Rem came rushing over.
「Are you alright!?」
Diablo nodded.
「There are no problems with me at all. It’s at the level of having played around a bit.」
「……To think that you would win against that Galford……Moreover, in such an exhausted state……You truly are amazing.」
It was enough to make Diablo want to make a guts pose but──keeping it Demon King-like, he humbly smiled.
「That’s only natural.」
He saw Shera rush over to Kiira’s corpse.
Diablo thought about heading over there as well but……
──I’m so tired that even walking is annoying.
It was enough that he wanted to go to sleep just like this.
Rem asked Diablo a question.
「Um……Do you have any potions leftover……?」
「Mu? Did you get injured?」
「No, that’s not it……I wanted you to use them on the Elves……」
──True, there looked like there were a lot of guys that could be saved if they had potions.
Diablo took out some HP Recovery Potions from his pouch. They were the ones that he made that morning.
However, a Demon King throwing away his private property in an act of mercy wouldn’t match his appearance.
「Let me see……Come to think of it, I had some things that I thought about experimenting with. They are potions that were too weak and would be useless to me even if I were to use them. Oi, go test them out to see if they are usable.」
Rem accepted the potion tubes.
「……As I thought, you really are kind.」
Diablo shouted at her to hide his embarrassment.
「You fool! If you keep saying such worthless things, I’ll erase you together with this forest!」
「……Since I can’t bear to be erased, I will be treating the Elves.」
Rem smiled.
As expected, she had seen through him. Having been together this long, it might have been inevitable.
Diablo breathed a sigh.
「Hurry up and go. While I haven’t changed my mind.」
「……Yes. About Shera, I leave her to you.」
She ran off to the direction of the injured Elves.
──That’s right. I need to go over to Shera.
This time, Alicia came to talk to him.
「I’m sure that Lord Galford will make a report that is disadvantageous to you, Diablo-sama……Was that really alright?」
She had a serious expression.
──Is she telling me to kill him? As I thought, since there are knights in this world, their feelings are a bit different from mine.
He thought that it was hard to say that Galford was a “scoundrel”.
To begin with, it was Kiira’s reckless actions that were the cause of things falling into such a situation.
He thought that Galford’s high-handedness was cruel, and that there were many various ways of thinking other than thinking there was a need to kill Kiira.
However, Galford acted not in self-interest, but “for the sake of protecting the Human country”.
Diablo only kicked him about after challenging him. He had no intent on judging him as good or evil. It’s not like he was God, and he didn’t have such an outstanding right or duty.
In Galford, and in the Elves, in the end, they both their rights and wrongs. That is probably what the thing called war is.
──As I thought, I don’t like war.
Even in terms of labor, he’s had enough of fighting with the national armed forces.
However, showing his timidness might become an opening that would be taken advantage of.
Diablo informed Alicia.
「I am neither a god nor a watchman of the law. I am a Demon King. I kill the people I feel like killing, I let people live if I feel like letting them live. As a result, if the King or whatever believes in Galford’s words, makes light of your words, Alicia, and has hostility with me, then I simply have to massacre this country.」
Half was a threat, half was the truth, that is how it could be summed up as.
If Galford had used soldiers in the middle of the fight, even for him, it might have been impossible to fight without killing. Since he only had a small amount of MP remaining, it would have been more reliable to go with a single shot of a wide range attack magic rather than making a large group powerless without killing them.
If the King really were to come with hostility and send the whole Lifelia Kingdom’s army at him, he would have no choice but to fight with the intent of massacring them.
If they craved for peace, not resisting was probably for the best.
──Letting myself get killed without killing anyone?
He wouldn’t become that much of a saint. Actually, he didn’t think he would be able to agree with things turning into that situation.
Alicia nodded.
「Diablo-sama, I now understand your thoughts. This time, I will endeavor to make it so that a war does not occur between you and the Lifelia Kingdom.」