Chapter 235

"Trash Aqua, you don't even dare to take responsibility."

After Darkness, Megumin also stepped forward and spat on the ground.

"Aqua Master, if you really are the Goddess-sama, and the story of the Lonely Hero is also true, then it really is your fault."

Yunyun also stepped forward and said a sentence.

"Miss Aqua..."

It was Wiz's turn; Aqua's eyes were already brimming with tears as she glared at her: "Even a Lich like you wants to accuse me?"

"Ah~"

Wiz sighed and shook her head, saying nothing, but the respect she once held for the Goddess Aqua's identity was already gone from her gaze.

"Broly~"

Aqua pursed her lips and looked at the boy; Broly comforted her: "It's no big deal. Even if Aqua Master is wrong, it's not Aqua Master's fault, but the world's fault."

Broly's attitude of favoring kin over reason made Aqua feel much better; now that everyone looked down on her, her cute Disciple was still willing to stand by her side.

"Alright, Aqua Master, I'll go collect a corpse for that old Demon King~"

After comforting Aqua, Broly walked toward the old Demon King's corpse. Although the old Demon King had attacked Aqua on his own, Broly could understand the other's behavior and didn't feel particularly angry.

Of course, the reason he wasn't angry was that Aqua was fine; now the one lying dead on the ground was the other party.

"May your resentment be soothed~"

Casually punching a pit, Broly used the Axis Cult's Funeral Rite to perform the Burial Ritual for the old Demon King.

The demon girl's face was pained as she looked at her dead father, but when she raised her head and fixed her gaze on Broly, it was filled with hatred.

The other conscious members of the Demon King Army were the same; the old Demon King was not only a prestigious leader to them, but also an Elder who cared for them.

The old Demon King's death caused hatred to grow in the hearts of these Demon King Army members.

Broly also felt these gazes of hatred.

Locking eyes with the Demon King's daughter and her hateful gaze, and meeting the angry gazes of the Demon King Army members.

Broly frowned, thought for a moment, and slowly raised his hand.

If it were just him, he might not care about these individuals' hostility, but he would leave this world later; to avoid bringing extra risk to his wife, eliminating these hostiles was a very simple choice.

The few moral concepts that had already arisen would not affect the choice Broly would make after simple consideration.

Even if the root of this matter might be Aqua's fault, so what? Broly would not only not blame Aqua as both his wife and his teacher, but would even help Aqua clean up this mess.

However, as the party somewhat in the wrong, Broly would make the deaths of these Demon King Army members not too painful.

Just as Broly was preparing to send Energy Bullets to end the lives of the Demon King Army before him, Aqua was first made unable to bear it by Darkness and Megumin beside her, who looked at her with contemptuous gazes and spoke to her with subjugating words.

"Look, Broly is more sensible than you. With you like this, can you even be called a Good Teacher? From now on, I think you should stay away from Broly a bit, lest he be corrupted by you~"

Darkness's words were very sharp, but the wife members around her all nodded in agreement.

"Ahhh, you all actually say this about me. I, I, at worst, I'll just revive that guy!"

Resurrection Art! A dazzling light was directly thrown by Aqua at the dead old Demon King. The Goddess's power appeared before the power of destruction, and the old Demon King in the state of a Burnt Corpse recovered before everyone's eyes at a visible speed.

Yasaka Kyoichi opened his eyes in confusion, looking at the sky above, and subconsciously asked: "Is there a blue sky in the world after death?"

Broly put his hand down; the demon girl's gaze changed from hatred to joy. After an explanation, the old Demon King finally understood who had revived him.

"This way, the grudges between me and your clan are settled."

Aqua said with her hands on her hips, preparing to use the grace of resurrection to offset the Demon King clan's resentment.

Old Demon King: "..."

To be honest, he didn't hate the Goddess Aqua that much; after all, he himself was not that hero's ancestor from back then.

The reason he had attacked Aqua was simply that he himself was already old and didn't have much time left to live.

Rather than dying in some corner of the world one day in the future, it was better to challenge that guy suspected of being a god, launch a retaliatory attack in place of the ancestor, and then die in a grand and spectacular fashion.

And his death indeed turned out as he had expected, grand and spectacular. But after being resurrected, looking at his daughter throwing herself on him and crying with joy, the old Demon King regretted his impulse a little.

Fortunately, all of this was salvaged by a Resurrection Art: "Alright, Aqua-sama, our grudges are considered ended."

The old Demon King agreed to Aqua's proposal.

"Getting back to the point, is the so-called story of the Lonely Hero really true? This kind of thing can't be verified by anyone, right?"

After obtaining agreement for reconciliation, Aqua instead began to mutter, starting to question the authenticity of the Lonely Hero's story. Obviously, she did not want to admit that the result was caused by her own negligence as a Goddess.

"It would be great if Mr. Vanir were here; he should know that Hero and Demon King from three hundred years ago."

Wiz said.

Speak of the devil.

Some clay rose from the ground, and Vanir, wearing a Black-and-White Mask, made a brilliant debut.

"Not bad. I know that Lonely Youth. Although he eventually married a beautiful Demon King's daughter and actually didn't live too miserably, there is still the fact that he was forgotten in this world by some irresponsible Goddess."

Vanir said a sentence, then pointed at Aqua: "That's right, that irresponsible Goddess refers to you, this guy!"

"Vile Demon, what evidence do you have to say that? Even if you know the other party, a Demon's words are simply not to be believed!"

Aqua immediately denied it.

"Hehehe, I knew long ago that you, this irresponsible Goddess, would say this. So after I predicted that the Demon King Army would fail in its fate of failure, I specially returned to Hell and brought from my Main Body some Memories of when I once got along with that Lonely Youth using a Memory Stone."

Vanir took out a Memory Stone, directly used Magic Power to activate it, and played the recorded Memory images. These Memories were precisely of the Lonely Hero who successfully subjugated the Demon King in the past, facing the scene where he could not return to question the Goddess, but no one responded to him at all.

And even at the moment of breathing his last at the end of his natural lifespan, the other party still wanted to know the answer.

"Ahhh..."

Aqua screamed and went to snatch the evidence of the Black History, while Vanir simply didn't care and laughed.

"Things like this, I have as many as I want. And afterwards, I must take this truth buried in history, the Water Goddess Aqua's Black History, to the Axis Cult headquarters, over there in the Axis Cult, and have your Believers play it on tour, making their faith in you shatter~"

Vanir dodged Aqua's attacks, but spoke very demonic words.

"Broly, I entrust you, help me kill that Demon. I don't want to be abandoned by my Believers!"

Aqua cried pathetically again, seeking help from Broly.

"Mr. Vanir, let's make a deal. Regarding the things of my master that you hold, I want them."

Broly looked at Vanir and said to this Archdevil.

"What price do you offer? Things like the Goddess's Black History are very expensive."

Vanir played with the Memory Stone in his hand and asked with a smile. "One share of my anger emotion."

"At least ten shares."

"Deal done!"

Thus, Broly and Vanir reached a deal.

The Demon King Army present and Princess Alice and the others, however, all looked somewhat stunned.

"Where am I..."

As time passed, the unconscious Demon King Army soldiers gradually woke up.

And those who woke up directly learned the news that the Demon King Army was to be disbanded.

"The Demon King Army disbanding, how can this be?"

Some soldiers were unwilling to accept this result, but upon learning that the Old Demon King had also died in battle once, facing the Saiyan boy who had easily defeated them, they also had nothing to say.

Not wanting to disband meant death; there was no third choice.

"Demon King-sama, this Subject still wishes to follow you, even if only as a servant."

And some Demon King Army soldiers felt lost, yet stated their stance just like that.

"I am no longer the Demon King; you ought to pursue your own lives."

The Old Demon King waved his hand, directly refusing these followers; the first large half of his life was spent managing the Demon King Army and ruling the demon race.

And now, having died once and come back to life, the Old Demon King only wanted to take his daughter and experience a life different from that of a Demon King.

The world is vast; Yasaka Kyoichi had long wanted to go see it, but was previously bound in the Demon King's Castle by the identity of Demon King.

But now, the Demon King Army had already been defeated, and he no longer had the identity of Demon King; he could finally go do what he wanted to do.

However, before giving up the Demon King identity, some words still had to be clearly explained to his subordinates: "After the Demon King Army disbands, humans will definitely try to exterminate us completely; in the days to come, you all had best hide in places humans cannot find."

This was the last thing he had to do; the Demon King Army Executives were fine — even without the existence of the Demon King Army, the Executives' own strength was sufficiently powerful, not fearing any human pursuit; but other demons were different — they must hide before humans react.

Chimera Sylvia took away the Goblin Army, preparing to head to dangerous ruins to hide; Dullahan Beldia led his Undead Army, planning to return to the Dark Underground Dungeon filled with dead souls...

The Fallen Angel lamented that her former home was gone, and when she was about to leave, she was stopped by Aqua; Aqua inquired about the reason for her fall.

And the answer obtained was that this Demon King Army Executive Fallen Angel, unable to bear Heaven's year-round no-vacation 007 work environment, took a quest to descend to the Lower World after a Demon King appeared in this world — not to solve the Demon King problem, but planning to escape the life of a Heaven corporate slave.

Regarding this, thinking that after solving this world's Demon King problem she would have to return to Heaven and resume the life of year-round non-stop work, Aqua actually empathized with this Fallen Angel.

"Come on, as a Goddess-sama you can still push your own work onto us Angels, while we Angels are the ones who truly have no vacation."

But towards Aqua's empathy, the Fallen Angel was somewhat sneering, believing that as a Goddess, Aqua fundamentally could not understand their situation as Angels.

The two argued, quickly escalating to Aqua being spoken to until somewhat ashamed into anger, directly throwing a Sacred Purification at the Fallen Angel's head.

"No, I don't want to return to Heaven, I don't want year-round non-stop work~"

The Fallen Angel's wings were purified white, and Heaven's rules also sensed her existence in the Lower World, directly opening the Heaven Gate and sucking her back.

And before leaving, this Angel's struggle and despair were so real that anyone watching would think she was descending to Hell, not returning to Heaven.

"Is Heaven really that scary?"

Wiz asked.

Hearing this, Aqua also didn't know how to answer.

For her, Heaven was fine.

Although not as exciting as the world above, staying in Heaven as a Goddess could let her Divine Power continuously increase.

"Wait, why haven't I received Heaven's summoning yet?"

Aqua suddenly reacted, somewhat puzzled.

"Could it be that the guy who sent me here wants to replace me?"

Aqua understands conspiracy theories; she quickly thought of a possibility.

"Isn't that great? Heaven doesn't sound like a good place either; this way, you can stay in this world."

Darkness said.

"Not great at all. Once an Angel usurps my Divine Rank, my Divine Power will gradually disappear; once it disappears, I will thoroughly become a Mortal, possibly not even possessing my current strength; and without my current strength, I am a Useless Person; wuwuwu, I don't want to be a Useless Person~"

Aqua cried; she had a very clear cognition of herself after losing Divine Power.

"It's fine, Aqua, I'll take care of you!"

Megumin patted Aqua's shoulder and said words that surprised Aqua somewhat.

"Megumin, didn't expect you to be such a good person."

When Aqua was somewhat moved, Megumin revealed an ill-intentioned smile.

"Of course. But at that time, I'll definitely call you Parasite Aqua."

She showed her true colors; this Genius Girl of Crimson Demon Clan's Eye of the Mind is not big at all.

Aqua: "..."

Looked at Broly: "Broly, you won't let this kind of thing happen, right?"

Aqua discovered that now, she seemed to only be able to rely on Broly.

"Aqua Master, I have to return to my own world in two days."

Broly scratched his head, yet spoke words that made Aqua feel despair.

"Eh, Broly, where do you plan to go?"

Yunyun asked curiously.

"Return Home."

Broly answered.

"But our home is in Axel, isn't it?"

"I'm talking about the home on Nappa Star."

Yunyun fell silent, then her eyes widened: "So, what you said in the village before, about coming from Nappa Star, was all true!?"

(Chapter End)