I don't want to be a heroic spirit

Chapter 280 Monsters that Pretend to Be Girls (30/31)

"Alice, do you live in the capital?"

At this moment, the three of them were walking on a path in the forest, and Youyou suddenly asked this question.

"Because... Alice and Miss Nero are not like ordinary people at all... and... Huihui said so before."

Youyou is also a Crimson Demon, and her intelligence is not low, but there is always Huihui who is smarter than her, so she seems a little stupid.

And... if you are too smart, it will be difficult to make friends, so Youyou often pretends to be a fool.

"Even if they are not from the Dustinis family... Alice and Miss Nero must be the daughters of other nobles, right?"

Nero could feel Alice's gaze, so he must not know what to do, right?

But Nero knew that there was no need to explain... Youyou said this after he had the answer.

Yunyun should have gotten the answer a few days ago, and the reason why she is saying this now is because...

"Will you... return to the capital one day?"

Faced with this question, Nero and Alice looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Because it is certain.

Alice must return to the capital.

Although she finally persuaded Darkness to temporarily hide it from Claire and the others and postpone the date of her return for a few days.

But it is almost time to reach the limit.

Especially after getting the news that the Demon King's Army cadres appeared nearby, Darkness wanted Alice to return to the capital more urgently, and she would urge Nero to send Alice back when they met.

She didn't seem to want Alice to run into the Demon King's Army cadres, even though Alice's combat power was not worse than that of the Demon King's Army cadres.

"Really..."

Nero and Alice did not give an answer, but this was precisely the most irrefutable answer.

Yunyun's expression revealed a bit of sadness and loneliness that was hard to ignore, but in the end she still forced a smile.

"You also have a reason to go back... Maybe you sneaked out, right? If you don't go back, it will be bad if your family members worry."

She should be the one who hates parting the most, but she comforted Nero and Alice instead.

Nero knew how much Youyou had hoped to have a partner to go on adventures and chat with in the past, and how much she liked this team now.

"Yes... yes! Alice, I saw a store selling magic tools a few days ago, and there are some very good goods in it..."

Youyou took the initiative to find Alice and started chatting. The topic just now seemed to have never appeared, and the heavy atmosphere was slightly relieved.

However, something invisible did change.

Nero walked in front and looked up at the direction of the sun.

"Looks like we might not be able to catch lunch when we get to town."

"It's okay, at most we can eat lunch and dinner later, so it won't affect it."

"Take dinner as a midnight snack? It's okay once in a while."

The three of them were still on their way. This path in the forest was usually used by merchants' carriages, so the chance of encountering monsters was much smaller, and it was also much easier to walk.

Of course, it's just "the chance of encountering monsters is much smaller" instead of "no monsters". Even the business road leading to the capital can't say that there will be no monsters.

Nero, who was walking in the front and responsible for vigilance, was suddenly touched by the sharp senses of his servant, and the laziness in his eyes was replaced by seriousness.

"Huh? There seems to be someone in front?"

On a protruding rock not far away, a green-haired girl was sitting on it, smiling and waving at Nero and the others.

"Why is there someone here? And a little girl like this..."

"Hey, she seems to be injured, I can't just leave her alone..."

The girl's right ankle was wrapped in a bloody bandage, and she kept looking at her ankle, frowning, and showing a painful expression.

When Nero and the others came over, the girl looked at them with a pitiful expression.

Just looking at her like this would make you want to protect her strongly.

"Hey, what should we do? It seems that we don't know how to restore magic, and we don't have any healing potions..."

The kind-hearted Alice and Youyou have already walked in front of the green-haired girl, wanting to treat the wound on her foot but having no way to do it.

"If...if it's Sister Nero, there must be a way, right? Sister Nero can do everything, so she must be able to use recovery magic, right?"

Alice placed her hope on Nero, but Nero was more concerned about other things.

Nero observed the girl in front of him.

The girl in front of him didn't seem to be a human, but a monster.

Whether it was the stone she was sitting on, or the clothes and bandages on her body, they were all part of her, that is, mimicry.

"Sister Nero! Sister Nero! She seems to be in pain..."

"Look carefully, she is not a human but a monster, the bandages and wounds on her body are all mimicry."

Nero's words still worked, Alice and Youyou subconsciously took a step back, looking at the girl with a bit of vigilance in their eyes.

This is probably because of trust. If it was Kazuma's team that encountered the girl-like monster in front of them, and it was Kazuma who said "this girl is a monster", the others would probably beat Kazuma up to protect the monster.

"... Hey, she seems to be about to cry."

Being stared at by the girl monster with tears in the corners of her eyes with pleading eyes, Alice and Youyou softened their hearts even though they knew that she was a monster.

"She looks so pitiful... Is she really a monster?"

"It doesn't matter even if she is a monster, right? Maybe she is a monster that is completely harmless to humans? After all, she is so pitiful, and it doesn't seem like she would hurt humans..."

The two began to waver in their attitude towards the girl monster again.

Just at this time, the other party actually spoke with a voice so small that it was almost inaudible, like a child's unfluent pronunciation.

"... Are you going to kill me...?"

Her hands were clasped together in front of her chest, as if she was begging for something. She sat on the rock and looked up at the few people, tears in her eyes, and she couldn't stop trembling.

I believe that anyone with a little conscience will feel like being stabbed in the heart when seeing the other person's begging eyes.

"I'm sorry! Sister Nero... I can't do it..." Alice put down her weapon first and looked at Nero sadly, "I can't force myself to kill such a poor child..."

Chapter 281 Demon King Army Cadre Headless Knight (31/31)

Even if you know that the girl in front of you is a monster, humans are still visual animals after all, plus that extra compassion.

A beautiful girl looks at you with her big watery eyes full of pleading. I believe that there are really not many people who can be cruel enough to kill the other person in this situation.

Just at this time, the girl monster spoke again, and the ethereal and empty voice was heard by Nero and others.

"It looks so painful... I'm sorry... It's all because... I live in this world..."

With a weak smile, it said so.

"It's all because... I'm a monster... It's all because... I'm living... It's a kind of trouble..."

"This is the first time in my life... I'm communicating with humans like this..."

As if praying, it clenched its hands in front of its chest.

As if it accepted its fate calmly, it raised its head and closed its eyes, revealing its neck.

"Thank you... It's so nice to meet you..."

"If... I can reincarnate... I hope... I can... become a human..."

"Become friends... with you..."

Then, Youyou also cried.

"She said she wanted to be friends with me! She said she wanted to be friends with me! Woohoo!"

Youyou's intelligence is not low, but she is unexpectedly brainless when talking about topics related to friends.

It seems that Alice and Youyou are going to let this girl monster go.

Is it harder to hurt a girl with a more conscientious person?

Looking at the girl monster who closed her eyes as if she had made a decision, Nero...

Cut off her head with a sword and burned her body to ashes.

Is there really anyone who thinks Nero is such a compassionate and kind person?

She is Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, a notorious tyrant whose life was decorated with conspiracy and poison.

She poisoned her mother, forced her mentor to death, and brutally killed all the nobles who resisted her. She is a rose flower stained with blood.

Under the land next to the girl monster, Nero and his friends dug out a corpse with only bones and clothes left.

Alice and Youyou only then realized that what the girl monster said just now was all a lie to them.

"Look carefully, this guy is not the monster that you think is harmless to humans, and what she said just now is all false."

"If you are soft-hearted this time, more travelers may become the nutrients of this monster and sacrifice themselves. Do you think you can take responsibility for your soft-heartedness this time and the deaths of those people?"

Nero scolded Alice and Youyou, hoping that they can deeply understand their mistakes through this lesson.

The name of this girl monster is Anle Girl, an extremely bad monster that preys on humans by taking advantage of human sympathy.

It is said that an adventurer once killed a Anle Girl cruelly, and since then he has been depressed.

Anle Girls basically have no means of attack. Because they are rooted in the ground, they cannot move. They can only tempt others to eat their fruits. This fruit contains neurotoxins, which not only cannot fill the stomach, but also cause the eater to transmit hunger, sleepiness, pain and other physical danger signals to be blocked, so that the eater gradually weakens and dies in the company of Anle Girl.

Because there are constantly elderly adventurers going to the habitat of this monster in search of a comforting death, this monster is named Anle Girl.

It is said that there is a monster in the depths of the forest that is more powerful than the ordinary Anle Girl, called Anle Queen, and its habitat is also regarded as a suicide sanctuary.

The guild certainly hopes to put an end to this kind of thing, but there have always been commissions to defeat Anle Queen, and it is not that no one has accepted it, but those adventurers who have accepted the commission all gave up the task after seeing Anle Queen because they felt it was too cruel, which also gave the guild members a headache.

These were the information that Nero and the others learned from the staff of the Adventurer's Guild after they returned to the Guild.

And now, they just came out of the forest.

"After this plain, we reach Axel."

"I have never walked this far..."

There is no cover on the plain, because the presence of Demon King Army cadres and even those giant frogs are missing.

The walls of Axel can already be seen from here.

"Sister Nero, there seem to be a lot of people over there..."

Alice said this, and Nero naturally saw it more clearly than she did.

In front of Axel's gate, Nero saw many familiar faces, all of them adventurers who had appeared in the guild.

At this moment, these adventurers were all gathered together, and each of them brought their own equipment, looking like they were ready for battle.

The scene was almost the same during the previous great migration of cabbage.

The protagonist group and others were also in the crowd, except Megumin.

Megumin was at the front of the crowd, talking to a being wearing pitch black armor.

Although she could see the scene in the distance, Nero couldn't hear what they were saying. She only had the skill [clairvoyance] but not [wind ear].

"That... seems to be the Headless Horseman."

The jet-black armor was held in its arms by the head that should have been around the neck, and an undead war horse was at its crotch.

Indeed, it looks a lot like the Headless Horseman in horror stories, but...

"I remember that the Headless Horseman was not riding a wolf? His name was Hessian Robert."

"Why does the Headless Horseman ride a wolf? Moreover, the Headless Horseman's name is Beldia, not Hessian Robert, and he is one of the cadres of the Demon King's Army."

There are always battles with the Demon King's Army in the capital, so Alice knows the Demon King's Army very well, especially the information about the Demon King's Army cadres who have appeared.

However, if the other party is a cadre of the Demon King's Army...what is Megumin talking to it?

Could it be that Megumin has finally put her idea of ​​"using explosive magic in the Demon King's Castle" into action?