Dungeon Battle Royale ~ Since I became a Demon King, I will aim for World Domination

Chapter 322: Feels like an Easy Victory?

Chapter 322: Feels like an Easy Victory?

“Dear Heroes of Gifu, we will have you restrained until the end of the current turmoil, but I suppose that’s no problem for you. Right?”

“…Yes.”

The heroes of Gifu answered powerlessly while hanging their heads.

“Saburou, take all their equipment away and then assign four members of Team J to bring them to the jail.”

“As you command! Disaster Zero, choose three members from among the Numbers and escort our guests.”

“I have received your call from the demise to the origin.”

Origin…demise…you’re a former hero and the 26th clown, right…? Kazuki, was it? You got influenced and addicted to Team J in a very bad way, I’d say.

“Everyone else is going to return with me――《Transfer B》!”

After eradicating the invaders in the 301st zone, I returned to our headquarters together with my subordinates.

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“Wah, wah! Welcome back!”

Once I returned to the room where I left Yataro and the others, Kanon came flying over first thing and sat down on my shoulder which had become her usual place to spend time.

“Did we make you worried? Shion-sama’s right-hand man and Kanon-tan’s guardian of love…has safely returned from the battlefield!”

“Shion-san, welcome back!!” Kanon loudly yelled into my ear.

“…Don’t shout so close to my ear. I got it. I’m back.”

Upon me answering Kanon, Lily ran up to me next.

“Lord-sama, onii-chan, welcome back.”

“Mmh, Lily, were you a good girl and stayed back here without making a fuss?”

“Yep! Lily was a good girl.”

“Good, good.”

“Lily-chan, you mustn’t! It’s a very bad idea to talk with something so filthy!”

“Haaa ha ha ha! Lily and Kanon-tan, you’re going to eventually become family through me…it’s a big help that you’re so close with each other.

“…Though it’d be better if you died,” Kanon muttered her real thoughts with a voice so quiet that only I could hear it.

Now then, going by the atmosphere in the control room, I don’t think we’re in a predicament, but…

“Yataro, how’s the battlefield?”

“At the moment, the 304th zone has been invaded down to the eleventh floor while the invaders in the other zones have reached the seventh floor at most, but Nagano’s Demon King…Nananshi, was it?…said that he begun the invasion into Yamanashi as promised, or something like that.”

“Hoooh, the 304th zone…managed to push the enemy back all the way to the eighth floor?”

I confirmed the current situation on my smartphone.

“It’s almost as if they plotted this in advance…no, if Tusk’s information proves to be correct…I guess they did plot it to be like this.”

According to Tusk who was in charge of manipulating and gathering information on the Internet, Nanashi――Nina seems to be a Demon King excelling in the information war. Nina was apparently referred to as Nanashi or Secret. If you searched all the information in this world, Demon Kings, who are basically private people, would find it impossible to block and conceal everything…but the information about Nina wasn’t being hidden. Instead there was so much of it that it became impossible to determine which of it was true.

Moreover, the plans of Demon Kings hostile to Nina were unclear, but it seems like they always ended up being quickly targeted by other Demon Kings and humans.

The power to gather all the information about hostile information, the ability to mislead me and the enemy, and the wit to use the gathered and manipulated information; Nina appears to be a Demon King capable of all that.

He’s always laughing around like a fool and provoking everyone in the forum, which makes it difficult to imagine what sort of Demon King he is. It sounds like our Aster Empire now had the help of such a Demon King.

I thought Nina might not join in on the carnival this time, but…I guess he did. I’ll be wary of him to the very end, but his importance in the upper class demon king’s thread has risen by a level for me.

“That means, everything is proceeding as initially estimated…”

“Uh huh, that’s right. Including our side which is advancing according to plan, the Demon Kings, who approved of your plan, are outstanding across the board.”

“The ones who made a move are Storm of Aichi and Secret of Nagano. Or is there anyone else?”

“If we’re talking about someone of ridiculous fame, Osaka’s Genocider…and in addition, various other Demon Kings also launched attacks while blending into the confusion.”

“There is still more! My biggest star, Fukuoka’s Princess, also made her move! The net is ablaze with comments and messages about five of the <ruby>Thirteen Evil Star<rt>Zodiac</rt></ruby> having made their move!”

Aster Empire’s Intelligence Director――Tusk made a fuss while looking all excited.

Just as planned, the members of Zodiac made their move, and following my estimations, some Demon Kings joined in, taking advantage of the situation. The Zodiacs, who had known about the course of events beforehand, seemed to be in an advantageous situation. As expected.@@novelbin@@

“Our invasion teams are making good progress as well.”

I confirmed the situation of the invasion teams by using my smartphone. All corps were invading the domains of Itoigawa at an overwhelming rate.

“The Demon Kings of Niigata City made the mistake to selfishly regard you as their ally. They probably got careless because of that.”

Sending my subordinates to the domains in Niigata City to earn experience points while defending them so that they wouldn’t be liberated by the humans apparently bore fruit now.

“As the originator of the plan, I must rake in the most accomplishments from this…otherwise I will feel like I made a loss. Not only all of Itoigawa, but I also want to get my hands on the domains in Jouetsu City.”

“Ho ho ho, that makes sense…is what I’d like to say, but there exists a little, unexpected problem.”

“An unexpected problem, you say?”

While I was thinking that everything was operating within estimations, a shadow was visible on the face of Yataro, the one in charge of our defenses.