Chapter 311: Shikigami’s Fail

“Evil God-sama, did you summon me?”

“Yeah. Bring me a few curses from the bookshelf of curses.”

“Curse? Uhm, may I know why?”

“I’m bothered about that.”

The Evil God’s gaze was directed to the magic circle that the shikigami brought to the Evil God’s shrine.

“We can’t erase it in the end.”

The magic circle was apparently written in divine script, and the no matter how much power the Evil God used, he couldn’t remove it.

“What the heck… Just what did you bring here, huh?”

“Souvenir!”

“Who needs a souvenir like that!! And this eyesore is right smack where it’s most obvious, of all things…”

The Evil God would usually sit on a certain chair in the innermost room of the shrine while he receives the negative energy flowing from the Human Realm.

The magic circle had been set to the dead center of the room, so the Evil God would see it when he sat on that chair.

It was definitely an eyesore for him, and it couldn’t be helped.

“What will you do if that’s a teleportation circle, and heroes use that to attack this place? Then that means I’m going to be attacked by heroes! I’m going to cast a curse on it just in case!”

“B-But, there’s no hero now, is there?”

“Then why on earth does a spell my power can’t erase exists? Even if there ain’t no hero now, that’s definitely the work of someone from the other world.”

The deities of this world wouldn’t attack the Evil God.

That’s the rule set by the Creator God.

The only non-deity beings who could surpass the Evil God’s power were the teleported humans and transmigrators from the other world.

“By the way, what is Demon King Sitri doing now?”

Before Evil God fell into slumber, he instructed Sitri to wait for a bit before going on a rampage as the Demon King.

The Divine Realm lost a huge chunk of energy after he cursed an otherworlder and made him transmigrate, so even if Sitri raged, the Creator God wouldn’t be able to summon the otherworlders and teleport them here.

There was no need to fret.

He could already see how the entire world would be enveloped in despair and horror.

That’s the reason why he stopped Sitri.

If Sitri didn’t go berserk in the Human Realm, then the Creator God wouldn’t have any reason to summon a hero, and he wouldn’t notice that the energy reserved for the hero teleportation was almost spent.

“Demon King? Er… Ehmm…”

The shikigami hemmed and hawed for some reason.

“Don’t tell me she got defeated?”

Sitri was the most elite among the demons serving under Evil God. He bestowed protective blessings on her and made her the Demon King.

There were no heroes currently, so there shouldn’t be anyone who could defeat her.

“Er…I lost track of her.”

“ — What?”

The Evil God was dumbfounded when he heard her reply.

“The whereabouts of Demon King Sitri is unknown.”

“W-What the heck?!”

“No demon with Evil God-sama’s protection exists in the Demon Realm and in the Human Realm.”

“W-What?!”

“Also, there is another thing I must report.”

“...What?”

“It’s not only Demon King Sitri. Starting from Bael, the number one ranking demon subordinate of Evil God, a lot of demons are out of reach and can’t be contacted.”

“Huh?”

“There weren’t weaklings among them who regularly contacted us, after all. Even the demons didn’t contact each other unless Evil God-sama ordered them to do so. We don’t even know whenever they were purified.”

“W-Wait Then, just how many demon subordinates do I have now?”

“I checked earlier, and there were about 15 who replied.”

“15?! There have been 71 of them, and now you’re saying only15?!”

What the Evil God doesn’t know is that a certain family had been capturing the demons while he was deep in slumber, so the Evil God’s subordinates had decreased to that much.

“Why?! What the heck happened?!”

“I don’t know.”

“D-Don’t know, you said? You-you-you, just what did you do while I’m sleeping?!”

“I traveled in the Human Realm. Please look at this!”

The shikigami showed her notebook to the Evil God.

“...Hoh. This is quite good, you made some great observations here, huh.”

The shikigami’s notes were about the development of each nation, what sort of food and cuisine they had, which ones were delicious and which weren’t. The destruction priority of the nations were ranked based on the taste results.

“I see. You’ve been doing this, so you couldn’t monitor the Demon King and demons activities, is that it?”

“Yes!”

“My shrine is now in shambles because you left me while I was sleeping because you went on a trip?”

“Yes, that’s about right!”

The dust had piled up on the Evil God’s chair, and Death Spider webs covered all the corners of the shrine.

“....”

“...Tehe.”

“Thhhiiiiiisss @#%@^$&@!!!!”

The surroundings of the shrine shook greatly under the bloodlust that the Evil God released.

And the shikigami who received the brunt of that bloodlust —

Transformed with a pop into a scrap of paper.

“N-No way… Did she ran away?!”

Precisely so.

Not knowing the whereabouts of the demon king.

Failure to notice the mass destruction of demons.

Bringing home a mysterious magic circle.

Completely neglecting the shrine’s cleanup.

The shikigami already knew that she would be scolded by the Evil God for all the failures she did.

That’s why she fled.

And the destination was —

──＊＊＊──

“Hey, Halt. Our Slime Girls — they’re five, right?”

Ryuushin was watching the Slime Girls practice dancing in the mansion’s courtyard. He called out to Halt who happened to pass by.

“Yeah. That’s right, but they added another one recently.”

A girl with bangs reaching beneath her eyes was trying to learn the dance steps under the guidance of the five Slime Girls.

She had chosen the safest refuge when she fled from the Evil God.