Yomigaeri no Maou

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Ilis tilted his neck and looked at Zoe.

Zoe understands that the meaning is that she is suspicious that she has not responded despite knocking on the door.

"I'm pretty sure you're in this room, so what if you go in?

That's what Zoe told Ilis.

I may not hear back from you, but I thought that would be good for now.

But Iris,

"It's outrageous to get in on your own without your permission my brother-in-law (being there)......!!

and shake his head.

From her point of view, she thought from the bottom of her heart that what Lulu did not want should not be done, but should be shy at a possible point in time.

But Zoe was a little different.

I live longer than Illis and still live more or less in modern times and my spirit is more flexible than it used to be with all sorts of things.

There is no change in the consciousness that Lulu is His Majesty the Demon King, and he naturally has the feeling of absolute obedience if orders are given no matter what, but that Lulu himself tells me to be like a friend so that in modern times I don't hit him with a much older attitude towards myself.

So, if so, here, I didn't hear a response to Knock, so trying to peek inside for now wouldn't be the wrong choice.

If you're a friend, if it's a thoughtful relationship, that's a common thing.

So if Lulu hated him, then he should leave.

With that in mind, Zoe opened the door at will, with Illis beside her.

"Mr. Zoe......!?

How disrespectful!

or something like that, but she doesn't actually say that either.

I know by reason in the first place.

I guess attitude about Zoe is the attitude Lulu wants, that is.

But Illis had all sorts of thoughts imprinted from a small place, and that didn't make him as thoughtful as Zoe.

How far can I step in is a difficult line for Illis.

"It's nothing good. Even Lulu won't get mad."

While Zoe understands such a thing in Iris' mind, she goes slightly inside without a problem, saying that in vain.

To this point, Illis has to go inside, too.

Because even though Zoe is seeing Lulu, it can't be that she doesn't look at each other.

"Please wait! Me too!

When I said that, Zoe had a slight grin on her mouth, but Iris became aware of it.

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The room was large, the white-toned scheduling was well thought out and made it understandable that it was the finest room.

The sunset is slipping through the window.

A larger bed was placed at the centre, from which various tubes were found stretched and connected to the magic fixture placed on the side.

Lulu slept there.

There's a calm sleeping face there, usually a relief to see the look of these patients here, such as relatives who visited a treatment center, but Illis and Zoe were a little different.

……

…………

Zoe staring at Lulu in a pompous manner to the eye-opening Iris is not as usual no matter how he sees it, which is due to Lulu's sleeping face being there.

First, it was Illis who opened his mouth at the beginning.

"My brother-in-law... I've never seen you sleep so defenseless..."

Then Zoë, too,

"... me too. I see you just didn't hear the knock... Your Majesty..."

and twinkle.

Because I was too surprised, or the language was back in time.

The surprise between the two is that Lulu has never slept so defenselessly and unprepared in the past.

When I was a demon king, when I slept in my bedroom, two or more sides were always sleeping and guarding me.

In modern times, there were no such watchdogs, but they bewitched themselves to protect themselves and cautioned that it was fine for something to happen when they slept.

That much, Lulu was careful when he was unconscious, and that's why this indefensibility was something that both of us deserved to be stunned about.

"There's nothing going on with guardianship magic...?

Asked Zoe as Illis carefully leaned one step at a time towards Lulu.

Zoë also has no spare time in observing the surroundings.

Even as I nodded at the words of Illis,

"... we just don't see it, and we can't deny the possibility that there's actually some complicated hidden magic... be careful!

And I'm taking it very seriously.

No relatives, no acquaintances, would be so vigilant to get close to a patient sleeping in bed, but that's all that's possible if you try to keep them together.

It was horrible that there might even be some trick to get one step closer, but it was horrible that every time we got one step closer, nothing was rejected.

And it's going to take an hour or two to get to Lulu's pillow as it is.

If there was anyone else watching this, I might have boiled my business into this situation and yelled at you to hurry, but it would actually take hours.

"Excuse me......"

and because then the door was knocked and one healer came inside.

The healer is a middle-aged woman who seems to have deep experience and knowledge, and sees Zoe and Iris still dressed funny at the same time as she enters the room,

"Oh, your family?"

I came closer as I said,

"I'm a little sorry. I'll take a look..."

and approaching Lulu's pillow without a thing, putting his hand on its forehead, gently pressing or bending some parts of his body to make sure that

"Yeah, I'm fine. Doesn't seem like a problem. I'm sorry to bother you. If anything happens, call me because there's a button there. 'Cause it's starting to connect down there... Bye."

and was leaving the room with her hands gently raised.

Iris and Zoe, who were staring at that whole thing, looked at each other,

"... nothing happened..."

"Right...... you don't have anything. I'm sure. It's obvious if you say so."

As we said, we noticed ourselves still standing still in weird outfits, standing still as if nothing had happened yet, approaching Lulu's pillow.

The advice, there was nothing there, just a defenseless lulu asleep, and they were finally relieved.

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When Lulu woke up from his sleep, there were Iris and Zoe.

Lulu opened his eyes, and at the same time he woke up, two people noticed it approaching,

"My brother-in-law...! You woke up. How's your body? Is there anything strange about it? Please tell me if you want anything to eat. Oh, if you need anything, I'll do anything..."

That's what Iris said to fold, so Zoe slapped Iris on the shoulder with a smile behind him.

"Iris...... you're in too much of a hurry for anything. And if they say so much at once, even Lulu will have trouble..."

It is a sober opinion, and quite rightly so.

I just figured out so much about Iris' worries, so Lulu said with a smile.

"No, I don't have any trouble... I don't know what to say, don't get lost. Illis, your body's fine. So calm down a little bit."

"Ho, is it true? I heard he was defeated by magic exhaustion...... Your brother-in-law can't fall for that..."

Ask how worried Iris is.

I see, because he knows Lulu's magic powers, he thought he had collapsed due to some problem other than his magic exhaustion.

And if that's the case, you probably didn't think it made much sense to treat people (human beings).

But that speculation is both a mistake and a right one.

"Sure... technically, it's not magic exhaustion."

There is a mighty fountain of magic in Lulu's body.

There was as much great magic there as there was when I was the Demon King.

If you want to take it out, you can take it out as much as you want... I mean, in principle, it can't be magic depletion or anything like that, you're going to say.

But what Lulu remembers now is not that the magic itself is gone, but that the body is less magical than usual.

It doesn't make sense to have magic on just one point of your body.

Normally, there is always a certain amount of magic in the body of a human race (human), both those who can and cannot use magic, but when it is completely gone, the symptoms commonly referred to as magic depletion appear.

It is a palpable symptom such as tiredness, nausea, or headache.

And that was because there wasn't much magic in the body.

Rarely do there exist those who do not possess magic at all, but such people do not raise the problem of saying so because the absence of magic is the normal state from the beginning.

Lulu has never been in that condition in a long time, and that's why he had symptoms of magic depletion.

Seems Zoe was convinced when she heard that,

"Then can I think of it as the same as normal magic depletion?

and Zoe asked, so Lulu nodded.

"Oh. Rather, it's because the underlying magic isn't a problem. I think you'll recover faster than usual. Don't even feel the magic gradually coming through your body... well, it seems dangerous when you can't get it through, so I'm stopping."

It won't be a death, but I can't say it's unlikely to cause any serious damage.

That's why it was an action I was avoiding.

"Then you'd better leave it to me to recover naturally...... Iris, are you convinced?

said Illis seemed to think a little, but at the end of the day he nodded,

"Yeah. If that's the case, I'm glad."

I said, and went on like I was relieved.

"... I'm talking about your brother-in-law (who is here), so I thought he wouldn't die suddenly, but I still didn't care if anything happened... Because I wish I had stayed by your side the whole time if this were the case...... From now on, I will."

and is an Illis who makes a declaration that he will never leave.

But Lulu,

"I worry too much...... if I just stayed around all the time, Illis would be tired too, right? Besides, I wouldn't go that far either. Not this time, I had no choice. Anyway, there's no way to be a human being on a day when sacrificial magic is used."

At the very least, it's not the kind of technology that could easily counteract a local city like Final.

Wang Du also has a certain degree of superiority.

I may have managed, but not in the finals.

It seems that Iris knows that well, too, maybe, but he nodded,

"I know that... but still, about treating girls..."

They also know that's been a no push.

But Lulu also shakes his head at this.

"The healers of the human race couldn't do anything about it. I knew I had to do it."

Illis listens to that too.

But still, I just couldn't help complaining.

By reason, I know perfectly well that Lulu had to do everything.

It doesn't matter if you're convinced or not.

It's just that they're all, like, already done.

Lulu is safe now.

It is also true that that is the only thing that matters to Illis and if so everything else doesn't matter.

Iris had no choice but to nod,

"... can you promise me that you won't do this again?

But he just wasn't willing to fall.

I really can't give up this much, I give him my pinkie finger and say.

Seeing such a trick, Zoe laughed in a gentle manner, thinking she was childish, but Lulu sees that Illis figure and feels nostalgic.

Long ago, that's what I used to do with Illis as a kid many times.

I remember it was mostly a promise to go on my birthday.

Bacchus didn't have to do that, he understood Lulu's busy schedule and told me, but Lulu has pointed fingers at the discipline every year saying he's bound to come the next year as well.

I mean, you can't say no here.

Lulu sighed, acknowledging his loss, tangling his little finger with that of Illis, and said:

"... oh, that's a promise. It's just that. Except in cases of force majeure."

And I didn't forget to add at the end.

"You're unexpectedly sloppy, Your Majesty"

and Zoe snapped like a prank.