at the academy.

And that’s not all. Arthur said that he disappears somewhere every day. Could it be that he went looking for a chance? I had such a question, but it was strange.

‘A kid who used to sing so well and likes it, left the heroine behind and acted alone?’

No matter what happened up to now, I always accompanied Tia and Stella, but there was definitely something about going alone even though there was nothing special about it.

‘But that’s none of my business.’

From Luke’s point of view, it didn’t matter where Arthur went or what he did. It’s just that you don’t mess around in front of me and clean up the shit you’re putting on.

“It must be a good suggestion for you anyway?”

“···What do you mean?”

“We’re going to kill the demon. The death of a demon means that there won’t be any more demons in the future, so it’s like saving future victims.”

Asmodians…. Angela, who thinks that if she was a demon, there is a possibility of repentance, hates demons as much. They despise all living things and enjoy the pain and screams of others.

Whether it was the theory of vocal evil or the theory of sexual goodness, they were all meaningless. Whether they were born good or evil, unlike humans, goodness does not exist for them.

If you’re going to defeat those guys, it might be okay to cooperate this time.

“Okay. I’ll help you.”

“Yes. How good would it be if it was like that from the beginning?”

“…Anyway, what exactly can I help you with?”

“Fill the magic bomb in front of you with magic.”

Angela looked at the pile of magic bombs standing in front of her. It seems like a lot, but it seemed like it wouldn’t be a problem.

“Can I just do this?”

“no.”

“·······?”

“There are more.”

Immediately after, magic bombs poured out of Luke’s inventory like a waterfall.

***

After storing the magic bombs full of light attributes in our inventory, we headed straight to the underground water canal.

The entrance to the underground aqueduct was spread throughout the empire, so it wasn’t difficult to find it.

It was also easy to find where they were hiding in the aqueducts that spread far and wide beneath the Empire.

The location is below the imperial castle. Only there, when the portal opens, you can kill the emperor right away. The fact that the king died in the war is enough to lower morale, so the portal is being prepared under the imperial castle.

“To think that something like that is right under the imperial castle… what the hell is the empire doing?”

“It’s just me.”

what can i do The emperor isn’t even a wise man, how could he know such trivial things? There is no one who can check everything that happens in the world and quell it early.

Actually, that’s not too surprising. If I just compare it to my previous life, it feels like a nuclear power plant. It sucks when it explodes, but you just have to take good care of it so it doesn’t explode.

Didn’t North Korea actually have nuclear weapons? Imagine that a weapon you made explodes in your own country. Just imagining it is terrifying, but don’t you know how to make it?

“Now, since we’re almost there, let’s get ready.”

Turning left and turning the corner, I saw countless demons gathered at a dead end and a magic circle installed on the floor.

Why are they all gathered already? Isn’t it time to activate the portal already?

“You’re here.”

As I looked at the scene in front of me and was lost in thought, the horned demons greeted us as if representing that place.

‘Well, how is it?’

Not one or two things have changed from the original, and I came here to destroy the original. It’s not that I’m going to interfere in the first place, it’s that I’m going to help, but from their point of view, there’s no reason to refuse.

“Hey, I’ll help you open the portal.”

“Kuh… kuh ha ha…!”

Then, the demons burst into laughter out of nowhere. Is he manic-depressive like the guy I met last time?

“Unfortunately, I already have an assistant.”

“aid?”

“Yes. So all you have to do is die.”

weird. There is no such thing as an assistant?

“Hey. It’s your turn.”

As he spoke as if calling someone, someone in a robe walked out of the darkness.

“I knew you would come.”

Coming out to where he could see the light, he took off his robe. Then, a red-haired man appears. Well… there was nothing to be surprised about. It’s because the voice came out all over in the first place.

A toilet that Tia and Stella haven’t seen recently. He blocked our way.