The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

While Eunice was crying and being chased by the crazed Crimson Demons, Zun Zun leisurely stood up from the ground and patted the dirt off his body.

Although Eunice is a high-ranking demon, her brain isn't the sharpest, which is why she was easily tricked. Being chased away by the Crimson Demons, she probably won't be back anytime soon.

"Zun, Zun Zun, are you alright!"

At this moment, two people emerged from the nearby bushes, it was Megumin and Yunyun.

"What are you two doing here?"

Zun Zun asked in surprise, then he realized it was a stupid question. The explosion earlier had alarmed many of the Crimson Demons, so it was normal for Megumin and Yunyun to be here.

"Speaking of…"

Zun Zun looked at Megumin, who was holding Chomusuke and avoiding his gaze, and subconsciously said, "You two, don't tell me you were here from the very beginning? Just watching from the sidelines…"

"N-no, it's not like that!"

Yunyun quickly explained, "It's not that we didn't want to help, but the adults in the village…!"

"That's right! Zun Zun knows the magic I use, right? What if my Explosion magic had injured you?" Megumin said righteously, even though she had clearly stood by and watched.

Our friendship is over, over!

"Besides, Zun Zun, why did you have to expose her identity?!"

"…Ah!?"

"I made a deal with that older sister using Chomusuke, and she already paid me 300,000 Eris in advance. What's going to happen to the deal now?!"

Zun Zun never expected Megumin to turn the tables on him.

Yunyun shook her small shoulders excitedly, shouting, "Megumin, you actually made a deal with a demon, and with Chomusuke!? Do you have no conscience at all?!"

"I-I didn't know she was a demon! Besides, this is the best arrangement. After all, I'm about to leave on a journey as an adventurer. Taking him with me might put him in danger, so it's better to entrust him to someone who can protect him!" Megumin shouted back.

In reality, she had concealed the fact that Chomusuke was a fragment of an evil god from Yunyun, otherwise Yunyun would definitely have stopped her from handing Chomusuke over to someone else.

The two began to argue over the matter.

Zun Zun didn't have any prejudice against demons. After all, the demons he had encountered, whether it was Hoost or Wiz, had no intention of harming innocent people.

Eunice was also relatively friendly to humans, and even wanting to take the evil god's fragment was a transaction rather than a forceful seizure.

On the other hand, the Axis Church…

That's not a church that can be considered normal.

Yunyun suddenly said, "Now that the demon has run away, does that mean the deal is off…?"

"No, she seemed to be in too much of a hurry and forgot to take the deposit."

Megumin pulled a bulging money bag from her flat chest and said smugly, "There's 300,000 Eris in here. I'll use this money for teleportation expenses."

"T-too much!"

Yunyun loudly condemned her unscrupulous behavior.

Megumin scoffed at this, refuting her by saying what credibility could you have when dealing with a demon, swallowing the money without any guilt. It was all the people of the Axis Church who had corrupted her!

Then, she paused for a moment and said, "Zun Zun, Yunyun, I plan to set off tomorrow."

"Eh? So fast, too fast!"

Yunyun exclaimed again.

But to Megumin, it wasn't fast at all, it was too long.

Having wasted half a year, if it weren't for having to arrange things for Komekko, she would have rushed out of this village impatiently and started her adventure.

Not knowing what Yunyun was thinking, she told Megumin to wait here and quickly ran away, leaving Megumin and Zun Zun alone.

"What, why are you looking at me like that? Do you have something you want to say?"

Zun Zun crossed his arms.

He knew that it was now Megumin's turn to entrust her younger sister and pet to him, and he had even thought about how to refuse her, but—

"No, I'm going to entrust Chomusuke to Yunyun. As for Komekko… Don't look down on Komekko just because she's young, she's more capable of living independently than I am… Of course, if something happens, I've already told her to go to Ririka and Cecily."

Although Zun Zun cherished Komekko as much as Cecily did, she seemed to intentionally bypass Zun Zun.

An expectant look fell into his eyes.

"…I'm not going to see you off."

"Ah, is that so."

The red light in Megumin's eyes dimmed.

Soon she said as if relieved, "I don't plan to come back after I meet the person who taught me Explosion magic. Since I'm going to the outside world, I plan to become super strong with reliable companions, and simply defeat the Demon King and become the next Demon King… Zun Zun, your wish is world domination, right? Be careful, I might achieve it before you do."

"…I've never had the idea of world domination from beginning to end! And with just your Explosion magic, you can't conquer the world at all! It's already good enough if you don't cause trouble for your companions!"

"What did you say!"

Megumin pounced on him and wrestled with him. Her emotions were much more agitated than usual, as if her sore spot had been stepped on.

A little later, Yunyun came back and gave her a set of Arch Wizard's robes. Megumin was very grateful, and also promised that when she became the Demon King in the future, she would let Yunyun be a cadre in the Demon King's army, but Yunyun decisively rejected her.

Finally, she took a deep look at Zun Zun, then returned home with a lonely expression.

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"Goodbye, you two."

"Bye-bye, Megumin."

Yunyun was about to cry.

Why so sad?

She hasn't left yet!

Zun Zun watched her gradually receding small figure, and didn't listen carefully to what Yunyun said to him, instead returning home.

Cecily had made a table of sumptuous dinner.

Not knowing what happy thing had happened today, Zun Zun told her about the demon Eunice and Megumin's upcoming journey.

Cecily said with relief, "Is that so? Megumin is finally leaving the village? Now she can help you, right."

"…Help me?"

"Yes, because isn't your wish world domination, Zun Zun? Megumin was very worried that she couldn't help, and was quite conflicted when she said she wanted to learn Explosion magic before.

Oh dear, I told her that if she had Explosion magic, she wouldn't lack output, and she wouldn't be defenseless against powerful enemies. She was very happy after hearing that…"

After that, Cecily said a lot more, but Zun Zun couldn't hear anything.

After a long time.

"Cecily, I want to be the Demon King."

"What?"

"But, I won't be the Demon King like that now. I want to be the most benevolent, most virtuous, most supreme, and most powerful Demon King!"

Zun Zun struck the Jojo pose that he struck during the Pucci's Execution song, and shouted, "I am Zun Zun, one of the leading Arch Wizards of the Crimson Demons, the strongest Crimson Demon who will eventually become the Demon King!"

"…As expected of my younger brother, your great cause will definitely succeed! Because, you have put in a lot of effort for this day, and you also have very good companions."

Applause followed.

His words didn't scare Cecily.

That's right, Cecily is a diviner comparable to a god, she must have thought that this day would come, and maybe this sumptuous dinner was to send me off.

Yes, that's right, since that's the case…

"Usually not cultivating good karma, only knowing how to highlight oneself."

"Planting vegetables here, harvesting fruits there."

"Learning magic in the Crimson Demon Village, only today do I know who I am!"

Zun Zun took out his adventurer card, looked at the skill points as high as 80 points on it, and shouted loudly, "I can get to where I am now all thanks to myself! With my heaven-defying wisdom, unparalleled talent, and more than ten years of hard work! Deep blue… cough cough, adventurer card, add points!"

He decisively learned advanced magic!