The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

That day, I hadn't been home in seven years that I missed.

"We're going straight down this road. It's the main road. Well, I asked for it."

"Yes, I understand."

A young man from Howe Corp. bows his head and crosses a horse with a scoop on his saddle, putting me down and going down the path he instructed.

He had a long sword on his lower back because he had served as an escort.

Heading to the front door again, the maid chief withheld by the front door and bowed deeply here.

Next to it stands a girl still growing up.

"My lord. Welcome back."

"Oh, welcome back, my lord."

"What about that kid?

I say as I look at the girl.

The girl looked at me with a nervous face.

"I'm a maid of honor apprentice, brought from the main residence"

"Right."

The maid chief also needs time to rest, and I guess he brought him in as a sub personnel.

I'm just about ten years old. Very young.

The maid leader, one step closer to me, in his ear,

"He's a very pleasant kid. Since Carol can't seem to lose her mind with me... I thought she would be comfortable with me."

I said.

Is that what you mean?

That's good.

"Nice to meet you."

As I put my hands gently on the child's shoulder, the girl said,

"Yes."

And, concerned about Carol upstairs, he replied in a whisper.

Open the front door and go inside.

Familiar intervals, kamadu, furniture… it was a nostalgic sight.

I feel like my spirit is aspirated.

It's been a long time.

If you open that door there, you'll have Luke's study that's been out of use for a long time.

If you open the door there, there will be a couple bedrooms with large beds installed.

Inside the bedroom there should be a bed that is too boneless, made by Luke from a Sunday carpenter, cut into his legs and served with round-tails.

Maybe the maid chief and the girl are using it now.

In the kitchen, which you can see right after entering, there was always the one used by Suzuya.

Exhaust is a mechanism to be directed into the chimney, but only a little smoke leaks out of the gap, so when Suzuya is cooking, she always smelled a little smoke.

Stepping up the stairs upstairs, the plates were new and there were signs of brand new repairs everywhere.

Speaking of which, I remember making a little noise as I went up the stairs.

That's a problem, so I guess I made it fixed here.

When I opened the door that used to be my room, Carol, who slept in bed, looked at this one.

"... hey, it's been a while since I've seen you"

"Yeah, you've come a lot"

Carol's cheeks, which she said in a vanishing voice, felt a little twisted in the last ten days or so.

Still, you're purely happy to see my face, you're smiling.

Carol kept her back in a slope-like bedding to wake her upper body up a little, with plenty of cotton futon all the way down her chest.

From that position, you'll see better out the window.

You could have seen me coming.

Outside the window, there are not many hectares of gardens with colorful flowers blooming, but rather pastoral landscapes.

"... how are you feeling?"

I said, sitting in a round chair with no back.

I guess it's always used by maid chiefs and girls.

There is no such thing as a chair with a roller, so a round chair is useful to do the job of changing direction while sitting.

"... not bad. I like the air here."

"Good for you"

Sibyak has a little sea breeze.

Even in college, there was a slight mixture of odors generated in the city, and compared to that, the air here was sober itself.

"And it's very quiet. Yuri grew up here."

"Oh. It was my room until I was eight. I let him get a little bit of it."

I just don't have any nostalgia.

The floors have been replaced, the walls repainted and the windows replaced with large glazed windows.

Pure white lacquered, floor coverings like just shredded out.

The bed had also changed from a small one for children to one for adults.

What I recognize is about columns and ceilings.

"I like it. It's the perfect place to rest."

"Right. I thought I was better than a spider, too. That's because I feel giddy."

"Well... thanks for taking care of me"

That said, Carol smiled for a moment before turning off her grin.

"So... what happened to Wang Du?

I say worryingly.

This is where I am.

I guess I haven't received the news or anything.

In the first place, Carol's place is basically a secret.

I'm letting a family of trustworthy subordinates protect the neighborhood far away, but I've told the parents there to keep it an absolute secret, which means I don't know unless I explore it.

It's a little suicidal to try to find out what I'm telling you not to explore in the Howe family.

If the man under his command does it, he will be questioned about what he has examined to do, and he will have no choice but to be found guilty of treason.

If so, the maid director is the only contact point, but the maid director is not collecting information like Myalo.

He's dedicated to carol's care, and he'll only know the extent to which he pinched information and other small ears.

If you pinch it in your little ear, you're not the one to let your mouth slip.

"The battle was over five days ago. I barely had to bleed."

"... don't lie to me"

They think it's a lie.

Well, is that too much to say that you're bloodless?

"I'm not lying. I jumped over the Second Army and attacked Royal Castle Island with an eagle. On Royal Castle Island, the First Army also responded and fought. If that falls, the Second Army has nowhere to run. Then you're done. There was no front collision."

"So you're saying that in only ten days, you fell into the king's capital without bleeding?

There was only the Second Army.

"Ha... that's just great. What no one has ever been able to fall for... only ten days."

You look frightened.

"Things are different than before. Until now, there was a queen in the king's capital. There was no one who wanted to defend the emptied throne with his life."

There was Carlia.

I'm talking about how nobody recognized me as queen because of Billa.

The reign ceremony was a disturbing noise, with a large number of arrests and one man who threw an egg at Carlia being publicly executed.

"Oh, my mother..."

"... he's dead."

"Yes..."

You were half ready, and I wasn't surprised Carol's voice.

"In the course of ten days, the national burial had been completed. The witch only took the lead, and as a ritual, she said, it was decent. What's it to do again, so I'm putting it away for now"

"Yeah...... that's fine then. If there is a problem with the headstone inscription, please fix it, so..."

"The tombstone is going to be rebuilt. Well... the cause of death is different from the truth."

The tombstone itself, too, was simplistic in view of the fact that the expensive tombstone was not something that could be carved in a few days.

Exactly, you thought making a headstone in advance would be a bad thing to expose there.

In the meantime, since the worshippers are constant, they only scrape at the inscriptions and leave them there.

"Well, do that..."

I knew you'd be depressed.

That's why I didn't want to tell you.

But you can't just not tell him.

Never mind. Focus on your health care, I just told you, you won't be able to help but care.

"Yes, Carlia, what happened to Carlia...?

Oh...... I knew you'd care.

It's my sister.

Hard to say.

"I hurt myself."

When I say, Carol,

"Right..."

And I said, nagging.

"I persuaded him to go out in person. Well... I did that, but I didn't think I was going to suffer, so I gave him the pills to pass away in peace. I don't think he suffered so much."

"... thanks for your concern"

"Well... I'm not one of those people I don't know..."

I still wonder what happened to Carlia.

If I had done it with kind words from the beginning, would it have been different? I've thought about it.

But I just made you more mistaken, and the resentment when I put it on my sleeve would have gone deeper.

So should I have married Carlia?

I can't do that.

I can't give my life to serve a woman I don't even like.

The answer that I should have done this didn't come up at all.

"Ugh, ugh..."

Seeing, Carol was quietly weeping.

It's my sister.

I lifted my hips out of my chair and as I sat by my bedside, I gently held Carol's shoulder.

"I'm sorry... Ugh... why is he..."

"His innocence was a sin to the royal family. There are no more witches who took advantage of it. They're all dead... they're all over it"

That's all I said, and as I stroked my head, the number of whimpers gradually decreased, and Carol stopped crying.

"I'm sorry... Yuri is like getting caught up in this... sorry, your parents..."

"That's okay."

That was my fault.

My happiness meant my loved ones.

I didn't want to hurt that, I tried to protect the new continent.

I wanted to bite my happiness, and I held Carol.

I live to enjoy happiness.

In a pawn called the New World, Carol was unlikely to be able to protect him.

So now I thought I'd fight.

I'm trying to get married because I have kids and it's convenient to fight...

I didn't see anything.

"The joy is still there. If only you were here."

"... oh yeah. I need to have a healthy child."

Carol tells her temperament as she rubs her puffy, swollen stomach.

He seemed calm, so he let go of the shoulder hand he was holding.

Slowly slip your palms back into your back, then put your arms back.

I was thin.

Carol's shoulders were resilient, covered in muscles she had worked out in the cavalry.

It felt a little thin.

"Hey, so what's going on with Wang Du now?

He still cares about Wang Du.

"Myalo's doing great. There are no more witches than Myalo."

"Well...... good for you"

"I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't busy...... I had free time for the day. I'm staying here."

"Really? You don't have to..."

I said it like Carol was out of his mind.

"It's not. The Howe army is in almost all the King's Capitals. So the funeral was done in the Wang capital, but the burial..."

"... ah"

Carol seemed to have guessed.

It's about my parents.

There is no culture of cremation in this country, and burial cannot be postponed forever.

"Yesterday, I buried it in the historical cemetery of the Howe family. Keep it to yourself, it's an empty coffin and you really have to bury it near this house."

"Eh!"

Carol shouted with a startled face,

"Kee-ho, kee-ho"

And I coughed up lightly.

You surprised me.

"On the other side of this house, there's a hill. My family used to climb up there. It has a great view, and I can see both your father's ranch and this house... and I can see the wheat fields in the distance."

That was where Luke built it for Suzuya.

Luke can see as many spectacular views as he wants aboard the eagle, but Suzuya, who protects the house, is not.

Luke naked the top of the tree dust by choosing one of the hills surrounding the ranch with a good view close to the house.

The roads were also maintained to make it easier to get through, so that they could come and go.

That was before I was born.

When I was a kid, I used to go to picnics with my family.

"In the end, my father didn't take the knight's chapter, and my mother wasn't a nobleman... so I can't go into the graveyard of the Howe family. Bury it there."

Yeah, I made up my mind.

Without borrowing anyone's hand, he ordered a coffin for two from the Kalacmo coffin shop and secretly replaced it before the burial ritual to fill the empty coffin.

I let him load up in the carriage with a firm face, rendezvous with the trusted men of Howe, and manipulated the carriage as your lord today, and came here.

The men don't know this is my old house, they think it's my friend's grave, and now it's about time they're starting to dig holes.

"So, that package..."

"Hmm... oh, it's a little hard to say"

There were two bodies in the carriage connected to where they could be seen from this window.

"Really..."

"That's why I'm just gonna go... I think I'll be back by dinner"

I wanted to finish my burial by the end of today.

Digging holes of depth that are not dug by wolves or wild dogs breaks bones even by the three of us.

"Okay. Well... say hello to your stepfather and stepmother"

"Oh, I'll tell you what."

That's what I said, I left the room.

"Ugh... I don't know what to do"

"Right."

Me and my two employees were digging a big hole, sweaty and muddy.

I'm about as deep as I'm tall, so that would be enough.

Out of the hole from just one slope, out of a skinny carriage with one pull, down a coffin for three.

"Take your time. Don't drop it."

Slowly, I lay the coffin in the hole.

When you lay next to Suzuya's coffin, you go outside the hole.

"This will do. Let's fill the hole."

I grabbed a scoop and started filling holes.

When the three of us had taken quite some time to fill it, the sun was already starting to set.

"You have so much dirt left."

"Make it a mountain. It sinks anyway."

I wasn't sure how to bury him.

I guess it would be better to tread with your feet and tighten the dirt, but treading on the two of you with your feet again and again was resistant.

"So that's it"

"Oh, you can go home now. Thank you very much."

He plays a special allowance, so after this, he'll go into the proper inn and drink even good liquor.

The two, in front of the soil they buried, offered prayers of the degree of feeling.

I'll take the carriage with me.

"Oh, nice to meet you"

As had been predetermined, the men rode home in a carriage and one horse.

I took a good look at the beautiful landscape that was lit by the sunset.

Not bad.

It's a sight of peace.

"Father, what do you say? I figured this place would calm down better... When I used to come here, I seemed a little bored. Much better view than that cemetery."

I spoke to Luke, not to anyone.

There are only three more here.

"Your mother is tough in that cemetery, isn't she? When your father took the day off and was to come here, he was in a very good mood..."

Nature and tears overflow from my eyes.

Nobody's watching. I'm the only one here.

In the meantime, tears poured out.

"I... was raised by such a father, abandoned by his mother... raised by both of you, and loved... for the first time, this is what real parents and children are like. So I thought... but I couldn't do anything like being a son... I finally thought you two could have a real child and this happened because of me... Mother, I don't know what to apologize for..."

The person who apologizes is already asleep in the dirt.

Why is this happening......

"Sorry......"

It wasn't something I could apologize for.

But I couldn't stay without apologizing.

I've been apologizing in tears.

How long has it been?

The sun had fallen and the sky was about to darken.

"... soon, I'll be back. I'll bring the tomb stone then."

I walked away from the grave and crossed the horse.

Carol is waiting.