Demon Lord, Retry! Volume 5 by Kanzaki Kurone

Author:Kanzaki, Kurone [Kanzaki, Kurone]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

“What’s the matter? How many fingernails is it going to take for me to pry it out of you this time?” The mention of that triggered a memory within Cake, causing tears to come to her eyes. Hansel’s face twisted further in twisted glee as he started cackling. “Yeh hah ha! That’s right, garbage like you should spend your life crying like that! Remember who you are now, you useless trash?”

Cake gritted her teeth, and was met with Hansel’s demonic laugh. Her life had always been this way since her country fell. No matter how many tears she shed or how clever she tried to be, violence beat her down in the end. Her country had fallen to violence, and she couldn’t even survive on her own without strength. Her days of forcing herself to be cold, calculated, and manipulative were coming to an end.

(Fuck you, dad... Leon...) Her fading mind imagined her spectacularly useless father and the best advisor she ever had. The former was dead, and the latter nowhere to be found. At the very least, she couldn’t expect either of them to come and rescue her now. (No one’s... going to save me... No one even knows I’m alive...!) The thought that everyone she once knew must consider her long-dead soaked Cake’s brain with red. The realization hit: the world would keep on turning even after she was gone. She survived by eating dirt in this hell, and no one had heard her cries. So, Cake spat at the heinous face she saw. It was a desperate struggle. To taunt the devil. To survive.

“Y-You little...! What do you think you’re doing!?” Hansel tossed Cake aside, smashing her into a wooden shelf. Despite the shattering pain through her body, Cake’s lips curled from a sensation she hadn’t felt in a long time. A sort of triumphant glee. “You scum... What’re you laughing at!?” Wiping her spit off with a handkerchief, Hansel kicked Cake in the side. Many of her ribs broke, and much blood flooded from her mouth. Even still, her expression remained unchanged. She had made a gamble that someone might hear this commotion.

“Be, careful... If anyone hears... it won’t be... an accident...”

Hansel’s expression shifted. He had a chance of escaping Kale’s wrath if an ape had killed her, but not if it got out that he had done the deed himself. Hansel had enough of this girl laying on the ground. “That’s exactly what I hate about you!”

Just before Cake’s face was stomped to nothing, a faint voice rang from above. Whether it was monster or ape, it had appeared as if Cake’s will to live had summoned it. Hansel shut his mouth, listening intently.

“It’s like an escape room in here... I just heard a sound, way below.”

“Hm? I didn’t hear anything... Well, some high-status devils create hidden passages and rooms in their manors. If anyone’s ‘below’ us, that’s why.”

A conversation between a man and a woman, who sounded close to the age of a girl. While the hidden room was soundproofed, it amplified outside sounds with magical items.

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