The danger of the darkness stopped as sudden as it came.
Thanks to the Light Demon Lord Lucifer turning into the Dark Demon Lord Satan, the dark matter that was about to cover the whole world was possible to control.
The fiendish dark matter had returned to simple dark matter and was being retrieved by the body of Satan.
“There we go…”
And then, after everything was over, a single man came out from the mouth of Lucifer’s giant body -I mean, Satan.
“Haine-san!” (Karen)
I unconsciously ran towards him and hugged him.
Without minding about the public gaze.
“Haine!” “Haine-chi!” “Haine-oniichan!” “Haine-dono!”
The others were also rushing one after the other.
Of course, Yorishiro-sama as well…
“Haine-san, good work.” (Yorishiro)
“No, the ones who did a good work were you all. Everyone did their best and managed to save the world.” (Haine)
It felt as if their words were reaching directly to our hearts.
Should I say as expected of the Light and Dark God here?
“Kuromiya Haine!” (Michael)
The Demon Lords came down from the sky one after the other as well, but their expressions were that of uneasiness.
“What happened to Lucifer? This is…” (Michael)
It caused us quite a lot of trouble, and even made the light and darkness inside itself go into a rampage, but now, it is practically as good as new now.
It is a size smaller than that of the Light Demon Lord, and its body gave out a black lustre as if it had been varnished, not showing a single wound on itself.
“Right now he is the Dark Demon Lord, Satan.” (Haine)
Haine-san said.
“Looks like that Ates has abandoned her control rights of Lucifer, so taking advantage of that opening left, I took over and changed him. In order to make the dark matter spreading around harmless.” (Haine)
“Was there a need to go through such lengths?” (Raphael)
Raphael bites on.
“Eh? Raphael? Weren’t you dead?” (Haine)
“That’s of no importance right now. You should have been able to control the rampaging dark matter yourself, or eliminate it completely! And yet, why did you go through such troublesome lengths?” (Raphael)
“Because I couldn’t endure it, maybe?” (Haine)
Haine-san silently looked up at Lucifer.
“If it were in the past, I would have erased it without any hesitation. But after fighting you Demon Lords, I have learned that you Demon Lords also have a life, also have a heart. It is because I thought that…” (Haine)
“It was too pitiful to erase, then.” (Raphael)
Haine-san nodded.
“Especially this guy. He was being used by Ates since the beginning of this incident. He was being used without being able to distinguish right or wrong, so I questioned whether it really was okay to have him take responsibility for it.” (Haine)
“You…” (Raphael)
Those words reached out to the Demon Lords the most.
“Can’t have this guy hurt the humans anymore then!” (Michael)
“That was our objective from the very beginning though.” (Gabriel)
“With this, we have completely lost any reason to fight the humans!” (Uriel)
“Hmph, every single one of you are too soft.” (Raphael)
They were trembling probably because they were moved.
At that moment, I was sure.
The battle with the Great Demon Lord Lucifer, the battle with the Demon Lords in general -no, not only that, the battle that continued for a hundred years with the monsters had…at this moment, come to an end.
From now on, a new era will begin.
An era where humans, monsters, and Gods will live together in peace.
“…By the way, where’s Ates?” (Haine)
Haine-san made a light-hearted question as if it was bothering him a bit, but that question made everyone in the place stiffen.
“It was because her control had stopped suddenly that I was able to take over Lucifer, but…seeing that she is not around anywhere in sight, did she escape? Then we still have work to do!” (Haine)