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The forest at night was pitch dark.
Diablo defeated Sorami, and chased after Rem’s group but……
──I can’t see anything!
The Elves, Pantherians, and Dwarfs had eyes that worked in the dark.
However, Demons only had perceptual abilities that were on the same level as Humans.
He felt like he would crash into a standing tree if he were to run.
Thinking that it would be better than this, he went above the trees of the forest with 《Flight Magic》.
With there being moonlight, he was somehow able to gaze at the sea of trees.
However, now that it had come to this, since he couldn’t tell any of the markings within the forest, he couldn’t find the Kobold settlement.
As he was holding his head, a pillar of fire was raised in the distance.
──Was that the enemy’s magic!?
He flew with all of his power.
However, even so, it wasn’t like he was several times faster than he would be on foot. Once it had reached almost one hour, it looked as though most of the fighting had finished.
The forest was burning.
「《Weather Rain》!」
Diablo waved on hand, and had a magic rain precipitate.
This region also had a rainy season, so rain clouds immediately sprung forth, and loosely wet the ground.
The flames that were burning the trees of the forest steadily became smaller.
There was someone that stood stock still within the rain.
Her appearance was different but……
「Rem!」
Diablo called her name.
She looked towards him.
「Ahh, you……truly came, at a good time.」
「Is that so? It looks as though the fight has already ended though. Are you talking about putting out the fires of the forest?」
Rem nodded.
「……Indeed, if they were left alone, it would have been a horrible tragedy.」
「That appearance……what happened?」
Her appearance, it was close to what he had seen her wearing before. It resembled the outward appearance she had when she was dominated by the Great Demon King Modinalaam.
「……It is a change of mind, if I were to say that──would you laugh?」
「Could it be, you weren’t dominated by a Demon King again, were you?」
Rem ended up making a pensive look.
「……Although you aren’t right, you aren’t far off. However, this time, it wasn’t that a Demon King entered me, but my mental attitude is affecting it.」
「What kind of mental attitude is it?」
「Troublingly enough.」
「Umu」
Rem’s eyes shone red.
「……It’s a want, to kill you……then die myself.」
*Ba!* She stuck her right hand out, and pressed her palm on the left side of Diablo’s chest.
It was right where Sorami had pierced him.
The cloth torn there.
Rem’s hand was directly touching his skin.
Through that, he was able to sense her Kikou (Radiance Light).
A temperature that seemed to be boiling.
A fierce storm.
And then, what he could feel, was a sadness, strong enough that it felt like it would pull even his own emotions into it.
She was crying.
A Rem who was crying alone in a dark room──
Diablo visually hallucinated that sort of Kikou.
He had noticed, that he had betrayed her.
The side doing the hurting wouldn’t know just how much the other party was hurting. Even though Diablo himself should have deeply, deeply known that sort of thing……
The Kikou that coiled around Rem was too colossal. If it was the currently defenseless Diablo, she might be able to fatally wound him with a single attack.
And then, he also sensed the intent of an attack.
Nevertheless, Diablo remained safe. She didn’t fire a single technique at him.
──Why, didn’t she do anything?
From behind Rem, there was someone that hugged her.
It was Shera.
「You can’t. You can’t, do something like that, Rem.」
Hugging Rem from behind, her body was trembling. Her voice was also trembling.
Looking closely, Shera wasn’t uninjured either.
Her usual clothes were torn, and were wet with blood.
Rem muttered.
「……I know that. I haven’t lost my senses that much.」
「Really?」
「……Well now, I wonder about that? If you hadn’t gotten in my way, I might have really fired.」
From Shera’s eyes, tears spilled out, and went along her cheeks.
Those transparent drops, fell onto Rem’s black hair.
「You can’t, do anything terrible to Diablo.」
「……I am resolved, to not be forgiven by you.」
「That’s not it. If you were to do something like that──Rem, you’d also start crying.」
「……As usual, you are.」
「Everyone would be sad.」
「……Yes, since I, think that I wouldn’t forgive myself either, that is why, with my own hands.」
Shera gasped.
「That’s strange! The one saying that sort of thing, it isn’t Rem! The Rem right now, as I thought, it’s somehow, different!」
「……That might be true.」
「Return to normal, Rem.」
「Fuuuu……」
Rem took a deep breath.
*Ban!* A popping sound was made.
As if she were sent flying, Shera fell onto her backside to the ground.
「Ow!?」
To think that she would shake Shera off!
Rem’s eyes became cloudy. While she was crying, they were also filled with a silent anger.
「……Saying something so selfish. You’re telling me to go back, to such……to where I just endure every day!」
Diablo gritted his back teeth.
He breathed out.
This own fight, was right here. A fight where no sort of Maximum Magic would work.
「Rem, as I thought, you were made to endure. By me.」
「……Saying that at this late point in time.」
「I’m sorry.」
「……The one in the wrong, isn’t you, Diablo. It’s my own feelings.」
That’s wrong.
The fact that she held affection for him, he was happy about it.
He was still perplexed by it though. He was also worried that someone like him wasn’t worthy of it though. To begin with, he himself wasn’t able to declare how he felt about it though.
Making Rem feel despair, was Diablo’s mistake.
「Well, it is……pretty late.」
「……」
However, no matter how bad the situation is, that isn’t a reason to give up.
Diablo took the rings out from his pouch.
「It truly is……really late though.」
Rem’s eyes went round.
「……That’s?」
「The truth is, I had them prepared in Faltra City. They’re not strange anywhere, are they……」
It was because he was lured by the chance to go to the Monster Musume Soapland free of charge that headed towards the royal capital──that sort of thought crossed his mind, but let’s forget about that.
Right now, it was time to have a serious talk. This wasn’t the time to be remembering that.
Rem’s hand trembled.
That was transmitted to his skin.
「……Diablo did……for me?」
「Umu.」
「……Is it really, truly, this time for sure……alright for me, to believe you?」
She gazed at him with serious eyes.
At a time like this, rather than his Demon King acting, he should speak with his own true self’s words.
Resolving himself, Diablo opened his mouth.
「Ah-……」
It was no good.
Both Rem, and even Shera who was still on the ground, waited for Diablo’s words.
Switching over, he went with Demon King-like words.
「As for whether you can believe in me, you should decide for yourself!」
「……」
「If you believe in this Demon King, take it. If you think you cannot believe me, you should pierce through my heart with that right hand.」
There were several times where he had saved Rem, as well as made her feel gratitude. However, there were also many times where he had made her mad and made her endure.
*Gokuri* Shera made an audible gulp.
For Rem, sure enough──
She slowly held out her left hand.
「……I, will……believe you, Diablo.」
Going *ho~*, Shera breathed out.
Even Diablo, he was relieved in his mind.
「Hmph……To believe a Demon King, you sure are an amusing fellow.」
While creating the atmosphere with his usual tone, Diablo took the ring finger of Rem’s left hand, and this time, placed the real 《Marriage Ring》 on it.
Large tears started to spill from Rem’s eyes.
Their red shine vanished.
*Para para* That which her body was clad in──the materialized Kikou started to crumble down.
「……Diablo.」
Did she use up her strength?
Rem lost consciousness as if falling asleep.
「Ah, oi, Rem!」
「Rem!」
Both Diablo and Shera hurried to catch her as she collapsed while naked.