Hearing the name of the community, Pest widened her eyes in surprise.
"Is that so, I'll remember.....But the chance for you to confirm it is already too late. We've already acquired the permission, the permission for the game to restart. Of course, I've already put a bit of the disease on every participant's body. Which means that any thing beside Rock Eater, inorganic things or demon related, had already contracted the illness."
"Guu.........."
This was a devastating situation. If she cursed and spread the plague, the shortest time would only be 2 days.
If it was after a month, then the weaker races would die.
They decided that they would win without fighting.
"I.....I would like to suggest something to the judge master! They are suspected of deliberately concealing the game! Please have another deliberation....."
"That won't do! Sandra-sama! Even if the game had been interrupted before they even spread the plague, the host do not have the responsibility to say it. Having another deliberation will give them another reason to force us to give them more favorable win conditions....!"
Sandra swallowed her words back down.
Pest looked at the remorseful Sandra while smiling gleefully, before giving a suggestion to the participants:
"Can I confirm that the people present here are the participant's main strength?"
"................"
"Master, I think this is a correct inference."
Answering as a representative for the participants was Weser.
"Then this is a good proposal—I say everyone, If everyone here as well as Shiroyasha joins our community [Grimm Grimoire Hamelin], we can let off the other communities!"
"What!"
"I have seen you in a new light, after all, Sandra is very cute and Jin is very smart."
"Master, the red-clothed girl I caught is quite awesome too♪"
Ratten fawned over those words, everyone from [No Name] changed their expression.
"Then we'll include that girl as well, the game can be stopped then. Since you can exchange with all the participants lives, it should be a very cheap substitution right?"
Pest smiled sweetly, cutely tilting her head.
But there was a different meaning hidden under that smile.
This girl had already previously announced, [If you don't serve me everyone will die].
This was very creepy, the child-like beautiful smile that made everyone speechless.
However Izayoi and Jin calmly analysed the situation.
"......This is a report from Shiroyasha-sama, [Grimm Grimoire Hamelin] is a newly formed community right?"
"We are not obliged to answer that."
Immediately replying back was Pest, whose reaction was extremely unnatural.
Izayoi immediately realized this point and continued chasing.
"So that's how it is, a new community, that's why the desire for excellent people is strong."
".............."
"Hey, this kind of silence will mean that you don’t deny it, is that alright, Demon Lord-sama?"
Izayoi who exposed them let out a provocative smile. Pest kept her smile and stared at Izayoi while frowning.
"......So what? This reason is not enough for us to take back what we said."
"No, it is a reason. Because you want to get us in a situation where nobody gets hurt. If we ignore the participants for one month, we will all die...............Is that right, Sandra?"
"Eh? Ah.....Yeah."
With a sudden question being imposed on herself, Sandra replied back on reflex.
Although she panickingly tried to revise her answer, Jin did not listen to her and continued to speak:
"That's right, [If we all die then you won't get any human talent] so you chose to negotiate right at this moment. Because you cannot bear with all the talented people dying after 30 days."
Jin categorically said it out. Although the reason was only limited to this, he held absolute confidence in his reasoning.
Even so, Pest responded out disapprovingly:
"I will say it once more, so what? We have the rights to decide the date for the game to restart. Even if it's not 1 month........20 days, 20 days are only needed to kill all the participants......"
"Then we will just kill the participants who have symptoms showing."
Everyone was startled by that, turning back to look at Mandra. His eyes were indeed serious.
"No exceptions, even if it's Sandra or the [Highborn of Little Garden].....or even me will all suffer the same fate. All the comrades from Floor Master [Salamandra] will absolutely not show any weakness to any Demon Lord!"
Everyone was stunned. Even if it was a lie, this was still an overly aggressive announcement.
A virtual light bulb appeared on Izayoi's head, who picked out the next step after Mandra's speech.
"Kuro Usagi, can the rules still be changed now?"
"Eh.....Ah, YES!"
Kuro Usagi also seemed to have realised something, whose rabbit ears were on ends.
"Let's negotiate, [Black Percher]. We will agree to add in a rule of [No killing or suicidal deaths] if we begin the game 3 days later. "
"Rejected, 2 weeks."
The opposition fired back a rejection, but 2 weeks was still too long.
With all the pieces fitted together like a puzzle, the most ideal time would be one week. Izayoi let his gaze wander around to find something negotiable, at the time when his gaze met Kuro Usagi's.
"In the current game, what's your standing, Kuro Usagi?"
"Even though Kuro Usagi is the festival's participant, but as a referee I cannot participate in games within 15 days.....But if I had the host's permission then it's a different matter."
"Okay, then we will use that! Demon Lord-sama, Kuro Usagi isn't a participant so you can't recruit her during the game. But if you let Kuro Usagi be a participant then it will be a good opportunity. How about this condition?