The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

Just stepped through the glass door.

【The area ahead is a sterile room. Please change into a dustproof suit.】

Such an announcement came from the room. It wasn't a cold, mechanical voice, but a rather sweet and cute young girl's voice. It seems the old geezer who built this facility really knows how to enjoy life.

“Yunyun, did you guys hear that!?”

Megumin excitedly tugged at his sleeve.

“That was a mysterious warning sound, saying that if we want to continue forward, we must first find the ‘FangChenFu’ equipment. In reality, as long as you enter the small room ahead, a strong wind will blow. Right now, it's just ordinary wind, but in the past, to prevent intruders without ‘FangChenFu’, it probably released poisonous gas…!”

After entering the small room before the sterile room, Darkness took the lead in blocking the vent, making a gesture of intercepting the poisonous gas to protect her companions, causing Kazuma Satou and Aqua to laugh.

Darkness scratched her head, not understanding why, and was also visibly disappointed that no poisonous gas was released, leaving everyone speechless.

After that, the group entered the sterile room.

Then they saw the conveyor belts lined up, like some kind of exaggerated machine…

“That is the terrifying trap that has harmed countless people.”

Megumin looked warily at the conveyor belt, while taking out her magic wand and preparing for battle, “That vicious trap will devour anyone who stands on it. Although it has already been defeated, we still can't let our guard down!”

“What!? Then I can't just sit idly by!”

Darkness shouted and then pounced on it, lying motionless on the conveyor belt.

“…What are you doing?”

“Doesn't this monster devour people into its body? S-So… Haa… Haa… Amazing!”

“Hey, enough!”

Kazuma Satou dragged the blushing perverted female crusader up, and also saw the words engraved next to the conveyor belt.

“This seems to be some kind of assembly line…”

“It says 【GameGirl Assembly Line】 on it.”

Aqua said softly after examining it carefully. Then, she rummaged around at the end of the conveyor belt, seemingly wanting to find a fully assembled game console there.

Megumin gasped.

“In other words, this makes something out of what it sucks in? …Could it be us Crimson Demons? Am I perhaps approaching an untouchable truth… Is this what Yunyun was talking about, that I would definitely regret it?”

“…No, not yet.”

Yunyun twitched his lips, indicating to Megumin, who was having a fit of chuunibyou, that it was still far too early.

Kazuma Satou also said: “I think this is probably making toys.”

“The toy that was found in the underground hangar.” Aqua's face lit up, and she held up a game console and said loudly, “Look, Kazuma! What did I find!?”

“Oh, oh, oh! That's great! Now we won't have to fight all the time because we don't have enough game consoles!”

The two cheered for this.

Only gamers can understand.

On the other side, facing the two who immediately answered, Megumin showed a somewhat lonely expression.

“You two don't need to mind me. We are a manufactured race, created by people, deviating from the will of the gods… Our ancestors must have been created here…”

The members of our party really have problems!

Aqua looked compassionate, gently put her arm around Megumin, and said softly: “In the name of Aqua, the goddess of wisdom and water, I allow your strange race to exist, after all, the Crimson Demons are very interesting.”

“Please don't call us a strange race!”

Megumin pushed her away with some grief and indignation.

At this time, Yunyun and Kazuma Satou began to wander around, trying to find some useful information, such as the diary of the old geezer who created the Crimson Demons, and the same experimental notes as before.

At this moment, Kazuma Satou suddenly noticed a solitary machine in the depths of the facility.

Taking a closer look—

“Hey, Aqua! It's a gacha machine! There's actually a gacha machine in this kind of place!”

“Oh my! It really is a gacha machine!”

“Do you guys know what that box is?”

Darkness and Megumin walked over, both with puzzled expressions.

“This is a gacha machine.” Kazuma Satou touched the machine as if reminiscing, and said: “If you put in a coin, a capsule will come out, and you might even win a grand prize. Although I don't know why there is such a thing, it really brings back memories.”

“…I don't really understand what you're saying, but this is a machine for children to play with, right? Then it has nothing to do with the secret of the Crimson Demons' birth.”

Megumin lost interest.

While Kazuma Satou and Yunyun were immersed in emotion, Aqua, who was fiddling with the box, seemed to have discovered something.

“Hey, look. It says 【Limited Time Only, Crimson Demon Modification Rights Included】, look here!”

“Really! 【First Prize · Prototype PlayScation】, 【Second Prize · GameGirlColor】, 【Third Prize · Crimson Demon Modification Rights】… Megumin, what are you doing?”

However, Megumin didn't say anything, she just silently scraped off all the words.

See, I told you.

Coming here will definitely be regretted.

I thought the secret origin of the Crimson Demons would be something grand or unsettling in the past, but I didn't expect that they were created jokingly, and even relied on gacha—a third prize that is no different from a consolation prize.

“You didn't see anything, okay?”

“It's not okay at all, but forget it. Remember to buy me sparkling sake to drink next time.”

Aqua took the opportunity to make a request.

Kazuma Satou sighed and said: “Don't erase the past of the Crimson Demons… Yunyun, are you just going to let her do this?”

“—What do you want me to say?”

“…Sorry.”

He had obviously noticed it too. Yunyun, being a Crimson Demon, knew that she was merely a product of the gacha machine, which couldn't have tasted good, no matter how you put it.

Darkness, on the other hand, was full of anticipation, wanting to be transformed into a Crimson Demon as well.

"Is that alright, Darkness?" Megumin asked, sounding somewhat threatening. "You should know that becoming a Crimson Demon requires going through an incredibly difficult step!"

"…What is it?"

"Engraving a special pattern on a secret part of your body!"

Although she said it seriously, Kazuma and Aqua covered their mouths while their shoulders shook, showing how hard they were trying not to laugh.

Enough, Megumin, stop talking!

Yunyun also felt a little embarrassed.

Aqua looked at the gacha machine and said, "But what a pity."

"What's a pity?"

"Why didn't they make a pachinko machine?"

"…Huh?"

"I've been wondering about it for a while now. Why isn't there a pachinko machine? Not even in that gambling superpower, Elroad?"

The idiot goddess was starting to complain.

But was she serious? Pachinko machines had poisoned Japan for over 30 years, a virus-like existence that routinely ruined families, leaving people bankrupt and divorced.

If such a game machine were introduced to this world, humanity might destroy itself without the Demon King's army even needing to lift a finger.

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"Alright, alright, let's forget about that."

Kazuma signaled them not to waste time there and to quickly look for other clues, saying that there might be more funny… ahem, origin secrets related to the Crimson Demons. So, everyone enthusiastically started a treasure hunt.

After that, the group continued to explore the facility, but still couldn't find any clues about the Explosion Maniac. It seemed that the Explosion Maniac wasn't assembled or modified here.

"So, the only thing we figured out is that Yunyun and Megumin's ancestors came out of a gacha machine…"

"Wait a minute, there's a problem with that statement. At least change it to 'transformation rights'."

Megumin said, sounding a little exasperated.

In the end, the group didn't find anything worthwhile in the facility. It seemed to be just an insignificant game machine factory, without even a record of the old geezer who created the Crimson Demons.

"…I'm saying, could it be that the Crimson Demons are actually a byproduct of game machines…?"

"Darkness, I'm going to get angry!"

The companions seemed to have found the truth.

Honestly, Yunyun couldn't be sure either. After all, as a matter of common sense, inventions that improve living standards, such as telephones, loudspeakers, and radio stations, are actually byproducts of weapons.

The Crimson Demons might also have been created by chance. After all, that old geezer's initial goal was to build a factory here because he wanted to play game machines.

"Yunyun, your expression is weird."

"…It's nothing. I just think that you shouldn't overthink anything, because the things you want to know might give you hilarious answers from unexpected places."

"I deeply understand that."

Kazuma's common sense was gradually being modified, just like Yunyun's.

"— — — — Yay, I won!"

At that moment, Aqua suddenly shouted excitedly. She hopped towards Yunyun and the others, holding a gacha capsule in her hand.

"You won?"

"It's even a first prize!"

Aqua unfolded the slip of paper that came with the capsule—the one that said [First Prize: Prototype PlayScation]—just as she said.

"Oh, oh, oh, not bad, Aqua!"

"Hmph, that's only natural! I am a goddess, after all! …It's just a pity that I didn't see where that game is."

Then, she regretfully threw away the capsule.

Seeing her play like that, Kazuma and the others became quite interested and ran to the gacha machine to play. Then—

"Third prize?"

"I got third prize too."

"What a coincidence, I also got third prize."

Kazuma and the others all got third prize: Crimson Demon transformation rights, which made Aqua hum triumphantly.

"My luck is just too good!"

"Good luck? You?"

Kazuma stared dumbfounded at the self-praising idiot goddess. This girl's luck had always been the worst, so how could she have good luck?

"I'm saying, Aqua, have you ever thought about a problem?"

"What? You're not jealous, so you want to find an excuse for yourself, are you?"

"I'm not that bored. But have you considered that, for the average person, a useless game machine is obviously not as good as Crimson Demon transformation rights, right? After all, that's a Crimson Demon."

"…Ah!"

It seemed that the idiot goddess had also realized it.

There's no need to elaborate on how strong the Crimson Demons are, from those who can single-handedly take on Demon Kings, Divine Beasts, and Calamity-class monsters, to those who can use magic for laundry, cooking, and pest control. Their application of magic is terrifyingly strong.

In this dangerous world, Crimson Demon transformation rights are obviously better.

"So, Aqua, you…"

"I don't believe it! Yunyun! You haven't drawn yet, hurry, draw one! Quickly use your luck, which is even better than Kazuma's, to prove that this time it's my good luck!"

"—What kind of twisted logic is that!"

Kazuma scolded the foolish goddess, but he also looked at Yunyun, seemingly wanting to know what the luckiest person in the party would draw.

Under the gaze of her companions, Yunyun had no choice but to casually draw one.

"…What is this?"

"Is it a treasure orb?"

"It looks so strange."

Yunyun held a pure white orb in her hands, its shimmering light looking somewhat sacred, the vast magical power it contained seeming to purify the air.

And Yunyun's expression became strange.

"I'm saying, everyone, I have a bad feeling— — — —"

Before she could finish speaking, she was sucked into a black hole.