Reunion [3]

"The day when the mega quest to catch the culprit who tried to kill the king was announced in the adventurers guild, I and my party also participated and went in different directions to search," I said as I lowered my eyes.

"We decided to meet in front of the guild, but when I returned in the evening I didn't find them so I went back to the inn we were staying in. The room we were using for a few weeks, when I opened the door I found them dead there. The demon lord was also there, with blood on her hands," I finished.

"She didn't kill you?" asked Zen, it was clear by looking at his face that he didn't want to interrogate this situation but due to his role as the current king, he was forced to do this.

"No, she didn't, I concluded that she wasn't interested. But when I provoked her she told me about the king and her reason to do that," I said, please don't question why she let me provoke her Zen.

I was confident that he won't ask me that given that the situation I was telling him about had a sad effect on me and he didn't want to multiply that sadness by asking more questions related to that.

"Her reasons to kill our father (king)," asked Zen.

Bingo! He ignored that point.

"You are going to wage a war on the demon kingdom right?" I answered his question with a question.

"Yes, a demon killed the king of our country, a war is expected," said Zen.

"Don't do that, by waging a war on them you are playing right into the hands of the demon lord," I said as I brushed my hair with my left hand.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I don't know how much of this is the truth, but this is what she told me," I said as I prepared myself to drop another half-fake story.

"She said that she killed the king because she wanted this country to wage a war on them so she can counter-attack and destroy this country," as I finished speaking, the calm and composed behavior which Zen had until now was slowly vanishing away.

"A counter-attack is expected in a war, why do you want us to not attack them," he asked.

"You'll lose!" I said straight.

"How can you be so certain?" said Zen, this time his tone of speaking was indicating he was a little angry about this.

"It's better to show you than explain," I said and closed my eyes.

Then I released my aura which I was holding back. As I released my aura, the chairs, tables, and then the entire room started vibrating from the purple energy which was coming from me.

This time I was releasing my aura by myself rather than it getting leaked so it had a colour and was visible this time.

Of course, I wasn't releasing my entire aura, or even with 2%, this castle will most probably collapse.

After a while, I stopped and pulled my aura back inside.

"What do you indent to show by this?" asked Mary who was until now listening to our conversation quietly.

"This was my aura; the aura of the demon lord I met was ten times bigger than this. You don't have a Hero on your side currently so you'll lose for certain as a Hero is the only person who can defeat a demon lord," she went quiet and didn't argue further.

"This was not the only reason, if this war happened eventually it will transform into the second Great war like three hundred years ago. If you attack the demon kingdom now, they will surely defeat you; once one country on the human's side is defeated other countries will come to give a helping hand as the opponent is the demon kingdom. Seeing this, it is possible that the elves and the beastpeople will join the side of the demon kingdom as they aren't treated that good by humans,"

"Slowly but surely this will turn into an all-out Great War," as I finished, both Zen and Mary were shocked.

After this, even if they rejected my idea, they'll probably think a thousand times before waging a war as by them starting a war can engulf the whole world in it. The pressure is too much if you ask me.

"So what do you want us to do?" asked Zen.

This is what I wanted to hear!

"I'm not saying to not kill the demon lord, she killed your father and it's natural that you want revenge, even I feel the same way. I'm just saying to not do it by war," I leaned back on the chair as I explained.

"What does that means? You aren't saying you want to assassinate the demon lord like she did, right?" lifting the brows he tried to confirm his doubts.

"I exactly mean that I guess, by assassinating her we can cover this up without a war," I said, after hearing this they were even more surprised, they can't even hide it now.

They are probably thinking that 'Is this guy mad!' or something like that. But keeping that aside, till now everything is proceeding according to the plan!

"Have you gone insane Haruto? How can we assassinate the demon lord when the entrance of humans is restricted in the demon kingdom?" said Mary in a loud voice as she smacked the table with her hands.

"That won't be a problem if you leave that to me, humans aren't allowed there but that isn't the full truth. Humans can go there, the trade routes are still open for everyone, if they weren't then the economical and financial state of the demon kingdom would be as low as a third rate city," I explained.

From here on, everything I say is purely my speculation as I don't have much information about the demon kingdom, but based on their reaction, what I was saying was probably true.

It's not that I don't have confidence in my theory but since I'm dealing with an international level problem here, I can't make a move unless I'm hundred percent sure about it.

"What do you say, I'll help if we are going to assassinate the demon lord?" I asked him, from the looks it looked like he was in deep thought.

"I can't say anything for sure right now, since this is a decision which involves the whole country's future, I alone don't have the right to decide. I'll first have to talk to the ministers and some other people," he replied.

Yeah, I expected this; we are not in an anime where he'll just accept everything I say.

"I'm okay with it, tell me when you have decided," I said as I stood up to leave.

When I was about to leave, stopping me midway he said, "Why don't you stay here till we decide about that matter? It will be easy to contact you this way?"

Well well, this was a little anime-like scenario. Maybe I should stay, I don't have an inn booked here anyway.

"Sure, since I arrived in the inner part of the city just to meet you, I don't have a place booked to stay, I'll be happy to stay here," because this was an anime-like situation, I copy-pasted an anime protagonists monologue here.

"It's settled then," he said as he stood up.

"I'll show you your room," said Mary.

I followed her as she left the room.

Till now everything was as planned, I'm confident that I'll get a green flag from the ministers also.

"Sight"

'I wonder if I would be living a wealthy life in my own world if I used my brain somewhere else instead of making a VRMMORPG for myself?' I wondered as I walked behind her.

Suddenly Mary turned around, as she wanted to say something.

"Haruto, I was thinking about this when you were talking with my brother. Why were you referring to us as 'You' or 'Humans'? Aren't you a human too?" she asked.

Oh shit!

I totally forgot about my speech pattern, I don't know how but since I become a demon, subconsciously my speech pattern has changed.

"Oh-Of-f-Of course I'm a human! I was just looking at the situation objectively that time, that's why I spoke like that!" I replied hurriedly.

To be honest I panicked for a second but then calmed down.

She nodded, seemingly satisfied by my answer. She turned back and led me to my room.