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#8 Their circumstance: Atia nel Karuan’s circumstance

I closed my eyes and paid attention to Reia’s voice.

“According to the report, that’s the current situation, and from then on.. things will unfold this way.”

Reia’s voice stopped there, but my eyes remained closed. After pondering what I’ve heard for some time..

“What I heard just now, are they all.. true?”

“According to the team leader Mirua, yes, they are all true.” Reia sounded utterly unconvinced during her report, but her reply didn’t reflect that.

I muttered. “That is insane, then.”

“Yes. It’s so like Sir Ast.”

My opinion was that it was insane, yet the reply I got was ‘as expected of Ast’. However, that answer was good enough to make all my underlings.. no, everyone in the Imperial Court nod in affirmation.

Ast never was sound in his head, but..

“..But it sounds like he’s even crazier than ever before?”

“I can’t deny that, Your Highness.”

While watching Reia nod in agreement, I ended up holding my head. I used to tell myself it’d not be feasible. Even if Ast wanted to flee, would he really enter the demon continent?

I got quite a shock thinking that he hated me to the point of escaping to the lands of demons, beings clearly in an antagonistic position to humanity.

Even if he didn’t like me, wasn’t that, you know, too much?! Even if I was a tough cookie, that left a pretty severe impact on me. To think that he’d flee to the demon continent just because he hated someone!

But then, the subsequent reports on the situation wiped my worries clean. Actually, I had to seriously ponder if Ast crossing over to the demon continent was simply a part of his intricate plan in the first place.

According to Team Leader Mirua’s report currently dispatched to the demon continent, Ast’s actions could be summarised as thus:

1. Crossed over to the demon continent.

2. Acquired an individual equivalent to the demon race’s princess, a leader of a faction locked in the demon continent’s civil war.

3. Despite being a human, received the Demon God’s will and became the demon king.

4. In only one day, followed the Demon God’s will and assassinated the demon king candidate of the opposing faction.

5. He fashioned himself as a demon king in symbolic meaning while installing the demon king candidate he had acquired as the real demon king.