n220 The other side of the Snowy mountain

nTo go to the Demon territory from the Human territory, you need to cross a mountain.

nBoth the Human and Demon race set up a fort on the border and glare at each other and if one nonchalantly walks through both will regard you as enemy.

nI and the Demon King don’t particularly care, but the Vampire Child will die if she gets involved.

nAlthough I trained her as much as possible in these three years, I don’t think she can win against the frontline elite army corps let alone fight them.

nSo, we will pass through from Human race territory to the Demon race territory in a peaceful manner.

nThat is crossing a mountain.

nFurthermore, it’s a snowy mountain

nA tall mountain is in front of my eyes.

nMountain, rather it’s a mountain range.

nI don’t know it’s altitude, but for sure a mountain climber would risk their life climbing it.

nI feel that the mountain range is a detour as we climbed.

nHey, this region has a higher risk than the fort in a different sense doesn’t it?

nNah, I’ll probably be okay.

nThe vampire child won’t die will she?

nAre we really okay?

n「It’s alright, no problems」

nYou’re the type who says “It’s okay” about any problem, aren’t you?

nWell, if Demon King thinks so, then let’s believe we’re fine.

nSo! Let’s depart!

nCold.

nCome to think of it, isn’t this the first time I’ve felt cold?

nI’ve tasted the heat of the middle layer of the Elro Great Labyrinth

nThat was warm or rather it was hot.

nAre spiders cold?

nI don’t have a strong image.

nThere’s an impression of me living in a tropical forest like a jungle, I don’t feel like being in a cold area.

nAh, but the Maou’s face seems to look fine.

nThen, we should be fine right?

nBut, we seem to be not okay.

nShe’s making a poker-face, trying to be calm.

nThat reminds me, in the Demon King’s resistance festival, there was no Ice resistance.

nIt’s useless.

nFuu, compared to me, my counter-measures are perfect.

nA cold counter-measure (Clone) has finished a super ultra warm coat overnight.

nI wonder what it feels like when worn.

nComfortable warmth anytime, anywhere.

nThe pile of snow doesn’t matter.

nFufufu, while my companions are suffering in cold, there’s only one person who’s being warm and keeping silent.

nBliss!

nThe Demon King has an expression of false bravado, the vampire child has a pale-about-to-die face and Mera looks like half of his soul is coming out, and I’m the only one with a grin on my face.

nSuffer~ Suffer more!

nThe suffering of other people is delicious!

n「Shiro-chan, you’re enduring quite well, aren’t you?」

nGulp!

nT-that’s not true.

n「You didn’t wear that coat yesterday right?」

nThat is, It’s cold so I prepared it.

n「Gimme! Give it to me!」

nWoah!

nWhat are you doing?!

nI desperately defend my coat against the Demon King and we continue along the mountain range.

nWe arrived at an abandoned village on the way.

nWas there a village in such a cold land?

nWhat kind of Masochist lived here?

nOr perhaps I should say, they did well to live here.

nAh, was it because they can’t live here that they abandoned it?

n「I see.

nHere too.」

nThe Demon King muttered something, but I didn’t hear her real intention.

nWe spent one night in the abandoned village.

nI took a walk inside the village proper when I woke up the next day.

nFrom the atmosphere of the houses, it’s probably been several years since this was abandoned.

nI was bothered seeing it small and cozy, it seems it’s too small and cramped for an adult.

nThe size is perfect for children.

nWould this be a children’s’ village?

nI searched around for tools

nThere isn’t a valuable thing left.

nJust something terribly primitive stuff.

nCould this be a primitive children’s village?

nI went out to the village outskirts.

nSomehow it had overgrown.

nA demon plant-like-system

nSomething like a bone of a demon can be seen entwined in the ivy.

nIt looks like a typical field for a village, did they raise this?

nAre they stupid?

nFor now, I ate it to destroy it.

nYup.

nHealthy vegetables.

nI want a dressing.

nThough I don’t hate mayonnaise, I prefer salad dressing.

nTo the Mayonnaise people of the country, I’m sorry.

nGreen perilla dressing is my favorite.

nThough, I’ve never eaten it before.

nI invest my energy in my clone.

nI haven’t increased my clones these days.

nThe energy maintenance cost has become so large that making a new one is really hard.

nIf I eat more, the Demon King would be like 「Food expenses, food expenses」, so I hold myself back.

nI can eat about twenty people’s portions easily.

nAfter that, I drink sake the next day to recover the energy that is split.

nSake is great after all.

nIndeed, it is the best medicine.

nI recover energy with just a drink.

nSince the Demon King woke up, the snowy mountains conquest resumes.

nAnd we continued to walk on a world of ice and rocks where few demons exist.

nAt that time, there was a shadow coming from the sky.

nAfter taking a little distance, a dragon landed on the ground

nIt was a beautiful dragon with ice scales covering it’s whole body.

nIt’s different from the earth dragon, it’s an existence called an Ice dragon.

nIt’s strong.

nI observed the Ice dragon using the Evil Eye of Analysis, the one I developed as a substitute to Appraisal.

nI developed the Evil Eye of analysis to judge the strength of my enemies.

nThe Evil Eye can roughly estimate the amount of energy of an opponent’s soul.

nEven if the soul has a lot of energy, they can still be weak and vice versa.

nSo, in the end it can’t rough estimate.

nBut, since soul and strength relative to the system is comparatively close, the value of this Evil Eye is worth it.

nI used my Evil Eye of Analysis to measure the strength of the dragon, it’s approximately twice as strong as Alaba.

nA dragon with a considerable strength.

nCompared to the earth dragon on the lower layer of Elro Great Labyrinth it’s inferior, but it can be considered as a high-ranking among the demons inhabiting in this world.

nThe Ice dragon is talking telepathically with the Demon King.

nLet’s eavesdrop.

nWhat is it, Origin Taratect?

nI don’t have any business in particular.

nJust passing through.

nDid you not hear from Gyurie?

nFumu.

nI haven’t heard anything

nAh, then.

nI want you to do nothing and let us pass gently

nI’ll do as you say and won’t do anything.

nI don’t want to get in trouble with the Origin Taratect

nThe negotiations were done quickly.

nIt seems he’ll let us through.

nBut, why is this guy here?

nKuro placed it here?

nFor what reason?

nWhile the Ice Dragon is busy with the Demon King, I summoned some clones.

nSearch this mountain range.

nI want to know the reason why Kuro placed a strong gatekeeper.

nWhen the Human race and Demon race waged a war, it’s natural that the snowy mountains will be a danger zone.

nThere’s something here.

nThere’s something Kuro wants to hide.

nIf I find it, I will get a hold of his weakness.

nFufufu, I don’t trust those that are stronger than myself, I don’t open up my heart.

nI’ve never thought of Kuro as an ally.

nA weakness that can be grasped is now held.

nNow, I wonder what you’re hiding.

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