Htaraku maou-sama ! Volume 6 Part 1

Hata-Maou Vol 6 translations

Vol 6 Prologue

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The scenery was a patch of hazy red sky.
“What a short life.” With young and tender thoughts, he gave up on everything.
His vision was steadily fading, as though announcing to him, who could not even move one finger, that he was going to fade away. He was not afraid of death. For someone his tender age, he did not even have the awareness to feel fear. When it comes to life span, his clan was not a short lived kind. In fact, his parents also lived for a thousand years or so.
However, in the mad typhoon of violence, there was no meaning to having a long life.
Crimson, crimson, crimson, as everything was dyed red, causing the originally crimson world to become even redder, and he was going to be swallowed up by that red color.
Even if there was no fear and no sorrow, there was only one thing he felt regarding this fate----
“……Uu.”
A deep regret. The soul currently residing in his own body, did it exist for the sake of being trampled to death by others?
Was it possible that all of his clan members lived till today, this moment, in order to die an unnatural death?
He had just become aware of ‘himself’, had just grown to be able to remember everything which ‘he’ had gone through, this life, just like the clouds breaking up in the sky, just like the wind which has stopped blowing, just like the sandstone which was currently absorbing his own blood, was going to fade away worthlessly and naturally.
Why did his soul had to descend upon this kind of place?
If the repeated birth and fading of a meaningless soul was the natural principle, then why must something like a soul inhabit his own body.
The red sky gradually dimmed.
Unlike the bright crimson blood dripping on the red earth, a transparent and mysterious thing reflected within his eyes.
In this instant, regardless of the red sky, red earth, red wind or the near dying body dyed red by him, something which was enough to push away everything controlled his soul.
The infinitely extending black sky currently had countless light spots shining in it.
Besides that, there were two particularly large round objects hanging there.
That place seems to be a place where many souls were gathered. Perhaps he will also head towards that place next.
That thing had colours which could calm others down and a charm which was difficult to describe.
That colour greatly surpassed everything which dyed him red and attracted him at the same time.
But he, who could not move his body or soul, could not stretch his hand out towards it at all. Even though the place which could allow his body and soul to rest looked so reachable.
That light which floated in the sky started to turn blur once again.
“……Sigh, but, it might not be all good things there you know? I think that in this world, there is no other term which is more suspicious than ‘Utopia’.
The scene in front of his eyes quickly turned back to red.
Even though his whole body hurt and his consciousness started fading, he still heard it clearly.
“Even though things can change easily because of different opinions, but I actually feel that the red here is very pretty.”
“……but……red, is scary.”
“Oh? Scary, scary huh! How surprising. Even though this is the first time I’ve seen a demon who can cry, I never thought there will be a demon who cries and says that the colour which covers most of the Demon World is scary.”
Since a voice was heard, that means someone was staying by his side. Even though he was going to die, lying defenseless on the ground still caused him to feel afraid.
Since he felt fear, it meant that his heart still wanted to live on, which meant his heart still hoped that his life could carry on.
With his blurred sight, he kept looking for the figure of the ‘enemy’, but unexpectedly, the strange ‘someone’ who was staring at him stood up.
That person’s build wasn’t much different from the young him, no, perhaps even thinner than him.
The ‘enemy’ whose appearance he never seen, smiled slightly and said,
“Do you want to know what the colour you saw just now was?”
Faced with the “enemy’s” question, he was unsure why but he nodded without hesitation.
At least his soul had returned sufficiently for him to nod.
Afterwards, the “enemy’s” hair, emitted a colour that was very close to the colour he wanted to know.
“This means you want to understand the world. As well as understand the other side of the red that you are so afraid of.”
In a short moment, he was enveloped by a weak glow and he felt the the pain in his body start to fade.
“What is your name?”
“……Satan.”
Even though it was a very common name, the “enemy” still nodded in an exaggerated manner.
“What a good name.”
Was it? It was the same name as the Great King who ruled over these lands a long time ago. It’s such a waste to use it on a dying child from a weak clan, it did the name no justice.
“Later, I will pass to you the knowledge needed to understand the world. This is to let you experience beauty among this blood red violence.”
After the person finished speaking, she broke into a smile and this was deeply burnt into his soul.
“The colour you saw is called……”
Vol 6 Chapter 1: The Demon King, returns to the workplace
From the outer appearance alone, it gave the impression that no huge changes were made.
But that was to be expected, even in a large scale renovations, there is no way they can carry out extreme remodelling on the building that was rented to them.
Even the outer walls which had nothing to do with the store were not repainted, and after seeing the year recorded on the building plaque, it was more difficult to hide that fact that the building was more than twenty years old.
“You have a look of disappointment on your face.”
His superior had a large shoulder bag full of documents and so on hanging off her shoulder and she said that, smiling fearlessly with her arms crossed in front of her chest. “Uh, yeah. Didn’t we specially take a break just to renovate different facilities? If that were the case, the outside should look newer, I think.” Maou Sadao asked while parking his precious steed – the bicycle Dullahan II – at the employees’ parking space like he usually does.
The Hatagaya McRonalds where he works is due to be reopened the following day.
At the current moment, the scaffolding and the netting have already been removed, and the new design of the signboard representing the new business direction which was one of the reasons for the renovation has been completed. Yet other than the fact that the shop was spreading out the glow of newness, the impression it gave is that there were no extreme changes.
But when one looks at it, the signboard which was the very image of this business gives off a very dull feeling. This is because of the location, the outside of the shop is unable to excape the effects of the dust in the atmosphere and ultraviolet rays, causing the sign to age and fade. Just based on this point, it was obvious that the red of the new signboard is more vibrant and it gives off the atmosphere of a spanking new decoration. Because the large window facing the road still has a protective plastic layer over it, there was no way to see the interior of the store clearly. But since the window frame and the location of the automatic door is the same as before, the interior decorations shouldn’t have changed much at all.
From the fact that the location of the kitchen and the entrance used by customers remained unchanged, it shows that the movements of the customers will not change too much, it can also be seen that the interior structure with the seating arrangements as the main factor did not change as well.
“About that, for the details, you can comment about them after you finished looking at everything.”
Maou’s superior----Shop Manager Kisaki Mayumi confidentally squatted in front of the automatic door, and opened the door on the lock. It looks like even the location of the lock didn’t change.
“Wait for me a bit, alright. If a special key isn’t used to disengage the security company’s security feature within 40 seconds of opening the door, an alarm will sound automatically. Uh~which one is it……this one?”
After Kisaki opened the door, she manually opened the automatic door which was not powered on and while mumbling uneasily, she pulled out a group of keys from her shoulder bag, walking into the darkened store, Maou also followed and stepped into the store.
Deep within the store, the continuous electronic sounds of the activation of the alarm equipment could be heard.
The heat of the summer had not dissipated at all, and Maou, who felt frustrated because of the heat quietly waited for that instant.
About 30 seconds later.
“!”
The lights of the store sudden turned on.
It was a light which Maou had never experienced in his daily life.
It was different from the fluorescent lights he was used to. Maou, who looked up towards the ceiling, realised that countless small lights, which resembled tiny lightbulbs, but produced a strong glow, were installed on it.
Even though every light source produced glaring strong light, but through the intersecting white light and orange lights, the illumination produced warmly and brightly lit up the whole store.
“This, is this the legendary LED illumination!”
Maou said this in surprise.
After that, all the furnishings which were lit up showed huge changes which could not be compared to before.
The synthetic leather sofas whose colour had faded with time in the past, had all been changed into a solid brown colour with a high quality leather feel.
The spinning chairs which would squeak once they knocked against the floor and was difficult to arrange, were also changed such that they were secured to the wall and had higher seating pads.
The colour of the wall which was difficult to judge if it was pink or skin toned, and became a mysterious colour with the passing of time, was also changed with yellow brick with warm flower patterns, matching with the lights and furnishings.
“So, do you still feel that your expectations were not met with this?”
Kisaki walked out from inside while spinning the keys, and Maou shook his head vigorously.
“Even though the facilities in the kitchen also changed their model, but the operation is almost the same as the old models. For the griddle, it finally changed to a triple grill surface, with this, it would be more relaxed during peak period.”
“That’s really great!”
Maou widened his eyes in surprise.
MgRonald’s hamburger is made from the bread part known as round bread and a meat part known as a meat patty, besides that the ingredients also can be separated into cheese, vegetables and sauce.
The griddle is an industrial grade metal plate which can grill both sides of the meat patty----the common name for shell style double sided griddle, even though the small scale of the store in one of the reasons, but until today, the griddle within the store only had two grilling surfaces.
As the texture and taste of the fish based and meat based patties are different for grilled types, and special sauces might even be used depending on the situation, so after making these orders, in order to prevent these tastes from mixing together, the grill needs to be cleaned first.
When facing this situation during peak periods, situations known as ‘backlog orders’, also known as ‘having to make customers wait for longer than what is needed’, and would even cause a obstacle to the smoothness of business operation within the store.
Even the presence or lack thereof of one grlling surface was enough to cause a huge difference to the work time and pressure felt.
“The washing counter seems to have become wider as well?”
“The taps have been changed to automatic.”
“Amazing!”
Maou exclaimed with feeling.
Basically, for Maou, an opening which drinkable water can immediately flow from when turned, and even the existence of taps itself, was a huge cultural shock he experienced when he came to Japan.
Forget about the five large continents of Ente Isla, even in the Demon World, there isn’t any running water which is connected to various familes and can be turned on and off at will. Basically the water channels in the Demon World, from the water source to the underground water channels, referred to the facilities within the irrigation system, and only very few exits can be opened and closed freely with demonic magic.
Maou, who felt moved just by turning a tap, ever since he came to Japan and entered a public toilet for the first time and saw facilities for automatic water dispensing, was greatly surprised just by the removal of the need to turn the tap.
But right now, he already knew that the tap which has been touched before by unspecified people was actually more unhygienic than imagined, and added to the fact that MgRonalds has a rule where everyone has to wash their hands every hour, this automatic tap can be said to be a very important existence.
“It feels like improvements have been made in various areas!”
Kisaki, with a gaze filled with kindness, watched Maou who was sparkling as he stood in front of all the new equipment.
“Sometimes I feel that Maa-kun is really simple minded in some strange areas.”
“Eh?”
“No, it’s nothing. By the way, number ten is in that corner. Together with the second floor, there are three of them.”
Number ten is the code for the toilet.
Maou, who was prompted to walk into the toilet, hesitated a little.
“What’s wrong?”
“Uh, that……something seems to be missing, did it become smaller?”
Even though there was a western style toilet bowl inside the toilet, but it was a bit different from what Maou knew about toilet bowls.
“Yep, that is the newest bidet toilet with warming seats and it doesn’t need a water canister. As well as this.”
Kisaki pointed to a panel that had many kinds of remote switches.
“You have to use that button to open the lid.”
“Ehhhhhhhhhhh?” At this moment, even Maou was shocked. Even if he could accept the existence of automated taps, but why is there a need to purposely use a remote method to lift the lid right in front of you. Perhaps Kisaki felt that Maou’s reactions were amusing and she continued to say: “By the way, if it was a guy going to do his business, he needs to use this button to lift the seat as well.”
“……Then, the ‘small’ and ‘big’ buttons here are……”
“That’s right, these are used for flushing.”
Under Kisaki’s prompting, Maou pressed the ‘small’ button, after that an amount of water with smaller flow than imagined washed the interior of the toilet bowl.
“If, if the toilet bowl at our house has this function, we might save a little on the water bills……”
Villa Rosa, Sasazuka, where the Demon Fortress was situated, was a sixty year old wooden apartment which was only a five minute walk from Sasazuka Station, and basically, the flushing handle of the Japanese style toilet did not differentiate between big and small business.
Even though flushing out smaller amounts of water during small business will damage the water tank, but even so, flushing at full power every time is really bad for the heart.
“……Erhm, is this design considered normal in this modern age?”
Maou temporarily put aside these household issues and asked Kisaki,
“Uh, even though the rather old standards at my home can’t be taken as the standard, but for most public toilets, don’t they come with a silver flush handle? With the design changed to this, wouldn’t the older customers not know how to use it?”
“……I see, it is possible. At the start, it would be best to stick some instructions inside.”
Kisaki nodded in agreement.
“Alright, the renovated portions until know can only be considered an opening act. The main point is the newly added and opened second floor.”
“Okay.”
They couldn’t keep standing around and just talk about the toilet, so Kisaki brought Maou to the stairs situated next to the cashier counter.
“What comes next should also be new territory for you, a whole new battlefield to challenge our ability. Other than me, you are the first employee of the branch in front of Hatagaya station to step on the second floor, you should remember this well.”
Maou sucked in a breath and followed Kisaki.
The two people grabbed onto the staircase railing, going up the stairs with the same colour as the tiled floors one step at a time and reached the second floor……

To the Demon King Satan who disguised as a human Maou Sadao in the foreign world Japan and depended on a salary to live, the way of living in early August was something he was not used to at all.
After ending the work at the beach house located in Choshi, Maou and the others faced another new and worrying factor.
That was signs of unstability started to appear in the situation of Ente Isla, and a separatist force from Ente Isla started to extend demonic hand towards Japan with solid action.
Taking the opportunity that these demons, Maou Sadao, Ashiya Shirou and Urushihara Hanzo have drifted to the foreign world Japan and were not in the Demon World, their ex-subordinates tried to control the Demon World on their own and rebel against the demon world entity built by Satan, creating an organization known as ‘New Demon Army’ causing the three people to increase their guard.
On the other hand, the human forces of Ente Isla----Hero Emilia a.k.a Yusa Emi, and the Inquistor Crestia Bell a.k.a Kamazuki Suzuno also chased after Maou and the others and came to Japan.
However, those two who should have the important mission of eradicating the Demon King, because the Hero’s holy weapon had merged with Alas=Ramus, who saw the Demon King as a father, they were unable to immediately decide how to deal with the Demon King because of the family issues which were caused from this.
The two of them worried that Maou and the others would be kidnapped by the new Demon Army and pushed to be the leader because the problem was solved, causing the true Demon Army to be revived in Ente Isla.
Therefore the Hero and the Inquisitor had no choice but to give protection to the Demon King living a normal daily life in Japan to prevent the Demon King from being taken away.
During this time when the already complicated relationship between the Demon King and the Hero became more complicated, the angels from Heaven caused the situation to become even more complicated once again.
In the plan they carried out in a place which is completely unrelated to Maou and Emi, they actually involved the only high school girl who knew about Ente Isla, and the Demon King and the Hero in the whole of Japan---Sasaki Chiho into the situation.
Not only was Chiho poisoned by magic because of the angels’ plan, she even got admitted to hospital because of this. For Maou and Emi, who were greatly angered by this, they decided to coorperate with each other on their own will and took action for the sake of preventing the angels from affecting Japan any further.
However, unexpectedly, during the process, it was discovered that Emi’s father, who should have been killed by the Demon Army, was still alive.
Not only that, after seeing Chiho borrowing a mysterious person’s power and actively taking action to push back the angel Raguel with their own eyes, Maou and Emi discovered that a will unknown to them or the angels was working in the shadows.
Even if Chiho smoothly recovered her health, but the situation Maou and Emi were involved in still became more and more complicated, and with this, the seasons came to the point where the hot summer air covering Japan started to show some signs of autumn, the late August after the Obon festival.
Ignoring the stormy situation from the foreign world, the MgRonalds in front of Hatagaya station where Maou Sadao works at, would reopen tomorrow……

“How should I say this, rather than saying that it no longer resembles Mags in a good way, it would be better to say that the whole space has become more refined without spoiling the casual standards of Mags!”
Even before noon, the sun had already mercilessly applied pressure, wearing a white T-shirt, work gloves and tying a towel on his head, Maou said this loudly.
“Because the road in front of the station can be seen, even though it’s only the second floor, the view is still very good. In order to prevent the sunlight from being too warm, even curtains were installed, I really look forward to working here from now on!”
“Maou-san is so cunning, actually taking a tour on your own!”
The one who expressed dissatisfaction with Maou’s excited discussion was Sasaki Chiho, wearing work gloves like Maou, a wide brimmed hat and sports attire.
[Image of Chiho pouting]
“Oh my, Chi-chan is going to start shift work immediately anyway right?”
“It’s right! But it still feels very cunning!”
As Chiho was an employee at the MgRonalds in front of Hatagaya station like Maou, she was obviously concerned with how the store was renovated.
“Also, it’s called MdCafe right? Is it any different from the normal MgRonalds?”
Maou’s trusted subordinate, Demon General Alsiel a.k.a Ashiya Shirou, asked this while using a T-shirt to wipe the large amount of sweat flowing from his head to his chin. Like Maou, he was wearing work gloves and tied a towel on his head.
“Hm, since it’s called MdCafe, there will definitely be many times of coffee! Like Café au lait, Latte or Espresso can be ordered! Previously, there was only one type, white gold roasted coffee. The other food like menu items have also added hotdogs and pastries, café like food!”
Maou said this excitedly like he was really looking forward to the work in future.
“Alsiel, don’t show your stomatch in front of Chiho-dono who came to help, it’s unsightly! Demon King should just stop talking and start working!”
The neighbour inquisitor Crestia Bell a.k.a Kamazuki Suzuno spoke and chided the two people.
She tied the sleeves of the kimono she wore normally and tied a handkerchief on her head, in her hands which had work gloves on was a broom almost as tall as her.
The four people were currently in the backyard of the apartment Villa Rosa Sasazuka where the Demon Fortress was situated.
As various cicadas frequently flew to the evergreen tree within the compound, they were surrounded by the noisy cicada calls outdoors and needed to talk very loudly in order to hear each other’s voices.
“Alright alright!”
“My, my apologies!”
Maou quickly returned back to work, while Ashiya rearranged his clothes with a red face and apologized to Chiho for his careless actions.
“It, it’s fine……I’m not bothered at all……”
Chiho, who blushed slightly, seemed to suddenly think of something and asked Maou,
“Then again……Café au lait and Latte, what is the difference?”
Maou, who was feeling excited, let out an airheaded sound,
“Uh……”
Maou raised his head like he was searching his memories and paused in his actions.
“That, Café au lait has milk added, and for Latte, milk is added……eh? Even though both of them have milk added, but I remember that Latte added milk bubbles……ohh?”
“Simply put, both types are coffee milk right? Rather than thinking now, wouldn’t it be better to move your hands!”
“Coffee milk……wrong, if it’s like that, then it won’t resemble a café anymore, it’s not a bath house……ah~I want to take a bath……”
Maou, who grew frantic because of Suzuno’s rebuke, started to feel concerned about himself sweating heavily, and decided to go to the bath house after the work was done.
Maou, Ashiya, Suzuno and Chiho were currently cleaning up the backyard of Villa Rosa Sasazuka.
Originally, cleaning the apartment’s surroundings was not the job the tenants Maou and Suzuno, and as for Chiho, who didn’t even live there, she was even more unrelated.
However, if there was payment, it was another issue.
As usual, the job this time was also because of the letter sent by the landlady who became more mysterious because of the existence of a mysterious relative.
In order to fix the huge hole caused by other people in the wall of the Demon Fortress, the landlady used her authority to request the tenants to temporarily move out of Villa Rosa Sasazuka. Even though the notice specified that the rent for the few days which they could not live there would be deducted, but in reality, Maou and the others and Suzuno only left the apartment for around four days.
Originally, it would be alright to just take away those four days of rent, but the landlady Miki, even though she had an abnormal appearance, relatives and mysteries, she was strangely honest in strange aspects.
“Even though it was a job requested by my side, but the promise was broken because of my niece’s personal issues, I am really apologetic about this.”
Simply put, she wanted to apologise for the shortened work time for everyone at the beach house ‘Ooguroya’.
In addition, as a replacement, she hopes that Maou and the others could clean up the Villa Rosa Sasazuka backyard which could not be done during the summer, and from this, increase the rental waiver to complement the decreased payment.
According to the contents of the letter, as long as they are willing to help with the cleaning, the rent for August can be reduced by 15,000 yen to 30,000 yen. With regards to this content, Maou and Ashiya naturally raised their hands in approval without any conditions.
After all, just the income at the beach house had already caused them to fall short of their original target income, and a few days ago, they spent a large amount of money on the television.
Even though Maou had already supplemented the shortfall, but since they would be able to reduce their rent, there was definitely no reason to reject it.
However for the inhabitant in the other room, Suzuno, even though she had no interest in the reduction of rent----
“Cleaning the surroundings around the home originally should be the job of us inhabitants.”
But she still accepted this job after saying this sentence.
Since this was an issue with money involved, Maou and Suzuno still visited the housing agent as representatives to the rooms to accept the job, and the work day was set as the day before Maou returned to MgRonalds, which was today.
However, strangely, on the day itself, someone who should be a tenant was missing, and conversely Chiho, who is not even a tenant, was pulling grass and picking up stones with Maou and the others, energetically cleaning the surroundings.
The backyard, which would only be paid attention to when parking the bicycle, perhaps because of the long term neglect, not only have the weeds flourished till they grew to the height of Maou’s knee, once the grass is parted, the interior side of the wall facing the road is also covered in PET bottles and empty cans which should have been thrown from outside.
Just as Ashiya tied up the garbage bag filled with these things----
“Café au lait is a French word, while Latte is Italian. The broad meaning for these two is ‘coffee millk’, regardless of which type, it is half coffee and half milk, but normally, the coffee used for the base of Latte is Espresso!”
Maou turned his head because someone answered his question from the chat under the sun from a completely urelated direction.
“If you want to boast that you’re working in a café, at least prepare until you can immediately answer these standards of questions, right?”
The person over there, frowning because of the swealtering hot weather and looking at the four people was Hero Emilia a.k.a Yusa Emi, and----
“Papa!”
Being carried in Emi’s arms, who unaffectedly smiled even under the heat which would intimidate adults, was the young girl, Alas=Ramus.
“Ah, Alas=Ramus!”
Maou walked towards Emi and Alas=Ramus, who were sheltering from the sun rays under the tree where the colony of cicadas were, however----
“Hey! Alas=Ramus just got new clothes, don’t cause her to get dirty!”
Once Emi saw Maou wearing dirt covered work gloves and a wet T-shirt because of all the sweat, she frantically put some distance between him and Alas=Ramus.
“Ohh, sorry, sorry.”
Maou, who extremely adored Alas=Ramus, who saw him as “Papa”, honestly backed off upon Emi’s reminder.
“Yusa-san, hello!”
“Emilia, my apologies, is it time already?”
Chiho and Suzuno greeted Emi respectively, Emi also raised her hand and replied,
“Not yet, I just came a little earlier……but, why is Chiho pulling grass?”
Emi enquired in a loud voice not losing to the calls of the cicadas and glared at Maou and Ashiya.
“Even though I’m not to clear about the situation, but aren’t you guys too reliant on Chiho recently? Why is one person missing? Don’t tell me he went to slack off after letting Chiho help?”
Obviously, the person Emi mentioned, was another inhabitant of the Demon Fortress Fallen Angel Lucifer a.k.a Urushihara Hanzo.
With regards to Urushihara who normally lived a lazy life and did not hide his NEET personality, thinking that he was slacking because he was not present was normal behavior, however----
“From an objective standpoint, Lucifer definitely cannot be considered to be slacking.”
Unexpectedly, the person who replied with a strict voice is not Maou or Ashiya, but Suzuno.
“It’s just that he is of no use.”
“Eh?”
“Urushihara-san got heat stroke.”
Noticing Suzuno’s tone, Chiho said this with a wry smile.
“That guy, not even 30 minutes after he started working, collapsed. Because it’s troublesome if he died, I let him go back to the room to get blown by the electric fan and get some rest.”
Ashiya answered with a similar displeased tone and looked towards the window of the Demon Fortress on the second floor.
Even though Emi followed Ashiya to look towards the second floor, but for the fallen angel who almost ruined a whole continent to be so useless to collapse from heat stroke, she could only feel stunned.
“But even then, you shouldn’t let Chiho help.”
“Ah, I’m alright with it.”
Chiho, whose face was red from the heat, replied with a wave of her hand.
“I came to help voluntarily, also……”
While speaking, Chiho peeked at Suzuno’s face.
“With just this small thing, it’s not enough as a repayment at all.”
“Repayment?”
Maou and Ashiya were confused because of the term which did not fit the current situation.
“About this, did Emi and Chi-chan come for something today? Uh, even though I’m thankful that Chi-chan could come and help.”
Chiho seemed to arrive at the same time Maou reached home. From how she prepared the hat and work gloves beforehand, she should have heard about today from Suzuno.
Now since even Emi came, it really made Maou feel suspicious.
““……””
However, Emi and Suzuno looked at each other with complex expressions and did not say anything.
“Now……it’s still a secret!”
As for Chiho, she replied in this manner.
“It a secret. Shh~”
It wasn’t known how much Alas=Ramus actually knew.
“Alright! Letting Yusa-san and Alas=Ramus-chan wait isn’t good, I’m going to do my best!”
Chiho, who forcefully ended the topic, picked up the other broom propped up against the wall, and started to flatten the soil which turned bumpy after the grass was pulled out.
Even though Maou looked towards Chiho, more doubtful than before----
“Hey, Demon King! Alsiel!”
But he still regained his wits with Suzuno’s scolding and with Ashiya, slowly participated in the cleaning up activity.
In short, in the backyard of the apartment in the corner of the town, an inquisitor, high school girl, Demon King and Demon General were pulling out grass together under the sun.
Emi, who watched this scene in the shade of the tree----
“Actually……”
“Mama?”
With a volume such that the baby in her arms couldn’t hear, she spoke to herself amongst the calls of the cicadas,
“If I could just directly take the chance now and attack him from behind, who knows how easy it would be……sigh.”
Her sights were focused on that back which wore a white T-shirt, which had completely changed colour due to the sweat and dirt.
“I didn’t expect that there would be a bath house here. Even though it is so close to home, I didn’t know about it at all.”
Chiho looked at that building and said in awe.
About ten minutes walk away from Villa Rosa Sasazuka was a bath house which the inhabitants of the Demon Fortress go frequently, Sasa no Yu.
Even though it looks like a normal multi-tenant commercial building from the outside, not only was the nostalgic classic bath scenery preserved within, even the wall mural of Mount Fuji is still present.
On the other hand, there were also many types of bathing pools here, and other things like providing value of money return coupons, the mixed gender rest and waiting room with milk vending machines installed in front of the counter, as well as the selling of original products including soap and other special characteristics, showed signs of the strong businessman personality of the business owner for attracting new customers.
“The business hours here is very long, not only do they open very early in the morning, even when working until the last shift at night, one can still barely make it.”
Maou, who changed into a shirt from this plucking grass attire, explained as he carried his bathing items.
“Not only does Sasa no Yu have different types of bathing pools, there are also standing shower cubicles, so it’s very suitable for today’s Chiho-dono. As Chiho-dono came to help with cleaning up, of course, I will pay for her portion.”
For unknown reasons, Suzuno said this with a gratified look on her face.
“Why do you need to specially emphasise ‘today’s Chi-chan’ and ‘shower’?”
From Suzuno’s roundabout way of speaking, Maou sensed something wasn’t right and therefore asked this.
“Alright alright, there’s no need to care about it so much, let’s go in quickly.”
“Bath, play water!”
However, Emi forcefully interrupted from behind, pushing Chiho and Suzuno into the female bath.
Eve though Maou did not particularly mind Emi joining in when she came over in the middle of cleaning, but the problem was that Emi had nonchalantly prepared to go to the bath house.
Other than Emi’s commonly used shoulder bag, she even brought a plastic bag containing Alas=Ramus’s towel and change of clothes. From this, it can be seen that Emi and Alas=Ramus were prepared to enter the bath house together.
Since Chiho and Suzuno had already predicted that Emi would come during the cleaning, perhaps these few females had originally planned to go out together.
But enquiring about this would be too insensitive.
“Hey, Urushihara, we’re here already. Stand properly, you always trouble others sheesh……”
“Ah……I still feel dizzy.”
Urushihara, whose heat stroke symptoms have already abated slightly, was currently shakily following behind the group with Ashiya’s support.
Even though Urushihara barely did any work, but it would still be troubling if he died in the room when everyone went bathing. As long as he replenished fluids and took a cold bath, he should be able to recover.
“Sigh, I don’t know what all of you are planning, but remember to act within reason.”
Just as Maou reminded Emi and the rest, he was planning to take out the return coupon from his own bathing items----
“You’re really relaxed.”
He heard Emi mumble this.
Maou turned back on reflex, but the person who spoke acted as if he didn’t hear at all, and did not even look in his direction.
“Isn’t Papa bathing together?”
On the other hand, no one knew what was up with Alas=Ramus, she actually looked over Emi’s shoulder and gave Maou an enthusiastic gaze.
“Eh?”
“Ah?”
To this, Emi and Maou let out confused noises at the same time.
“Papa and Mama, are going to different bathrooms?”
““Eh?””
This question which can be said to be too innocent even for an innocent question, caused everyone present to freeze.
“Uh, that, Alas=Ramus. Alas=Ramus must be with Mama and the other girls……”
Maou, who finally was the one who recovered first, answered with a stiff smile and soft voice.
“Yeah! Papa as well!”
But Alas=Ramus still wouldn’t give up.
“That, that is, Alas=Ramus-chan, Papa and Mama can’t bath together, okay?”
Chiho tried to dissuade in Emi’s place, who was frozen in place.
“But, when I’m here, I bathed together with Papa! Alsiel and Lucifer were there as well!”
Alas=Ramus stubbornly refused to back down.
“Alas=Ramus, adult men and women need to go to different bath rooms. Don’t cause trouble to Papa and Mama, alright.”
Even though Suzuno also tried to persuade and guide, but Alas=Ramus still pouted and mumbled,
“Bathe……together with Papa……”
And she even had her head bowed and it looked like she might start crying any moment.
“……Did you bring Alas=Ramus here before?”
Emi finally opened her mouth and asked Maou this.
“Yeah, when Alas=Ramus was still staying with us……because here, we can choose between warm or hot water.”
Before merging with Emi’s holy sword, in the short period when Alas=Ramus lived in the Demon Fortress, Maou and the others had brought her to Sasa no Yu before.
Even though Maou was the one who brought her along, but when work became busy, Ashiya will be asked to do so instead. Because they also occasionally asked Suzuno, so Alas=Ramus should have an impression of the men and women’s baths.
“Alas=Ramus-chan should want to bathe with Maou-san after a long time right?”
Chiho looked towards Alas=Ramus who prused her lips with eyes which were becoming moist, and Emi also sighed due to this.
“Is that so?”
“……Uu.”
Alas=Ramus rubbed her eyes and nodded.
“Ne, Alas=Ramus.”
“Together……with Papa.”
Maou used an even tone to stop the girl’s tears, which were threatening to spill.
“Do you normally bathe with Mama?”
“……Un.”
“Is that so, then today, try to tolerate not bathing with Mama, and switch to bathing with Papa.”
“Together with Papa?”
“……”
In order to meet Alas=Ramus’s eyes, Maou knelt down, as for Emi, she watched this scene silently with a frown.
“After moving to Mama’s house, did you learn to wash your body by yourself?”
“Uu……un. I can wash on my own too.”
“I see, that’s amazing. Then how about washing your hair?”
“I don’t know.”
The girl replied honestly, Alas=Ramus’s hair was very long, so it should be a long time before she learnt to wash her hair on her own, Maou patted Alas=Ramus’s head and said,
“Then let us practice secretly, and give Mama a shock.”
“……Uu, practice, together!”
After Alas=Ramus, who finally stopped her tears said this, she tilted her head to look at Emi in an embarrassed manner.
“It’s a secret okay?”
“……”
“Don’t show that expression. Believe me, no matter what I also helped her bathe for a period of time.”
This sentence was directed towards Emi.
“It’s no use reasoning with a crying child right, don’t you have something else to do later? If so, during the time when you ladies are busy, it should be alright for me to take care of her right?”
“……”
Emi looked at Maou and Alas=Ramus’s eyes in turn. As for Chiho and Suzuno, they looked at this scene worriedly from behind.
“……In this area, it’s not as if I don’t trust you……”
“Ah?”
Emi seemed to glare at Maou as she spoke, but Maou did not clearly hear what Emi was mumbling.
Emi looked at the hand Maou stretched towards herself with a frown.
“Mama, no?”
And then she shrugged her shoulders like she gave up everything because of this sentence.
“Don’t look at me at that gaze, seriously……”
Making Alas=Ramus sad was not Emi’s intention.
“……Then, I’ll leave it to you.”
“Eh?”
“Eh?” “Eh?”
“Eh?”
“Eh?”
“…...Eh?”
Everyone other than Emi, including Maou who proposed to take care of Alas=Ramus, all let out sounds of confusion, so even Emi herself also became confused because of the five consecutive sounds of confusion.
“What, what’s up with everyone……”
Even if she was very confused, but Emi still handed Alas=Ramus over to Maou, who was frozen to the spot with his arms stretched out.
“Together with Papa!”
“……”
“Papa?”
“Emi, you……”
“What?”
While using one arm to securely hug Alas=Ramus, Maou subconsciously reached the other hand towards Emi’s forehead.
“Hey!”
“Ah!”
This time it wasn’t just Emi, even Chiho who saw this scene from the side couldn’t help but cry out.
“Actually saying you’ll leave it to me, isn’t that being too honest? Do you have a fever?”
“How, how is that possible! Don’t touch me, okay!
Emi mercilessly pushed Maou’s hand away, just from this, she didn’t seem any different from usual.
“Su, Su, Su, Su, Suzuno-san, did, did you see that?”
“I, I saw. Clearly.”
But Chiho and Suzuno still stood close to each other and discussed with each other in surprise from behind.
“Damn Emilia……you can’t be planning anything bad right.”
“……”
Ashiya and Urushihara also felt surprise at Emi’s behaviour.
But this is expected, if it was the Emi a short time ago, she would not even have allowed Maou to touch her.
Even though till now, even if the two people who are enemies leisurely go to the bath together, it was also difficult to imagine that they would do sneak attacks to each other related to matters of life and death, however not only did Emi say “I’ll leave it to you” to Maou, she didn’t even react before she was touched by Maou, this could be said to be an unprecedented situation.
Maou also discovered the unmatching feeling in the surroundings.
He recalled that when he tried to help Emi treat her wounds, he was also rejected clearly.
“What, what’s up with everyone……did I act strangely anywhere?”
This was no longer an issue of what is strange.
Not only that, Emi actually used the word ‘everyone’ when she spoke, from Chiho’s point of view, it was also an surprising situation.
The Emi until now, even when she had no choice but to work with Maou and the others in order to handle the situation, she would definitely not include Maou, Ashiya and Urushihara as people who are related to her, which means she would not treat them as ‘everyone which includes herself’.
To Emi, ‘us’ should refer to Suzuno as well as the humans in Ente Isla and Japan, and as for Maou and the Demons as well as the angels who are against Emi, they should have been categorized as ‘them’ on the other side.
“It’s not strange at all.”
“Chiho-dono?”
Chiho replied with a warm smile to Emi, who looked strange no matter how one looked at her, causing Suzuno to get another shock.
“Maou-san, I’m sorry, Yusa-san and I still have to settle some things. During this period of time, we’ll need to trouble you to take care of Alas=Ramus-chan.”
“Ye, yeah……le, leave it to me?”
For unknown reasons, Maou actually answered with a question.
“Then Alas=Ramus-chan, see you later.”
“See you later!”
Chiho waved to Alas=Ramus, and the girl raised her small arm in reply.
Maou, who waved his hand with her on reflex, watched the female members, who looked rather strange, disappear into the female bath.
Once the door was locked, Maou and Ashiya couldn’t help but look at each other.
“What was that just now?”
“This is what is called ghosts will also get cholera, and that even the healthiest people can also get sick.”
“Ashiya, that sentence shouldn’t be used that way right. Sigh, but with regards to it possibly being a fever, perhaps it is considered correct.”
Even though he was pale, but Urushihara, who seemed to finally recover to a normal state, still rebuked Ashiya.
“……Don’t tell me, she is still bothered by that incident before.”
Maou mumbled in a low voice.
That incident refers to the the incident in early August caused by the two angels making use of the television waves, at that time Emi seemed to find out the truth closely related to her reason for becoming the Hero from Archangel Gabriel’s mouth.
Emi’s father, who she thought had died in the invasion of the Demon Army, was actually still alive.
To Emi, who called Maou her father’s killer in his face, her feelings must be very complicated.
Even though Maou did not have any obligations to be particularly concerned for Emi because of this, but he was still suddenly curious if Chiho told Emi about the truth she knew after that.
During that incident, Chiho suddenly received a strong power from a third party who did not want to show their face, as well as a message left for Maou and Emi.
Chiho had not mentioned if she had already told that message to Emi, and Emi would naturally not take the initiative to declare it, therefore Maou did not intentionally ask about it.
But from the minute changes in Emi’s attitude, perhaps the reason was from that incident.
“Even so, her attitude towards us shouldn’t soften up at all.”
As Ashiya was also present at that time, he roughly knew what ‘the incident before’ Maou mentioned referred to.
“……Eh, if something is really wrong, I’ll look for Chi-chan for confirmation later.”
After Maou handed the return voucher and Alas=Ramus’s entrance fee to the lady boss of Sasa no Yu, who was over 80 years old this year, at the counter, Madam Murata Fu, he walked towards the changing rooms of the men’s bath.
“Maou-kun.”
“Hm? Madam Fu, is something wrong?”
Madam Fu, who normally didn’t speak much, suddenly struck a conversation with Maou from behind.
“Is that your wife?”
Madam Fu gestured in the direction of the woman’s bath with her chin. Maou shook his head with a wry smile and answered,
“Even though she is this child’s mother, but she is not my wife.”
“……Hm, it’s good as long as the young child can smile happily.”
Even though it wasn’t known what Madam Fu thought, but after that she did not speak anymore and closed her eyes like she was listening to the broadcast program playing from behind the counter.
Madam Fu would also talk to other people occasionally, but all of them were roughly this kind of content.
Maou carried Alas=Ramus once more, and said enthusiastically,
“Alright, Alas=Ramus! Let’s go bathe!”
“Oh!”
“Ah~ I’m really dizzy, don’t shout so loudly.”
“Urushihara, you better not soak in the hot bath, else it would be troublesome going back.”
The father, daughter and main servant who looked like they did not have much worries, entered the men’s bath in a leisurely manner.

“Wah! Don’t tell me we’re the first batch of customers?”
Once they entered the changing room, which was bigger than what it looked like from the outside, Chiho cheered because there wasn’t anyone to be seen.
“That’s true. After all, not many people will think of taking a good bath in the middle of the day. This is really ideal for us.”
Suzuno picked up the stacked clothes basket with practiced movments and quickly took up a space in the clothes cabinet.
“Even though there really isn’t anyone on this side, but is it alright on the men’s side?”
Emi pointed towards the wall facing the men’s bath, and asked this to the relaxed Suzuno.
“There shouldn’t be any problem. Even though we need to decide according to Chiho-dono’s condition, but it’s alright as long as we act according to the situation. After all……”
Suzuno looked towards Chiho with a wry smile.
“Since it has something to do with Chiho-dono, it’s not possible to continue hiding it from the Demon King and the others. Therefore, making it an established fact first, and letting them confirm things subsequently would be less troublesome. They’re not idiots as well, and would be able to understand after a good talk.”
Even though Emi is asking this in a rather serious manner, Suzuno seemed not too concerned, and immediately started to take off her kimono.
“Er, erhm……Suzuno-san, Yusa-san, I’ll be in your hands today!”
Chiho inexplanably bowed nervously.
Even though they came to the bath house to get rid of the tiredness from work, why is she being so nervous.
After Chiho looked at the two people with an extremely serious gaze, she stood next to Suzuno and also started to change.
In Emi’s position, since the other party had already showed such a respectful attitude, it wasn’t good for her to take any more defensive measures.
“……they would be able to understand, after a good talk huh……”
Emi suddenly glanced at her right hand, which had been carrying Alas=Ramus until just now.
“It feels like, I seem to be an idiot……”
“……Erhm, Yusa-san?”
Chiho stopped her actions of taking of her sports attire, and looked at Emi worriedly.
“Is, is it not alright……after all?”
Then she asked this kind of question.
Emi immediately shook her head and said,
“I’m sorry, it’s not like that, it’s a problem with me. If I’m not alright with it, I’m wouldn’t have came here in the first place, and would not be brought that thing over as well.
Emi quickly kept her worried expression, intentionally replied cheerfully, and took a certain something from inside her shoulder bag.
Just from the appearance, that thing looked like a small bottle used to contain energy drinks which could be seen anywhere.
But the condensed product inside was something which logically could not exist on Earth.
“Chiho, this is the source of our power in Japan, Holy Vitaminβ.
Chiho gripped the small bottle which Emi passed to her and nodded in a serious manner.
“Since you want to learn, and Bell and I will treat this seriously, it’s alright to proceed like this right?”
“Yes!”
Chiho answered powerfully.
“Even though we don’t know what Bell plans to do in the bath, we’ll start Chiho’s spell training.”
The cause of this, can be traced to the day after Gabriel and Raguel were pushed back, also the day before Chiho was discharged from hospital.
On that day, Emi visited Chiho after work.
Even though the various tests showed that the body was very healthy, but from Japan’s common sense, Chiho had fallen unconscious because of unknown reasons.
“I feel that this is really a bit too exaggerated.”
“Every patient admitted to hospital says this. No matter what, you still pushed yourself in the end, so you better rest obediently.”
Emi sternly advised Chiho who felt dissatisfied because she could not be discharged immediately.
The power Chiho showed at Docodemo Tower, and the two places Sky Tree and Tokyo Tower, was not something she could have achieved in one day and night no matter how one looked at it.
Even though Emi had a mountain of questions to ask Chiho regarding this point, Chiho could only give the same explanation she gave when answering Maou.
In other words, it was things about how she received this abnormal power, what she talked about to the person at the time and what she did before she met Emi.
And as for the person who lent Chiho that power----
“So in the end, I still don’t know anything……”
Even though Chiho tilted her head upwards to look at Emi from her bed with a guilty look on her face, Emi only shook her head and said,
“No, thank you. This information is a good reference.”
“……Is, is that so? Ah, also, that person left a message for Yusa-san……or rather, it is something which must be told to you.”
“Why is it so vague, and what does it mean by saying it must be told to me?”
“That is……because there are other things which have to do with Maou-san……”
Chiho started to talk about the memories in her brain, other than memories which definitely do not belong to her, and that it was memories about Maou when he was young----
“That is, it feels like I need to tell Yusa-san……”
there were still remnants of other memories.
“I saw a man with large build. That person grew a beard, and tied his not so long hair slightly to the back, he was dressed like a medival European farmer, besides that his eyes are very thin and he looks like a kind person. Even though I don’t know the location, but from there, it’s seems like the golden rice shining under the sunlight can be seen……”
“!”
Emi’s heart beat once furiously.
“E, erhm……it shouldn’t be rice, but wheat right? Rice would sag downwards during harvest time, but wheat normally maintains their straight position.”
“Then, perhaps it is like that. But the background is a little blurry……that uncle is holding a sword, and facing me……or rather he is facing my direction and speaking.”
“Eh? Sword?”
Emi’s heartbeat started to thunder in worry.
“Sword? Is that true?”
“Yeah, that is correct.”
Even though Chiho was confused, not knowing what Emi was concerned about, but she still continued,
“But……actually that is all there is to it. These are the only images in my memory, after that there is……”
Chiho said to Emi, who found it difficult to hide her disappointment because of the lack of information,
“Acies Ara.”
“……what?”
“Acies Ara. That man only said this.”
“Acies Ara? Acies……is it central trading language? I’ll ask Bell about it later.”
Emi committed the unfamiliar pronounciation to her memory.
“I feel that I only must tell Yusa-san this……even though I was the one who said it, but in fact, I don’t know what that means……”
Emi looked at the uneasy Chiho and thought for a bit.
Even though it was difficult to confirm because Chiho did not see the lady in the white dress at Tokyo Dome City, but there was a 8 in 10 chance that it was that person.
Even though it wasn’t known what the person was planning to hide her own identity, but handing the ‘Yesod’ fragment to Chiho with a reason, and controlling a large amount of holy magic; and without considering Urushihara, but opposing Gabriel and Raguel; even entrusting the memory of the man with the wheat background to Chiho, there was only one person.
“Thank you for telling me these things, they’re a very valuable reference.
Emi tried to show a smile---- ‘tried’ to show a smile.
“……That, that is, Yusa-san?”
“Hm? What is it?”
Faced with Chiho’s calls, Emi originally wanted to show a more cheerful smile, but Chiho shrank back in fright for unknown reasons.
“Are, are you very angry?”
“Eh?”
“Uh, that, I’m sorry. Even though I have already apologized to Maou-san as well, actually running to the battlefield without going through any training, erhm, it must have caused all of you a lot of trouble, but, how should I put it, I’m sorry, I caused all of you to worry, er……”
Even though she was tearing up, but Chiho still frantically apologized continuously.
Emi placed her hand on her forehead in reflex.
“……Have I showed everything?”
“You’re angry after all!”
Once she heard Emi say this, Chiho became even more afraid.
“I’m sorry, But, I’m not angry at Chiho.”
“……eh?”
Emi, who finally let herself recover her normal expression, after letting Chiho calm down, she sighed deeply.
“Even though this should be considered a worn way of though in Japan, but unlike how I appear to be, I actually think that children should show respect to their parents. On some level, they should do so without any conditions.”
“Uh, yeah, I feel that it is still rather reasonable……”
“It’s not because the parents help the children prepare food, provide a safe home or provide young children with an education yeah. I feel that the older one gets, the more they can appreciate how precious their parents or from their heart.”
“Y,yeah……”
Because she did not know what Emi suddenly wanted to express, Chiho could only nod continuously.
“……But……after all, don’t you think everything should have a limit?”
“Wha, what is that supposed to mean……”
Emi showed a dark smile. Even though it was a beautiful smile, but it actually caused Chiho to feel more terrified.
“Not knowing where she is wandering, spreading the embers of problems everywhere, and in the end, not only did she leaving the cleaning up of the mess to other people, she even scared the friend of her own child, leaving pointless rumours behind, did not say anything about the really important thing, and in the end, continuously caused trouble to the people of a completely different world……I really had enough!”
“Yu, Yusa-san, please, please lower your volume a little……”
It wasn’t known what happened with the Hero from the foreign world, she actually grasped her head with both heads and shook her head roughly, and Chiho, who tried to calm Emi down, spoke to remind her while carefully paying attention to her surroundings.
“……why……even though she is watching from the sidelines, why hasn’t she come to find me yet……”
But after hearing the words from Emi, who suddenly squatted down with her head in her hands, Chiho froze.
Because that sentence contained a difficult to conceal loneliness.
“……I’m sorry, I was a bit too worked up.”
“……No……erhm.”
Chiho, who did not know how to reply, lowered her head in awkwardness.
“I’m sorry, logically, I shouldn’t be ranting to you about these things.”
Emi exhaled deeply to calm herself down, and picked up the paper bag next to her feet.
“This is a visiting gift. But because Alas=Ramus was the one who recommended it, so it doesn’t really match.”
From the paper bag, Emi took out salad Senbei from a high end dessert store. Seeing this, Chiho’s expression relaxed.
By the way, even though Alas=Ramus was unfortunately continuously awake in Emi’s mind when she was at work, she was taking a nap right now, so as a result, she is in a merged status with Emi like now.
“But thank you, thanks to Chiho, I finally understood many things. In addition, you look like you’re in good spirits, so I should be able to rest easy for now.”
Emi changed the topic, and Chiho also hugged the bag containing the salad Senbei, nodding her head lightly in reply.
“Erhm, Yusa-san!”
“Hm?”
“This time, I’m really sorry. Actually doing such things so frivolously…...”
“It’s alright already. After all, not only is Chiho safe and sound, it’s not as if you weren’t any help at all……”
Just as Emi saw that Chiho, in a rare action, was continuously apologizing for something which was already resolved, and planned to tell her not to mind----
“That’s it!”
She immediately became stunned from fright because of Chiho’s tone becoming stronger.
“Even though I am safe and sound this time, but if something happens again next time, it difficult to guarantee that there will be no casualties.”
“What, what are you trying to say?”
Emi had a bad feeling from this dangerous atmosphere, and Chiho spoke while looking towards the ring on her left hand,
“Now, that power has disappeared completely. If I jumped out of the hospital window now, I would probably die. After all, this is the third floor.”
Even though the problem shouldn’t lie here, Emi still decided to continue listening quietly.
“That……is it called holy magic? Maou-san told me before that I got a backlash of magic poisoning because I do not have a large enough capacity for this, so that power will definitely not become mine, it is really something which someone else temporarily lent to me.”
Emi’s bad feeling became worse.
“However, since Gabriel-san and Raguel-san have already took that standard of action, under these circumstances, if something happens again, I’m afraid it will not be a problem which can be solved by telling me not to go near Maou-san’s apartment……”
“Stop! Stop! Wait a moment, wait a moment! I knew that you would say something like this!”
Emi pressed her hand against her temple and exclaimed,
“Let me guess what you want to say next! Is it ‘so please teach me spells I can use to defend myself’?”
“Eh? W, why?”
Chiho’s eyes widened in shock like someone hit the nail on the head, but to Emi, it wasn’t a difficult thing to guess Chiho’s thoughts.
“Chiho, you said so yourself just now right? That power is borrowed, and not a power that you can use originally. If you treat spells as a convenient magic, it would be troubling. Regardless of defense or battle spells, long periods of training on the spirit, technique and body need to be done, it’s a technique which comes with danger.”
To convince the articulate Chiho, the only way is to strike preemptively. Emi immediately spoke fluently,
“Since your father is a policeman, then you should understand as well right? Even if a high school student without any training was suddenly given a pistol, forget about ‘battling’, you can’t even protect yourself. It’s the same even if you have to knowledge of operating a pistol. A so-called ‘battle’, there will be situations where the opponent, without any restrictions, will use all kinds of methods solely for the sake of ending your life, and they cannot be reasoned with using calm words, can you imagine that kind of situation?”
“……But......”
Faced with Emi’s stern tone, Chiho only quietly returned her gaze.
“Difficult to imagine just based on Japan’s general knowledge, even ‘battlefields’ which ‘one does not know what may happen’ can occur. If Chiho is allowed to learn spells, it would be like letting you go into the minefield amongst a rain of bullets with only a pistol. With that, the people who are fighting there, will see the pistol as a ‘weapon’, and see Chiho as an ‘enemy’, attacking you with merciless killing intent, and not going easy at all.”
Emi, who said all this in one go, took a slight breather.
“Whether it is Heaven, the Demon World or Ente Isla, they are still treating Chiho as a ‘related person’. Even Gabriel and Raguel do not feel that the things which occurred at Tokyo Tower is a power which came from you alone. However, if you brought your own ‘weapon’ and appear on the ‘battlefield’, everyone will see you as ‘an enemy which must be gotten rid of’. At that time, even the situation where salvation may come will also be abandoned.”
After Emi finished this, she shifted her gaze to beside Chiho’s hospital bed.
Placed there was a paper bag containing Chiho’s necessities which was brought over by Chiho’s mother, Riho, there was even a note on top with ‘I will handle the change of clothes separately’.
“Your mother is really worried about you. Even though the fact of being seen as a ‘related person’ cannot be changed anymore, but we cannot make anyone develop hostility towards you. Oh, just on this point, I think the Demon King should habour the same opinion as me.”
Emi intentionally used Maou’s name, planning to make use of this to convince Chiho.
However, when Chiho, who originally lowered her head, tilted her head up again, a completely different strength was seen in her eyes.
“Thank you. It is like that. But this time, I finally found something which I should do!”
“Eh?”
Even though Emi originally intended to lecture Chiho, but it seems like Chiho, on the contrary, though of something completely different because of Emi’s words.
“Dad also said so frequently before. He said that the crime prevention methods or explanations on self defense skills published on the magazines is only empty talk for people who have not been trained before, useless and would only cause people to be harmed because of this. Yusa-san should mean this right.”
“Uh……yeah, that’s right. Even though the scale is a little different, but that is what I mean.”
Emi felt troubled because she did not know what Chiho wanted to say.
“But, I still feel that if possible, I hope to be able to use spells like Yusa-san and the rest.”
“About that, like I said……”
“When I was kidnapped by Sariel-san, Suzuno-san had taken away my mobile phone.”
“Eh?”
Emi panicked a bit because the topic had shifted to an unexpected direction.
“But I was not hurt or faced with life threatening danger because of this. That is because I am not an ‘enemy’, but just a ‘related person’ right.”
“P, probably. Even though Sariel seemed to have thought of a lot of underhanded things……”
Becaue Emi was also kidnapped at that time, so she was unable to say anything more about it.
“At that time, because luckily, Urushihara was around, so Maou-san could come and save us. But if in future, if someone like Gabriel-san takes the chance when Yusa-san, Suzuno-san and Maou-san are not around and kidnap me, and my mobile phone is taken away, then everyone would have no way to know my location.”
“……yeah, that’s true.”
Chiho clenched her fists and spoke,
“Dad always tells me, if I feel the signs of a crime, I definitely cannot think about solving it on my own, but call the police without hesitation.”
“Call……the police……?”
Emi subsconsciously repeated the term Chiho had said with all her might.
“So……if I am dragged into the commotion of Ente Isla, who sense related signs, I definitely won’t think about solving it on my own. So……”
Chiho tightened her expression and looked at Emi straight in the eyes.
“In order to be able to contact Yusa-san and Maou-san quickly no matter what happens, please teach me the physic sensing skill which can establish communication between people of different worlds……‘Mental Transmission’!”
“Men, mental transmission?”
“That’s right!”
Just on the result----
“Where, where did you hear the name of that spell……”
“During that earliest incident, didn’t Alberto-san mention that before in Maou-san’s room?”
Emi could not convince Chiho at all.
“Uh~~”
Chiho wanted to learn mental communication for each other’s safety, and Emi could not think of anything to make Chiho give up.
So Emi decided to save her reply for later, and on the way home, she made a detour to Suzuno’s for a discussion.
With regards to Chiho wanting to learn spells, Suzuno, of course, maintained an objective stance, however when thinking about the reasoning of ‘contacting’ other people in emergencies, it was very persuasive to these two people.
Room 202 of Villa Rosa Sasazuka temporarily descended into a heavy silence because of this.
“The Demom King said to me before, since we have said clearly that we did not want the humans of Japan to be involved in the issues of Ente Isla, then why don’t we erase Chiho-dono’s memory.”
“What is that supposed to mean……because if that is done, won’t it……”
Emi suddenly remembered the conflict she had with Chiho when Suzuno first came to this world. Thinking about Chiho’s safety, Suzuno had originally planned to erase her memory, and in order to protect the Chiho who did not want to forget Maou and the others, Emi had said this before----
“Regardless of seeing sacrifice as a necessary evil, or ignoring a friend’s tears, it is the same, I do not fight for that kind of peace.”
Perhaps she remembered the same thing, Suzuno gave a rather embarrassed wry smile,
“If we just consider safety of the life, we should immediately erase Chiho-dono’s memories and destroy the Demon Fortress right now, then return to Ente Isla. But Emilia and I did not choose to do this. Even though we have various reasons, but one of the main factors, is because we see Chiho-dono as a friend whom we can frankly say everything.”
With regards to Suzuno’s words, Emi also nodded in agreement.
“Is it us……who hope that she can stay that way?”
“That’s right. So in order to protect that friend, we have an obligation to research on necessary countermeasures.”
Saying this, Suzuno got up and took out the Holy Vitamin β from within the fridge.
“Even though this is my personal selfishness.”
Suzuno smiled as she held the cool small bottle,
“But I am purely happy at Chiho-dono’s respectable feelings.”
“……That’s true.”
Emi, like she had been influenced, also slowly showed a smile.
When Chiho heard that Emi allowed her to go through spell training when she was discharged from hospital, she showed a smile resembling a flower and thanked Emi continuously, causing Emi to become flustered instead.
After that they chose a date where Emi and Suzuno were free, which was today, as the very first training day.
To be more specific, cleaning the backyard was like a replacement for Chiho’s first lesson fee.
“Then Chiho-dono, before undressing, let’s start from injecting holy magic into the body.”
Suzuno, who looked towards the Holy Vitamin β, after retying the undone straps, let Chiho sit on the chairs of the changing room.
Suzuno first opened the top of the Holy Vitamin β and passed it to Chiho, then she grabbed Chiho’s other hand and touched their palms together.
“Listen well, when you drink that, first do it little by little by keeping it in your mouth. Stop once you feel that something isn’t right.”
“A, alright……”
Even though she was the one who suggested it, but Chiho was nervous about coming in contact with an unknown power after all.
Suzuno grabbed Chiho’s hand, and used the spell to examine the body, ‘Sonar’ to check out the situation.
Chiho drank the holy magic replenishing drink Holy Vitamin β in small mouthfuls to avoid exceeding the amount her body could contain.
After replenishing the holy magic to the limits of the body capacity, Chiho would finally start the spell training.
The meaning of the name ‘Mental Transmission’, is to synchronize the thoughts between two or more casters to carry out long distance communication, a spell to prevent miscommunication between people who use different languages.
Even though they can use fluent Japanese now, but when Maou and Emi first came to Japan, they also used Mental Transmission, letting the target they are talking to have the impression that they are speaking Japanese.
And the related reason which caused Chiho to be involved in the angels’ plan and get admitted to hospital, comes from the fact that Emi’s comrade Alberto used a long distance Mental Transmission.
If Chiho could learn Mental Transmission, if in the case that she gets involved in the commotion of Ente Isla, and finds herself in a situation which she loses her mobile phone and is unable to contact Emi, Suzuno or Maou, it can also be used as a backup measure.
“From the fact that no one is able to use spells on Earth, basically Chiho-dono’s capacity definitely cannot be called big. Please take care not to drink too much.”
“……But, when Chiho was at Tokyo Tower, she had used a very strong power, what was the reason for that?”
Emi asked while watching the both of them. Even though Chiho also did not understand, Suzuno replied like it was an obvious thing,
“The principle should be the same as what I am doing now. Right now, in Chiho-dono’s body, other than the holy magic which was replenished just now, there is still sonar made from holy magic coming from my body and flowing back. But in the end, that is my holy magic, and does not interfere with the original capacity in Chiho-dono’s body.”
Suzuno held Chiho’s hand, looked at something on the finger of Chiho’s other hand holding the Holy Vitamin β and mumbled,
“In reality, that caster should have used that thing as a medium, and treated Chiho-dono as a path to let the holy magic flow back. To make things clearer, it can be said that at that time, Chiho-dono was used as a part of the caster’s body.”
With regards to Suzuno’s analysis, Emi and Chiho’s faces fell because of different reasons.
“What does that person treat other people’s bodies as……”
Emi complained to someone who isn’t present.
“So, I was controlled by someone after all……”
Chiho pressed her lips together because she was reminded of the danger of easily making contact with an unknown power.
“Sigh, it’s good it wasn’t used for anything bad, it can be said to be a blessing in disguise……oh, Chiho-dono, you should stop. Please do not drink anymore.”
Suzuno stopped Chiho’s hand.
“You drank quite a bit huh. About one third of a bottle.”
Emi looked rather surprised seeing the bottle which Chiho put on the table.
Suzuno looked at the bottle while continuing to hold Chiho’s hand for the time being, and said,
“In other words, this also means that the holy magic concentration of the Holy Vitamin β is not that high. Even drinking one whole bottle should also be unable to let Emilia recover to full power right?”
“Yeah, that’s true……”
Even so, Emeralda still strictly warned Emi not to drink more than 2 bottles a day. Originally Emi had thought that if she drank more than 2 bottles, she would exceed her own capacity limits.
“Because this is still medicine after all right. It should be something which should be naturally recovered in the first place right? It should be the same as the notice on taking care of nutritional balance on the nutritional supplements.”
“……I see.”
Strangely, Chiho’s words were very convincing, Emi also nodded vigorously in agreement.
After all, this is taking something which can be obtained naturally and forcefully concentrating it to a form which can be stored. If the intake amount was done wrong, it could cause problems with the naturally obtained portion instead.
“Good, it looks like the situation within the body is stable. Chiho-dono, do you feel any kind of discomfort anywhere?”
Being asked by Suzuno, who finally let her hand go, Chiho lowered her head, looking towards her hand and body and answered,
“No, it feels like there isn’t anywhere which feels strange.”
“I think so too. However, the basic preparations for using the spells this way have been completed. Then, for now, let’s enter the bath first.”
Suzuno announced this filled with motivation.
“A, alright!”
Chiho straightened her back and bowed to Emi and Suzuno.
“Pl, please take care of me!”
The two people looked at each other because of Chiho’s honest reaction.
Till now, Emi did not know what the connection between spell training and bathing was, but Suzuno, no matter what, was a high level inquisitor, she must have her considerations in doing so. Since Chiho is already so motivated, Emi, of course, had no reason to be a wet blanket.
“So what should we do next? Don’t tell me we have to go through the basic classes in the bath?”
“In the end, we can’t continue conducting basic classes here without end. And even though it’s not as if I do not trust Chiho-dono, but if we teach the classes first, it’s hard to guarantee that she wouldn’t discover other spells besides Mental Transmission by chance, more time should be sent practicing basic skills, and focus on the safety aspects of initiating a spell.”
“It, it’s feels difficult, I feel uneasy!”
Once again, Chiho’s tone of voice had turned slightly stiffer compared to earlier.
Chiho placed a hand on Chiho’s back, and kindly counsled her,
“There’s no need to be so nervous. In the beginning, the most important thing is to relax. That’s why Bell choose to practice in the bath.”
“That’s right. Alright, it’s a rare chance to be the first one to soak in the bath in the afternoon, so let’s relieve the tiredness from the work first.”
“Alright!”
Under Emi and Suzuno’s advice, Chiho, whose nervousness was abated slightly replied energetically, and after that reached for the hem of her T-shirt.
In the next few minutes.
““……”
“Erhm……Yusa-san? Suzuno-san?”
Emi and Suzuno sat in front of the polished taps, washing their bodies and hair with imposing looks on their faces, and Chiho watched the two people in a jittery manner, whose demeanours had not changed since they had undressed.
The showerhead installed above the tap and the mirror continuously sprayed out hot water, and Emi and Suzuno hid their tears with their heads lowered in depression.
“Even though I had thought about it at the hotel in Choshi……but what kind of life must one lead to become like that?”
“Er, erhm……”
“Logically, just considering nutrition, we shouldn’t have lost in that……what exactly is the reason……”
“I, I say……”
“No, thinking carefully about it, Bell. That, when in battle, must really get in the way.”
“That, that’s true. Since she’s a non-combatant, then it can’t be helped……can’t……can’t be helped……”
Then, in the spacious bath with no one else besides the three of them----
““Sigh……””
A heavy sigh was heard.
Chiho, who was the first one to wash finish her hair because her hair was the shortest, but felt that she could not leave the scene just like that, asked the two people jitterly,
“T, that, may I know what is wrong?”
Faced with that innocent question, Emi and Suzuno could not feel jealous or ridicule the other party. The two people, whose hair were still covered in soap turned towards Suzuno and said simultaneously,
[Image of Suzuno and Emi jealous of Chiho’s size]
““Touch your chest and reflect!””
“Eh?”
Chiho, who did not understand, panicked.
Seeing Chiho’s cute expression of genuine panic because she did not know the reason for Emi and Suzuno’s happiness, the Hero and Inquisitor from the foreign world started to reflect on their actions from a few seconds ago. After all, Chiho was not at fault.
“……Being pushed around by jealously even though I am an inquisitor, it’s really too embarrassing……”
“Actually not even allowing people to feel jealousy……Chiho……what a scary child.”
A few moments of silent hair washing passed by like that, after everyone finished washing their bodies----
“Now then Chiho-dono, let’s start training!”
The still mentally immature inquisitor nonchalantly readjusted her posture.
“Ah? Eh? Alright, eh?”
“It’s alright, Chiho, nothing to worry about.”
Emi, with a smile like she saw through everything, comforted a teary eyed Chiho.
Even though Emi and Suzuno both used towels to tie up their long hair, but even if they had already entered the bath and washed their hair, Chiho still suddenly realized that Suzuno was still holding her usual hair accessory in her hand. Wouldn’t it be damaged by the humidity like this?
“Now then Chiho-dono, please go to the shower stall there, and attach the showerhead to above you.”
“Al, alright.”
The fixed showerheads of the shower stalls in the corner of the bath and outside where different, it was a normal style with the hose, after Suzuno attached the showerheads to above them, she asked Chiho to stand underneath.
“Then again, why must we use the showerhead?”
Emi, who watched the two of them, asked this casually, and Suzuno immediately replied with a simple answer.
“When talking about training, of course there must be training under the waterfall right?”
““…………Eh?””
Chiho and Emi immediately stopped in their actions.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh……
Chiho, unmoving with her eyes closed, was currently feeling the shock from the hot water raining down on her head, and after that, she immediately felt suspicious about Suzuno’s teaching direction.
About this, Emi felt the same as well, soaking in the warm water bath in front of the shower, she was looking towards Suzuno with an obviously suspicious look.
Suzuno had a tendency, which is occasionally misunderstanding the Japanese culture in an exaggerated way and carrying it out seriously.
However, even so, because Chiho did see the images of training under the waterfall on television when she was young, and had experience of imitating this and playing in the hot springs or the bath, so her feelings were very complex right now.
Suzuno did not turn up the showerhead to its maximum strength but adjusted the water flow till large drops of hot water could drop on Chiho’s head, and therefore there wasn’t any feeling of being sprayed with hot water.
As if to speed up Chiho’s suspicions, from the direction of the men’s bath----
“Alas=Ramus! Training, we’re going to begin training!”
“Demon King-sama! The water from that showerhead is very hot! If you want to imitate a waterfall, please use the one on that side!”
The anxious voice of Ashiya stopping the excited Maou was heard, causing Chiho to be further confused on what she exactly she was doing.
At this time, Suzuno suddenly said,
“Please listen to me like this. Chiho-dono, are you confident in your physical ability?”
“At, at least of average standard……after all I am participating in a sports club.”
Faced with such a sudden question, Chiho maintained her closed eyes state and answered while being careful not to let the hot water enter her mouth.
“Even though the people who use spells……are called warlocks in Ente Isla, but spells have a fundamental difference from what this world calls ‘magic’. Not only in Japan, I think on Earth, it is commonly thought that ‘magician=a human lacking in strength’.”
“……That’s true, even though I rarely play it, but even in games, the magician characters will not really use weapons to attack their opponents directly……woah!”
Chiho seemed to have panicked a bit because the hot water flowing from her head entered her mouth.
“Warlocks are not like that. People who are physically strong and people who are not, even if they used similar spells, the person who is strong will definitely have the stronger spell effect, and their range will also be wider. In the world of spells, no matter how talented they are, there will not be a situation where a child warlock in stronger than an adult warlock.”
“Bell, don’t tell me you saw yesterday’s western movie?”
Emi recalled that Suzuno had bought a LCD television together with Maou.
Yesterday night at 9pm, the first episode of a magician series movie popular overseas was shown on television.
“It was because the people next door were watching it so noisily, and I was just curious on what happened to make them so noisy, and in the end, I watched to the end by accident, causing me to oversleep a little this morning.”
Chiho gave a wry smile with her eyes closed. Even though one cannot really tell, but Maou actually liked movies a lot.
“On the other hand, the news of elderly warlocks suddenly dying because they continued to use spells using the feeling of when they were younger and their body couldn’t bear the burden is common. The age of using the spells with their maximum power without an amplifier is from 15 years old onwards, and after that, even if they use it conservatively and train continuously, they can only continue to about 40 plus years old at most.”
“It, it feels a little like sports atheletes……”
“Yes. If a person is over 50 years old and can cast spells without an amplifier, they are already at superhuman level. Even though Emilia and Chiho do not have a good impression about this name, but on this note, Olba-sama who is close to 60 years old and still can maintain his full power of holy magic and spell power, is already considered a monster level.”
“Sigh……he could fight Alsiel in his demon form with just his bare body after all.”
Emi, who rose up from the bath, thought back to the battle Olba had with Ashiya underneath the broken city expressway.
Even so, for Olba who caused trouble in Japan, the reason for him using a gun, was probably because he considered his age after all and did not want to carelessly use holy magic.
“In reality, even if they are aged, but those called the ‘Six Archbishops’ are all people like that. But those are basically exceptions. Just like what Chiho-dono said, it’s like a sport athelete. Just think of the power needed to use holy magic as a ratio of basic physical ability and muscle power. As for the reason……Emilia, after holy magic is absorbed, where will it be stored?”
Emi replied simply,
“It’s the heart.”
“Eh?”
Chiho, who originally thought that the whole body will naturally encompass the unknown power, got a shock because Emi suddenly mentioned a normal organ.
“The principle is simple. The blood, which combines with the oxygen in the lung will flow through the whole body, and the assistant in helping the blood circulate is the heart right? When using spells, what is needed is not the whole body, but transporting the holy magic to specialized places. To be more specific, it should be said that the destination of the holy magic which flows back is the heart. This way you can understand why I said that spells are closely related to physical strength right? So……”
Suzuo continued to speak,
“To put it in a more extreme manner, once a certain amount of holy magic is spread to the whole body, even if the heart, which is the destination, is damaged, as long as the holy magic distributed through the whole body returns to the heart in one go, even this crude method of reviving the heart is possible in theory.”
Of course, other than battling, it is hard to imagine other situations of causing the heart to be damaged, and normally, at that time, it would be impossible for them to still have a large amount of holy magic, however Chiho was still shocked speechless at this extreme example.
“Therefore, the holy magic is starting to circulate in Chiho-dono’s body through the blood. Even if the amount isn’t much, but other than using spells, holy magic can also be decreased through metabolism. Because I didn’t specially notice this point because you can naturally gain it in Ente Isla, I only discovered this after coming to Japan. Because of this……”
Suzuno used her hand to touch her own palm.
“As long as the holy magic capacity is high enough, as a whole, the glow and suppleness of the skin will become better.”
“Eh?”
This time, even Emi also got a big shock.
“S, so……wah! So that is why Suzuno-san has such beautiful skin even though no makeup was applied……?”
Chiho, who forgot the hot water on her head and opened her eyes because of the shock, quickly closed her eyes again.
“Of course, I also did not forget to eat balanced meals, control consumption of rich foods and snacks, exercise in appropriate amounts and sleep and wake up early everyday.”
““……””
Faced with Suzuno, who said this naturally, without knowing it was her nature or a taunt, the high school girl who likes sweet foods and pulls all nighters frequently and the working class who eats ready-to-eat foods or eats out because she was busy could not say anything in return.
“B, but recently, in front of Alas=Ramus, I do try to prepare meals properly……”
Not knowing what she was concerned about, Emi touched the back of her own hand with a stern look on her face and started to talk to herself. Perhaps she does not have the self awareness to know that her own skin condition is similar to Suzuno.
“As to why Emilia’s metabolism did not change too much, perhaps it is because of Alas=Ramus, you know?”
Faced with Emi’s self interpreted talk, Suzuno actually accepted it seriously.
“Hasn’t Alas=Ramus merged with Emila? Since the Evolving Heavenly Metal making up the holy sword is already inseparable from Emilia, then it can’t be denied that the replenishment of Alas=Ramus’s holy magic is done by Emilia.”
“Now that you put it that way……it seems like I get hungry more easily lately……”
“Yusa-san? Isn’t that too strange this way?"
Because Emilia’s contenance strangely became depressed, Suzuno returned to the original topic once again.
“In conclusion, the strength of the body is proportionate to the strength of the spell. And the important point of what I want to express is, using spells is a very tiring thing.”
“I, I see.”
Even though she felt that a lot of unnecessary circles were made before reaching this conclusion, but Chiho still accepted it.
“You might see that Emilia and I easily use spells at our will, that is because we have sufficient physical ability supporting us from behind. Because the metabolism caused by the holy magic distributed throughout the body can increase healing ability, so even if Chiho-dono and us obtain the same level of injury, we will not be as limited in movement as Chiho-dono.”
“Th, then even if a bullet hit your shoulder, or having your arm cut off by a blade, and still be able to fight, that is because……”
“If we met with those conditions, it is painful by normal standards. This part will not be like the movies.”
At least in front of Chiho, Emi and the others have not experienced battles to obtain that standard of injury.
“In short, the tiredness before getting used to controlling holy magic is more than what you imagined. First how to activate the holy magic has to be practiced, then how to roughly cast spells, and lastly how to use holy magic in an effective way……alright, the shower should have been long enough. Next, go soak in the warm water bath.”
“A, alright!”
After walking out of the shower, Chiho originally wanted to dry the droplets off her hair and use the towel to wrap it up.
“Chiho-dono, don’t tie the towel on your head. After drying your hair a little, just go in like this.”
“Ah, a, alright.”
Chiho dried her hair a little, and stepped into the bath while being careful not to let her hair touch the hot water.
“Then lean your head against the side of the bath……that’s right, and relax your body until it can float. Then after that, try to imagine the holy magic circulating within your body, from head to toe.”
Chiho followed Suzuno’s instructions and relaxed her body in the bath with the impression of sitting in Seiza position in order to focus during her archery club practice.
The warm hot water made her skin feel comfortable, so even her body also floated reflexively in response.
In this process, the feeling left by the hot water continuously hitting the top of her head in the shower just now, made it easy to consciously feel the normally difficult to imagine ‘top of the head’.
The reason for Suzuno’s suggestion to imitate a waterfall, was probably for this purpose. Even though it was just a little, Chiho still apologized within her heart for suspecting Suzuno’s teaching direction.
Because of the feeling of an unexperienced mysterious power within her body, the high spirits of stepping into an unknown world caused Chiho to smile naturally.
Even though the motivation of learning spells was very proper, but Chiho still couldn’t resist feeling anticipation at learning something which she couldn’t do before.
“Hm……looks like it’s flowing back very smoothly.”
“That’s right, it’s not messy at all, it’s very stable.”
When she came to her senses, Chiho then realized that Suzuno and Emi were holding her hands. They should be examining the situation within Chiho’s body.
“Then, first is activation. In the beginning, there is no way to just use the amount of holy magic which is needed. In short, use all your strength when you’re casting the spell, and once you’re used to it, you’ll be able to reduce the unnecessary power. With regards to the feeling, Chiho-dono should be able to understand since you participate in a sports club.”
Since it is a power with the strength of the body as a standard, saying so is reasonable.
“Then take deep breaths like this. First use the nose to slowly breathe in, then slowly and thinly exhale from the mouth. From these actions, you’ll be able to feel the air and blood circulating within the body.”
“I understand.”
Chiho, who maintained her current state and took deep breathes for a while, started to sweat slightly.
“Very good, just like that. Chiho-dono, open your eyes and get up.”
After getting up according to Suzuno’s instructions, partly because of the hot water, Chiho felt her whole body warm up moderately.
“Now Emilia, I’m sorry, can I trouble you to demonstrate a spell which doesn’t require an amplifier?”
“A spell which doesn’t need an amplifier? But basically I only know spells related to Evil Repelling Armour or the holy sword……”
Emi, who was originally watching exercise go through the preparation exercises apathetically, blinked because the topic suddenly shifted to her.
“Er, erhm, I’m sorry, may I know what an amplifier is?”
Chiho interrupted Emi’s thoughts and asked.
“Ooh, I’m sorry. Honestly, it’s a tool needed when activating spells. For example, in my situation……”
Suzuno lightly picked up the hairclip on the edge of the bath and swung it in the air.
“Wah!”
The glowing hair accessory, instantly became a huge hammer.
If other people saw a huge hammer appear from nowhere within the bath, it would be impossible to explain, Chiho broke out in cold sweat, worried that new customers will come in.
“If the hairclip is used as a medium, the spells can be activated like this. Even though more will be explained later, but as long as there is an amplifier----also known as a medium, it will be easier to imagine when using holy magic. Just on the result, it will also increase the efficiency of the holy magic. As for the medium itself, it doesn’t need any special tools.”
Even though Suzuno’s hairclip is well made, but it is definitely not a special spell casting tool of any sort, but something which she bought by shopping to her heart’s content not long after arriving in Japan.
“Now then, even though it is better to activate together with the Evil Repelling Armour……Heavenly Boots!”
While talking, Emi also spoke softly to herself while sitting on the edge of the bath. Then----
“Yu, Yusa-san?”
After discovering that Emi’s feet, submerged in the bath, were suddenly glowing, she actually started to float while maintaining the sitting position. In the end, Emi even left the water entirely, floating in the air above the bath.
A naked hammer lady and a naked floating lady suddenly appearing in a day bath. If someone who doesn’t know anything sees this, it won’t be something which can be explained away as a mysterious phenomenon.
“Actually this move should be used together with Evil Repelling Armour, so it became a little unrefined, but this is a spell which doesn’t use an amplifier.”
“Y,yeah……but when you say unrefined……what do you mean?”
In Chiho’s eyes, even if she glanced at the entrance occasionally, Emi’s spell was as beautiful as the magic appearing in movies, Suzuno approached the floating Emi, pointed at the light boots and said,
“Take a look at the edges of the light. Isn’t is swaying vigorously like an open fire?”
“Ah, it’s true.”
Chiho tried to compare it with Suzuno’s giant hammer.
Even though Suzuno’s giant hammer can also glow, but its glow did not waver shakily like Emi’s light boots, but swayed steadily like a flame generated by a gas stove.
“This shows that the energy output is not steady enough. Even though it cannot be generalized and is dependent on the spell, but if the same effect is to be shown, no matter what kind of spell, using a medium will still bring about higher efficiency and effects.”
“Whew……using the spell alone is very tiring after all.”
As Emi slowly descended to the side of the bath from the air, Suzuno also kept her giant hammer, causing Chiho to give a sigh of relief.
“Now then Chiho-dono, here is the question. Between the spells casted by Emilia and I, what is the difference?”
“What is……the difference?”
Chiho replayed the scenes of Suzuno and Emi activating the spells in her head.
“……Suzuno-san’s spell, does it not have a spell name?”
This answer, caused Suzuno to raise an eyebrow in admiration.
“It’s amazing that you discovered it in one try. Of course, this spell, in terms of type, does have a name called ‘Holy Metal Hammer’.”
“But you didn’t shout the move name out while using it right? That is, is it because an amplifier resembling imagination was used?”
“That is correct.”
Suzuno nodded in satisfaction.
“Using of spells, is actually fulfilling one’s own imagination. If you wish to use holy magic to have the effect of materializing your own wishes, then polished knowledge of holy magic activation and imagination can be said to be very important. It’s like using clay to sculpt out a statue. In other words, when using a spell without an amplifier, intentionally saying the name of the spell or effect, the procedure to make it easier to imagine the effect, becomes very important. In reality, whether the procedure is there or not does create a shocking difference in the effect and efficiency.”
After the explanations, and seeing these phenomenon once again with her own eyes, Chiho deeply understood that Emi and Suzuno really are not humans from Earth after all.
“However, it is difficult to imagine the concept of activating holy magic, after all, amongst the actions of reality, imaginations of this type is rarely made. So compared to learning how to make holy magic flow, it would be better to try to let it activate on your own, which is the most effective way of learning how to handle the holy magic in your own body. Emilia, I’m sorry, can I trouble you to go to the changing room and attract the attention of the person at the counter? I will set up a barrier at the entrance and skylight.”
Suzuno nudged her chin to show her intention, Emi nodded and stood up from the bath.
“E,eh? Why?”
“Even though this is a process which all learners of spells must go through, but if this is done in Japan without any reason, someone might call the police.”
After hearing Emi say such a scary thing, Chiho started to feel uneasy.
“Wh, what are we doing next?”
“Easy, you just have to shout out loud.”
“Eh?”
Chiho looked at Suzuno and Emi’s faces in reflex.
“You can shout anything. In short, you have to shout with all your power from the stomach.”
“Uh……shout……h,here?”
Suzuno nodded nonchalantly. Emi also spoke without any doubt,
“You can’t use too much strength in your whole body when you shout okay. Else you won’t be able to shout out at all, so remember to relax your body.”
“A, about that……”
Once Chiho thought about the actions which Suzuno and Emi were requesting, Chiho suddenly felt a surging feeling of embarassment.
This is a bath after all. Even if there were no other customers, there is was an old lady manning the couter at the changing room, and in addition, Maou and the others are at the men’s bath.
As if she sensed Chiho’s hesitation, Suzuno spoke with all seriousness on her face,
“Regarding the effect of shouting, whether it is in Ente Isla or in Japan, there has already been scientific proof. Even if it’s a simple straight punch, silently punching and shouting loudly and swinging out your fists, there is a big difference between the power of the two things. High spirits will stimulate the activation of the cells, letting people feel a mental release, therefore shouting is actually a very effective method……but!”
Chiho stepped back subconsciously because Suzuno suddenly leaned in close.
“No matter what kind of exercise, if it is faced with negative feelings, the exercise will have less effect. Even you feel embarrassed by having the Demon King hear you shout loudly, it will be difficult to expect that you will be able to activate holy magic.”
Chiho, whose thoughts were seen through, blushed.
“But if that is so, even if it doesn’t have to be here, as long as we go to a karaoke compartment......”
Suzuno shook her head denying the depressing wishes which were not Chiho’s style.
“The mental release from overcoming the conflicts from within and embarrassment, will always greatly surpass normal feelings, and it can be expected for effects to be seen in a short time----especially this situation where the Demon King is just opposite.”
“This theory feels like even though it sounds complicated, but once you take one wrong step, it will become very dangerous.”
Emi frowned as she watched Suzuno corner Chiho.
Even if she already spoke this far, Chiho was still blushing furiously and looked like she was going to cry, Suzuno could only shake her head helplessly.
“Seriously. Even though it’s a virtue of the Japanese not to make a ruckus in public places, but this is the situation now. Let me demonstrate to you first, then you follow me later.”
“Why, why is it like this……”
Most importantly, other than Maou and the others, there might be other customers in the men’s bath. However Suzuno still mercilessly shouted at Chiho, who could not hide her feelings of uneasiness,
“Be louder when you answer!”
“Y, yes!”
“……Then to order to prevent others from disturbing both of you, let me go out to keep watch.”
After giving a sideways glance at the Spartan Suzuno and Chiho, Emi quickly walked out of the bath.
“We’re starting!”
“Yes----!”
Suzuno, satisfied at Chiho’s answer, inhaled strongly with the intensity of a vaccum cleaner.
“Allrighhttt! Shout out loudly! HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“Uwah, ow!”
Urushihara, who was washing his hair, got a shock because of Suzuno’s sudden shout from the other side of the wall, and as a result, the showerhead in his hand hit the big toe of his foot.
“W, wh, what was that sound just now?”
“Ene, enemy attack?”
However, Maou and Ashiya did not have the leisure to laugh at that kind of Urushihara.
Because it was within a large bath house, so the sound continued to echo, that sound which sounded like the launching of the main attack of the human Knights Order, caused the Demons to stand up in surprise.
“OHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“Wah!”
After that, for unknown reasons, Alas=Ramus who had been sitting on Maou’s lap with her hair tilted down while washing her hair, suddenly opened her tightly closed eyes, opened her small mouth, and shouted loudly with power.
With just this action, holy magic strong enough to deflect Maou away started to release.
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“???”
What was heard next, was Chiho’s close to screaming loud shout.
Even if Maou was in shock because he didn’t know what happened, but worried that Chiho might have met with danger, he still passed the soap covered Alas=Ramus to Ashiya for him to watch, and without forgetting to wrap a towel around his waist, he ran to the counter locating outside the changing rooms at lightning speed.
“Hey! Why did you run out just like this!”
Emi, who had just finished bathing and changed into her shirt, was holding the hand of Madam Fu at the counter while glaring at Maou with a red face.
Even for Madam Fu, who other people can’t normally tell if she was awake or asleep, it was impossible for her to not notice such a loud sound. So it was likely that Emi used a spell or used some trick.
“Eh, Emi? W, what are all of you doing next door?”
“I, I was careful not to let the sound transmit to outside, so it’s fine! To play it safe, I also let the old lady at the counter fall asleep, so there won’t be much danger……hey! Your towel is going to come loose!”
Emi, who tried her hardest to move her line of sight away from Maou shouted loudly. And when Maou held onto the towel, he also noticed one thing.
Even though sucha loud sound was emitted, once he walked out from the changing room, he could not hear anything anymore.
“Wh, what is going on……woah!”
“HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
Maou, who did not understand what was happening, once he entered the men’s bath and stuck his head inside, he heard the shout again. In shock, Maou stepped on the tiles and slipped, falling to the ground in one go.
“De, Demon King-sama, are you alright! Wh, what is Bell doing! Actually causing trouble for the bath house……”
“UWOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
Even though Ashiya, worried for Maou’s physical condition, wanted to head to the women’s bath to protest, but because he was intimidated by Suzuno’s shut and took a step back, the next thing he did was to step on the soap Urushihara dropped and slip.
“Wa, watch out!”
Once he saw Ashiya large build fall backwards, Usuhihara quickly ignored the pain in his toe----
“YIIIAAHHHHHHH!”
And barely caught Alas=Ramus, who was shouting in synchronization with the women’s bath, in mid-air.
“Ugoh!”
As for Ashiya, he fell to the floor directly, and his head even barely missed the wall on the other side.
Just as Maou decided to pick up the fallen down Ashiya, the sound of Emi opening the door to the men’s bath was heard outside.
“Hey, something really exaggerated was heard from in here, are all of you alright?”
“That is what we want to say! What is Suzuno and Chi-chan doing……”
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
What does that have to do with Alas=Ramus……”
“SHOUT OUT MORE FROM THE DIAPHRAGMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!”
“Emi, quickly explain this clearly to me……”
“EH, EH, OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“THAT’S ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!”
“IT’S NOISYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!”
With Suzuno and Chiho’s continuous shouting battle, Maou was completely unable to talk to Emi, just separated by a door.
“PAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
“Alas=Ramus, don’t join in!”
Alas=Ramus stretched her hand towards Maou while emitting holy magic.
“Hey, Emi! Even though I don’t know what all of you are doing, but you’ll cause trouble to others like this, tell them to stop quickly!”
“I set up a barrier so other customers cannot come in, so it’s not a problem!”
“How is this not a problem! This is disrupting the business on two levels!”
“I’ll explain to you after it’s ended, so there’s no need to be too concerned.”
“Hey, you, don’t run away!”
Emi did not answer the question at all and ran off. Maou originally decided to run out of the bath and chase after her, but Emi seemed to have forced the door closed, and no matter how he tried to open it, it wouldn’t budge.
“WELCOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
“ALRIGHT, I’LL BE HAPPY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
“Treating this place as an inn! What are all of you doing? Emi! Hey! Open the door! Open the door already!”
This rare scene of the Demon King being locked inside the bath by the hands of the Hero, probably only lasted less than 5 minutes.
Just as these two people exchanged words, and neither one wanted to back off----
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……AHHH?”
Maou heard Chiho’s scream in the middle to the two intentional shouts, and suddenly became uneasy.
“It’s fine even if someone calls the police! Ashiya, lend me your shoulder! I want to run into the women’s bath from here!”
“Pl, please calm down! If something accidentally happens when you barge into the women’s bath, Demon King-sama will have no standing in society!”
[Image of happy Alas=Ramus]
“Then Urushihara, you should be alright, go!”
“I strongly protest against the saying and methods of treating other people’s presence in society as garbage!”
“……About that, I already opened it on my side.”
Just as the three great demons were going through a meaningless conflict on whether to vault over the wall and enter the woman’s bath, Emi interrupted their conversation with a frustrated tone.
After the three people were stunned for a while, they discovered and the shouting match between Chiho and Suzuno had already ended, Alas=Ramus, carried by Urushihara also naturally quietened down.
“Wh, what happened?”
Ashiya, who finally stood up, looked at the wall separating the men and women’s bath.
“Did you notice? Sigh, it is a small amount of power after all, so it can’t be helped.”
“Ah?”
“Hm? Strange? Emilia is there, Alas=Ramus is here, then it’s Bell and…………eh?”
Urushihara was the first one to understand the situation.
He frowned and with a stony face, looked towards Emi, whose back was facing the men’s bath.
“What are all of you thinking? Don’t do such things in real situations. Don’t tell me you want to diperse the fighting strength on the front line in order to protect the useless battle ability and dig your own grave? Do you guys have such leeway to do so?”
Even though Urushihara showed a rare stritct tone, but Emi, of course, would not submit herself to being lectured by others.
“How is that possible. She also knows this herself.”
Because Emi also hoped that the situation would not turn out like this in reality, so she showed a strongly troubled expression in frustration.
“But just in case, she seems to wish to have the ability to ‘contact’ you or me in emergency situations.”
“Contact……don’t tell me?”
Maou, who finally started to piece together the situation, tilted his head upwards to look at the wall separating the baths.
“That girl knows how to act within her own power, and clearly knows what can and cannot be done. We trust that about her. But her most important reason……”
Emi looked towards the slient Maou.
“must be because she doesn’t want to give you unnecessary trouble when she is pulled into emergency situations. After all, whether she has memories of us or not, she is already one of the people involved.”
Maou seemed to not hear anything Emi said, and only roughly dried his body and put on his clothes, rushing out to the rest area next to the counter, Ashiya and Urushihara also followed closely behind.
Then the three people met Suzuno, who was holding the fan provided by the bath house----
“I will explain the reason later. But Chiho-dono definitely did not do with habouring a frivolous attitude, I just hope all of you can understand.”
“Ma……Maou……san……”
as well as Chiho, who was lying on the bench while gasping for air, with a face so red that it was impossible to achieve this even after just getting out of the bath.
Maou was completely lost because he didn’t understand what was going on, Urushihara, who was beside him, pointed to Chiho’s hand and said,
“No matter what the situation becomes, I’m not going to care, alright.”
The direction which Urushihara pointed with an unhappy look on his face, was Chiho’s left hand, resting on the table.
“Sasaki-san, don’t tell me……”
Ashiya seemed to have seen something unbelieveable and could not say anything at the moment.
That hand, was currently housing gold coloured holy magic. And that holy magic was dancing around vigorously like a flame, making it obvious to others that Chiho could not control it entirely.
But that was not the unrealistic power which Chiho showed at the Tokyo Tower before, but the holy magic light which Chiho emitted with her own power.
“Be, because I……do not want to drag anyone down, and do not want to be everyone’s burden……”
Even though she was still breathless now, Chiho still tried her best to smile and turned towards Maou.
“In order to be able to run away anytime……to let Maou-san and the others save me anytime……Suzuno-san, I succeeded. Next time……I want to……carry it out officially.”
However, this was the limit.
Chiho’s eyes closed, and she entered her dreams just like this.
“……Seriously.”
Seeing Chiho, who still showed a satisfied sleeping face even though she was exhausting, Maou scratched his head like he surrendered.
“Aren’t you worrying about us too much. We’re monsters from a foreign world you know? You could just leave everything to us. After all, we were the ones who got you involved.”
“Because it is Chiho, she is unable to do such a thing. Not being led by her emotions, only wanting to learn the spells to ‘run away’ or ‘let herself get rescued successfully’, seriously, there should be a limit to making other people love you.”
Emi first said this to Maou with a wry smile----
“Amongst the lives you trampled in Ente Isla, there must be children like Chiho as well.”
Then she added this sentence which only he could hear.
“……………”
Maou, who couldn’t help but turn around, only saw Emi walk towards Chiho, showing a nonchalant expression as if that sentence had already disappeared in the air, and help her wipe away the sweat appearing on her forehead.
He never thought that Emi, who showed a harmonious attitude, would actually suddenly throw out a strong barb which she did not say before.
“……Honestly, I do not understand you as well.”
Maou’s mumbled words, were not heard by anyone.

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