I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 29



The King of Ten Thousand Demons Who Overcame Arrogance

Somewhere in the backspace of the [Akashic Archive]

“Thank you for your help, Demon God.”

I descended before the Demon God who helped me put the filthy creature into the weekly boss mode.

“…I just wanted to see the creature suffer eternally.”

Thousands

Tens of thousands

Hundreds of thousands

The filthy creature being beaten around by the ever-increasing number of players.

The Demon God sneered.

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Twisting her lips forcefully as if the sight was too pleasing.

But even that smile couldn’t hide the sadness in her eyes.

A sadness so immense that even though I could read her thoughts, I couldn’t fathom it.

Her mentor, who raised her, had turned into a mad slaughterer, and she had to stop him, killing him in the process.

But it turns out, the mentor had deliberately lost to let her kill him.

In order to ascertain the truth, I tried to resurrect my master by looking back into the past, and I grew too attached to the younger version of my master.

I couldn’t sacrifice the young master to resurrect the master, so I tried to stop it, but the master resurrected from within and merged.

Just when I thought it was a true happy ending, I was told that if I unleashed my power, the master and the world where the master exists would disappear.

I tried not to use my power forcibly, but in order to carry on the master’s will and become a demon god, I had to use my power.

In the end, I unleashed my power until the master reached annihilation.

…Isn’t it a miracle just to keep my sanity?

If it were me, I might have gone mad right away.

Just thinking about our constellation ending up like that makes me dizzy.

I really hate devastation.

“The demon god.”

“…What is it?”

“I have something I prepared in advance.”

I took out a bead from my bosom and held it out.

“What is this?”

…What should I say?

It’s a backup I kept to negotiate with you as a hostage when the plan to trap you in the story world went wrong, the world was destroyed, and you got angry and tried to kill me… I can’t say that.

I pondered the right words.

“It’s the backup data of the game you were playing.”

“…Backup?”

“So, it’s like I saved the progress.”

In preparation for any unforeseen circumstances, a backup was made, containing the young Demon King, Lena, who had adventured with her.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t include her true master who had been resurrected.

“……Is, is that really it?”

The Demon God, with wide eyes, reached out and accepted the orb.

Her hands were trembling uncontrollably.

I spread my hands beneath hers, fearing that she might drop the orb and cause a catastrophe.

“It’s, it’s really…!”

The Demon God peered into the orb with her divine eyes.

The Demon King, stored along with her progress.

She could see the girl, Lina, who remembered her as the Demon God.

“Safe…!”

The Demon God wept endlessly with joy.

Who could believe that the one who had forcibly maintained her dignity as a Demon God and finally burst into tears was the same high-handed Demon God?

‘…Was it a bit wrong of me to try to trap her by exploiting her emotions?’

How could I have known that the Demon God, who had defeated our investors and taken me hostage to give orders, had such a side?

It was merely a desperate struggle to survive.

I couldn’t bring myself to tell the weeping Demon God that although I had retrieved the game data, it wouldn’t be possible to resurrect the real Demon King.

* * *

“D-Demon God?”

Back in the Demon King’s room.

The Demon King Lina fidgeted at the touch of the Demon God’s embrace.

“It’s alright. There’s no need to fear that you won’t see the era of peace. I’ll take care of everything.”

The Demon God materialized and unleashed her powers to the fullest.

In the midst of the Demon God’s turbulent power, overflowing demonic energy.

Originally, the world should have collapsed under the weight of her demonic energy.

However, the world, having completed the process of aligning energy and power during its reconstruction as a free server solely for the Demon God, could be maintained.

“All battles are over. You can now lay down the heavy burden.”

A chain of hatred?

Unending conflicts due to continuous cycles of revenge?

Such things happen because the powers of both sides are evenly matched.

Overwhelming power.

If there is overwhelming power that neither side can dare to challenge, no one can cry out for revenge.

And the Demon God possessed that power.

“I won’t do it! I won’t do it!”

“I will follow the Demon God’s command!”

As the Demon God exercised her power directly, the entire continent came under her rule and submitted.

There were not a few who tried to defy her command and seek revenge, but the Demon God had enough power to capture and subdue them all in advance.

“……”

The Demon King stared blankly at the Demon God with his mouth agape.

“You said you wanted to see it, the era of peace.”

The demon who solved the problem he had struggled with all his life in an instant.

She was so beautiful.

“Now you can shake off all your heavy burdens and enjoy an era of peace and harmony. It’s an era for you.”

The Demon King chuckled as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Somehow… I feel relieved but also a bit sad.”

“…Really?”

“Yes. I achieved my dream… but it feels strange. I lived my whole life struggling for this one thing, and it turned out to be such an easy problem to solve.”

“Usually, problems that aren’t easily solved arise from a lack of power.”

“That’s true… I lacked power.”

The Demon King’s shoulders drooped.

“In the end, I was meaningless.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Even though I became the Demon King, I couldn’t handle a problem that you could solve so easily. Haha… I am truly incompetent.”

Creak

No.

What are you talking about?

I exist because of you

And that’s why I closed the era of hatred and achieved peace.

You opened everything, so what are you talking about?

“…Rina.”

“Yes?”

“Actually… I wasn’t a demon from the beginning. My master saved me when I was crying alone after losing my parents.”

“You had a master too, Demon Lord?”

“…Yes. No one can be strong from the beginning.”

“I’m curious about your master, Demon Lord. If I had to say, you are my master, aren’t you? …Oh, did I offend you?”

“No! Of course not. You are the only one I have ever taught. You are my greatest masterpiece and my greatest disciple. No one can surpass you.”

“Haha… Thank you, Demon Lord. But my entire life stems from you. If it weren’t for you, I would have died at the hands of humans in that basement that day.”

The girl awkwardly laughed while waving her hand.

The Demon Lord understood the emotions the girl was feeling.

It was resolved too quickly.

In order to save the girl, he shattered the chain of hatred with his power, causing the girl to question her life and existence.

The Demon Lord wanted to tell the whole truth immediately.

I am your disciple. You are my master.

Because you sacrificed everything, I became the Demon King and the Demon Lord and came this far.

All those words rose to his throat.

But she couldn’t bring herself to say them.

Squeeze

The girl’s eyes widened at the sudden embrace of the Demon Lord.

“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have cared about this world. You are the savior of this world and my… beloved savior.”

The warmth of the girl that couldn’t be felt in the state of a soul.

The scent of the master, which I thought I would never smell again.

The soft touch of her, always longed for in dreams.

The demon god closed his eyes and savored it.

The master is the true demon king, the hero, and the one worthy of the demon god.

Not a stupid and incompetent disciple like me.

The demon god, who had fallen asleep before he knew it.

The girl placed the demon god’s head on her thigh and laid her down beside her.

“You’ve grown a lot.”

Then she brushed and tidied the demon god’s bangs.

“Where did you learn to say things like that?”

The girl poked the demon god’s cheek with a slightly flushed face.

“I almost got caught because my heart was pounding too much while playing around.”

The demon god’s mouth curved into a smile at her warm fingers.

[The king of all demons who overcame arrogance smiles.]

As if dreaming a happy dream that overcame all tragedies and sins within.