Duanmu Huai had no idea what the Demon King was planning, and perhaps he would not have cared even if he had known. After leaving the Beast King Territory, Duanmu Huai split the group into three teams. They had more and more people under their command, nearly a thousand by now. In Duanmu Huai's view, having so many people move together was clearly unsafe.
So he made a decision: disperse the group and have Mary and Kurokawa Akane lead them separately.
Mary's task was simple. He wanted her to take this group back to the Beast King Territory and continue waging guerrilla warfare. Duanmu Huai was certain that when that hot-tempered idiot learned he was causing trouble outside its territory, it would fly into a rage and lead an army after them.
Mary could then take the others and cause trouble openly behind its back.
It was easy to imagine how this would put the Beast King in a state of dangerously high blood pressure. If it dropped dead from that, all the better.
Although the chances were slim.
Kurokawa Akane led another small team, but her task was not combat. She was responsible for reconnaissance. As for Duanmu Huai, he continued playing the role of an elephant, wandering everywhere and smashing to pieces anything that dared to stand in his way.
Although Rista volunteered to help them, Duanmu Huai stopped her.
"Why? I just want to help!"
"You'd be no use over there. You're better off staying here."
"Really?"
Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, surprise and delight appeared in Rista's eyes.
"Do you mean I'm at least a little useful?"
This goddess apparently had not realized that her definition of her own value had already sunk to the level of "being a little useful is enough."
"Only a little. Still