Thump! Thump!
The ground shook with each step Martin took, for for all his size, he packed a lot of horsepower into his stride.
‘How did I forget about this guy.’
I chuckled, leaning my face comfortably against Martin’s chest.
I was nervous at first, but once I felt the power, I knew who this guy was.
Martin Jonasay.
It’s as badass as it sounds.
Knight of the Demon Army, Legionnaire of the First Legion, second strongest to the Demon, and second in <Raising a Hero>.
It took the hero three months and ten days to defeat Martin, but he was strong enough.
Sir Lyat or something seemed to be in the driver’s seat now, but he’d be no match for Martin.
With him on my side, I’ll have a much easier time of it than I do now.
It was to my advantage to be close to Martin, knowing that I would later pass on my knowledge to the Demon King.
‘Whoo-hoo-hoo, everything is my way.’
I flopped down on the bed in my room, back home after two days, and smirked at Martin. Martin’s rugged face hardened slightly.
“Myaaa? (Smile, asshole.)”
“……….”
Martin looked down at me and was silent for a moment. Then he coyly extended a finger toward me.
“I, I’m a scary person. But the baby, she’s not crying. It’s weird.”
I took his outstretched finger and squeezed it, as if to say, “Hold on,” and his eyes widened.
“Demon babies scared of me, but you, you don’t scared a me.”
To be honest, Martin did look scary. First of all, he was intimidating in his size, and his sunken eye sockets and bushy beard seemed to say, ‘I’m fucking scary.’
But apart from the objective assessment, I wasn’t really scared of him.
What’s there to be afraid of? The only thing I’m really afraid of is the fact that I’ve repeated my life six times, dying by the age of fifteen. So I had nothing to fear.
“Baaaahhhhh! (Don’t give me shit, just give me the food.”
So I screamed louder and louder.
‘Because I’m going to eat before I go to court or something, and I haven’t eaten anything since.’
“Bap! Bap! (Food! Give me the food!)”
I pointed to my stomach. Even if you don’t understand what I’m saying, you’ll understand the gesture.
I thought so, but……
“I’m sleepy. I should go to bed.”
“……. Byaa? (What the hell, are you want to?)”
I said I’m hungry?
“Mmmmmmm! (I’m hungry. Give me some food!)”
“Hoam.”
“Mmyak! Mmyak! (I want food! I want food!)”
Despite my pleas, Martin let out a long yawn and sat back down with a thud.
“Wow…….. (Wow, that’s big.)”
Chirp.
I’m going to starve to death.
Hey, system. Are you have something? Give me something decent. If we can’t communicate like this, I’m going to starve before I even get to the quest.
[SYSTEM]
… Hehe.
‘?’
Are you crazy?
I think I know what a backache is. Argh! I’m hungry! Should I go out and find something to eat?
That’s what I was thinking at the time.
“Commander!”
The door swung open with a bang and someone rushed in.
“If you have a job, you’re going to tell me you have a job, and if you don’t show up, damn it, I’ve got a whole bunch of guys waiting for you right now!”
With a grunt, he stomped his foot, but Martin didn’t move an inch.
I clicked my tongue and watched as the demon kicked in the door.
He was a surprisingly ordinary-looking demon. The clothes he wore suggested that he belonged to the Demon King’s army, but his brown hair, white skin, moderately built physique, and docile demeanor were all rather ordinary.
Yeah, it’s about time we had a normal guy!
I looked up at him with a twinkle in my eye.
He was sighing as he looked at Martin, then his gaze slowly shifted to me.
“Oh, oh, oh!”
He stomped over to me.
“You must be lady Shekina!”
“Bya…….? (Oh. Do you know me?)”
“We received word on the way here, lady Shekina has personally nominated you to be our military commander!”
Yeah. Because he looked the strongest.
“Kahaha, you made a good choice, now lady Shekina and I are going to be together!”
‘…… Us?
What does that mean?
A slight chill ran down my spine and I tried to avoid it, but I couldn’t. Its eyes were glowing with eagerness.
“We, the First Legion, will do our best to help you improve your skills, lady Shekina!”
Skills….. What? What’s that?
“Come on, let’s go!”
Where?
“The training ground is quite large. I guess we can start practicing crawling!”
“……”
“Go, go! You can be stronger!”
Just rummage around.
***
“Awww, if you’re hungry, why don’t you tell me you’re hungry, I didn’t realize that!”
“Byaak! (I have said it for the tenth or hundredth time. bruh.)”
“Hmmm, is that delicious, huh?”
The one who introduced himself as ‘Arthur’ handed me a bottle of formula and then gave me a hug.
“I may look like this, but I’m a father of two. I’m used to dealing with kids.”
The flavor and temperature of the formula was just right.
“But……”
At this point, Arthur’s face went rigid.
“I’m stuck in this shitty XX human world, captured by the devil because of some XXX bastard. Hahaha.”
“……?”
Am I hearing things wrong, I think I’m hearing a lot of swearing right now.
“So I’m very, very excited about your abilities, lady Shekina. Not just me, but all the members of the Demon Realm, so please help us kill XX like X with our own hands, please.”
Oh, he’s a demon, too.
I was so focused on Martin, who looked like a gang leader, that I forgot that Arthur was also a crazy demon.
“Byaak……. (I’m the only sane one of them.)”
Unaware of my rueful sigh, Arthur skillfully wrapped the rope around the still sleeping Martin.
“Our Legionnaire has a hard time waking up once he’s asleep, so I’m not going to lose any more sleep over that topic… Ah nothing. Please forget it.”
Is that sleeping, or is it just dead?
I thought as I looked at Martin, who was still sleeping, not caring if he had a rope on me or not.
“Haha. He’s not dead, and if anyone was going to die from this, it was me, haha!”
Arthur, who had stumbled into me, grabbed the rope that bound Martin and dragged him away.
Thump! Thump!
He dragged Martin down the hallway and then up the stairs in a very savage manner. Arthur dragging the heavier Martin was impressive, but so was Martin’s ability to bang his head on the stairs and not break it.
“This is the training ground.”
Throwing Martin to the ground, Arthur picked me up and carried me into the training center. Immediately, the demons who had been playing screamed and jumped at me.
“Oh, is that you?”
“Attributing artifacts?”
“Who will deliver us from this XX, XXX, human world?”
They were all looking at me with a twinkle in their eye, and I know I’m amazing, but this amount of attention is a little overwhelming……
“Hey! What are you doing? Hurry up and pour all your magic into princess Shekina, she needs to grow up so we can escape!”
It doesn’t look like …….
“Eumyaak! (Give me more! More!)”
I smiled pleasantly, feeling the pure magic entering my body.
Wow, I’m getting magic from the Demon Castle that I couldn’t get in my previous life. This is great.
“Well, since you’re here, Commander, let’s start with the drill. Stand in formation.”
“Commander, he’s sleeping.”
“When has he not been like that?”
“Aha.”
Convinced by Arthur’s words, the demons scattered, and he carefully sat me down on one side of the training grounds.
“Lady Shekina, watch us train, and now you’re going to do it too.”
I didn’t particularly want to train in the future, but I nodded meekly. I was very curious about how demons train.
And this is what I saw……
“Hahahahaha! Die, die, die!”
“You didn’t get hit, did you? You totally dodged it, didn’t you? Yeah, you can’t beat me, can you?”
“Hold him!”
“Yeah, can’t catch it, can you? Are you at the level of a slowpoke?”
It’s a mess.
“Yeah, yeah, we do everything the losers want. But I still can’t beat you.”
“Kughhh!”
“Yeah, you’re all right, but you can’t beat me anyway.”
“Ouch!”
His swordsmanship was impressive for a demon, but even more impressive was his lifting skills.
I spit out a laugh as I watched the demons chattering like madmen.
‘Let’s never get involved.’
I know Arthur said something earlier about training and stuff, but yeah. I’m not doing it.
‘I’m only with you until you’re a baby, and when you’re older, goodbye.’
With that thought, I turned my head away. No, I wasn’t going to.
Ring!
At this very moment, the most dreaded notification sound rang out.
Main Quest: <Hoping to Get Friendly!>
You, who have entered Martin Jonasay’s camp! Once you step foot here, you must get to know them inside out, down to their very core. But the shame-ridden demons won’t easily allow you into their presence.
What nonsense.
What do they have to be ashamed of?
So, here’s a kind mission for you! Get close to all the demons under Martin Jonasay’s command.
Contents: Gaining the Favor of All Demons in the 1st Squad (1/36)
Time limit: 240 hours
Compensation :
1. Demon Favorites
2. Added extra points for career quests
On failure: Death
Shit.
Earlier, when I was yelling at you that I was hungry and about to die, you were like, “hehe,” or something, and now you’re give me a quest? Quest?
‘I want to kill this system. I will kill this system in any way I can, really.’
They don’t even ask me if I want to accept anymore.
‘I want to lock that system asshole in an alcove later and say, ‘Would you like to eat nothing but dumplings for 30 years? Oh, I was just asking, I’ll give you nothing but dumplings for 30 years, lol.’
Also, what’s with the extra points on the career quest?
Your next quest is to find a job.
‘Whatever……’
Kill the system later.
I sucked in a deep breath through clenched, toothless gums and quickly rolled my eyes.
I thought, how can I get along with these crazy demons.
Even before I got stuck in this darn game, I was already an outsider. The only people in my phone contacts were the class president and the teacher… I couldn’t even get an invite to the class group chat… ‘Oh, was there such a person?’ I was that unnoticeable….
Even in the game, I didn’t have many friends. In other words, I have no idea how to increase someone’s intimacy.
‘Isn’t dying just because you’re called an Outsider the worst?’
Fifty million outsiders are going to be pissed, you fucking system.
“What should I do?
For the first time in my life, I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to get along with someone.
“Byaakk!”
Suddenly, a huge face appeared in front of me, causing me to stumble backwards in surprise.
It was Martin.
“Byaa! Mabyabya! (Turn on the blinker and look up! You scared me!)”
I screamed, holding my racing heart, and Martin’s eyes moved slowly.
“You’re not crying over this?”
Martin said, looking somewhat surprised.
Haaa……
I really tried to resist.
“Myaaa! Myaaah! (I’m not crying, I’ll not crying, you little shit! Shut up!)”
Don’t ask me twice, thrice, tiredly. You know what I’m good at? I don’t cry.
“Byaamya!” (If you ask me again, I’ll look it up, I swear!)”
So I growled and clenched my fists.
“……….”
Martin glared at me, then held out his palm.
“Hands.”
What, asshole?
“Byaa! (Am I a dog or a dog? Huh?)”
Are you kidding me?
You asshole, I’ll kill this system and also you……!
Main Quest: <Hoping to Get Friendly!>
Win the Favor of All Demons in the 1st Squadron (2/35) – NEW!
What is this…….
“Foot, give it to me?”
Of course.
I raised my cute sole to Martin’s palm and tightly closed my eyes.
Let dignity and the like go to hell for now, I thought, at least until I grown up.
