Above UnderWood, the ancient city of vampires.

The majestic castle is full of loneliness, as if it were uninhabited for many years, and it is covered with dust.

However, even after being abandoned for a long time, the appearance of the monolith shows no signs of weathering.

In the long corridor leading from the gate to the throne hall, the girl's crisp voice sounded.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Really, where did His Highness go? ”

A dark-haired girl wears a sleeveless black dress with a jacket tied around her waist that swings as she runs.

Several daggers hung from the belt around his waist, and the cold light shone in a chilling light.

"Your Highness! The game has entered a truce! What are we going to do next? ”

Climbing up the stairs at the front of the cloister, the girl who came to the turning point squeezed out all the air in her little chest and screamed.

There was no response.

The girl shook her long black hair angrily and pursed her lovely lips.

At this time-

"Suzu, Your Highness has just gone to inspect the situation in the town area attached to the castle."

Continuing from the cloister that runs through the center of the ancient city, to the back of the throne room, a woman in a robe with a hood covering her face whispers in the moonlight.

She held a golden harp in her hand.

The girl called Suzu looked back at the woman in the robe, clasping her hands behind her back.

"Really? So Miss Aurora and I are in charge of the house? ”

Aurora chuckled, "That's true, but we're not the game hosts, so we're not obligated to keep the truce. Your Highness should let us continue to fight, right? ”

As she spoke, Aurora turned her head.

In the center of the throne room, the hemispherical ceiling is decorated with crystals that allow moonlight to let in.

Directly below the throne, Leticia. Decrea sat asleep on it.

"Miss Aurora. How's this blonde girl doing? ”

"I haven't regained consciousness, maybe it will be the whole time of the game."

Bell Knock jumped to the throne and looked at Leticia with wide eyes.

Just as she was about to reach out and touch Leticia's brilliant blonde hair—

"Suzu, assistant, that's the Demon King's mock decoy, you'll be attacked if you touch it."

The boy's voice rang out.

Suzu reflexively turned around. Look at the entrance of the throne room in surprise.

"Your Highness! And the uncle! ”

"Don't be so noisy all the time, I can hear you."

From the shadows of the cloister came the hoarse voice of what was supposed to be from another person.

Because the other party is hiding in the shadows, not to mention the appearance, it is impossible to even judge the gender of the man or woman, but he should be quite old.

The boy walked to the throne room, and by the moonlight, Suzu and Aurora finally saw each other clearly.

He was about eleven or twelve years old, and although he was dressed luxuriously, he was very much in line with the title of "His Highness", but now, that outfit looked a little messy.

The glowing golden eyes exude a calm temperament that does not match his age. The young man known as His Highness glanced at the three of them in order to confirm the current situation.

"Suzu, Aurora, you should know that the other party has initiated the trial decision, and the game has been suspended, right?"

"Of course!"

"Very good, you two find a chance to continue the attack with the Giant Clan when the other party scatters and carries away, do you have any questions?"

"Yes!"

Suzu raised her arms high.

"Your Highness. What if the other party does not disperse and flee, but flees together? ”

――It seems that it doesn't matter if it's His Highness, Suzu, or two others. It was thought that the contestants below would choose to flee.

His Highness thought for a moment and said, "Regardless of those who escape, our purpose is only to prevent the birth of a new class ruler, so as long as we can destroy UnderWood." ”

Suddenly-

The whole ancient city shook violently.

Suzu fell to the ground with an "oops", and Aurora, who was beside her, immediately pulled her up.

"What's wrong!?"

His Royal Highness Huo Ran turned to look at the person who was called "Uncle".

“…… Well, someone broke in......"

As soon as the words fell. There was another violent shaking.

"Boom-!!!"

The cloister of the castle exploded.

With the smoke and dust in the sky, one person appeared in front of the four of them.

After seeing the person clearly, Aurora subconsciously took a step back, and the bell let out an exclamation of "oh yes", and His Highness frowned slightly.

"Is that you? The culprit that led to this disaster? ”

Yakumo walked step by step out of the rubble left after the collapse of the cloister. I came to the throne hall.

His gaze first glanced at Laeticia who was unconscious on the throne, then glanced at the four of them, and finally at the young man standing at the front, the young man known as His Highness.

It was just a kid about the same age as Jen.

"Your Highness, the other party is a member of [NoName]."

“【NoName】？”

His Highness looked a little stunned.

How could a member of the nameless community have the courage and strength to resist Long Wei's attack into the castle?

Noticing Aurora's reaction to retreat at the first time she saw Yakumo Mo, His Highness looked at Yakumo with some curiosity.

Really, a very beautiful person.

"I'm still thinking, obviously the black rabbit has already launched the judgment decision, why is that flying lizard still able to attack unscrupulously, now it seems that it should be because of you, right?"

Yakumo said as he seemed to ignore the four of them and moved forward on his own.

"After the application for the trial resolution is passed, the organizers and contestants cannot ignore the rules and attack, so you are not the organizers?"

Yakumo's gaze passed over His Highness and looked at Leticia on the throne.

"Who are you?" His Highness asked.

"Me? I'm just a youkai who has come to recoup some interest temporarily. ”

"Retract...... Interest? ”

"Yes, it disrupted our harvest sacrifice, such a big debt, because the trial resolution Black Rabbit didn't let me do it for the time being, but it's okay to beat you up and recover the interest."

"Ahaha!"

His Highness burst out laughing as if he had heard something very ridiculous.

"Is there such an interesting member of [NoName]? It seems that there is something to be gained in that community in addition to the nobility of the box. ”

After saying that, the entire hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Aurora, Suzu and "Uncle" silently retreated.

His Highness and Yakumo looked at each other.

The wind blew, raising the hem of Yakumo Mo's clothes and long hair, and also blowing up His Highness's robes.

The next moment-

Suddenly it went from being extremely static to extremely moving.

Yakumo and His Highness's figures are intertwined.

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UnderWood Underground City, an emergency treatment center.

In the emergency treatment center, there are wounded people lying everywhere.

Since 60 per cent of the buildings had burned down, most of the injured had to sleep on the ground.

Thankfully, the firefighting was done quickly, and thanks to the huge water trees and the town by the river, it was the only thing that was able to go quietly.

However, the most fortunate thing for everyone should be the current situation that the dragon's clone demonic beasts have all disappeared.

The storm of dragons swept the massive monsters into the sky one by one, returning them to their original forms.

Presumably because the game has entered the stage of deliberation and resolution, the clone must be recovered, but this behavior has caused great damage to the alliance below.

Just the act of [recycling] can make the underground city and the giant clan almost suffer a catastrophe.

Fifteen minutes or so passed after entering the state of deliberation on the resolution, Sixteen Nights, Black Rabbit, Asuka and others finally met smoothly, but-

"No, I still haven't found where the ink is."

Asukina's voice was unusually anxious, and the black rabbit said with a crying voice while pulling his ears, "Really, where did Yakumo-sama run away at such a critical moment!" ”

Esther quietly held Ashina's hand and comforted the other party silently.

Sixteen Nights sat on a boulder while adjusting the headphones on his head, looking up at the sky.

"Well, maybe I know where he went."

"Where?" Jen immediately asked.

Sixteen Night pointed to the dragon in the sky.

After a brief silence, the crowd of [NoName] let out exclamations. (To be continued.) )