[Two-meter-tall, muscular, blond bakery uncle, former Demon King × brash farming girl, former Hero]
In a Western fantasy game set in another world, I used my nearly max-level male Hero character to kill the Demon King. Later, I woke up and found myself inside the game.
Broke, I got caught by the bakery owner after skipping out on the bill. And then I found out the owner was the Demon King!
I hear the Demon King is devious and vindictive?
Retired Demon King, current bakery owner: There's no way I'm letting him find out I used to be the Demon King he killed!
Female Hero character Calis: There's no way I'm letting him find out I used to be the Hero who killed him!
"The princess of the Kingdom of Ophira has been kidnapped by the Demon King! The king has issued a call for Heroes. Anyone can become a Hero, whatever their station! Bring back the king's beloved princess and earn a reward! What are you waiting for, Hero? Grab your sword and set out!"
[Bling bling... System loading...]
[Loading failed. Hero Benboba was gravely wounded by the Demon King. Activating backup account Calis. Good luck slaying the Demon King.]
"..."
It's really a story about two people who think they're enemies and desperately try to keep their secret identities hidden, while neither realizes they've already blown their covers as soon as they meet.
The former Demon King retired and became a slovenly bakery uncle who smokes and drinks. The once-mighty Hero started over with a new account as a Level 0 newbie. They settle down and live ordinary lives in a town on the border between the human and demon realms.
"I want rice, not bread!"
"Then go clear some land and grow rice yourself."
Why am I farming with the Demon King?
[Alternate Version]
I was so absorbed in a game that a flowerpot fell from the sky and hit me. When I woke up, I found myself inside the game. Broke, I skipped out on a meal, couldn't outrun the bakery owner, and got hauled off to work off my debt.
What kind of bakery owner has an eight-pack, is more muscular than the blacksmith across the street, and wears even less clothes?
Then I accidentally discovered that the bakery owner was a retired Demon King, the very Demon King who had perished alongside my male Hero character! When I used my main account, the Demon King had joined our party in a female character's body to sow discord. I thought she was just an ordinary NPC, so I kept ordering her around, making her do chores, using her as a weapon, and making her cook. Basically, I treated her like she wasn't a person, and even cost her the throne. I still remember the look in her eyes when I used the mutual-destruction move and gravely wounded her. She looked like she wanted me dead.
No way! I have to keep this secret identity hidden!
By the customs of the demon realm, a new Demon King has to kidnap a princess from the human realm and wait for a Hero to challenge them. Dela Jie did just that, and also followed his underlings' advice to turn into a woman and infiltrate the Hero's party to sow discord.
He hated one Hero in particular. He'd turned himself into an all-rounder for that Hero, but still couldn't win him over. In the end, the Hero said he liked men!
After retiring and becoming a bakery owner, he picked up a girl who'd skipped out on her bill. He recognized at a glance that she was the reincarnation of that awful Hero. He'd know that clashing light magic anywhere, even if he were reduced to ashes!
At last, he could make her his slave! Hahahahahaha!
But that damn Hero is pretty cute as a girl.
I absolutely can't let her awaken as a Hero!
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