
Fukuoka, 10:20 am.
Seen on the roof of a skyscraper in Japan, a red-eyed black-haired boy is eating ice cream.
“It feels boring. Why don't I find something interesting here?”
“How many times have I reincarnated into a human? Pretending to be human when you are a demon lord is very.
Demon Lord, a class of fictional creatures that often appear in anime and games. They were described as powerful demons whose multiple images looked terrifying.
For today, it is a fantasy. But unbeknownst in that world, they had coexisted with the figure.
One of the last remaining classes of demon lords known today is a boy who is now grumbling in a skyscraper while eating ice cream.
And now he looks shady because of the ice cream
“Uwa, win again? My luck was great today. I exchange again, ah~”
He easily jumped out of the building and landed safely like a cat.
It was unexpected that the demon god class could become human. Already so, he has his own smartphone, complete with chat features. And even funnier, the screen of his phone was a picture of Hatsune Miku.
The ringing tone of his phone rang.
“Who else is this? Hm? Group?” while walking towards the shop where he bought the ice cream, he received a lot of messages.
“Geh! Fucking kataoka! Why should I tell everyone that I skipped class?! He wanted me to throw him out of class. Cih!” gerutu the demon lord.
“Hmm?”
Unfinished with his grunt, he saw a classmate sending a link.
“What is this? Dark transaction? I was so lazy to open it. Ignore. Tomorrow, I think of a way to make Kataoka unable to speak.”
What a beautiful day in the morning that afternoon for the demon lord who reincarnated into a human being.
Without the lack of so-called magic and magical abilities, he could do everything without any constraints.
Almost a full day until the afternoon, his job was just playing, going around, sleeping like a cat and eating his favorite ice cream.
It was late in the afternoon and he started using his magic to change clothes. Pretending to be just home from school like any other school kid.
Fake uniforms and school bags that were originally non-existent became appearing from his own shadow.
“This is the point of hiding your identity as a demon lord to parents. I am free and can remain a sweet child.”
He disappeared when everyone was unaware of him and appeared in front of a house with the name sign ‘Yufuin’ on the wall of his house number.
“Must take a breath first and pretend to be plain. Yosh!”
His red eyes turned back brown and when he opened the fence, he acted like an ordinary teenager while saying hello, “Mother, I came home.”
“Welcome, Tenn. The food just cooked. Change your clothes. Dad will be here soon.”
“Good.”
The demon lord had an identity named Yufuin Tenn, a 16-year-old from a fairly simple happy family.
The mother was a housewife and a teacher and a salesman while her father worked as a journalist on a private television in Japan.
She was the only child the couple had after they were married for 6 years. A long wait for his two human parents.
That was the short history of the demon lord who was now the favorite child of the happy family.
Tenn, call it his new identity, came down in his casual clothes.
“Dad still not home bu?”
“Says in a minute. It seems like a lot of news to cover. Sit first. How was school?”
“School? Oho! Delightful. I can do the thing easily”
“So. Mercifully. I'm so glad Tenn was such a smart kid. Here, your favorite karaage. With spicy taste as you like.”
“Haha.” Highlights eyes and guilt haunt this demon lord.
“I'm sorry for your brutal son and this liar, mother. I swear I'll be a good boy while I'm still a human.”
They finally ate first. Not long after, the father's car was heard and the sound of the door opening.
The wife with a smile welcomed her husband's arrival, followed by the child.
“Welcome, my husband.”
“Dad, welcome.”
“I'm home. Tenn, you guys have started eating huh?”
“Today there is my favorite karaage.”
“Once, dad will wash hands first and eat directly yes.”
After that, they went back to the dining table and ate together. The faces of both of his parents were so happy.
“I know there is no point in being happy as a human being, since I will be reborn when I die. But, having parents who love you is indeed fun.”
“I think I started to like my life as a human these last few decades.”
The demon lord had been reincarnated for decades and there was a history behind it. We'll hold off until later for now.
After eating, the father told me something interesting.
“Last-lately, there have been missing person cases. Dad should find his source of information for the headlines.”
“People missing?”
“True, missing person.”
“Like a drunken bawdy om-om who forgot his way home after a drinking party and was found in a dumpster near a small alley?”
“Uhuk...uhuk..” the father who was drinking coffee until choked to hear the answer of the child. “Te–Tenn-kun, that's not what it means.”
“Interpretation?”
“Of course it's different, Tenn. This one is not like kidnapped.”
Tenn didn't care and didn't care about it. Adult chatter always makes him dizzy.
Although he was actually just lazy to hear it.
Tenn broke into his room and opened hundreds of chat notifications from his phone.
“Why else is this? I'm so lazy to go in and see them all tomorrow. Anyway even if going to school, Kataoka yang–...why is there this strange link again?”
While trying to ignore the message in her school group, the link appeared through her email.
“What?”
[www.aliceinthemurders.jp.org]
That's the link that was sent to him. When he realized the content of the group chat, all his friends did not respond and just said that it was just an anonymous account.
“Why can there be an anonymous account in my class chat group?” thought.
He immediately typed a reply in the group, intended for the account.
[@anonymous: who are you? Class leader?]
There's no reply. It seems that our demon lord is too upset to wait until she ignores her phone.
He chose to throw it near the pillow and went for a soak.
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Unwittingly by the demon lord, his phone lit up and installed the link that had just been sent to his email. The link is installed by itself.
[Loading.].
[Download complete]
[Name code: Alice Liddell]
[Welcome to the Murder Land]
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