How to Make the Perfect Demon Lord-Chapter 83: Kidnap England

"Take me back."

[Teleportation in progress.]

Energy enveloped Alexander, breaking him apart piece by piece until he finally dispersed from the site, leaving the top of the skyscraper empty.

While Alexander was going back to midworld, something surprising was happening on the other side of the city. At the construction site that had recently housed a battle, a wave of silence flooded the empty hall.

Suddenly

Thud!!

Inside the hall, the squad began to arrive, proving they had never truly abandoned the place in the first place.

And there they were—Jamie, Kasa, and Sandra, the newly formed extended trio. Behind them stood the two demon scientists, still in their lab coats, though these ones looked cleaner than before. Their hair was fresh as well; they had clearly taken time to tidy themselves before returning to the scene.

"The plan has been completed," the female scientist reported, checking an electronic tablet in her hand.

"Wow. The commander’s planning was flawless."

"What would you expect from her? She hasn’t made our kind survive on an empty mind," Kasa chipped in, speaking from his own experience.

Since he was a child, the commander had saved him. When a human-made asteroid once threatened to strike his village—its magnitude alone enough to send them all to their graves—the commander intervened and broke it to smotherings before it could reach them.

And in this case, it wasn’t much different.

The commander had predicted that the goddess would do everything in her power to locate where the demon extraction was taking place. For the demons, the key was making sure the goddess traced their teleportation in order to discover the exact location of Midworld.

Since Fiona and Captain Cain had appeared from afar at the construction site, the goddess’s forces hadn’t been able to track their precise location.

But Captain Ron—the man who brought the ball into their court—changed everything.

And now, with Alexander’s second teleportation to the governors office, above that Jamie anticipated would happen so they recorded everything that happened their. They had all the information they needed to begin mapping Midworld.

Since there was no one inside Midworld they could infiltrate directly, this had been the only reasonable path to locating it.

Beep.

The tablet emitted a loading sound. On the screen, a glowing label displayed five percent, showing how far the process had progressed.

"Let’s not get ahead of ourselves," Jamie said. "They’ve found ASTRO faster than we expected. That puts us behind, since we’re still stuck on the first stage of our plan."

His words erased the sense of completion that had begun to settle over the group.

The demons had a plan—a staged operation set in motion after Jamie finished his training.

The memory was still fresh.

A few months ago, after Jamie returned from training, the officials gathered in a briefing room—the commander, the lieutenant, the battalion leader, the priest, even Jamie himself.

But Castor wasn’t there.

Commander Stella stood at the front of the room in her battle suit, a large screen glowing behind her.

"If we are to fight and win this battle, we have devised a rule for our war. Remember—our fight is against the goddess and every being willing to strip us of the right to live peacefully, every being willing to pick up a stone for that cause."

She paused—then dropped the bomb.

Three icons materialized on the screen, each linked to the next, forming a path from the first stage to the final one—perhaps from the simplest to the most difficult.

"We can’t fight without gathering our kind in the same place. Our enemies might use them as leverage, even to break our morale. That’s why we need to secure every demon scattered across the galaxy."

She gestured toward the first icon.

"We will spread out in teams of two across planets where demon magic has been detected. Groups will be assigned based on ability and cooperation."

"What about Earth?" one officer asked. "Sixty percent of the escaped population is there."

"I’ve got the perfect person for that job—Jamie."

Jamie’s eyes shot toward her. He was baffled by the decision.

Maybe it was because he knew the planet better than most of them—but even that didn’t feel like enough reason to send him there, not with everything that could go wrong.

"With all due respect, sir, is it wise to send him there?" another officer asked, voicing the concern many in the room shared but were too afraid to express.

"He’s the perfect candidate for this job. It will help him get acquainted with the escaped demons and give them hope," she replied calmly.

A surprising response.

Normally she would have shouted at them for questioning her.

Perfect candidate my ass.

She’s just doing it to get me all chatty and emotional.

I bet my teammate on this mission will be some idiot who wants to talk all night...

Looking back on it now, it was exactly how naïve he had been.

"The second part of the plan."

She pointed to the second icon on the roadmap.

"Since the goddess has recruited all the participants of the reincarnation games—promising that our battle will be their final game—we need to break her influence by giving them a new choice. If they refuse to join the fight, we will free them all."

She continued.

It was a crucial part of their strategy.

Many of those fighters had never been harmed by demons. Their anger had always been directed at the goddess in the first place. Killing them in battle would be unfair, considering the circumstances they had been forced into.

This would give those who wanted to be saved a chance to be saved.

Then she turned to the final icon.

"And after that... we begin the war." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

She tapped the screen.

"At that point, the battlefield will most likely be our very own ASTRO."

"Huh?"

"You’ve got to be kidding, right?"

The officials were stunned. They had assumed the battlefield would be Earth—or maybe Midworld.

But ASTRO?

The place where their weakest civilians lived?

That idea directly contradicted the entire purpose of gathering their scattered people there in the first place. Why save them, only to expose them to war?

"Shut up and let me finish," Stella snapped.

"Remember—we’re fighting an enemy that wants to hunt us down. They won’t wait for us to prepare. They’ll strike straight at our heart the moment they can."

She leaned forward.

"And there is no better place to strike us than our home. ASTRO."

This time she shouted, and judging by the officials’ faces, the message had landed.

Perhaps they were so used to her shouting that they needed it to truly understand.

"If there are no more questions, you’re dismissed."

...

...

"We have to be quick in extracting more demons from Earth," Kasa said, staring at his phone. "And luckily, I just found a jackpot case that might help us do exactly that."

"What is it?"

Kasa turned the screen toward them. A newspaper article filled the display.

Its vintage design and bright colors made it stand out. Even without the small BR flag in the corner, you could immediately tell where it came from.

"Where?"

"England. Locals there have reported seeing a beast kidnapping kids in broad daylight."

"And what makes it different from any other kidnapping case?"

"The description one of the locals gave the police."

Kasa rotated the phone so Jamie could see the sketch included in the article.

Jamie’s eyes narrowed.

The drawing depicted a genki—a massive creature shaped like a wolf but with frog-like legs.

This really was a good find.

Genkis only hunted demons.

Which meant those kidnapped kids...

...had to be demons.

"If we find them," Jamie said slowly, "then we find their families."

"Yeah."

"That will only matter if they’re still alive."

Though his words were dark, they carried a hard truth.

Jamie looked at the screen again.

England really was a fascinating place.