Hataraku maou sama ! Volume 5 part 3

Vol 5 Chapter 3:

The Demon King and Hero, first concentrate on handling what is happening in front of them 

Even though Maou and Ashiya had even ridden on an ambulance before, but ever since they came to Japan, there was a form of transport they have never used before. 

That was a taxi. 

Even though it was a very convenient transport method which can reach a destination accurately, but this convenience also made it become one of the daily transport methods with the highest costs of moving around. 

If the taxi fees within the city were converted to the ticket prices on the Keio Line, just the basic price is enough for a person to go from Shinjuku to the terminal station Takaosanguchi, if converted to Kami-Kitazawa, it would even be enough to make a round trip. 

Basically, the inhabitants of the Demon Fortress have never met any situation which they had to depend on a taxi to move around, if the distance is just three stations away within the city, Maou and Ashiya are able to easily cover the distance by walking. 

And for the kind of people are Maou and the others, acutally called two taxis to the apartment at the time Ashiya returned without any hestitation, and splitting into the two groups of the forces of the Demon Fortress and Hero, they made their way to Yoyogi. 

The atmosphere withint the car was heavy and no one spoke a word. 

Maou, in the front passenger seat, looked in front of him with a heavy gaze, and in the taxi where Emi and the others were, the hand gripping the handle of the door subconsciously tightened. 

Similarly, Ashiya had a pained look on his face, and even Urushihara, who would normally ignore the atmosphere and spout nonsense, stared out of the window in silence. 

Besides the basic fees, the meter did not jump that much, the two taxies reached Yoyogi situated in Shibuya, and entered the U-turn lane attached to Saikai University Hospital.  

Once the taxis stopped, Maou, who asked Ashiya to pay, rushed out without even looking at the driver. 

And similarly, in the taxi in front, Emi also stepped out first, and seemed to have left the bill to Suzuno.  

“It’s this way.” 

Emi used her chin to motion to Maou, and first walked towards the reception of the hospital. 

“We’re here to visit Sasaki-san in room 305……” 

“Alright, please register here in this visitor card first, then take this card to the reception on the third floor.” 

Even the time taken to fill in the mandatory form which the hospital reception lady handed over felt like a waste. 

“I know you’re anxious, but don’t run around randomly in the hospital. Her life isn’t endangered, calm down first.” 

“……Yeah.” 

After confirming that Maou, with a heavy expression on his face, had finished taking a deep breath in order to calm down, Emi passed the visitor card borrowed from the counter to Maou. 

“If this card isn’t shown, then you can’t visit, don’t lose it okay.” 

“I’m not a child anymore, just hurry up and lead the way already.” 

“I know that. This way.” 

Only this time, Emi did not inquire about Maou’s crude tone, and turned around, briskly leading the way. 

The two people took the large sized lift to the third floor and flashed their visitor card towards the nurse center. 

“It’s alright to visit now. But because it’s a shared room, please be quiet.” 

After saying this, the kind white clothed worker pointed towards a certain room at the side. 

After Emi and Maou expressed their thanks with their gaze, they walked towards room 305, which had its door open. 

Inside the ward, there were four beds separated by curtains, and upon seeing a bed with a lot of machines around it, Maou started to sweat in fear. 

“It’s not there, this side.” 

Emi, who was sensitive enough to notice the change in Maou’s expression, she pulled Maou’s sleeve and walked towards a bed which had nothing attached to it. Looking carefully, there was a nameplate hung next to the curtain with the name “Sasaki-san” on it. 

“……My apologies for disturbing so frequently, this is Yusa.” 

Emi lowered her voice and spoke to a person within the curtains, and after that, a familiar voice was heard. 

“Alright, please come in.” 

“Excuse me.” 

The person who replied was Chiho’s mother, Riho. 

Maou originally intended to greet Riho who was sitting next to the bed, but once he saw the scene in front of him, at that moment, he was unable to say anything. 

“……” 

Chiho was currently sleeping o the hospital bed. 

Judging by the appearance, her complexion wasn’t that bad, and her breathing was normal. 

But Maou was still speechless because of the fact that Chiho was currently sleeping on the hospital bed. 

“Oh my, Maou-san, for you to specially come over, I’m really sorry about that.” 

After discovering Maou, Riho stood up and bowed lightly. 

Even though her smile showed pure welcome, but it was still unable to conceal the tiredness within. 

“What exactly……is wrong with Chi-chan?” 

In response to Maou, who spoke with some difficulty, Riho replied in a troubled manner, 

“It would be good if we knew the reason……” 

Riho’s wry smile was distorted because of her feelings of worry---- 

“When I returned home during dinner time, I discovered that she was asleep on the living room sofa. I was even thinking that even though I told her to wash the rice, why was she taking an afternoon nap……”  

but she still barely maintained her smile. 

“But……for unknown reasons, no matter how I called, how I shook……she did not wake up……even if I felt that the situation was strange, and summoned my determination to slap Chiho even though I knew it would make her angry, she still did not react at all……” 

Riho, who judged that it wasn’t sleep, but unconsciousness, called the ambulance without hesitation. 

Then Chiho was sent to this Saikai University Hosptial. 

Whether it was the paramedics or the doctor who accepts the ambulance and admits patients, they were unable to find the reason for Chiho’s prolonged sleep. 

As there were no abnormalities in breathing and brainwaves, and there did not seem to have any external injuries, the doctor who made the initial judgement that there was no life threatening danger arranged for Chiho to stay in the hospital to investigate the reason for the unconsciousness. 

“And then, it does not seem to be a gas leak, and she did not hit her head as well, so I really don’t know what the reason is……” 

Riho looked towards the sleeping face of Chiho, dressed in pink floral print pajamas, Emi and Maou were subconsciously drawn in by her gaze and they looked at Chiho’s face once again. 

Chiho’s expression was very stable and it doesn’t look like she is in pain. 

But since Emi concluded that this is ‘poisoning caused by magic’, then there should be a corresponding cause and reason. 

“Chiho-dono!” 

“Sasaki-san!” 

“Ashiya, your voice is too loud.” 

At this time, Ashiya and Urushihara also rushed into the room behind Suzuno. 

“Oh my, everyone is here, I’mso sorry, actually causing so many people trouble……uh……these two are Kamazuki Suzuno-san and Urushihara Hanzo-san right?” 

After confirming the names of Suzuno and Urushihara, who she is meeting for the first time, Riho bowed deeply. 

“Even though it’s a bit strange to say thank you at this time, but Chiho has been in everyone’s care when she was in Choshi. Did she say anything stubborn and cause trouble to everyone?” 

“No, there’s nothing like that.” 

In the end, Maou was the one who answered Riho’s question. 

“……We……have always received help from Chi-chan. If not for Chi-chan……and your help,we won’t be living our current lives.” 

“When she wakes up, please say this directly to her again. There shouldn’t be anything else which would make her happier than Maou-san’s praise.” 

“……Uh.” 

Riho’s malice free words caused Maou to become speechless once again. 

“And then, because this isn’t considered a sickness or an injury, I am unable to contact her friends or school……what should I do, this is troubling.” 

Maou had some impression of the object Riho held in her hands, it was Chiho’s mobile phone. 

Riho is a lady with a cheerful personality. Even if she tries hard to cover it up, she was unable to completely hide the fear and worry because her daughter was in an unknown situation. 

But including Maou, Ashiya, Emi, Suzuno and Urushihara, they were unable to find any words which could cheer Riho up. 

“Chiho-dono……” 

Suzuno, with a shaky tone, took one step forward and gripped the right hand of Chiho which was placed outside the blanket. 

“……” 

Emi watched this scene with a stern gaze. 

“That’s right, now then, Maou-san.” 

“Yes?” 

Even if her voice shook a little, Riho still lightly tapped Maou’s arm, using an intentionally cheerful voice. 

“That, could it be that Maou-san gave this to her?” 

“That means?” 

“Really, there’s no need to act like you don’t know anything. I’m not angry okay? Oh my, though from the point of view of a girl, I did think before that it probably doesn’t suit Chiho that much.” 

Riho noticed that Maou still did not understand her meaning, and therefore pointed towards the other side which Suzuno was not gripping, also Chiho’s left hand. 

Even if she explained to this extent, Maou still looked at Riho, muddle headed. 

“It’s really not you? And I thought if it wasn’t given by Maou-san, Chiho should not have worn it on her hand so openly…..” 

Riho circled to the other side of the bed and raised Chiho’s hand. 

Besides Emi, everyone else present sucked in a breath at the thing she wore on her hand. 

Chiho had a ring on the index finger of her left hand. If it was just a simple ring, it could still be understood that a high school girl made herself wear the accessory because of the display of love. 

However, the jewel embedded in the ring, and the glow it have off when reflected under the sunlight through the window, captured everyone’s attention. 

At this time, Maou finally knew how Emi found the place where Chiho was admitted. 

Even if they met before because of issues related to Choshi, it was still difficul to believe that Riho, as a mother, would contact Emi before contacting the school. 

Emi came to this hospital by chance in order to chase that thing. 

The thing which guided Emi to the Saikai University Hospital which is south of Yoyogi’s Umami Burger, and allowed her to know about Chiho being admitted into hospital, was the thing worn on Chiho’s hand, a polished fragment of ‘Yesod’.  

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There were reception rooms on different levels of the hospital, other than allowing the visitors to rest, it also allows patients which were able to move around to watch television and other uses. 

At this time, Urushihara was watching television in a dazed manner, while Maou, Ashiya and Emi were sitting silently on the chairs with stony faces. 

On the other hand, only Suzuno had been using Emi’s Rilakkuma notebook, and a yellow pen accessorised with a Rillakuma related character, continuously writing something like a formula on the notebook. 

In the eyes of people who do not know anything, they would probably think that Suzuno was only writing a bunch of meaningless characters on the paper. 

But the characters she is using is actually one of the official languages of the Western Continent of Ente Isla, the Holy Weiss language. 

The influence of the church was strong in the western part of the West continent, and the language used there is the Holy Weiss language, as for the eastern side closer to the Central Continent, they used Deweiss language. As the Deweiss language is heavily influenced by the common language ‘Central Trading Language’, it was also spread around widely as a spoken language, hence in the Western Continent, the Holy Weiss language was more favoured as a language by the upper class society. 

Even so, fields which are more professional and specialised such as politics, administration, law, medicine and arts all use the Holy Weiss language, so if one wants to be knowledgable in these fields, the Holy Weiss language is said to be the most basic education. 

The Western Continent was the only area which was not conquered by the Demon Army, so even though Maou, Ashiya and Urushihara could generally understand the Deweiss language, but with the Weiss language, they couldn’t even read the most basic characters. 

When Suzuno first started writing, Emi did ask her what she was writing. 

“Don’t ask, just wait first.” 

But she was rejected immediately. 

After the group left Chiho’s ward, an hour passed in a blink of an eye. Even though it still looked very bright outside, but it was almost the time when the sun approaches the horizon. 

As it was already late, only Maou and the rest were in the reception room. 

Just as the television was going to switch from the filler news to the consecutive trailers for the variety shows for the day---- 

“I finished the calculations!” 

Suzuno finally looked up from the paper. 

“What did you finish calculating, then again what have you been doing since earlier?” 

“Ever since the examinations at the Holy College, I don’t think I have written the formula from beginning to end at all. Anyway, Emilia, I have calculated it.” 

“So, what is the result?” 

Suzuno answered Emi’s question with a cheerful expression. 

“Chiho-dono’s body is healthy, she’s young and has stamina. She would be able to neutralise the magic within her body earliest by tomorrow morning, latest in two or three days, then regain consciousness.” 

“Re, really?” 

Maou jumped up from his chair because of Suzuno’s words. 

“Why, why are you so certain about it?” 

Ashiya asked Suzuno in a half suspicious manner. 

“Compared to explaining, it’ll be faster for you to experience it for yourself, stretch out your hand.” 

“What?” 

Even though he looked unhappy, Ashiya still stretched out his hand in a straightforward manner to shake his hands with Suzuno. 

“Woah!” 

As Ashiya groaned, a short glow emitted from his body, in the next moment, his hair stood up like an electric current flowed through his whole body. 

“Uh, ugh, what, what are you doing?” 

Ashiya protested with a tongue which did not seem to listen to him, and looked towards Suzuno with an unfocused gaze. 

“So, this is pushing it for a demon. Even though the amount is similar to the volume of sonar power which entered Chiho-dono’s body.” 

“……Sonar?” 

Hearing this uncommon term, Maou widened his eyes in surprise. 

Then again, when Suzuno grasped Chiho’s hands in concern, that action did look rather intentional. Suzuno probably injected the sonar into Chiho’s body at that time. 

“This is originally a method to guage the basic capacity inside the body before starting with the training for holy magic. All of you should know that when using holy magic to stimulate the activity of the body, it would be greatly affected by the caster’s own capacity right?” 

“Yeah, yeah.” 

“As long as holy magic compassing investigative spells are injected into the body, and calculating the response from various parts of the body, the estimated amount of the target can be found. The response of the human body is very complicated, therefore specialised equipment would normally be uses, however if it is just an estimation, then it can still be calculated through the caster’s perception.” 

Suzuno showed the series of mysterious characters which took up 10 pages in Emi’s notebook. 

“Even if it is just estimation, manual calculation still took so much time huh.” 

“Who would understand that, just skim over that kind of explanation and get to the main point!” 

Maou and the furious Ashiya glared at Suzuno with stony faces. 

As for Urushihara, he still continued to watch television. 

“Before that, I want to ask a question. Emilia, why do you think that Chiho-dono’s condition is due to magic poisioning?” 

Suzuno asked this while looking at Emi. 

“I came to this hospital chasing after this light.” 

Emi took the ‘Yesod’ fragment contained inside a bottle from her bag. Maou, with slightly widened eyes, said, 

“……it’s the one Kameo brought over. Didn’t you give it to Alas=Ramus?” 

“It can’t be separated once it has merged with her. Considering that other fragments have to be searched for in future, I specially kept it. I can’t actually let the holy sword emit a guiding light in the city center of Tokyo.” 

“Yeah, I see.” 

Emi explained that her purpose was to look for the lady in the white dress who had cured Alas=Ramus in Tokyo Dome City Hall, so she planned to track one the ‘Yesod’ fragment which the lady had on her. 

“In short, when I activated this near the Shinjuku Tokyu Hands, I never thought that the ring would be in a place which can be walked to in less than 30 minutes, it gave me a shock. And what was even more shocking is that the fragment was actually on Chiho’s hand……” 

Even though Emi was shocked when she knew that Chiho was unconscious because of unknown reasons, but after visiting Chiho in the ward, she sensed obvious remnants of magic from her.” 

Emi seemed to think that since that ring is on Chiho’s hand, then she would be unable to solve it with just her own judgement, which is why she headed to the Demon Fortress. 

“Why didn’t you call me or the Demon King directly?” 

Suzuno’s query was considered reasonable. At that time, Emi should know that Maou, Ashiy and Suzuno were currently at someplace in Shinjuku. 

“I called her over. Because I have something to tell Emilia.” 

It was Urushihara who answered for Emi. 

“But it’s alright to explain that later. Let’s listen to Bell’s diagnosis first.” 

Urushihara’s eyes still have not left the television. 

“……in short, it’s like this. When I was still in Ente Isla, I had seen many people who have made contact with magic like Chiho, logically I should not be able to sense magic from Chiho, which is why I thought that it was magic poisioning……” 

Suzuno nodded in reply to Emi’s explanation. 

“Emilia’s instincts, are half right and half wrong.” 

“What does that mean?” 

“Chiho’s symptoms are magic poisioning, but it’s not because she made contact with magic from an external souce, but is a result of someone disrupted the energy balance in Chiho-dono’s body and created magic in her body.” 

“?” 

Not only Emi, even Maou and Ashiya sucked in their breath, unable to hide their surprise from hearing this, Usushihara also glanced at Suzuno with a sharp gaze. 

“Someone created magic, within Chiho’s body?” 

“In other words, it can also be said that Chiho-dono’s life energy had mutated into magic.” 

“Wait, wait wait, wait a moment, is this even possible?” 

Maou raised a hand to stop Suzuno. 

“As long as my calculation, and the formula passed down through the church since ancient times are not wrong.” 

“Then verify it.” 

“Stop joking. I already verified it twice because I found it hard to believe, and obtained this conclusion in the end.” 

Suzuno rebuked Maou’s cold words in an angry manner. 

“But, creating magic in the body……Chi-chan is human, and is Japanese……a person from Earth, you know?” 

“Even though it’s not as if I don’t understand what you are trying to express, but in reality, it’s too late to say this now. Didn’t you revert to a Demon King a few times in Japan before by absorbing the demonic magic created from the hearts of humans?” 

“Ugh, that, that’s true……” 

“In short, after calculating the remnant amount of magic in Chiho-dono’s body through the sonar response, I discovered that even though it is an amount enough to cause poisioning, but it has not reached a level of being life threatening. Right now, it’s just that Chiho-dono’s physical body is consuming energy in order to suppress the remaining magic, which is why she became unconscious, the holy magic which I injected into Chiho-dono’s body together with the sonar has an effect of accelerating the neutralisation of magic, after neutralisation, she will regain consciousness naturally.” 

“In other words, just by the conclusion, I almost got purified just now.” 

Suzuno gave a wry smile to gloss over Ashiya’s stony faced protest. 

If what Suzuno said is true, then at least there would be no need to worry about Chiho’s health for the moment. 

But in the process of investigating the reason, other questions have surfaced. 

It was said that in the body of the normal human Chiho, magic was actually created. 

And the reason for this phenomenon is still unclear. 

And the unconscious Chiho, was currently wearing a ring with the ‘Yesod’ fragment embedded in it. 

“Even though this will not solve the problem……but I think the ring that Chiho is wearing, and the ring the lady in the white dress who cured Alas=Ramus before was wearing, is the same thing.” 

Emi said while searching her memory. 

“What do you mean by ‘I think’?” 

“I was very anxious at that time, so I don’t really remember what the ring looks like. But I feel it’s the same thing……” 

“Useless. Then, why would that ring be with Chi-chan?” 

About that……it should be because that lady in the white dress put it on Chiho’s finger for a certain reason……” 

“It looks like there’s nothing much to say! No matter what, with regards to the origins of the ring, let’s put it aside first. Compared to that, the question which needs to be thought about the most is……”  

“the cause which caused the creation of magic within Sasaki Chiho’s body, right?” 

“……Urushihara?” 

Everyone present looked towards Urushihara, who was still staring at the television, at the same time. 

“Even though it is an inconcieveable thing for magic to appear in Sasaki Chiho’s body, but considering that Maou and Ashiya have transformed in the past, it is not impossible to think that humans of this world were originally like this, except that all of you don’t know about it. But no matter what, for Sasaki Chiho to become like that, the reason is external.” 

“At least stop looking at the television and turn around when you’re talking.” 

Urushihara, who did not even look at the others, and looked like he was watching the news about a local cuisine event in a dazed manner, even if Emi unhappily complained about it, Urushihara ignored her. 

“Didn’t I say that I was the one who called Yusa over? Even though Yusa normally treats me as an automatic vending machine who can just organise queues, why did she meet up with me?” 

As the topic of conversation returned back to her, Emi could only reply with a stony face, 

“Because I heard that Gabriel ran over to Villa Rosa Sasazuka again.” 

“You said Gabriel?” 

Maou, Ashiya and Suzuno showed stern expressions at the same time. 

“That frivolous, idiotic large guy, could he have, to Chi-chan……” 

“If it was like that, things would be simple. But that guy came over to find me over other things. It seemed that because that guy failed continuously, so he was taken off the task of finding the ‘Yesod’ fragments, you know? Right now he is looking for the Legacy of the Ancient Demon King.” 

“Taken off the task, sounds like he’s acting in a police drama serial.” 

Emi said with a stony face. 

“You said……‘the Legacy of the Ancient Demon King’?” 

“Maou, do you know about it?” 

“……If it was money, I would want it, but if legacy taxes are needed, then forget it. Even though it’s not as if I have any idea about it, but I feel that it shouldn’t be anything that is worth the Heavens looking for it so aggressively.” 

“Yeah, it looks like Maou is on the same level as me.” 

“Ah?” 

“It’s nothing. Anyway, Gabriels seems to be unclear about what he is looking for……but in order to replace Gabriel, perhaps there will be other angels coming to Japan. Currently, the most suspicious one, should be that guy.” 

“Hey, Suzuno. If you still have any conscience left as an inquisitor, when you return to Ente Isla, destroy the Great Church like it is a cult worshipping an evil god.” 

“……I really have nothing to say.” 

Suzuno replied in a depressed manner. 

“Seriously, if it’s not a NEET, then it’s a playboy, there’s no one good at all.” 

Ashiya crossed his arms in frustration. 

“Ashiya, don’t include me in there. I ran out because I disliked Heaven.” 

“Ran out?” 

“In other words, you actually have became a NEET of your own free will.” 

“Ugh!” 

Ashiya thought a bit about Urushihara’s words, but Maou rebutted him quickly, and for the moment, Urushihara was speechless. 

“A, anyway!” 

Usushihara coughed lightly and continued to speak, 

“If what Gabriel said is true, then the angel who came to Japan this time seems to be the ‘Watcher’.” 

“‘Watcher’……?  Are you referring to the watcher who monitors the actions of all the angels, Raguel?” 

Urushihara nodded in reply to Suzuno’s question. 

“Even though he’s not a particularly high ranking angel, and is not that good at combat like Gabriel, and even more, he is also not a guardian angel of the Tree of Life. However, Raguel was bestowed with a special authority.” 

“Is it referring to the ‘Declaration of the Eschaton’……?” 

T/N: Eschaton can also be phrased as the ‘End of the World’. 

Suzuno had just said this when---- 

“Hello everyone, after this, Friday’s weekend news will be broadcast……” 

T/N: In Japanese, ‘Eschaton’ and ‘Weekend’ have similar pronouciation. 

The television which Urushihara was watching switched from the news to a programme where the news anchor is greeting the audience. 

“……” 

At that moment, everyone’s gaze focused on Suzuno. 

“Eh? Ah, that’s, that’s wrong! This, this is just a coincidence!” 

After understanding what everyone’s gaze meant, Suzuno denied it while blushing. 

“I’m, I’m innocent!” 

Usushihara ignored Suzuno’s protests and continued to speak, 

“For unknown reasons, there are also legends regarding the Eschaton Declaration in Ente Isla, but the legend itself isn’t anything much in reailty. Raguel only monitors the actions of the angels when there is a need to, and is responsible for announcing the results when a specific punishment is decided. Although it basically normally related to Falling.” 

“Declaration of Falling?” 

“That’s right. Not long after I left Heaven, it seems like this policy was set up. The ‘Watcher’ is responsible for the ruling, and the ‘Evil Light of the Fallen’ carries out the ruling.” 

“Wicked Light of the Fallen……is it referring to Sariel?” 

Maou was surprised because Sariel’s name was suddenly mentioned. 

“Think about it, if Sariel was able to decide whether to cause angels to fall on his own, then the male angels in Heaven would have disappeared entirely much earlier.” 

Maou, Emi and Suzuno looked at each other. This was a very persuasive explanation. 

“Even though angels look like they are doing anything they want, but certain limitations are imposed when using their powers within Heaven. Isn’t it about the same in the human world? Just like the field soldiers who are able to press the button to release a nuclear bomb are unable to conquer the world, it’s the same principle.” 

“But if so, then for what reason did that guy Raguel come to Japan for? Even though it was said to replace Gabriel, but from this, he doesn’t seem to have anything he is strong at……” 

Urushihara nodded in response to Emi’s question. 

“If Raguel did not come to take Sariel back……then I think he came to pass a ruling.” 

The people who come to visit you guys in future will probably not be a pigeon class like me. 

Gabriel left Urushihara with this warning. 

“That ruling, what does that mean?” 

Urushihara frivolously answered Maou’s question, 

“You don’t know? Even though the King of the Demon World and the angel hybrid Hero have gathered.” 

At this time, Urushihara looked at Suzuno for unknown reasons. 

“Heaven, who had just stood by even when Ente Isla was trampled by the Demon Army, why would they continuously send angels to Japan like it’s a bargain sale, have all of you ever thought of the reason?” 

For Suzuno, a high ranking inquisitor in the Great Church who extoled divine protection while sending a great number of church knights to their death, this was really a heartbreaking question. 

“……Because no matter how many people die in Ente Isla, it will not affect Heaven……” 

“That is correct.” 

This was a cruel answer. 

“However, once they feel that they will be harmed, they will do their best to remove the threat. Understand now?  Regardless of Maou or Yusa, of course, Ashiya and Bell as well, all of you are getting closer to the truth which Heaven is planning to hide, other than monopolising the fragements of ‘Yesod’, all of you also used combat force to chase away an angel who specialises in combat. If Raguel judges that all of you are endangering Heaven and pass the ruling----” 

The images of the news, which only Maou and the others were watching, were showing videos of a civil war in a certain country. 

“Heaven will formally launch an attack. And it will be at a scale where Gabriel’s soldiers are only a small matter by comparison.” 

“……What kind of joke is this! Then wouldn’t it be enough to just come for us directly this time?” 

Maou angrily slammed the table. 

“I’m not too clear about that. After all, those theories are under the assumption that Gabriel’s words can be trusted, and right now, for it to not become that situation, that means that they might be searching for something which has nothing to do with us. Such as ‘the lady in the white dress’ who Emilia saw. And Sasaki Chiho’s ring, didn’t it appear from a place which had nothing to do with us?” 

“If so, then what can we do? If we can only wait for that guy called Raguel to make his next move, perhaps another sacrifice like Sasaki-san will appear.” 

“Ugh, about that, I have some idea, and I have been waiting since just now.” 

“Waiting? Waiting for what……” 

“Now we will present to you the combined news broadcasted today.” 

At this time, the report on the civil war had already ended, and the news anchor started to report the main news which happened in Japan today. 

“With regards to mobile phones and the information endpoint device for the television program feature, also known as mobile digital television, a communication error has occurred in the Kanto region, as of now, the reasons are unclear, the telecommunication vendors who are selling information endpoint devices which come with the mobile digital television feature are now doing their best to discern the reason and explain to their customers.” 

“Ah, so it’s not just docodemo which has this issue.” 

As the telecommunication error with the mobile digital television caused her a lot of troubles at work, Emi looked up to focus on the news when she heard this. 

Staff from a particular company who have organised a press conference to apologise were shown, a group of people apologised at the same time like it was arranged beforehand, after that, the flashes from the reporters caused the screen to shine. 

At this instant---- 

“Eh?” 

“Woah” 

“Ugh!” 

Maou and Ashiya seemed to have been thrown back by the flash, and fell from their chairs. 

Even though Urushihara grabbed the side of the table and managed to barely withstand it, his knees were shaking continuously. 

“Hey, hey, why have you guys suddenly become like this?” 

“Are you alright?” 

Emi helped up Maou, who was thrown back even though nothing seemed to have happened, while Suzuno helped Ashiya to get up. 

“Eh?” 

“What?” 

However, once Emi and Suzuno saw what Maou and Ashiya looked like after they got up, the both of them got a shock. 

The hair on both their heads were standing up like they have been electrocuted. 

And in the case of Ashiya’s casually grown long hair, as sonar was injected into him by Suzuno in a half-joking manner earlier, it had spiked to the point that one would think that it would not even turn into that extent even if one bottle of wax was used. 

“What is this! What is going on?” 

“……That’s what I want to know too.” 

Maou replied unhappily with a shaky voice. 

“Emilia and Bell didn’t notice? It seems like it’s because both of your capacities are too large after all.” 

Urushihara, who looked like he didn’t change much said with some pain and nudged his chin towards the television. 

During the time when the five people were panicking, the news on the television had already changed to news that people are getting heat stroke because of the hot weather around the archipelago. 

“Eh, wha, what? Television? Eh? I, I understand, please wait a bit!” 

At this time, Emi suddenly used her hand to press her forehead and started talking to herself, then she frantically surveyed her surroundings, and once she confirmed that there were no surveillance cameras and other people around, she made Alas=Ramus appear in the reception room. 

“Aiiee!” 

Alas=Ramus swiftly ran towards the television, then started to bang on the screen continuously. 

Under the attacks from the young girl, the LCD screen started to warp a little, Emi frantically acted to stop the suddenly rampaging Alas=Ramus. 

“A, Alas=Ramus, what are you doing! No! That is the hosptial’s……” 

“That thing just went ‘boom’ just now!” 

“……Eh?” 

Alas=Ramus started to use her soft hands to tap on the television with a “pi pi pa pa” sound. 

“It went ‘clank’, ‘pa~’ and ‘eee~’!” 

The young girl pointed at the television with her right hand and repeatedly used the finger on her left hand to point at her own large eyes. 

“ ‘clank’, ‘pa~’ and ‘eee~’?” 

As Alas=Ramus only used onomatopoeia, Emi did not understand what she was trying to express at all. 

“Didn’t Bell try it on Ashiya once already? Probably because Alas=Ramus is easily affected herself, so she sensed it because of that? 

Usushihara neatened his spiked up hair with his hand, and nudged his chin towards the television. 

“It’s sonar. Today, an unknown person had been using the television to transmit sonar waves. As long as the locations of the televisons which accept electrical waves are known, this would be more efficient than carelessly emitting large range sonar waves, and the target’s location can be filtered as well. Sasaki Chiho should have been affected because of this. “ 

“Sonar? That thing which remsembled static just now, it’s sonar?” 

Maou pressed Urushihara further while still having spiked up hair. 

“That, that impact is very similar to Bell’s prank……” 

Ashiya glared at Suzuno and nodded at the same time to confirm Maou’s explanation. 

“Urushihara, that sonar just now, is it the doing of the angel known as Raguel?” 

“Yeah, the possibility of that is high. As long as the culprit is not Gabriel, but I feel that Raguel should be the one behind this.” 

“Wait, wait a moment, how did he cause the television to emit sonar, then again, is that even possible? Even if that theory is correct, tens of thousands of people are watching television in Japan! Logically, that means other than Chiho-dono, there should be other victims right? Basically, I have never heard about sonar causing people to become unconscious……” 

Suzuno, who emitted sonar to Chiho and Ashiya panicked at that moment, but Maou suddenly raised his head like he thought of something, and his spiked up hair swayed with the movment. 

“Chi-chan’s house……had been a sonar explosion location.” 

“What?” 

“Ah……” 

After Maou said this, Emi gasped like she had remembered the same thing. 

“It’s Alber……are you referring to the sonar which Alberto released before?” 

That was something which happened before Chiho knew about Maou and Emi’s true identities. 

Emi’s past travel companion Alberto, had released sonar waves a few times in order to warn Emi that Japan was going to face a certain calamity. 

And the act of Chiho finding Maou to discuss about this incident, was also an indirect cause of Chiho’s deepening relations with Maou and the others…… 

“That’s right. Chi-chan’s house had accepted a few unclear sonars and mental communications sent from Ente Isla a few times. Hey, Suzuno, I remember that according to the power of the caster, the response target of the sonar and mental communication can be changed right?” 

“Y, yeah. If it’s just purely looking for the location of a person or object, then the calculation will become much simpler, besides that, there is also what I did to Chiho-dono and Alsiel, using it on various kind of purposes through changes in resonance.” 

At the beginning, Chiho received Alberto’s mental transmission by coincidence. And as for why Chiho’s house became the exploding point for the sonar was probably because Alberto coincidentally found Chiho when he was looking for a receiving location for the mental transmission.  

The condition which Alberto set was ‘has strong feelings towards Demon King Satan’, therefore his mental transmission reacted to the power within Chiho’s heart, and after receiving this transmission, Chiho became the only Japanese who is involved with Ente Isla. 

“Perhaps Chiho’s home reacted strongly to the sonar transmitted through television because of this.” 

“Wait? Even if a certain place had exhibited a strong reaction before, that doesn’t mean that the same phenomenon will definitely occur right? If the spell can react to the remants of the spell which Alber or Em left behind, then the holy magic which was spread around Sasazuka from when I fought with Gabriel, it wouldn’t be strange if an explosion occurred because of a reaction to the sonar.” 

“Just a holy magic sonar, was enough for our heads to explode.” 

“That’s right.” 

Emi ignored Maou and Ashiya’s complaints. 

“Even though I was defeated by Maou at the time, I’m not too clear about the whole incident.” 

However, Urushihara’s attitude was still full of confidence. 

“But why would Emeralda Etuva and Alberto Ende, fire a sonar towards Japan, situated on Earth?” 

“……what is that supposed to mean?” 

“Olba knows yeah? After all, he was the person who traced the path of the ‘gate’ which Maou opened from the Demon Fortress and sent Emilia here. But those two people are different. Why would these two people, who logically cannot use the ‘gate’, be able to gather information from vague ‘foreign world’ location, and based on that, know Emilia is in Japan, and fire sonar directly to Japan from Ente Isla?” 

“This happened before I came here, so I’m not too clear on the details, but isn’t it because they traced your paths together with Olba-sama? Honestly, I came here using the same method.” 

“Don’t make me repeat it so many times, Bell. Whether it is Emeralda Etuva or Alberto Ende, they are unable to use the spells of the ‘gate’, yeah?” 

“But, Alber and Em still came over smoothly. Didn’t the Demon King say that he had an angel feather pen made from the feather of an archangel, and as long as someone besides a demon uses this tool, they would be able to use the ‘gate’ spells? Those two people were able to use sonar and mental transmission against Japan because they had Laila’s……mother’s feather pen. Chiho was able to receive Alber’s mental communication because of this…………eh?” 

“……Ah.” 

Emi and Maou looked at each other in realisation. 

“It’s something like that. Now, do you know what Raguel is trying to find through sonar?”  

At that moment, Emi’s face turned pale. 

That phone call from Emeralda, occurred a long time ago. 

Ever since she met the lady in white who knew about Alas=Ramus’s condition, until today, what had she been daydreaming about. 

“Raguel and Gabriel’s top priority, is not the fragments of ‘Yesod’, not the ‘Evolving Holy Sword, Better Half’, and more so, not Maou. These are all just things done on the side at their convenience.” 

That angel might have come to Japan, even though she already clearly knew about this early on. 

“It’s Laila. Even though I don’t know the reason, but they are in Japan looking for Laila, and planning to pass some kind of judgement on her.” 

“In other words, that means because that idiot Alberto used Laila’s feather pen to transmit a mental communication, if we’re not careful, perhaps even Chi-chan’s mother may be in danger right.” 

Maou, who finally realised the seriousness of the situation, mumbled, but to Emi, this situation was much more critical. 

“Ra, Raguel’s final judgement, what is it, roughly?”  

Emi subconsciously grabbed the front of Urushihara’s shirt. 

“Ugh!” 

“Emilia! You’re using too much force! And this is a hospital, calm down!” 

“Who would be able to calm down!” 

Emi naturally raised her volume. 

“Even though we have never met before, and I only knew about her existence recently……but, but……before we meet, before talking to her, she needs to be safe and sound, she is……my mother, you know?” 

“Excuse me, may I know what happened? Are you looking for someone?” 

At this time, the nurse who heard Emi’s shout, appeared with a surprised look on her face. Emi regained her senses because of her voice, letting go of Urushihara at the same time. 

“S, sorry, it’s nothing at all.” 

“Is that so. This is a hospital after all, can I ask everyone to keep it down?” 

Even though the nurse in white did not seem to accept it fully, she still left quietly. 

“Ugh, cough, yeah……the most possible conclusion, is Falling. It is the group made up of the ‘Watcher’ and the ‘Evil Light of the Fallen’ after all. 

Even though he was tearing up, perhaps because he knew Emi was being serious, Urushihara answered honestly without any complaints. 

“So, that means this incident has something to do with Sariel?” 

“No, it shouldn’t be possible at this point. Even though it’s a bit strange to say this, but for that guy, because of certain reasons, he doesn’t care about anything related to Heaven.”   

Maou remembered the time from before he went to Choshi, how Sariel had shattered, melted and flowed into the drain because of the huge shock he received from Kisaki, who he had a crush on from the button of his heart, when she banned him from entering MgRonalds. 

“If so, then I have no idea what they are planning to do. From the beginning, Falling is not an easy judgement to make, and more than that, for one to go to a foreign world and affect so many things in order to judge an archangel is unheard of.” 

“……As a result, that bastard Raguel should just be taught a lesson first.” 

At this time, Maou nodded and got up slowly. 

“Since even Urushihara doesn’t know, then we should just ask the person himself.” 

“Let me ask this first, why does Demon King-sama feel the need to ‘teach a lesson’ to Raguel?” 

Ashiya asked this as he remained seated in his chair. 

Maou’s answer was very simple. 

“I have no interest in the relationships between that group of angels. But one of my future replacement generals in the Demon Army I am commanding was dragged into this by them. Besides that, is any other reason needed?” 

Ashiya smiled, acknowledging Maou’s serious expression. 

“No, I have no problems with this. If it’s for a capable future colleague, then I will definitely help you.” 

“Urushihara, Emi, Suzuno.” 

“Yeah?” 

“What is it!” 

“What?” 

Maou looked at all their faces in turn. 

“I will definitely drag that person called Raguel out, and have him take responsibility for harming Chi-chan. You guys help as well.” 

Even though Maou’s attitude was arrogant, but surprisingly, no one objected. 

“Sigh, I have nothing to do anyway. And I am aware that Sasaki Chiho helped us a lot.” 

“Even though I hope that you will only say these dream words of having Chiho become a general after you die, since it’s to protect the safety of an important friend, then there’s no other choice.” 

“In order to protect a friend, I will correct the angel’s teachings. Just this time, I will officially work together with all of you.” 

Just for protecting a young girl, Demon King, Demon General, Fallen Angel, Hero and Inquisitor, rose up in the reception room of the hospital for the same purpose. 

“……Hm?” 

At this time, Maou felt a person next to his leg tugging at his pants. 

“Papa!” 

Alas=Ramus was looking at Maou with a serious gaze. 

“Alas=Ramus, also likes Chi nee-chan the most!” 

The small girl declared proudly. 

Maou showed a smile which did not lose to her, and picked Alas=Ramus up in one go. 

“Let’s go!” 

“Yeah!” 

Five young people and a young girl, walked to the lift together and left Saikai University Hospital. 

And the one who watched them go, was the nurse who reminded Emi when Emi had caused a commotion. 

Waving the medical examination table in her hand, she headed towards Chiho’s ward. 

“Excuse me, Sasaki-san……eh?” 

After entering the ward, the nuse realised the mother of the warded girl did not seem to be around. From the fact that her bag was still there, she probably went to buy something or went to the toilet. 

The nurse nodded and stopped in front of the bed Chiho was lying on. 

“……Sasaki-san, thanks to your depandable friends, you should be able to be discharged soon.” 

The nurse stared at Chiho’s sleeping face and showed a large smile. 

“You, who is able to connect incompatible existances……perhaps there is a chance for you to become the new Mother of ‘Wisdom’.” 

A few minutes later, Riho, who had returned from the toilet outside, when she saw the table of appointments for the checks which will be conducted tomorrow placed on the table next to the bed, she picked up the piece of paper and started reading. 

Because of that, she did not detect that the jewel on the mysterious ring on Chiho’s left hand, was currently giving off a faint glow. 

After walking out of the cool hospital from the air conditioning, a suffocating humidity as well as the hot air from the high outdoor temperature despite the fact that it was already evening, attacked the warriors from the foreign world at the same time. 

Even though it was only a few minutes after they made their decision, the five people immediately showed listless expressions. 

“So since you already made that kind of declaration, you should have some ideas as to where Raguel is right?” 

“Urushihara, do you have any leads?” 

In response to Emi’s straight ball, Maou passed it with a beautiful technique. 

“……Are you serious about that question?” 

Seeing that the ball was suddenly passed to him, Urushihara, with a fed up expression, raised his head and glared at Maou, who had raised the difficult question first. 

“I have some basic proposals. But I don’t wish to be looked down by you, who is good with machines, so I thought I might as well ask you directly from the start.” 

Maou replied in a shamless manner, causing Urushihara to become speechless. 

“……Maou, have you tried to think of any backup locations?” 

“There are two places.” 

Urushihara raised an eyebrow because of Maou’s immediate answer. 

“Ah, it’s the same as what I though.” 

“Can the both of you not act like the only ones who understand.” 

Suzuno lightly pushed Maou’s back, so Maou raised an eyebrow and looked at Suzuno. 

“Do you remember what broke when we went to the electronics store? And what’s with the defect with the screens glowing the whole day today? And why did Ashiya and my hair become like this?” 

“Messy, fluffy!” 

Maou allowed Alas=Ramus to continue to play with his spiked up hair while saying. 

“It’s television right.” 

“……Don’t tell me!” 

Emi widened her eyes as she seemed to realise something. Urushihara nodded as well. 

“Because it’s hard to believe that all the televisions which exhibited strange behaviour were all showing the same programme, so the key should not be a specific television station. If so, something which can connect all the televsions in the Kanto circle, there should be only two places.” 

“Isn’t there a saying that smoke, pigs praised by people, idiots and arrogant people like high places? I think so as well.” 

The hot summer night wind blew through the hair of the five people. 

“That would be Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Sky Tree.”  

. 

“Hey, Ashiya, do you know?” 

“Yes?” 

Shiba Park in Minato, Tokyo. 

The Demon King from the foreign world, was currently speaking proudly to his trusted Demon General, 

“The top of Tokyo Tower, is made from a tank!” 

“……” 

Ashiya sighed and looked towards the item that was being held in Maou’s hand.  

“Is that fact written there?”  

Maou’s hand was currently holding onto a book that was obtained from KIYOSUKE on the way to the bus station. It was titled “Unable to ask anyone until now! Everything regarding digital television broadcasting” from the General Knowledge section.  “The top of the observatory of the Tokyo Tower was made from steel recycled from American war vehicles that have been abandoned after the Korean war. It seems like during that time, it was difficult for Japan to obtain good quality steel and coincidentally, the American troops were planning to roll out some new war vehicles, and so this resulted since it was to the interest of both communities.”  

“…..!....!” 

Maou looked back and forth between Ashiya’s face and the book in his own hand and muttered in a low voice: 

“…You, you knew about this beforehand?” 

 “Last time, I was helping a theatre group move their props, the kind of show that they were performing happened to be about Japan during the peak of its economic growth. I was exposed to such information then.” 

Ashiya explained as if it was nothing much.  And just to mention, Maou and Ashiya have already neatened their hair.  “Then Demon King-sama, may I ask if you know why the Tokyo Tower is painted white and what is referred to as the international standard of orange?”  “…I don’t.”  “Because according to aviation safety regulations, as long as the structure is above sixty metres in height or may in any way interfere with the safe operation of aeroplane instruments, all have to be painted in the international orange and white to indicate that it is an obstacle. So for the Tokyo Tower, the entire tower is treated as an obstruction to air safety so it has been painted in these two colours.”  Maou gaped wordlessly and stared at the side of Ashiya’s face. 

“Bu, but the Tokyo Skytree is nowhere near orange?”  “As long as high intensity air obstacle lights are installed, there is no need to paint it to show that it is an obstacle.”  “….Ah, it’s true.” 

Maou flipped through the informational book vigourously, it looked like he had already found the corresponding record. 

Ashiya looked towards the depressed Maou and spoke while giving a wry smile, 

“Even though Tokyo Tower became like this because of various reasons……but I feel that, this tower was still the most beautiful when it’s red.” 

After saying this, Ashiya raised his head to look at the Tokyo Tower in front of him. 

Height 333 metres. Other than television, this is also the core base for many telecommunication businesses, and this building, having been the icon of Tokyo for many years, is loved by the masses. 

Even if the building has been surpassed in height by the Tokyo Sky Tree, its presence was not decreased even then. 

Other than receiving a large number of tourists every day, as it has already been decided that after the full adoption of digital television that the freed up frequencies will be used for telecom resources, its reason for existence will become something more meaningful for the city folk and the Japanese. 

“However, even though it was what I proposed, but I just fell a little doubtful.” 

“What do you mean?” 

“There are really too many people here. Will angels really stay in this kind of place?” 

Even though this had nothing to do with Maou and the others, but to the Japanese, August is considered the month of the summer holiday. 

In the first place, Tokyo Tower is a landmark good enough to represent Japan, and today because of the visitors and the tourists who came with their families, it was extraordinarily lively. 

“That means, it’s more likely to be the Tokyo Sky Tree which Emilia went to?” 

Maou, Ashiya and Emi split up, the first two people were in charge of the Tokyo Tower, while the latter went towards the Tokyo Sky Tree, as for Urushihara and Suzuno, following Urushihara’s suggestion, they stayed in Yoyogi, in the event where one party meets up with any problem, they would be able to rush over immediately to help.  

Even though he had some concerns with Urushihara’s suggestion, but whether they took the JR Sobu line to Kinshicho station near Tokyo Sky Tree, or the Toei Oedo line to the Akabanebashi station near Tokyo Tower, both routes have transfer points at Yoyogi, therefore it’s not as if Urushihara’s suggestion to stay at Yoyogi was unreasonable. 

Regarding this formation which required Suzuno, who had higher fighting ability, to leave the front lines, Suzuno also objected at the beginning. 

However in the scenario where an angel responds to battle seriously, other than Emi, no one else present had any means of fighting back sufficiently. 

For example when Suzuno fought with Sariel, she was unable to adopt a tough stance against the archangel, and it was only after Maou transformed into the Demon King and she helped from afar was she able to accept it with much difficulty. 

“However, in order to make it easy to clean up later, please try to lessen the range of the effects.” 

In an exaggerated manner, Suzuno had destroyed the transformer facility of Shinjuku station in the past, causing the JR trains to stop along the whole line. 

So it wasn’t strange for Maou to specially remind her of this. 

“Only if the magic within the range of convenient repair is enough for you to turn back into a Demon King.” 

However, Suzuno only replied in this cold manner. 

Once he thought about cleaning up later, Maou’s feelings became heavy, but for Emi and Suzuno to consider the situation that Maou and the others can turn back into their demon form if anything goes wrong, it was already a huge improvement. 

“However, even if they want to go the Tokyo Sky Tree, it isn’t fully operational yet right? If the telecommunication equipments are to be tampered with later, wouldn’t someone find out before the act can be done?” 

With what Maou and the others know now, the damage situation had already surpassed the stage to consider if anyone would find out, however if that angel Raguel really plans to interfere with the television sonar transmission function via some method like Urushihara had predicted, there was nothing else that would hamper the efficiency of his mission more than being stopped by the Japanese. 

“Even the maintaince and checks of the Tokyo Tower is not done with airtight security, I think the conditions on both sides are similar. It’s best not to think so much, go there first and talk about it later.” 

The two males, Maou and Ashiya were currently at the end of the tourist queue. 

As they needed to investigate this place to the best of their ability, there was a need to increase the range which one person can go to the limit. 

The common ticket to the exhibition deck and special observation deck is 1420 yen per person, to not feel anything after buying a total of 2840 yen in fees without hesitating; it was a first for Maou and the others after they came to Japan. 

And this proved that for Maou and Ashiya, Chiho was an important existence to them in various ways. 

“Oh yes, Maou-sama, we have to go up via the elevator later right.” 

“Yeah.” 

“But I heard that for the Tokyo Sky Tree, it seems that the stairs can be used to go up and down.” 

“……Ah?” 

“Even though I think it’s not that possible, but if that angel Raguel is on the stairs……” 

“Hey hey, wait wait, don’t tell me we have to use our legs to climb the stairs of this tower……” 

Maou looked towards the glowing red tower amongst the lights of the night. 

And at the same time, he remembered the time when he ran up the stairs of the Tokyo Metropolian Government building in his underwear to save Chiho. 

“……Are you serious?” 

On the other hand, using the spell “Heavenly Light Boots”, Emi easily flew to the Tokyo Sky Tree from the roof of a nearby skyscraper. 

In order to prevent people from seeing her fly from the ground, Emi even changed into a black long sleeved shirt with black pants and boots. 

When she bought the thinner black set at Shinjuju UNIxLO, just the long sleeves was enough to make a person suffer from the heat, but above the Sky Tree, 600 metres off the ground, a strong wind enough to steal the body temperature of a normal person was blowing. 

“Would it be better to dress more warmly before coming……” 

Emi mumbled as she allowed the wind to blow at her bangs, but for warmer clothes, the only ones left were those that cost a few ten thousand yen, with the label ‘new products for autumn and winter’ as well as mountain climbing gear. 

Even though this was not an act of weighing money against friendship, but as a Hero, it was difficult to make a meal without rice. 

Even if it was already nighttime, many stakeholders were still entering and leaving the Tokyo Sky Tree, in addition to the busy flow of people in the surrounding area, rather than investigating close up without a plan, it was easier to start far away and desceind to the Tower from above.  

Of course, in the high places, there are also operators, in charge of high altitude maintainence and checks, working. Especially since the Tokyo Sky Tree was still in construction, the news also reported daily the operation status on the antenna testing; therefore, there was a high possibility for the maintainence of the antenna to be carried out at night.   

This is because if a human body approaches the antenna from daytime to evening, where the electromagnetic waves are at high volume, the high frequency waves will heat up the human body, causing a phenomenon called ‘high frequency heating’. 

Emi landed on the roof of a certain observation platform on the Tokyo Sky Tree, 450 metres from the ground. 

After confirming the placement of the Holy Vitamin ßstored in her front pocket, Emi studied her surroundings with caution. 

It was easy to be careful not to be discovered by ordinary people, but if the angel she was searching for was somewhere within the tower, the other party may have felt the holy magic which Emi used when she flew. 

Even though Emi had already prepared herself for the worst case scenario where she might be shot at by someone from within the tower, but other than the whooshing of the wind, she could not feel the presence of other people within the Tokyo Sky Tree, bewildering her. 

In front of her was the wide expanse of the Tokyo night scene, even if it was at night, she was still see slight traces of the sillouettes of the faraway mountains located on the edge of the Kanto plains.  

After glancing at the bright aviation obstruction lights next to her, Emi carefully walked along the roof of the observation deck while making sure she would not be blown over by the wind. 

“Is it not here?” 

Within her sight, there was only the aviation obstruction lights and the sturdy construction scaffolding subject to the howling stong winds. 

“I should look around for a while, before taking a look at the Tokyo Tower……” 

Just as Emi planned to contact Maou or Suzuno that there was no results here, and almost dropped her mobile phone because of a particularly strong gust of wind---- 

“!” 

Emi, who discovered that an obvious noise who mixed within the wind, immediately lowered her body and observed her surroundings in a guarded manner. 

Within the shadows of the steel structure, she could not see anyone else. 

Which was why it was strange. The sound she heard just now was…… 

“A sneeze?” 

“Ah-choo!” 

This time Emi heard it clearly. It was a sneeze from a male, and it sounded particularly airheaded, upon further thinking, Emi had heard this voice before. 

“Mama! Found it! Above!” 

Alas Ramus’s voice from within her body seemed to be a little anxious, Emi looked towards the direction the young girl pointed at---- 

and found that on the steel structure more than 10 metres above her, was a rather strange figure. 

Before Emi came, she already prepared herself to fight the angel called Raguel here. But that figure really looked too strange. 

Even though the dim light made it difficult to see the face of the other party, but that person seemed to be crouching there, hugging his knees. 

“Ah-choo!” 

And he sneezed again. Just as Emi looked at the other party, not knowing what to do---- 

“Ah!” 

That slow moving figure also discovered Emi. 

After that, the figure, who frantically wanted to get up, fell over on the steel structure. 

“Look out!” 

Even though she didn’t know who the other party is, Emi still shouted this out of reflex, but the tragic accident of falling from 450 metres high was averted in one second. 

“!” 

When Emi saw the scene, she pulled out the holy sword without hesitation. 

Because the figure who fell off from the steel structure, had instantly spread the glowing wings on his back. 

No matter how she looked at it, it was the angel Emi was waiting for. 

Even though this confirmed Maou’s deduction that the television towers were suspiscious, but one doubt surfaced. 

Why didn’t this angel meet Emi, who was approaching this important landmark, head on? 

 In order to counter against any kind of attacks that the opponent might throw out, Emi had already increased the amount of holy power in her body to its utmost limits, but the angel with his wings out was wavering in air like a curtain being blown around by the wind. In the end, after much struggle, he landed in a place not far from Emi in a pose similar to that of a frog that got stepped on and stayed motionless. 

    

Emi did not know what to make of the situation and was just about to step closer to investigate the opponent’s situation when ---  “Mama! It’s that fake white face! Be careful!”  Emi hesitated for a while, then realised the term ‘fake white face’, which sounded like a mysterious curse, referred to Gabriel, so she jumped backwards with some power to increase the distance between them, cautiously taking a fighting stance with her holy sword.  

Even though she heard from Urushihara that Gabriel had reappeared in Japan, Emi did not expect that she would meet him in the place where the holy magic sonar was transmitted. 

Even though she had pushed back the other party before, Gabriel was still an archangel representing Heaven. In order to be able to react to any movement from Gabriel, Emi opened her eyes wide, not taking her sight off him. 

“That was scary!” 

However, Gabriel was the one who acted first, and he actually used a shaking voice to say this. 

“I, I didn’t notice at all……when, when did you come?” 

Gabriel raised his head to stare at Emi while rubbing his arm, looking closely, his lips had already turned blue. 

“This place, is, is so, colddddd!” 

“……Who cares about you.” 

For Emi, she could only reply this way. 

She didn’t know how Gabriel coordinated his clothes, underneath the long robe which looked like it was worn by ancient Greeks in summer, a T-shirt with the graphic “I LOVE L.A” could be seen. She showed his thighs which no one probably wanted to see and wore sandals without even wearing any socks. 

Of course, these things were still what angels wore, so other than the T-shirt, these clothes should be hiding some power which exceeded their appearance. Regretably, these powers did not seem to include protection against the cold. 

“Then, then again, E, Emilia? What, what are you doing here? The, the Tokyo Sky Tree hasn’t been open to public yet, yeah? 634 metres is something which will not happen for a long time, you know?” 

Gabriel complained incoherently while shivering. 

“The, the power of humans, re, really cannot be underestimated, yeah, whether it is Ente Isla or Heaven, there isn’t any structure as tall as this! Even, even the Demon Fortress is only the height of the Tokyo Tower at most……I never expected that the wind here would be so strong and cold……ah choo!” 

The archangel emitted a dirty sneeze into the sky of the city. 

“I’m the one who wants to ask you why you’re here. Weren’t you taken off the job of looking for the ‘Yesod’ fragments?” 

Emi did not concern herself with the situation of Gabriel’s body, and pointed the holy sword at him while she asked this. 

“Yeah, that’s right. Then again, did you bring any tissue? If possible, it’s best if it’s those soft and moisturing types.” 

And Gabriel still ignored the dangerous and threatening atmosphere which Emi emitted, and spoke at his own pace. 

Gabriel had wanted to cause harm to Alas=Ramus before, so Emi had no reason to be generous to the other party. 

Emi approached Gabriel at sonic speed, and just like what she did before, she rested the tip of the blade against Gabriel’s chest. 

“You shouldn’t have forgotten what happened before right? I don’t have that much patience.” 

“This girl acts the same regardless of Demon or Angel!” 

Gabriel was even close to crying. 

“Uh, that, how should I say this. Anyway, I already told Lucifer about this, I have no intention of involving myself with you, the holy sword, or the Demon King. It’s, it’s true! I only came here because of work, you guys just have to go through your peaceful lives as usual……” 

“Because that kind of peaceful life was destroyed by someone, I am here. That sonar, were you the one who emitted it?” 

“……” 

Emi acted coldly, and picked her words carefully. Currently, there was no way to ascertain the angel’s purpose, if he was really looking for Laila like what Urushihara said. 

“Do you still remember that girl who knows our true identities? She lost consciousness because of the sonar.” 

“Eh? Really?” 

She wasn’t sure if he was really surprised from the bottom of his heart, or if it was a result of Gabriel’s superb acting. Anyway, this frivolous angel showed a shocked expression, and at the same time, opened his mouth wide and sucked in a breath---- 

“Ah choo!” 

And then gave a huge sneeze for no reason. 

And at this instant, Gabriel, who was originally pointed at by the holy sword, suddenly disappeared in front of Emi’s eyes. 

“!” 

“Mama! Not there!” 

Chasing the holy magic, Emi swung the holy sword behind here---- 

“You guessed wrong.” 

A finger was pointed at the back of Emi’s head. 

“BANG! I won.” 

“……” 

The blade of the holy sword dispelled the holy magic Gabriel emitted as bait, and Gabriel, with a runny nose, was upside down, and with his hand positioned to resemble a gun, he pointed his index finger to the back of Emi’s head. 

“Even though a head on sword fight is disadvantageous for me, but there is more than one way to fight.” 

The signs of increasing holy power could be felt from the direction of the back of Emi’s head. 

“……Do you intend to kill me, then take Alas=Ramus away?” 

The high altitude wind, dispersed Emi’s voice. 

“I won’t do anything like that. Since it is still unknown how the two of you are merged, if the child dies along with you after you die, wouldn’t it be bad?” 

Gabriel’s holy magic suddenly weakened, and the killing aura directed towards the back of her head also disappeared. 

“Let’s ignore that first…...with regards to that girl losing consciousness, can you tell me about it in more detail?” 

“Eh?” 

“The reason why I stayed here, it only to prevent the test waves emitted from this tower from interfereing with the waves emitted from the Tokyo Tower, which would cause the accuracy of the sonar to decrease, honestly, I do not know how Raguel insteads to emit the sonar, and more than that, I never heard that his methods would cause the people of this world to lose consciousness.” 

Emi cautiously turned her head, glaring at the upside down Gabriel who had a totally unguarded expression. 

“You’re talking about that girl right? The one called Sasaki Chiho, the cute girl who has a crush on the Demon King. I remember that she works in the same store as the Demon King? Sariel mentioned her to me before.” 

“Why are you askig this for? Don’t tell me you want to kidnap Chiho to be an experimental subject like Sariel did?” 

“Hey……did that guy plan to do such a thing before?” 

Gabriel sniffed in an airheaded manner, vigoriously shaking his head while holding both his hands up. 

“I don’t have such bad interests. You just have to tell me what symptoms she has.” 

“……Why do you want to know such things?” 

Faced with Emi’s questions, Gabriel scratched his face as he answered in a sheepish manner, 

“Oh my, that, even though I’m not as direct as Sariel, but perhaps the thing we want to know in the end is actually the same. Ne, aren’t the humans of Earth also looking for the source of evolution or genes?” 

Gabriel’s tone caused Emi to have goosebumps, so she hid her own unhappiness and mumbled while glaring at the other party, 

“Do you think I will tell you obediently just because you said it?” 

“No, I don’t. Even without considering this, with just what we, Heaven, have done to you guys before, I don’t think you will tell me obediently. So, do you want to make a deal with me?” 

“Deal?” 

A strong gust of wind blew at Emi’s long hair. 

“I will directly reveal some pieces of information to you first, then from the contents, you can decide if you want to tell me about Sasaki Chiho’s situation.” 

“……There’s no evidence to prove that if want you said to true. I would not do anything like betraying anything of my friends because I believe the information provided by the enemy.” 

“So didn’t I say so already? You can decide on your own if you want to tell me. But, I feel that you definitely want to say it.” 

With some difficulty, Gabriel finally positioned his body in the right direction, and landed on the roof of the observation deck with light flapping of his wings. 

“If I say that your father Nord Justina is still alive, what do you plan to do?” 

“What……?” 

Gabriel’s unexpected sentence caused Emi to show a wavering expression. 

Gabriel, who seemed to enjoy this reaction, let off a low pitched laughter. 

“Do you want to know now?” 

“……Yeah.” 

Emi did not even have the time to react whe Gabriel started to act strangely. 

“Ah, s, so, sorry, please stay away from me a bit……ah choo!” 

She was still wondering why Gabriel’s face suddenly became so twisted, but she never expected that he would be unable to hold it in and give such a huge sneeze in the direction of Emi’s face. 

“…………………”  

With the help of the wind, Emi, who felt a condemning spray flying onto her face---- 

“Hmph!”  

“Woahh!” 

She mercilessly used the hilt of the holy sword to hit Gabriel’s head. 

“My, my eyes, they’re seeing stars……” 

“If you can talk quickly, then I can still listen with some reluctance. However, if Alas=Ramus decides that you’re lying, I will behead you immediately.” 

“So……why are you treating me in the same way as a Demon!” 

Emi grumbled at a teary eyed Gabriel, 

“I will never show mercy to the enemy. Even more so for Alas=Ramus’s enemies.” 

Hearing this, the archangel could only raise both hands in surrender. 

Five minutes later, two people appeared within the recently completed observation deck. 

Even though there wasn’t any air ventilation, this place was still very warm. 

Plastic sheets were covering various areas within the facility, and it looked like it was still under construction. 

“Even though it’s already warm, do you want to drink it?” 

In front of Emi, Gabriel took a can of coffee from within his robes. 

“Mama, don’t drink it, it’s very dangerous.” 

Alas=Ramus, who was full of animosity towards Gabriel, had currently materialised and was standing next to Emi. 

Even if Alas=Ramus did not say such a thing, that was no one who watned to drink the warm coffee which Gabriel had taken out from his clothes. 

“I didn’t poison it, okay.” 

Even if Gabriel kept trying to explain, this had nothing to do with whether it was poisoned or not. 

“I don’t want to touch any food or drink from anyone who isn’t part of this world. Forget about the drink, just hurry up and say what you want to say, then scram back to Heaven.” 

“How strict…..or rather, how mysterious~~ whether it is Ente Isla or this Earth, both of them have the legend that ‘once one eats something from another world, they won’t be able to return to their current world’~~” 

Gabriel, who didn’t look like he felt unhappy because of this, opened the can of coffee which had “slightly increased polish’ written on it in large font, and drank it on the spot. 

“Ah, so warm……” 

Gabriel was totally acting at his own pace. Even though she knew it was his strategy, Emi still tapped her foot in impatience and spoke, 

“I have no intention in drinking tea and chatting with you. If you have anything you want to ask me, then hurry up and tell me about my father.” 

“Are you willing to listen?” 

“If I feel that you are lying, this matter will end here.” 

“If you dare to lie to Mama, I will definitely not forgive you!” 

Gabriel, who was called a liar by the mother and child, answered in a rather depressed manner, 

“……Sigh, anyway after hearing what I have to say, both of you can decide how you want to act. Besides Nord Justina, I still have other things I want to tell you.” 

Gabriel held the coffee can with both hands and started to speak in segments, 

“Heaven is currently in a situation where it is going to split into two. This kind of thing……eve though it’s not as if it never happened before, it is something which only happens once in a blue moon. Just with this part……your parents as well as your birth, carries an important significance.” 

“……Stop beating aroud the bush and tell me the conclusion directly. Currently, I only know that the guy called Raguel is chasing after my mother over a certain incident……chasing Laila……but what kind of grudge has Heaven have against my family and me?” 

“Even though it is a little different from a grudge, but you guys did do a troublesome thing.” 

Gabriel still showed a smile which did not reveal any of his true intentions. 

“It’s just that, Laila and Nord are only one of the main points, to put it in a more extreme manner, whether it’s you, Demon King Satan or that ‘Yesod’ fragment……to take it further, even Lucifer, the kimono wearing Inquisitor, Satan’s confidant and that Sasaki Chiho, can no longer be uninvolved in this. Wrong, in the worse case scenario, it can even include all the humans on this Earth.” 

“Like I said, didn’t I tell you to stop beating around the bush?” 

Emi rushed Gabriel in an impatient manner. 

“Oh my, you’re really hasty~even though what I am going to say next is going to overthrow your view of the world from its foundations.” 

Gabriel looked at the coffee can after saying this in an irritating tone. 

“Let me clarify your misconception first, we angels, are not something from this world.” 

“Eh?” 

“There is only one principle behind the actions taken by angels. That is ‘to deflect the threat’s to Heaven with all we have’. In a straightforward manner, everyone thinks that no matter how many humans are killed in Ente Isla, it doesn’t matter as long as Heaven is not in danger.” 

With any hesitation, Gabriel said the words which would cause the believers of the Ente Isla Church to go crazy if they ever heard it. 

“After that, ever since you chased the Demon Army out of Ente Isla, and difted to this Earth, the existence Hero Emilia was already considered ‘Heaven’s threat’.” 

“That’s so mean……what is the reason for that?” 

“I already said so before, wanting you to think about what kind of existence you are.” 

Those are the words Gabriel said before he left at the end of the battle surrounding Alas=Ramus. 

“What, kind of existence am I?” 

“Hmm……even though this isn’t a good example, but you’ll be able understand once I say it. Do you think a child can be born between a human and a chimpanzee?” 

“AH?!?!” 

Emi frowned because of Gabriel’s sudden and shocking question, and her tone became rather worked up. 

“Of course they cannot right?” 

“Why?” 

“Why……this……from a biological point of view, their species are totally different!” 

“Aren’t both of them primates and companions to the monkey? Don’t dogs and cats have naturally breeded mixed breeds?” 

“That is only because in terms of species, the genes between the two don’t have any extreme differences right? Even though there is still some debates about the genetic structure of humans and chimpanzees, but even the understanding that there is only a few percent difference is only one of the more persuasive explanations!” 

“I don’t really know about genes, but you’re really knowledgeable on that.” 

“Because I watched that kind of science programme on television a long time ago!” 

“The Hero can actually ‘watch television’, how interesting.” 

After the jokes, Gabriel continued to look at Emi and spoke with the same frivolous attitude, 

“In other words, because humans and chimpanzees have a species gap, so they are unable to have a child.” 

“That’s right! So what about it!” 

“The why are humans and angels able to have a child?” 

Time seemed to stop. 

This sentence should be used to describe this time. 

“……What……did you say?” 

“You are a child born from angel Laila and human Nord Justina. If you suspect this assumption, I will be very troubled, about this fact I can guarantee it is true. Because this is the reason you are connected to ‘Heaven’s threat’. 

“That, that is……” 

“Your explanation just now wasn’t not bad. Because there are no extreme differences between the species, then, at the same time, that is also the truth.” 

Gabriel spread his arms exaggertedly. 

The residual coffee within the metal can sprayed out, causing stains on the white robe. 

“Humas are actually angels from a biological view, or angels are actually humans from a biological view, which side do you think is the correct answer?” 

“Which side……that, that is……” 

Angels, are humans?  

Flapping wings in front of her, overwhelming amount of holy magic, silver hair and red eyes, ignoring the coffee stains on the long robe, he didn’t look human no matter how she looked at him. 

However---- 

“From the beginning, you guys were the ones who decided on your own that angels and Heaven are unconventional existences right. Of course, as an angel, I also cannot deny that kind of existence. However, that does not refer to us, specifically----” 

Gabriel pointed to the small existence standing next to Emi who was still glaring at him. 

“it should refer to her.” 

“Ugh!” 

The young girl, pointed out as an unconventional existence by an archangel from Heaven, seemed to be standing in front of Emi like she was trying to protect her mother, using her gaze and voice to threaten Gabriel.  

Emi, who could not keep up at the moment, felt her own legs shaking. 

But Gabriel continued to speak, unconcerned, 

“Sigh, what was said just now was only the Prologue, the truly important stuff is still to come. This has something to do with angels only acting for the sake of ‘Heaven’s threat’, and right now, Heaven is going to split into two because of the definition of ‘Heaven’s threat’, so Raguel only acted in order to standardise the definition. After that, this has something to do with how Raguel will judge according to which side.”  

To the pale faced Emi, Gabriel spoke with what seems like some degree of happiness, 

“Not only your mother, your father should have come to Earth as well. Depending on the results of Raguel’s judgement, perhaps Heaven will act against your father.” 

. 

The lights in Saikai University Affliated Hospital room 305 have already been turned off. 

In this place, from the lights from the florescent lights in the corridor and the small light illuminating the location of the nurse bell were quietly shining. 

In this dark room, a small glow suddenly appeared. 

It was a purple glow which had a mysterious amount of heat. 

In a room where only the breathing sounds of the hospital patients were left---- 

“……Mum……didn’t I say a few times before not to add peas into the Shumai……” 

(T/N: Shumai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumai) 

Chiho produced a sound from having her mind scrambled from sleep and got up from the bed. 

“Ah, s, sorry, Mum, I feel asleep, so the rice……eh?” 

Therefore, after the blood started to circulate within her body, Chiho remembered the instructions her mother gave her before she lost consciousness, and pulled away the blanket on top of her. 

“Where, is this place?” 

Chiho looked at the ceiling, walls and windows which she had no impression of and blinked her eyes in shock. 

“Eh? Hospital?” 

At this time, because Chiho felt that someone was next to her ear telling her where she was currently and turned her head---- 

“……Eh?” 

She discovered her own handphone. Because the front screen did not show the clock, it looks like it already ran out of battery. 

After Chiho, fully suspicious, thought about it for a while, she remembered that she had gone through the same phenomenon once before and carefully looked at her surroundings. 

“Alberto, san? Or it is, Emeralda-san……?” 

There was a sound next to her, but there was no one around her. Even though she did not expect anyone to reply, but Chiho still tried to ask the certain person who was not present at the scene. 

“Ah……” 

At this time, the mobile phoe which should have run out of battery, actually started to shine at an incoming call in a colour which Chiho had never set before. 

Even though there was no ring, and no vibration, but the mobile phone did receive the signal. 

Chiho nervously picked up the mobile phone, flipping it open to take a look, but the screen was still black. 

“He, hello……?” 

Chiho brought the mobile phone to her ear, suspicious, answering in a soft voice, next a female voice which she never heard came from the other end of the line. 

And the first sentence that voice said, was something totally beyond Chiho’s expectations. 

“Don’t be a picky eater okay……but, but putting peas with the Shumai, that’s really an act of a demon! Even though I like demons, but with regards to Shumai, I prefer prawns and bacon!” 

She didn’t expect that the other party would criticize her sleep talk. Chiho decided then, unless it was food which someone else offered out of kindness, or all other food besides peas were exterminated, she would definitely not eat peas again. 

Even though no malicious intent could be detected from the tone of the other party, but because someone heard her childish sleeptalk about her picky eating habits, she still blushed furiously in the darkness. 

Then, after the other party held a one sided conversation for a while, she suddenly urged Chiho to look at her left hand. 

“Left hand? Ah, this ring, could it be the thing called the fragement of ‘Yesod’?” 

Chiho looked towards the ring which was worn on her hand even though she had no impression of it, and asked. 

“A lot of things happened recently, now just this small thing is not going to scare me.” 

Chiho gave a wry smile. As for the other party on the other end of the line, she seemed to be shocked because of Chiho’s bravery. 

“Satan……it refers to Maou-san right……hm, eh? Some place in Tokyo? Hmm…” 

After that, the two people conversed for a while, and Chiho’s anxiousness slowly dissipated. 

“I understand. I’m willing to help……eh? I’m not afraid, yeah? Even though I’m a little nervous……” 

Chiho smiled. 

“Even though there are demons, angels and people from Ente Isla around me, but no matter what, everyone’s relations are still very good……eh? Yeah, I’m not worried. Because even if they lie to me, the people from the foreign world will not get any advantages. Compared to that, it would be better to be just like that person called Olba, taking me hostage directly would be simpler and more effective.” 

The glow from the ring on Chiho’s hand flickered like it was smiling. 

“A weapon I am good at? Hm……it seems like there is nothing which seems like a weapon……” 

As if she wanted to raise her motivation, Chiho looked at her clenched fists. 

“I practice archery, if it’s the bow, then I still have some confidence.” 

. 

“Hey……is it really here?” 

“……I’m not sure.” 

Maou and Ashiya were currently walking down the stairs of Tokyo Tower with tired looks on their faces. 

As it was the summer holidays, the inside of Tokyo Tower was filled with people. 

Perhaps it was because he was haunted by the memory of the Metropolian building, whe they started searching the Tokyo Tower, Maou decided to use the elevator to go up and only when going downstairs, he had no choice but to use the stairs. 

But just taking the elevator to the observation deck already caused them to become dizzy from being squashed in the crowd, even if they continued to go upwards, they could only see that the observation deck was filled with people, and more people, and more people…… 

With just two people, they were unable to check on every single person, but basically they didn’t even sense any traces of anything resembling holy magic. 

As they did not know what item would be used as a transmission source for the holy magic sonar, Maou and Ashiya even intentionally queued up, and consecutively used the pay per view binoculars to observe the situation outside. Considering that the other party is using television as the medium for the sonar, so even if they knew that it would cause trouble to other customers, they still tried to stick to the front of the screen inside the hall. 

Even at the special observation deck, the two of them also used all the binoculars there, but they did not obtain any results. Even though one of the binoculars was able to see the Tokyo Sky Tree, they did not see any signgs of Emi fighting at the Tokyo Sky Tree. 

“If I find out that that guy is eating at the restauarant downstairs, I am going to pour coke into his nose!” 

Giving a complaint which one could not tell if they were being too worked up, Maou and Ashiya slowly walked down the stairs. As for these stairs, at various floors, they actually showed tourists how many calories they have burned on the various floors, causing Maou to become even more unhappy at this meaningless new discovery. 

Compared to the Tokyo Sky Tree, as the Tokyo Tower is always being shone on, there are very little blind spots in terms of where the light can reach, and besides the observation deck, it seems like no suspicious person was hidden. 

In this case, they could only consider that the person had entered the section above the special observation deck which normal people cannot enter, or inside the wax people at the wax museum built on the ground floor. 

“Thinking about it carefully, the other party isn’t transmitting the sonar at anytime he wanted……it’s less likely for that guy called Raguel to be staying put at a particular location.” 

Ashiya’s words did make sense. 

For Maou, even if he could maintain his Demon King form, he wouldn’t want to stay at this kind of wind facing height if there isn’t a need to do so. 

“Then……what should we do……?” 

“Even though we still have very little information, but if that incident at Yodogawa Bridge Home Electronics is also affected by the sonar, it is 5 to 6 hours difference from that sonar in the hospital. So the next time……” 

“That would be around 12 at night? How can we wait that long!” 

“Why not?” 

“Ah?” 

Maou frowned because of Ashiya’s expression which showed a lack of understanding. 

“If we believe Bell’s explanation, then there is no need to worry about Sasaki-san’s safety for the time being. Even though the staff of the electronic outlet will feel troubled if those kind of accidents keep happening, but the programs which can be watched at midnight will not be as numerous as daytime. As long as we ask Sasaki-san’s parents not to turn on the television at night, there should not be any problems waiting for another 6 hours.” 

However, Maou showed a troubled expression, and said softly, 

“But even if Chi-chan will be alright, it would be bad if the other party emits the sonar and cause the situation on the other side to worsen.” 

“Eh?” 

“I…….have something to ask that person, becoming the Demon King and failing to invade Ente Isla, the situation right now……if this goes on, perhaps Heaven will take action first, and I might lose this chance.” 

“Demon King-sama?” 

Even though Ashiya looked like he did not understand the meaning behind Maou’s words, Maou still ignored his subordinate in this situation and took out his mobile phone, making a call to Suzuno. 

“Hello.” 

“We have already gone around Tokyo Tower, but we have not discovered anyone who could be it. About Emi’s side, did she say anything?” 

“I’m not sure, she hasn’t contacted me yet……eh? What?” 

“What is it?” 

“Lucifer, he……hey, I’m handing the phone to Lucifer, wait a bit.” 

After a short period of noise, Urushihara’s voice was immediately heard from the phone. 

“You guys haven’t found anything yet?” 

“Yeah, perhaps he isn’t in the Tower at the moment.” 

“Ah, that means he did not set up camp there.” 

“That’s only a possibility. So if this goes on, we might have to watch as he emits the next sonar. What should we do.” 

“Is that so, do you want to try to contact Emilia?” 

“Uh, I actually decided to call her at a later time. However, I just confirmed the situation with the binoculars at the Tokyo Tower, there doesn’t seem to be any signs of fighting. If she fought with an angel, that abnormal holy magic should have been sensed from far away, so we shouldn’t have to worry……” 

“I understand, I’ll think of a strategy on my end as well. Anyway, you and Ashiya can just be on standby over there first. If things go well or if anything happens, I will contact you, let’s touch base later.” 

“Strategy? What are you……ah, hello…………he actually hung up on me!” 

“What’s wrong?” 

Ashiya, who was listening to the conversation, asked. 

“I don’t know……that guy Urushihara said confidently that he had some strategy.” 

“How worrying. I hope he doesn’t use any special method which requires money.” 

“Even private investigators probably would not help to look for people……anyway, let’s wait 15 minutes and see. If there is no contact at that time, everyone can find a place to meet up.” 

After saying this, Maou, who put his phone back in his pack, started to walk down the stairs with heavy footsteps, with Ashiya following behind. 

. 

Currently, with Lucifer in the lead, Suzuno was walking on the streets of Yoyogi at night. 

After talking to Maou on the phone---- 

“The two of us will draw out the angel. Come and help too.”  

And he set off without explaining anything. 

“Hey, Lucifer, where do you plan to go. We’re going further and further away from the station.” 

The original reason for Usushihara and Suzuno staying at Yoyogi is because there were trains going straight to Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Sky Tree from there. Once they leave the station, unless the two people used abnormal methods, they would not be able to move around as quickly, that means that when the time to fight came, it might result in the situation where they do not have enough power. 

“You and Emilia should have some away to replenish holy magic right.” 

“…….What is that supposed to mean.” 

“There’s no need to act dumb. Compared to us, the both of you are using your powers too brazenly.” 

Suzuno did have a small bottle of Holy Vitamin ß tucked inside her clothes, but she did not intend to let the inhabitants of the Demon Fortress know about the method to replenish holy magic. 

“Even though we cannot find Raguel now, but we need to pinpoint his location before he emits the next sonar. We won’t be able to do it with just us. There’s no time to call Emilia back now, so I’ll leave it to you.” 

“Where is this place? What do you plan on having me do?”  

Suzuzno surveyed the place where Usushihara had stopped at. 

In front of them is an obelisk shaped skyscraper. 

Under the moonlight, the building looked very imposing in the dark night of the city, and then Suzuno saw a familiar logo on the skyscraper with red aviation obstruction lights installed on its four corners. 

“To be more precise, I’m actually more inclined to the idea of not needing a television. I feel that it is enough with just internet and a mobile phone.” 

“B, but this should be a place where not just anyone can walk in right?” 

Compared to the jittery Suzuno, Usushihara was calm and collected. 

“You should roughly know what I want to do right?” 

“Even though I know, if we broke something here and cause some problem, it would probably cause a panic!” 

“Which is why I did not look for Emilia, who can win against an archangel or Demon King Maou, but you, a normal human, to do it. If it’s your power, it should be weak enough to spread the power at just the right amount.” 

“This explanation sounds really maddening……w,wrong, this isn’t the problem……hey, Lucifer!” 

Ignoring Suzuno, who felt frustrated because she was said to be weak, Urushihara quickly walked towards the entrance of the skyscraper. 

Seeing a young man wearing a T-shirt, which was washed until it was worn out and deformed, approaching, the guards naturally walked up to stop Urushihara with the intent to check him. 

However, the eye hidden under the long fringe glowed slightly, and Urushihara’s form immediately disappeared from the guards’ sight. 

The guards looked flustered because someone suddenly disappeared in front of their eyes, and Urushihara, directly in front of them, turned towards Suzuno and beckoned to her, then the two people leisurely walked into the landmark set in Shibuya, Yoyogi, the Docodemo Yoyogi Building, commonly known as Docodemo Tower. 

Suzuno followed behind Urushihara in a jittery manner. Even though a youth wearing a wrinkly T-shirt and a female in a kimono did not look like employees at all, but strange thing is, there was no one who stopped them. 

“Talking about a device which uses the same frequency range as the television waves, there is only the mobile phone.” 

“D, don’t tell me……you want me to do the same thing as Raguel……” 

“That’s right.” 

Urushihara nodded with a smile. 

“I want you to emit a sonar using the docodemo mobile phone frequency range. The target can just be set as a huge amount of holy magic which definitely will not appear in Japan. Amongst these responses, one of them is the angel.” 

“H, how did it turn out like this……” 

Because of the cold, Suzuno curled up and shivered. 

Even though the ground is still very hot, when they reached the top of the Docodemo Tower at 272 metres, the howling cold wind mercilessly blew against the foundation of the microwave antenna. 

Suzuno was already wearing a kimono which is easily affected by wind pressure, and added to the fact that is made from material for summer clothes, it was almost equivalent to directly using her skin to bear the cold wind. 

“Sorry for the wait. I already know which frequency would be able to reach the furthest within the Kanto region. As long as you emit towards the antenna, the sonar will be able to ride the frequency and broadcast outwards. If you touch it directly, it may cause high frequency heat, so be careful.” 

Urushihara stuck his head out from the passageway limited to specialised personnel which led to within the building, which was being used to maintain and check the antenna. He was holding open a diagram which marked the ranges of the waves within the city, also recorded within mobile phones, but this map was specially designed for business use. 

An image of the computer desk made messy by Urushihara surfaced in Suzuno’s mind, and she started to worry if Urushihara could properly put the map where is belonged after everything is over. 

“Would doing this cause the important computers or anything else to break?” 

“It won’t it won’t, don’t worry. Rather than that, the carried sonar will supress the frequency, so if we do not act quickly, it might cause a telecommunication malfunction.” 

“……Ahh! I don’t care anymore!” 

Even though Suzuno still did not understand what Urushihara was saying fully, but since she already came here, it was no use to continue delaying it. 

Suzuno raised the holy magic within her to the limit, and aiming at the antenna, she shot it out in one go. 

“Holy Wave Probe!” 

The holy magic shot out continuously from Suzuno’s hands merged with the microwave antenna, and shot out in all directions like an invisible electric net spread out in the sky, expanding into a large light circle. 

The halo, with Docodemo Tower as the centre, slowly spread to places a few hundred metres away, and the light also started to dissipate after merging with the atmosphere. 

To humans, the holy magic wave Suzuno sent out is like mobile phone waves, cannot be seen or felt, but even then, they will still spread to far away areas, and catch something in the end. 

“Uh……uhhhh.” 

Even though Holy Wave Probe is a type of wide area sonar skill to search out enemies, it is not purely about emitting sonar. Just emitting the sonar will continuously use up holy magic, and this will continue until the emitted holy magic comes back with the response. 

Suzuno, who continued to do so with such a large scale search, cannot stop emitting holy magic until the response comes back. 

“……I can’t, take it anymore……” 

Even though she has superhuman powers, that is only when compared with normal humans, Suzuno holy magic capacity doesn’t even come close to Emi’s. 

If she continued to shoot out holy magic, her power will immediately be drained completely. 

“Ugh!” 

When Suzuno groaned, she reached into her clothes and pulled out the small bottle of Holy Vitamin ß. 

Like in a television commercial, Suzuno only opened the cap with her thumb and drank it all in one go on the spot. 

“Oh, so that’s what you people have been using.” 

Urushihara, standing at the side, showed a sinister smile, as if he was saying ‘I saw something good’. 

After Suzuno decided that after this job ends, she would use her holy hammer to hit Urushihara downstairs, with the replenished holy magic, she barely managed to hold on until the response came back. 

“……It’s coming!” 

The halo which Suzuno spread out----the response sent back by the Holy Wave Probe. 

A feeling like an invisible current following the spread out holy magic wave and returned to Suzuno’s body through the antenna at the Docodemo Tower. 

After that, Suzuno relaxed, panting with her face covered in sweat. 

“There is one around 6 kilometres away in the southeast direction, two about 15 kilometers away in the northeast direction, a weak response near here in the southwest……” 

After hearing Suzuno’s breathless words, Urushihara frowned as he referenced to the map in his hands. 

“Southwest is the direction of Sasazuka, even though I don’t know why it became weaker, but that should be Sariel. Southeast around 6 kilometers away is Tokyo Tower, southeast 15 kilometers is near Tokyo Sky Tree. If the ones at Tokyo Sky Tree are Emilia and Alas=Ramus……looks like we have to call Maou. There is someone at Tokyo Tower after all……” 

“And……another place……” 

“Eh?” 

Even if she was covered in sweat, Suzuno still quickly pulled out the cross shaped glass hairclip in her hair. 

After glowing, Suzuno’s delicate hands were already holding a giant hammer transformed from a hairclip. 

Suzuno ignored Urushihara, who was afraid of being hit because he did not explain anything properly and just commanded others, tried her best to move towards the edge of the antenna base foundation.  

“Here.” 

“Ah?” 

“Be prepared, Lucifer. Something unidentified is approaching this place now.” 

With serious eyes, Suzuno scanned the night scene of Yoyogi in front of her. 

Amongst the lights of the cars coming and going, a particularly strong light was currently climbing up along the outer walls of Docodemo Tower at a very rapid rate. 

“It’s coming!” 

“W, what is it?” 

Urushihara panicked because he had no time to prepare for battle, while Suzuno took one step back to prepare for any sudden situation. 

Suzuno planned to wait for the other party to fly up here, and use her hammer, with full power, to greet the other party’s head, therefore she went into her battle stance, and used her remaining holy magic to strength her whole body in one go. 

Since the other party naturally flew along the outer walls, then she would also need to prepare for fighting in the air. 

The sound of the wind changed. 

“…………!” 

A speechless surpise attacked Suzuno. 

Even Urushihara was frozen on the spot, as if his panicked behaviour just now was a lie. 

A totally unexpected person, was floating in front of the two of them. 

The person who came was glowig in a faint gold glow, and only the colour of the opened eyes was different from usual. 

These were precisely the same purple irises like Urushihara and Sariel. 

And the things that would utterly destroy the secretiveness of the golden glow and purple eyes, is a pink flower patterned pajamas, and green slippers with worn gold lettering showing the name of the hospital. 

“Chi, Chiho-dono?” 

“This is a lie right? W, why?” 

The person who is Chiho, who should be still admitted at Saikai University Affliated Hospital. 

“Ah……it’s Suzuno-san and Urushihara-san!” 

Even though the two people were naturally very surprised, but Chiho seemed to be not expected to see them as well. After Chiho put her hand against her ear, she actually started to talk. 

“It’s not here! Eh? Ah, is, is that so?” 

Even though she looked like she was talking to someone, but of course, Suzuno and Urushihara did no hear anything. 

“Is it mental communication?” 

As the light surrounding Chiho looked like holy magic no matter how he looked at it, therefore Urushihara started to suspect if the magic was refined to the point where Chiho awakened some strange ability. 

“Eh? Ah, it’s not like that. This is only connecting the earpiece microphone bought at Yodogawa Home Electronics to the mobile phone. Although it is a bit troubling to walk into the store with this attire.” 

“……I see.” 

“It’s fine no matter how it was done! What happened to Chiho-dono?” 

Urushihara, who discovered that there was a black wire running from Chiho’s ear to her pajamas pocket, kneeled onto the ground in depression, while Suzuno questioned Chiho in a panicked manner. 

“Uh, I have no time to explain in detail now! Then again, the one who emitted the sonar here just now is Suzuno-san right?” 

“Y, yeah.” 

Chiho, glowing in a gold light, asked this in a normal tone, and Suzuno, who still could not accept this abnormal situation, could only nod in reply. 

“That is, because this does’t seem very good, it would be better not to do that again.” 

“Eh?” 

“Someone said that this would destroy the balance of the world’s power, so it is best not to agitate just from one end.” 

“Hey, Sasaki Chiho, who are you talking to?” 

Urushihara responded to Chiho’s words with a sharp gaze. 

“You definitely will not know anything like this. That call, who are you talking to?” 

In response to Urushihara’s question, Chiho replied with a troubled expression which looked like she was about to cry for some unknown reason, 

““Don’t be such a busybody, idiot, bleahhh!”……that person said this.” 

“Ah? What is this!” 

“I, I’m not the one saying this! Ugh, it’s, the person on the other end of the phone……” 

Chiho explained to Urushihara with an expression that looked like she was about to cry. Suzuno, on the other hand, calmed down a bit upon seeing this rare scene. 

From Emi’s words and the ring on Chiho’s finger, at least she could be sure that the one who could transfer excess holy magic without causing harm to Chiho’s physical body should not be on Gabriel’s side.  Furthermore, the Chiho in front of her eyes has yet to be fully controlled by someone, and she still maintains the personality of the “Sasaki Chiho” whom Suzuno was familiar with.  

Even so, the person talking to Chiho on the other side of the phone came here for some purpose. 

But Suzuno did not question Chiho, instead she swung her hammer at an ear splitting speed. 

“Holy Burst!” 

“Yah!” 

The shock wave pierced past Chiho who curled up in fright and Suzuno, as though chasing after the shockwave she produced, jumped from the Docodemo tower into the night sky. With the hammer wielded by her slender arms, she sent shockwaves flying towards the four glowing orbs flying towards Chiho’s back in the night sky. 

“……Heaven’s troops!” 

“Ah, that’s right. Gabriel is here after all.” 

Urushihara and Suzuno gazed in the direction where the light orbs came from. Over there were four human figures floating in the sky---- 

“All those who are here shall not move!” 

They were Heavenly troops who were wielding swords. They belonged to Gabriel’s angel army and they are now confidently floating in the night sky with every intention to take down Suzuno and the rest. 

“……Chiho-dono, if you’ve done all that you needed to do here, please leave immediately. We can handle these ruffians!” 

 Suzuno said while carefully raising her hammer. 

“Eh, bu, but….” 

“ You borrowed that kind of power for the sake of achieving a certain purpose right? But right now, you do not have the time to explain to us what this purpose is, and this level of power should not be able to let Chiho-dono become some sort of first class warrior. Maou and Ashiya are at Tokyo tower while Emilia is at the Tokyo Sky Tree.” 

“…… I, I understand.” 

Chiho, whose body was covered in a golden glow, raised both hands above her head 

Just when there was a glimpse of silver light between both her palms, Chiho had already separated both her hands while turning to the side a little. 

Chiho pulled her right hand behind her right ear and her left hand extended out with her index finger pointing out while being maintained at about the same height of her right hand. 

At this moment, Urushihara realized that the ring on Chiho’s left hand was glowing a purple light that was the same color as her eyes. 

Chiho had pulled a silver lightbow out of nowhere. 

She posed in the last form for the practice forms in Japanese archery, the “Kai” position, if not for the flowery pajamas and the hospital slippers, one would have immediately thought of the majestic pose of the moon goddess from mythology. 

“Maou-san, is at the Tokyo tower, right?” 

Chiho asked Urushihara for confirmation. Seeing Urushihara nod his head, Chiho smiled slightly and said, 

“Siluk Eteo Luciet!” 

Although it was Chiho’s voice, it was not in a language which she could have known. Similar to what Suzuno done earlier, she aimed at the antenna of Docodemo Tower and fired a light arrow.  

It was something that far exceeded the scale and amount of holy magic of the “Holy Wave Probe” which Suzuno cast. The words used by Chiho to activate the spell, has the same meaning as Holy Wave Probe in the Holy Weiss language.  

A clear golden ring spread out quickly to the surroundings with the Docodemo tower as the epicenter. 

Compared to Suzuno’s Holy Wave Probe, the glow which Chiho produced did not show any signs of dissipation no matter how far it went, spreading out in a radial manner in the skies of Tokyo. 

“ I’ll explain to everyone later, please be careful!” 

With that said, Chiho flew towards the East North East direction where the Tokyo Sky Tree is as though she were a shooting star. 

“Halt!” 

The Heavenly troops saw the situation and prepared to give chase after Chiho. 

“Your opponent is me!” 

Above the sharp tower of the Yoyogi Docodemo building,  Suzuno was blocking the four pairs of wings.  

“Those magic orbs just now, they were aiming straight for Chiho-dono right? And those eyes that you had when intending to chase down Chiho-dono, that’s not very angel-like is it? What are your intentions!” 

Suzuno smiled a ferocious smile and glared at the angels she beaten before. 

“If you intend to borrow the sacred name of God to harm humans…then allow me to reform all of you!” 

“Ah……Bell, if you would allow me to verbally lecture them for a while, that….” 

Urushihara stood at the base of the antennae, intending to advise Suzuno but was stopped by her. 

“I know. But if we just let someone superior to them take care of this mess, then they will never be able to taste the pain of defeat, and they will never be able to meaningfully reflect on their mistakes.” 

“Ah?” 

“Their actions have harmed innocent humans, and brought much harm to this alternate world. This should not be the way of an angel. As such, I have the duty to correct their actions!” 

On the other hand, seeing that Suzuno was full of fighting spirit, the four angels from the Heavenly Troops started hesitating. 

“Human, sheath your weapon! We are the heavenly troops under Lord Gabriel! Your actions go against God’s will and the goals of Lord Gabriel……” 

“Vulgar ruffians like yourselves should hold your tongues!” 

“……?” 

The heavenly troops were shaken from being criticised as such by a human. 

But these people still looked like angels when they intruded upon Sasazuka Villa Rosa the last time, now underneath their robes were T-shirts and jerseys. Seeing their half-assed efforts in emulating the Japanese, even if it was not Suzuno, one will feel like reprimanding them and calling them vulgar. 

The reason why these angels will feel shaken, perhaps they had some self awareness to some degree. 

“What is God’s will! For God who declared that one must ‘Love thy neighbour’, how is it possible that He allows others to meaninglessly harm an innocent girl and this nation! I’m the one who want to ask you bastards who harm others by falsely borrowing God’s name…..” 

Suzuno kicked the spiked tower and lauched herself into the night sky of Shibuya. 

“Who in the world are all of you!” 

The former official from the council of inquisition Crestia Bell raised her giant hammer and emitted a strong aura from using the holy magic within her body and this caused the four large-built archangels from the Heavenly troops to freeze on the spot. 

“Accept the following, Heaven’s troops! The inquisition is about to begin.” 

Suzuno extended her giant hammer towards the angels positioned before her, her hair emitting a deep gray glow and swaying in the wind. 

“Number one! Your master’s actions harmed innocent citizens and damaged their property. The Great Church Council will, based on justice, order all of you to compensate accordingly! Number two!  For you all harmed a disciple of the Great Church Council without prior warning, I request that you all declare your reason! If you all are willing to confess and repent on these two sins under “God’s” name….ugh!” 

Suzuno announced the judgement in a loud clear voice, but the troops did not give her a chance to finish. 

The angels silently pulled out their weapons and used the long swords which they used previously to threaten her to attack. 

Suzuno calmly used her holy metal hammer to block off the blades. 

Compared to Emilia’s holy sword, Sariel’s scythe and Gabriel’s sacred sword Durandal, the opponent’s weapon was just an ordinary metal sword. 

“Woah, how thrilling!” 

Urushihara, who was looking at the entire scene unfold from the roof of Docodemo, whistled. 

“You mere human, you actually think you can judge the apostles of Heaven, don’t joke around!” 

“Oh, is that so? Even the great archangel who possesses the ability of the Light of the fallen, confessed all his sins to me. Sigh, anyway……” 

Suzuno smiled slightly, shifted the handle and deflected the blades. 

Other than that, Suzuno also used this action to spin her giant hammer backward and she aimed straight for the back of one of the heavenly soldiers. 

“Holy meteor!” 

“Uguah!” 

Even if he did not get sent flying, but this impact that went up through the body still caused the soldier to lose consciousness and he fell on the roof of the tower where Urushihara was at. 

“What, you can’t even defeat a “mere human” without relying on ambush?” 

Suzuno twirled her hammer, after quickly spinning it about three times, she rested the hammer on her shoulder.  

“This is a skill that uses holy magic to strengthen and exceed the limits of the human body. Initially, it was supposed to be a spell for defeating demons……so now, who wants to give it a go? Or would you rather obediently accept my judgement and admit your wrongdoings together with Gabriel……looks like it’s not possible.” 

The remaining three soldiers rushed at Suzuno together without waiting for her to finish. 

The three angelic swords that aimed at her from three different directions, were all blocked with the front round portion of Suzuno’s hammer and caught with the handle. 

“What!” 

“Woah!”   

The heavenly soldiers and Urushihara all let out exclaims of surprise at the same time. 

Suzuno used the sleeve of her Kimono to wrap around the blade and caught it barehanded. Then she imbued her straw sandal clad right foot with holy magic before harshly kicking the side of the blade. 

That was supposed to be a Heaven made sword but it easily shattered together with the wrist joint of the hand holding it. 

“If the fragments were to fall from such a high place, it won’t be good. Rubbish should be taken home.” 

With a look of ease, Suzuno took the blade fragments and handle that fell from the soldier’s hand and kept them in her sleeve. 

“So, I have given you two chances to surrender, so there are no more chances. The Buddhists in this country can endure about three chances but I think two is plenty enough.” 

Suzuno raised her large hammer once more with both hands and gently breathed out. 

“““!””” 

The angels did not have time to react at all. 

Suzuno imbued her heel with holy magic and kicked the air, producing a sound like a very large cannon. Just at the moment when the angels were distracted by the loud sound, the kimono-clad holy maiden who was originally in front of them and routed round to their backs. 

And in the next moment, Suzuno who was right behind them reappeared in front of them again in a blink of an eye, her back facing them while she was in the air. The Heavenly Troops had an incredulous look on their face as they were prepared to face the impact from the large hammer but only met with the feeling of the air rushing past them. 

Suzuno swung her hammer down head and used her empty left hand to rearrange her messy hair. Then as though she was sheathing a katana after using a batou jutsu, she converted the Holy Metal Hammer back into a hair accessory and put it on her hair. 

“Dance of the light, Impatiens balsamina” 

It was at that moment. 

Three blasts of holy magic rang throughout the night of Shibuya. 

The three heavenly soldiers were unable to withstand the impact generated from within their bodies and thus, like the first soldier, lost consciousness and fell together onto the roof of the building where Urushihara was on. 

“Don’t look down on humans. Experience the pain of living.” 

“Ooh, that’s really scary.” 

Urushihara expressed the fear he felt from the bottom of his heart. 

Ignoring a trembling Urushihara, Suzuno wiped the sweat that resulted from the battle and then pulled out something from her left sleeve to examine. 

“But…..what is this…..angels, what exactly are they?” 

The swords used by the Heavenly Troops were not made from “Evolving Heavenly Metal”, but it was not some unknown super metal either. 

It was an everyday metal that Suzuno would always come into contact with. 

That is “iron”. 

“Hey, Bell, There seems to be something approaching?” 

Urushihara called Suzuno who was tilting her head in confusion from the top of the building. 

“……?” 

Suzuno raised her head when she heard Urushihara and she carefully returned the sword pieces into her sleeve to avoid dropping them. 

There was something coming closer from the distant sky. 

It looked like the halo which Chiho had released earlier, but other than that it was accompanied by something else. 

Even if the form was different, but what Chiho did was the same of as Suzuno, and they both emitted some sonar. As such, then similarly there should be some form of “reaction” to transmit the message back to a location that the caster had pinpointed.  

But when that spreading halo was concentrated, what was it bringing back.  

“Uu……” 

Impossible. Suzuno subconsciously raised her alertness. 

Chiho definitely sent out a sonar of holy magic, however---- 

“Demonic magic?” 

Suzuno and Urushihara were at a loss as they looked at the golden light belt made of demon magic fly above their heads towards the southeast direction. 

“……Hm?” 

When the light belt passed from above her head, even though it was not much, but Suzuno felt that whatever bad feeling she had inside her vanished with it. 

. 

“What in the world is that Urushihara doing?” 

At the base of the Tokyo Tower was a commercial building which allowed the direct access to the observation level via elevator--Tokyo Tower Leg Town; Maou and Ashiya were standing in front of the mirror of one of the washrooms inside the building. 

Ten minutes after Urushihara hung the phone, as though it was a prank comprising of a metal plate and static electricity, Maou and Ashiya’s hair suddenly spiked up from a weird cold air. 

“He did not contact you at all?” 

“Nope, not at all.” 

Because the two of them are not fashionable to the point that they will bring hair wax and combs with them, they are now using tap water from the washroom to style their hair. 

Especially since this was the second time in the day that Ashiya’s hair is damaged by Suzuno’s sonar, but of course these two people who did not know the situation were unaware of this fact. 

“Seriously, Emi won’t pick up her phone and we can’t find Raguel, I really can’t figure out what we came here for.” 

After ranting, both Maou and Ashiya finally got their hair into a presentable state, walked out if the building gloomily and turned to look back at the Tokyo Tower they just climbed down. 

Even though the two of them had already hung around this place for a while, the density of the people at Tokyo Tower did not show any signs of decreasing, and just as Maou and Ashiya judged that they definitely would not be able to find a person whose face they have not even seen before in this situation and started to feel helpless---- 

“……Hey, Ashiya, do you a little uneasy?” 

“Yeah……I have a bad feeling.” 

Maou and Ashiya frowned and looked at each other. Just like the earlier time when both their hair spiked up, a dizzy feeling resembling seasickness was slowly crawling up their backs. 

“Hey, what is that? Shooting star?” 

At that time, someone in the crowd looked towards the sky and shouted. Maou and Ashiya also looked towards the direction which the watching crowd pointed to. 

A shooting star was currently approaching this place from the south. 

“The light of holy magic……is that the reason for our restlessness? Don’t tell me it’s Emi?” 

Maou voiced his thoughts which were totally reasonable as a Demon King. 

“Demon King-sama, if the person herself heard you say these words, you would be killed. Moreover……” 

Ashiya gave a warning in a strange manner and pointed at the sky like the people around him. 

“The reason for our restnessness, should be what is behind that thing.” 

Even if Ashiya didn’t specially explain, Maou understood this well. 

The golden light belt behind the shooting star, seemed to be approaching in one go like it was aiming to envelope the whole Tokyo Tower. 

The light belt which approached their location from all directions with the tower as the centre, transformed into a huge halo in the sky. 

This looked like an unnatural phenomenon no matter how one thought about it, but even if this is Japan, they should not have the skills to cause this phenomenon. 

“Woah, woah, is this some kind of performance?” 

“Is it Northern Lights?” 

“How can Northern Lights appear in Tokyo! It should be fireworks right?” 

Maou focused on guarding against the chaos caused by the crowd or the appearance of an enemy, however perhaps because the appearance looked beautiful, so even if the phenomenon looked totally unnatural, not one person present felt that situation was serious. 

“Oh my, don’t tell me Gabriel messed up again?” 

“Hm?” 

In this period of time, Maou discovered someone standing near him in the crowd, saying strange words while looking at the sky, and frantically observed his surroundings. 

Then Maou discovered a man with afro hair who was wearing sunglasses, currently standing a short distance away from him. 

“Ah? You……” 

“Oh? Oh my, how coincidential, the young man from the Udon store.” 

Even though Maou was surprised by how the other party casually spoke fluent Japanese, but when he returned to his senses, Ashiya was already standing between the two of them in order to protect Maou. 

The man pushed up his sunglasses, and looked towards Ashiya and Maou. Moreover, for unknown reasons, he still had a toothpick between his teeth. 

“……Demon King-sama, please look at his eyes.” 

Because of Ashiya’s serious tone, Maou looked towards the man who pushed up his sunglasses and looked over, and found out about his eye colour---- 

“Purple, eyes……?” 

“Hm, is there something strange about my eyes?” 

The man moved the toothpick in his mouth, intentionally taking off his sunglasses and opening his eyes for them to see. 

“The Udon at this restaurant is not bad as well! And chopsticks too, this time I tried really hard to use them!” 

“Yo, you……don’t tell me……” 

Whether it’s because of anger, or because the mysterious halo was approaching this place, Maou shook with agitation. 

After observing carefully from the front, Maou discovered that the man’s afro hair wasn’t purely black, there was still especially bright purple hair, as if it had been dyed. 

“So you’re Raguel!” 

“Oh? I don’t remember telling you my name……” 

The afro haired man reacted to the name Raguel, and his eyes widened because he felt truly shocked. 

“So you were really eating on the ground flooorrrr?” 

At that instant, the approaching halo touched the antenna on the tower, and the glow surrounding the tower rained onto the ground. 

“……Oh?” 

“Hm?” 

“Oh my?” 

Maou, Ashiya and the man suspected as Raguel exclaimed at the same time. 

Once the remnants of the exploded halo reached the bottom of the Tokyo Tower where Maou and the crowd were, it instantly surged towards the two young men at the scene. 

The rain of light attacked Maou and Ashiya directly and the man with afro hair covered his face because of the accompanying impact. 

Once the two young man bathed in the light, something strange was felt within their bodies, their hair exploded towards like they wanted to compete with the afro haired man, however the two people did not even have time to look at each other in surprise---- 

the transformation occurred immediately. 

What logically should have been a whirlpool of golden light, when it hit the bodies of the two young men, it actually gave off a black glow. 

“Oooooooohhhhhh!” 

A roar absorbed all the golden light, and the black glow which exploded out and covered everything in darkness, also covered up the originally warm lights on the Tokyo Tower. 

The decorative hanging lights which looked like they were glowing, underneath the red tower which acted as the watcher of the human’s age of creation, were currently glowing in infinite darkness. 

“Since you were on the ground floor, then say so clearly from the beginning! Actually causing me to spend so much money for nothingggg!” 

Even though the demonic voice heard from the darkness was creepy enough to cause one’s blood to freeze over, but the words contained a petty hatred which did not match the weight of the voice. 

Temporarily, the whole world was covered in a green light which came from under the darkness. 

The green light covered the area around the Tokyo Tower, stopping everyone’s movements inside at the same time. 

This was the same as the Demonic barrier which appeared in Sasazuka before, even though the people within the light were objects, but they were stored outside in reality, so they could avoid being dragged into the damage caused within the barrier. 

From faraway, the barrier which rose upwards like Northern Lights, looked like it was casting a green light on the Tokyo Tower. 

All this was caused by one demon, and that demon was now giving a glare filled with strong hatred, enough to cause a human to faint with one look, towards the afro haired man. 

“I’m going to pour cola into your nose!” 

After absorbing the Demonic magic imbued into the golden halo, Demon King Satan and Demon General Alsiel, descended onto Tokyo Tower at this instant. 

“What is going on!” 

The afro haired man threw away these sunglasses, and met the other party’s gaze directly. 

“Old man Gab. Do you know that these guys are in Japan?” 

But the person he spoke too, was not the two great demons which suddenly appeared. 

“!” 

The UNxLO T-shirt which was stretched to its limit, started to split because it could not withstand the turning motion of the single horned Demon King Satan. 

“I didn’t think it would involve them, so I didn’t tell you, sorry.” 

When did that person appear in this place. 

Leisurely floating in the demonic barrier of Demon King Satan, as if he naturally wasn’t affected by the demonic magic, was the archangel who had planned to take away the child of the Demon King and the Hero---- 

It was the one which became a shooting star to chase after the light belt and came to Tokyo Tower, Gabriel. 

. 

“……Mama.” 

“……” 

“Mama……” 

Emi was hugging her knees and squatting at a corner of the observation deck at Tokyo Sky Tree. 

Even if Alas=Ramus was shaking Emi with all her might and calling her, Emi still did not react. 

Her father was still alive. 

Regarding the memories of saying goodbye five years ago. Emi had always burned the image of her father’s silhouette which stood in front of her, blurred from tears, into her heart, and turned the sadness and anger of her dead father into power to continue fighting on. 

Compared to the issues about her father, the abnormal existence of the angels could only be considered a small matter. After all, she had never treated Lucifer and Sariel as abnormal existances, this only confirmed for Emi that they were a strong power which were her enemies. 

Compared that this kind of things, her father was still alive. 

Even though this is a very happy fact, and was a hope which she had always wished for. 

But Emi’s legs shrank back and she could not move. 

The probability of Gabriel lying should be low. Because even if he lied to Emi to say that Nord was still alive, it would not bring him any advantages. 

One of ‘Heaven’s threats’ which Gabriel mentioned, could be the fact that Laila and Nord gave birth to the child Emilia, it could bring about the danger of the sacredness of Heaven and the angels decreasing. 

The reason by Heaven and angels are the object of belief and worship of the masses, is because they were abnormal existences which greatly surpassed the human imagination, if people knew that they were just humans with a different culture, their novelty would decrease drastically to the bottom. 

Even if the scale is different, the humans of Ente Isla could still use miracles which were not that different from angels. 

So if he wanted to lie, Gabriel should have said that Nord was already dead and had left the world. 

In this way, he would have no problems in twisting the image of ‘the father of Hero Emilia’. 

Even if other people revealed that Nord was just an ordinary farmer, they could explain it away by saying that he returned to Heaven or was promoted to an angel. 

And another simpler reason is, everyone would hate the person who killed their parents. The relationship between Emi and Maou weren’t considered good to begin with, if she knew about the death of her father again, it would definitely increase Emi’s hatired against “Demon King Satan”, and this would cause the two parties obstructing Heaven to kill each other. 

But Gabriel said this. 

Her father Nord still lived. 

Just this was enough for Emi to be unable to see in front of her. Emi raised her head slightly, and saw that Alas=Ramus was staring at her with a tearful expression. 

“Mama? Are you okay? Does your stomach hurt?” 

“……No, I’m alright, even though I’m alright…..” 

Emi smiled tiredly, and buried her face in her knees once again. 

“I’m just thinking what I should do next……” 

“What do you want to do?” 

Even though when Emi stepped onto the battlefield for the first time as a church knight, she was already clearly aware of her wisht to vanquish the Demon Army, her root reason was to take revenge for her father, that was the only reason. 

Even after she came to Japan, Emi and the Demon King had frequent chances to interact because of various reasons, but from the beginning to the end, she had always seen the Demon King as someone to defeat in the end. 

However---- 

“Just knowing that Dad is not dead, that guy seemed to have become an unimportant enemy……” 

Emi’s father is a farmer, even though he is very strong, but he is still not a warrior with battle training. Emi, who had fought with the Demon Army clearly knew about the demon’s power and cruelty, so after she saw the remnants of her destroyed hometown, she immediately concluded that Nord had not been captured but had died. She could not think of it differently. 

So everytime she thought that she must let the Demon King have a taste of the suffering and pain her father went through, that moment will always surface in her mind. 

So even if her father was still alive, the hatred which Emi harboured for the Demon King will not disappear. 

Even if her father was still alive, he could still be sick or injured, and this will also be unable to erase the pain or hatred caused because of the complete destruction of a peaceful life by others. 

Before becoming a Hero, as a human of Ente Isla, the destruction and tragedies spread by the Demon Army were difficult to forgive. 

However, an important gear which propelled Emi to fight the Demon King was suddenly removed by someone, and the fact that it caused the way she thought to change was undeniable. 

And as for the remaining gear, what kind of gear should it move with, she couldn’t find the answer right now. 

The local product which Gabriel left behind----the empty can ‘slightly increased polish’ currently rolled past Emi. 

After telling Emi that Nord might be in Japan, Gabriel solicited payment from her. 

In other words, it was Chiho’s current situation. 

Emi was shaken. Even though she did not want to tell anyone any information about her important friend Chiho, but undeniably, an evil temptation was hidden in her heart, which is once she told the other party about the young girl’s situation, she would be one step closer to her father. 

However, time did not give Emi any chances to hesitate. 

A huge energy passed under Emi, who was torn between her conscience and desire. 

“Oh my, this is bad.” 

Gabriel stopped showing his sly smile and drunk the coffee in his hand in one gulp. 

“Our conversation ends here. No matter what, one’s issues are more important, so let’s stop the topic here. Regarding the information I provided, just treat it as a free add on. Next time we meet, tell me something then.” 

“W,wait……” 

“Even though this might cause you some confusion.” 

Gabriel said this while showing a serious expression which did not match his style. 

She didn’t know how he did it, but she saw Gabriel directly pass through the wall and window, and when she noticed, he was already outside the observation deck. 

“Not everyone in Heaven thinks that they can do everything they want using work as an excuse. Everyone just doesn’t want to die. No matter what, we are still aware that we are worshipped angels.” 

After saying this, Gabriel flew out of the observation deck and left while chasing that mysterious huge energy. 

That energy and Gabriel were heading south. Perhaps something happened at Tokyo Tower, where Maou is at. 

However, even so, Emi did not move at all. 

Because the opponent which she should fight, the reason to fight, and the thing which she should protect, had already become one big mess. 

“……Ne, Alas=Ramus.” 

“Uu?” 

“For me, the work of a Hero is too heavy. I was originally a daughter of farming family who could be seen anywhere. If I was given an elite education from young, I might be able to defeat the Demon King directly without worrying about the small details, and have a stronger sense of duty.” 

“Mama, doesn’t like, being a Hero?” 

Alas=Ramus was probably unable to understand words which are too difficult, but strangely, even so, the young girl was able to sense what Emi was trying to express and repeated the words in a simple manner. 

“In the past, it was like that. But if I did not become the Hero, I would not be able to meet Alas=Ramus, so I don’t dislike that much now.” 

“Hee hee.” 

“Ne, Alas=Ramus.” 

“What is it?” 

“What does Alas=Ramus want to do when you grow up?” 

This question caused Alas=Ramus to blink in surprise. Just as Emi thought that the young girl who be unable to understand this kind of question---- 

“I want to be, Rilakkuma!” 

Alas=Ramus’s eyes suddenly shone, and raised both her hands as she declared this. 

As she did not expect the other party to mention a specific occupation, and that this answer was too unexpected, after Emi lasped into a short moment of silence, a warm smile appeared her face.” 

“You want to be Rilakkuma?” 

“Yeah! And, and!” 

Alas=Ramus who seemed to want to continue speaking, stretched out her body towards Emi. 

“Curry!” 

“Eh?” 

Emi felt a little confused. Because till now, she had never let Alas=Ramus eat curry. 

At the Demon Fortress, Ashiya should have paid special attention not to let Alas=Ramus to eat anything too strong tasting. So Alas=Ramus should not have any concept on whether she liked or disliked to eat curry……. 

“Because Mama likes Rilakkuma and curry the most! Alas=Ramus also likes Mama the most! So once Alas=Ramus grows up, Alas=Ramus, wants to be Rilakkuma, and curry!” 

“……I see.” 

Alas=Ramus said once she grows up, she wants to become what Emi likes the most. 

In order to hide the tears which were about to flow, she pulled Alas=Ramus close to herself and hugged her tightly. 

“Sorry, Mama, seemed to have become a little weak.” 

“Do you want to eat curry?” 

“Once Chiho nee-san recovers, let’s go eat together again.” 

“Un!” 

“Ugwah!” 

Alas=Ramus energetically raised her hands in Emi’s embrace, and hit Emi’s nose directly. 

“……This just happened to help me raise my spirits.” 

Emi, who became teary eyes for a different reason from before, finally stood up again. 

“This isn’t the first time the conclusion was delayed. Now I have to act to protect something important. Whatever happens after……can be thought about later.” 

Since it was confirmed that Raguel’s action will cause harm to Japan, Chiho and Laila, and for now, Raguel is unquestionably Emi’s enemy. 

Gabriel had said that he was here to prevent Raguel’s sonar, which was sent out from Tokyo Tower, to be affected by the testing digital waves emitted from the Tokyo Sky Tree. 

If so, then the main battlefield would definitely be the place where Maou and Ashiya were headed to, Raguel’s location----Tokyo Tower. 

If those two people planned to fight with Gabriel and Raguel, they definitely would not be able to win. 

However, even if the situation was not enough to become a battle, the danger of the ‘Demon King being brought back to Ente Isla’ which Suzuno spoke of was still present. 

“Even though I have not found an answer……if they were brought to a faraway place, I would be troubled.” 

Now wasn’t the time to worry if she would be seen by anyone on the ground. 

Just as Emi followed the path used for construction which she had entered through to walk out to the roof of the observation deck, and was focusing on the soles of her feet to prepare to fly with all her might---- 

“Now isn’t the right time. Because the area around Tokyo Tower had already been sealed by Maou-san’s demonic magic barrier. If you force yourself in, it will cause harm to the people nearby.” 

“Ugh! W, who is it?” 

Other than Emi and Alas=Ramus, there shouldn’t be anyone else at Tokyo Sky Tree. And even Alas=Ramus had already fused with Emi and entered her body. 

“But, I feel relieved with this. Everyone wants to continue staying in Japan after all.” 

A glow descended downwards from a place higher than the observation deck where Emi was currently at. 

The person who came, covered in a golden glow, said to Emi, who had became speechless when Emi saw her, 

“Let’s go together, I will help you make an opening.” 

“Chi, Chiho……your appearance is ……” 

“Let’s go, Yusa-san.” 

Chiho, whose whole body was surrounded by golden holy magic, before answering Emi’s question, had already took out a silver bow from thin air, and docked a holy magic arrow on it. 

“Uu!” 

They only saw the silver arrow getting shot into the night sky, accompanied by a strong power, and at the same time, the light track carried Chiho and Emi, who flew towards the south. 

Emi and Chiho’s figures disappeared within that beam of light, leaving a high altitude howling strong wind where they had stood.  

. 

“Oh, it looks like things have turned interesting.” 

Gabriel arrogantly looked down at the two great demons within the green glowing world. 

“I don’t feel this is interesting at all. Old man Gab, why didn’t you stay at the other tower and came here instead? What if this caused the accuracy of the next sonar to decrease!” 

With Satan and Alsiel between them, the afro haired man complained to Gabriel on the other side. 

On the back of the casually dressed afro haired man, who was wearing torn jeans and a T-shirt, a glow naturally appeared there, and wings which did not match the attire appeared. 

“Because Emilia came to interfere. But there’s no need to emit another sonar. That energy wave just now should not be caused by a normal person, that person would be found without using much effort.” 

“I say, this small thing, I would know even without you saying it! But……” 

Raguel and Gabriel’s gazes met at a certain spot. 

“No matter how I think about it, I don’t think these people would let us go so easily. Their expressions are scary.” 

“Do you think we would let you guys go?” 

The evil voice which sounded like it came from underground, emitted an aura which showed that it had more than enough power to overpower two angels. 

“You two, don’t think you can take one step out of this demonic magic barrier.” 

“……” 

Demon King Satan, and Demon General Alsiel. 

Two angels and two demons, stared at each other at Tokyo Tower which was sealed up by demonic magic. 

“Doesn’t this world basically have no demonic magic? This person is Demon King Satan right? Even though I don’t know who the person beside him is, but old man Gab, this is different from what you said that the beginning right? Hm?” 

“I apologise to you regarding this. But I didn’t lie okay. I really didn’t think that this incident will involve these people. This is all because of that thing just now. It’s beautiful right, that ‘bang’.”  

Gabriel tried to use both his hands to represent the process of the halo approaching the tower and exploding, then inserting demonic magic into Satan and Alsiel. 

“Perhaps Laila already arrived at a place which we do not know about. It should have been affected by that.” 

“Ah~ seriously, then what about it? Once the Falling is decided, it’s fine if all the Heavenly Troops are deployed to kill everyone who knows……after all, no matter what this nation becomes, it will not affect any of us at all……” 

“I won’t allow you guys to do such a thing.” 

“……” 

Gabriel glanced at Satan’s expression. But before that, Raguel had already started to make things difficult for Satan. 

“Then again, you’re really too much! Actually disgusing as a human and acting cool by speaking English, you fooled me totally! You could have just obediently ate your Udon, why must you obstruct me? Even though I heard that you guys and old man Gab had some conflict, but this time, we didn’t do anything to you guys at all right? Can you guys please stop interfering with Heaven’s issues?” 

Raguel spoke with his saliva flying horizontally. 

Seeing this, Gabriel frowned deeply and showed an embarrassed expression. 

“Uh, Raguel? I kind of know what happened, but the way you put it……” 

In that moment, a black flame flared up from behind Satan and Alsiel. 

“See……I knew that they would get angry.” 

“That meaningless internal conflict of yours, actually harmed our comrade.” 

The darkness approached step by step, while the light retreated continuously. 

“If you guys are willing to change the decree of using violence to rule the world, perhaps there is still room for discussion. I am also an intruder who attacked other countries in a plan to conquer the world. A bad guy who uses violence to force others to submit. So once I see people like you guys, I feel like giving you guys a good beating.” 

He had just finished speaking, when Satan suddenly appeared in front of Raguel, and thew a heavy punch on the side of the other party’s surprised face. 

“Woargh?” 

Raguel let out a strange cry and his whole body collided with the steel frame of the Tokyo Tower. 

“Oh, how fast……” 

“Demon King-sama, you already hit him.” 

“That side is too slow!" 

Alsiel rebuked after missing a beat, and Gabriel followed up by rebuking once more. 

“Even in the the Demon World, there is no scum who tramples on other people nonchalantly and brazenly called it justice. You should know what we normally call ourselves, Grabriel.” 

“……Probably, demon right?” 

Even though Gabriel still cautiously kept his guard up, for unknown reasons, he looked rather satisfied when he answered. 

“That’s right, we are demons. A group of scum who does bad things and harms others to survive!” 

The king of demons, Satan cheerfully declared his own sins. 

“If you don’t have the resolve to live on by carrying the burden of your sins, then don’t complain about other people! This is the world where humans are living with all their might while carrying the burdens of all their actions!” 

“……Old man Gab, in other words, they plan to fight with us?” 

“Yeah~ it seems that way.” 

It looks like whether it was Satan’s fist or lecture, it did not have any effect on Raguel, even though he did get sent flying in an exaggerated manner just now, but he looked unhurt. 

On the other hand, the steel frame which Raguel slammed against, because of the protection of Satan’s demon barrier, so just like the highway battle from before, it did not show any signs of damage. 

“Old man Gab, I’ll leave it to you.” 

“So it turned out like this after all……” 

“Of course. My job does not include fighting. Didn’t I say at the beginning that on my end, just chasing Laila is already taking up all my time?”  

After saying this, Raguel did not even wait for Gabriel to reply and flew towards the top of the Tokyo Tower. 

He planned to escape Satan’s demonic barrier. With just the current situation, compared to looking for the demonic barrier boundary surrounding the Tokyo Tower from the ground, it would be faster to look for the barrier limit in the sky above the Tokyo Tower. 

Everything which happened next occurred at lightning speed. 

Even though Raguel flew to the first observation deck in an instant, but Satan rushed behind him in a speed close to flash step, planning to attack with his fist covered in black flames. 

However Gabriel moved with a speed exceeding Satan to protect Raguel’s back, stopping Satan’s attack. Alsiel, seeing the situation, used his gaze to cast telekinesis on Gabriel. 

But unexpectedly, Gabriel actually grabbed the Demon King’s fist---- 

“Hah!” 

And broke Alsiel’s telekinesis with just the power of his eyes and aura. 

During the battle at Sasazuka in the past, the Demon General had shown his telekinesis power of freely controlling countless rocks, but the guardian angel of the Tree of Life did not perceive this power as a threat at all. 

“Didn’t I say so before? Even if it’s the fully powered Demon King Satan, you would probably not be a match for me.” 

Even if Satan planned to pull back his fist which was blocked, Gabriel tightly grabbed his fist and did not let go. 

“Oh my, business is business. Actually I don’t really want to do this, and I also feel sorry about that high school girl. Perhaps you guys will think it’s funny, but this is really important to us.” 

“!” 

 Satan, who discovered that Gabriel was currently concentrating holy magic into his hand, frantically increased the demonic magic in his body. 

“Oh, how sensitive, but it’s too late.” 

But a foreign power still broke through Satan’s demonic magic, rushing into his body. 

It was a strong sonar, and the holy magic embedded within, was much much more compared to the amount Suzuno had injected into Ashiya’s body in a half joking manner. 

Gabriel’s holy magic continuously broke through Satan’s life energy----Demonic magic, running rampant within his body. It was a skill resembling snake poison, which continually saps the energy of demons. 

Even if this attack is definitely not considered elegant, it was a power enough to cause the Demon King Satan to see stars. 

As Gabriel did not continue his attack, so Satan jumped backwards to increase the distance between them, his breathing also became very messy as if he was tolerating a strong pain. 

“Raguel, just go. As long as you go out from here, you should be able to chase traces of Laila. You can leave the two people for me to handle.” 

Gabriel pointed to the top of the demonic barrier, and Raguel started to fly upwards directly without replying. 

Since it was a barrier formed by Satan’s demonic magic, it could be broken by applying a stronger power. Even if the barrier would not shatter as a whole simply because one area is destroyed, but besides preventing the battle from affecting outside, the other purpose for Satan creating this barrier is to prevent the two angels from escaping. 

If they were held down by Gabriel here and let Raguel escape as well, they would suffer a double penalty. 

“Ashiya! Stop him!” 

Before Satan gave the command, Alsiel had already acted. Taking the opportunity when Gabriel was not paying attention, he blasted six telekinesis attacks towards Raguel from his eyes, hands and two tails at the same time. 

“Naive!” 

A gust of wind suddenly blew in front of Alsiel. 

Gabriel, who should logically still be facing Satan, had taken out a blade like weapon at an unknown time and cut Alsiel telekinesis power. 

Compared to the size of the hilt, the blade part of the sword looked obviously short, making it clear that it should have been a longsword initially. 

“Durandal……” 

Alsiel angrily spat out the name of the sword. 

It was the sword which was used by Gabriel in the legends which logically should have been shattered in one hit by the ‘Evolving Holy Sword, Better Half’ which had merged with Alas=Ramus. 

“Sigh, even though because the front is unable to regrow, so it became this half assed appearance.” 

Gabriel raised that huge sword whose blade looked like it had been snapped into two before and pointed it in the direction of Satan. 

“!” 

Because Satan felt that something was silently cutting through the air and approaching himself, he tilted his head to the side a little. 

Even though there was some distance between Gabriel and Satan, a line of blood flowed down Satan’s cheek. 

“However, only the part about its sharpness has not changed. Regardless of the kind of high quality material used by the UNIxLO you’re wearing, I believe I would be able to cut it yeah?” 

“......Then give it a try.” 

However, Alsiel did not show any fear. 

He aimed at Gabriel, using his tails and the claws on both his hands to continuously release attacks. 

“Hey, hey, that’s dangerous! I won’t care if the tips of your fingers are chopped off…...eh?” 

Gabriel, who did not want to harm Alsiel, tried to use the blade of Durandal to deflect Alsiel’s attack, but the feeling he got in return was that it was very hard. 

So Durandal’s blade could not cut it after all. 

“Oh? Oh? Ooh?” 

“......!......!......!” 

Compared to Gabriel only having one sword, Alsiel had three ways of attacking. Even though the progress is slow, but the pointed tips of the claws and tails which silently continued to attack, slowly started to skim past Gabriel’s body. 

“Ow,ow! Sh,sharp!” 

“Ashiya’s hard exterior isn’t just meant for show.” 

Satan took the chance to walk behind Gabriel, who was unable to completely ward off Alsiel’s attack. 

“Ugoh!” 

It was too late when he found out, Satan grabbed Gabriel’s head from behind using his huge hands. 

“When faced with the humans’ counterattack, who do you think was the one who held on to the end?” 

“Wah, wa, wait a moment!” 

“Ashiya…...the body of Demon General Alsiel is the hardest amongst everyone in the Demon Army, a defense specialist. Even if it’s Emi’s holy sword, it will not harm him that easily.” 

“Say your prayers!” 

“Ugoh!” 

Alsiel’s sharp claws finally captured Gabriel’s body, and pierced straight through it. Looks like even for an archangel, facing simultaneous attack and demonic magic from the Demon King and Demon General still took too much effort. 

“But, you guessed wrong.” 

However, Gabriel, who should have been stabbed in the stomach, didn’t even spill one drop of blood and disappeared like fog. 

Seeing Gabriel’s head, who was originally grasped in his hand disappear like smoke, Satan and Alsiel couldn’t help but feel confused. 

“Yours and Emilia’s fighting styles are really too straightforward.” 

A voice was heard from behind Satan. 

Without any time to turn around, Gabriel, who had appeared behind Satan, tapped Satan’s back with the base of his palm using what looked like very little force. 

“BANG!” 

“Uwooohhh!” 

Gabriel, with just that standard of attack, was able to send Satan flying, and when Satan collided with Alsiel, the power did not dissipate, causing the two of them to become one huge mess like they had somersaulted in mid air.  

“Th, this is……?” 

“Oh my, if you showed such a surprised expression, I actually will feel very troubled, it isn’t anything much after all. It is only an afterimage. Ever since cutting off Alsiel’s telekinesis towards Raguel, you were fighting against the double I created.” 

After saying this, Gabriel nonchalantly clapped his hands once.  

As if it was a signal to make popcorn, a large number of identical looking archangels which look exactly the same as Gabriel, with annoying smiles on their faces suddenly appeared. 

“Sigh, in other words, with you guys now, you are only at the standard of my double even with both of you added together. Alright, I’m saying this for your own good, let’s just leave it as that. I won’t harm you guys.” 

“……Do you think, we would really just stand down just like that……” 

Satan propped up his creaking body, and glared at Gabriel. 

“Did you, do something to Emi?” 

“Eh?” 

“You said ‘that high school girl’ just now right. Why did you know that something happened to Chi-chan?” 

“……Didn’t you say something like ‘hurt our comrade’……” 

“What I said could also refer to Urushihara or Suzuno, or even possibly Emi, why do you immediately know that it was Chi-chan, the one who looked the most unrelated.” 

“Ah, I see……that’s right, I heard it from Emilia. Yeah, I met her at Tokyo Sky Tree just now.” 

Gabriel shrugged his shoulders like he was regretting the slip of his tongue. 

“However, I only know that she lost consciousness because of Raguel’s sonar. As a result, other than that, I did not hear anything else from her at all. And I even proactively gave her so much precious information.” 

“What?” 

“Even though she may have lost her will of fight because of that information right now. However, if it really became like that, then you should thank me you know? I helped you reduce your enemies by one after all.” 

“Hey, what did you do……” 

“Hm? It’s nothing much. I only told Emilia, that her father is still alive somewhere.” 

“!” 

At that moment, what came to Satan’s mind was the figure of Hero Emilia as she waved the sword towards himself, the Demon King, in order to take revenge of her father, and the figure of Yusa Emi, who cried and lectured Maou Sadao as the archenemy who is her father’s killer even if she was covered in scratches from falling down the stairs. 

“Demon King-sama……?” 

Alsiel acutely discovered that Satan’s appearance was a little strange. 

Actually during this period of time, Alsiel already detected some signs of the root cause behind Emi’s strong animosity towards Satan, but regarding that, Satan should not have any need to feel troubled about that at all…… 

“Gabriel, you should have been told by other people many times before that you cannot read the atmosphere right?” 

“Even though I recently cultivated from someone that reading the atmosphere can only be considered as second rate……but I don’t deny that.” 

“Taking someone’s support pillar away from the side, is doing something like that very interesting?”  

“Very interesting. Oh my, it feels like you’re being concerned for your own enemy Emilia, how interesting.” 

“……Despicable bastard!” 

Even if Alsiel mumbled this, Gabriel’s smile was not shaken at all. 

“What an honour. What let me say something first, I hope she doesn’t keep sticking to the small boring thing of ‘challenging the Demon King’ and spend more time thinking about a bigger picture. For this purpose, her pillar right now is too obstructive.” 

“……?” 

Just as Satan was confused as he did not know what Gabriel was trying to express---- 

“Old man Gabbbb!” 

Raguel let out a long scream, and rushed into the battlefield from a spot higher in the sky compared to where Satan and the others are near the first observation deck. At the same time, a strong flash appeared on the peak of the Tokyo Tower. 

“Hey, we just started talking about the important part.” 

For unknown reasons, Gabriel really pouted at the voice of his own comrade Raguel. 

“Has he emitted the sonar?” 

“There’s no television here……so there’s no way to confirm……” 

As Satan and Alsiel could not match up to Gabriel at all, they could not confirm what Raguel did during this period of time. 

“Oh my, old man Gab, it’s bad!” 

“Hm?” 

“I can’t fly anymore……” 

“Ah?” 

That voice, just fell downwards directly in front of Gabriel, Satan and Alsiel. 

“““……””” 

Raguel, just like a bird shoot down by a hunter, dropped onto the roof of the first observation deck in an ugly manner. 

“It looks like you guys are alright.” 

From above where Raguel fell, a voice was heard. The group raised their heads, and saw a figure whom they, in a way, were already used to seeing. Ever since they saw an angel getting beaten down without making a sound, they have already predicted that she would appear here later. 

The red eyed, silver haired Hero Emilia, was currently looking at the two demons with a complex gaze. 

However, whether it was Satan or Alsiel, or even Gabriel, they did not look towards Emilia at all, and were staring at the person who appeared beside her. 

“Chi, Chi-chan?” 

“Sasaki-san……” 

The messy hair because of high altitude strong wind and long period of sleep, as well as the pink flower patterned pajamas with green hospital slippers. 

That young girl who was enveloped in shining glowing holy magic with a silver bow in her hand----the one who should logically still be sleeping on the bed at Saikai University Affliated Hospital, Sasaki Chiho, was currently standing shoulder to shoulder with the foreign world’s Hero at the top of Tokyo Tower. 

“Maou-san! Ashiya-san! Are both of you alright?” 

“Y,yeah? Wh, what is going on……? Chi, Chi-chan is okay, right? Wh, what can be considered to be totally fine? What happened exactly?” 

The Demon King Satan was currently very shaken, like he was demonstrating what was the definition of pathetic. 

“Demon King! We can talk about it later! Now we have to stop Raguel!” 

And the one who helped Maou, who was acting like this, to buck up, was Emilia, who was glancing at Chiho from the corner of her eye. 

“The troublesome things can all be talked about later! Now we should prioritise handling those two meddling angels!” 

After kicking the antenna, Emilia directly rushed between Gabriel and Satan, with her back facing Satan and Alsiel. 

“You revived unexpectedly quickly. Have you sorted out your feelings?” 

Gabriel asked while taking care of not being discovered by Chiho, to that, Emilia answered without any hesitiaton, 

“Because I did not understand it at all, so I just put it aside to think about it later!” 

“That’s not very good, the mindset of leaving the troublesome things for later, it feels the same as Lucifer?” 

“Even, even though I don’t really understand what is going on! Ashiya, quickly stop Raguel! I won’t make the same mistake like that time with Sariel, I am going to use the ‘gate’ to throw him to a faraway planet!” 

“Understood!” 

From the result of the previous battle, they could already confirm that Gabriel could not win against Emi. 

If so, they should leave Gabriel for her to handle, and the top priority task for Maou and the others is to stop Raguel from continuing the emission of the sonar. 

Satan and Alsiel positioned themselves in front and behind Raguel, who was getting up with shaking knees. 

Seeing the two demons, Raguel started to shout loudly, 

“What’s up with both of you! Is Laila that important? Can you not interfere in the affairs of other worlds? If you want to conquer the world, then do it, do whatever you want! To us, whether we can capture Laila or not can change the situation in Heaven! Don’t obstruct us!” 

“From what I know, that person should not be such an important angel. And she’s also not a guardian angel of the Tree of Life, she’s only a lady with a slightly higher position and a child, is there a need to get so worked up over her?” 

“I won’t be fooled by you! If I tell you guys the reason, it will only cause you to get unnecessary information. This is Heaven’s problem! Outsiders should stop interfering!” 

“That won’t do.” 

In that instant, a light arrow hit the ground beside the noisily shouting Raguel, causing a small scale explosion. 

“Ooh?” 

“Just now, that was a warning. Your actions will destroy the balance of the power of this world. Give up using sonar to investigate immediately and return to your own world!” 

At that time, Satan discovered for the first time that the ring which Chiho was wearing on the hand which held the bow was glowing. 

Raguel gritted his teeth while looking at the place which the light arrow had hit near his feet. 

“Shut up! Even though I don’t know if you’re possessing that girl or using a puppet technique, since you dare to appear in front of me, this means that your fortune has run out, and it’s time for payback! After this, as long as I chase this holy magic, my job will end!” 

“So Heaven actually bears grudges?” 

“……” 

“…….Hey, say something.” 

At times like this, unlike the usual Ashiya Shirou, the demon form Alsiel does not rebuke at all, causing Satan to feel a little lonely. 

“Siluk Eteooooo?” 

Raguel aimed at Chiho above him, planning to cast a type of spell. Even though Satan and Alsiel frantically tried to stop it, but Chiho did not move at all. 

The young girl seemed to know from the start that this would happen, and even the bow she just nocked did not move at all. 

Raguel, who had planned to recite a spell, suddenly kneeled over on the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut. 

“W, wh, wh, wha, what happened……” 

Raguel frantically looked at his own body, but he was unable to move at all, and he couldn’t even stand up. 

“Why do you think your wings vanished just now?” 

Chiho stared at the panicked Raguel, and slowly landed on the roof of the observation deck where Satan and the rest were. 

“Even though the fragment of ‘Yesod’ isn’t whole, but if it hit the body directly, it is even possible to be unable to return to being an angel again. So you better go back before things reach that point. You’re not my enemy. But a comrade from a world far, far away.” 

“Cough……gasp……” 

“Th, this is……?” 

Even Satan can see that holy magic was currently slowly leaking out of Raguel’s back. 

The flash when Emilia and Chiho appeared, should be the glow emitted when Chiho’s arrow hit Raguel’s wings. 

“Oh my……this is bad……yosh!” 

Gabriel, who was currently facing off with Emilia, once he saw Raguel’s bad state, lightly raised both his palms.  

Then a small light orb covered Gabriel, and he instantly disappeared in front of Emi. 

“?” 

Emilia tried to trace her opponent’s presence, and found out that Gabriel had already moved with a speed of what could only be called teleportation and was standing beside the fallen Raguel. 

Satan, Alsiel and Chiho naturally moved backwards, distancing themselves from Gabriel, but he did not seem to intend to harm the three people and simply stood there without moving. 

Not knowing what Gabriel was trying to do, they only saw him take off the T-shirt underneath the robe and start to spin it above his head. The half naked body with meaninglessly firm muscles only caused others much unhappiness when looking at it. 

“Surrender! We lost! We’ll give up obediently. This is a white flag okay!” 

“Ah?” 

“What, old man Gab……what are you saying?” 

Gabriel placed his hand on the head of Raguel, who planned to continue fighting even though he couldn’t even stand up. 

“What are you doing……?” 

With just that, Raguel lost consciousness like a puppet with its strings cut. 

Ignoring the frantic Emilia and the others, Gabriel reluctantly carried the unconscious Raguel over his shoulder. 

“What do you plan to do?” 

Faced with Gabriel’s mysterious actions, Emilia asked like she would just act any moment. 

“Hm, how should I say it, our chances of winning decreased greatly after Emilia appeared, and that girl seemed to have become really strong, and of all things, Raguel looked like the type that wouldn’t listen right? Even though from my point of view, I don’t want to betray Heaven no matter what, but I still don’t want to fight a battle I cannot win……and also……” 

Gabriel showed his unchanging annoying smile and raised his head to look at the floating Chiho. 

“After seeing you guys and the people of this Earth, I started to feel like seeing the old world change. So, I hope that this world can be lively for the time being. You should be thinking the same thing too right?” 

“……” 

Gabriel’s last sentence, was directed at Chiho. 

“……Sigh, it doesn’t matter if it’s like that or not, your thinking process and mine are completely different anyway. Then, regarding the information which I leaked intentionally, you guys can worry about it properly. Raguel might be angry later, but I will take responsibility and bring these guys and the Heavenly Troops back! Bye!” 

“Ah! Hey!” 

“Stop right there!” 

Before Emilia and Satan could stop him---- 

Gabriel and Raguel were covered in the light orb again, and disappeared in front of Satan, Emilia, Alsiel and Chiho. 

Even though they guarded against the possibility that the other party could attack from a blind spot, after a few seconds, the two angels did not show any signs of reappearing. 

The fact that the faintly green glowing demonic barrier which protected all the people and objects inside was perfectly unharmed, actually hurt Satan’s pride instead. 

Because the barrier was meant to prevent the two angels from escaping, and Gabriel just showed the truth that he could actually leave anytime. 

“……Actually looking down on people like that.” 

Satan, who was so angry that he gritted his teeth, tightened his fist in deep regret. 

“And in the end, we still do not know Gabriel’s purpose……even though as long as he really wanted to, he would be able to let Raguel achieve his purpose before we interfered……” 

With a frown, Emilia looked at the place where Gabriel and Raguel were at until a while ago. 

 “……There are no more enemies left and I cannot feel their presence either…..but there is another thing that caught my attention.”    

Alsiel finished speaking mildly, and Satan and Emilia followed his gaze to look at a certain location. 

“……That’s right!” 

The gazes of the three people were all focused on the remaining huge mystery, which was Chiho, who had appeared with a huge amount of power. 

The young girl’s body was filled with a huge amount of holy magic enough to be on par with Emilia, and Chiho, was logically should fall asleep by just coming in contact with demonic magic, right now, could actually nonchalantly resist the demonic magic waves emitted by Satan and Alsiel. Even though Chiho blushed frantically when she became the centre of attention, she still bowed her head and spoke in a troubled voice,  

“However, I’m sorry! It looks like there’s not much time left.” 

Regardless of actions or tone, it was the normal Chiho. 

“H,hey!” 

“Even though it looked like I was amazing enough to lecture Raguel-san and Suzuno-san, but in order to collect Maou-san and Ashiya-san’s demonic magic, we seemed to have spolit the balance of this world’s energy balance, it needs to be able to recover quickly……al, alright! I understand, right now!” 

Chiho closed her eyes and pressed her hand against her ear like she was trying to clearly hear what someone was trying to say next to her ear. 

“Wh, what did that person say?” 

“She says she doesn’t know, so she feels very troubled.” 

“She said……Chiho, the thing on your ear, is it……” 

Until now, Emilia finally realised that a black earpiece microphone was hung on Chiho’s ear. 

Chiho did not look like she was being controlled or possessed by someone. The Chiho right now was borrowing someone’s power and moving on her own will. That means, there is only one possibility of who that someone is. 

“Mum? Is it Mum?” 

Faced with Emilia’s calls, Chiho looked like she was the frantic one and quickly picked up her silver bow. 

“Maou-san, Ashiya-san, please leave the roof of the observation deck first, else it will be very dangerous!” 

“Dan,dangerous, what is that supposed to mean?” 

“Chi, Chiho! What do you plan to do! I beg you, let me borrow the phone……” 

“Uuuu……I’m sorry.” 

Faced with the different reactions from the three people, Chiho’s expression twisted because of how troubled she felt, but even so, she still lightly kicked the antenna of Tokyo Tower and flew to a higher place. 

“Chiho----!” 

“I’m sorry----!” 

The dignified look Chiho, using a voice which did not sound dignified at all, shot a silver arrow towards the antenna of the Tokyo Tower. 

“Oohh?” 

Once the silver arrow hit the antenna, changes started occurring immediately. 

The phenomenon of Maou Sadao transforming into Demon King Satan, just like a movie on playback, started to play in reverse. 

The green demonic magic barrier started to dissolve slowly, and the demonic magic on Satan and Alsiel were also taken away slowly. 

Even Emilia, who did not seem affected in terms of her power, could not withstand the flow of power from this change, and could only try her best to avoid being blow away together with it.  

“Oh!” 

“Woah!” 

After the demonic magic barrier completely disappeared, Satan and Alsiel turned back into Maou Sadao and Ashiya Shirou, collapsing on the roof of the first observation deck. 

Emilia knew, that Chiho had condensed all the demonic magic. 

The demonic magic had all gathered onto the antenna which Chiho had shot the arrow at, and then---- 

“Become tomorrow’s weather----!” 

Following Chiho’s signal, a light belt, with Tokyo Tower as the centre, flew towards the faraway sky, dying the skies of Tokyo with the colours resembling the Northern Lights. 

After the dissolving of the demonic barrier, the people on the streets raised their heads to watch the astrological spectacle which did not match the time or season. 

The fallen angel and inquisitor at the Yoyogi Docodemo Tower. 

As well as the king of the Demon World, Demon General and Holy Sword Hero at the Tokyo Tower, were all watching that beam of light. 

The normal high school girl in pajamas, smiled and slowly descended in front of Maou---- 

“Ugh! Chi-chan!” 

“Chiho!” 

“Sasaki-san!” 

Emi and Ashiya frantically rushed over. 

Because that girl, with the smile still on her face, suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed into Maou’s arms. 

“H,hey, Chi-chan, what’s wrong, are you al……eh?” 

Maou, hugging Chiho seemed to have realised something. 

As the barrier had disappeared, this high altitude location also started to blow strong and cold winds, even so, they could still clearly hear that sound. 

“……she fell asleep……” 

Chiho, who collapsed into Maou’s arms, was currently snoring steadily. 

Her expression was filled with satisfaction, causing others to completely be unable to feel the presence which completely overwhelmed the warriors from the foreign world, it was a smile like a baby’s.