A Weak Demon Lord Started Livestreaming in a Bottom-Tier Dungeon and Went Viral?! After Completely Crushing Rude S-Rank Explorers and Annoying Streamers, the Internet Erupted in Praise. Um, I'm Supposed to Be the Enemy of Humanity, You Know? - 7

Chapter 7: The Weak Demon Lord Answers an Interview

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I began answering the questions that had been sent in by Erika-san’s viewers, one by one.

“First, regarding the question of who we are. I’ll just come out and say it here. I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

Erika-san was left gaping, but there was really no other way to answer.

“We are demons, inhabitants of the Demon World. Nothing more, nothing less. That’s really all I can say. It’s like asking, ‘What is a human?’—you wouldn’t know what to say either, would you?”

『Huh… Thanks for the explanation』

『So we’re getting philosophical now…』

The viewers of Erika-san’s channel seemed to understand what I meant.

Good, I’m glad they understand what I’m talking about.

“Now, the answer to the second question. I mentioned it briefly earlier, but we came from the Demon World.”

“Here!!”

“Go ahead, Erika-san.”

“Please tell us more about the Demon World!!”

“To put it very simply, it’s on the opposite side of Earth. Oh, I don’t mean Brazil, by the way. It’s a different dimension—in more relatable terms, think of it as the inside of the Earth.”

“The inside of the Earth…?”

It was difficult to explain the Demon World. It existed in a parallel space that mirrored the surface world, and with certain special means, one could move back and forth between the two.

They said there was once a time when the Demon World was directly connected to the surface.., but that was far before the Great Demon Lord unified the Demon World by beating all the other Demon Lords into submission. No one in the Demon World even remembered that era anymore.

“Now, the third question: what is a dungeon? In short, it’s a facility built to gather magical energy.”

『Why are you collecting magical energy?』

“Oh, that’s to secure the amount needed for the Great Demon Lord to cross over into this world.”

I paused mid-sentence, suddenly realizing—

“Ahh!? I think I just said something I wasn’t supposed to!!”

『You definitely weren’t supposed to say that lol』

『Wait a minute lolll』

『Skeleton Lord drops a major leak, I’m dead』

『Why do I kind of love this careless Demon Lord already lol』

Erika-san’s viewers reacted immediately, flooding the comments with laughter and disbelief.

Ah, I’d done it now.

Saying too much about the Great Demon Lord to humans might have been a major slip-up.

“But then again, if I think about it calmly, I wasn’t exactly told to keep it a secret. So maybe it’s fine?”

『Don’t try to rationalize it lol』

『That’s on the Great Demon Lord for not setting clear boundaries』

『I feel bad for the Great Demon Lord, having this clumsy skeleton for a subordinate』

“…Calling Olden-sama a clumsy fool… It seems someone among you humans has a death wish.”

Easy now, Al-san. Stay calm.

“A-anyway! I’ll read the next comment! ‘Is there anything bothering you lately?’”

“Bothering me? Yes! Oh, absolutely yes!!”

“Whoa, you startled me!”

I slammed the table with a loud bang. The force of it caused my hand bones to scatter everywhere, but I left the cleanup to Al-san and addressed the viewers with a complaint.

“Please, I beg you—stop littering in the dungeon!! Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean up!?”

『Huh?』

『Cleaning?』

『I thought dungeons just magically cleaned themselves or something?』

“I—I thought so too. Like, dungeons had self-purifying magic, so even if you left trash in it, it’d just disappear naturally…”

“Who started that ridiculous rumor!?”

I passionately addressed the viewers behind the camera Erika-san and Konatsu-san were holding.

“Repairs and cleaning in the dungeon are done every single day by the monsters! Taking your trash with you is basic manners!! Also, stop jabbing sticks into the cracks in the walls! The whole dungeon could collapse, and you’d be flattening both yourselves and the monsters!!”

“Eeek!”

“P-please calm down, Olden-san! You’re scaring Konatsu!!”

Hearing that, I suddenly came to my senses. Right. I’d gotten too heated and forgotten… I looked like a literal skeleton. If I got too intense, of course people would be scared.

“My apologies, Konatsu-san. I got carried away. Please forgive me.”

“N-no, it’s fine. Don’t worry about it.”

After apologizing to Konatsu-san, I cleared my throat and addressed the camera politely.

“Ahem. Anyway, please, stop littering in the dungeon. It really makes cleaning difficult.”

“S-sorry about that. A-alright, let’s move on to the next question! ‘How strong is Ol-chan?’ they ask!”

“Me? I’m weak.”

And that was the honest truth. Yet, for some reason, the viewers reacted strongly to my answer.

『Liar.』

『I saw that viral clip—you were crazy strong』

“Clip?”

“Oh, actually, we came to do this interview because we saw that video.”

“Oh my, that must be from that time…”

On the smartphone Erika-san held out to me, I saw a familiar scene. It was the footage of when some human men had tried to assault Al-san.

“Ah, so you thought I was strong because of this?”

“Yes. …Wait, you’re saying that’s not true?”

“I really am weak. There are many Demon Lords stronger than me. I’m only good at overwhelming enemies with sheer numbers. I have low physical attack power too.”

“L-low? You crushed a guy’s head in one hit…”

Erika-san looked at me with horror. For a Demon Lord, crushing a human head with one strike was the baseline. There really were many Demon Lords far superior to me.

“U-um, how strong are the Demon Lords stronger than you?”

“Let’s see… For example, one of my friends can flick a mountain out of existence.”

“A m-mountain!? T-that has to be a joke, right?”

“No, seriously. I once had a big fight with him, and he pulverized me and sprinkled me across a farm field. Coming back from that was quite the ordeal…”

Just thinking about it still gave me trauma. Since then, I tried to avoid fighting with that friend as much as possible, though we still occasionally get into fistfights and I end up fertilizer again.

『Isn’t it kind of insane that he can revive even after getting turned into dust?』

『High regeneration ability and unlimited skeleton summons for swarm attacks… He’s basically a nightmare fuel』

『And there are Demon Lords even stronger than this guy??』

And then, it happened.

『How do we kill you?』

“Oh my.”

To my surprise, someone asked me directly how to kill me. Even I didn’t expect that question. Erika-san probably assumed I wouldn’t answer. She tried to move on to the next question right away. But, well, I was going to answer.

“Sure, I’ll tell you straight up.”

『Eh?』

『Wait what?』

『Huh!?』

“W-wait, Olden-san!? Are you sure it’s okay to say that!?”

“It’s not like I’ll lose anything, and besides, it’s not something humans can do anyway.”

Not that I looked down on humans. In fact, I believed humans were strong beings capable of facing and overcoming adversity. So why was it impossible for them?

“The truth is, the me standing here isn’t my real body.”

“A clone, then?”

“Close. Technically, this is a skeleton I summoned and possessed with my soul. My real body has a core that generates infinite magical energy. It’s basically my weak point.”

“S-so if we destroy that core…?”

“Yes, that would kill me. But my true body is currently in the Demon World, haha!!”

So if someone wanted to kill me, they’d have to enter the vast Demon World and find the real me to destroy the core hidden somewhere. It was just not feasible for a human. The magical density of the Demon World was thousands of times that of Earth. Ordinary humans would die just from breathing the air. Even someone with high magical resistance like Erika-san would likely perish in minutes.

That was why it was impossible for them to kill me.

“This is just a broken game…”

“Well, the Great Demon Lord saw through the trick in a single glance and almost destroyed my real body, but I begged on my knees and got spared.”

『Top-tier ability, yet radiating low-tier energy. This guy is incredible』

Now then, I suppose it was time.

“Now that you’ve gotten to know me a little, I’d like to make a proposal to all of you.”

“A p-proposal? What is it?”

“As you saw in the video earlier, I have the power to bring the dead back to life. So, how about it? Wouldn’t you be interested in a ‘dungeon where even death isn’t the end’?”

“-!?”

Erika-san’s eyes widened. For any explorer whose life was constantly at risk, my proposal must have sounded very intriguing.

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