I don't want to be a heroic spirit

There are also many masked puppets in the dungeon.

The work of dealing with these puppets was all given to Nero and Darkness, and Kazuma was responsible for holding the oil lamp to light the way behind because he had nothing to do.

"Hey! Darkness! Don't rush so fast!"

"Oh hahaha! Kazuma, did you see that? I hit it! Is it so cool to hit a monster? Even my sword can hit these monsters!"

Although Darkness has strong physical fitness, she can't hit anyone.

However, these masked puppets not only don't dodge but also actively bump into them, so that even Darkness who can't hit people can hit them.

Really, if you really care about not being able to hit the enemy, just go and learn a [Great Sword] skill.

Darkness may have hit people too hard, and the speed of swinging the sword is getting faster and faster, and she is rushing forward, making Nero and Kazuma unable to keep up.

Staring at Darkness who was getting farther and farther away with a pair of dead fish eyes, Kazuma turned his head and looked at Nero beside him.

As if taking a walk, Nero walked leisurely in front of Kazuma, and masked puppets kept rushing towards her.

However, there was an invisible wind wall beside Nero, and the self-explosion of these masked puppets could not hurt Nero and Kazuma behind the wind wall.

Although the self-explosion of the masked puppets could not break Nero's [anti-magic power], she did not want to be blown up inexplicably and stained with dust.

"Nero, you can also do magic?"

"Of course, as the emperor, I am naturally omnipotent. If you feel scared, just stand behind me. As long as you stay behind me, you will be absolutely safe."

Nero's back suddenly became tall and majestic in Kazuma's eyes.

This damn sense of security... Compared with that, what kind of beasts are his teammates.

A masochist who can't hit anyone, an explosive demon who becomes paralyzed with one shot, and a mentally retarded person who loves to cause trouble.

If they are not watched, they will do a lot of stupid things and he will have to clean up their messes. He is not their babysitter...

"Hey! Kazuma! There is a fork in the road. Which way should we go?"

"Why are you rushing so fast when you don't even know the way, you idiot!"

Kazuma wanted to wipe off the magic circle drawn by Aqua, but since only Kazuma and Aqua knew the location of the magic circle, and Aqua didn't come, Kazuma was the only one who knew the way.

Nero didn't care about the magic circle. She only cared about Vanir who was making masked dolls in the dungeon. But since it was her first time in this dungeon, she thought it would be better to follow Kazuma and the others. Moreover, she believed in Kazuma's luck very much. As long as she followed him, she should be able to meet Vanir.

Kazuma said that the room of the lich Gil was in front, at the end of this passage.

Then...

"...What's that? It looks like the owner of these monsters, right?"

In front of them, there was a figure sitting cross-legged on the ground, kneading the soil on the ground, diligently making dolls.

He was wearing an evening gown that didn't match the dungeon at all, with white gloves on his hands and a mask of the same style as those masked puppets on his face.

If there was still a little uncertainty before, when Nero saw his figure, he had no doubts at all.

The person in front of him was none other than the head of the demon dukes from hell - Vanir.

Chapter 304 The Great Devil Who Sees Through People's Hearts

While Nero was still thinking, Darkness stood up and questioned Vanir.

"Hey! What are you doing here, you suspicious guy? Since you are making that kind of puppet, it also means that you are the culprit of this monster riot, right!"

Darkness took out the big sword and posed for Vanir.

Nero thought Darkness was a little reckless... but it shouldn't matter.

According to Nero's understanding, although Vanir is the head of the demon dukes, he is the most harmless demon to humans, because humans can continuously produce negative emotions that are very delicious to Vanir, so Vanir also has the principle of "not killing humans".

Nero still remembers... Vanir is called the "clairvoyant demon". His eyes can see everything he wants to see. His ability is a bit like Merlin's... Perhaps for this reason, his personality is also a bit similar to Merlin. He likes to stand from the perspective of a bystander to watch the various choices made by the people he cares about in the face of various situations. In short, he likes to peek.

However, unlike Merlin, who is a half-nightmare, Vanir, as a demon, likes human negative emotions, especially negative emotions such as disgust, disappointment and shame, so he often creates some embarrassing situations.

Darkness's shouting also attracted the attention of Vanir, who was concentrating on making dolls.

"Oh, oh, oh... I didn't expect someone to be able to reach here, adventurer! Welcome to my dungeon! You are right, I am the root and culprit of evil! I am a cadre of the Demon King's army! I am also the Duke of Hell who leads the demons! The great demon who can see through everything in the world, Vanir!"

Vanir put down his work and stood up, bowing slightly to the few people as if he was performing.

The evening gown he was wearing really made him look like he was performing.

"Kazuma... that person is very dangerous, stand behind Yu for a while."

Saying this, Nero also took out his big sword called Primordial Fire, held the hilt with his left hand, and walked to Darkness step by step.

Even if Nero didn't say that, Kazuma already had the intention to quit.

"Demon...Demon King Army cadre?!" Kazuma hid behind Nero and said to Darkness: "Hey! Darkness, this is not an existence we can deal with...if it is a Demon King Army cadre Let’s leave it to Nero.”

"Kazuma! What stupid words are you talking about! How can I, who serves the goddess Eris, back down when facing a leader of the Demon King's army and a demon at that? Even if we both die together! I will defeat this guy!"

"You are a woman who is always stubborn when she doesn't have to be!"

Obviously the identity of "the Duke of Hell who rules the demons" is much more dangerous than the "cadre of the Demon King's Army", but these two people are more concerned about each other's identity as "the leader of the Demon King's Army".

After all, hell is opposite to heaven. The demons of hell and the gods of heaven have been fighting for unimaginable years and have won each other. As the Duke of Hell who leads the demons, Barnier is at least a terrifying existence on the same level as Aqua.

...Suddenly I felt that Barnier was like that and I don’t know why.

After hearing Darkness's words, Barnier raised the corners of his mouth with interest.

"Oh? You said you want to defeat me? Defeat me who is said to be stronger than the Demon King? But... I'm worried that the man will see her naked body while taking a shower, thus revealing that she is a girl with well-defined abdominal muscles. I don't I know what you are angry about, but I heard that eating more small bones when you are angry can help improve it. Part of my mask uses the skull of a dragon, so it doesn’t matter if you take a bite of it.”

After Barnier said such words, Darkness's face became as red as a monkey's butt. While shouting "You're talking nonsense", she was about to rush forward with a sword and chop the opponent, but Kazuma held her tightly. Hold on.

Barnier didn't care at all about Darkness, who was dying of shame and anger, and expressed his purpose with a smile on his lips.

Although Barnier is a cadre of the Demon King's Army, due to his status, the Demon King of this world has no authority to order him, so he just takes the name of a "Demon King's Army Cadre" to help the Demon King maintain the boundaries of the Demon King's City. .

The purpose of Barnier's coming here is, on the one hand, he was asked by the Demon King to come here to investigate the death of the Headless Horseman Beldia, and on the other hand, he came here to meet an old friend of his, who opened the door in Axel. Wiz, the lich who owns a magic item shop.

After learning the purpose of Barnier's visit, Kazuma and Darkness glanced at Nero subconsciously.

Because Beldia was defeated by Nero.

"Huh? I see, that's how it is..." The eyes behind the mask flashed with an ominous red light, and Barnier looked at Nero, "Was Beldia defeated by you? He was still fighting one-on-one. Under such circumstances, I was defeated in a crushing situation...Thank you, sir. Answer my doubts in my heart! The coy girl who is expecting the man next to her to play all kinds of unimaginable punishment games on her, and the girl who obviously cares about the opposite sex part of her but doesn't do anything because she is in the same team. What a cowardly man you dare to be.”

"I just...I don't have any expectations!"

"I just... didn't care!"

So that’s it, is this the clairvoyant demon? The ability to see through people's hearts is indeed terrifying.

It is said that the reason why Hell has been in a stalemate with Heaven, which has many gods, for so long is because of the existence of Barnier. His clairvoyance can see through the decisions made by Heaven, and then let Hell seize the opportunity. This is why Barnier although He is not the strongest demon but can become the head of the Duke of Hell.

These two people have been destroyed.

Nero frowned slightly and looked at Barnier with fear in his eyes.

If you let the other party see through your affairs...

As soon as he thought of this, Nero shrank and flashed behind Barnier, and struck the opponent's head with a sword covered in flames.

"Oh! It's so dangerous..."

Barnier ducked down to avoid Nero's slashing attack, and the smile on his face seemed to be mocking.

"You actually attacked me so impulsively that the man over there thought more than once about kicking off the three burdensome women around you and joining your team. The anxiety is written on your face. You hide it in your heart and don't want to What is the secret that people want to know? Let me take a look... Why can't you see it?"

The relaxed smile that always hung on Barnier's face, as if he could face everything with ease, disappeared, and was replaced by a look of surprise.

It was obvious that his eyes could see through even angels and weaker gods. Only an extremely high-ranking god could block his sight, but he could not see through the woman in a red dress in front of him.

The key is that he didn't feel a trace of divinity from the other party... He couldn't even feel the sacred aura of the high priest. He seemed to be just an ordinary person with relatively high martial arts skills.

Unable to understand the current situation, Barnier lost consciousness for a moment.

"Hmm! Now!"

With his emerald eyes focused, Nero took a step forward, spanning a distance of several meters in an instant. Before Barnier could react, the sword wrapped in flames had already cut through the opponent's body.

It was cut from the left shoulder and cut out from the right waist and abdomen, leaving a red slash on Barnier's body.

"Uh——! I actually...as the Duke of Hell, I actually...! Uh——ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Barnier covered the slash marks on his body with all his strength and roared unwillingly.

The next moment, blazing flames burst out from the slash, burning Barnier's body in the blink of an eye, leaving only black ash everywhere and a strange black and white mask.

Chapter 305: A moment of silence for Barnier, who sought death

The oil lamp held by Kazuma emitted a faint light and illuminated the surroundings. The narrow underground city was so quiet that one could even hear each other's breathing.

"Are we...killing the cadres of the Demon King's army?"

Kazuma stared at the ash and mask on the ground with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Kazuma, it seems like we didn't do anything, right? The defeat of the Demon King's army cadres was all the result of Nero alone."

"……I know!"

Kazuma's cheeks turned red, and Darkness' unceremonious correction made him a little embarrassed.

"Now that the Demon King Army cadres have been eliminated by Nero, the situation caused by those masked dolls has been resolved, right? Now we just need to enter the room there and wipe away what that idiot Aqua left behind. The magic circle, then our goal has been achieved."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoriuu, I obviously met the cadres of the Demon King's Army, but I didn't show anything... I thought that after miraculously defeating the monster today, I could finally show something..."

After entering the room, Kazuma wiped off the magic circle on the ground very neatly.

When Nero promised to help him hide it, as long as he could erase this only evidence of guilt, those adventurers who were injured by the monsters running out of the dungeon would not come to him.

Although I felt sorry for them... Kazuma was even more unwilling to be beaten by those people.

At worst, we can treat those people to a meal after we go out.

Although it was a magic circle that even the great devil was afraid of, Aqua only used ordinary chalk when drawing it and wiped it off with a cloth soaked in water.

While Kazuma was kneeling on the ground wiping the magic circle, Nero picked up the black and white mask from the ashes.

The left half is black and the right half is white. There are two stars, one black and one white, under each eye, and there is a Roman numeral one on the forehead.

"So ugly..."

Nero couldn't help but speak his mind.

"Why would Megumin say this mask is very handsome? Hmm! I don't understand..."

"Nero, we've got it done here...is that one you're holding...?"

Kazuma and Darkness walked out of the room, and then saw Nero holding Barnier's mask and looking at it.

"Trophy? Probably... Do you want it? Megumin in your team seems to be very interested in this, right?"

"Thank you, no need...my intuition tells me that that thing is not a good thing, and after all, it belongs to the cadres of the Demon King's Army. It may contain a particularly dangerous curse or something."

A boss like the Demon King's Army Cadre might reveal some kind of magical weapon.

"...If there is a curse, as a believer of Eris, I cannot ignore it."

"Just stand there. If something happens to you, I will be the one in trouble in the end."

"Yeah~~~~! Kazuma ordered me in such a strong tone full of disgust. Should I listen or shouldn't I listen? If I don't listen, will Kazuma do it to punish me for being disobedient? Something outrageous happened..."

Kazuma ignored the panting Darkness next to him...but his ignoring seemed to make the other person even more excited.

"It's really too much. So many of you don't even have any taste. My favorite and most satisfying mask, my symbol! My soul! You actually dislike it so much?"

Barnier's voice came from the mask in Nero's hand.

It's really weird, because this mask only covers the upper half of the face, and it can still speak even though it has no mouth.

"Demon...Demon King Army cadre! Sure enough, he can't be killed so easily?!"

Shock, nervousness, vigilance and other emotions were mixed on the faces of Kazuma and Darkness.

"Hahahahaha! You really think you have succeeded in defeating me, right? Unfortunately, it was not hurt at all! The mask is my real body! Oh oh oh! I feel it! It's such a delicious negative emotion, thank you Your hospitality!”

Immediately, Barnier's mask shook off Nero's hand and flew directly to Nero's face.

"Then! A powerful warrior who can defeat Beldia! Please lend me your body for the time being!"

Because he had seen Kazuma's heart before, Barnier knew that his old enemy, the goddess Aqua, was outside the dungeon.

Although his principle is not to kill humans, gods are his mortal enemies. After learning that Aqua was outside, Barnier immediately wanted to go out and kill her.