Demonfolk Aira
──Skill No.1 【Character Introduction】, activate.
◆Aira
Gender: Female
Age: 21
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『Yuri’s former bandit comrade, friend. ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎, ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎. ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎. Lived with Yuri in the bandit group, but after being enchanted by and stealing the 【Demon Lord’s Seal】 that the Godey Bandit Group coincidentally stole, ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎. ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎, and has transformed into a Demonfolk possessing the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】』
Misdeeds:
『⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎』
『Restraining and forcefully subordinating, those who became slaves with her』
De-, 【Demon Lord’s Seal】? Some troublesome-sounding words came up, you know. Is that what that is?
Don’t tell me it’s not a Demon Lord scheduled to be newly born and I’m supposed to defeat, but the kind where a 【Previous Generation Demon Lord】 or something was sealed without being killed?
This woman called ‘Aira’ also said something like the ‘previous generation Hero’ or something, right? Oi, what are you doing, senpai1!
“You instead, you’re alive? You, who stole from Papa and got sold as a slave as a result”
Yuri provokes her back because she was told, ‘I thought you died’. Yuri’s pal, huh.
“That incident huhー……. I think I couldn’t have done anything about that, you know, Yuri. I mean, these 『wings』 were sealed in the gemstone I stole at that time after all. Don’t you think that it’s out of my control?”
“……? What do you mean?”
“Ahaha, you don’t get it huhー! But you knoww”
Assuming she was born a human for the time being──
“Moonlight Sword!”
“Woah!”
“Kyu!?”
I blast the Moonlight Sword, matching the movements of Aira who was about to assault Lucy-chan from the sky!
“ShaaAA!”
“Ahaha! How did you know, Hero-sama! That I was going to attack that creature!”
Why, you ask.
“You’re Yuri’s pal, right? In that case, you’re undoubtedly a shitty woman. That’s why you’ll probably target the most vulnerable Lucy-chan at the very start”
“What do you mean by that, Shino!”
Exactly what it sounds, right! A friend or whatnot of a woman who tried to so naturally do that to Tina-chan and others is not worth trusting! She’s guaranteed to be an enemy, right!”
I designate Aira as the target upon removing the 【Transportation Technique】 target from Mayria while making sure I don’t remove the target from Alicia.
I suppose, like with Lucy-chan, I likely can’t transport her to Japan……
With this, the current Transportation Technique’s targets are Alicia, Yuri, and Aira three.
“I got found out all because of Yuri, didn’t I. Well, I don’t need that 【Horn】ー. But this is the one thing I can’t help because it’s instinctー”
“Instinct? You said 【Demon Lord’s Wings】, but what exactly are you……?”
Mayria raises a question to the green-haired woman with black Devil wings.
Of course, she continues to be ready for combat.
“Exactly what it sounds, genius noble-sama. It’s the name of one of the 【Demon Lord’s Seals】 that enchanted and Demonified us. It’s the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】 for the Sword Saint. It looks like he got too excited just because he Demonified and couldn’t bring out its true potential though”
He was far from composed after all, the 【Demon Sword Saint】
“What is the 【Demon Lord’s Seals】”
“Yes?”
Nn? Aira tilted her head this time around at that question of Mayria.
……I wonder what is it. It looks like she had been going on about the circumstances non-stop under the premise that we had a common understanding.
But the truth is, we know nothing about the Aira’s circumstances, you know?
“……if you don’t know about the seals,”
Aira, directs her eyes at Lucy-chan.
“Kyu?”
“What’s that fellow? She’s the same species as us, right?”
“Kyuー?”
“What are you on about, Aira?”
“Ahー……”
I don’t really get it, but she had some kind of misunderstanding regarding Lucy-chan, and she had been talking with that misunderstanding as the premise huh, this woman.
……is she a klutz?
Don’t pull an adorable move all of a sudden when you showed up as an enemy!
Anyhow, you’re a cliché existence which ‘has the capabilities that the current us can’t win against!’ or something like that, right!
“……if you let me guess, anyhow, the previous Demon Lord has been split into several parts and sealed, and the existences enchanted by those parts and got cursed, Demonifies and become powerful existences. And then the bunch that Demonified, starts working towards the Demon Lord’s resurrection with that powerful start, but because the Sword Saint was standing at the start line, he was still weak. ……but, Aira. Your experience as a Demonfolk is longer, so you’re stronger than the Sword Saint. ……probably something like that”
For the time being, I tried deducing a cliché development from the present information.
“Wha-, what. As expected, you do know”
As I thought huhー……
Which means the 【Current Generation Demon Lord】 and the 【Previous Generation Demon Lord】 are in this shitty Otherworld? Because the Demon Lord unifying is also an instinct, a primordial habit, it’s pointless to think about it separately?
……no, if two Great Demon Lords exist, it’ll be a bad move to deliberately overlook their merger・strengthening.
I ought to beat them down in their supposedly weak individual state.
“Wh-, why does Shinta-san know about something like that? Is it the skill?”
“……it is a folktale passed down in the Hero’s world, I guess”
We’ll go and defeat the separate parts individually in order to prevent the Demon Lord’s resurrection.
……I’m sure it’s the standard for each individual part to be causing problems and troubling people.
In other words, it is the cliché development.
“What I don’t get is, the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】 Sword Saint and the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 you being at the same place friendlily. From the way you’re speaking, I suppose you’d known about the Sword Saint’s mutation. Or the transformation is your doing even”
Shouldn’t you guys be going at each other as well?
As for the reason he became like that, as I thought, that Demon Sword is suspicious.
Had the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】 been sealed in that sword? Where did you get your hands on it, something that suspicious!
“Who knows? That was something the Sword Saint got his hands on by himself after all”
“I see. ……so? You and us, our relationship is that of enemies no matter how you think about it, right?”
What do you intend to do?
“Nnー……. Well, that’s true. But I, owe Hero-sama a favour after all”
“Huh?”
A favour?
“Nothing comes to mind though”
“I do, don’t I, over there”
Aira pointed right at Yuri.
“……what about me, Aira”
“Not Yuri. ……you killed everybody in that bandit group for me, didn’t you, Hero-sama. That Godey Bandit Group that fucking turned me into a slave and sold me!”
Aah, that huh.
What I got from the skill information and this short exchange.
1. Godey Bandit Group stole a gemstone with the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 sealed within from somewhere.
2. At that time, Aira, a member of the bandit group, was possessed by the seal and ended up stealing the gemstone.
3. Aira, whose act of betrayal towards the bandit group was discovered, was punished and ended up being sold somewhere as a slave
4. Losing her backing, Aira, who sunk to being a slave, came to walk the path of a tragic life, and she resented the Godey Bandit Group because of that.
5. She awoke as the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 after that and subordinated or whatnot the slaves around.
……I guess?
How many sealed Demon Lord’s parts are there.
Is the culprit who sealed the Demon Lord the previous generation’s Hero.
Why seal the Demon Lord and not kill.
What’s up with the Demonified bunch 『having the urge』 to go on a journey that’s no different from the Hero and party.
“……aren’t you misplacing your hatred?”
“Hatred is hatred, isn’t it. It’s not like my objective is revenge thoughー. It’s about making me feel good. I wouldn’t have had any complaints if you had just killed Yuri as well, you know?”
Yuri is also a subject of her hatred huh.
Since Yuri’s position is a sex slave, I do have the feeling that it’s not much different when it comes to that point though……. No, I guess it is.
I’m treating her normally as one of my lovers now after all.
“Should I call you Aira the 【Slave User】? Or are you proud of the fact that you are the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】?”
Aira flinches at my words.
Is it because she’s Yuri’s acquaintance that her behaviour feels close, or?
Looking at how forced subordination and whatnot are treated as misdeeds, it’s the brain-washing type? forced mutation? What she’s doing isn’t much different from Mayria.
……Mayria’s disposition is overly evil? Don’t be doing misdeeds that rival the Demon Lord-type people, Hero party!
I suppose I ought to look at it as an 『attack』 that I don’t really understand.
Looking at the writings, it’s the type where it’ll be bad if you get restrained.
“You’re interested me huh, Hero-sama. Hmm?”
“……what”
Are you trying to tell me she’s a stalker on top of a klutz, or the yandere2-type even? Mayria-sensei! There’s a woman with way too many attributes over here as well!!
“……you don’t look bad”
Uwah. The lips-licking Devil move! Is she preying on me? I don’t have the feeling that anything good will come out of this!
She’s Yuri’s pal after all…….
“I’m the one who wants to ask instead……does Hero-sama intend to go around killing us as well?”
“Muu……”
Is it the option where we’ll go into a consecutive battle depending on the answer?
“I’m, quite grudge-holding type, you knowー. I won’t keep quiet if anything is done to me……but my feelings towards the Hero-sama are on the plus side from you killing everybody in the bandit group’s bunch after all. That’s why my intention is to just give my greetings for now”
Is she saying she’ll let us off the hook here?
“You could’ve killed everybody in the Godey Bandit Group as well since you have Sword Saint-class capabilities, couldn’t you?”
Those guys, they’re a bunch who got wiped out by someone like me, you know.
“Well, you’re rightー. But I also have other things to do. I did keep them aside to have fun with someday thoughー”
“……then I’m in the position of someone who has stolen your fun huh”
It feels like that’ll become a reason for her to kill me if we can’t have a rational conversation.
“Well, you’re right. But, you know. Men are just for killing at the end of the day, aren’t they? When you become powerful like us. That goes for Hero-sama as well, right?”
“Men……?”
“Un. That’s why I was thinking, ‘well, I guess it’s fine as long as that bunch got killed’. They’ll probably just bark noisily even if the now powerful me hurt them. They’re not the kind to cry for their lives after all, that old man as well”
Papa・Godey huh. Well, he’s the type to keep on barking 『I’ll fucking kill you』 and glare at you even if you torture him.
He’s the kind where you’ll have no choice but to kill in the end.
She’s saying that he’s the type that’s no fun to torment.
If we go by that thought process.
“……me keeping Yuri alive means there’s fun left to be had, and from your point of view, I’ve only done a good job; something like that?”
Demonfolk Aira grinned when I asked that.
O-, ooh……. What? She started giving off the vibe of a Devil from that of an ordinary human out of nowhere.
“Ahahahaha! You get me, don’t you, Hero-sama! That’s right, Yuri is different! You kept the woman who’s fun to torment, and who can relieve my hatred after all! I mean, I’m gonna thank you, right?”
“Aira……”
Hmm. Which means, I guess I can get her to let us off the hook if I hand Yuri to her. That’s good to know.
I glanced at Yuri.
“Shino! Youu, don’t tell me……”
“Don’t worry about it, Yuri”
“Even though you were saying that just now when it’s the Princess who got abducted……”
Is Yuri telling me to say 『don’t lay your hands on my woman』 when she gets targeted as well?
Hmーm. It has been some time since I got together with Yuri as well, but as always, she sure is sensitive to the danger to herself huh.
“……to think that that Yuri is flirting with the Hero-sama?”
Oops. Don’t direct the spearhead at me.
It’s out to say something like 『I’m gonna rob you of your hope now!』 and aim for my life.
It’s allowed if it’s just stealing me from Yuri.
……no, she has forced subordination or whatnot, so I kinda don’t want that either.
“Kyuー……”
“Well, whatever”
“Kyu?”
What? ‘Toーn‘, with a light step, she jumps to the back, and then Aira the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 stops right above the Sword Saint again.
“──I’ll be taking the remaining half of the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】, little one”
“Kyu!?”
, wind kicks up in the vicinity when Aira spreads her black wings over there, and then……a black mist of curse that even I can visually perceive envelops her!
A small black whirlwind-ish something manifested over there!
“Kuu……”
“Kyuー!!”
Lucy-chan is making a ruckus……did it get『stolen』? The 【Demon Lord’s Gene】. No, the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】.
“Haa……. It’s two with this, huh. Well, it’s one and a half though”
“Kyuー!!”
“Uu……”
After the black whirlwind disappeared. The Sword Saint’s mummified corpse……I won’t go that far, but a corpse in a wrung out-ish state remained there.
The conspicuous 【Horn】 that was there until just now was gone from the Sword Saint.
“Kyuー!”
Lucy-chan stomped the ground.
The looks and speed are different from Lucy-chan’s absorption.
There’s somewhat of an impression that what Aira did was effective but wasn’t 『a good way of doing it』.
After all is said and done, Lucy-chan is the experimental result of that prudent Mayria.
Lucy-chan has gotten the concept of ‘limitations’ before we knew it?
It sure would be great if she did!
“Hero-sama. Yuri called you 『Shino』 huh. My objective today is just the retrieval of the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】 and the greetings. But from here on out……if we’re going to fight over the same thing, our relationship will change accordingly. Also, I’m counting Yuri on you, alright? I, haven’t forgiven Yuri after all. I’ll make her suffer as much as I did one day”
“……one day, are you fine with that? Not right now?”
Aira the green-haired Demonfolk grins.
“『Shino』 is assessing my capabilities highly, right? You’ve been cautious of me the whole time. The noblewoman over there as well. Neither letting you gauge my capabilities nor taking on the Hero and party alone here, is good for me, right?”
, Aira, points at the Sword Saint’s corpse with her chin.
Well, we’re the party that defeated the 【Demon Sword Saint】 with a Demon Lord’s part like her without much difficulty.
Her theory is that, in that case, it’s better to go back and bring her subordinates or whatnot over than to dive into a battle all alone, is it?
Seeing that we’re unable to measure each other’s capabilities at this stage, there’s a high risk of being trampled one-sidedly.
That’s right, for both of us, that is. That’s why she wants to avoid a serious battle here.
At the end of the day, are we being overly cautious of her.
Or are we right to evaluate her highly.
Neither of us wants to let anything slip.
That’s why, we’ll part here.
I do also think, ‘is it alright to let her escape’, but I suppose we need time to sort out the situation.
“But if you’re going to do it, your pattern will be to make us let our guard down and launch an attack on us, going, 『as I thought, I’ll kill you!』”
“Fufu. Hence, you’re continuously cautious of me huh”
“Whatever it is. I suppose we’re pretty much promised to be in a relationship where we’ll kill each other”
“Eeh, that’s right. But it’s not now”
“Who knows”
If she’s going off, we ought to keep our guard up until she’s completely gone.
“……well. That’s all for today. I’ll be off already then. I’ll come and meet you again after I finish up my work. If you’re bringing that little one over there, I’ll more or less know no matter where you are after all”
Aira the Demonfolk grins.
Does she think she has a one-sided grasp of the information advantage?
However, I’ve already included you into the monitoring target.
Aira has no way of knowing something like that though.
“──then, see ya. Yuri, Shino”
‘Basaa‘, she flaps her black wings, and the Demonfolk, no, and Aira the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 flies up.
Ooh……it may be gigantic, but humans can fly with such wings huh.
I wonder if I can replicate it with a suit of armour with wings or something?
Like, a suit of golden armour with wings. It feels like I’ll unleash a barrage of light-speed punches.3
I should also consider the possibility of replication if there are going to be flying enemies, but it’s gonna come with the risk of falling to death because of insufficient resources.
“Kyuuー……”
“She, went off”
A black smoke, shadow-ish something covers and hides Aira’s body while she’s flying.
An unexpected Invisibility……no, camouflage? You can see a distortion in the monitoring screen’s scenery.
“……even though the journey only just began, all kinds of things happened huh, Shinta-san”
“Yeah. For the time being, it looks like Aira has really gone far away”
We can catch our breath for now, I guess?
“Yuri, are you alright?”
“I am……”
However, after the 【Demon Lord’s Horn】 that targets Alicia comes the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】 that targets Yuri huhh…….
Assuming Lucy-chan is being targeted in general……in the coming future, Mayria will also have something going.
So, I’ve finished transporting Alicia to Japan.
There’s still time until she returns.
What do we do? I wonder if she’ll be suspicious of the overly convenient Transportation timing?
“Ouch……!”
“Kyu?”
“Yuri-san? Did you get hurt?”
Right as I was about to try to sort out the situation, something abnormal happened to Yuri.
“What, my arm suddenly…….”
Nnー? Yuri’s arm……suddenly, started swelling? It comes off somewhat like words?
Don’t tell me this is.
I looked at the state of Alicia who’s in Japan.
Alicia has already changed into Japan’s clothes.
Alicia’s appearance has straight-up transformed into merely an adorable foreigner in the unexpected white shirt, skirt, and hoodie.
That Alicia was lightly hurting her own arm with a glass or something she picked up.
It’s not wrist-cutting or anything like that.
Is this that?
Yuri and Alicia’s 『Pain Sharing』.
“It looks like Alicia is trying to convey to us that she’s safe and sound”
“She can do something like that?”
“Aah, a Pain Sharing that transcends different worlds……I don’t get the logic behind it”
If I’m going to say that, then my 【Otherworld Transportation Technique】’s monitoring function is also straight-up transcending the walls of the world though.
A communication method across different world spaces has unexpectedly been created.
Is this only viable because the price is high? It’s something like a curse after all.
“……which means, through Yuri’s body, I can send a message to Alicia directly”
Which means.
“……what? I kinda have a bad feeling, Shino”
“Whyy”
I mean, if you think about it based on the information I have from Alicia’s perspective.
It’s good that we’ve confirmed that she’s safe and sound through Yuri and Alicia’s bodies.
But, what should we do in order to pull Alicia back to this world from there?
That is to satisfy Alicia sexually.
And then, what to do to satisfy Alicia in this situation, what I ought to do as Alicia’s knight is.
『to embrace Yuri and convey the pleasure to Alicia』
……that’s the most optimal answer.
“It can’t be helpedー. It totally can’t be helpedー”
Alicia will come back after 3 hours, but I shouldn’t know that after allー.
I have to act on the premise that I don’t know the truth, you know?
“What can’t be helped, Shino……”
“I’ve got to take care of Yuri as well after all”
New enemy, Aira the 【Demon Lord’s Wings】.
Yuri who’s targeted by her.
I probably ought to deepen my relationship with her just in case as well. Un un.
- 先輩(Senpai): It means senior. It refers to the previous generation Hero here.
- ヤンデレ(Yandere). Yan comes from 病んでる(Yan-deru), which means ill.
Dere comes from でれでれ(Dere-Dere), which means showing affection.
It refers to the type of lover who shows affection to a mentally ill degree. Like being overly possessive and violent to other suitors. - It may or not be a reference to something.
