I was able to drag his highness outside.
According to his highness Dantalian, it has been four months since he had last gone out. Ever since Riff’s adventurer group had invaded, he had shut himself in the cave.
By any chance, was his highness Dantalian not a Demon Lord but a vampire? I could believe this kind of nonsense right now. One could only be astonished by his highness’ laziness.
“T-The sun, it’s too strong……!”
As soon as we had left the cave, his highness screamed.
Covering his face with his arms, he sunk to the floor. …… Are you a ghoul? Are you the type of undead whose flesh melted when under the sun?
What was worse was that it wasn’t even the afternoon. It was the evening. The beautiful glow of the setting sun was floating in the sky. Even ghouls with rotten innards would move around energetically during this time of the day. As soon as I had pointed that fact out to his highness, his highness gave me a serious look.
“How ignorant. Originally, people as weary of life as I am find even the setting sun to be blinding and overwhelming.”
“That speech may be nice, but the actions done by your highness are the worst.”
I still can’t believe it that well.
Was this lazy man truly ‘the’ Dantalian that had vastly toyed with the Keuncuska Firm? It wasn’t some mistake, right?
A sigh drifted out of my mouth. That was the 21st sigh today. I should be cautious to not let this become a habit.
“……Originally, using teleportation magic would be the fastest method of transportation. However, because of the plague outbreak, all cities have placed a ban on teleportation. We will be using a different method.”
“How splendid. To be quickly trying to put countermeasures for the disease, that shows how competent the city management are. I give them my respect. And in that sense, I shall wait patiently for the ban to be lifted.”
His highness turned his back and tried to move towards the cave entrance.
However, without being able to take two steps, he stopped. I had grabbed hold of his highness’ cloak beforehand.
“This one will never let your highness go.”
“Damned forever-on-her-period succubus.”
“It does not matter if your highness swears at this one. Does your highness know how many hours it took to drag your highness all the way here?”
“Uuuuh……”
“It does not matter if your highness makes a pitiable face as well. In the first place, a pitiful expression does not fit your highness. Please restrain yourself from ever doing so again since there is the danger that it will cause the on-looking party to vomit.”
“You really are excessively honest!?”
I pulled out a pocket watch and checked the time.
Since teleportation magic wasn’t possible, I had called witches.
The Berbere sisters. They were one of the 5 talented groups in the demon world. Although, in this day and age, broom travel had become an antique due to teleportation magic, there was no other choice. You had to make do with what you could get……
“They should be arriving soon.”
The pocket watch pointed towards 11 hours and 55 minutes.
This clock interlocked with the other party’s pocket watch. It displayed when the other party would arrive. This was an essential magical tool for busy merchants.
The starting point was 12 o’clock on the dot. The further they were from your location, the time would change accordingly. If it was 11:55 then it meant that they were 5 minutes away. The witches were going to arrive within 5 minutes.
And sure enough.
The sound of a song could be heard. It felt like it came from the sky, but it also felt like it was coming from across the forest that was spread out in front of the cave.
“A dream world, we drift into the magical sky.
Spin, all and everything will spin.
The planets will spin, the shooting stars will spin, everything will spin.
Hand in hand, us witches will also spin.
You thrice, I thrice, once more we spin thrice.
Get along and add it together and we’d have spun three hundred thirty-three times.”
The chorus grew closer.
At first, it appeared like winter geese were flying across the sky. Except, they were too large to be called geese. In truth, the wings were a cape, and the beak was a broom.
Taak
12 witches landed gracefully.
All of the witches, in perfect sync, knelt down.
“Sacred and inviolable representative that symbolizes absolute dignity, one of the 72 lords that commands an army of demons.”
Amongst them, the witch that seemed to be the leader spoke.