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"Trick or treat!"

That's what I said and jumped into Rise's room was a dry ad dressed as a witch, Lamia and a little devil, plus a harpy in a pumpkin dress.

"…… Oh, Halloween."

Halloween, few people remember their origins properly anymore, but all we know for now is that children (including non-children) get treats for wearing certain demons and other disguises.

They say it was a kind of talisman ritual for once, but few people care about it.

Anyway, the demons are everywhere, and if you go to the graveyard or the ancient battlefield, the undead usually exist, so people chose attack magic and exorcism over the ritual of the ancient talisman.

The result was an unusual appearance of an event where you could get sweets.

"Wait a minute. Er... nothing."

Naturally, there was no way that Rise, who had forgotten the existence of Halloween, had prepared a stock of sweets.

"Then you're a jerk!

Lamia and the others start flirting with Rise as a delight.

Some shrug their cheeks, some kiss their cheeks, and some demand that they stroke their heads on their knees.

(Is this a prank? Or is it true that you fall in disguise as a demon whose presence is deceived?

Even though I thought so, it was a rise that would be honestly flirting but would remain because it was the demand of the cute demons.

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"Do you want to refill the sweets for once?"

It was done to this extent because of the Lamias, but I don't know what kind of horrible fling will fly when it becomes the flirtation of other demons.

So Rise decided to evacuate the town and go shopping for treats to avoid flirting.

"Treats, please."

"Oh, is Mr. Rise Halloween, too?

An old woman sitting on the counter offers a candy ball to Rise.

"No, no, I'm here to buy it for you, not for you."

"Well, I'm sorry about that. Apologize. I'll serve that candy."

"Hi."

Though mistaken for a child who inadvertently came to whisk the sweets, Rise succeeded in replenishing them.

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"……… Trick-or-Treat"

On the way home refilled with sweets, I heard Rise whisper so.

"Hmm?"

They were children with pumpkins on their heads when they saw them.

(Heh, this is unusual)

Rise offers sweets when he smiles faintly at the children's appearance.

"Look, we all split up."

"Thank you, brother."

When the children thanked Rise, they ran in the opposite direction to the town.

But Rise doesn't blame Sole.

You don't have to blame me.

"That's just unusual, I can't believe there's a real pumpkin haunt"

Yes, the kids were a pumpkin haunt with a real pumpkin on their head.

Jack Orlantern, that's the names of the children.

A demon whose apostle's soul is said to have a form in this world.

They are the spirits of children who ask adults for the kindness of confectionery.

"Now those kids can safely go under their parents."

Halloween, it is a ritual of parental sustenance that comforts the spirit of a young and dead child.

But now that the war is over, few people know that.

"Well, let's go home."

With a whisper of good deed in mind, the demon returned to his family.

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"" "" "" Trick or Treat "" ""

"oh..."

Upon returning to the office, which was also the home, Rise now remembered why he had gone to town to buy it out.

"Uh…… now that I don't have any treats……………"

"" "" "It's a prank!!" ""

A few moments later, there was a demon figure who was screwed by the cute demons.

"…… Shit, I'm late"

And in that shadow, he regretted wearing the haunted costume that one female knight desperately chose.