VRMMO: My first Contractee is Yandere

It seems Millim has committed to the "hit them with numbers" strategy. She's completely taken a stance of opposition against us in the game. Annoying, but I can't deny it if that's how she wants to play. I'll just subtly expose it on the forum later.

Soon enough, the only ones left were Millim and the NPC she's currently contracted with. It turns out it was the bartender.

"You think you can kill all these guild members and get away with it? You signed in before diving into the dungeon. The guild has all your details, they know you did it.""Hoho, why would we, A-rank adventurers, target a bunch of lowly fighters?"

"The evidence says otherwise."

"That doesn't matter. If we were worried about that, it'd be far riskier to let you live. Isn't it worse if you're allowed to walk away? Dying in a dungeon is hardly uncommon."

"I-I'm sorry, please, spare me…"

The beastman bowed deeply, his head lowered in a plea for mercy. Jack-Jack, about to pierce his neck with his rapier, was interrupted by Millim's unique skill, still active from her Manifestation.

Jack-Jack is out for revenge. His life has been nothing but trauma, and Millim's skill, which forces her target to relive their worst memories, would be devastating. Just as her attack was about to land, Atri stepped in to shield Jack-Jack.

Millim's unique skill, Nightmare Trauma Vision, hit Atri directly.

The dark spirit clicked its tongue in frustration.

"Tch, Atri, huh? Well, whatever, now you'll be drowning in—"

Millim couldn't finish her sentence. Atri, completely unfazed, calmly severed the head of Millim's contracted NPC.

Millim cried out in shock.

"What's going on!? You should be suffering from severe trauma! Even without Stark, at the very least you should be rattled... how are you still moving?"

"God told me. God will never abandon me. If I can face the same thing without breaking again, God said He'll sleep with me! And when we sleep, He'll whisper in my ear!"

"What!? T-Tenma Loki! You... sleeping with a little girl, and you—"

Before she could finish, Millim's form disappeared.

Her last words left a sting, though. She wasn't one to be taken lightly. I should've known better than to underestimate her.

A while back, I played a harmless prank on Atri when she seemed bored. She ended up liking it too much.

Rasetsu-sama, who had been quietly observing, spoke up.

"That's just... seriously off-putting, Nero-san..."

I almost deactivated Divine Manifestation to try and explain myself, but decided instead to open the chat window.

Millim, the Dark Spirit. A terrifying enemy.

After wiping out the hordes of nobodies, we finally began setting up camp once again.

"By the way, Atri-dono," Jack-Jack said as he stoked the fire.

"Have you heard of the upcoming war?"

"War? On the first field?"

"No, no. I'm talking about a war brewing in the third field. It hasn't officially started yet, but it's about to."

"I haven't heard anything about it."

It seems war has come to the third field as well. The developers are clearly keen to expand the war content. As long as there's profit in it, I'm willing to jump in. I asked for more details.

"There are several ruling factions in the third field. But the strongest, and most malevolent, is the Lord of Yggdrasil, the True Vampire—Yoyo Ro Yggdrasil. My sworn enemy. He's preparing to start a war."

"Your personal enemy?"

"No. He's an enemy of all humanity now."

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"Back before the great time freeze, Yoyo declared to the defenseless people of the land:n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

'If you become my followers, I will grant you the power to fight. As vampires, you will stand on the battlefield. You who are powerless now, will become warriors, protectors! Even though we are of different factions, I welcome all who can fight. I will not rule over you. Each of you may fight as you wish, defend as you please, and resist in your own way!'

He promised them that.

And three thousand people became vampires, gaining the power to fight and defend. But instead of allowing them to protect the people they cared about, Yoyo forced them to defend only his city. Worse, he made their loved ones into their food.

Now that the time freeze has ended, Yoyo is on the move again. He's planning to invade nearby cities to grow his army."

"I've been gathering intel, but Yoyo got the better of me. That's how he took my arm."

"God, what do we do?" Atri asked.

"Well…"

Taking on this event wouldn't be the worst idea.

Yoyo's stance suggests he's becoming a new enemy of all humankind, aside from the Demon King. If we leave him unchecked, the third field will fall.

Losing the first field, and now risking the third, would severely limit our options. Worse, Yoyo might push his forces into the second field. In fact, if we're not careful, all of humanity could be wiped out at the hands of this vampire Lord.

"Let's join the fight, Atri. If we leave this event unattended, it might rob us of our future enjoyment."

"Yes… absolutely, my God! Teacher, I'm going too. I won't let anyone take away God's enjoyment…!"

"Indeed, having you with us, Atri-dono, is like having the strength of a hundred men."

Jack-Jack said.

"We need to watch out for four people and one more."

"? What kind of division is that?"

"One is Yoyo himself. The others are his three knights, known to be formidable warriors. And the last one is… Lady Ashley. My... benefactor."

She was my master, who Yoyo took away from me.

A nightmare lair where even plants and trees have withered away.

In the dilapidated and crumbling abandoned castle, in the throne room... the Demon King Guugyasdis Medotarva was bored and hungry.

His stomach growled loudly.

Lying on the freshly laid, plush carpet, he thrashed about like a spoiled child.

"Gehenna! Bring me food immediately! I'm starving! I don't care! I want to go outside, I want to go outside!"

"Are you a little girl!? You're being too loud!"

"Shut up, shut up! I'm a sprightly 123 years old! Don't ask a lady her age. That's why you're always rejected! Haha, you're weak! The weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings!"

"Shut up! You're the worst boss ever! Maybe I should just kill you and save the world!?"

The Demon King had been voluntarily sealed for a long time.

The reason was simple.

The war proposed by the goddess The World, where the Demon King was to survive for 666 years... the Demon King's defeat had been decided even before the war began.

The Demon King's lifespan... wasn't even 200 years.

To deal with this, the druggist Pity of the "Divine Toxic Poison" used a potion to weaken the Demon King and sealed him away. As a result, the king had been frozen in time, asleep until recently.

In the throne room, the Four Heavenly Kings had gathered.

Gehenna pretended to bow, Helmuth knelt sincerely, Alisdyne was standing but asleep, and Pity was sitting on the throne, wearing ridiculously thick clothes.

Shivering, Pity muttered.

"Shut up. I'm working here. Go die. Did you call us here just to chat? Don't joke around, go die."

"What's with the foul mood? It's a shame since you're so cute."

"Die, you damned Demon King."

"Is this a rebellious phase!?"

Helmuth, still kneeling, spoke in a solemn voice.

"There are signs of war in the Third Field, Demon King. Depending on the size of Yoyo Lowe Yggdra's vampire army, our defeat is also a possibility."

The Demon King responded.

But...

"Apologize! Apologize! Apologize! I'm the great Demon King! And just so you know, the reason I'm still a virgin isn't because I'm unpopular, it's because my race is...! We are fundamentally different from humans!

I only see humans as food! Correct your statement and apologize, Pity!"

"Excuses for being unpopular, huh, Demon King? Just die. Die hard. You're an old hag over 600 years old, still a virgin."

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

"…Gehenna, do something." Helmuth said sadly.

Gehenna, who had been kneeling lazily, stopped and sat cross-legged on the spot. He turned the brim of his favorite school cap backward, a hat he had liked since an event.

There was a faint sadness on the face of the beautiful elf.

"So, what should we do about Yoyo? It could lead to your defeat, Demon King. Honestly, the best move for the humans to defeat you would be to accept Yoyo's rule. Even if it's efficient, humans would hate it emotionally."

"Gehenna, you want to go, don't you?"

"…Yeah. My lady got captured because I wasn't there. But my loyalty is to the Demon King's army, so I can't act on personal feelings."

"Our army is different from the elves and human nations. You are free to do what you want, even if Yoyo becomes your enemy. In the end, I'll just kill them all."

"…"

The Demon King was confident.

No, in truth, the Demon King should have been able to wipe out humanity effortlessly. The only reason it turned into a battle was because The World gave humans cheats like skills.

Before the birth of skills, humans were weak.

At best, only vampires and witches could stand against the Demon King. A race presumed to be overwhelmingly powerful.

A natural enemy of all living things and the world.

That was the Demon King.