Chapter 186: A Demon More Like a Goddess Than the Goddess

Aqua didn't come looking for trouble again, and Vanir spent a few peaceful days, but one morning while sweeping, he suddenly realized his true purpose wasn't actually to hide away in Wiz's magic tool shop and work as a general store clerk.

"Almost forgot, I came to stop this world from possibly being ruled by a tyrant in the future, even destroyed.

It's all that brainless goddess's fault, coming to bother me all day long, making me forget my true purpose."

Vanir slapped his mask, deciding to put some pressure on Aqua.

How exactly did he apply it?

Well, he started treating Broly to all kinds of delicious food, and had Wiz go back and leak this situation to Aqua.

And the purpose was to tell the goddess Aqua: 【If you don't guide your disciple properly, your disciple might just get abducted by me, a demon!】

Upon hearing the news, Aqua was initially panicked, suddenly clinging to Broly, worried her own disciple might be bewitched and abducted by a demon.

But upon discovering Broly was single-mindedly devoted to her, Aqua relaxed, even calling Vanir a slacker demon doing useless work.

Then she continued her lazy vacation life of doing nothing but eating, sleeping, or drinking fine wine with peace of mind.

Mortal joy, no thought of heaven — that was Aqua's current state; the comfortable life had already made her in no hurry to return to heaven.

After all, what would returning to heaven early accomplish? Living a boring life of year-round reception of dead souls with no days off? Rather than that, she might as well enjoy herself properly in the mortal realm.

Anyway, with her disciple's terrifying strength, whenever she wanted to deal with the Demon King, she could deal with him.

When Vanir learned of Aqua's lay-flat attitude, he was directly rendered speechless; his pressuring Aqua was meant to make this goddess properly guide her disciple, not let the other party walk down a possible wrong path.

But the result was that Aqua actually directly free-ranged her disciple; this was information Vanir obtained after careful observation.

And this information made Vanir feel extremely absurd; he had never seen such an irresponsible goddess as Aqua before.

If not for knowing Wobake (a local deity unilaterally designated as an Evil God by the Axis Cult long ago, holding divine authority over ferocity and sloth), Vanir would even suspect Aqua was the true Sloth Goddess.

"Mr. Vanir, why the sudden sighing?"

Seeing the demon sighing in front of the shelves, Wiz couldn't help but ask.

"Sigh, I'm worried about this world's future!"

Vanir spoke the truth.

"Eh, has the Demon King Army decided to launch a full-scale attack on humans?"

Wiz subconsciously asked.

"That's not it; that guy Yasaka Kyoichi, you know him too, he has zero interest in human territory.

If not for those red-eyed ones and the Axis Cult guys running to the Demon King's Castle to provoke trouble every now and then, the Human-Demon War would've probably ended long ago."

Vanir waved his hand, revealing some rather staggering information.

"Uh, about that, I feel we can't blame it all on the Red Demon Clan and the Axis Cult; after all, the war between humans and demons has continued from six hundred years ago to now, and it was the demons who launched the invasion war in the first place..."

Wiz weakly defended.

"War is hard to judge right and wrong; wait, why am I discussing this with you?"

"Aren't you worrying about humanity's future, Mr. Vanir?"

"True, but the object of my worry isn't the current Demon King."

"Then what is it?" "The future Demon King."

"Oh, you mean the Demon King's daughter..."

Before Wiz could say the Demon King's daughter's name, Vanir directly interrupted: "It's not her; I'm talking about Broly."

"Eh?"

"With his strength, he can definitely easily defeat the current Demon King Army, but the dragon-slaying hero eventually becomes an evil dragon, and the demon-slaying hero easily blackens into a Demon King.

I worry that if he blackens into a Demon King, he might do something to destroy the world, and once he does, no one in this world can stop him; we demons can't, and on the goddess side, look at that fake goddess's behavior — can she do it?"

The more contact he had with Broly, the more Vanir could discover the terror on the boy; he had actually already realized some of Broly's max-stat attributes might just be the Adventurer Card's display limit, not his true strength limit.

The proof lay in when he competed with Broly in a dream; he brought out his own main body strength from Hell, and the result was still unsurprisingly an easy thrashing by the boy.

The boy in the dream displayed power even more terrifying than in reality, and without the slightest wavering or doubt about his own strength, as if the him in the dream was the him in his cognition, and should be that powerful as a matter of course.

"Uh, Broly is a well-behaved child; I feel he won't become a Demon King, much less do something to destroy this world."

Wiz said.

"Hard to say; after all, the dark side of this world's humans is filthy; if he accidentally sees those things, going by that brat's comparatively act-on-whim way of doing things, he'd probably do whatever suits his fancy.

Think about it: an era where the Demon King has been eliminated, yet the hero who eliminated the Demon King kills some filthy human nobles.

At that time, what will those human rulers think? Will they treat him as a new generation Demon King?

Sometimes, whether the hero himself wants to fall into evil is one thing; being forced into evil fall by others is another."

Vanir's words had deeper meaning; the former lonely youth also chose to become a Demon King only after experiencing human malice.

Hearing this, the Lich lady fell somewhat silent.

Last time, she was also forced to fight the Axel guards.

If not for Darkness, that matter definitely wouldn't have been easy to handle.

She might have had to leave this city.

"Then Mr. Vanir, what do you plan to do?"

"Hmm, first, on behalf of that irresponsible goddess, guide that brat to love this world.

At least, when he sees some darkness of this world, make him not easily generate thoughts of destroying the world.

Even more so, not let the mere fact of his master being embarrassed give rise to the dangerous thought of wanting to kill everyone who dares mock his master..."

Vanir thought it over, sorted out some things that needed doing, and answered Wiz's question.

"Broly, what do you think of this world?"

"I feel fine, what's wrong?"

"If, I'm saying if, you saw something uncomfortable, what would you do?"

"What do you mean?"

Broly looked at Wiz in confusion; the Lich lady had been strange lately, always asking him inexplicable questions.

(Chapter End)