The Melancholy of the Demon Army Officer
Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Shizukuku
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Chapter 096 – Holy Gal Demons 3 [A]
Leonhart, who had returned to the store with Wenlina, left the store in a state of half-astonishment as he rubbed his eyes for a while.
He looked at the three holy gal demons and said,
“…You girls really eat as much as you like…”
“I could eat as much sweet stuff as I wanted.”
“Zzz…”
“I’m full~. Ehehe, thank you~“
The three holy gal demons showed their respective reactions to Leonhart’s remark. As he supported Serachrolas, who seemed like she was about to fall asleep and fall to the ground at any moment, he shrugged as he heard their words. Leonhart had already managed to find one holy gal demon by chance. In that case, the next one was naturally,
“Anyway, there’s just one more left. I’ll ask just in case, but do you have any idea where the last one might be…”
Leonhart asked the possible location of the last of the four holy gal demons. But with Bezeleye responding first,
“I have no idea where she might be.”
“Nyuu… I don’t know…”
“Um, err, I don’t know, I guess. I’m sorry.”
“…I see.”
Leonhart already expected such answers, but he couldn’t hide his disappointment. What should I do now? As Leonhart wondered what to do, Bezeleye called him out.
“If I have to say something about her—”
“…What would it be?”
He asked. After a beat, Bezeleye answered him. That was,
“…Housesnurse is the most likely among us to cause ruckus.”
“…Most likely among you people?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“…My head hurts.”
He literally held onto his head. Bezeleye said the last one was the most problematic of them all. There was no politician who wouldn’t feel pained by that. Not to mention, said existence was a holy gal demon who possessed certain power.
As Leonhart responded to Wenlina who asked worriedly if he was okay, Leonhart sighed and let go of his head.
“…Let’s look around for the time being. Since you said she is a problem child, it means she will likely cause a ruckus and we can find her easily as we walk.”
“That’s optimistic of you.”
“Otherwise, I couldn’t bear the stress.”
“Being too pessimistic causes a lot of stress after all,” continued Leonhart. In fact, he suffered a lot of trouble being in the key position as the demon army officer, so he wouldn’t be able to handle the stress if he wasn’t being optimistic about it.
“Basically, it is about not being too pessimistic while still assuming the worst case scenario. However, that is quite difficult,” said Leonhart as he explained the important part of his job while looking for the last holy gal demon.
“—How about going to the square first?”
As expected, I don’t think we can find her immediately, but it’s better to be thorough and check the major location first. With that in mind, they headed to the fountain square in the center of the town.
—However, Leonhart saw that.
“Aah… you are… how wonderful…”
Fountain square in the center of the town.
The landscaping was good, it was connected to every road, and it was an easy to spot location, so it was usually used for many demons to gather, but now, there was only one person in front of the fountain.
Other demons were looking at the beautiful girl there from a long distance. But it wasn’t because she looked beautiful.
“Would you marry me?”
The girl talked to the air with a feverish gaze as her body shook.
However, no one responded to her and a brief silence flowed on the spot. When the girl realized that a was response wasn’t coming, she put her hand on her cheek,
“You are really the quiet type… but that is also wonderful…”
She exhaled in fascination. The one she courted for was,
“…Leonhart—”
Not the person,
“—City-san… It really is a wonderful name…”
It was the town itself.
The owner of the town, who looked at the girl from afar,
“………Oi.”
“…What?”
He asked Bezeleye beside him. As his gaze remained on the girl on the square,
“I doubt that’s the case… but it shouldn’t be that one, right…?”
Leonhart said as he pointed his finger.
Beyond that, in front of the fountain square — there was a beautiful girl — nay, a perverted girl with blue short hair, who talked to the environment.
Her appearance was undoubtedly that of a beauty. Leonhart himself wasn’t afraid to admit that.
However, the sight of her whispering her love toward the town itself made him not want to admit that the girl was the last holy gal demon.
Leonhart was half-resigned, but he still looked at Bezeleye and asked for confirmation. But that was ruthlessly,
“…Yes.”
She nodded,
“That one is Housesnurse. Housesnurse of Earth.”
“Yes, it’s Ohau-chan.”
“Fuah… it’s Ha-chan…”
“…”
Leonhart once again turned his gaze toward the fountain square.
Then there was Housesnurse, who spread the dishes she brought from the store,
“Here, darling. Let’s eat the food you cooked together. I’ll feed you. A~hn.”
She offered the food to the ground as she said that. The food fell to the ground with a noise.
As she saw that,
“How is it? Is it tasty?”
Obviously, the ground didn’t respond.
But Housesnurse seemed to come to a conclusion on her own and nodded,
“You are quiet, but I can feel that you meant to say it’s delicious.”
“…Is that girl insane? I can only see her as someone with problems in the mental department…”
“…Hau falls in love easily.”
“Falls in love easily?”
“Yes,” nodded Bezeleye. While showing perplexed expression,
“She will fall in love for even the most trivial of reasons. She could fall in love with anything, be it human, guy demon, mushi, mountain, river, anyway, anything there is.”
“…You mean it just happened to be a town this time?”
“I think that’s the case.”
“…Is she stupid? There’s no way her love could be answered.”
“Does she understand that?” asked Leonhart. Leaving aside living creatures or beings capable of thought aside, there was no way artificial objects or nature itself would answer her love back.
Bezeleye stopped her words for a moment and answered.
“She knows— at least I think she does, but she still can’t fix it.”
“Ohau-chan hasn’t changed.”
“…No change.”
Apparently, it has been like this for a long time. Leonhart couldn’t help but make a speechless expression. Then he looked back there,
“Fufuh, your body is big, hot, and hard…”
“It’s stone after all. Of course it’s hot after absorbing heat from the sun.”
“Isn’t she completely crazy there…”
Leonhart frowned as he saw Housesnurse lay her face down on the stone-paved ground and rub her cheeks over it. To be honest, she looked completely crazy to the point he didn’t want to approach, or should he say, didn’t want to be involved with her at all. The demons around seemed to think the same and stayed a good distance away from the girl.
At this rate, the square will be rendered unusable, thought Leonhart somewhat seriously, as some people began shouting something. They were,
“It’s there! The pervert reported earlier!”
Demon captain and several demon soldiers. They were the demons that served as the police of this town. Since the town was managed by the Leonhart’s Army, of course they were aware of the situation.
Perhaps someone in the town made a report. The demon captain brought the demon soldiers and approached Housesnurse. Then,
“! Who are you people! Don’t disturb me and Leonhart City-sama!!”
“…? What are you talking about!”
Toward the demon captain’s words, Housesnurse replied loudly, but he couldn’t understand her words. She got up from the ground, then used both her hands to point to herself and the town,
“I’m going to marry this town — Leonhart City-sama! Don’t disturb me!”
“Y-you, are you crazy?! I don’t understand what you mean!!”
Leonhart wholeheartedly agreed with the demon captain’s words. He also couldn’t understand what she meant by that. No, Leonhart could understand the meaning of her words themselves, but his brain rejected them, such would be the correct interpretation. That was how much he couldn’t understand what she said.
However, Housesnurse wasn’t frightened by the demon captain words and proudly puffed her chest,
“I guess you can consider me crazy! We’re crazily in love with each other after all!”
“…C-captain, this woman is completely crazy in her head… let’s hurry and catch her.”
“Y-you’re right… I would feel sorry towards Leonhart-sama for letting someone insane like her on the loose.”
The captain seemed serious about his duty. Leonhart raised his evaluation of the demon captain who still obediently tried to complete his duty, even when faced with a crazy person. As Leonhart was inwardly impressed, Bezeleye asked with a straight face,
“She is about to be arrested as a suspicious person here… what would happen to her once she is caught?”
“It depends on why she is arrested… but for what she did, I guess she’ll be left in prison for a day, or forced to work in the town for a few days.”
“…Then I guess she could just get arrested then.”
…No, I should help her. It is weird of me to think this, though.
To be honest, Leonhart was at a loss. He could resolve the situation quickly by calling them out, but he would have to confront that crazy person instead. Leonhart was slightly regretful for having tried to casually involve himself with the holy gal demons out of curiosity, but it was true that he was curious.
…I guess… I have to go…
He really didn’t feel like doing it, but it seemed that he needed to do it. When he took a step forward,
“You’re in the way!”
“U-Uwaaaaahhhh?!”
“Guoh?! T-this woman, she’s strong…!”
When Housesnurse hit the ground with her hammer, the ground rose up and blew the demon soldiers away. Without a doubt, that was her power, the power over earth.
However, Leonhart couldn’t help but think, Is it okay for her to hit her supposed beloved with a hammer like that?
Anyway, I guess I have to stop them before the demon soldiers are wounded further, thought Leonhart as he stepped forward.
It was at that moment. Suddenly, Leonhart heard a familiar voice.
“—Wait right there!”
The voice was heard from above. It was coming from a direction somewhere in front of Leonhart and surrounding people were looking for it,
“W-who?!”
Housesnurse shouted. Beyond her location at the center of the square, on the scaffolding at the top of the fountain.
A blonde girl looked down with her back against the sun. Then she responded to Housesnurse’s words.
“You asked who I am! In that case, I shall answer!”
The girl took a pose and said,
“I am the greatest, most perfect apostle in all of the demon realm, and the first apostle of Leonhart-sama… the majin who reigns over this town. Indeed, I am the one and only—”
“Hup,” said the girl as she leaped.
I guess I didn’t have to hear the rest, while Leonhart thought of that, the girl he was familiar with jumped down to the ground and confronted Housesnurse. She held her hand diagonally with her right hand crossing in front of her body, she then proudly claimed.
“The first apostle of the graceful and splendid Leonhart-sama — Carol!! Nice to meet you!!”
“…Is that your apostle?”
“No, well… even if she’s like that, she is pretty good at her job…”
“Heeh, she seems to be an interesting girl.”
“Well…”
Leonhart nodded reluctantly as he made excuses for Carol. Well, she might do things flashily and seems to lack composure, but she’s a pure girl with a desire to improve herself. But… for some reason, a sigh leaked out of his mouth.
As Leonhart rolled his eyes, Housesnurse spoke to Carol,
“…What? You want to disturb me as well?”
“Fufuhn, of course I do. For me who is entrusted to manage this city, that is the duty I must perform.”
“Manage… hah, don’t tell me—”
Housesnurse’s eyes went wide as she noticed something. Carol said while puffing her chest proudly,
“So you noticed it! Indeed! I am this town’s—”
Carol turned sideways and showed off the armband on her right arm.
Carol said the words and phrases that were written there.
“—Mayor! In other words, I could be considered the guardian of this city that you fell in love with!”
“Basically,” she continued.
“It is an outrageous statement to claim you will marry this city… but if you still want to do it regardless, make sure to earn my approval!”
“—!”
Housesnurse leaned back as if she had received a shock.
However, she gritted her teeth and directed her gaze at Carol, as if trying to show her will,
“F-fine! I will show you how great my love is!”
“I accept your challenge!”
The two were getting heated up.
People who saw their exchanges took a step back, and Bezeleye looked at Leonhart,
“…So, what are you going to do? Are you going there?”
“…………I’m putting the decision on hold. Let’s see how it turns out first.”
Actually, I want to go home right now, Leonhart thought, but he decided to watch how things turned out.
Silence spread in the fountain square.
Be it the demon captain’s group who came after receiving the report, the surrounding spectators, or Leonhart and other holy gal demons, who looked at it from afar.
Beyond their gaze was the apostle Carol who was the administrator of this place, and the holy gal demon Housesnurse who sought to marry the town. Both of them confronted and glared at each other.
And the first who spoke was Housesnurse. She raised her voice toward Carol in front of her.
“Town head — no, mother! I’ll be taking this town!”
“…She went and said something outrageous like that so casually. That could be taken as a declaration of invasion, or rather, a declaration of war.”
Leonhart agreed with Bezeleye’s point. It is certainly a dangerous statement, he thought.
On the other hand, Carol who received such words shouted,
“I won’t give you this town!”
Confronting the other party directly. Then Bezeleye said with straight face again,
“…This is that thing, right? The ‘Father, please give me your daughter’ kind of thing. It is just gender flipped here, but I read something like that in a book before.”
“Rather than gender flipped, the other party is an inorganic object, or rather, a piece of land, so it’s hard to say…”
“Nyuu… a love for one’s hometown…?”
“Maybe that’s the closest thing to it… not that this place is her hometown, though…”
“Err, love for territory, maybe?”
“Aah, I guess that would be the best words for it.” Even as Leonhart seemed to be convinced by Wenlina’s words, it didn’t feel right either. Although ‘loving one’s town’ didn’t seem that weird when put into words, if it went to the point of wanting to marry it, it suddenly became a remark of insanity, so it sure was a wonder.
I’m glad I didn’t rush ahead, thought Leonhart as he thanked his own good luck and looked at Carol who was still talking. She puffed her chest toward Housesnurse and while showing the attitude of not backing down,
“Besides, you’re saying you want to marry this town, but how much do you know about it?”
“gh, t-that’s…”
As Housesnurse’s words stuck on her throat, Carol asked, “Are you listening?” As the preface,
“Be it about Leonhart-sama who founded this town, how this town was built, how wide this town is, what kind of facilities are available here, as well as their numbers, and how many people live here — for you who doesn’t know about Leonhart-sama, to actually propose to Leonhart-sama’s town is something highly ridiculous!”
“T-that’s… y-yes! I could just learn from now on!”
Carol smiled at Housesnurse’s painful words and as if trying to teach her,
“In the first place, to what extent does a town generally mean? What is the definition of it? There are many demons living in this town, and they could be said as part of the town, you know? That includes the Demon Army with Maou-sama on top all the way to demon soldiers working in the field, and there are a lot of supplies required to keep the town running, but do you ask for marriage before understanding all that?”
“Kuh…!”
Housesnurse took a step back as if she was pressured, after all that had been pointed out furiously by Carol. Looking at that,
“Amazing… Carol actually spoke logically… Or rather, she seems like a decent person there.”
“I can’t say much since I have no idea of the characteristics of your apostle, but you sure said a terrible thing about her… Well, it seems she is lacking in comparison to Hau’s craziness.”
“You also said a terrible thing right there.”
How to say this, it seemed they ended up comparing how quirky and idiotic their acquaintances were. Certainly, Carol was indeed inferior to Housesnurse in that sense.
But even Carol would act this ridiculous if I was involved, thought Leonhart anxiously as he continued to look, and sure enough, Carol was,
“Besides… even if you learned all the things I said earlier, there’s no way I could allow it without permission from Leonhart-sama! Marrying the town would hold the same meaning of marrying Leonhart-sama — after all, everything in this town belongs to Leonhart-sama! Obviously, Leonhart-sama’s permission is required!”
“Indeed,” Carol said with a passing voice. As Leonhart had a bad feeling about that,
“—Everyone, take a look! The strongest and the best majin, Leonhart-sama, is here!!”
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