Hundreds of years later, the brave Laux came to the Demon King's Castle again.
The last time he came, the brave Laux was ready to sever the cycle of reincarnation forever.
He believed that as long as the Demon King's Castle was completely destroyed, the Demon King would never be able to come to this world again, and the world would be at peace forever.
It turned out that his thoughts at that time were very naive.
Faced with the great enemy, the Demon King, the talented people in this world temporarily ceased fighting, united against the common enemy, and wanted to drive the Demon King back to the demon world.
Once the enemy, the Demon King, is lost, it won't take long for humanity to fall apart and fight for their own interests.
At that time, Laux still had a glimmer of hope that the world was not beyond redemption. Even if a war broke out, the people who had come to realize the value of peace would immediately stop the war and find other ways to solve the problem.
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Civilians know the value of peace, and they also want to cherish the hard-earned peace.
Unfortunately, the nobles who commanded them would not allow it.
When they won, the nobles sang songs and ate meat, boasting about how wise and brave their decisions were. They would immediately forget the soldiers who died on the battlefield and turn them into strings of numbers in the death records.
Those people don't treat human beings as human beings at all, but just as tools, tools that can be replaced by anyone.
In the near future, the nobles will use their power to brainwash the people, send them to the battlefield one by one, use their blood and flesh to build their own great achievements, and use their flesh and blood to plunder more wealth.
There are some different people among the nobles who are sympathetic to the people, share happiness with them, and do not want the people to engage in war again.
However, among this group of people, there are many pretentious guys. The reason why they sympathize with the people and have fun with them is just to show their own superiority, not because they are sincere.
They have never thought about truly solving the people's suffering and bringing them a better life.
Even if the brave Laux stepped forward and temporarily changed the situation in that area, the area would quickly return to its original state after he left.
After seeing so many lords who did nothing, Laux was tired.
In order to defeat the devil, Laux tried his best and brushed shoulders with death countless times, which caused some problems for his body.
Using this as an excuse, Laux found a place to live in seclusion, leading a plain and even boring life.
Laux never thought that his peaceful life would be completely disrupted by the sudden appearance of a demon girl.
After the Demon King's defeat, many demons did not have time to evacuate this world and were left here forever.
At that time, Laux no longer believed that the demons were necessarily vicious criminals.
It was a demon who helped him reach the Demon King's Castle.
The demon also hopes that the war will end soon so that they can return to their homeland soon.
Laux once suggested checking the character of each demon before deciding on their treatment, and if they really wanted to reform, they should be given a chance.
Before Laux went into seclusion, most countries followed this advice, although they had doubts.
But after he retired to seclusion, his proposal was gradually forgotten by everyone.
The demons under guard began to be beheaded and brutally killed for various reasons.
The surviving demons are hiding in the world, and few people will accept them.
In order to justify these killings, the countries that carried out the killings vigorously promoted their own legitimacy and portrayed the remnants of the demon clan as vicious terrorists.
Governments of various countries paid high prices to buy back the heads of the remaining demons.
Some countries that were unwilling to take action also made compromises under various pressures.
The demon girl rescued by Laux was once imprisoned in a demon concentration camp.
Someone leaked the news in advance, so the demon girl and other demons broke out of the prison and escaped.
The demons who escaped from the prison went their separate ways. The demon girl accidentally came to the place where Laux lived in seclusion.
Laux would always remember the scene where the demon girl, who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, was attacked by the hungry monster.
If she had not been rescued at the beginning, the following story would not have begun.
At that time, Laux was still a brave warrior with amazing strength. He drew his sword and easily cut the attacking monster into pieces, saving the demon girl.
The demon girl seemed to have seen a life-saving straw. She hugged Laux's thighs and begged Laux to keep her and let her stay in his residence for a while.
Laux did not refuse.
Afterwards, Laux heard from the demon girl about the large-scale execution of the demons.
Laux was heartbroken and tried to do something, but in the end he did nothing.
This is cowardice, a retreat, and even more a fear.
Many countries, when executing demons, used his name to bind them without consulting them.
If he jumped out at this time, he might not be able to save any demons, and might even get himself into huge trouble.
If it were to be revealed that he was not a true hero, even if he had defeated the Demon King, he would probably be doomed.
In the end, Laux did nothing but guiltily took the girl back to his residence and took good care of her despite her injuries.
During the conversation, Laux learned the girl's name, Nanata Liuli.
Nanata Liuli is not a fighter of the demon clan, but just a researcher, a researcher engaged in the study of ancient characters.
Due to the shortage of manpower in the demon tribe in the later stages of the war, she was added to the Demon King's army as a logistics personnel.
Unexpectedly, Nanata Liuli volunteered to join the Demon King's army.
Her ancestor came to this world with the former Demon King a long, long time ago, and found a book with special ancient characters in an underground maze and got a copy of that book.
Her ancestors took copies of the books with special text to study and learned some shocking secrets.
Unfortunately, fate played a joke on her ancestors. Before they could fully decipher the book, the demon world fell into chaos again due to the loss of the Demon King. Her father's research results were also destroyed in the war, leaving only about a quarter of the pages of the book to be passed down as their family heirloom.
Nanata Liuli has been influenced by her family culture since she was very young and is very interested in those pages of books.
That's why she came to this world despite the danger, wanting to find the book with the special ancient characters, get a copy of the book again, and solve the mystery of the book.
Unfortunately, she failed to fulfill her wish, the gate to the demon world was completely closed, and she was captured because of her identity as a demon.
(End of this chapter)