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Chapter 72 Part 3

The Phrase “What Goes Around Comes Around” Is A Perfect Fit In This Situation — Part 3

 

 

While I keep the Demon Lord’s sword in check with my right hand, I focus my magic power on my left arm, and shout with all my might!

 

「《Enchant Dark》!」

 

At that moment, the thing that appeared from behind the Demon Lord sank into his body.

 

「——Gaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!」

 

Even as he screamed, I’m trying hard to hold the sword in his right hand from slashing down at me.

On the other hand, Emmy skillfully fends off the rest of his free arms that are about to attack me.

 

Taking advantage of that momentary opening, I pushed my left arm forward… and with the anger from all the crap he’s saying about us until now, along with the sense of accomplishment from delivering a fatal blow to this guy, I cut him up to his shoulder!

 

「Aaaakh!」

 

Purple-colored blood spurted out from his back like a fountain.

I immediately thrust the weapon in my left hand into the Demon Lord’s chest… and he loses all his strength and sinks into the sand.

With how that cut feels just now, I’m sure of it.

It’s my win.

 

With white bloodshot eyes, the Demon Lord desperately moved his weakened body to straighten himself and looked at the weapon buried in his chest.

And what he found there was――.

 

「How…? What is… a cheap toy like this… doing here?」

 

――A worn-out throwing knife, clearly had been used so much that the handle had discolored.

 

『How』, huh? That’s what I wanted to know, too.

As if to answer my inner thoughts, the woman who knew the exact answer to that stepped forward.

 

When Sybilla saw the knife, she smiled brightly and gave a thumbs up… toward the direction far behind the Demon Lord’s back.

 

「…Eh? Eve-chan?」

 

Emmy muttered, referring to the fourth adventurer who shouldn’t be here.

 

「‘Ssup! Sybilla-san, I’ve done it as you told!」

 

「You’ve done a truly splendid work, Eve-chan! In return, I’ll give you the right to watch a very, very fun comedy show.」

 

After replying to Eve, she approaches the Demon Lord with a very Sybilla-like manner and looks down at him.

Her face was adorned with a beautiful yet sadistic smile.

 

Sybilla then began explaining everything.

 

「【Assassins】 have a skill that can be used by those who have reached a high level in this Job, called 『Stealth』. Well, I suppose you already know about it, right?」

 

「……Don’t tell me……」

 

「It’s just as you think. The level required to learn 『Stealth』, which allows you to disappear, is quite high. As someone who has tasted her blade before, you should’ve known that her level back in the fourth dungeon wasn’t enough to learn it yet.」

 

…She’s right. Although Eve did very well at the time, it’s true that her level is not that high.

So where did she…?

 

「You know it too, don’t you, Russell? The thing that can raise your level quickly.」

 

「That’s… defeating a floor boss, and other than that…」

 

…Leveling up by eating a dragon’s heart…!

 

「No wait, but you ate it back then, didn’t you?!」

 

「Yes, I did eat it. The 『Breast Meat』 that is.」

 

……What? Breast meat?

So you’re telling me that the thing that you were munching so happily beside me when I ate the dragon’s heart at that time was just the breast meat? 

I completely thought you ate the heart from the reaction you had back then.

 

「To fool the enemy, start with your allies. I need her to play an active part here, so I had Eve-chan eat the heart of a Needle Earth Dragon. She’s a level 21 【Assassin】 now, of course she would be so strong.」

 

Sybilla’s shocking revelation left both Emy and me speechless.

At the same time, we understood why Sybilla had gone to the orphanage with Eve yesterday.

 

In the first place, Eve had seen us entering the dungeon on this beach from there and had followed us.

She foresaw that the battle against the Demon Lord would take place here, so naturally, Eve, who has really good eyes, should be able to see us fight too.

Next, she had each of us take care of each of the three heads and keep all of his six arms in check, leaving his back wide open.

 

Then, without saying it out loud, she entrusted me to enchant the throwing knife with a dark attribute.

The result is what we see now.

 

That Sybilla… to think that she predicted this far into the future!

 

「No, it wasn’t all because of me, we successfully cornered the Demon Lord thanks to Russell’s memory, remember? And that’s where I come in.」

 

Sybilla then looks down at the Demon Lord with a very pleased look and a smirk on her face

She’s about to pass down the final judgment on the Demon Lord.

 

「It’s not the【Saint】sword, the 【Holy Knight’s】 Dragon Fang Sword, or the 【Twilight Goddess’s】sword that will end you. You blocked them all after all~!」

 

Sybilla walked up to his lying body and raised one foot.

 

「Sto… Stop…」

 

The demon king, foreseeing what is about to happen, shakes his head with fear on all his three faces.

 

An unusually witty Demon Lord who lurked in Seiris’s shadow.

 

He loves money above all else and openly harbors disdain for the poor.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Holy Knight; he will lose interest if you’re an orphan.

Even the battle with our lives on the line made him bored because it was taking too long.

 

Everything about the way he thinks and acts is pure selfishness and maliciousness.

His body is covered with jewelry he has scavenged from the city.

But all of those were obtained with counterfeit currency.

 

And yet, he wants to fight against people with noble upbringing and noble jobs, who wield expensive weapons.

This truly hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant Demon Lord——.

 

——will meet his end here!

 

「The one who will put an end to you is an orphaned, extremely poor, former pickpocket Assassin! And with the cheapest, second-hand, worn-out throwing knife in the city, which even a child like her would throw away as a disposable item at that! Haah~ Isn’t that wonderful~? From the bottom of my heart, I think it’s the perfect weapon to finish you off, that I don’t think there’s even a more befitting weapon than this to do the job~!」

 

As if mocking the Demon Lord, who was desperately trying to move his motionless body to reject the reality, Sybilla shouted while stomping her raised foot and pointing her thumb down at him.

 

「You know what they say, what comes around goes around, and this, is your retribution! Serves you right!」

 

The throwing knife, imbued with dark attribute, sank deeper into the Demon Lord’s body by Sybilla’s boots.

The Demon Lord’s body twitched for one last time before it dissolved into the earth.

 

Sybilla turned to me and smiled mischievously, a stark difference from the maniacal expression on her face earlier.

 

「I ended up saying all those on everyone’s behalf, but… was that good enough for you guys, I wonder?」

 

「That was quite refreshing, actually.」

 

「It’s very satisfying!」

 

Emmy and I wanted to finish off the Demon Lord ourselves, but with how it ended, I was honestly glad that we let Sybilla do it instead.

I don’t have anything to complain about since she accurately dug into the things that annoyed me so much and defeated him

…… At the same time, when my gaze met with Emmy’s for a moment, I felt like we shared the same determination to 『never turn Sybilla into our enemy』.

Her verbal attack was amazing, so much so that it wouldn’t be strange if the Demon Lord cried after that.

 

Eve, who had been watching us from a distance, joined us.

We praised each other for our efforts, and we all laughed as we felt like one big burden had been lifted off our shoulders.

 

Even though we were born orphans, we were raised with confidence.

Yet, he looked down on us just because of how we were born.

He even went as far as belittling the people who had taken care of us.

 

I vowed to defeat him myself, but I had failed twice since he managed to get away each time.

“Third time’s the charm”, as they said, and we tracked down the Demon Lord who had fled to the city disguised as a nobleman.

Leading us to our final battle that lasted until sunset, which has just come to an end.

 

Finally… we had won against the Demon Lord.