The Regressed Demon Lord is Kind

le to raid the city as you and the other bandits planned.
There’re soldiers all over the city.”

“…!” All kinds of questions swirled in Tim’s head.
How did he know that they planned to raid the entire city? And who were those soldiers fighting the bandits right now? What more did he know? Tim was only sure about one thing—the plan he put tremendous effort into and thought had failed.

“If you’re curious, I can answer your questions.” Zich talked calmly like a victor was showing mercy to his enemy.
“Of course, you would have to answer my questions as well.”

“…Questions?”

“This plan.
Who made it?” Zich’s face instantly became serious.
“This plan is much too meticulous for it to be made by bandits.” 

It was a plan that could have only been made if one had a perfect understanding of the current situation in the Campbell estate and Bambis.
Moreover, they needed to have secret information about the city officials’ weaknesses to use them.

Could a random bandit have such a wide information network to gain these types of information? Zich doubted this.

“You probably didn’t make this plan.
There’s no way you could devise a plan like this with your rock-hard head.”

“What the hell!” Tim growled in anger, but Zich had no intentions to take back his words.

‘In the first place, if he was preparing for a plan like this, he should have stayed low and quietly made his preparations.
But he couldn’t control his personality and caused all kinds of havoc.’

Zich was able to find Tim in this way.
However, Zich understood why Tim acted this way.
His hot-tempered personality was the reason why Tim Platt was who he was.

“Hey, did you perhaps get that plan from suspicious people wearing robes?”

Tim’s face became ridiculously distorted at Zich’s question.
He looked like he was caught with a secret he thought no one would ever know. 

‘As expected.’ Zich was sure that this plan was also a result of those robed figures’ actions.
Then, at that moment, a dark cloud appeared in Zich’s heart.

Tim asked, “…You know those guys?”

“Of course! We’re really close! We ride or die together! So if you have information about them, why don’t you share a bit…” Zich stopped talking.
He let out a sigh and looked down on Tim.
“Well, there’s no way those guys revealed any information about them to a punk like you.
Whatever.
Just forget what I asked you.”

“…Haha, you fucking bastard!” Tim was so angry that his words came out calmly instead.
The swirling questions in his head calmed down at once.
The only thing left was his murderous desire to beat the crap out of Zich.
At that moment—

Crash! The front door of the Demiro Firm opened roughly.
Zich and Tim both looked at the door at the same time.

“He’s over there!” A knight wearing flashy armor stood on top of a rooftop and pointed at Tim while shouting.
Ten more soldiers came rushing behind him.

‘Those idiots!” Zich saw them and grimaced.
‘I told them to not interfere here!’ 

They were part of the soldiers that had gone out of the city after falling for the bandits’ trap.
After seeing the bandits moving out of the city walls, Zich thought that the bandits would soon ambush the city and immediately go to the mayor.
If he went through a formal process, Zich thought the city official ratting out the city to the bandits might find out, so he infiltrated the mayor’s office.
Since most of the skilled forces had been sent out for the war, it was extremely easy to infiltrate the mayor’s office.

Of course, the mayor was shocked, but as a result of Zich’s kind blackmail, the Count’s introduction letter, and the Karuwiman Honorary broach, Zich was able to quickly calm the mayor down.
Zich immediately told the mayor the information he had, and then he made one request to the mayor whose face was now completely stiff.
He asked for the soldiers who were just sent out from the bandits’ trap to be immediately called back to the city. 

Since quite a long time had passed since the soldiers were sent out, the mayor expressed the difficulty of the matter, but with Zich’s abilities, it was possible to catch up to them.
Fortunately, the mayor was receptive and an easy person to work with; if the mayor refused to listen to him, Zich needed to come up with a different plan, but he didn’t need to do that.

That night, the soldiers dispatched to ambush the bandits’ home base quietly returned back to Bambis.
In order to hide their return, the soldiers somewhat disguised themselves.
However, since they were sent out for battle, they had little means to perfectly disguise themselves.
On the other hand, the late time and darkness of the night covered their clumsy disguises, and above all, they weren’t caught because the mayor worked hard to hide them.
The mayor was skilled, so they even perfectly covered their efforts from internal spies.
Then, the only thing left was to hide the soldiers around the city. 

When the bandits began attacking the city, the soldiers stationed beforehand immediately began to expel the bandits.
The sound of battle ringing throughout the whole city was from the fights between the soldiers and bandits.
In addition, before the soldiers were stationed throughout the city, Zich made one more request to the mayor.
He asked the mayor to not send any forces to the Demiro Firm. 

Zich judged that the current Bambis’ military forces with all its strongest soldiers sent out for war were too weak to fight the bandits in the Demiro Firm.
Unnecessary casualties would just arise.

‘Those idiots…!’

Did the mayor just ignore his words? No, that was probably not the case.
Zich thought this over again, but the mayor was really an easy person to talk to.
Then, there was only one possibility that came to mind. 

‘They were blinded by seeking achievements and ignored orders!’

It was obvious to see what happened as the soldiers began surrounding the building.
The knight jumped from the ground and landed on the roof.

“You low scum! Your evil deeds will come to an end here!” The knight ignored Zich and pointed his sword towards Tim.

Zich clicked his tongue without thinking; the knight’s actions were not even funny.

However, it could not even be compared to the annoyance Tim felt.
“Hahaha! Today is a really shitty day!” Nothing was going to plan, and now some kind of trash was pointing his sword at him. 

In order to resolve this suffocating and shitty feeling, there was only one solution.

Destruction!

Was it just a light trick? Tim’s skin seemed to wriggle.