I Became the Burden of a Conscienceless Party

20 – Hero Esmeralda (9)

Hero Esmeralda (9)

Lilith, a member of the Operational Staff Department of the Demon King’s Army and an assistant to the Demon King, was enjoying her work while enjoying a cup of coffee.

The results of Jim’s escape plan should arrive by now. Lilith accepted the incoming communication gracefully, with her reassurance that this time it would be different.

After a brief greeting.

It was time to get to the point.

-Failed?

“…… Yes?”

But did you say hello to each other in such a calm tone?

Lilith was so insensitive that she was taken aback by the appearance of her subordinate, as if her nerves didn’t exist.

“What the hell was wrong with you?”

Lilith put a lot of effort into this operation.

First of all, by the time we decided to use the background Jim had created, we had already hired an actor with excellent acting.

That’s also a human, not a demon.

So there is no chance of being discovered as a demon in the first place.

Even if he was caught because of his lack of acting skills, he wouldn’t have blindly suspected the hero as long as the opponent was a human.

-Yeah, that’s it.

***

She suddenly starts groping me as her son.

What is this person?

“Who are you?”

Who said it was your son? I am an orphan Parents came out of the world without even knowing their faces.

“It looks like you lost your son, but you misunderstood the person.”

It’s pitiful, but here it’s for the sake of the other person to cut it off and reject it.

Parents who lost their children wandered aimlessly and came to such a deep mountain.

Escape with her pain? If you do that, you will be able to easily escape from the warrior party, but it will leave a huge scar that cannot be erased in one person’s heart.

The later you find out about this kind of thing, the more painful it is. I don’t want to give such pain to this poor human being in the yard that I am not an enemy of the opponent.

Moreover, haven’t you experienced something like this before?

At that time, I followed those damn bastards as if they were a strategy team, and how dangerous they became.

“That’s right, my son… ….”

“No.”

“I should say yes… …. I was definitely going to do that…….”

“Sir, it’s a pity, but look carefully. I am not your son.”

“Ahahahaha, I heard that it is? I think you can’t see the elderly well. And be careful. There are rumors that there are many people around here who are being bought off by demons and conspiring to rage against the Heavenly Demons.”

“… ….”

“For example, acting for a large amount of money.”

“I-I must have been mistaken. Stop being like my son……. No, now that I see it, it’s not even our town, right? Hey, I’m in the wrong place.”

The unidentified woman ran away. By the way, I thought of her because she was a warrior, but I wondered if she might be the one who was involved in the operation to get me out. But she won’t

Ah, there was no agreement in advance, but they probably wouldn’t have brought someone in and delayed it.

I don’t want to gamble on such improbable odds, nor do I want to drag in poor humans.

***

Lilith only realized this after hearing her subordinate’s report.

“Damn it, this is on purpose.”

However, she was not one to recall that the prior agreement had not been reached. The biggest problem with her laxity is that other people will think the same way as she does.

Unfortunately, Jim’s intelligence was much lower than Lilith’s.

‘The first thing I did was to apologize for Vice Admiral Eleven… …. The reason why I deliberately didn’t escape even when the opportunity came was to protest it.’

Lilith already thought it was possible for Jim to escape on his own.

Isn’t he also a man who is evaluated as the next demon king by Eleven, the commander of the corps?

Unnoticed, Lilith considered that even the need for an escape plan was an act to test Dar Lilith.

A situation where he is obscured by the majesty of her burden and cannot remember that he has no reason to test her.

She was just seeing a cross section of the situation and feeling resentment.

“Hi-ing.”

Lilith, who has always been able to wield people, is in a reversed position.

She secretly cried alone and lamented her plight.

Of course, it was Jim who had to lament the situation that didn’t mesh.

“I have to apologize, I have to apologize, right now.”

Lilith, who had already been deeply wounded by repeated failures, cautiously dialed the communication while on her knees, even though no one else could see her.

“Lieutenant General Lilith… ….”

Lilith continued her communication on the cold stone floor, bending over until the threads of her black stockings came out.

***

It was a communication with a particularly downcast voice today.

I don’t know what it is, but it looks like he wants to apologize for last night.

To be honest, I don’t know the details of what happened at that time because I passed out, but it seems the operation team was the cause of my fainting.

Lilith Lieutenant General Lilith was a superior who knew how to bow his head at the mistakes of his subordinates.

Anyway, the operation seems to have failed.

Honestly, if you think about the hero’s face when you wake up in the morning, you can see that even if you failed, it was only a piece of paper.

As expected, Vice Admiral Lilith is different.

Isn’t it on a different level from the operation team that worked to get me out?

Moreover, since they said he returned alive, I look forward to the future.

How far can Vice Admiral Lilith’s potential go? I’m looking forward to it.

She said so she is looking forward to it.

“Since you said that, I will look forward to it next time. hahahaha.”

-…… Yes heh

Her tongue-twisted answer came back as if she was exhausted from crying, but it will be fine.

My ears must be wrong.

“Mister Jim! Are you ready?”

“…… Yes.”

I was the one who made a fuss about wanting to come back to the village. It happened because it was obviously part of the operation, but since the operation failed, there was no choice but to pay the price.

“hahahaha, I’m going to put up a tombstone from now on, isn’t it worthwhile?”

“…… Sure.”

For the tombstones It was said that it was for the graves of the dead villagers, so we had to erect the tombstones that were missing.

Since the hero brought a plausible huge rock from the surroundings, his back has been stiff, but he never imagined that he would give him a hammer and a chisel and ask him to engrave his name on it.

Why didn’t I make it the other day?

It’s just lamentable.

“Ah, judging by the size of the village and the number of houses, there must have been at least 7 families. About 14 people?”

Esmeralda asked with a smile.

It bothers me as if I’m going to pour out my dissatisfaction with this journey here.

Of course, given her personality, she probably said it without thinking.

“…… There were seven of us.”

“Are you sure? Really? Is that all there is to it? It seems too suspicious, but is it because of my mood?”

“They said there were 7 houses.”

“Isn’t it? So, let’s engrave the names of the 17 villagers from now on, right?”

“Huh? Stretched…….”

“Does it engrave?”

Esmeralda puts a chisel and hammer into my hands with a bright smile.

There was a strange feeling of pressure that I couldn’t refuse, so I carved the name of a villager who didn’t even exist on the tombstone.

It’s hard to even think of a name. It was a perfect situation to arouse the hero’s suspicions, so I had to contemplate on the names of people who were plausible.

Damn it, I’ve never even thought about my name before.

“hehehe.”

Her party, Esmeralda, who made me do the work, is sitting on a large rock, waving her feet back and forth and watching.

She used to think she was stupid, but since the last bandage, she thinks she’s cute.

And the skirt is short, so with a little effort, you should be able to see inside… ….

“…… Jim, are you paying attention?”

“Oh, yes.”

I got scolded. Did I look at you too blatantly anyway?

I did see it though. It’s black, so it’s more colorful than I thought.

“Ah… ….”

“Hmm?”

I heard a strange sound, so I turned my head again and saw the hero arranging his skirt in a rather gentle manner.

The eyes staring at me are unusual. Looks like I’ve been caught. I calmly turned my head and carved the name of the villager on the tombstone…….

I felt the gaze that seemed to be glaring at me until the end of the work.

***

Cult of Celestial Gods.

Saint Irina Saintis was receiving a recent report about Esmeralda, who was on a journey with Jim.

“Oh, the hero?”

The news of an encounter with a being presumed to be a corps commander.

Irina narrowed her eyes and asked in a cold voice.

“What about the corpse? Did you retrieve it?”

“No, he is still alive…” ….”

“Oh, that is very fortunate. Then, you will be injured, so are you coming to the church right now?”

“Yes.”

“Yes, thank you for watching. It’s good to go out now. Because you don’t look good.”

“…… Thank you.”

Irina smiled benevolently at the drawn-out follower.

However, when her follower saw that expression, she ran out of her room as if she was running away, trembling with fear.

“Seeing that I can’t manage my expression, I will quit sooner or later.”

Irina turned her body.

In the direction she looked, she could see her reddish chunks of meat.

“To make such a fuss about just treating bugs.”

She was in a torture chamber.

She was torturing her demons several times.

How far they can withstand the divine power. What do you know

I’m just giving you pain to dig out each one of those things.

It’s something you have to do.

Now that the church has lost its legitimacy, we must do anything to save the church.

The church has lost its symbol, God, and cannot be free from its responsibility.

So everyone left the church. Because the only way to escape responsibility is to completely forsake God.

That’s why Irina chose to be brutal, and that’s how she took control of the Order.

“Haa… ….”

And now, all of that is disgusting and painful.

“I miss Jim today. Do you want to come with the warrior?”

She remembered Jim, the only mixed-race demon she had ever met.

Yes, we need him.

Because only that existence can give Irina comfort.