I love time travel the most!

She just couldn't accept the memory of how, back in the Crimson Demon Clan, her elders would go out every day to eliminate a portion of the Demon King's army to loosen their muscles and bones.

"They were a Crimson Demon Clan on the front lines of resisting the Demon King's army, a squad whose goal was to defeat the Demon King... Why, why did it turn out like this..."

Pointing her index finger at the pillar, Youyou stared blankly, looking just as silly as the goddess.

"Ugh, you idiot Kazuma, you said it again!"

"Uh...sorry."

"If apologies were enough, what would be the point of having prosecutors!"

Perhaps because Kazuma Sato didn't die mysteriously in this incident, he seems particularly active now, always dancing around in other people's sensitive areas.

"Waaah... I'm about to die."

At that moment, a groan came from the seat opposite Huihui. It was Darkness, who was lying on the table, her face flushed and trembling.

The oldest member of the team, this young lady, is naive and has a cool yet easily excitable personality, making people occasionally want to tease her.

As one of the main characters in the incident, the perverted knight really showed off his skills.

He single-handedly defeated a group of adventurers to prove his strength, and in the end, he forcefully withstood Kobayashi's attack with a hardness far exceeding that of Adamantium ore—the hardest ore in the world.

It has to be said that her presence is like the strongest barrier, making people wonder who could possibly break through her defenses.

While showcasing his skills, Darkness also attracted a lot of hatred due to Barnier's provocations.

This results in him being stared at by others with angry, provocative, and displeased eyes every time he walks down the street, a situation that is both incredibly enjoyable and torturous for the perverted knight.

"Is it something you hate or something you enjoy?"

"It's a kind of enjoyment amidst the annoyance."

"You guy..."

Kazuma Sato rolled his eyes at her disdainfully.

Darkness is the epitome of saying no but doing something she doesn't mean. She has the characteristics of a female knight, and I always feel that she will do something strange one day.

"Hey, you guys!"

While the team was acting crazy, Kazuma Sato shouted at them, drawing everyone's attention to him.

Then, he slowly began to speak:

"Where did Kobayashi-senpai go?"

Xiaolin disappeared early this morning.

As the protagonist who turned the tide and saved everyone, Kobayashi did not take them to the Adventurers' Guild to receive praise and applause from others, but instead disappeared alone.

Aqua tapped her chin with her index finger, puzzled, and said, "How strange. I resurrected him this morning, how could he disappear in the blink of an eye?"

"You idiot, you seemed to have said something weird just now." Sato Kazuma stared blankly at the silly goddess.

resurrection?

This morning?

What exactly did you do to Kobayashi-senpai?!

...Although he really wanted to ask, he had already guessed the process, and being used to it, he swallowed his question.

However, I couldn't help but say:

"If one day Senior Kobayashi leaves without saying goodbye, it must be because he can't accept being killed by you every day."

"Huh?! What does that have to do with me?!"

The silly goddess did something wrong but didn't realize it.

Speaking of which, if we were to rank the most tragic deaths by the number of times someone dies, Kobayashi-senpai seems to be number one.

And it's still far ahead.

Sato Kazuma's thoughts wandered. After all, that idiot goddess would unconsciously launch night raids every night, causing Kobayashi-senpai to be revived only the next morning. In that sense, Kobayashi seemed to be in a worse situation than him?

For some reason, Kazuma Sato felt a strong sense of sympathy and also found a little comfort in it.

Meanwhile, Kobayashi was at Wiz's magic tool shop. Standing outside the door, wondering if he had arrived a little too early, he pushed open the door.

Jingle ~

A crisp sound came into my ears.

"Welcome, Mr. Kobayashi!"

A warm welcome followed, but it wasn't the familiar voice of Wiz; instead, it was another deep and magnetic male voice.

"Yo, Barnier."

Kobayashi greeted him with a smile.

The man wearing the black and white mask was none other than Barnier, the Demon King's army officer and the Duke of Hell who commanded the demons and had displayed his prowess last night, defeating and humiliating a group of adventurers.

No one would have imagined that the Demon King's military officer who was killed last night would appear here.

Barnier's true form is in Hell; the mask is merely a projection of him, so it's only natural that he hasn't been defeated.

But he is different now than before.

The mask worn on the face has a large Arabic numeral "Ⅱ" in the center of the forehead, as if to distinguish it.

It can be described as an alternative form of Edo Tensei (reincarnation).

I always felt that he was looking down on others.

As for the original mask, it wasn't actually damaged; it was just taken away by the Kingdom's prosecutor, Sena, as evidence of defeating the Demon King's army officers.

Barnier said he didn't care; in fact, he was quite happy to use it as a backup coordinate point, and it wouldn't be out of the question if he did something bad.

I had a feeling that Barnier had seen something; he kept laughing and never stopped.

"Don't cause too much trouble."

Xiaolin had no choice but to give him this instruction.

Barnier readily agreed, as it was part of the original deal.

As for questions like, "Aren't you afraid of being recognized if you wear this mask as a disguise?", Kobayashi would never ask them.

Because it's just like Superman's glasses.

Once you put it on, no matter who it is, they will be like a blind person and won't recognize you.

"Alright, I've come here to give you what we agreed upon. The ownership contract from the original transaction has already been given to you. As for how to gain the kingdom's recognition, that depends on your own efforts."

Kobayashi placed a piece of parchment on the table.

Barnier picked it up, but immediately noticed something was wrong.

"What do you mean by being recognized by the kingdom?"

"Literal meaning. In this contract, Mr. Gil, the lich who built the dungeon, transferred ownership to me. But Mr. Gil was, after all, a lich who was hunted down by the kingdom, so..."

"Wait, we've never heard of such a thing!"

Barnier was dumbfounded.

It's like you painstakingly grind for a legendary weapon in a game, only to be told that you need to find someone to unlock it if you want to use it—it's as magical as that.

"You are truly more demonic than the devil himself!"

Barnier, the Demon King's military officer, the Duke of Hell who commands demons, and the all-seeing demon with foresight and prophecy, has suffered such a great loss at the hands of humans for the first time!

Today is the LPL Summer Finals! Summer Finals! You know what I mean! (Whispering: Only one update today)

Chapter 283 Despite being very unhappy, I couldn't find a reason to refute it.

After defeating Banir, a cadre of the Demon King's army, the team members seemed to have entered a period of burnout.

Even though the kingdom's bounty hadn't been paid out yet, and they hadn't performed particularly well in the battle, they still seemed unwilling to work.

The most obvious example is Kazuma Sato.

After all, this guy's wish has always been to be a stay-at-home, good-for-nothing kept by someone.

The kingdom has always offered generous bounties to the Demon King's army officers. According to Sena, the kingdom's inspector, this time the bounty will be comparable to the 500 million Eris offered by the Headless Horseman.

Such a huge sum of money was more than enough for them to live a carefree life for most of their lives, not to mention that Xiaolin had also stolen a lot of spoils from the lord's mansion.

I've mispoken.

The purpose was to take back the bounty that the unscrupulous lord had previously stolen, even without the lord's consent.

However, the lord did not obtain their consent at the time, so one instance each was considered to offset the difference.

So, Sato Kazuma comfortably became a shut-in.

He simply ignored the feelings of others.

Putting Darkness aside, Aqua also played a role in the battle against the Demon King's army. Apart from that, everyone else was just a background character. How could they (Megumin alone) be satisfied?

"Hurry up, let's get on the mission!"

"……I do not want."

"That's right, Kazuma, stop hiding in bed and get moving!"

"I do not want."

"Kazuma, when are you going to stop dawdling? Get up now!"

"I do not want!"

No matter what Darkness, Aqua, or Megumin said, Kazuma Sato consistently rejected them all.

It's wishful thinking to expect him to do a mission!

I will absolutely not step out of bed today!

"Kazuma, if you don't go to work soon, we won't have dinner tonight."

"……What did you say?"

Upon hearing Darkness's words, Kazuma Sato's first reaction was disbelief.