The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

In a vague dream, I realized it was a dream.

Because it was a dream I remember having several times.

"Why would Mr. Sato be fired!

In my dreams, I was yelling at my father.

I was in high school three years then.

Sato is a subordinate of a company whose father is the president.

Since it was probably a country company, my little company was also a small place, and I knew Sato's people.

Or Sato's son was a classmate of mine since middle school.

"What if I can't go to college?"

Sato was a good friend, as close as he was to being in the same club in middle school.

If you think that friend came to school with a blue face, you started talking to me.

He said his father fired the company and was thrown out of the company he had served for more than twenty years without a retirement pension.

Sato was looking to advance to medical school.

Medical school was decided to cost money, and Sato had only the academic ability to finally dive into some national public medical school, and he wasn't smart enough for the university to say, "I'll give you a scholarship you don't have to give back, so come to us".

"You got caught stealing stuff from the company for burglary, didn't you? You must be fired."

My father said.

I hadn't heard from Sato, so it was my first ear.

"What did you steal?"

I thought Sato embezzled the money in the accounting process.

I thought the high school student Gokoro had no choice.

Nails and hardware.

My father, at that time, was in such a tone that he boasted of his wit as a manager.

"Nails and fittings? How much did you steal?"

Father's company is now large, and if Mr. Sato, an employee of the ancient ginseng, for example, it was not possible from the standpoint to flush millions of yen worth of nails and fittings.

"I don't know, about 10,000 yen because I used it for the kennel."

Later on, I wondered if this figure of 10,000 yen was bad for my father and he flourished the numbers.

The nails and hardware used for the kennel can't cost 10,000 yen.

Actually, that would have been 2,000 yen or so.

Maybe it won't be five hundred yen.

"You fired me because I used company equipment on my own?

"You bet, burglary is burglary"

That is true, but I was not convinced.

"You've got a salary cut and a lot more. You don't have to fire me for anything."

"Don't let the kid talk about the company!

As I learned later, Mr. Sato was a bad user of his men, although he became the site manager as an ancient ginseng, and he had no managerial talent and was truncated by his father.

Sato took the company equipment home and used it as a bad thing, of course, in public and private confusion, but my father, obviously, used that as an excuse to cut Sato.

When he hung up, he made Sato confess in a chat, recorded it, called the police, deliberately gave Sato's name, and asked him to take him for burglary before disciplining him for dismissal.

Because if it was a disciplinary dismissal, it would have become a work rule that would not require you to pay your retirement pension.

Again, in retrospect from now on, it is unlikely that my father was a decent proprietor.

Sato eventually gave up going to college, stopped his exam studies in November and moved to a job offer, but the time was late and he failed to get a job.

That's how he graduated from high school with his dead eyes.

My father, who had a rough girlfriend relationship since his mother died and even rarely went home these days, when he realized that the year I graduated from college, I wasn't going to expose myself to taking over the business, he got the money to sell the business and play the rest of my life, and transferred to a player.

And with a Southeast Asian woman I don't know where I met, I went to the Philippines or somewhere, and I was playing with a purse with small gold, and she died of theft.

……

When I woke up, I was stunningly sweating all over my body.

My head hurts like a hangover.

……

A dream...

I had another nightmare.

In the fireplace, the firewood that had disappeared had turned red.

The room was warm but I wanted to wake up feeling a little cold.

When I open the window, a cold breeze blows in to cut myself off.

Outside, it was still dark.

After a nightmare, it's been more than seven years now, I can often remember my old knowledge.

I relied on the light of the constant night lights to describe in the book how science works that I remembered some of.

The chills passed as I was writing, and when I went into the futon trying to sleep again, I heard a cone from the front door.

Who are you at this hour?

When I opened the door and headed over to the front door, there was definitely a sound, not a mishearing.

"Who?"

When I said that, the phrase "I am a servant of the Howe family, Shun" returned.

I see.

"What can I do for you?"

When I say I need you, I just think of you as my father.

"Exactly."

"I can't open the front door on my own. Soon, I'll wake your father up."

"Best regards"

I headed to my parents' bedroom.

In my parents' bedroom, Luke and Suzuya slept side by side with each other.

Put your hands on Luke's body and loosen it.

"Wake up, Father."

Even shaking it with yuckiness didn't wake me up at all.

"Wake up."

Call as you step up the shake.

First of all, it might be quicker to slap him.

"Hmm... Yuri? What's wrong?"

Suzuya, who slept next door, woke up first.

"A man named servant of the main house is coming to the front door"

With that said, Suzuya rose quickly in the dark.

"You, wake up"

That wasn't so loud.

It was clearly a smaller voice than my voice, at least.

And then I said, "Huh... Asaka?," Luke immediately woke up.

What the hell, this couple.

"Father, Mr. Shun, a servant of the main house, is coming to the front door. I can't let you in the house alone, so I'm letting you wait outside. Go quickly for him."

Luke changed his blood phase and jumped out of bed.

"What's up, at this hour"

When Luke opened the door, there stood a blue-faced little man.

"Something I need to put in your ear..."

"Come on in."

There's a little snow outside.

The region is surprisingly snowy, but the air is dry and cold, with extreme cold in winter.

It was now the winter entrance.

"Now, if you'll excuse me"

Luke snagged the oil from the oil dish he was lighting onto the stove's firewood and transferred the fire from the lighthouse.

It just so happens that the fire spreads.

In the kitchen, Suzuya lit another fire as she tried to provide water.

"First, show me your hands and feet."

"It's okay, sir."

"I decide that. I don't know for myself."

"... ok"

Shun took off his gloves and his socks as well.

White fingers appear like corpses.

Luke slowly rubbed it loose when he held Shun's hand, and he didn't hesitate to hold his slightly odorous toe, rubbing it.

"My toes... you're fine. Hands are more dangerous, but, well, if you only hold the water, you'll be fine."

"... just for now"

As you ride the cakedri, your feet are surprisingly warm because they are wrapped in half feathers.

Instead, the hand holding the reins is colder.

Anyway, I guess it wasn't cold enough to get frostbite.

Good. Good.

"So, what happened"

Luke asked as he muddled his dirty hands.

"The expedition has returned."

When Shun says that with a dark look, Luke's face is frightened.

Don't you care about your brother?

Hit me and change, ask me to ask.

But Shun snapped his neck.

"Don't beat me to death."

For a moment, my head turned white.

"... hey, stop joking"

"I'm not kidding. There are no bodies, just hearsay, but Master Gowk did die."

No body?

"... what. What do you mean, no body?"

Luke asked me the same question.

"Master Gouk was attacked by a king eagle aboard the eagle that Master Luke gave him, and he said he was brilliant and accomplished."

……

Luke breathed.

"... well. Did you do it?"

"Yes."

Affirming so, Shun looked like he was crying.

Wang Eagle attack?

I know how unusual it is from the atmosphere of the place, but I'm not keeping up with the story.

"Was the war bad?"

"Yes, they say the expedition lost half its total in the field and was besieged with the main forces of the Royal Kilhina Army in the fortress. In that fold, Master Gouk challenged the King Eagle attack with the Heavenly Knights of the Expeditionary Regiment, so that the army pulled away..."

"Right..."

Upon being informed of his brother's death, Luke was, to be modest, a sinister face.

"... Dear Luke, I would like you to attend a kinship meeting tomorrow..."

"I know. Be sure to come up."

"I'm ready for tea," Suzuya said when Luke said so.

"And if you don't mind, this too."

The tea must have been cooked in a boiling fire, the hard-baked bread was served warmed.

I also have jam and butter.

"... thankful. I didn't put anything in my mouth today."

How hungry he was, Shun immediately started eating bread.

"... in the morning?

"Yes, I've been busy."

It is now before dawn, so the words are a little strange, but there are few mechanical watches or the like in circulation in this country, so I don't really care about the time after sundown.

I mean, tomorrow's kinship meeting is also today when the night breaks out.

"Whatever it takes, it's too dangerous. It's so strange you didn't die."

Really.

Running horses and cakedri at night is not the same as running the main road at night by car.

Automobiles have headlights, but not on horses or cakedri. Nor are roads maintained.

If you're letting it run on such a cold night, the cold will make your head blur, and if you fall, you're likely to freeze to death as it is.

As I did when I drowned and died, with my stomach hungry and my blood sugar dropping, when I was exposed to even colder, my body would freeze as it was because I had no fuel to burn.

"You are the best. I was going to say something before I left the mansion... but I forgot."

"I'll take the guest room, and when you're done eating it, have a distilled drink and go to bed right away."

"No, I..."

"If you're not going to sleep, you're leaving tomorrow. I don't want you to fall out of a bird and die."

"... I understand. Sweet for your words, I will rest."

Luke said hard.

Luke brought his favorite glass and poured the liquor.

A glass of liquor was poured into Minato's glass. I offer it to Shun.

"Always drink. I don't sleep when my core is cold."

"... care, it hurts"

Even if your body isn't cold, you won't be able to sleep in a situation like this. Alcohol makes me forget that.