“…….”
“…Hmm….”
Gio nodded.
“If you are finished, may I leave?”
“Why not hear more?”
“That was heavy enough. I can hardly breathe.”
“What an extraordinary fuss over nothing.”
“The limit of my capacity for violence is quarrels between friends and lovers’ spats.”
“The main point is not over, so wait.”
“I am very good at that.”
“How remarkably diligent of you.”
Delighted by his admirable listener, ‘Argio’ continued explaining himself.
“Thus was the Evil God called ‘Argio’ born, and the world moved even more swiftly toward destruction. The vengeful spirits of more saints than anyone could count acquired Divinity… How could such a thing possibly remain docile?”
The humans claimed that the Evil God commanded wicked magical beasts to torment them, and that was indeed what came to pass.
“To use a comparison you would understand, should I call myself something like a Demon King?”
“I will understand you as the Demon King from a fairy tale, the kind with an abducted princess and a brave hero.”
“It is not greatly different. The expression is just as broadly reductive.”
There had been a peaceful world with a single ominous region. From that place, the Demon King began spreading plague through his schemes and commanding magical beasts to torment humanity.
It continued for…