I Was Transported to Another World with a Male-to-Female Ratio of 1:3000 and Made into a Breeding Pet for the Demon Lord’s Army - 88

Chapter 88: The Strongest Being… The Demon Lord!

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“What’s the matter…? Is that all the determination you lot have to mate with Ken-chan!?”

“Guh-hee!”

Grabbing the nape of the demon who had fainted from a single blow, I threw her outside without hesitation.

Ahh… This is truly delightful!

For someone like me, sick and tired of the daily tedium of paperwork, getting to swing my fists like this was nothing short of bliss. And this time, I had the noble duty of protecting my beloved male. It made my heart race, like a knight protecting her prince in a fairytale!

“Come now, don’t hold back! I am the one who will protect Ken-chan!”

Hmm, if moving my body proved to be a good way to relieve my stress, then maybe I should find some excuse to launch a campaign too. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask the humans to prepare a city worth destroying.

“Damn it! Why is the Demon Lord even here?! There’s no way we can beat that monster!”

“But… I can’t back down now if I want to mate with Ken-chan! Let’s go! 【Fire Chain】!”

“Is that all you’ve got…? Hmph!!”

I met the incoming fireball with my fist and crushed it on the spot… How mediocre.

“Wha—!? Why are you fine after punching a fireball?!”

“Because, of course, I am the Demon Lord. The title of ‘Demon Lord’ is granted only to the strongest being in this world.”

“As if! It’s just some hereditary position…!【Fire Chain】!”

Smack!

“Hmph. It seems you’re under some misapprehension, so let me correct it. It’s true that the title of Demon Lord has been passed down through generations of the same bloodline.”

“Exactly! You didn’t even prove your strength in battle! Calling yourselves ‘the strongest being’ is just propaganda to keep the demons in line!”

“Proving my strength in battle, huh…? Unfortunately for you, I have no need for that. Because I am the one and only existence in the demon realm that has transcended species and fused into one—of the Chimera Tribe.”

“Chimera Tribe…?”

“The Chimera Tribe is a hybrid born from crossbreeding between different races that are never meant to intermix…A ‘special’ being from birth. Possessing a body and mind immune to all physical and magical attacks, the highest, best, greatest, and strongest existence… I’m a Demon Lord by birth!”

“Ohhh, thank you so much for the lecture! But no matter how strong you are, Demon Lord… You can’t beat sheer numbers! Now, everyone, go!”

Just as I was kindly and thoroughly explaining the greatness of the Demon Lord, several dozen demons appeared and attacked. They came at me all at once—elemental magic, throwing knives, even “guns,” which WEre supposedly human technology.

“Good grief… no choice then. 【World Rupture】”

Shhh…

The moment I muttered, the incoming magic and knives all froze in midair.

“And I haven’t even finished explaining why the Demon Lord is the strongest and about ancient magic. How rude. They truly lack manners.”

“……”

“Well, no matter… If you won’t listen, I’ll make you feel the consequences with your own bodies. That is, assuming you can even comprehend what just happened.”

Step… Step… Step.

【Void Realm Restoration】

“Huh… They disappeared—WAAAHHH!!”

Crash! Crash! Crash!

With a light swipe of my hand to the right, the demons in the room were flung outside as if they had dropped sideways.

“I even humored you by stalling for time, and yet this is all the backup you could muster…? Truly pathetic.”

Is there no more formidable opponent?

Even that supposed leader I encountered earlier was anticlimactically finished with just a few punches. I couldn’t comprehend how they thought they could assault the castle with power like that.

Wobble…

“Tch… As expected, ancient magic consumes a lot of magic power. I got carried away using it, but… Well, it should be fine as long as Luna’s not around. Anyone else, I can overpower with brute force.”

I had really wanted to fight her, but if she was already eliminated, then it couldn’t be helped. I could only pray that whoever took Luna down was the true formidable foe. Clinging to that faint hope, I slowly opened the door to the next room.

Click…

“Hmm… Are these spider threads?”

As I stepped into the room, I saw countless spider webs intricately strung about.

“Heeey! Demon Lord-sama! How’s it going?”

“Just as I thought, it’s you, Aura. I’m glad you stayed behind.”

“Unlike some muscle-brained castle lords, I made sure to hide properly. I was so bored, I went ahead and set up the stage for our fight.”

“Oh…? You, acting on calculation, chose to fight me? I thought you’d given up on winning since you didn’t show yourself.”

“Well,  maybe I would’ve done that if the one at stage is just your average male, but unfortunately for you, I’m deeply in love with Ken-chan. Even if every bone in my body gets shattered, I have to win the right to mate with him.”

“You… You really have changed.”

She used to treat males as nothing more than test subjects or research materials. Now, she had such a dreamy expression on her face, as if she was staring at a priceless treasure.

“It’s all thanks to Ken-chan. Now, I originally planned to use Luna as bait and make the trap even more fun, but she disappeared before I knew it. So this compromise setup will have to do!”

Pssht!

Aura fired a thread to the ceiling and swung forward like a pendulum, accelerating toward me.

“Oh, you’re coming straight at me? Interesting! I’ll take you on!”

Crack—!

“Wha—!?”

Just as I put power into my legs to smash her with a punch… The floor froze in an instant, and my legs were sealed in ice.

“Now you can’t move, right? I’m up against someone way out of my league here, so at least give me the first strike!”

BZZZZZZZT!!

“Ah… Gah…!”

A strange device extended from Aura’s hand and stabbed into my chest, sending a merciless electric current through my entire body.

“Phew~ I’m glad the ‘Anti-Demon Electric Anchor’ I ordered for Ken-chan wasn’t stolen. It’s powerful enough to kill anyone who dares lay a finger on him.”

BZZZZZZT!!

“D-Damn… GAH!!”

I yanked the loathsome metal rod out of my chest and slammed it into the floor with all my might. That impact might have been the hardest I’d felt today—or in the past few years.

“Hah… hah… Ice like this… HMPH!!”

Forcing my numb body into action, I tore my legs free from the ice.

“Still got that brute strength, huh? You’re just like Luna-kun. But that strength won’t help much on a slippery floor!”

So that was why she had frozen the floor… She fights atop the ice while using her threads to move freely on the ceiling and walls. This situation was overwhelmingly in Aura’s favor… In that case!

“If close combat’s a disadvantage, then I’ll use magic! Join me on my battlefield! 【Graviton】!!!”

“Kuh…”

To pin down any allies possibly aiding her with the ice magic, I cast a spell that increased gravity several times over throughout the entire castle.

“Hmph… This is a rather high-risk gravity spell that even affects me. But it made me heavier, which means I don’t slip anymore!”

Thud! Crack! Thud! Crack!

Falling from the ceiling and unable to move, Aura watched as I slowly approached—step by step.

“I’ll just toss you out now—”

BANG—

A small object struck my shoulder.

“Oh? A gun…? But that won’t be enough to stop me.”

“Yeah, this gun or whatever is my first time using it. The power is weak and slow to reload, totally useless. Just a human weapon… But it bought us time. Lammy-kun!”

“Understood!”

Crack, crack—

Behind me—from the room’s doorway—a huge block of ice formed between me and Lammy, who had just entered.

“So there was an ally outside the room after all. But that level of ice magic—”

“Probably won’t work, yeah… That’s why we’re using it like this! 【Fireball】!!”

A fireball slammed into the ice block, instantly filling the room with thick white mist.

“I see… So that ice magic wasn’t just for offense!”

The moisture clinging to the ice turned to vapor from the heat, and then condensed into fog when cooled by the ice-covered floor. That ice on the floor must have been laid down with this moment in mind all along… However!

“You think such cheap tricks would work on the Demon Lord!? I don’t need sight—I can sense your presence… There!!”

I released the gravity spell and hurled my fist toward the presence I sensed—

Shiiing!

“K-K-K-Ken-chan!?”

Standing before me was Ken-chan, in an incredibly erotic and defenseless outfit.

Wait, no—hold on a sec… What’s with that utterly post-mating expression!?

His hair was a mess, his cheeks faintly flushed!

Did I… Did I get married to Ken-chan? No? Wait, maybe I did…? Or rather, isn’t it weird if we weren’t married!? Does that mean everything up until now was a dream, and I just woke up to Ken-chan waking me!? So the fact that I’ve become Ken-chan’s mate is the real reality all along?!

“How do you like it? That’s not for public sale yet… Secret photo No. 52 from the Ken-chan photobook: [Sleepy Morning Ken-chan]. Isn’t his messy hair and drowsy eyes just divine?”

SLAP!

“Wha—Oh no… GYAAAAAH!?!?”

Sticky, viscous spider threads wrapped tightly around my waist.

“Even if we don’t beat you directly, once you’re out of the castle, it counts as forfeiting… This was our goal from the start! Lammy-kun!”

“This ends now! HAAAAAAAH!!”

Grabbing the threads together, the two of them hurled my body straight out the window—

<CRAAAACK!!!>

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