"Hehe, let me make you feel the accumulated resentment I've held until now!"
As soon as Luminus finished speaking, she tightly hugged Veldora.
"Embrace of Life and Death!!"
To outsiders, the two looked like lovers in the heat of passion, but for Veldora, it was the exact opposite.
It was a technique that, while absorbing the other party's Magicules, transmitted various negative sensations like "agony," "discomfort," and "pain" into their body through a flow of information.
Since it was information, skill effects like [Pain Nullification] would not block it.
This meant that even Veldora, a spiritual lifeform, would feel "pain" from this attack.
This was pain inscribed directly onto the soul.
At this moment, it was more appropriate to describe Veldora as wishing for death but unable to find it.
"Ah—"
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!"
"Help, Rimuru, Draco, save me..."
In front of everyone, Veldora's saliva, snot, and tears flew everywhere as he wailed frantically.
Watching Veldora being tormented to the point of near insanity, Draco couldn't help but feel a bit of trepidation.
Luminus was indeed ruthless enough.
Although Rimuru couldn't bear to watch, being able to appease Luminus's anger so simply... Veldora was getting off easy.
Amidst Veldora's wailing, the farce came to an end.
At this moment, Rigurd jumped out very opportunely.
"Lord Rimuru, to celebrate you becoming one of the Nine Heavens Demon Lords, let's hold a banquet!"
The [Banquet King] authority activated, inciting the surrounding crowd to cheer and influencing Rimuru's state of mind, thereby causing him to agree to Rigurd's request.
"Then let's celebrate."
"Oh!!" xN
...
Under Rigurd's arrangement, the atmosphere of the banquet became extremely high.
Fine food, fine wine, delicacies...
Everyone drank and toasted, enjoying themselves to the fullest.
This eased the relationship between humans and monsters quite a bit.
After the banquet, it was only natural to soak in a hot spring to relieve the fatigue of the day.
Inside the luxurious hot spring, the girls were chatting and laughing, feeling very comfortable.
If you had to ask who was the happiest, it was naturally Luminus.
But her face still maintained the appearance of a calm and aloof queen.
"Lady Luminus, the Jura Tempest Federation is very safe, you don't need to keep Magic Perception active all the time."
Hinata felt the magical fluctuations released by Luminus and kindly reminded her.
"Hmm."
Luminus responded coldly, but her Magic Perception did not stop.
She just brazenly kept examining every inch of Hinata's skin, not missing a single spot, as if she wanted to observe Hinata from head to toe thoroughly.
The three goals of her life: take a bath with Shalltear, take a bath with Hinata, and take a bath with Chronoa.
In these two days, Luminus had completed two of them at once, and the bad mood she originally had from seeing Veldora instantly dissipated.
"What a nice bod..."
"Lady Luminus, what's nice?"
"Ahem, I meant the design is nice."
"...Hmm."
Hinata always felt that her superior was acting strange today, but she didn't think much of it.
Afterward, Luminus focused on observing everything in the hot spring and said nothing more.
...
In a courtyard, everyone was wearing loose bathrobes, gathered together to chat.
Hinata found Rimuru and bowed slightly. "I'm sorry, Rimuru, because of my mistake, I almost caused a great disaster."
Rimuru waved his hand. "That was the Seven Luminaries' conspiracy, how could I blame you?"
Then Hinata looked at Draco on the side and bowed again. "Thank you, Lord Draco, for your help. If it weren't for you, I would have already perished."
Draco was just about to say it was nothing, it was all planned.
But when he looked up, what met his eyes were two peaks.
Because the bathrobe was loose, and Hinata was bending over, it was partially visible, revealing a proud cleavage.
Who would have thought that Hinata looked plain on the surface, but had such hidden depths inside.
Albedo, behind him, noticed Draco's reaction and immediately stepped forward, saying gently.
"Master, this wine is quite good."
Vaguely, a trace of imperceptible killing intent permeated from behind Draco.
Draco immediately snapped back to reality, coughed awkwardly twice, and said, "Ahem, that, no need to thank me, it was just a small effort."
After Hinata left, the killing intent dissipated.
Just like that, everyone spent a pleasant night.
...
The next morning.
Everyone gathered in the backyard courtyard and started a new round of talks.
This time, with Draco taking the lead, they conducted a post-battle analysis and planned for the future.
The Seven Luminaries' conspiracy, the Neutral Clowns, the underground merchants of the Eastern Empire—under Draco's analysis, one mystery after another was unraveled.
Afterwards, the Jura Tempest Federation and the Western Holy Church reached a reconciliation, and the Church would acknowledge the existence of the Monster Country.
And they would establish friendly diplomatic relations over the next century.
However, the Church's doctrine that "all monsters must be killed without mercy" could not be directly abandoned, as this would cause the faith established by the Holy Church to collapse.
Therefore, on Draco's suggestion, it was announced to the outside world that the Holy Church and the Monster Country had fought to a draw, and because they had discovered the Seven Luminaries' conspiracy, they had temporarily set a truce agreement.
At the same time, they revealed Rimuru's identity as an otherworlder, so that the human world could better accept this agreement.
"In summary, can you two accept this?"
Draco asked, looking at Rimuru and Luminus.
"No problem."
"That's fine."
Seeing that neither had any objections, Draco continued to the next topic.
"Now there are two more problems before us: one is that Granbell has not been dealt with yet, and the other is the mastermind behind the Neutral Clowns, Kagurazaka Yuuki."
Speaking of this, Draco glanced at Hinata and Rimuru's reactions. Seeing that neither showed any abnormality, it meant that Yuuki had already been defined by them as an enemy.
"Luminus, you should handle the karma with Granbell yourself, and leave Yuuki to me, how about that?"
As mentioned before, there is a causal relationship between Demon Lords and Heroes.
As the Hero of Light, Granbell was inextricably entangled with the Demon Lord Luminus.
It was best to leave such matters for her to handle herself, and it would save Draco some effort.
Luminus frowned. "There is a new problem now."
"What problem? Please speak."
"The Hilt Rozo Kingdom... has been destroyed by someone."
Luminus said something shocking, and everyone's pupils suddenly constricted.
Just now, Draco had said that the Rozo were the ones behind the scenes controlling more than thirty countries in the West.
One could imagine how powerful the Rozo Clan was.
It's only been a short while; how could it just vanish?
"My subordinates just sent word that the capital of the Rozo Clan has been reduced to ruins. The entire kingdom is shrouded in the aura of death, likely the work of a demon."
Hearing Luminus's explanation, Draco seemed to guess who did it.
"Lord Rimuru, I have returned."
Luminus
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