ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (「お前ごときが魔王に勝てると思うな」と勇者パーティを追放されたので、王都で気ままに暮らしたい)

We're back!

Huh? Stude?

Ma'am?

Miss?

Could it be...

What's up?

Sara!

Okay.

Stude?!

Why?

Milkit!

Huh?

Flum's mind was consumed by an unquellable rage toward the evil before her.

But it was not out of a sense of morality.

What, you came back?

I was told you wouldn't!

Why, you!

CAMARADERIE CRUELTY

CRUELTY AND CAMARADERIE

Wait, miss!

Stude and his mother are alive!

They'll be fine. I healed 'em with magic.

There're better ways to punish that guy!

Miss!

Heh, gotcha.

Like I said the other day, Sara...

C'mon, you think you have time to chat?

One little flick from me, and you'll bleed to death.

Some pieces of trash never learn their lesson and are better off dead.

You're the piece of trash, you stupid slave.

Let me hear you beg for your life.

Wh... Why ain't that killing you?

D-Don't. Please don't.

Wait, miss!

No, please! Don't do—

Hearing you beg for your life felt good.

Forgive me, Sara.

But I think I did the right thing, even if nobody else does.

Real bad guys don't learn even when they're punished.

The right... thing?

Disgusting.

I'm so glad you're okay.

I'm so sorry I ruined the clothes you bought for me, Master.

You don't have to apologize for that.

But I do.

It was the very first thing you gave me. It was important.

So I apologize, Master.

Even then, why worry about clothes now?

There's something much, much more important!

Are you... crying?

I am, because I feel terrible.

Mast—

Why won't you scold me for not coming to save you sooner?

Come on, snap at me!

She knew it was impossible, but she wanted to hear something other than an apology.

A slave has no right to expect her master to come to her aid.

You do have the right!

I want you to expect all that and more from me!

Lean on me more!

I'll do everything I can to grant all your desires!

For a moment, I did picture you coming to save me.

But that's... not acceptable.

That's fine!

We're not slave and master!

We're Milkit and Flum! That's how we ought to be!

I'm going to pamper you to death and make you the happiest girl in the world!

What did it mean for someone to shed tears for her?

What did it mean to want to make somebody happy?

It was all so new to Milkit that she struggled to find the answers.

What?

You want a burial?

For those scoundrels?

I'm all for being compassionate, but I think prayer is wasted on the wicked.

Miss, I spent all night thinkin' about it, but I still don't get it.

I'm not much of a thinker, see?

So I dunno what makes one truly evil, or the right way to deal with 'em.

I just don't get it at all.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

But you got hurt because of me!

Introspection is the privilege of the young!

Pfft.

What's with that? We're only six years apart!

Six years is a long time at our age.

Be a good girl and listen to me...

or else I'll tickle you good!

Huh? Wait!

That tickles!

Okay. Cyrill, get us back to the capital.

Right.

Only you, with your Hero affinity, can use magic to return us to our saved location.

Get your act together, Cyrill.

I'm sorry, Jean.

You think an apology's going to cut it?

Stop.

Damn it.

Damn it all!

I got rid of the distraction! So why is this happening?

Cyrill, please.

Return.

We depart again in two days' time.

Get your supplies in order by then.

Once again, we failed to reach our destination.

No surprise, given how Jean and Cyrill were.

I wish Cyrill would act in a manner more befitting the hero.

We have been tasked with the noble duty of exterminating the demons.

We must see it to fruition at all costs.

Is something the matter?

Oh, I was just wondering if we could even pull it off.

We have fewer members now.

There is no point thinking about those who left us.

No point, eh? The Church isn't going after them either.

Speaking of, I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw Flum's stats.

Made me realize even a god can make mistakes.

They don't make mistakes.

Not Lord Origin.

If that wasn't a mistake,

it'd mean Flum had some necessary role to play in our party.

What do you think it was?

I couldn't say. That's something Lord Origin only knows.

Did your investigation of the lab yield anything, Neigass?

You were right, Sheitoom.

It was an old facility. I found papers from thirty years ago.

I also found a beast with one of those cores embedded in it.

Are those guys trying to start something again?

It's not a power that can be controlled.

Where in the world is it leaking from?

Maybe the seal's weakening, Demon Lord.

Not one thing has changed in my time as the medium.

Also, I keep telling you to stop calling me that, Brother.

Pah!

You guys put this Demon Chief label on me,

so I'm just playing my part here.

But, Tsyon, I get the feeling you like being called that.

You were all, "Entertain us three Demon Chiefs" just the other day!

Shut yer trap, Neigass!

Is this true, Brother?

Dinner is served.

HUGE GOAT SAUTÉ WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE

Tonight, we have a huge goat sauté with mushroom sauce.

I'm sure the heroes' party has no idea that we Demon Chiefs...

are just a bunch of childhood friends.

Tsyon.

Neigass.

Dhiza.

I simply put together the most capable team I knew, and this was the result.

And in fact, you are doing a great job.

"A great job"? I can't say I'm too fond of destroying towns.

But it has to be done.

We want the humans to realize that we don't want war.

Humans... I don't want to fight them,

but I always thought we could never understand each other.

Why'd you suddenly clam up?

It's nothing. Anyway, look at this.

What's with the flower?

Huh? Oh, no, forget about that!

How? Even my heat did nothing to those!

Who cracked it?

Flummy.

No way!

Flum? How'd that useless girl with all zeroes for stats pull this off?

I don't know. But she seems to have a rather unusual power.

Reversal.

I would surmise she reversed the spiral created by Origin.