Demon Girl ~Tale of a Lax Demon~

I think that if there was a difference in our magic power, it would have been resisted, but I felt like it was because of some other factor.

Hmm…… I don’t quite understand the [Heroes’ Secret Arts] yet, but maybe it’s one of Kyoji’s abilities or [Skills].

“Well, well, isn’t it better not to be so brutal? Anyway, could you leave this one to me?”

“……………”

Instead of applying intimidation, I smiled at him while my magic power overflowed from me.
Kyoji gave me the tiniest frown that nobody else could possibly tell, but I smiled at him, holding one hand to my chest while I bowed slightly towards him.

“I understand.
If that is the will of the “Saint”.”

“………”

What a bad-mannered person.

Putting the word [Saint] out there so the bandits and villagers would know.

Now I’ll have to approach them as the [Saint] and conduct negotiations.
If it were a normal person who had been summoned normally to a different world and made a saint, they might care about appearances, becoming unable to do anything without their common sense getting in the way.
And then, knowing that no solution could be reached, he was raising the hurdle.

“S-saint-sama? Do you think we’ll go away with just that! This ain’t for kids, so go back!”

The bear ignored his injured arm, gripping his weapon with his remaining arm.

He seems somewhat nervous about it, but hasn’t quite stopped being hostile.
I didn’t use my intimidation at all, just my magic power, but it seems like it doesn’t affect people like Kyoji, who can’t sense magic power.

Looking at the bear, I slowly walked towards him, smiling all the way like a proper [Saint].

“This brat, you won’t understand if you don’t get hurt…… eh?”

At the instant where the bear reached out, going easy on me, my escort knight Nea had overtaken him.

…… that’s good.
It’s Nea.
I wonder what would have happened if this had been Tina, whose fingers were wiggling this whole time? Anyway.

“Come, bandits.
Surrender if you want him back.”

[[[…………]]]

Not only the bandits, but the knights that were with us were stunned into silence at this.

“……ku”

“B-big bro!”

“You guys, ignore me! Never surrender!”

While his arms were being twisted to the point of failure by Nea, the bear was glaring at me hatefully even as he called out to his companions.

’

“What are you doing! The Saint is torturing me!”

Ah, I see…… You’re underestimating me.

But…… your opponent is no “saint” or even “noble lady”, but rather a most terrible [Demon].
Fufu.

“I’m going to kill off all of your “hair follicles” now.”

[[[…………]]]

As I made my proclamation, the faces of the men all cramped up slightly.

“W-wait……”

“…[Light!]…”

As I incanted the holy magic, the light lightly touched the [Fur?] and all of the hair on his arms fell out, and his skin became smooth.

“Wha!?”

“…[Light]…”

As I applied more magic to the astonished bear, his rough chest hair all fell off.

“Well, let’s make this entire body beautifully clean”

“Wai-wait-waitaminute”

It was fun, and my smile was widening, while the newly baby-like bear and the rest of bandits surrendered immediately.

…… Why does it feel like the distance between the knights and I is getting further?

*

The bandits’ minds were all changed by my sincere persuasion.

Apparently, as Kyoji said, they were men from a nearby village, who had turned to banditry because of poor harvests.

The reason why the bear had attacked was as a form of retaliation against the lord for not reducing the tax despite the bad harvest.

“So, do you know why the harvest has suddenly become bad?”

“U-uhm, Saint-sama……? It seems that the storm winds have caused the soil in the fields to shift…… If it were only that, it would have only been once in a year, but, hmm…… I brought up the soil and mixed it with a mixture of dead leaves I collected from the mountains, according to the [Agriculture from the Otherworld], but that too eroded with the storm……”

We were now on our way back to the village where the bandits were from.

The journey at this point has collapsed somewhat, but even if it’s not a soft bed, I personally don’t want to sleep on a hard floor.
It’s true.

“Princess Yurushia, could this be related to the circumstances of other countries?”

So Kyoji reproached me…… well, I say that, but he’s been talking to me secretly.

By the way, for the others, they were separated from us as much they (emotionally) distant from us.

I cured his hair roots properly, and also healed the sick in the village, so why is nobody approaching us……?

“Ah, is that no good?

“The country is not wealthy.
Such villages are everywhere.
Is Saint-sama intending to save them all…?”

’

In short, he was asking me if I was going to be a sentimental “hypocrite”.

“Fufufu……”

I laughed softly.

“It’s just an “experiment”.
Don’t worry about it.”

“Is that so……”

As I said that, I felt that Kyoji’s heart was getting further away from mine.
But then.

““““OOHHHHHHHHH””””

The exclamations came from the village.

When I planted things in the fields by sprinkling seeds, potatoes and plump tomatoes grew.

…… The tomatoes and potatoes were slightly greenish, but they should be more nutritious.

“Ooh, Saint-sama, thank you for saving our village.”

As the village chief lowered his head towards me, the near-100 villagers did the same.

“How on earth…… no, that doesn’t matter.
I’m sorry…… but the bandit act was because I instigated our youth.
The blame should be mine alone……”

So said bear-beard, impressed by the field.

Even when it goes to trial, banditry usually results in death.
It seems that they didn’t kill many people, whether it was robbing merchants or attacking travelers, but had they been reported to the lord, they would have been sentenced to death.

“We are people from another nation.
So, we won’t interfere further in the affairs of this country.”

Because it’s a pain.

“……I’m sorry”

The bear-beard lowered his head in shame again.

……… It became that I was intentionally not reporting the crime, but since this was an “experiment”, it’s embarrassing that you’re so touched.

“Yurushia-sama, I got it.”

“Thanks for your hard work.”

Fannie, who had been away, had gone to reap the souls of the lord of this land and the other delicious, syrupy souls.

It can’t be helped since the villagers’ souls aren’t that great.
After all, good dietary habits are the most important.

I wonder if it’s alright, though……

Please, continue to survive, bandits.
That new parasitic see-…… the crops would grow by absorbing magic from the earth, but their favorite food was souls, if the crops grew too much, they would start attacking others.

And so we left.
A few weeks later, we arrived at the mountain nation of Cebrill, close to the battle front.

By the way, this is completely unrelated, but a few villages in some country would be attacked by some flock of demons in a few years’ time, but the story went that the “crops” attacked the demons and kept the villages safe.

Author’s Notes:

Next time, bonding with the Hero of Fire.