“Huh?”
Katiana and Lucifiel’s voices overlapped.
Lucifiel seemed unable to comprehend what had just happened, wearing a blank expression.
A beat later, Lucifiel roared at me.
“Y-You!! Do you realize what you’ve just done to me!!”
“Food…”
“Food? What about food—”
“Don’t waste it—!!”
“Hyu!?”
Lucifiel flinched at my angry shout.
The lecture time has begun.
“They say there are seven gods in a single grain of rice. To step on it, and then kick it away? That’s just blasphemous!!”
“Gods in rice? I’ve never heard of such a thing!!”
“Shut up, you moron!! I’m still talking, so listen quietly!!”
“Hya!?”
I silenced the Demon Lord and continued my lecture.
“The meat and vegetables used in the stir-fry were carefully grown by ranchers and farmers. And you—”
“Hmph, those are jobs done by the lowest of the low-ranking Demonkin! What’s wrong with me, the strongest of all, kicking them around!!”
“Haa…”
I couldn’t help but sigh.
Certainly, from a Demonkin perspective, what Lucifiel did wasn’t wrong.
“So?”
“…Huh?”
“Indeed, what the Demon Lord says isn’t wrong. So?”
“So, what…”
“Why do you need to kick it around? It’s like you’re belittling the weak to exaggerate your own strength, that’s what typical small-fry thugs do.”
“!? Y-You, a mere low-ranking Demonkin, dare to call me a small-fry thug!?”
Lucifiel’s face turned bright red.
However, I haven’t said what I want to say the most, so I won’t let her speak.
I’ll say it before Lucifiel interrupts.
“And most importantly,”
“I-Is there more!?”
“I can’t forgive you for messing up the stir-fried meat and vegetables I made!! Let me hit you one more time!! With a fist this time!!”
“Hii!?”
As I raised my fist, Lucifiel crouched down, protecting her head with both hands.
…Seeing that, I regained my composure.
“Demon Lord.”
“Hyu, w-what is it this time!?”
“…Demon Lord. I got emotional and hit you earlier. I apologize for that.”
I knelt on the spot and lowered my head.
Then, Lucifiel seemed to remember her position as the Demon Lord.
She stood imposingly and looked down at me.
Lucifiel glared at me, unable to hide her anger.
“I-It’s too late to apologize now!! You shall be sentenced to death for defying me!! Absolutely to death!!”
Death sentence. So, I’m going to be executed.
If I’m going to be killed anyway, let me say what I want to say.
“Demon Lord, allow me to say one thing.”
“Hmph. Your last words?”
“Yes, I suppose so… Demon Lord, you are just strong.”
“…What do you mean?”
I know Lucifiel’s fate.
I’ve seen how she loses in battle against the heroines and what happens afterward.
That’s why I can say it with conviction.
“Have you ever considered what would happen if you lost?”
“I will never lose to anyone!!”
“It’s a hypothetical. If the Demon Lord were to lose, all the Demonkin who follow you would rebel.”
“R-Rebel? Such a thing is impossible…”
“Can you say that for sure? You are a wicked person who eliminates what you don’t like and enjoys torturing those who oppose you. I’ll say it clearly. Once you lose, or even if you don’t, you won’t have anyone you can truly call an ally.”
After Lucifiel is defeated by the heroines, her subordinates will turn against her.
As a result, she will suffer terribly.
Not only the humans she has tormented, but also the orcs and goblins who are supposed to be her subordinates will treat her horribly.
No one will try to help Lucifiel.
“I just won’t lose!!”
“You will lose someday. After all, the Demon Lord took the throne by defeating the previous Demon Lord, who was said to be the strongest.”
“…”
Lucifiel trembled at my words and fell silent.
“…I”
“Hm?”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up!! I won’t lose!! I just won’t lose!! Waaah!! I’m going to tell my mother!!”
“Whoa.”
Lucifiel ran off somewhere, tears streaming down her face.
She fell on the way, but got up and kept running.
After seeing her off, I opened the lock of the cell next to Katiana, who had been silently watching the whole time, and went inside.
“My life is over.”
I messed up.
It was bad enough that I impulsively slapped her, but what followed was even worse.
No, I apologized for the slap, so that’s okay, right?
I want to think it’s okay. …Probably, I’ll be executed tomorrow.
If it was going to be like this, I shouldn’t have given my Queen Succubus Quina-sama’s erotic ticket to my senior.
As I sat in a triangle position in the cell, I was called out from the next cell.
It was Katiana.
“W-What are you doing!? Slapping the Demon Lord’s cheek!! And why did you go into the cell yourself!?”
“Probably just for tonight, but please take care of me as your neighbor!!”
“Why are you so cheerful!?”
“When humans reach their limit, they just go wild.”
“You’re a Demonkin, aren’t you!?”
Katiana’s words made me realize.
“Hahaha!! That’s right!! I forgot!!”
“Forgot… You’re not very Demonkin-like. It feels like I’m dealing with a hopeless human.”
“Actually, my previous life was human, you know? I only remembered it yesterday.”
“…Fufu, hahaha. What is that? You should tell a better joke.”
Katiana laughed.
I’m going to be executed tomorrow, but I’m glad I got to see a beautiful woman’s smile at the end.
That’s what I thought…
“You, you’re the one who slapped Lucifiel’s cheek, right?”
“…Yup.”
I was summoned by the Demon Lord Lucifiel’s mother, a character who didn’t appear in the game.
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Afterword
A trivial side story
Author: “The author watched a cuckold doujinshi and got carried away, resulting in an awakening. There are times when you regret things after doing them, right?”
Lucifiel: “No, I don’t want to hear about your perversions.”
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