“I can’t believe I’m going to be taken down…”
Even with my body dismembered, I’m still alive.
This guy… could he be an Undead type?!
Thinking that, I become wary again.
“Don’t worry… I’m not an immortal or anything. Just a Dark Goblin. I just have high vitality… I’ll die soon enough…”
It’s not good to trust the enemy’s words too much, but I can’t imagine this guy lying anymore. There’s no basis for it, but I feel that way instinctively.
“You… you were a Dark Goblin?”
His appearance is quite different, though…?
“Heh… you humans might not know, but… even among us in the Demon Lord’s Army, those treated as the lowest of the low live like slaves… Every day, we have to please our superiors… If they don’t like something, they kill us easily… How many of my comrades do you think have been killed just on a whim?”
“…”
“There was a time… when a guy I thought was my best friend sold me out… He pinned some corruption on me… I was taken to the Demon Lord’s castle. It was a harsh punishment… I resisted many times, but it was no use… I still remember the face of my superior at that time vividly…”
“So that’s why you can’t trust your comrades anymore.”
“Yeah… Kaine-chan? It’s the same for you… You never know when your comrades will betray you.”
“…Did you take revenge on the guy who framed you?”
“I couldn’t… After my strength was recognized and I became one of the Four Heavenly Kings, I went to my hometown to take revenge, but… he wasn’t there.”
“Dark Goblins evolve into Goblin Lords, right?”
“…So?”
“Could it be that your hometown is near Zargadriz?”
“How do you know that!?”
“Near my hometown, there’s a forest where a large number of Goblins and Dark Goblins live… About five years ago, there was talk of taking down a rather large settlement…”
“!?!”
Goblins aside, Dark Goblins don’t forget their pride. They would never desert in the face of the enemy.
But at that time, the Knights Order was also there, and the difference in strength was overwhelming.
Could it be that this guy’s best friend deliberately reported the corruption in order to save Nedria, who had the potential to become one of the Four Heavenly Kings?
If he was taken to the Demon Lord’s Army, the chances of surviving would be higher than fighting the Knights Order as he was.
“So that guy…”
Nedria cries with a blood-stained face.
Mixed with blood, the color of his tears looks bright red…
Nedria continued to cry like that.
Like he had returned to his childhood…
I don’t feel sorry for him, but I’ll give him my sympathy…
“I’ll tell you one good thing before the end. What do you think is happening in the Royal Capital right now?”
“Could it be!?”
“That’s right… Kuder of the Enko, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, went there… It’s too late now.”
“That can’t be… Ort-san is in the Royal Capital!”
“That Ort Mekina is away on an expedition and isn’t there… He might be getting killed by the last of the Four Heavenly Kings right now… Kukuku… I’m glad I could see that face of yours at the end…”
Saying that, Nedria breathed his last.
“Let’s go back quickly!”
“”Yes!””
Erna and Cliff, who had been watching silently, replied.
I used Shukuchi towards the Royal Capital.
By the way, Nedria’s former best friend is the guy Kaine defeated before. He was a cowardly person, so he survived, but in the end, he hated the people who killed his comrades and became proactive in killing people.
There is no trace of the old kindness there anymore.
That’s why Nedria is lamenting that he couldn’t meet him, but it might have been better if he hadn’t.
Chapter 3 is the Royal Capital… Arc, but I want you to forgive me because writing it as it is would be a spoiler.