Vol 1 Chapter 2 (2/2)
“Huh? There’s no way I’uy Dream on, idiot”
“Huh? Are you brushi+ng?”
She giggles, and starts to look ataway
“Get out Get out right now!”
“I don’t want to”
Teeri sits on a chair roughly again Water drops splashes on the floor
“Ah, geez, stop that! You are wet so the rooet messy!”
“Now that you mention it, why am I wet?”
“Go and take a shower first You will catch a cold if you stay like that”
I went to the corridor while bringing a wet Devil withwet, so she follows
I want to open the entrance door and say goodbye to her, but she probably won’t leave ave up and lead her to the dressing room located at the end of the corridor
“This is the dressing rooet into the bath”
“Is this the place where you wash your body?”
“Yeah And when you turn this around, the water comes out”
“Wow What is this? The water ca……”
“It will get warmer shortly”
“It will? ……Oh, it’s getting warm”
She becomes shocked when she turns the tap around, and then she starts nodding her head as if she found this really impressive
“And this is the place where you fill the hot water”
The bathtub is obviously eht now It’s fortunate that it isn’t in a state where it isn’t e to show it to other people since I have been cleaning it occasionally
“So hus ……It’s quite impressive”
“Hht”
“Though it doesn’tone”
“……You are right”
“I ……”
“Stay still for a bit”
I left Teeri on the spot, and open the door to the spare roole clothes froht it with me
When I give it to her, she tilts her head in wonder
“Is this clothing that……humans wear?”
“Since they are wo, you should be able to wear it”
“……Don’t tell me you have that sort of hobby—”
“hell no! This is soo”
Yeah, this is clothing thatMaybe she had a habit of taking care of her things, so she even left behind her uniform that she hen she was still a student
“Put your underwear……in this drying ht away if it’s only that wet ”
When I explained how to use it, she nods her head as if she understood it right away
“I will tell you just in case, but if you were to peek; I will pull your eyes out, stab it through a skewer, grill it, and then eat it”
“That’s scary……but don’t worry I won’t peek even if you asked me”
“I was told that men are beasts”
“Like hell I would know about that Get in already”
“I will absolutely not forgive you if you peek”
“Don’t raise soo already”
She closes the door to kick h
I thinkup an abandoned cat is a ret
He was trying to say that if you were to pick up an aniret it a lot afterwards, and that happened to be the exact thing here I have rets
“How did I pick up a Devil out of all things? So my life won’t turn out to be normal huh……
I should go back to the living room and clean the sofa first
I did leave the wet towel and puddle of water there on the floor
I pick up the used towel, and then started to clean the sofa carefully
I then re the red stain on the towel
“Now that I remember, as this blood?”
I know that Teeri didn’t act as if she had any major wounds, and she didn’t even act like she was injured to begin with
Perhaps, this blood doesn’t belong to Teeri──?
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
When I was thinking about this and that, a sudden scream echoes from the bathroo towards the dressing room
“Hey, what happened!? You will disturb the neighbours! What will you do if someone comes here!?”
That’s right If you suddenly hear a screauy living there, then you will obviously sense danger
The police will be involved while you are in panic Wait, that’s not it That isn’t the only problem
“What’s wrong!?”
I started knocking on the door to the dressing roo about it, but there’s no response Perhaps she hit her head when she slipped since she isn’t fa a bath
I don’t want to be in thenewspaper tomorroritten as a criminal
In order to confir the door
Obviously there’s a chance that an accident I just said happened in there, but isn’t this one of those scenes?
A naked girl will be standing there when you open the door, and she will screaet slapped by her
Sorry to disappoint all of you, but I’s It can’t be helped if you are to say, “Are you trying to turn down the flag?”
Alright, if she really did get into an accident, I will think about it then
The moment I turned around, the door I was hesitant to open, opens by itself
No, to be precise, it got opened fro
“What is this? ……This is the worst!”
At the same time as that voice, the naked Teeri appears in this worst situation……
We both look at each other, eye to eye, and aand short passes
I didn’t even think about that for a second, but aze moves lower and lower
Her breast, which was a bit, but definitely popping out, and her lower body that is……
“So you really were a girl……”
No, I know she is a girl, but her attitude and her poor body shape made me think otherwise, you know?
Those words slips out fro, and it’s too late by the ti
“You perverted bastard﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏!!!!!!”
“Wow”
I grab onto her ars as a reflex As a result, her naked body ends up leaning against my body
“Noooooo!! I’et raaaaaaaaaaaaped!!”
“Like hell I’ to rape you! More i naked!?”
For a moment, the situation we are currently in is reflected onto therooer to rape her
“Let go of me!! You pervert! Don’t touch me!! Also don’t looooook!!!”
“Ah, shi+t! Just shut up and get back inside the dressing room!”
I push her back into the dressing room from behind her, and then I close the door immediately
“What happened!?”
“That’s what I want to ask! Geez, what on earth is this!? I’lued onto me!”
I heard her say that fro room
Blood……? She’s obviously talking about the same blood that was on the towel
“Anyone would normally be shocked at this!”
“Are you hurt anywhere?”
“……Huh? No……I don’t think I’m wounded…It doesn’t hurt anywhere”
“Then wash yourself in the shower first I will hear your story after that”
I heard Teeri taking a deep breathe to cal room
“Then I will be at the living room”
“U I want to ask you afterwards”
……I have a bad feeling at her bland voice that didn’t carry any emotion in it
===3===
Around the ti roo from the bathroom
“Oh…”
Teeri who is wearing the clothes I gave her is standing there
It seeood on her since she looks cute in it (Only if she keeps her mouth shut)
“I’ to use a Devil’s spell to erase you memory so lay down over there”
But when she spseak, her cuteness disappears to soes into a cocky brat
“Huh?”
She glares at er at me
“You saw so you shouldn’t have seen Get the drift?”
“What do youI shouldn’t have seen? Your small ass? Or small tits?”
“﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏!!”
She is acting caler is already at her limit where she is about to come and bite me
Well, even if it was an accident, I do feel bad about seeing her naked
However, due to her attitude, I don’t feel like apologising to her so modestly
“More iht?”
I decided to change the topic since she’s acting like this
“Huh, ah……yeah…”
It seems like she isn’t convinced, however she nods her head a bit She shows a gesture as if she wanted to say, “See? There aren’t any wounds on ht?”
“Then, as that blood……?”
The towel that’s inside the washi+ng machine definitely had lots of blood on it
I also re as well
“Devils wounds heal faster than humans So it may have healed while I was unconsciousness”
A Devil huh…… If that’s the truth, then that’s a
I can’t tell her to hurt herself right now and show ets healed
“Even though I said that, the wounds that heal quickly are only eez, I feel so sick…”
“I also feel like crap”
“Even though you said that, aren’t you planning to do so bad when you remember about my naked body afterwards?”
“Like hell I would……”
“You were staring at e”
I didn’t even think about looking at her like that To begin with, I’
Even if I a about her poor body will be useless
“If you do that again, I will definitely not forgive you You should prepare yourself if that happens”
“Just how long are you planning to stay…”
“Obviously, until I find the clue to get back I will go back, soon as I find out how More like, I want to go home”
She starts co her hair with a towel
I wish soant pest
“In other words……you are saying that you’ll be staying in o back to hell?”
“Yes, that’s it”
“No……just leave Yeah, just use that You can use the door way to get back to hell It ht be opened”
“You’re in the way, move”
She cursesme an idiot, and then asks me if I want to die She then chases me off the sofa and sits on it
Maybe she took a liking to it, so she’s acting like a queen
“The reason is, I don’t knohere the gate connecting the human’s world and hell is located in”
“……You don’t know?”
“If I did, I would have left this place already Anyway, that’s how it is”
Is it even possible for her to not kno she came to the human’s world?”
I don’t think common sense works on someone ould say Devil this and hell that……
“Ah, I’m so misfortunate”
“That’s my line!”
daht stay here forever…
Until a o, it was an ordinary day, but now that feels like so of a past
“Hus”
She looks around the living room
“What is this?”
Maybe she took an interest at theit with her fist
“That’s a clock It’s an object that tells you the current time”
“Oh, it is? And this one?”
The next thing she grabs is a necessary thing during your snack time
“That’s a rees the channel for the television over there”
Teeri pushes the button several ti like a little kid every tied
“Hus huh”
…………
I have an insight That……she will get used to the huht away
“Then how about this one?”
She starts pointing at er
“Sauy who lives alone Hey, that’s none of your business!”
“Haha, Souichirou, you are quite funny”
I don’t find this even a bit funny…… While ignoringshocked, she starts to watch the television as if she is attached to it
Seems like she is already fond of it
“So it’s decided that you will be living in my house huh”
“Yeah, it has been decided Just think that you ran out of your luck when you helped ive up already”
“Sigh, geez……”
The truth is, since I don’t knohat to do with her, the only thing I can have her do is to have her stay the night here quietly
Too and ask for exorcism
===4===
When I went downstairs after finishi+ng my school homework in my room, I found Teeri who has herself already addicted to the television
She has the re television while leisurely sleeping on the sofa She’s already behaving like a human
I sit on the floor, and I also started watching the television
There are funny h, and she is watching it emotionlessly
I wonder what Devils will think by watching theine it
Because of this quiet situation we are in, I decided to ask Teeri a question regarding this world
“Hey, what kind of place is hell?”
“You want to know?”
“If I were to choose between knowing and not knowing, then I would want to know”
“Then give ht? You can only know about hell, depending on whether you give me food”
“Such arrogant attitude……then forget it It’s not like I’m desperate to know about it”
“That’s a boring response It was obviously a light-hearted joke”
She gets up fro to tell me about it
“hell is, how should I put it? It’s dark and brutal……and everyone likes to be isolated”
“So they don’t cause havoc like the ones shown on the television?”
“That’s out of the question Everyone thinks others are their enemies We would only find it hing”
So that’s why she didn’t laugh at the part where you would nor at
“Were you also alone? You do have a faht?”
That instant, even I realise that there is a dark shade in Teeri’s expression
Was it perhaps so I shouldn’t have asked? It’s already late by the tiht that
“She was killed By another Devil”
Those words which slipped from her mouth didn’t have any sadness in it Instead, it sounded dry You can say that she has gotten used to being alone, just like me I at least know that it wasn’t a sad incident that happened recently
Tientle If ti that ti past
“I was also about to be killed many times That’s the kind of the world it is”
“Then isn’t this a good ti?”
“……What is?”
“Even if you returned to hell, there isn’t anyone waiting for your return, right? Then……you wouldn’t be troubled if you stayed here”
“Souichirou…”
She looks at ht that no one would ever say that to her
I start to feel embarrassed, so I look away
“Hh I would obviously find the way to send you back to hell starting from tomorrow Don’t think you would be able to stay here forever”
“Thank you”
I got a bit relieved when Teeri smiled
===5===
“Now then……I should get sleeping now”
It’s around 11 o’clock, and I’ tired
“Where should I sleep?”
“I have extra mattress, so I will lay it down in an empty room”
“What﹏﹏﹏?”
Why did she suddenly become dissatisfied……?
“You should sleep and be thankful that you are at least getting a mattress You are a freeloader after all”
“Where will you be sleeping, Souichirou?”
I drop aze at her question I don’t want to show it to her if possible More like, rather than not wanting to show her if possible, I don’t want to show it to her at all cost You don’t even have to think twice to guess which of the room between my room and the eo and sleep in the room on the second floor (In other words my room)! I’m sure that she will say that
“I’ in a better room, Souichirou”
“I’m the owner of this house, you know? It’s obvious that I’ in a better room”
“Hy and show me We will discuss about it after that Okay?”
She went towards the corridor after slapping my shoulder with a fearless smile
“Hey, listen to me…”
It isn’t so I can hide from her, so it seeets noisy about it
“……I will say this first, but there’s nothing inside”
I went toTeeri with me
I don’t like the fact that I have to show my room to another person My hand froze because of this experience I a a deep breath, I hold onto the doorknob and open the door slowly
What appears in front of my eyes is obviously my room that I always see
“This is Souichirou’s roo inside……”
“I like simply structured room”
“In other words you are ain his life”
I want to slap the head of this Devil who is nodding her head
“But having a rooht, I’ve decided I will be sleeping here”
Teeri’s suggestion is so I predicted She doesn’t care about the fact I’m the owner of this house, and she doesn’t even have a bit of gratitude toher to stay here for free
Maybe she knows that I’ain to back up her statement
“This should be okay You have to take care of your iht?”
“When on earth did you becouest?”
She isn’t iuest
“Once I make a decision, then that’s final”
She then dives on top of my bed
“Wow, a, it’s so soft……So soft……”
“……The spare room on the first floor is no different, so shouldn’t that be fine as well?”
“No I prefer the second floor”
She then goes underneath my blanket
“I won’t be able to get out now”
“Do you wantof yours, deep fry it, put soht this instant?”
It seems like my provocation hasn’t reached her ears and she hasn’t showed any sign of getting out from the blanket
“Somehow it smells like Souichirou inside here It really makes me feel unpleasant”
“Alright, leave this house i out from theIf you like, I can help you with it”
“I’ I don’t mind it I will endure this smell”
So I have to hand over o to the extent to have her endure things, huh
“Hey, what’s this book?”
She didn’t listen to a that is next to the pillow
She starts flicking through it, and sheSo she starts to read it fro
“Do as you like I’ with you”
“Thatht?”
“Take it how you like I will be sleeping downstairs”
I decide to leave i to her
“Okay Good night”
I hate those who are cocky Why? That’s because they remind me of myself I’m cocky as well
“……───!?”
I tried to leave the room, however I can feel intense pain on my back
My legs lose its balance, so I putis planted on my back
“Haa……phew……”
It’sa pain like this……
I endured the pain, and the pain starts to disappear Then I realise fro from
It’s co exactly from the area around my shoulder blade I put my hand around my back and touched that part without of the ordinary
Did I hit it hard so about this Except, I don’t want to think more about it There’s still some pain left, so I went downstairs slowly
===6===
“damn It sure did become a mess”
Living together with so with soirl?
“This is a nightmare”
When I was takingout my complaints,
“What was that feeling I had before……?”
I then re on ht earlier?
I don’t reh I thought like that A shocking view is reflected on the mirror that I can’t believe my own eyes
“W-What is this……”
It seems like it’s swelled up, exactly around the part of my shoulder blade
It’s so swelled up that it seeh my skin at any moment
This isthat is on Teeri will be growing out from it
“Maybe a Devil’s ill grow out from my back as well Ha, as if……”
I laugh at h I said that myself
But the reason why I can’t laugh really loud is because the existence of Devils has been proven to be real
Is this the hu me think, “Maybe it is”?
I putit I don’t feel any pain
“There’s so hard inside……”
There is this mysterious sensation that I have never felt before There is so planted inside
“You are kidding ht……?”
I stop looking at et sick if I continue to look any longer
I just ended up having a swollen area on my body by a chance That ismyself that
“Pleaseas Devils by the time……I wake up tomorrow”
I made a wish like that
===7===
It may be weird for me to say it, but I was a really quiet kid when I was small
I had more of an introverted attitude, and I was more of a kid alked behind other kids
Back when I was in grade 4 I tried to get ho with the upperclassmen, Tanaka and Yokoshi+ma, in their sumo practice
I didn’t go through a serious bullying by them, but there was no doubt that I was a victim of their taunts
The differences in our body sizes The differences in our age And also because ofthrown around consecutively
Since it was raining the day before that, the ground was sluggish anddirty
They didn’t stop even if I was to cry, and the suot tired of it
But I wasn’t feeling that bad on my way home My mum orried about me since I didn’t have any friends
She kept on putting on a sad face when she seeshome every day
If I return ho with?” If I return hoh and say, “You sure look like you had some fun”
That’s why I thought she would showthat I was carrying would go away
My family was a fatherless family, and my dad died in a traffic accident My mum raised me all by herself, but even till now, I didn’t kno she earned to
It couldn’t be easy I wiped my muddy hands on my clothes, but there was no point since those clothes were also ot rid of my dark expression and forcefully put on a smile
“I’m home” I said it loud as I could However, no matter how many times passed, I didn’t receive her reply where she would say, “Welcome back”
There were no shoes at the entrance, so I felt dohen I realised she wasn’t here But I couldn’t just re there
I walked inside with ot to clean the floor that got dirty, and went to sleep right away
When I woke up, it was already dark I went downstairs because I got hungry, but there were no lights
It was the first tiht For the first time, I felt uneasy
The floor that hasn’t been cleaned was a proof that my mum hasn’t returned home
I put on the shoes that were on the floor without putting on socks, and left the house I went to various places like the super ether, the bookstore, and even the barber shop
I also went around various places after that, but I wasn’t able to find my mum in the end From the conclusion, my mum disappeared
I then heard ruh I didn’t want to It seeo That our living was hard and that ha