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#1128 Early Majority vs Late Majority 

All righty, continuing on is me, Daganzam, the chosen Saint Researcher!!! 

Finally, today’s the day we get to witness the Saint with our own eyes. 
They say the Saint will appear right here in the plaza in front of the Demon King’s castle any moment now! 

If this is legit, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime miracle! I’m not about to let it slip through my fingers. 
If there’s even the tiniest chance we might miss this opportunity, we’d never live it do...

#1127 The Citizens’ Reaction 3 – A Saint Fanatic 

Hey there, name’s Daganzam. 

I’m just your average harmless citizen living in the Demon Kingdom. 
Unemployed, by the way. 

Well… not exactly. Currently, I hold a very important position as a “Saint Researcher.” 
What does a Saint Researcher do, you ask? 
Why, we research the Saint. That’s our main job. 

…Huh? 
You’re saying that sounds too literal and you don’t get it? 

Hmph, explaining lofty concept...

#1126 The Citizens’ Reaction 2 – Obsession Towards the Saint 

I am Ryugomytes.
People used to call me “Ryugomytes the Glittering Dust.” 

No, it’s not some cringe-worthy phase from my past or anything.  
That nickname came from my time serving in the Demon King’s Army. 

Back then, I was a mid-ranking officer with a decent record of achievements. I pulled my weight on the front lines. Even my comrades and subordinates tended to rely on me.  
Of course, I was no match for any of the Heavenly Four or their ai...

#1125 The Citizens’ Reaction 1 – A Young Boy’s Dream 

My name’s Dimlottas. 
I’m eight years old. 

Everyone says I’m a fool. 
All because I believe in something they think isn’t real.  

I’m no fool.  
I really saw him. 
It happened on a winter night when I was six, right in my own room: a man in red clothes who brought me a present. 

That man was the Saint. 
 

Mom and Dad told me about him.  
They said the Saint visits good children at night and ...

#1124 Ye Who Are Near, Behold 

Here I am, all dressed up for my big day. 
When the Demon King asked me to make another grand appearance, I was pretty much at a loss. 

 
Apparently, I’m supposed to show myself in front of the general populace of the Demon Capital this time. 
I get it; if you only rub elbows with the upper echelon, it starts to feel like closed-door politics. 

As a fellow man-of-the-people, I want to show some love to fellow common folk. 

But still, ...

#1123 A Saint Amidst State Affairs 

I am Armica, a minister of the Demon Kingdom. 

After what happened today, I’m feeling incredibly reverent. 

What happened, you ask? 
You dolt, have you already forgotten?! 

The great Saint himself descended before us, that’s what!! 

Until now, we weren’t even sure he truly existed and he was basically an urban legend. But the moment we laid eyes on him, he turned out to be the most marvelous being. 

Naturally, he’s got pow...

#1122 The Power to Unite

“Ughwooooaaah…!” 
“Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo...!” 
“We demons… the so-called mightiest race on the surface… how could this happen…!?” 

Hmm. 
Maybe I overdid it? 

To reintroduce the scene: we’re in a place that looks like a conference room in the Demon King’s castle. 
They gathered all the demon ministers here so they could meet me, the Saint, and hopefully bond with me… or so that was the plan. 

Ye...

#1121 Earth’s Final Boss 

Yup, it’s me again. 

At the Demon King’s urging, I step forward for a grand introduction... and promptly incurred the wrath of certain folks. 
Namely, the big-shot ministers of the Demon Kingdom. 

Well, I can see why they'd be mad. Imagine some stranger shows up out of the blue, is obviously way stronger than they are, and then snatches the credit for the policies they've been pushing. 

On top of that, they've been locked in a war for who knows how...

#1120 The Congress Dances in Ecstasy 

Right now, the Demon King’s council hall is awash in confusion and bewilderment. 

Out of nowhere, we find ourselves confronted with this being called the “Saint.” 
And apparently, said Saint has been secretly helping His Majesty behind the scenes, guiding him toward great achievements. 

How exactly are we supposed to react to that? 

Should we shower our mysterious benefactor who’s been aiding us from the shadows with boundless gratitude?  ...

#1119 Thus the Legend... 

I am Armiga, a high-ranking official of the Demon Kingdom. 

Right now, I’m being dramatically summoned by my lord. 

So... why did he summon me again? 

Seija (saint)? 

What's that? 

Seija, as in right (sei) and wrong (ja)?  

Because if anyone asked whether we’re on the side of righteousness or evil, I’d proudly say we’re on the side of righteousness, thank you very much. 

That’s n...

#1118 A Worried Minister

I am Armiga. 

I serve as one of the vassals under the Demon Kingdom. 

Although I’m not from the line that inherits the Holy Sword, my family has proudly been at the very center of the Demon Kingdom’s government for generations upon generations.

As one of their descendants, I hold a prominent position within the kingdom’s administration, just like my ancestors before me. 

Of course, there were other families like mine, but...

#1117 Not Knowing What You Don't Know

Now that we've hammered out all the opinions on the farm, it's time to head out and make an announcement to the wider world. 

First stop: the Demon Kingdom. 

Off to see the Demon King. 

He was the one who suggested this idea in the first place, so if I'm going to report my decision to anyone first, it should be him. 

So I asked Belena to use teleportation magic, and we zipped right over. 

I worried it might be rude to...

#1116 Courtesy Call

It’s me.
Starting the Farm Kingdom requires support from all sorts of people.
I got so carried away the other day that I rattled off everything at once, so let me backtrack and go through things in order.

First off, when I told Platy about my decision, she just gave me an easygoing laugh.

“If this is what you’ve decided, then I have no problem with it at all. A wife is supposed to follow her husband in silence, after all.”

Not that I can recall Platy ever silen...

#1115 The Divine Realm’s King of Inflation

It is still I, Hermes, the celestial god of Olympus.
How might we restrain this canine deity, Anubis, lest the Saint be doomed to one day rest upon a museum’s display shelf?!

“Hmhmhmhm… The soul returning unto its mortal vessel? So there be gods with such outlandish beliefs about life and death.”
“Who dares to speak?!”

And forth steps a burly elder with cheeks aflame.
The God of the Underworld from the Buddhist realm, the Great King Enma?!

“The soul do...

#1114 United Worlds in Assembly

Guooooh!!!

‘Tis I, Hermes!

Gods of many realms now converge upon the Olympian heavens!

Sugawara-no-Michizane.
Anubis.
Great King Yama.
And Odin.

Though Grandfather Cronus be bosom friends with Sugawara-no-Michizane and thus he be oft familiar to us, still!

We now hath Anubis, King Yama, and the God-Emperor Odin from foreign realms in attendance!

The sight is so grand as though they wouldst commence a divine war!

...

#1111 The God of Wisdom’s Conspiracy

I am the herald of the celestial realm.

Hermes, God of Wisdom.

As such, I take great pains to gather knowledge.

Wisdom without plentiful tidings is but an empty shell. And as the celestial realm’s messenger, I must swiftly bear significant news unto all who need it.

Thus I often linger upon the lofty sky, peering down upon the mortal realm.

All so that I might never overlook momentous events unfolding beneath.

And lo, on...

#1113 Mochi for the God of Mochi

Uooryaaaaah!!! Now is the moment to brandish mine own wit as the god of wisdom!

Witness the boundless scope of inscrutable stratagems!

“Well, dear uncles. I do understand thy fondness for the mortals below, yet prithee, wilt thou not hear our side as well?”

“What?”

Though I bedeck mine words with flowery language, the truth is they care for naught but the Saint’s delicious fare. Mine flattering speech is mere pleasantry to them.

Yet...

#1112 The Deities’ Meeting

I am Hermes, God of Wisdom!

Even now, great tumult stirs in the celestial realm!

The cause: a new kingdom soon to be raised in the mortal world!

And the one who shall found it is none other than that man who hath lately brought unto our world naught but revolutionary marvels: the Saint.

With such a momentous figure poised to establish a nation, the gods cannot help but be thrown into an uproar.

“…A new realm is on the verge of birt...

#1110 Conflict

That night, right after the Demon King made that shocking proposal.

I returned to the farm, had a perfectly ordinary dinner, got the kids in the bath, brushed their teeth, and was just about ready to turn in.

But instead of crawling into bed, I stepped outside.

Only in the front yard, really, but when I looked up, the sky was ablaze with stars.

So many that back in my world, I’d have had to travel to some remote foreign land just to see a sky lik...

#1109 A Proposal

“Well, I could’ve just told everyone I had the Demon King’s permission from the very start…”

Once everything settled down, Mr. Shax confides in me.

“But even then, some businesspersons wouldn’t have believed it. And if they demanded proof, it would’ve been a huge hassle. Not to mention I’d have to prove it over and over again to every new person, which is horribly inefficient and expensive…”

So that’s why Mr. Shax devised this who...

#1108 The Reason Behind Monopoly

The Heavenly Five-ring Mercantile Crash.

It’s a method of settling arguments passed down among traders, invoked only as the last resort when no consensus can be reached.

Merchants pit their wits and business savvy against one another, and whoever wins decides the outcome.

Loser obeys.

Winner takes it all and the loser loses everything.

It’s the ultimate showdown with absolute, final authority.

That’s what they call the Heavenly Fi...

#1107 The Merchant Code

I tied up the hitman we fended off, just to keep him from moving around.
I’m not sure who to report this to, so I guess I’ll leave him trussed up in the corner until we figure out our next step.

But seriously, Mr. Shax, what in the world is going on here?
This is three times more of a political thriller than I ever imagined.

“The fact that I made an exclusive contract with you, Lord Saint, has now spread to every merchant in the Demon Capital. Some of the...

#1106 Antitrust Act Offense

Apparently, letting the public know about the saint’s existence is important.

The satyrs and minotaurs who dropped by the other day all ended up settling here in the development site to work for us.

Thanks to them, our pioneers never run out of fresh milk, so they’re all getting healthier and more eager to work.

Not that any real work is actually getting done!

Because today, once again, we’ve got another unexpected visitor throwing a w...

#1105 A White Kimono’s Flavor

And so it began.

The Great Milk Showdown: Satyrs vs. Minotaurs!

“All right, we satyrs are up first! First strike wins the day!”

Bravely stepping forward is the representative of the satyr tribe.

What was her name again?

...Oh right, Paidra.

She looks like one of the younger members of her family, short and slender, like Panu’s little sister.

But, being part of the milk tribe, certain parts of her are undeniably impres...

#1104 Milk vs Milk

All right, with that said, things are going down again.

Satyrs vs minotaurs.

They’re competing for the right to repay a favor through a milk showdown.

It’s quite the misleading title if you’re Japanese.

By “milk showdown,” we’re talking about comparing the quality of dairy milk, not chest measurements.

The intricacies of my language are giving me a headache again today.

These therians from the Satyr and Minotaur tribe...

#1103 There Can Only Be One

The fighting drags on.

This silly tug-of-war over who gets to repay a debt—goats vs. cows—just keeps going.

First off, we need to calm everyone down and make it crystal clear who the Saint is around here.

“WE’RE SO SORRYYYYYYYYYYY!!!”

Down below, as I receive my healing, I see two therians scraping their foreheads against the ground, bowing like their lives depend on it.

They’re both the ringleaders who dragged this absurd ...

#1102 Visitors to the Development Site – Dairy Animal POV

Greetings, it’s me again.

I was worried this might happen, but the situation’s even more chaotic than I imagined.

Elves and dwarves have shown up uninvited.

And not just that, they’re offering to help with the settlement work without me asking, which only confuses things more.

We all knew from the start that elves, who love nature, and dwarves, who excel at crafting, were a bad combination...

Put these two races together in the s...

#1101 Visitors to the Development Site – Dwarf POV

I am Edward Smith, the leader of the Dwarven Underground Kingdom.

Everyone calls me “Pops.”

Being the head of the dwarves also means leading the world’s greatest craft guild. All the construction, smithing, and metalwork orders that pour in from every corner of the globe fall to us, and we must see them through flawlessly.

I’ve spent decades swinging my hammer in this heavy-responsibility position.

In that time, I’ve piled up countless achi...

#1100 Visitors to the Development Site – Elf POV

My name is Elelelelelelcy.

...Wait, wrong.

It’s Elelelelcy.

Four Els in total!

Even after living for centuries, I’m still not used to my own name.

Well, it can’t be helped.

Among us elves, “El” holds significant value.

After all, the number of “El” included in your name indicates your rank in elven society!

So having four makes it clear I’m of a high caste among elves.

Of course, th...

#1099 The World’s Mysterious Back Side

Continuing from last time is me, young S-rank Corey.

When I actually get a chance to talk with Lord Saint, I find he’s much more down-to-earth than I imagined.

Even today, he’s graciously answering our bold and somewhat rude questions.

“A ship at sea? Did that happen? Hmm…”

Granted, the answers themselves aren’t exactly clear.

“Hmm? Give me a sec, I’m trying to remember. Let’s see… something like that might’ve happened? Or maybe it didn’t?...