There have been quite a few people in my office lately.

Sometimes I invite people to visit me suddenly.

Visitors today are the former. I had made a promise in advance.

Excuse me, Staff Sergeant.

"Yeah, go ahead, Mr. Agarez."

A man in his late twenties wearing a swallow-tailed costume. He is a demon, characterised by silver hair caressed behind him and horns like goats growing from both ends of his forehead.

He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings and a demon who takes the alias [Demon of Time].

It always feels like a crisp, calm and settled man.

He is also a gentleman who responds politely to me suddenly promoted by his staff and cares about me in a variety of ways.

It's just...

"Hello, Mr. Agarez."

The staff secretary, Kash, a dog ear subman, greets his guests with a cheeky grin.

"Oh, Miss Kash. You look better today than anything. Oh yeah, will you take this if you like? You should eat with your family."

What Mr. Agarez took out was a assortment of various cookies. Beautiful box with lots of cookies.

.... Always, thank you. But I can't have it. "

Kash, who is very popular with Demons of Demon King's Castle, gets a lot of things all the time. Among other things, Mr. Agarez seems to make a lot of plugs.

"I don't care. It's a souvenir, and of course it's for the staff. If I had your share, wouldn't it be strange?

Kash saw me. [M]

"If you don't like Kash, you can take it."

Sake, and spit Kash. She loves cookies. You're really happy because you say you're both a sister and a sibling.

"So, then. Thank you, Mr. Agarez."

Kash holds the box dearly and smiles all the time at it.

Mr. Agarez shook his body and looked up to heaven.

Then breathe deeply and smile.

"You don't have to worry about it. You're doing very well, though you'll have a lot of hard work at a young height. You don't have to be a direct supervisor to want to work."

Praiseworthy and illuminating Kash.

"Oh, I'll bring you some tea."

and Kash on his way to preparing his tea.

I spoke to Agarez, who looked behind me.

"Please, hang up."

"Ah, ah. No, but Miss Kash is really great. There's something about working so hard for your family that you get hit in the chest."

"Yeah, really. He's a worker, he's helping."

"Reaching out to her only impresses me with the depth of the Staff Hall's nostalgia"

"Mira's the one who invited you."

"You should praise him for his judgment on that."

"As it turns out, I'm glad too. When I was depressed through the party, I was cheering up thanks to Kash, so I was hoping to help out a little bit."

"Excellent. I, too, once spoke to the Demon King and found the meaning of living"

The beginning of his loyalty may be there.

I'm a little curious if there was an asylum-seeking thing ahead for the young, or if it sprouted in the wake of the Demon King, but don't ask.

"Meetings make life better, don't they?"

In my case, so did Kash, and I was blessed with lucky encounters such as Mira and Master... and Phoenix.

If I had lacked even one, I might not have been able to reach it by now.

"Yeah, not at all."

Mr. Agarez snorts deeply.

"Oh, speaking of which, thank you for the cookies"

"It's fine. I saw a girl smile, so it's cheap."

"... haha"

Well, there's a part of me that wanted to see Kash smile, too, and I was buying fruit.

Besides, Mr. Agarez is a really good man.

Well, there's no way the Demon King hired someone dangerous in the first place and sidelined them.

He is a brilliant and good person because he is slightly disturbed by words and deeds.

"So, I need to talk to you."

"Yeah, but first..."

A sip of the tea that Kash brought over after a while.

"I'm sorry, Miss Kash. Would you please leave me alone with the Lord of Staff?

This is the first time Mr. Agarez has ever said that. Whatever. Even when you're talking to me, you're watching Kash.

Kash nods as convinced.

"Himikatsu, right..."

Phew, and he broke his expression.

"Oh, that's what it is"

"Yes! I'll be right behind you, mister."

"Yeah, I'll call you when I'm done."

Kash, who made a crisp look, exits quickly.

I'll make sure of that, and then I'll tilt my neck.

"Is this a secret meeting?

I didn't think it would be sneaky to break a kid's dream.

"A dream?"

"She thinks all demons, starting with the Staff Hall, are going to defend themselves by squeezing their wits and not destroying all intruders? When you have someone who isn't, you don't want them to know. Ego, maybe."

"... may I talk to you?

Mr. Agarez said it, as he was prepared to do.

"I won't beat them."

Are they adventurers?

"That's not true."

"It's okay, General Staff. Of course, I'm not giving up. This is not such a story."

... I know what he's trying to say.

"Mr. Aerial, is it?"

He snorts.

"That's a different dimension. In addition to being the Four Spirit Contractors, our combat abilities are amazing. Nor would the most powerful alias of mankind be exaggerated."

"Yeah, I think so."

"Seeing the eighth tier, I was convinced. His men are strong enough that Lord Fulcus avoids direct combat"

Mr. Fulcus is strong.

If it was just martial arts, it would outnumber Phoenix.

Still, if you fight, Phoenix wins.

And Mr. Aerial has the strength to work with Mr. Fulcus even in that martial arts.

In addition to that, magic technology and power are also out of the group.

In the world, some people call Mr. Aerial this way.

- The strongest in the world.

Even if you apply words like those kids' dreams, it's the brave man named Aerial who won't be laughed at.

"But we can't lose. No one is allowed to tarnish the eleventh layer."

"Yes."

It was Mira who solicited me, and it was the Demon King who hired me.

Exactly, I want to reward you at work.

Demon King's Castle won't let you attack. I don't care who they are.

Whether you're a best friend or a long-awaited senior, that doesn't change.

"But it is also true that there are realities that cannot be changed by one feeling"

Mr. Aerial has the strength to win alone.

If you look at the scene where Phoenix left all the floor bosses and deputies on the tenth floor, you'll know that the Four Spirit Contractors are screwed.

"I mean, consultation is..."

"Yeah, it's about the fight to connect to the tenth level. Unless it's pitiful."

"No, that's not true. We're with the Castle of the Demon King. If we all win, that's fine. Rather, I'm glad you trusted me."

'Cause you will.

Focus on reducing the number, not the total annihilation of the enemy.

On the assumption that it will be broken through, move to allow those in the tenth level to fight in the slightest advantage.

That means that at the tenth level, you think you can wipe out all your enemies.

That you're thinking that it's worth just entrusting me with a win.

"Say anything. I won't spare your cooperation."

"... thank you"

"I'm a staff officer. I'm at work."

"Even so, thank you."

"Okay, I'll take it. - Well, it's about defense."

"Yeah, what I want to talk to you about is who my magic stabs the most (,,). I pinched these things in my ear when I said I knew the staff."

"Ah, yes. Well, I think I'm familiar with adventurers..."

That's how our discussion went on.

The remaining number of enemies, the subjects of the supposed right to resurrection, and who to target.

Mr. Agarez said he couldn't win, but that doesn't mean he won't take it seriously.

I mean seriously going to win, but understanding that my winning eyes are thin, and that fighting to connect next is my number one priority.

The start of the ninth tier was approaching.