This time, I won't be the devil.

Although the power of the Holy Sword cannot be exerted, the Holy Sword itself comes with a damage bonus against demons.

He continued to cut the hero's body with the holy sword, quickly consuming his humanity.

Half an hour later, the hero was completely transformed into a zombie. His skin turned reddish-brown and stuck to his skeleton like dried bacon, and his face was no longer recognizable.

Frey took off the devil's gorgeous black robe and put it on the zombie on the ground.

Finally, he thrust the holy sword into the living corpse and pinned it to the ground, creating a crime scene.

Frey never revealed his true appearance to others, and the only few demons who had seen his zombie face all died in this battle.

Next, the zombie that the hero turned into will replace him as the demon king "Hakimi" and be arrested by humans.

Two hours later, the human coalition forces, having detected signs of super-level magic being activated, finally sent a suicide squad to the battlefield to investigate the situation.

Afterwards, Frey, along with other humans captured by the demons, was rescued by the coalition forces.

……

In April of the 999th year of the Aiden calendar, the final battle between the hero and the demon king came to an end.

The demon king was defeated, leaving only an undead shell.

The brave man sacrificed everything he had, and was annihilated both physically and spiritually.

After losing the Demon King, although three-quarters of the land had not yet been conquered, the remaining demons simply gave up resistance and signed a series of unequal treaties with humans, including the cession of magic stone veins and the transportation of slaves.

This holy war, which lasted for nearly 300 years, ended with the victory of the human camp.

Frey was not surprised by the demons' lightning-fast surrender.

Unlike humans, high-level demons not only have a low reproduction rate, but also take a lot of time to grow.

During the long war, those brave and courageous demon warriors who dared to stand up would often be killed first in the battle with humans.

After hundreds of years of screening, most of the remaining high-ranking demons are spineless people who know how to protect themselves.

The more intelligent demons such as succubus, ghosts, and orcs formed a peace faction. They secretly colluded with humans to retain their strength in the war.

How can we deal with the demon clan if we are with this group of insects?

Frey had thought about conducting united front work within the demon clan, but unfortunately there was not enough time.

The Demon King's power mainly comes from the Three Pillars of God, so he cannot carry out a large-scale purge of the high-ranking demons who are also believers of the Three Pillars of God.

The result was that when the heroes came, only the most brutal alien monsters who insisted on fighting to the death and exterminating humanity were willing to obey Frey's command.

This group of pro-war factions, who didn't look very human, had already been collectively annihilated in the process of fighting against the heroes.

Now, those surrenderists who hid in the rear and secretly made peace with humans have become the new rulers of the demon clan.

Anyway, it wasn't their territory that was ceded, and those sent to humans as slaves were just low-level cattle and horses.

In order to find a way to cease fire, most of the crimes committed by the demons against humans were blamed on the demon king Frey.

Frey actually knew very well that the so-called Demon King was essentially just a tool used to carry the power of the Three Pillars of God.

To be honest, although Frey's original intention was not to save the demons, objectively speaking, as a demon king, he has done his best.

The human leaders can compromise with the demons for the sake of profit, but the brave will not.

If he hadn't defeated the hero, the remaining demons wouldn't even be qualified to sit at the negotiation table.

But at this point, the future of the demons has nothing to do with Frey.

Although his level became 1, Frey had no regrets.

Rather than being a devil who is restricted in every way, he would rather live a comfortable and free life.

As the Demon King, he is dead. Next, Frey will have a new life as a human being.

Chapter 3: Life in a Different World Starting from 1

After the human coalition withdrew from the demon territory, Frey and the captives were sent to the Holy See for interrogation.

The Church of Light believes in Alice, the Goddess of Light and Contract, the leader of the Seven True Gods mentioned by the hero before.

In the Aiden continent, the power of gods mainly comes from the power of faith. The more believers there are and the more devout their faith, the greater the power of gods and the higher their status.

The most powerful force in the human camp at present is the Hikari Theocracy established by the Holy See of Light.

This time, it was under the leadership of the Theocracy that the other human countries were able to temporarily put aside their conflicts and form a coalition.

As part of the contingency plan, this group of prisoners was prepared in advance by Frey, and they were imprisoned deep underground in the Demon King's Castle.

Originally, the prisoners should have been released after the interrogation.

But Frey soon realized he had made a small mistake.

He did not mistreat these humans.

So, at the request of the Vatican, this group of people truthfully confessed their experiences.

"The devil makes us work eight hours a day."

"Uncle Demon King gave us candy and performed magic tricks for us."

"The Demon King also cured my asthma and chronic rheumatoid arthritis..."

The Vatican originally hoped that they would become witnesses to expose the crimes of the devil, but in the descriptions of this group of people, the devil almost became a good person.

Putting the facts aside, anyone who speaks for the devil is a traitor!

This group of captives has obviously been bewitched by the devil. If they are allowed to return to society directly, it will definitely have a bad impact.

In order to correct their wrong ideas, the Church decided to re-educate the captives and reinstill the idea of ​​love.

The transformation was very successful. Under the guidance of the clergy, the captives had become so conscious that they would automatically choke up at the mere mention of the devil.

"Wow~ Damn, why is the Demon King so evil?"

During the time Frey stayed in the Vatican, the conviction of the Demon King Hakimi was successfully completed.

After a thorough and fair investigation, the Vatican's Court fabricated a large amount of evidence out of thin air.

For example, in this announcement titled "What Bad Things Has Hakimi Done?", it was recorded that the Demon King ate seven children in one meal, illegally seized countless treasures, and was constantly researching large-scale destructive magic with the intention of exterminating humanity...

In addition, crimes including the embezzlement of coalition supplies, the unfinished construction projects of the Vatican, and the unwanted pregnancy of nuns were also blamed on Hakimi.

Kids, I didn't do this.

However, under the vigorous propaganda of the Holy See, the people have generally believed that the devil Hakimi is the culprit of all evil, and created a proverb:

"Wherever Hakimi's black hand reaches, evil will spread!"

Humans will naturally not let such an unforgivable demon go easily.

Although the devil is dead now, his body is still there, so the Church sentenced Hakimi, who had become a zombie, to death.

Unlike ordinary humans, the "death penalty" of undead people is special.

After suffering a fatal injury, the undead will consume their humanity to repair their body.

As long as their humanity is not exhausted, they can be resurrected even if they are chopped in half, dismembered, or even ground into minced meat.

When resurrected, the undead will use the largest existing piece of flesh as the core to reconstruct the other missing parts.

That is to say, once the undead is beheaded and the distance between the head and the body exceeds the repair limit.

They will grow a new head from their body.

If the undead has enough humanity, he can even watch a new head grow out of his body with his own eyes while retaining consciousness.

Since the zombies' recovery ability has been greatly reduced, it takes several months for them to grow a new head.

In Frey's opinion, torturing zombies is a meaningless thing. After all, zombies are corpses without consciousness.

However, in order to appease the people, the Vatican decided to carry out a public execution.

The hero probably never imagined that after his death, his body would be mistaken for the Demon King Hakimi and be sent to the guillotine by the humans he saved.

There is no Hakimi in this world, but as long as people believe in him, he is Hakimi.

On the day of the execution, Frey and others were brought to the scene as part of their education.

When the execution took place at noon, the sky was still covered with dark clouds and the earth was shrouded in gray.

The crowd of onlookers had already filled the entire execution ground. They were so densely packed together that their features were barely discernible.

It is the tradition of the Church of Light to execute criminals on cloudy days. The sinful souls of the death row prisoners are not worthy of the illumination of the Goddess of Light.

The guillotine fell, and as bright red blood flowers bloomed in the air, shrill cheers broke out from the crowd.

"Okay, good kill!"

"Long live!"

"Beheading, beautiful, click..."

Just like that, surrounded by the crowd and amid cheers, "Hakimi" was beheaded.

Afterwards, the severed head was hung up for public display, and the body was taken back by the Church. When a new head grew, he would continue to perform beheadings to please the people.

The brave man once said that he would try his best to save more people, and finally died surrounded by people.

In a sense, he achieved both.

In the first month after the brave man's death, people built a cenotaph for him and held a grand funeral.

On the day of the funeral, everyone cried bitterly, and for a moment the entire human world was immersed in sorrow.

But we are not that fragile.

Two months after the hero's death, his best friend and his lover held their wedding in front of the hero's grave.

The wedding was as luxurious as the hero's funeral. After all, the hero left all his property to his lover before leaving.

Three months after the hero's death, news and newspapers no longer reported the hero's deeds.

Most of the credit for defeating the demons was attributed to the human coalition forces who acted as the atmosphere throughout the process.

Four months after the hero's death, people's lives had completely returned to normal and few people mentioned the hero's name anymore.

It was as if he had never appeared.

On the other hand, after a long ideological education, Frey and his companions finally regained their freedom and received a pitiful resettlement fee.