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Chapter 88

And thus, our glory reached its peak as we ravaged the Elven Empire.

Once, the elves scorned us as barbarians, treating us as servants and bottom-tier laborers.
Now, they have become our sex slaves and serfs.

We welcomed the princess into the palace to serve as our pleasure object, but…

――I never imagined my son could be so foolish.

Now, in the grand square of our capital, 3,000 beastmen soldiers have gathered to witness today’s executions.
In the center of the square stands the guillotine, with a beastman man and an elven woman bound with ropes, kneeling before it.

「However, my son, you are truly foolish. To think you’d take the elves seriously…」

「Father. Please reconsider. We live together in the forest… Are we not neighbors?」

「The elves have persecuted us for so long… and we have also persecuted them. Our hatred for each other has reached its limit. Repair is no longer possible.」

Then the elven princess pleaded to me.

「Father! Please, our daughter… Spare our daughter!」

I kicked the elven princess in the face.

「You, such lowly beings, have no right to call me father.」

Blood poured endlessly from the elven princess’s perfect lips, soaking the ground.

Then, I stood before my son.

Preaching about reconciliation between beastmen and elves… nonsense.
But as a member of the royal family, he cannot escape judgment.

Well, out of familial mercy, I won’t subject him to torture. It’s the least I can do.

With a snap of my fingers, soldiers grabbed the two by their hair and led them to the guillotine.
As their heads were placed on the guillotine, I began to laugh.

「Haha… Well, if you had listened to me and promoted the offspring of elves and us politically as a victory for the beastmen over the elves, this wouldn’t have been your fate.」

「My daughter… Liz… cannot become a spectacle of victory for the beastmen over the elves, displayed throughout the land!」

So, standing before my son with only his head visible from the guillotine, I took out my genitals from my pants.

And then I began to urinate.

「I apologize. Even if they’re of royal blood, those who defy the king must be shown to everyone as traitors.」

He’s still my son.
I should probably explain the reason for urinating, but I can’t hide the smile on my face.

I seem to have a hard time with sincerity and pretense.

Even if it’s my son――I enjoy the cruelty.

Actually, despite being called the tyrant king, I have no intention of doing such things willingly to my son.
But it’s enjoyable when I actually do it.

While receiving my urine on his head, my son muttered disdainfully.

「…Despicable.」

「Well then, it’s about time for the end. Do you have any last words?」

「My… daughter?」

「I’ve tried various methods, but she stubbornly survives.」

Upon hearing that, my son sighed with relief.

「But――I’ve issued an assassination order to one of the Twelve Divine Generals. That being is a menace in itself.」

「To your own granddaughter… Would you go that far?」

Staring at me, my son, I shook my head.

「A mixed blood with elves is not family.」

Raising my right hand, I declared.

「That’s it then. It’s a pity――my son.」

The guillotine was raised, and then they were fixed with ropes.
All that’s left is to cut the ropes, and my son and the elven princess will be executed.

「Well, I have ten other sons. There are plenty to replace you――Haha!」

All that’s left is for me to snap my fingers to signal the execution.

「Kill him!

「Purge the traitor!」

「Kill the elves!」

「Kill them!」

「Kill them!」

Hmm.
The audience seems to be quite excited.

As a king, it’s my duty to provide entertainment to my subjects. Well, it’s the fate of those in power.

「Kill them!」

「Kill them!」

「Kill them!」

「Kill them!」

Now, let’s go while the excitement is at its peak.

「Well then, drop the guillotine――」

*Swish!*

With the sound of the wind being sliced, something flew in, and then the top of the guillotine, the guillotine itself, was blown away.

*Swish!*

*Swish!*

*Swish!*

Furthermore, one after another, something comes flying.

*Boom!*

The fountain in the grand square explodes.

*Boom!*

My bronze statue in the grand square explodes.

*Boom!*

The ground beneath me――a few meters ahead explodes.

「What the hell is this!?」

Brick fragments forming the floor of the public square fly towards me.
There’s a crater several tens of centimeters wide, and at the center of the crater, there’s a fist-sized ore, presumably Adamantite, embedded in the ground.

*Boom!*

The ore pours down on the beastmen soldiers gathered in the square.

*Boom!*

The hands of the beastmen soldiers are blown away.

*Boom!*

The legs of the beastmen soldiers burst into pieces.

*Boom!*

The heads of the beastmen soldiers burst like exploded apples, blooming red flowers of brain matter and flesh.

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

Death’s ore raining down from the sky one after another.
It’s like a hailstorm, delivering death to everyone in the area with tremendous force.

「W-What… What’s going on!?」

If I’m in a panic, then the soldiers are in utter chaos.
They’re trying to flee the square in a panic, rushing towards the exits.

Near the exits, there’s a traffic jam, with people pushing and hitting each other to get through.
Beastmen are trampling over fallen comrades, causing more to fall.

A mountain of fallen beastmen is quickly formed, and beastmen are climbing over it, causing a massive jam inside the mountain of bodies, with pushing and hitting.
It is a chaotic scene of pandemonium and hellish chaos.

「Damn, they’ve completely lost control… You fools!」

Then, I notice that the ores are coming from one direction.
In my line of sight――where the tower once stood where the elves performed ritual magic.

「From the ritual tower… It’s a bombing!」

Come to think of it, there was information about the Elf resistance rallying…
Did they reclaim the ritual tower and deploy a new large-scale magic?

And then, with my superior vision, even among the beastmen who boast overwhelming eyesight compared to humans, I caught sight of a certain scene.

From the rooftop of the ritual tower, a boy is hurling stones towards me with tremendous force, while a girl with light blue hair is handing stones to him.

「This is stupid… It’s a 5-kilometer distance! And he’s hitting the entire square…? Maintaining lethality at this range… with the initial velocity…?」

The boy then, with a backpack on, leaps from the rooftop towards me.

I don’t know what the boy is trying to do.
But it doesn’t seem like a suicide mission.

Anyway, the boy leaps diagonally upward towards me, continuously raining down the shotgun blast of stones packed in his backpack from high above.

――4 kilometers away.

The rotation speed of the boy’s throws increases further.
Looking around, over a thousand beastmen are scattered across the square as corpses.

The remaining ones are rushing towards the exits, where there will likely be a considerable number of dead from the chaos as well.

――3 kilometers away.

Stones start raining down around me.
A continuous barrage of impacts resounds, echoing throughout.

――2 kilometers away.

I let out a small scream.
Because I realize there’s a circle drawn around me with a radius of 5 meters.

Thirty small craters merge to form what appears to be a perfect circle drawn by craters.

――1 kilometer away.

There’s no mistaking it.
He intends to land in this square after a 5-kilometer leap.

It makes no sense.
It’s not just about incredible leg strength.

And he’s targeting me.
He’s definitely aiming for me.

――200 meters away.

Is that thing really human?

Such thoughts cross my mind.
Pulling off such inexplicable feats…

Yes, that thing is a demon.

Not human.

And that demon is approaching――right in front of me.

――50 meters away.

We’re close enough to see each other’s expressions.

As the demon looks at me, he――
With a cloud of dust, the boy lands and smirks.

「It seems you’ve prepared quite the entertaining show for me――」

Speechless and stunned, the boy glares at me.

「I’ll return it a hundredfold. No need to hold back, just accept it.」