The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

"Who the hell are you calling a normie?! I'll dismantle you and sell you off as scrap! You goddamn piece of junk robot!"

After Kazuma Sato was healed by Aqua from his unconsciousness, he woke up screaming like a madman, as if he had dreamt something terrible while he was out.

"Kazuma, what are you being an idiot for?"

"Kazuma, did you have a nightmare?"

"Are you feeling unwell?"

Darkness and the others looked at him, while Kazuma Sato blankly looked around. After seeing the massive crater in the distance, he slowly sighed in relief and shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

The group rested here for a bit.

Soon, Kazuma Sato, noticing one of his companions was missing, curiously asked, "Where's Yunyun? Where did she go?"

"She went to the Home Guard Office," Darkness explained. "After all, we destroyed the Explosive Killer, who had been protecting the village all this time. We need to provide a proper explanation. Besides, explosion magic can easily cause a commotion, so…"

"I see, I understand."

Kazuma Sato realized, then fell into deep thought.

His inexplicable reaction made everyone feel that something was not quite right.

"Kazuma?"

"\n… No, sorry. Actually, when I was fighting the Explosive Killer, I heard some disturbing things."

"Hmm?"

The group exchanged glances.

Kazuma Sato, clutching his somewhat muddled head, carefully recalled the events and slowly said, "Detecting the Red Demon clan's maximum magic power. Because an individual with extraordinary magic power has been confirmed, it is determined that the modified human project has succeeded."

Uh…

Darkness opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

After all, the Red Demon clan were originally modified humans. This was an indisputable fact, and she felt neither shame nor anger, but rather a sense of normalcy.

"What's wrong?"

"… What do you mean, 'what's wrong?'"

Kazuma Sato stared at him in astonishment, seemingly not understanding why he was so calm.

However, since this concerned the Red Demon clan, or rather, something they didn't want outsiders to know, he naturally wouldn't go around proclaiming it.

"Not only that, but also, 'Sending the final data to the Noise Kingdom headquarters. Headquarters, please respond, the project is a success. Please, Master, accept this achievement…' I didn't hear the rest because I ran away, and then Megumin's explosion magic blew me away."

Kazuma Sato nodded just as seriously.

This caused Aqua and Megumin's expressions to change slightly, which only made Darkness, who was calm among the group, seem particularly out of place.

"Wait a minute, what's wrong with the Noise Kingdom?"

"Oh, right, Darkness, you wouldn't know."

The Noise Kingdom was the kingdom that created the Red Demon clan's old geezer subordinate. Besides modifying the Red Demon clan, he was also responsible for the kingdom's underground city, underground hangar, and the mobile fortress Destroyer, among other things.

Kazuma Sato and the others learned about that old geezer and the Noise Kingdom from the intercepted mobile fortress Destroyer, from a diary written by the man himself.

"Oh, is that so?"

"—Aren't you being too calm!?"

Kazuma Sato couldn't help but say this to Darkness, because Darkness seemed to have known about it for a long time. In fact, he was right, Darkness had known from the beginning, but had simply forgotten about the Noise Kingdom.

"I say, let's go explore! This is the best chance to get ahead of Yunyun and take the chieftain's seat!"

Megumin was a little excited, her eyes flushed red.

"You haven't forgotten, have you?" Darkness pushed away her panting face as she lunged forward. "Yunyun has already been confirmed as the next Red Demon clan chief. You have no chance anymore."

"Then I'll overthrow her rule!"

"Are you a revolutionary!? Besides, she hasn't even taken office yet! Speaking of which, Megumin, why are you so excited!?"

"Because I leveled up!"

She held up her adventurer's card for Darkness to see, Megumin had gained a lot of experience from defeating the Explosive Killer and had leveled up.

No wonder she was so excited.

Besides the Farmland Duck, which could provide a lot of experience, the Explosive Killer, which was powerful and gave a lot of experience but wouldn't attack the Red Demon clan, was also popular in another sense.

"… Megumin, I need to tell you. If you go there, you'll definitely regret it."

"What nonsense are you talking about? I won't regret it!"

She was already reckless.

Darkness helplessly spread her hands.

Originally, the group had planned to find Yunyun to go together. Regardless of whether Yunyun was useful or not, her title as the next clan chief would have given them access to all the hidden facilities.

However, as everyone knew, the Red Demon clan's seals, hidden facilities, and tombs were places that anyone could go to, so at Megumin's insistence, the group didn't wait for Yunyun.

Afterward, the group arrived next to the underground hangar they had explored before.

The exterior looked like a massive reinforced concrete building, out of place with the rural village of the Red Demon Village. It had an inexplicable cold aura, and something felt off.

Kazuma Sato stroked his chin.

Although he had been brought here before, now that he looked at it carefully…

Aqua tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "Kazuma, Kazuma."

"Yes, I'm Kazuma."

"This is a so-called research institute, right?"

"It should be a research institute, right?"

"—What are you two muttering about?" Megumin looked at the two suspiciously and asked curiously, "What's a research institute? You two sometimes say strange things."

No, they weren't strange things.

Rather, they weren't strange to Darkness.

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"Because it says 'Noise Development Bureau' on it, doesn't it?"

"Can you read it!?"

Megumin seemed quite surprised, but in fact, what was written on the sign was Japanese.

Darkness could also read it.

But for the Red Demon clan, such languages were everywhere, and like other Red Demon clan members who couldn't understand, they gradually stopped paying attention.

The Noise Kingdom was a great magical technology nation that created the Red Demon clan. Whether it was the content of the sign or the language used, such a mysterious facility was undoubtedly built by Japanese people with cheat abilities.

Kazuma Sato twitched his lips and looked at the idiot goddess beside him with an unkind expression.

"Hey, Aqua, the Explosive Killer was created by Japanese people with cheat abilities, right? Probably after that person created it, the Red Demon clan named it. I've been thinking since before, isn't most of the trouble in this world caused by you?"

"What are you talking about, you NEET!"

Aqua immediately retorted loudly after being accused.

"It's not my fault, it's the fault of the Japanese people who have no common sense! I just grant them power and send them here! But they give these monsters strange names, change the ecological environment, and spread strange languages and cultures. Japanese people should really restrain themselves a little!"

That's right, that's right.

Most people might think it was all Aqua's fault, that she gave these Japanese people cheats and let them wreak havoc here.

But in reality, besides receiving the chosen Japanese people and giving them cheats, she couldn't decide anything else.

Even the criteria for choosing people had nothing to do with her. What else could you expect from a receptionist?

… Of course, Darkness wasn't trying to excuse or whitewash her, such as the artifacts that were rampant in this world and not being recycled, which was her dereliction of duty and shouldn't have happened.

The two pointed fingers at each other.

Both felt wronged.

At this time, Megumin, who had already opened the door to the underground hangar, said impatiently to them, "Okay, okay, stop saying things I don't understand, and hurry up and go in. There will be many traps here, so be careful!"

She was really looking forward to what was to come, but she wondered what her expression would be like when her fantasies were shattered.

Kazuma Sato slammed his chest hard and said loudly, "Leave it to me. The trap detection skill I learned for this kind of situation will finally come in handy!"

"… Kazuma, you're really the kind of person who doesn't have any outstanding performances, but is useful in unexpected places."

"Mind your own business!"

He glared at Aqua with dead fish eyes.

"No, I think it's good," Darkness said with a smile. "The companions in the party are all reliable, so it's good to have someone like Kazuma, at least I welcome it."

"Darkness!"

"S-So… this should be a dangerous place like a maze, right? Kazuma, you don't have to be polite… Feel free to grope me here… And, and if you encounter danger, you can just abandon me… Being attacked by many traps and then abandoned… How wonderful!"

This guy is hopeless.

Kazuma Sato stared with dead fish eyes and came to the door, but was stopped by Megumin.

"First is the first trap. The door will suddenly open, but that's a trap to make people lower their guard, so be careful. It looks friendly, but it will close immediately one second after you pass!"

Although she said it seriously, what was in front of them was just a very ordinary automatic glass door.

At this time, Aqua also ran over.

"Hey Kazuma, can you leave the traps in this facility to me?"

"You're too greedy! I also want to avoid the traps gracefully and show off in front of Megumin!"

"What!? Is it a dangerous trap? Then leave it to me!"

Aqua, Kazuma Sato, and Darkness, the three of them began to compete in front of the glass door. If they didn't know better, they would have thought they were tragic good partners who were deciding who would go to die.

Darkness could only sigh, grab Megumin's hand, and stride forward.

"Don't be too relaxed! The front is a particularly dangerous area!"

"Ah! How treacherous!"

"Too cunning!"

Amidst the complaints of his companions, Darkness stepped into the facility first.