Sorry the chapter’s so late, I had to work, and I was too tired to translate yesterday. Pretty much the same for today. Just updated the table of contents too, tell me if any links are broken.
The conference room of the Dark Temple.
The usual faces had assembled there.
The Evil God, I.
The overseer, the old man, Julius.
Then, the 15 Corps Heads.
"Well then, this month's motto will be [Let's go all-out]." (TLN: Dragon Quest tactic.)
The old man proceeded the conference.
"I don't know what we're going all-out on though."
I muttered out loud.
"I was thinking it was about time to increase our activities outside. There are some who want to go out more too."
Gareth responded on their behalf.
Up until now, there was a limit on the number of people working outside.
It's not like everyone could just leave whenever they wanted.
As expected, that would stand out too much.
Humans and evil gods have different ways of thinking and strengths, so there will be some who cause problems.
I thought over it for a moment.
Well, if you open the lid, the one who stood out and moved a lot causing messes was me.
It was me. (TLN: Uses 'watashi' for this line and the one above.)
Thus, you can pretty much say that it's alright already.
When we decided on a motto, the subject changed to this, and they really got into it.
Unexpectedly, their dissatisfaction might have been swelling.
"This is about the next subject though, it's about the case of the mysterious disappearance of Hamilton Fortress."
"What a mystery—. I wonder why it mysteriously disappeared—?"
I said that lightly, and waited for a retort.
However, nobody retorted.
Everyone averted their faces.
"Hey, aren't you going to jump on?"
"It's because even for us, taking that magic would put our lives in danger……"
The 8th Corps Head, Morgon spoke timidly.
Apparently it wasn't a material they could easily retort on.
No, I won't use Catastrophe or something if I get retorted back to though.
"About that, isn't it bad to not have Hamilton Fortress for the next time the Maou appears?"
The old man returned to the subject at hand.
"Certainly, there's a high possibility that the next time the Maou appears will turn into a demonic calamity."
I nodded.
"Why do you know that?"
Jeko tilted his head.
"The next Maou's strength changes depending on the way the last Maou was defeated."
Adrigori explained.
"Hou."
"If the period between the Maou's appearance and its death is short, the next Maou tends to be strong."
"Does that mean that it's easy for a strong Maou to appear after a weak Maou?"
"That's how it is. To the end, it's only a tendency though, and the Maou's strength has a large random element to it, so there isn't a small chance that a weak one will come out though."
"Then wouldn't it be fine if they just ignored the Maou for a while after it appears?"
Jeko said something natural.
Adrigori thought the same, but he shook his head to the side.
"Humans don't know of this mechanism. We noticed because we observed them for a long period of time."
"To be accurate, Ashtal-sama noticed it."
The old man added in his comment.
"As expected."
Jeko raised a voice of praise.
"My hobby is observation after all. If you're holed in for 1000 years, you'll think of useless things like that."
I'm not that diligent with it, but I do have a diary.
I noticed it while reading through it.
"Are you planning on teaching that to the humans?"
Asked by Jeko, I thought for a second.
If I taught this to humans, how will they act?
They'd delay defeating the Maou for as long as possible.
The Maou suddenly appears, without any signs.
The Maou appears at the same time as their subordinates.
If they defeat its subordinates, and ignore the Maou Castle for a while, they know that the demon population will gradually recover.
There's no sign of them breeding, so it seems that they just 'POP', like in a game.
Therefore, even if they just let the Maou live for a while, they'll just increase the number of humans sacrificed.
The burden of constantly surrounding the Maou Castle is large too.
Until now, humans have thought that, and defeated the Maou as soon as possible.
However, if you add in this information, the situation changes.
In order to avoid a strong Maou, they'd leave it alone for a certain period of time, then go defeat it.
"In the end, this is just an estimate. Even if we taught them, we'd just be announcing that theories like this exist."
"If that's the case, then we have just the right professor."
Who is this professor that the old man speaks of?
I abandoned who I was thinking of.
"I don't know who they are, but give my best regards to that professor."
The old man said 'Understood', and bowed.
"As far as I know, the last Maou was defeated the quickest. Well, it was the weakest too though."
Weak Maous can easily be beaten.
Defeating the Maou is the highest honor.
Once people know that it's weak, sometimes they compete to beat it.
The ones who won that, were Yufilia and the others.
"That's why i think we should do something about Hamilton Fortress."
"Eve if you say to do something, won't Scottyard just rebuild it?"
"Like that, they won't be able to deal with a strong Maou. Scottyard seems to be lost since the fortress they invested large amounts of money in turned into a crater."
It still hasn't been that long since Hamilton Fortress vanished.
I wonder if they didn't feel like rebuilding it immediately?
"So?"
"I was thinking that we make a fortress there. We'll use our techniques to make it to the level that humans wouldn't be able to make it."
"I see. We'll lend the humans a hand at the time of the demonic calamity, but will the new Hamilton Fortress carry our role?"
"At your will."
The old man gave a short reply back.
"Who should make it……I don't even need to ask though."
Jeko looked to the 11th Corps Head Istim.
"That's a pretty interesting project! I'll make you the best fortress and show it!"
Istim was in high spirits.
"Is it alright to make the best fortress?"
I tilt my head.
Because, if he does too much it'll be over specced.
"For that, I'll base it on the construction period."
"Go all out on that."
Adrigori gave his opinion like he was confirming the motto.
"If you make the entire outside out of orihalcon, then the demons won't have an easy time destroying it."
Jeko said that casually, but isn't that going too all out?
"Don't be unreasonable. Just processing that much orihalcon alone is really tough."
Istim complained to Jeko.
"Well then, the new Hamilton Fortress' construction plan has been approved."
Everyone nodded to the old man's words.
It was unanimously approved.