Zere’s Wish

“That old man… If he had forces like these hidden away, he should have entrusted them to me…”

Those were the first words Demon Prince Zere uttered when he saw my face, but what I could read from his expression was deep sorrow and exhaustion.

He looked like a boy of around fourteen or fifteen in human terms.

When I requested a meeting after bringing with me the achievement of driving back the human army, Zere agreed far more readily than I’d expected.

When I faced him, I treated him politely, but I never once showed him the deference of...