The Devil's Origin

22: Different Views.

I was tending to my children, lizardman and rabbitman, when Chaos came in, he was panting heavily.

Seemed like a demonkind had come to meet with me and he said it was an urgent matter.

I came with Velke, who was proficient in healing magic to meet with this new demonkind.

"Maou-sama!!"

There, in front of me was a badly injured werewolf. He called for me loudly when he noticed my presence.

<<This werewolf is LV 35. Although werewolf is not extinct yet, there are only a few of them left in this world.>>

Even though I've been in this world for quite a time, I've never seen someone badly hurt like the werewolf in front of me.

But!

I was the Maou, I couldn't stand idle while a demonkind was injured in front of me.

We needed to find the perpetrator but first thing first, we had to tend to his injury.

"It will be alright. We will heal your injury, okay?"

Velke immediately cast healing magic, fluttering light surrounding the werewolf's injury, closing the open wound in the process.

"Please don't mind about me! My brother, please help my brother!"

The werewolf then said that he was travelling with his brother when they met with a group of human hunters.

The hunters injured both of them, his older brother then decided to lure the hunters away by using himself as bait.

"My brother sacrificed himself to save me... Please maou-sama, please help my brother!"

For my beloved demonkind to be persecuted unjustly like that.

There was no way I could stand still and let it slide.

"I understand. Leave it to me, I will help your older brother for sure."

The werewolf breathed a sigh of relief before he fell unconscious to the floor.

Seemed like making sure his brother would be taken care of was the last thing holding his consciousness together.

"Master."

Velke's voice was like a sharp nail piercing through my poor heart.

"I'm going. Even if you try to stop me, I will still go. It is my duty as Maou to stretch out a helping hand to any demonkind in need, right?"

"I won't stop you from helping him but I want you to stay here, master. Let me be the one that goes and rescues his brother."

"No, Velke this is an order. I will go as well."

Me and Velke started to argue, I knew he was worried because not just a long ago I went missing in the middle of his watch.

When we were quarrelling, Alexei came.

"Why are you guys fighting? If Maou wants to go then I will go as well. If two people is guarding him it will be alright, right?"

"But-"

Velke wanted to refute but Alexei quickly interjected.

"The Maou already gave you his order, right? And judging from the way things are... I think he'll go with or without your approval."

Hearing Alexei's reasonable proposal, Velke reluctantly nodded his head.

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Velke put a human glamour over me in case we stumbled over the humans.