[Group Message: "Due to group member Bad Woman's actions, the assassination plans of various countries have been activated ahead of schedule. Assassins from various countries have now arrived within one thousand meters of the group members."]
[Main Mission: Ensure the survival of group member "Bad Woman", defeat the assassins from various countries. Reward: 10,000 points.]
[Secondary Objective: Kill or seal Darkness Devil. Points +5000]
"Secondary Objective 2: Kill or Seal the Hell Devil, Points +5000."
"Secondary Objective 3: Fulfill the Ideal of the group member 'Bad Woman', Points +10000."
As Rosen finished speaking, new tasks appeared in the chat group.
This made Tokisaki Kurumi and Rias look over in surprise.
How could this man even control the chat group's task system?!
However, the other group members were already used to it.
After reading the task descriptions, Gabriel said, "That's amazing! The task rewards this time are actually as high as 30,000 points. If we can get all of them, won't we be able to gacha to our heart's content?"
"The main task and the first two secondary tasks are fine, but the third secondary task is already confirmed to be impossible to complete."
Fubuki shrugged.
"And 187,000 points are still split among so many of us. Even if it's averaged, each person will get at most 2,000 points."
"The big shot will still take the lion's share."
Gabriel nodded.
"After all, those two Root Demons inside are not easy to deal with. Judging from the abilities displayed in the manga, they are even more powerful than the Gun Devil and the Nuclear Bomb Devil."
"So, just how strong are these so-called Root Demons?"
Fubuki asked with a frown.
"Regarding that, you might have to ask the locals."
Gabriel shrugged.
"I'm not sure either, but every Root Demon is very strong. The Darkness Devil is among the most powerful Devils in Hell, and I am no match for it."
Makima admitted it straightforwardly.
Then she asked.
"Since these tasks have been issued, it means the Darkness Devil will appear, likely summoned by those assassins."
"Can such powerful Devils be easily summoned?"
Tokisaki Kurumi asked.
"Yes, as long as a sufficient price is paid, powerful Devils can be attracted to appear."
Makima nodded.
"But you said before that you signed a contract allowing all citizens of Japan to die in your place. Since the Darkness Devil is stronger than you, and these are just a few assassins, what price could they possibly pay?"
Rias frowned.
Could it be that all the citizens of those assassins' countries could sign similar contracts?
"It could also be people or objects that the other party is interested in."
Rosen said with a light chuckle.
He remembered that in the original work, the Darkness Devil descended because the German Devil Hunter, Santa Claus, promised to give the Chainsaw Devil to the Darkness Devil as a price for a contractual transaction, gaining part of the Darkness Devil's power and uttering the classic line, "I gradually understand everything."
Although her combat power was still a mess.
None of the women present were fools, so they clearly understood that the condition for the Darkness Devil's appearance might be them.
"Besides those two Root Demons, how strong are those assassins?"
Tokisaki Kurumi asked.
"Let me introduce them to you."
Afterward.
Makima shared the information she knew.
It took about ten minutes for everyone to understand the strength of the assassins, and then they looked at Rosen and Gabriel.
Their expressions were a bit strange.
After all, they hadn't expected the assassins' strength to be so… weak.
Yes, quite weak.
Besides those with Devil powers, there were even a few ordinary assassins among them, but because they were lucky enough not to die in several missions, they boasted about being immortal.
"Actually, the assassins' strength isn't weak. The reason you think they're weak is because you yourselves are strong enough. If it were ordinary people, they would still be very difficult to deal with."
Rosen said with a calm expression.
However, at this point, the smart ones could be even more certain that the reason Makima called them here was not to deal with the assassins, but to deal with those Root Demons and fulfill her inexplicable ideal.
But since things had come to this, just as Rosen said, since they were already here, it would be too much of a loss to leave without completing the task and getting the rewards.
"Hmm, they're all here."
Rosen's perception range was no longer what it used to be.
Those assassins approaching with hostility could not escape his perception at all.
This was also why Rosen was so relaxed.
The only ones truly worth his action were those Root Demons.
He had no interest in dealing with ordinary Devils or Fiends.
Just the assassins appearing in this plot could be easily dealt with by his female dependents.
As his voice fell.
An uneasy commotion and panicked shouts suddenly came from outside the private room.
Followed by a large number of footsteps and cries.
In the plaza outside the hotel.
The originally leisurely people cried out and scattered, fleeing in all directions, their faces filled with terror, shouting in collapse, "Devils! The Devils are here!"
At this moment, a plastic mannequin, similar to those often seen in clothing stores, rushed towards the hotel. Passersby who couldn't dodge were knocked to the ground, and their bodies quickly transformed into the same kind of plastic mannequins amidst a series of cracking sounds.
And then, one spread to ten, ten spread to a hundred.
At a terrifying speed, even more potent than the most infectious plague, in just a dozen seconds, hundreds of passersby were transformed into plastic mannequins with their arms turned into sharp blades.
Their unfocused pupils stared with inorganic eyes at the hotel entrance.
Behind the dolls, a middle-aged woman with long hair, sitting on a doll, watched calmly.
It was not difficult to see that all of this was her doing.
"Makima is inside. Kill everyone inside."
After giving this command, hundreds of dolls rushed towards the hotel, causing the people hiding inside to panic immensely.
However, just as they were about five meters from the door.
An endless cold current quietly emerged. Under the bright sun, the air temperature instantly dropped by dozens of degrees.
The ice-blue cold current blew towards the dolls like a gale, freezing all of them in place in just the blink of an eye.
Hundreds of dolls, maintaining different poses, were frozen in ice, unable to move.
Seeing this scene, the woman known as "Santa Claus" lost her relaxed and carefree expression, replaced by one of extreme astonishment.