Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

Move to the Demon Army.

It was this morning that I overheard the report.

It's a report brought to you by a secret detective who was infiltrating the demonic realm.

"Are you finally here"

"Right. It would have been better for me not to come."

"Julius, that's not how it works. I know you don't like to fight, but people and demons are enemies to each other. You knew this was gonna happen someday, didn't you?

"Don't do that. Since the death of our brave predecessors, the Demons have become more active, and Wye is more comfortable with those who have them."

Yana the Virgin, Ziskan the former adventurer, Hawkin the former bandit and now a revamped one.

As my colleagues say, since the death of the previous brave men, the Demons have been active.

Without that developing into a massive war, it may be that the only thing that has ever been done is skirmish, rather a well-held one.

"So, when did the Demon Army get here?

"Heilins is now going to check it out. It's time, oh, you're back."

Turning to Yarna's words, there was Heilins, the second son of the Duke of Quote's family, who had been a childhood tame with him since he was a little girl, walking toward us.

"Heilince. What do you say?

"Oh. Based on the march speed, we're predicted to reach this fort tomorrow"

"Right. Finally."

War.

I've lived in battle every day since I became a brave man. [M]

But a battle of this magnitude is my first experience.

It's not just me.

There were no large-scale wars in the days of the previous brave men.

So knowing a war on a scale so far will be a generation that will know the brave men of earlier generations, who have barely survived any more now.

In that generation, unless it's a long-lived species, most of you won't even be able to fight for it.

This means that none of the tribes participating in this war has ever experienced a large-scale war so far.

The opposite demon clan lives longer than man.

It's no surprise that some of them have the same generation as the previous generation of brave men, or even older generations of demons.

How does that experience make a difference?

Besides, the Demons are also highly capable of simple combat.

Magic superior to human race, superior to human race, superior to physical ability.

And intelligence that is no different from that of people.

It is the power of skill and the power of wisdom that enables an inferior stat clan to fight a high stat demon opponent.

But that doesn't work for the Demons.

Because demons use the same skills, the same wisdom, as people do.

To be honest, I'm scared.

But it is unacceptable for me, a brave man, to put my anxiety on the table.

Because I, the hope of the people, would be so disturbing to everyone.

I gently grip the muffler around my neck to hide my anxiety. [M]

"I've been wondering, what's that neck roll? We do it when it's hot, don't we?

"Is this it? This is my mother's vision."

Bright white, undecorated neck roll.

"This is something my mother knitted for me before she gave birth to a shun and died."

As soon as she gave birth to Shun, her mother fell ill and died as she was.

Let the demons enliven and overlap with when I became a brave man.

Father was still busy working as king, bearing the grief of losing his mother.

That alienated me from Shun and Su.

I'm sure over time we'll be able to deal with them normally as parents and children, but now they must be attending a co-school.

Until I graduate, I just have to ask Father to be patient.

If those two graduate from school, it must be amazing.

"Yes. Did you"

It becomes like Yana is stuck in words.

Shit.

I might have thought I heard something extra.

"Yana, there's nothing to worry about. I already blew it off."

"But"

"Yes, yes. Don't worry about it. Rather, the Mazacon! It's just enough to tell you."

"Heilins, isn't that just too much to say?

I laugh back at Heilinse's unholy tone.

I heard a laugh from around me called Couscous.

That's it.

The dark atmosphere around the brave doesn't suit you.

Thanks Heilins for following me.

After all, what you need to have is a good understanding friend.

"Do you know what this neck roll is made of?

Heilins asks Yana.

Uh, shouldn't I tell you that?

"You don't seem like a regular cloth. This is all I wear every day, and I don't have any scratches."

"Yes, yes. This guy is made of a pretty special material. It's so valuable that they say it's impossible to get it nowadays."

"What, it was so precious?

Is it the sex of a former bandit, the color of Hawkin's eyes changes.

"Oh. The correct answer was, it was a spider thread -!

"Yes, Ku, Spider!?

Ah.

Yana falls off the chair.

Yana doesn't like bugs a lot.

Spiders are the worst of them all, and that's why I've kept my mouth shut.

"Yeah? Is that, possibly, the spider yarn of the Ellow Great Labyrinth?

It was unexpectedly a jiskan that I had eaten up on the story.

"Yeah, I am. You knew him well, didn't you?

"Oh, it's a pretty famous story among adventurers."

"Oh, oh! The phantom spider of the Great Labyrinth of Ellow! I remember you! Ho ho. Is this what you did with that spider thread?"

Heh.

It was quite famous.

"What is that story?

Ask Yana how surprised she is.

"Oh. I'm also talking about when I was just a little girl, when an adventurer party, the Great Ellow Labyrinth, burned down a nest of spider-shaped demons named Taratect. This demon is usually weak if it fights, but it sometimes builds nests in the extreme sea. Anyway, the nest was troublesome, and it was the adventurer's implicit understanding to burn it as soon as he found it. So, a lot of yarn was found in the back of that burnt nest. Surprisingly, the magic yarn right there has very good magic conductivity that is completely unrivaled and amazing yarn with physical endurance. The yarn brought back was traded for a hell of a price, and the adventurer who brought the yarn back got a grand. The adventurer's success, Tan, is a very famous story."

"Then it became fashionable to capture Taratect. After all, you can't discover individuals who can create the same yarn, and they call them phantom spiders."

"Heh."

My mother definitely used the yarn.

From what I've heard, it seems that the eye-catching big merchant was the first one to buy and beat from that adventurer as a offering to the royal family.

Still, Heilins skips the conversation with his thriving colleagues on the subject.

Julius, this demon movement is strange.

What's so strange?

[The enemy seems to disperse their power and attack the human realm all at once. But I don't know what it means to spread the power.]

You think you have any thoughts?

[Oh. It should be much better to concentrate a point, but you go out of your way to disperse your power. You better think of something.]

Do you have any idea what that is?

[Well. Exactly. I don't even know that. But you better not be alarmed.]

[All right. Thank you.

I had a bad feeling about it. [M]

It's as if, at some point, we were in a huge trap.

But as a brave man, I'm not allowed to run away here.

I squeezed the collar made of spider thread again.