Midnight visitor
This is MTL – if you want something of better quality, you are free to do it yourself ๐
(of course any comment on the grammar/sentences/etc is more than welcome)
Recap of the story so far (from memory):
Iori is on his way to take revenge on his past comrades who betrayed him right before he could defeat the demon king.
While seeking to restore his power through consuming the mana of dungeon cores, he comes across the sealed head of his former opponent Elfi who was fighting as one of the Four Heavenly Kings for the Demon King.
She reveals to him that she is the former Demon King and was forced to fight for the current one. After losing against Iori, all of her body parts were sealed in labyrinths.
Since both Elfi and Iori need to clear the labyrinths to regain their powers – the former needs to collect her body parts and the latter the labyrinth cores – they decide to travel together.
In their travel, Iori exacted revenge upon four of his treacherous ex-teammates: Merwin, a werewolf taking advantage of his fame to live as the mafia of his town, was burned to death; Beltoga, a flame ogre who poisoned him 30 years ago dies from poison; Olivia, a magician was eaten by demonic beasts; and finally Dionis, a water ogre.
Afterwards, Iori and Elfi traveled to the religious state and dealt with the managers of an orphanage who were killing the children and had produced several homunculus copies of Iori.
Iori, Elfi, and one friendly homunculus called Amatsu put an end to their infamy though it cost them the life of the homunculus.
Recent characters:
Iori & Elfi => MCs – travelling together to get revenge – Elfi has regained her head, arms, and legs
Olga => Dead (evil) homonculus
Lily & George => Caretakers of the orphanage, betrayed Iori 30 years ago
Michelle => The kid MC of the orphanage arc, was rescued by Iori
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“Phew. It’s refreshing.”
Night.
Elfi, who had gone to the bathroom, returned to the room with a satisfied expression on her face.
As an inn of the holy city, it is well equipped. Therefore, the accommodation fee is quite expensive, but that’s not a problem because I have more than enough money on hand.
“It’s hot”, Elfi mutters while taking her clothes off as if it was a matter of course.
I turn my gaze away from her naked body.
“Hmm.”
Elfi, sits back in her chair and stares at me.
I knew what she was thinking, even if I didn’t want to.
‘I want you to dry my hair.’
“First, get dressed, even light clothes are fine so please wear something.”
“Eeh.”
“I won’t dry them otherwise.”
“Muh … how selfish.”
This girl ….
As soon as I saw that Elfi was dressed, I went around to her back.
Elfi’s silver hair is still wet and shiny from the water.
I put a piece of cloth on her hair that we bought on the way.
While supporting her hair with my arm, I gently wipe it with the cloth.
“Hmmm. Good work, as usual.”
“Thanks.”
Now that the water has been drained away, it’s time to use magic.
I use flame magic and wind magic at the same time to create hot air and apply it from a short distance.
I then run my fingers through her glossy hair while adjusting the hot air to dry it entirely.
Using hot air as a hairdryer is a technique I devised during my travels as a hero.
Although there was originally a magic spell called “Hot Air”, I remember being told that using it to dry hair was a revolutionary idea.
— I think I like having Amatsu dry my hair.
… I once dried the hair of that woman.
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”Hmm. Iori, what’s wrong?”
“….. no, it’s nothing. Is it hot?”
”Hmm, no problem. You may continue.”
… As bossy as usual.
I can’t tell the number of time I’ve dried her hair.
We had left the empire and were on our way to his* country. (EN: Iori’s)
“It’s a pain to dry it myself! But if I don’t do it, my beautiful hair will turn messy! So you do it, Iori!”
She said, and like that I had no choice but to do so.
“Hmm, you may have the honor of drying my hair.”
“โฆโฆโฆโฆ”
“Hot!?”
“Huh …”
“Hey, Iori, it’s hot! It’s hot!”
After a few minutes, I finally finished drying them off.
Every time, it takes quite a long while.
It would be a little easier to dry if you just cut it off.
As I was thinking about it.
“Ei!”
“Huh.”
From behind me, Elfi pulled my hair out with a plop.
(TN: the plop here is supposed to be an onomatopeia but sounds weird …)
“…what are you doing?”
“No, I was just wondering.”
“Here,” said Elfi, while showing off the hair she plucked.
Caught in her fingers was gray hair…not white hair…but gray hair.
There’s a bunch of other ones in there, too.
While she was looking at my hair, Elfi pulled them out in a series of plop.
Stop that, you lose hair too you know …
“Gray huh…”
It’s the color of my hair when I was still Amatsu.
Due to the influence of the immense amount of magic power that was residing in my body, my hair had changed to this color.
The reason my hair has turned gray now is probably the effect of [Hero Reappearance](The Rise). I only used it for a short time, but it’s no wonder because I was using the same amount of magic as before.
If I use too much, I might end up with all my hair turning gray again.
Well, even if I worry about the side effects, I don’t even know how to activate it in the first place.
I was able to use it naturally in the fight against Ryuzas and Olga, but I wasn’t able to trigger it since then. Maybe it only works against people stronger than me.
It needs to be verified… but that’s hard to do.
I want to somehow avoid the restricting conditions for triggering it*. (*EN: The Hero Reappearance Skill)
More than that now.
“Fu, fu, fu.” This girl started pulling out others’ hair because she found it fun.
“That’s enough.” “Aww!”
Elfi stopped pulling my hair out the moment I chopped her.
”Ugh… Now that I think about it, weren’t those homunculi made out of Iori’s hair ?”
Olga, that guy.
“Oh. It looks like there were other magical samples used as well, like nails and skin.” ”I can’t believe you can make a homunculus doppelganger just with that…. What if they made an homunculus of me….”
It seems that they were using lost magic, so it won’t be something that can be easily reproduced. As for my homunculi, I’ve wiped out all of the data, so it shouldn’t be possible to make them anymore.
“Come to think of it, isn’t a part of your body similar?”
Elfi’s torso is a fake made of magic.
The real thing is still sealed somewhere in a labyrinth.
Recreating a body part solely with magic should be quite difficult.
“It’s completely different. Unlike Homunculi, the body part can be controlled by my own will. This is a magic of the demon race. It takes a huge amount of magic power and some pretty precise magic manipulation skills.” “I see. Are there any other demon who can use it?” “No, in the Demon Castle there was only me and Ortega who were able to use this.”
Well, I guess so.
It would be annoying if this kind of magic was easy to use.
“So Ortega could use it, too.”
I fought that guy once, but I didn’t do enough damage to cut a part of his body.
When you think about the fact that even if you sever a limb, it will regenerate, this magic is really troublesome….
“… Oh, I’m very proficient, but he was even better than me. Well, this can only make up for a lost body part. It doesn’t matter in his case.” “………..yeah.”
Let’s leave the Ortega stuff aside for now.
What I need to think about now is who I’m going to target next.
–Marcus Pietro Sandalphon.
Knight of the Sacred Hall, Captain of the Second Squadron. Up until a few years ago, he was the second-in-command of the second squadron, but when the previous squadron commander died, he was promoted and moved up to his current position. A skilled captain who fights using both swordsmanship and magic. He also has some leadership skill and is quite popular among his subordinates of the second squadron. Usually, he stays in the second squadron’s quarters in the ‘Holy Light District’.
He also has a residence there, and it seems that his subordinates frequently come and go to visit him.
Apparently, he is also known to be a fervent believer of the melts cult, a cult preaching human supremacy. That’s all the information I could dig up after the orphanage incident. He didn’t find a connection to Lily and the others yet, but there was no doubt that they were related based on Michelle’s words. It’s unlikely that we’ll get any more information, and it’s about time to sneak into their quarters. I would like to examine the information on the target of revenge carefully if possible.
Because it’s possible that they’re hiding something nasty, like Lily and the others.
Plus, it makes it easier to take revenge if the target is some trash that deserves the worst treatment possible.
Alright. Tomorrow I will begin my investigation into the vicinity of Marx.
I can’t stand the idea of a traitor living in peace for even a day longer.
I decided to do so, and it was done soon enough.
“……….!””!”
With a thud, there was a knock on the door.
I can sense only one person behind the door.
However, we can’t let our guard down. It’s possible that the selectors finally got tired of waiting and came to attack.
(TN: ็บใใๅใใใ้ธๅฎ่
้ใๆปๆใไปๆใใฆใใๅฏ่ฝๆงใใใใใใ )
“…………Elfi.” “Yeah.”
Be ready to fight at any time.
“Who is it?” “I’m sorry for disturbing you so late. I need to talk to you for a minute.” “………………………………”
What he heard was the voice of a young man.
It also sounds familiar from somewhere.
I slowly opened the door, and there stood a man with a hood.
The man checks his surroundings and then slowly removes his hood.
What was there was the face of a man I didn’t expect to see.
Well-groomed, short indigo hair.
This man with a piercing gaze was familiar.
‘….Leo William Disfrender?
Knights of the Sacred Hall, Vice Commander of the Second Corps.
There stood the figure of the subordinate of my revenge’s target.
EN: Please comment if you find a mistake ๐ Edited by rialm
TN: didn’t expect translating would be so tedious
Roartion 
Thanks for the chapter. Hope you will keep translate this novel
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