Published: September 10, 2025
I’m Satou. The conflict between angels and demons, between Taishakuten and Asura, and between gods and demons has long been used as a motif in stories since ancient times. The clear contrast between good and evil likely appealed to simple folks.
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“Master, demons approaching! Switching armaments—anti-demon acceleration cannon, prepare!”
“Aye aye, ma’am. Acceleration Buster Launcher, standby.”
Lulu, spotting the demon forces appearing in the sky, instructed the support AI in the Golden Armor to switch equipment.
The demons stared down at the ground and hesitated for a moment before adopting a dive attack posture.
—Huh?
“Aim, fire—”
“Lulu, wait.”
I stopped Lulu, who was about to pull the trigger, with a small clone poking its head out from behind her hair.
“—Master?”
“Look carefully.”
“Ah! Demons!”
The demons launched a swift dive attack on the ground in front of us.
“Why target the vanguards?”
Indeed, the demons weren’t aiming at us or the soldiers on the outer wall, but at the vanguards that had spilled out from the Purple Tower.
That said, most of the vanguards had already been defeated by Lulu, so the extermination of the vanguards was finished in the blink of an eye.
Perhaps finding it anticlimactic, the demons looked around, searching for any more vanguards nearby.
“Did the demons defeat them for us?”
“No way. Next, it’s definitely us they’ll come for.”
“Look at that evil form!”
The soldiers on the wall were also visibly surprised by the demons’ unexpected behavior.
However, few seemed to believe that the demons were on our side.
“Master, do you think the demons are helping us?”
“I don’t think so.”
From all the demons I’ve seen so far, even if they did help, it certainly wouldn’t be out of goodwill.
“Master, the demons that appeared in the sky have been hunting vanguards around the Purple Tower.”
“Master, reporting the same from my location.”
“Master, the demons here are just wandering around the Purple Tower area after the purge, doing nothing in particular.”
“Same here.”
“We won’t lose to the demons! That is Pochi’s prey!”
“Tama won’t lose either~?”
It seems demons have appeared around various Purple Tower locations worldwide, exterminating the vanguards that spilled out of the towers.
“Master! Look up!”
Lulu pointed toward the sky.
There, a projection of a woman resembling a holy mother appeared.
She was neither a god nor a demon god.
“Beloved children living on the earth,”
A voice filled with compassion echoed through the sky.
The soldiers on the wall forgot about the demons and gazed at the holy mother’s figure.
Their enthusiasm seemed so fervent that when I scanned the soldiers, I found that some of the lower-level soldiers were charmed.
Lulu was probably fine because of the Golden Armor, but if this went on, it could get dangerous.
Maybe I should interrupt the current plan and go around with my main body to dispel the charm.
“The intervention in the Purple Tower—the ‘Tower of Trials’—and the spilling out of trial monsters was a conspiracy by the gods to ruin faith in the demon god.”
That holy mother seemed to be a retainer of the demon god.
The fact the demon god doesn’t speak for himself might be proof that he’s too weak even to broadcast propaganda.
If it weren’t for the charm earlier, I might have listened a bit, but this time, the demon god is definitely the mastermind behind this incident.
“Do not believe in the ‘Seven Pillars of the Gods’ except for God Parion—”
“People! Do not be deceived by the demon god’s schemes!”
An authoritative voice interrupted the holy mother’s voice.
Opposite the holy mother, the silhouette of a handsome and strong man formed from orange light appeared. It was God Heralon.
Bathed in the orange light, the holy mother’s form distorted into a metallic demon figure with a feminine shape.
At the same time, the soldiers’ charm was lifted.
Looks like Heralon God can do good deeds once in a while.