Chapter 1 (2/2)

”I' on you, aniki”

”N…no worries, Sadao”

Fro Satan, and the Great Dean in japan

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A year later

Maou spent his ti like an exemplary student to everyone, and reached second year without incident

The intervieith his guardian and Ashi+ya going to school occurred without undue trouble and his grades were the very definition of excellence

He had lots of friends, regardless of their genders and was remembered fondly by his homeroom teacher from first year, ould also continue in the post into his second year, Andou

Taking the household's financial circumstances into consideration, he wasn't part of any club, but as he was athletic to begin with, he was occasionally invited to take part and substitute with clubs

As of nohilst he'd been cautious since he was instructed to becoe had happened around him, and his school life was peaceful

Itthat had attempted to take over the world to enjoy school life was itself abnormal, but it was really peaceful, so there was no other choice

Maou was currently a tenthe time as he stood next to the ticket barriers for Sasazuka station on the Keiou line

Just as he was thinking he was right on tih the ticket barriers as he slapped Maou companionably on the back

”'Sup, Yoshi+ya”

Maou returned the greeting friendlily

”You ready for that English reading in fourth period?”

”What, askin' to see ht at the start of the new year?”

His classmate since last year, Koumura Yoshi+ya, nodded cheerfully

”Yes please!!”

”Man, it's weird, you being so easy with it makes me want to show you”

”My frank personality is th!”

”Frankly study ahead of time then”

”Hehehe”

Yoshi+ya was laughing openly, but in the next moment

”Agh!”

So in his eyes

”Don't sponge off the people that actually prepared after passing the year You too Sadao, don't spoil him!”

A harsh, girl's voice came from behind Yoshi+ya

”Morning, Kaori, 'sup?”

”Shoujii… you just hit me with a quiver…”

Standing there, with long black hair, a fe thing that was much taller than she as their classmate, Shouji Kaori

She was part of the archery club, the long thing was a bow, and the thing she just hit Yoshi+ya as the quiver with the arrows inside

”Don't coet bent and miss!”

Yoshi+ya was also part of the archery club, but his boas at school at the moment

The two of them were childhood friends since elementary school, and they'd always been like this since Maou knew them

”I'll just make you pay me back if they're bent”

”Shoujii, you little…”

”Come on you te'll be in the way if we stick around here!”

”Right”

”Ah- oi!”

As soon as she'd said what she wanted to, Kaori walked off, Maou half smiled at her back and Yoshi+ya followed after the his head

Koushuu Highway ran parallel with the Keiou line, as you crossed it, there was a street known as the Hundred Street Shopping District

”Ah, there she is”

Maou spotted so Sasazuka station, people heading towards it passing the corner in a rush

They spotted him too and waved widely

Maou answered in kind, Kaori raised her bow and Yoshi+ya raised his hand a beat later

The light finally went green and the three weaved their way through the crowds and crossed

”Morning!”

The girl aiting for the the at each of their faces in turns, perhaps see

Without reservation, full of confidence, she asked

”Kouain?”

”No way, I didn't do anythin'”

”He didn't do anything at all,” Yoshi+ya and Kaori each had their own reactions ”It's because Yoshi+ya takes advantage of being spoiled if he's spoiled I had to see this, so I, being the kind hearted soul I aht away”

Kaori spoke while shrugging her shoulders as if there was no helping it, and pointed at the other boy

The girl blinked blankly and followed her finger

”Did so happen between Koumura-kun and Koa, Maou-san?”

”Well, we'll chat on the way It's nothing you'd be surprised at now, Chii-chan, just Yoshi+ya ain't changed even as a second year”

These three were his classmates and friends that Maou alent to school with

The last of the features in her chestnut brown hair and large eyes; she tilted her head without understanding what Maou meant

”Oi, Sadao, you sayin' I ain't grown?”

Yoshi+ya bumped into him

”Yoshi+ya, do you think you have grown?”

Kaori's sharp words were heaped onto Yoshi+ya

”Kao, you'll make Koumura-kun feel bad if you say that I'! Probably!”

Chiho tried to hold back Kaori's snappishness

”Chii-chan, Chii-chan, saying it like that will actually make him feel worse”

Maou jumped in

The four of them, Maou Sadao, Koumura Yoshi+ya, Shouji Kaori and Sasaki Chiho, had been friends since they were in class 1-A, and this was one of the regular occurrences that had happened countless times since last year

”And who's hitting people with a quiver?”

”Eh!? Kao!?”

”Ohh, Sadao, I didn't do such a thing, did I?”

”Kaori, seriously”

”First off, Yoshi+ya was in the wrong for trying to look at Sadao's English notes”

”Koumura-kun…”

”W-what, Sasaki, who else am I supposed to ask?”

”You rely on him too much! You shouldn't let him either, Maou-san! You spoil him too much!”

”Now then, Yoshi+ya, you start running and study like mad We'll protect Sadao's notes to the last”

”Are you tryin' to kill me!?”

”Well, if you'd studied prop'ly from the start, you wouldn't die”

”S-Sadao! This is the end! Help me!”

”Nah, I get the feelin' if I go, Chii-chan and Kaori will be mad at me”

”I'll give you lunch!”

”Aniki always makes me a lunchbox”

”Sadaooo!”

Yoshi+ya's screa with the laughter of the other three, dispersing on the spring breeze

”…”

”Maou-san? Is so?”

Maou suddenly stopped and looked back

Chiho noticed that and in response to her question

”Nah, it's nothin'”

Maou shook his head with a s

”By the way, Sasachii, how coh you're in the same year”

”Eh? I wonder why I think it's because Maou-san felt kinda like an adult fro to it though… is it weird?”

Her last words were directed to Maou and felt a little insistent

”Nah, I'm pretty used to it now, so either's fine”

Maou knew froe how they spoke was surprisingly difficult

”That's it, Sasaki gave you an adult like name because you feel like a repeater So you are older than me, Sa-”

”Good luck with your studying, Yoshi+ya”

”I' of you, help me!”

”That was close, that was close… did he notice me?”

A little back fro themselves, in the shadow of a telephone pole, a woman had hidden herself

It was the woman that called herself Yusa E a little earlier

She was dressed in a pale, long shi+rt that showed a tinge of spring, soft, three-quarter length jeans and white heels, with aoff her shoulder

It was the sa when she visited room 201 of Villa Rosa Sasazuka, it , but if you were to avoid that, it hat an office lady in japan looked like when they went to work

She timidly eased out of the shadow and oncethemselves a little further ahead

”He really is… being a student”

Eathered around Maou that seemed like classmates, but she couldn't feel any kind of abnormality from them

At the very least, they were normal humans, and even to Emi's inexperienced ear, the conversation that drifted faintly back sounded like nothing more than normal conversation between students

”Ahh, I've got no more time”

She wanted to tail theer, but she had circumstances of her own

She had to work

Let alone breakfast, she hadn't had a bite to eat since the night before, and hadn't slept a wink

Emi's job required concentration, and there wasn't anywhere at work to buy snacks to fill her empty stomach

A lack of sleep alone would h, so he would have to find a convenient place to get breakfast and continue her surveillance that evening

It grated on her to take her ene nowhere to run at face value, but she wagered on it and turned her back

She looked around the area and decided that it would be quickest to get the train froaya station rather than Sasazuka

She worked in shi+njuku, and if she got the train froaya on the new Keiou line, she'd arrive by the west and south entrances to shi+njuku station

E the streets and as she finally returned to Koushuu highway, she relied on her memories of the area and a map app on the sliaya

As she approached the station, she saw a fast food shop that sold Ronald's

”I can just get breakfast from there”

They should have their breakfast

Emi rushed into the store and up to the empty counter

”Hetable ju-”

She was giving her order to the attendant when she stopped mid-word

”…!”

The assistant was staring at Ehost

In the next instant, as ifhis expression, Emi's face stiffened in surprise too

”E-Emilia?”

”A-A-Alsiel!?”

Standing at the counter, taking her order in a MgRonald's unifor's aide, the Great Demon General Alsiel, who called himself Ashi+ya shi+rou

”W-why are you…”

”What are you doing…”

””In MgRonald's!?””

Emi worked under contract at a call centre that specialised in communications

Working in a subsidiary building of the iant, Docodemo, she mainly handled customer complaints and support

It seemed like there were few candidates suitable to handle complaints, and Emi's first job in this world was like that

They were shorthanded so the pay was high, and E nerves of steel, yet still a beautiful voice, was a priceless asset to the company

And on top of that, Ees in the world

Even if they spoke to her in a language she had never heard, she possessed a kind of spiritual syeneralcould be understood by the caller Whether this was English, French, South-Korean or Chinese, she appeared fluent in all of them

E of a dark blue vest, a straight skirt, a blouse and a green tartan ribbon on top before clocking in and going to the seat assigned for her to work in She didn't have a set seat because she wasn't a full-time employee but as they were understaffed, she usually worked at the same island in the office

”Morning, Emi”

”…Morning… Rika”

Her co-worker in the adjacent seat spoke to her She was her closest friend in japan, they'd started on the saht brown short-cut stood out atop her dark blue uniform

”W-what's up? Your complexion looks really bad”

”…I h sleep either”

”Ah… seriously?”

E and coative aura that made her hesitate to ask more and decided that she'd invite Emi to a nice place at lunch time

On the one hand, while E else, she also felt utterly exhausted while she was doing nothing

”I wish the two of the evil”

Mentally, Eating the De and Alsiel

”Brothers Killed A home”

Together with that headline, Emi would doubtlessly be hunted by the police as a criminal

”…Even if I had enough Holy Power to go back, the aftertaste is too bad”

Eroaned

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E Satan and had leapt iate he had made

However, perhaps because he ounded when he ate, and when she caht in the middle of Tokyo

There was no sign of the De that they were in the same world, Emi loitered around Tokyo alone

She didn't kno the demons had come to live where they were, but at the very least, Emi loitered in japan for a year, and obtained an address

Just as Satan had seen through her in that six-y required to wield ic, 'Holy Power'

In japan, no, on Earth, there was no Holy Power

The basic energy that was replenished fro in Ente Isla didn't exist

In her heyday, wielding the full ht of a hero, Emi could leave entire armies as less than cinders, let alone a person or two, but now, that wasn't the case

In the sa and Alsiel had been wounded and come to japan, Emilia hadn't been able to deal the final blow and her Holy Power and staate without restoring them and came to japan

Even so, she was confident her physical abilities and ic she could use that she would be far beyond a north, there was no guarantee she would have the energy to return to Ente Isla

They both appeared to be nor perceivable, but they had already spent a year in this country

Who knehat kind of underhanded tactics they had that ive them demonic power back, and if they resisted ht be turned and it would end in her defeat

Emi had awaited help from her co and Alsiel, and her comrades hadn't met with her

If they had, they would be keeping a careful eye on the De and Alsiel's circumstances

”I couldn't do anything else, but still, still,” E next to her, couldn't hear, ”why didn't I do anything else back then?”

A year and a bit since juate

Eht before

While she couldn't feel their demonic power, fro and Alsiel had hidden at least once in the area where the shi+buya, Setagaya and Suginah Eifuku city on the way home

A school-unifor a bike passed Emi

If that was all, she wouldn't pay it anyfrom ahead

She suddenly raised her head and saw the boy that had passed her on the bike waiting for the lights, and atowards him

He'll be hit

Her thoughts were instant

Having just stopped for the lights, the boy wouldn't be able to avoid it

The car didn't appear to be braking at all

As she noticed it, her body moved

”Light burst shot!!”

To avert the approaching car, Eht with no hesitation

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Then she herself ran full pelt after it

E after her technique

”Hu!!”

At the instant the light bullet iathered the boy and the bike into her arht

”Kuh!”

As they were in the air, looking down, the technique hit the car and span it once in the air, falling onto its roof and couardrail as they landed on the opposite side of the road

”Are you okay?”

Emi questioned the boy in her arms

”Yeah, I'm…”

He seemed confused, but at any rate, he was safe, so Eh of relief

Es immediately

Looking closer, there were several vehicles euardrails, putting the scale of the accident into perspective

En of anyone crawling out

The ih to kill, but as she became curious about the driver, she somehow heard the boy's tiny murmur

”That… technique”

The surroundings were filled with a claestion caused by the accident Emi heard those words over that tumult of noise

Her entire body froze to absolute zero

She held herself stiff to hide her shaking from the boy

He had short black hair, earing an open school uniform with a t-shi+rt underneath

The bike was an ordinary city cycle

He was an everyday, a truly everyday student

However, Emi had noticed

She'd thought he was around here

She had even predicted he may have lost his demonic power

However

She'd never thought he would have gone so far as to take on human form

To say nothing of that of a boy

”…It can't be”

Even so, her throat dried up and a cold sweat ran down her neck

Her heart pounded

The boy wasn't surprised

He didn't feel afraid

Not because of the car, but because of an unthinkable technique sending the car flying and a passing wo

Ehts in order

It was so sudden

But she knew a sudden reunion was improbable

But still, it was sudden

She had saved his life

The De Satan's Life

As the countless approaching sirens washed over her, Emi fell into despair

After being picked up for interview and taken to the police station, the taken to their homes in separate patrol cars was a further miscalculation for Emi

As she reached her hohts Eifuku, as soon as the patrol car left, she called a taxi and returned to Sasazuka

She'd taken a note of the boy who looked like the De's address at the police station

Relying on those words, she soon found an apart with a patrol car stopped outside it

The address matched the one she had heard and surprised her

It didn't co called shabby and there was a single roohts on

Perhaps the police had brought it back, but she saw the bike too

There was noit

In this world, in this town, this was the place where the boy that had said 'technique' after seeing that accident lived

Her rash thoughts ofinto the room there and then stopped there

She didn't knowith, she had to be careful of the police, and there

If there were, who knehat kind of underhanded tricks the boy would pull

The boy hadn't acted like he had any doubts of Emi

But if he'd noticed her strength and ic, it was completely possible that he kneho she was

Maybe she should run

Or perhaps, he had heard her address and would attack her home in Eifuku

Both were plausible, and Emi couldn't move

So at the same time as the police left, she hid within the preht in the back garden

In the end, no one left the apartment, and went to attack anywhere

But of course, hearing the boy's voice going about preparations in the , she finally couldn't bear it

Forced by excessive stress, Ehts of finally dealing with it, a lack of sleep and stress

Even if she had been calm, she couldn't have just headed home to Eifuku

She'd finally found him

The world's, humanity's enemy

If shethe world again

She couldn't stand that any more

The surnames 'Ashi+ya' and 'Maou' ritten in permanent marker on a strip of kamaboko wood next to the door

”Truly inside, Ma-ou huh, are youme?”

E the bell without hesitation

”Who is it?”

”Oh ! Great Demon General Alsiel!”

At that moment, a shaken presence came from inside

”W-who are you!?”

The ansas just the same

”Who a's castle You can't have forgotten can you!? The Hero Emilia's name!”

In the next instant, after wandering in another world for a long time, the battle of destiny would recommence… or so it should have

The De second year in Sasahata North High School after gaining the guardianshi+p of his landlady

On top of that, though he'd lost his power, that he hadn't lost his ambition was shown by his proclamation: ”I will become Student Council President in this world”

Asking her to believe that after a sleepless night was impossible, but afterwards, the coave off, coupled with seeing the Great Demon General Alsiel with a business sue and lack of sleep,and not even a Hero could stand against it

That day, she had a string of trivial mistakes that she'd normally never make and was reprimanded by the floor leader

On top of that, there were more enquiries than usual, and while she was curious about Maou, she couldn't leave so early, so stayed, exhausted until her shi+ft was over

And on top of that, she had to go to Sasazuka and watch theain

”…I can't, I just can't”

She didn't think anything would change so soon, but with the Deuard down, and if a fight were to break out, she didn't think she could win like this

”If only… I had someone else…”

She'd return home and rest

But she was scared even of that decision

E rush at shi+njuku station and wondered what to do for a while

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”Maou-san, are you okay? You've been staring around”

”Ah, it's nothin'”

The sky was dyed red, and Maou and Chiho were heading hoether

Chiho was also part of the archery club, and only walked with Maou like this on days she wasn't in the club

Normally, Yoshi+ya and Kaori would be with thes to do with her fa somewhere with other friends, so they'd left before them

”I was just thinking it's a nice change to go home with just you”

”Th…” No one would notice Chiho's scarlet cheeks under the red sky ”That's right!”

Of course, Maou didn't notice either,else

Maou had noticed E on his way to school

A their presence andthe space seem blank, they'd stand out even if they didn't want to

E, evidently her judgement had been impaired

It was the sa into a crowd of normal people, they couldn't help but stand out, but he hadn't been able to relax until he went home

But when he searched around now, he couldn't see any signs of her, so was relieved it was a needless worry, however

”Well, it's still gonna be a hassle, ain't it…”

He couldn't just leave it with E discovered him

She'd withdrawn quietly that , but who knehen she'd come for his head, he felt that he'd do that

While he didn't think that she'd start a fight that would drag his friends into it, E h class

”Haa, what'll I do tomorrow?”

”I know right, it's tough”

For soue

”Hmm, what is?”

”What do you ht?”

Chiho blankly returned

”The baker suddenly disappeared, so there's a lot of kids that are troubled I heard that quite a lot of people didn't eat lunch today”

”A-ahh, that's what you mean”

Maou was confused, but soon got what Chiho was trying to say But soon nodded in understanding

The car that brought bread for the students to buy at lunch break hadn't come that day, the students had been told that they'd stopped business that

The bakery that cae name to open a bakery under, but because the elderly owner offered cheap and filling breads and rice balls for the penniless students, he was popular with both the students and staff

Because it was such a surprise, and because so ht their lunches from him, there were quite a feent without lunch

The school sold a lot of products, but the cafeteria norh space to serve everyone, so in practice, there weren't enough measures in place, and the school had published a letter apologising to the parents and guardians through the students

”I wonder why he suddenly stopped though”

”Fro when I went to the staff room, it sounds like he was in a car accident”

”An accident? But he seems so calm”

”Wasn't there an accident near here? He was caught up in that and he was injured, and they can't fix his car so quickly”

Though he didn't show it on his face, Maou was surprised, that was the accident that ain

Thinking like that, although he escaped without injury, he was suffering greatly from that car

”So for the ti the car will take uy”

They chattered for a while and reached Sasazuka, and finally the place where the Hundred Street Shopping District and Koushuu Highway met and stopped

The two of them went different ways home from here, but as they reached the corner, they stopped for a while and spoke about various things

”Still, Yoshi+ya collapsed froer”

”Kao was so taken aback, and apparently the nurse laughed too He ry and collapsed”

They were laughing talking about what their friends had done at lunch, but at the keyword 'hungry', their faces gained a serious tint

”But it really is tough that he won't be co”

”They brought out the stacking chairs and h extra seats”

”That's right, for lunch you always…”

”Yeah, aniki makes me a lunchbox, so I'm fine, but I sometimes need it”

”You live alone with your brother, right?”

”We're technically cousins, but yeah We're always low on es to pull up soic”

”I see…”

Chiho murmured somewhat sadly

”I normally have a lunchbox too, so I was fine, but I nor for afte