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This chapter starts from Demon King's POV

The hero and all of his allies have passed out.
Kajikawa Hikaru, the sole person conscious, possesses no strength left to injure me.

My triumph is all but assured.
All that is left is to eliminate them all, decisively and conclusively.


"Ku, ku, kuku..."


Kajikawa Hikaru groaned as if he was sobbing.
Understandable. They had victory in their grasp before it was taken by the jaws of defeat.
...A single misstep, and I might have been in his position.


『Weep not. For you all have fought well... Rest easy now and--』



"Kukuku, ahahahahahahaha!!!"


A laughter suddenly echoed in the chamber.

The groaning Kajikawa Hikaru lifted his face up and laughed like a mad man.


"Ahyahahaha!! Fu, kuhahahahaha!"

『...You have gone mad, I see. Pitiful.』

"Hahahahaha, hahaha, ha... Ah, my bad. Couldn't help myself there."


He settled down after his laughter bout and stood there.
...Is it not due to insanity...?


Kajikawa Hikaru greedily chewed on some sort of white ball.
The sound it made is akin to that of an apple. In this situation, what is he...?


『Do you mean to replenish your stamina now. Or perhaps that is meant to be your last supper.』

"Yea, wanna have a bite too? It's a toxic apple, no wait, toxicless? If you don't mind."

『...You intend to take your own life by poison, I see. That too is acceptable.』

"Naw man, this thing's pretty much a medicine for me. Thing barely works though... Just that."


Kajikawa Hikaru, discarded the fruit core.


"It's the worst possible poison for you."

『....!? Ga, aaaa.....!!!』


An intense nausea assaulted me out of nowhere.

My head is hot. I cannot move my limbs well.

What is this, what's going on!?


"Make sure you enjoy every last bit of your last supper. I'm all too familiar with that pain y'know, yup."

『Poison...!? Inconceivable, no poison should work on me, could it be, some sort of Skill...!!』


Kajikawa Hikaru spoke as he looked up at me groaning.


"Skill? I Got No Need of That Stuff. Not to beat the crap outta you at least."

『Ga, ha...!!』


I couldn't stop myself from vomiting deep red blood.
Not just from my mouth. It's coming out of my eyes, and ears, unceasingly.


『Status abnormality, recovery magic...!"


I cast 'Panacea' magic that can erase any and all kinds of Status Abnormality to no avail.
My head is getting hotter with every passing second. At this rate, my head will melt down...!!







~~~~~~~~POV of Kajikawa who's biting his second fruit while looking up at the suffering Demon King~~~~~~~~







Chew chew. Ah, Efi fruit really tastes divine.
Hmm, looks like he went and cast a status abnormality recovery magic but it didn't work.
Thank goodness, would've been real dicey if it worked, made me sweat a lil' there.


『....Why, how is it ineffective...!!』

"Well yeah, 'course not. That poison don't got any effect on anyone but you. Anyone can just heal it right away."

『I have not ingested poison! Kajikawa Hikaru, you cur, what have you dooooone!!!』


His calm countenance finally crumbled down after all this time. Serves you right, you dumbarse.


"I mean it's just real simple stuff. All I did was sharing my mana to you remotely."

『Wh, at...?』

"I can't use Skills but I can control mana directly. I use it as an offensive mean like Pile Bunkers or I can transfer my mana to others. So yeah, I shared some with ya."

『Shared, mana with me...?』

"You familiar with 'Mana Overfill'? It's an Abnormal Status that occurs when you restore more MP than your maximum allows by various means such as eating this Efi Fruit."

『Overfill...!?』


Yep, I almost got turned into a dirty firework on my first day in this world after eating Efi Fruit thanks to 'Mana Overfill'.
I mean, he could easily vomit it out along with his stomach's content if it was only a minute amount of mana, but I transferred four digit amount of mana to Demon King and all of it concentrated in his head.
I might have used up most of my stamina but I got most of my mana intact.
Such densely packed mana running amok can't possibly be healed with just vomiting.
He could try cutting his head off, but that's exactly where the meltdown is happening. There's no escape.

I only noticed this last resort thanks to Menu-san fetching Efi Fruit with the last bit of its strength among all the noises.


"Your average joe can instantly resolves this conundrum simply by using their Skill Abilities or the likes to consume their mana. But you can't do that, can you?"

『It, cannot be...!!』

"Yep. This poison is the weakest nothingburger poison to everybody in this world. And the worst possible deadliest poison to you."

『GU, OOOOOOOOOOO!!!』


Demon King's head is shining bright red like a scorching iron. Kinda surreal.
It's gonna blow up for sure in a few seconds.


『I will not, I shall never acknowledge this!! Kajikawa Hikaru!! No forgiveness! Unforgivable!! If only you, you never existed!!』

"My condolences. Let me just say one thing lastly."


『GA, AA, I, I! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"""AAA"""AAA"""AA!』


A scream full of regret reverberated in the chamber.

Demon King's head blew up, scattering scorched brain matter everywhere.

Ah, it's really, such----



"A dirty firework."


My vision went blank after saying that.

Ah, crap, I'm hitting, my limit....



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~~~~~~~~~~Hero's POV~~~~~~~~~~






"...Uh, is that even legal?"


That was the first thing I blurted out after watching everything from start to finish.
The conclusion came far too quick, far too awful.
We won and nobody died yet I just can't bring myself to fully accept it!
What a foul play! Good job Kajikawa-san, you're the worst! Ah no I mean, you're the best!


"Hikaru!"


Alma ran up to Hikaru who collapsed right after saying his clincher line.
She was half dead just a while ago. Can't believe how fast she ran... Ah, she got healed from leveling up after we beat Demon King huh.

I can't check our Status yet, but defeating a Demon King, an over level 100 one at that, must have gotten us an enormous amount of exp.
All of us probably got to over Lv100. We would have put up a better fight against Demon King if only we had this power... No point lamenting now I guess.


"I, is it over...?"

"Is everybody, safe and accounted for...?"

"Yeah, seems all of us survived... Thanks to Kajikawa-san, finishing the work."


I think the hero is supposed to be the one doing that.
I feel bad for making Kajikawa-san shoulder all the weight.
...Man, I really am not fit to be a hero.


"He seriously killed that monster off... Ain't that old man the real Demon King here...?"

Aizawa murmured with a half laughing, half cramping face.
Stop that. You're gonna make me agree with you.


"...Hm?"


As we all enjoyed our moment of victory with the weird aftertaste, the ground began shaking.
No wait, not just the ground, the whole castle is shaking...?


No way, you can't, seriously tell me that cliche is...!?


"H, hey guys, is it just me or is it shaking in here?"

"It's not just you, I feel the tremor as well...!"

"The castle, is coming down...!"


I knew it! Okay, I get that the castle should go down with the demon king and all but you know!
We gotta get outta here pronto! Fast Travel... Can't! Menu's still sleeping!


"We've gotta skedaddle before everything comes crashing down on us! Run, run like your life depends on iiit!!"

"Are you for real, man! I got no energy left here!"

"Alma, make it quick! You'd get crushed if you tardy up!"

"Hikaru, won't wake up...!"

"Ah, geez, let's carry him out! Wait no, Reina should take us with Shadow Dive, argh, she's out cold too!"

『Cluuck!』


Alma is carrying Kajikawa-san, while a huge chicken has Reina on its back.
Sheesh, can't you at least give me an extra service and woosh us outta here, we beat Demon King and all, goddess!

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