What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

"He's... a little disgusting."

Aqua said truthfully.

Connor did not refuse. Kazuma was still playing hide-and-seek with the guards outside, and he couldn't waste any more time here.

Taking the holy water cup, Connor poured the holy water purified by Aqua into Barda's mouth.

The law——

"Shh-"

While it was falling, Aqua also added the sound.

In a coma, Barda only felt that he was sinking into a dark sea, falling down and down. The surrounding sea water squeezed him so hard that he couldn't breathe. Just when he thought he was about to die of suffocation, he felt something hard under his body.

Soon, Barda, who had suffered a serious injury and was pulled back, regained consciousness.

"This is happening to me..." Balda's memory started to become fuzzy. His head no longer hurt, but why did his face feel a little swollen?

【recover】

Aqua calmly used the recovery technique for the third time. Who told Barda not to wake up after being treated? The only way was to use some physical methods.

"You just fell down." Connor cooperated with Aqua and said, with his hands behind his back, able to read the golden apple at all times.

"My father fell down? No, I have to go check on him quickly... He seems..."

Barda had just taken a step when he had to pull his hair because of the headache. More and more memories were entangled in his mind. The images of his father, Lord Alderp, became more and more numerous in his memory, but each image had an expression on his face that made people feel uncomfortable.

"What's wrong with me……"

"Time is running out," Connor said, choosing his words carefully. "Your father and the entire Axel are in danger. If you want to know the truth, come with us. By the way, tell your guards not to embarrass my companions."

The changes in Barda's body and the monsters from Hell have already proved that there is a great devil in the lord's mansion. But if Barda takes them to confront Lord Aldap now, then all the dignitaries, landlords, merchants, and upper echelons of the Adventurer's Guild who came to the party will most likely be wiped out in the battle with the great devil of the Duke of Hell's level.

In this way, Axel, which had been purged of all middle and upper-level leaders and was adjacent to the border of the Demon King's army, would be finished.

124. I was adopted

“Eh… I just wanted to help Darkness investigate the blind date and ruin the blind date…”

"Why are the troubles getting bigger and bigger..."

When they reunited in the private room in the bathhouse, Kazuma curled up on the sofa with a tired look on his face.

Yunyun and Huihui didn't know what was going on, but they didn't say anything to interrupt. They remained calm, which was rare, and looked at the young man who came in after Connor and Aqua.

"He's a similar type to the Demon Sword Hero..." the two Crimson Demon girls whispered.

Before they joined the current team, they had seen the Lord's son Barda during Axel's brief adventure, but they only saw him from a distance.

Normally, nobles like Darkness who mixed with adventurers were considered outliers among the nobles. However, Barda, who was very kind to the commoners, kept a distanced attitude towards adventurers like ordinary nobles.

“Who is Darkness…?”

Confused, Barda had many questions to ask, but Kazuma's complaints at this time made him suppress his other doubts and ask the most intuitive question.

"Isn't my blind date the daughter of the Dustinis family? Besides, I am also against this blind date. Could it be that the Dustinis family is using a substitute to fool me?"

Barda was a little angry, but the reason for his anger was reasonable.

It's like being promised a princess to marry, only to find out in the end that she was just a maid who was given a temporary title.

“No, no, no, Darkness’ real name is Dustiness Ford Lalatina. Darkness is just a pseudonym she used when she was an adventurer.” Kazuma explained hurriedly. He didn’t want the blind date to be successful, but he also didn’t want to ruin Darkness’s reputation… Well, Darkness didn’t have much of a reputation to begin with, and he just didn’t want to be involved in the reputation of Dustiness’ family.

"Oh...I see. What a cute name."

Barda nodded to show that he understood, but still expressed his negative attitude towards this blind date.

After answering the question that had been on his mind, Barda finally calmed down and looked at Connor who was sitting by the fireplace.

"Isn't this the auditor from the capital? If I remember correctly, you should be called Mr. Connor? The great hero who defeated the Demon King's army leaders and risked his life to sneak into the Destroyer to save Axel?"

"Where is the civil servant you are impersonating? And what is your purpose? What does it mean that my father and Axel are in danger?"

After asking a series of questions, Barda added, "And what's going on with the changes in me?"

"Just be patient, just be patient, I will explain everything to you one by one."

Connor took off his civil servant robes, revealing a suit suitable for action. The large robes helped to conceal his identity, but it was obviously not needed now.

"I ask the civil servant from the capital to take a nap and have no worries about his life."

Connor said that in the box next to them, the civil servant who was accidentally affected was sleeping soundly. Connor even asked a nightmare demon to compile his memory after taking a bath.

"As for my purpose and the actual situation..."

"Do you believe that there is a great demon lurking in the lord's mansion?"

Through the window, he could see the brightly lit dinner party. Connor pointed to the courtyard of the lord's mansion, as if a huge demon with wings on its back was crouching there, waiting to devour its prey.

Barda frowned. Demons were not something that needed to be concealed. As an aspiring knight, he was also aware of the existence of hell and demons. But was he asked to accept and acknowledge that there was a big demon in his mansion?

The lord's son wanted to refute and ask Connor to produce evidence, otherwise it would be a slander against the nobles. But he turned his head and thought about what happened after Aqua touched him, and he was doubtful for a moment.

"Maybe my father was coerced by the devil... After all, he is my father and the lord of Axel. If I threaten him with the people of Axel..." Barda said gritting his teeth. This is his bottom line at the moment.

“Not necessarily,” Kazuma said, “I asked the girls in the lord’s mansion who looked like Darkness. They all had signs of torture to varying degrees. Many of them had even been tortured to death. It was said that they all signed a contract with many patterns on it.”

"Even a layman like me can dig up a lot of scandals if I investigate."

Kazuma then shared the information he had gathered from his investigation: "Unfair exploitation, bribery, and the most amazing thing is that for some reason, there is no evidence. The surviving female victims are all keeping their mouths shut, and there is no evidence to prove that he had done anything wrong."

"The news about the existence of the contract is the result of my purification with holy water. Otherwise, no one would even know the existence of the contract." Kazuma was proud of himself for thinking quickly and carrying the holy water that Aqua was going to sell for money.

Barda's body trembled. "There are dead people? I don't remember any... and I will try my best to send them away..."

After getting Kazuma's affirmative answer, Barda asked again: "Those girls all look like Darkness, ah no, like Lalatina?"

Connor, Kazuma, and Aqua all nodded. This couldn't be faked.

Barda finally loosened his tightly clenched fist, which represented resistance. He now believed that there was a big demon in the lord's mansion that could distort memory and cognition.

He had been looking for girls who looked similar to Lalatina to humiliate him a long time ago, and now he wanted to arrange a marriage between him and Lalatina. What on earth was this father... this Lord Aldap planning?

Perhaps he was not threatened by the devil, but took the initiative to make a deal with the devil? And... Barda recalled those very discordant memories. How many things were distorted? How many people died in the unknown memories without even the opportunity to seek justice and redress?

In the past, he thought that Lord Alderp just had some aristocratic habits and could still be a good lord, but now...

With Aqua's purification, the power of the distortion curse faded, and his memories were gradually restored.

"hateful……"

"Isn't that your father?" Aqua asked. She was defending his reputation just now, why did she change her tone now?

"I was adopted," Barda said frankly.

"For the kingdom, for Axel, and for the common people, it is the duty of the kingdom's knights to eliminate the devil."

Barda reached for his waist but found nothing. His sword had been taken off and thrown behind the two Crimson Demon girls.

"Well, welcome to join the Duke of Hell's expedition team." Connor stood up and applauded.

Barda: "What? The Duke of Hell???"

125. The most terrifying thing in Suqing's world

How to defeat a great demon at the level of the Duke of Hell? This question is not too difficult for the temporary anti-Darkness blind date team.

All we need to do is let the goddess Aqua use purification magic to hit the big devil. No Duke of Hell can withstand Aqua's purification and survive, although they will be resurrected from hell again.

The immortality of the Duke of Hell is indeed difficult to solve, but Connor and others do not need to solve it. All they need to do is restore all the distorted contradictions when the Duke of Hell is purified by Aqua, and then all the evil deeds done by Lord Aldap will be made public.

"So, the key issue now has become how to get Aqua to hit the Duke of Hell."

Connor looked around and said to Kazuma and Barda who had changed sides at the last minute.

Targeting Lord Alderp himself with the purification spell would have absolutely no effect. If the source of the problem, the Duke of Hell, is not dealt with, everyone in Axel, and possibly even the capital, will be affected by the curse of the great devil.

Even if Lord Alderp was gone, the Duke of Hell might not be bound by any contract and could live freely in the world.

From this point of view, Connor and others cannot let Lord Aldap die in front of the Duke of Hell.

“I have an idea!” Huihui raised her hand, her eyes flashing with the dangerous red light of the Crimson Demons’ rising interest.

"If we just want to purify that big demon by hitting Aqua, how about we summon a flood with the lord's mansion as the core?"

When purifying the lake, Aqua once boasted that she was the goddess of water and that everything related to water was under her control, so much so that even bringing down a world-destroying flood was not impossible for her.

Huihui, who was determined to become the strongest and even had the ambition to replace the Demon King, naturally kept this sentence in mind and brought it up at this time.

"Just think about it, a devastating flood falling from the sky is dispersed by the explosive magic of me, the number one magician of the Red Demon Clan. How cool, spectacular and exciting it is!"

Megumin swung her staff exaggeratedly, almost hitting Barda on the head.

"Youyou, get another snack for Huihui."

Connor sighed and said to Yoyo.

Hui Hui was stunned for a moment, then sat back on the sofa and said, "Oh, okay, thank you."

To be fair, Connor was shamefully tempted by Huihui's proposal.

The fear of insufficient firepower still works even in the other world. This kind of world-destroying flood and explosive magic perfectly fits the beauty of the theory of firepower advantage.

And just like pouring hot water on ants, the flood summoned by Aqua can almost be regarded as holy water of extremely high purity. For the devil, it is not much different from ants encountering hot water.

The only concern about doing this is the killing range.

If the scope of the flood cannot be properly controlled, it will spread to the entire Axel. After all, the Lord's Mansion is the highest place in Axel except for the Eris Church, and the flood will easily spread.

"Aqua, can the flood be controlled?"

Connor asked, if the scope can be controlled, then use Huihui's method.

"Wait a minute!" Barda shouted. He was going to flood his home? What kind of thing was this?

He has lived for so many years, but he has never seen such a wild adventurer. What level is he? Can he release a flood just like that?

"I think we should reconsider it..." Kazuma also said. Either they could trick the devil out, or they could kill it with the help of Barda, an insider. Anyway, it would only be a matter of Aqua's purification spell. There would be no need to start a war, right?

It would definitely be against the law to release magic of that level in the city, right?!

"Illegal?"

Connor groaned and said, "Aren't those all spells from the great devil?"

Kazuma & Barda: Huh?

Aqua: Huh?

"You see, as long as we defeat the devil, the flood was caused by the devil. It was Megumin who couldn't bear to see the flood sweeping Axel so she tried to stop it. Aqua, as the high priestess, cast a purification spell on the flood to prevent the curse from being carried by the flood."

"As for the possible loss of residents..." Connor turned to look at Barda, "This is your expertise, what do you think?"

Balda wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. This idea of confusing right and wrong must be in the same group as the Duke of Hell, right? But since he was asked, Balda still found the relevant regulations from his memory.

"If it is all counted as protecting the town from the Duke of Hell-level demon, there will be special funds such as compensation issued by the kingdom and the cost of rebuilding the destroyed buildings. These are all funds that the lord who governs this place should make up."

"That means you will pay for it, right?"

Facing Connor's question, Barda nodded first, then shook his head. Didn't he say that the kingdom and the lords would provide the special funds? How did it have anything to do with him?

"After Lord Aldap is gone, Axel also needs a lord." Connor looked at Barda thoughtfully. Can this adopted son of the lord inherit Aldap's noble title and lordship?

If that were possible, then Aqua's flood and Megumin's explosion magic wouldn't be a problem. Both the cause of the release and the damage caused could be blamed on the Great Demon.

"You mean..." Barda might have thought of that possibility, but still couldn't say it out loud.

"Barda, as the youngest knight in the kingdom, discovered by chance that Lord Alderp was colluding with the devil. After much reflection, he decided to respond to the call of the Axis Cult and fight the devil to the end. In the end, with the help of the Dustinis family and adventurers, he eliminated the devil and restored order. Lord Barda repented for the crimes committed by the former lord and took practical actions to make Axel a model town of stability, prosperity and harmony in the kingdom again."

Connor picked up the teacup and drank it all.

Barda was silent.

“Or if you don’t want to, you can change Alderp to being coerced or bewitched by the Duke of Hell, and you killed your own brother for the sake of justice. It’s almost the same anyway.” Connor thought he was worried about the family’s reputation, so he proposed the second version.

Barda remained silent.

Just when Connor was about to lose his patience, Barda looked at Aqua, the ostensible high priest of the Axis Cult, and said with a sob:

“…Can we switch to the Eris Cult?”

Aqua: "Waaaaaaaaaaaa! I'm gonna drown the whole Axel now!!!"