Vol 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)

CHAPTER 2

○I Didn’t Pick Up a Kitten, but a—

===1===

It’s afternoon, exactly at six Sadly, it’s raining hard

The sun should still be up around this ti the sky there’s no sunlight

During my way home, I head towards the riverbed that I always pass by

If it isn’t raining, it won’t be weird for kids to be playing baseball around the foot of this slope, but like expected, there are no kids playing here under this rain

No one likes to get wet after all

It see towards their home

“In my case, it’s pointless to run now”

The plastic uht to school today has been taken by so that happens quite often

“Geez, at least check the da, damn it”

There were several other plastic u it

When I listen to the sound of the rain which killed off all of the other sounds around h I am the only one in this world

I can hide the annoying appearance of ives o hoht

I may have sounded cocky, but I don’t look down on the society nor do I look at theative perspective However, I also don’t feel like working hard for this world either I will safely graduate froet e hard, I will then ly, I will then have two or three kid, and then, and then I will die due to old age while having h for me If I have a close friend, will he say, “You sure don’t have any dreams”? I never had a friend, so I won’t know

The only thing I can always do is to have a brawl

“Did those guys I bashed today go hoht have overdone it”

It happened when I was irritated about having my umbrella stolen, so I couldn’t hold back

“Oh well, who cares”

Then I got a glie What are they doing? Since it’s raining this hard, they possibly can’t be playing baseball

I just look towards the, but the brats’ turns around exactly at the same time, and our eyes meets

A moment of silent Then the brats put on an expression which says, “Oh crap”, and sprints away after putting up their u atop of the puddle

Judging from how they have their u shelters

After seeing the brats running off, e

“Maybe there was an abandoned kitten?” That’s the siht I have

I can’t stand the grasses drained ater that are wetting ht now

It’s already wet enough Even inside

I can’t help e

“……Youme”

Like I i at the location where the kids where crouching

Except, how do I put it? It isn’t a kitten

Yeah, what’s abandoned is……a person One little girl

Certainly, using the word abandoned will give a false impression

It ot unconscious after encountering some kind of accident

She looks a bit younger than h student Her skirt is lifted up in a unnatural way, so her thighs are exposed

Perhaps those brats did inappropriate things to her

It’s not like I can’t understand thee where they start to take interest in opposite sex…… However, that’s simply a minor issue

“What’s with her appearance……is it a cosplay?”

Yeah, the girl who’s on the ground has an appearance where her clothes are a bit……no, quite different from normal clothes On top of that, she has pink hair

If so and walk around the town, I will have punched the guy who said that, and then punish hi hi him to pulp

“Oi You will catch a cold if you sleep in a place like this”

I kick her gently, but she doesn’t respond It looks like she’s coain, but she doesn’t respond after all

“Don’t tell me she’s dead? ……Oi!”

I crouch down, and shake her shoulders, but she shows no sign of waking up

It will be fine since I found out that she isn’t dead since her body is warm

I want to leave this situation to someone else, but sadly I’m the only one here

Oi, anyone there……? I look around while thinking like that, but on top of having a bad view due to this heavy rain, this place is originally a location where notsomeone

“It can’t be helped I’”

It won’t be a proble That way, I won’t be dragged into a mess

But abandoning her doesn’t see her here like this It’s not like I want to act as a hero

……I just don’t like the action to abandon someone

Her clothes which are soaked ater irl, more visible, but since she has a body of a child, it doesn’t excite me at all

If she was a blonde chick with massive tits, then I will have been bewildered a little

“She’s light……”

Does she have a weight of a grade school student? Well, it’s not like I lifted theht

After lifting her up, I realise that carrying her with my arms like this is a bit of a problem

I will stand out if another person sees irl, and fixed the posture by putting her on my back

“Well……this should do it”

Her clothes that are glued onto my back are cold, but at the sairl

“I wonder how long it has been since I touched someone like this”

No, I don’t ht? I will kill you if you take it the wrong way

“Kill who……”

I talk back topace

Yeah……that’s right, I will tell you beforehand The reason why I decided to help her and the reason why I don’t feel good about abandoning someone

I have this philosophy because of what I had experienced

You kinda knohat I’ht? I was abandoned in the past

By my only family By my mum

===2===

While carrying the girl who has lost her consciousness, I arrive at o that is located at the centre of the town

I openwhich is soaked ater, and took out the key I unlocked the lock, and then open the door while not giving much impact to my back as possible

The entrance of the house is obviously dark and quiet

“I’m home……”

I muttered, but it’s not like someone will answer back so my words are taken over by the sound of the rain

I randohtly wiped my uniform which has water drained in them

However, I end up leaving traces of water from the entrance to the corridor

I place one of the towels on the sofa, and rested the girl on top of it

“Now then……what now?”

I wipe her ars, and hair I hope she ake up immediately, but she hasn’t even moved a bit

It see violently, but no irl who is unconsciousness shows no sign of waking up

“Man……what the heck is this……”

I notice it when I thought I should wipe her wet hair with a towel The tohich is supposed to be white turns red by the time I realise it

If I look carefully, there are traces of blood on the girl’s clothes, and there’s quite the amount of them

Looks like I didn’t notice it since it was dark when I first picked this girl up from the riverbed

I have to call the aht away─── I hold irl’s wound

But───no irl’s wound

“So she’s wounded in the area which isn’t visible……huh”

That means the blood came from under her clothes I stop my hand when I was about to search for it

“An unconscious girl who is laying down” “There’s only the two of us” “Stripping her clothes off” No s coood situation

But……it will bewounded

I will have to make up my mind, and strip her clothes off

I come up with all sorts of hypothesis and ideas, however, the unconscious girl responds I stop my hand, and I spoke to her

“Hey! Wake up Are you okay?”

She doesn’t seem like she’s in pain, and she turns her body around as if she is si Her voice which slips from her lips sounds a bit erotic

“Ugh……This is bad”

I’ a bit of sex appeal froirl like this

It’s just that, it’s irl to roll over in her sleep like this Yeah, this isn’t good

What’s wrong, you ask? That will be her, how shall I put it? Her seductive lips, her thighs that are exposed, and her breasts which can almost be seen

This situation where she is defenceless and exposed is souy

I didn’t pay attention to it until now, but the girl has a really well structured face Her smooth hair looks soft by the looks of it She will definitely be categorised under the “Cute” category from the perspective of everyone It’s one of those common phrases: she looks like a well-made exquisite doll

If it’s nohere she is unconscious, she won’t realise it even if I do a bit of sohty to her───

“Wait, what am I, an idiot? Doesn’t that make me no different from those perverted brats from before……?”

I’ within irl’s back The reason why I notice it is because it’s so that normal humans don’t have

“……What……is this……?”

A black thing which is growing out from her back

Soht there

“Is accessory like this popular now days……?”

The reason why my words carried a doubtful tone is due to the fact that it is really well-made

If it’s so you can tell is man-made, but this was definitely not it

It’s not like I seen it before, but isn’t this si? It looks abnormally real

“Maybe it’s real? ……It can’t be, right?”

I can’t help myself but to become really curious, so I touch it with my hand

───Thatih my body

“!? W-What was that just now……!?”

It’s not so so weak that you would call it a static electricity A buzz passes froers to around my shoulders It’s a pain where I feel as if I had a thunder strike down on me

I look at her wing and my hand at the saes to

“What was that just now……? And also this wing……?”

The sensation and the warmth from it I can’t possibly think that this is fake It feels as thoughinto a mess due to this unbelievable reality

Even though I know that I shouldn’t, I decided to check the girl’s back to see whether this wing is real

I don’t kno to strip her clothes off, so I decide to look at it by lifting up her clothes normally Her white bare skin is exposed front of me

Though, the sex appeal I felt before has been erased away by the existence of this wing

“Huh”

Are you serious……? There’s no doubt that there is a wing growing out fro out fro out from her skin……

Is this even possible? I haven’t heard of a hu out from their back This is basically like a Devil

“First……I should try and pull it off”

Thinking like that, I try to reach out and grab her wing However, it seeirl opened her eyes a bit

“……Hnn……”

This ti eyes slowly Obviously, her eyesin front of her

She has strong eyes whichat her She doesn’t look japanese at all I’m in a situation where I want to look at her forever

Her eyes are so beautiful that itat it

“Ah……umm……where is this place?”

It seems like she can’t talk properly yet, possibly due to not having her head clear yet

“Are you okay?”

“Eh, hy am I……in a place like this……?”

“I found you unconscious at the riverbed What happened?”

“Riverbed…where is that? I don’t know……and my head feels a bit dizzy……”

“I don’t think you should push yourself to get up”

The girl says she’s okay quietly, and she lifts her upper body up by putting her hand on the top of the sofa I should forget about the sofa being soaked ater for now

“Are you hurt somewhere?”

“Hurt somewhere? ……Not really……”

Then what’s with this thick blood which is on this towel? So it has nothing to do with her?

“I……I……”

She just aimlessly looks ahead After a irl’s eyes Then her eyes meet with mine

“Where is this place?”

“Even if you ask me why, this is my house ───”

“Why a to do so bad to me while I was unconscious……”

“Like hell I would! I would rather have you thank me instead”

I stand up without thinking after yelling at her The girl starts to glare at me from beneath me

“Are you telling the truth……? Huh? What do youyou?”

“Calht? This is my house MY HOUSE”

“So you were trying to do soyou came with”

“I’ you that isn’t it…… You were unconscious at the riverbed, so I picked you up since I couldn’t help it”

“I don’t knohat you are saying……”

She may still be confused It seems like she doesn’t know the situation she is in

“H-Hey!”

Maybe she realised that her clothes are disarranged, so the girl hides her body part that are visible

Next lares at me as if she wants to curse me to death

“……So what did you do to me while I was unconscious?”

“You have a big in with, your clothes were in a mess because those brats……ah actually, it was mostly done by me ……My bad”

“It isn’t “My bad”! I will let you choose either between getting killed or getting erased”

“Both choices would end up killing me……”

“The Devils expertise isn’t salvation but giving despairs”

Devil my ass ……Well, it’s not like I can’t understand her for panicking, but I need her to calm down under this situation

“First of all, remember why you were at the riverbed”

“Even if you ask me why…… Huh?”

The girl stretches out her thin arm, and then starts to touch my ear She won’t try and pull ht like that,

“Why are your ears curved?”

She starts saying some weird crap

“My ears are curved? ……You on other hand have a pointed one There sure are unique people”

The girl also see else in her ain

Only the sound of rain which starts to get worse outside this house can vaguely be heard

“It’ssomeone with such ears”

“That’s my line Your ears are too pointy”

…………

This tier silence between us

“Are you perhaps a……human?”

“Obviously Do I look like a gorilla or a chimp to you?”

“You do look like an idiot There is so from you”

She finally wakes up, but she ends up being a girl with sharp tongue

“It can’t be Why is a human here? W-Why?”

Maybe she’s still confused, so she starts to panic at soot her head straight, and the hich comes out from her mouth sounds calm

“I’m a Devil Teeri the Devil”

Devil? What kind of nonsense is she saying since the beginning?

I shake my head since I can’t keep up with her, and then I look at the clock which is on top of the table

It’s alirl who I don’t even know stay here any longer will ethically be dangerous

“I’ you the truth It can’t be helped that you can’t believe me since you are a human”

She starts saying it desperately, possibly sensing that I’ her

The girl realises that it’s useless to explain it to me verbally, so she turns around, and then starts to show the thing which has been in my mind this whole time

The black hich was growing out from her shoulder-blade

“This is a Devil’s wing It’s quite cute, isn’t it? Though I only have one”

I realise it after she said that to irl’s back

Aren’t there supposed to be tings normally?

And if she’s acting as a Devil, there will be no reason for her to have only one wing

“……Is this really real?”

“Can’t you tell by looking at it? Or is your intelligence so low that you can’t tell even if you see it with your own eyes?”

“You sure do say whatever you like… A wing, huh I can kind of understand it, but kind of can’t…… Can you move it?”

“Of course I can”

She laughs with her nose, and then starts to flap the thing on her back

“Disgusting! It’s really disgusting!”

“What!? Which part of !?”

“Ah, sorry, forget about it I ended up saying the truth”

“It’s even worse if that’s how you really feel!”

I don’t think there is any trick behind her wing ness There clearly is a real wing right in front of me

“How’s that? Do you believe me now?”

It seems like she is a bit happy atquietly

“……So you are saying that you are a real Devil?”

“Yes”

“Is that right?”

“Looks like you believe me”

“……Like hell that’s real Reveal yourself right now”

“H-Hey, what are you doing!?”

I went behind her so fast that people will totally have the wrong idea if they see

This sensation I’ with ht now

“I will believe you if you start bleeding when I pull this out, kuku”

“What!? Don’t mess around, you Devil! Ouch! It hurts!”

“What──!?”

No matter how hard I pull, it doesn’t seem like it will come off that easily

“Ouch! You are tearing it!”

Instead, it seeirl is actually in pain, and her expression changes due to the pain If I keep on pulling it like this, it really will get ripped off from her body—

“Ouch, it hu……it hurts……I’ you that it hurts—!!”

I dodged her knee kick right ahich carried lots of force If I had been hit by it, I will definitely have rolled down on the floor and fainted in agony

“You sure have a reflex for such a slim body……”

“I will show you just how scary a Devil can be……!”

The girl stands up, and then put her hands towards me That instant, an abnormal and blackish presence surrounds her ……That’s how I feel

I make a stance under this situation where I can’t help et nervous, ──

Guuu……!

“Ah……”

The sound of having strength lost frohout my life echoes within the room

“I’ry……”

The girl holds onto her stoer from before disappeared

“I’ry”

She then glares atto tell

So regardless of whether you are a human or Devil, you do starve huh ……Looks like I do believe in the existence of Devils now

There’s no way I can believe it I can’t believe it, but it’s necessary for ree

“Can we both calm ourselves down and try to understand the situation we are in?”

“That sounds good, but haven’t I been telling you that I’ry?”

“……Oh, is that right……”

It looks like it will be a bit later until we can solve this situation The abnormal presence I sensed before disappears like a mist

Right now, the only thing present is a Devil-like girl who is de to eat to her

“I do like meats”

She says that even though I didn’t ask her So is she de that she wants to eat meats? ……She probably is

I started to think that it will be too much of a trouble to have her talk, so I went towards the dining table If I think about it, there are soa(meat and potato) leftovers from yesterday

I heat the nikujaga lightly which is on the plate with a microwave I then take the wrap off, and then put it in front of the girl

When I handed it to her, she takes it from me with eyes filled onder, and then starts to look at the food I then handed her the chopstick

“So do I have to use this to eat it?”

“That’s how it is”

I went to the fridge to get some drinks I take out the jar filled with barley tea, and then pour it into a cup I also poured it for the self-proclai room with the barely teas

“Munch-munch Munch-munch”

The Devil girl is stuffing the nikujaga into heron top of the sofa At least, she isn’t saying “Yuck!”

If I think about it, this isher eat it deliciously kind of makes me happy

“Eat it properly by using a chopstick……wait, you aren’t……hey……”

She grabs the nikujaga with her bare hand and eats it She doesn’t care whether her hand got sticky

“This is quite good……”

“Why are you eating with your hand!? I gave you a chopstick! Clean your hands!”

“Shut up, that’s really hard to use Wipe-wipe”

“That’s right Clean your hands and……wait, don’t wipe it with my clothes! Use your own clothes!”

“I’et dirty if I use mine”

There’s a sticky brown sauce on my shi+rt’s sleeve

“shi+t! My unifora!”

“It’s okay since your clothes look delicious now But if this smell is left on my clothes, then I would hate that Rather, I would snap”

“So you do things that will piss you off to others? Huh!?”

“Since I’m a Devil, that’s natural”

She nods her head without a second thought I wiped it desperately with the tissue which is right next to me, but it seems like it won’t completely come off unless I wash it

“shi+t, talking to a Devil sure doe’s make me tired……”

“Oh, so you finally accepted the fact that I’m a Devil?”

“Rather than being a Devil as in specie, I do feel that your actions and attitudes are that of a Devil”

When she puts down the empty plate on the table, she nods her head once with a satisfied look, and then drinks the barley tea I gave her with one sip

“But still, the way you ate it sure was really grand Was it good?”

She shows a gesture where she is thinking a bit at my question

“Was it perhaps bad? Even so, I would hit you if you were to coood either”

“For a human, you sure do ask for quite an unfair choice…… Pretty impressive”

She starts to ads

“Anyway, give h”

“Don’t have any Just give up”

“There’s no way that there aren’t any Bring them out”

“You sure are noisy Alright, stay here for a bit I will go and put deadly poison in them”

“Sure, I don’t mind Poison doesn’t work on Devils anyway”

“……So you will continue to keep on calling yourself a Devil huh”

I gradually start to not care whether or not she’s telling the truth

I start to wish for her to leave here instantly However, this girl is already relaxing as if she lives here and she looks at s

“Hey, what is your name?”

“Who cares about ht now……”

“Just tellyou, “you””

“……It’s Souichirou”

I wonder why I answered her soback at her

Even if I talk to her directly, she will just change or avoid the topic

“So it’s Souichirou…… Hmm, it’s a weird na o home, but the truth is I don’t remember how I came to the human-world”

“Enough already Devil this, and Devil that I don’t want any troubles”

“It’s the truth The fact that I’et back home”

I really want to pull her arirl……Teeri, I started to feel that her story is the truth

Teeri then looks out the ly The heavy raindrops are hitting violently against the

“I don’t know the way to get back to hell……”

“So hell……is the world where you live and it’s also the world of Devils is it?”

Teeri nods her head, and then she points at the two cups which are on the table

“I don’t know anised, but noro between hell and the human world that easily I will make this hell……and this one the human world”

So the two cups represents the hell and the human-world huh

“There seeate between these torlds, and you can’t pass through it normally”

She puts the plate that she had finished before between the two cups

“If it wasn’t, then the huht?”

“Yeah……if hell does indeed exist, then it won’t be weird for the Devils to keep on appearing in the human world”

Today wasto be a Devil

She’s really cocky, but it seems like she’s really in trouble She then stares at the cups and the plate

“So you’re a Devil And you don’t kno you caet back hoht? Can you swear that it definitely isn’t a lie?”

“Yes, it’s definitely isn’t a lie”

Her eyes that are looking atNo, even if they are lies, I started not to care about it

It isn’t just because I thought I have otten tired of talking to her I just feel that it’s a cruel reality that she can’t go home even if she wants to

“I’ll believe you”

“Huh……?”

The girl……Teeri, becoht that I wouldn’t believe her I realise that she is crunching her fist hard

“To tell you the truth, I still find it incredulous Except, I do know that your wing isn’t fake If that’s the case, then I have to believe in you”

“I see……yes, thank you……”

Maybe she is happy that I believe her, so she breathes out as if she is relieved

“Souichirou, you are noisy, but do you happen to be a nice guy?”