Hataraku maou-sama ! Volume 9 Part 1

Hataraku Maou-Sama ! Vol 9 

Hata-Maou Vol 9 Translations

Vol 9 Part 1:

Haraku maou sama volume 9 part 1 :)

Hata-Maou Vol 9 Translations

Vol 9 Prologue

Afashan was a large empire governing the whole Eastern Continent of Ente Isla.
The absolute Emperor ruling the country---the Unifying Azure Emperor, the castle he lived in and the nearby towns, other than their grand appearance and beautiful buildings, more than these, because of the great feat of one country ruling a large continent, they were compared to the blue sky covering the whole of Ente Isla, and were given the name ‘Azure Sky Canopy’.
In the past, not just to Afashan of the Eastern Continent, the Demon Army had brought terror to the whole of Ente Isla. However , it was said that even the Demon King’s right hand man in the Four Great Generals, the Demon General Alsiel who suppressed Afashan, was touched by this beauty and grandness and treated the Azure Sky Canopy castle and the Unifying Azure Emperor who lived there as his victory prizes.
“The history in the recent year is written as such, is that true? Honestly, it feels like you should dislike this strangely extravagant thing which would cost a lot of money to maintain. Such a huge place. It must be very difficult to clean.”
Partially because of defense reasons, the interior of the Azure Sky Canopy castle had become a complicated maze.
In the top floor of the castle which could only be entered by royalty, a large man who wore a cheap ‘I LOVE LA’ T-shirt underneath a spotless robe initiated a conversation from the side.
Even though a fit armoured warrior was waiting there, but the person the robed man was talking to, was the other person carried on the shoulder of the armoured warrior.
“……”
That person was wearing simply designed clothes from head to toe, and remained silent even if he was spoken to, not answering at all. It looked like he had lost consciousness.
“Not awake yet huh. He was pushed too hard before after all. How about this, let’s just take him to the ‘throne’ and restrict his movements there. When he wakes up, it’s fine to allow him to make a little ruckus, but all of you should not try handling it yourselves. You must notify me.”
The robed man ordered the armoured male warrior as such, the armoured warrior nodded and enquired,
“Gabriel-sama, who is this man? Is he related to Demon General Alsiel?”
The man called Gabriel gave a cold smile, shook his head and replied,
“It’s better for you not to know, if you know his identity, you won’t be able to do things. Like this, I would have to move him myself and that would be tiring.”
The armoured warrior frowned unhappily because of Gabriel’s answer,
“Even though you said that, but I am still the top of Afashan’s Hatsukin Knight Troop, one of the members of the glorious Seisokin Knight Troop. No matter what happens, it is impossible for me to be unable to complete my task.
“Is that so? Then let me tell you, that man you are carrying now is Demon General Alsiel himself……you see, just as I said. Stand properly already.”
The armoured warrior immediately went against what he said a few seconds ago, and while carrying the plain man, he slumped in an ugly manner on the corridor.
“Even though some special method is used to seal off his demon magic, but he’ll probably destroy it once he wakes up. Which is why I want you to notify me….it’s too late. That’s why I didn’t want to say it.”
In the end, the armoured warror who just proudly declared himself to be a member of the Seisokin Knight Troop was terrified to the point his eyes became unfocused.
“Ah~ah, I really want to let you people who are frightened of Alsiel to this extent see what he’s like when he’s seriously troubled over the purchase of a six egg pack or a ten egg pack in the supermarket.”
After Gabriel took Alsiel—that is Ashiya Shiro from the arms of the armored knight who had entered a state of unconsciousness, he briskly walked towards the upper levels of the Azure Sky Canopy.
Then he reached the area of the throne room which was right at the top of the Azure Sky Canopy.
He later placed the UNIXLO clothed house husband of the Demon Fortress, Ashiya Shiro on the throne that was supposed to belong to the Unifying Azure Emperor, the ruler of Afashan.
“Nostalgic isn’t it? But later something that would make you feel even more nostalgia will happen, look forward to it.” This was a large temple found at the top of the castle. After leaving Ashiya in a throne room the size of the stadium, Gabriel said with a smile.
“Eh, even though I really want to mess up that incident. There’s nothing more pathetic then plaglarising and reaping its rewards is there?”
Gabriel shrugged his shoulders and mumbled softly to himself. After that, the sound of an electronic device which absolutely did not match the room that was filled with treasures and precious items rang throughout. “Ah, oh ho, they finally called.”
Gabriel pulled the source of the sound from his robes.
It was a mobile phone that had received a call.
“So is this the first rate or the first rate’s head of the family calling?”
The number of the caller was hidden.
Gabriel continued talking, hardly hiding his excitement.
“Hello hello hello, this is Echigo-ya. Ah, no, this is Mikawa-ya….Ehrm, sorry sorry, I just wanted to try saying that. Right right right, this is Gabriel speaking.
(T/N: Gabriel was messing around, pretending that he’s a shop owner who received a call.)
But it seemed like the joke that was said at the beginning was not well received and the other party was aggressively shouting at the phone.
“Oh, you actually know I’m at the Eastern Continent….Eh, he said it? Amazing! He sure lives up to his name of a Chisho. Hm? No, I can’t reveal any more. But I am somewhere in the Eastern Continent, at least I should be able to tell you this much. Emilia is going to come here soon as well.”
(T/N: Chisho is an ancient term to refer to a general with intelligence and wits and a high ability to lead the army in war. An important commander on the battle field)
Gabriel, who thoroughly does things at his own pace, was anticipating the reaction of the other party.

Vol 9 Chapter 1: The Demon King, decides to Go on an Expedition

The mobile phone pressed against his ear produced a sound of being picked up on the fourth ring.
“Hello, Ogawa? Is it convenient for you to talk now? Uh, that, I’m sorry, even though it’s a little sudden, can you exchange shifts with me the day after tomorrow? That’s right, hm, not the whole thing, even just half a day is fine! Day or night is fine. Ooh, really? Thanks! I will repay you properly when I have the chance……eh? Nonono, for that kind of thing, ask the person yourself, even if it’s me……y, yeah, then I’m counting on you, thanks a lot, al, alright……”
After hanging up the phone, the speaker wrote ‘OK’ on the shift timetable on the kotatsu.
“Good, who is left? I already asked Kao-chan for two days, Kota, Aki and Ken have been busy with exam preparations recently……it’s shouldn’t be possible……”
A piece of paper ‘Employee Contact List’ was placed next to the shift timetable, and like the shift timetable, symbols which only the writer could understand were used to categorise the names.
“Next is……having a Sunday night shift at this kind of time……Juu-san had said that weekends are definitely not possible for him, Yoko-san’s and Mi-chan’s shifts mostly overlap as well.”
The speaker mumbled while rejecting one possibility after another, and glared at the shift timetable and Employee Contact List in turn.
“…….After looking at this again, it’s really amazing that the Café can be run in this situation……how will things turn out when the delivery services start later.”
After going off track for an instant, the speaker immediately shook his head and looked at the shift timetable again.
“So everything has to be settled within one week! Ugh, Ryuta can’t make it at night……”
Next to the ear of the troubled young man----
“It looks like you’re having a hard time~”
The laugh of a young lady who sounded like she could not emphatise at all was heard.
But the young man was alone in the room. Then where was the person who produced that laugh?
“It’s really tough in reality! Because during the many times when the shop manager is not around and I have to stay at the store, once I take a break, there will be no manager in the store!”
“Is it bad if the so-called manager is not around?”
“I say.”
The black haired young man Maou Sadao, unhappily shouted at the invisible voice who had been teasing him since just now.
“Because it’s bad when there not one around, that’s why it’s called a ‘Manager’! I’m busy now, be quiet!”
“Meanie~”
“Ugahhhh!”
Even though he knew it was fruitless resistance, Maou still scratched his head and shouted, trying to shut that voice up.
“Maou, you’ll cause trouble to the neighbours like this.”
But that voice still nonchalantly gave a happy laugh.
“……As long as I think of a way to settle the shifts for these two and a half days, I’ll be able to confirm the itinerary!”
“For that kind of thing, anything is fine~Maou, hurry and find older sister……”
“I’ll start another calling attack after calming down a bit! Someone please change shifts with me!”
“I thought the Demon King would be a more imposing existance, but unexpectedly, you’re quite soft!”
The more he cared about it, the more the other person would think it is interesting. Maou decided not to rebuke those hurtful remarks which he did not know were intentional or unintentional and full of ill chosen expressions.
Maou, who decied to take a short break, got up and stretched his stiff back and opened the door of the fridge in the kitchen.
“Eh? The mashed potato Gari Gari kun ice popsicle which I bought earlier……”
(T/N: Garigari-kun is the name of a famous Japanese ice pop brand and its mascot, created in 1981 by the ice cream company Akagi Nyugyo based in Fukaya.)
“Ah, sorry, I ate it.”
“Why youuuuu! That is something which cannot be bought for the time being because manufacturing cannot keep up with its popularity, damn itttt!”
Five seconds after deciding to ignore the other party, the king of Demons started to shout angrily, something he rarely did, because the popsicle he bought earlier was eaten.
“Maou-san? Maou-san, are you alright! What happened?”
Maou, who was so mentality messed up that he planned to hit his head against a pillar, suddenly regained his senses because he heard a frantic voice from outside his room.
“Is, is it Chi-chan?”
“Yeah, erhm, I heard some really crazy sounds just now, uh, is, is everything alright?”
The voice coming from outside came from a high school girl who was Maou’s junior at the workplace, and at the same time, someone who frequently sees Maou’s true form, existences from foreign worlds, and the mysteries of the Earth----the voice of Sasaki Chiho.
“I, I’m fine. W, wrong, it’s not as if it’s totally fine, but it’s nothing major, Chi-chan, I’m opening the door……”
“Someone is together with Chiho.”
“Huh?”
Maou, who was going to the porch to open the lock, even though he noticed that the voice in his mind, which was a nuisance, had a stern tone, he still subconsciously replied roughly because of the conflict just now.
“Er, erhm, Maou-san, if it’s not convenient right now, I can come back later……”
“Eh? Ah, it’s not like that, I’m sorry Chi-chan, it’s really nothing, the issue is not with you, a, anyway, come in first!”
Perhaps because she heard Maou’s unhappy voice, Chiho seemed to become a little timid, Maou opened the door while comforting her.
“Is, is it really alright?”
Then he saw Chiho who looked into the room rather warily----
“H……hello……”
And the figure of Suzuki Rika standing next to Chiho, who was looking in his direction with a doubtful expression.
“Oh, it’s you. Erhm, is your body alright?”
“Y, yeah. Even though I caused quite some trouble for Chiho-chan.”
Rika looked at Maou and Chiho’s eyes and clearly answered Maou’s question, as for Chiho, she blushed in embarassement.
Maou was inwardly surprised.
After all, the incident which Rika experienced when she visited the Demon Fortress three days ago could only be described as a disaster.
Rika, who was not used to seeing battles or supernatural situations like Chiho (even though it was to be expected), after being involved in the issues of Ente Isla was unable to recover at all, and rested at her home for three days.
During those three days, Chiho called and sent messages, and even occasionally visited Rika’s apartment to help her regain her spirits……
“Manufacturing cannot keep up with its popularity, what does that mean? Was the Gari Gari Kun you bought eaten by someone?”
“Oh……”
Being asked so directly, Maou became speechless on reflex.
“Eh? What happened with Gari Gari Kun?”
“Doesn’t Chiho-chan know? Gari Gari Kun has a flavor resembling potato and it’s not like a popsicle flavor at all, seems like because it’s too popular, they could not keep up with the demand?”
“I see!”
Rika, as part of the working population, seemed to be very sensitive to society’s trends, but Chiho was not clear about this area of information.
The sadness of having the popsicle eaten, the embarrassment of having other people hear his screams and the two girls discussing greatly about Gari Gari Kun in front of him caused Maou to feel like he had no place to hide.
“A, anyway, both of you came here for a reason right? Even though I have nothing to serve you, please come in first.”
Under Maou’s prompting, Chiho entered the Demon Fortress first.
“Excuse us. Ah, Maou-san, if you don’t mind, please accept this.”
Because she was worried about Rika behind her, Chiho intentionally spoke with a cheerful tone and walked into the Demon Fortress, then passed the shopping bag in her hands to Maou.
“This is something I bought on the way, if you don’t mind……”
“Oh, thanks……? Ga, Gari Gari Kun! And it’s the mashed potato flavor!”
“Eh? Really?”
Maou let out a cry of surprise as he recognized the legendary popsicle which he had just lost when he looked inside the bag, and Rika also looked towards the popsicle packaging in Maou’s hands in surprise.
“But when I bought this, I didn’t not know that it was in short supply.”
Chiho pointed towards the store name which was printed on the plastic bag.
“I only bought this because the liquior shop near my house happened to receive stocks.”
“Seriously! This thing recently became very popular and cannot be bought in many places! Thanks, Chi-chan!”
“I see. But it’s great that you like it!”
Rika looked at the smiling Chiho, and at Maou, who immediately tore open the packaging and started eating the popsicle happily, speechless.
“Er, erhm, Maou-san.”
Rika initiated a conversation with Maou who got distracted because of the popsicles.
“O, ooh, I’m sorry, anyway, please come in first.”
Maou, who discovered that he ignored his visitors, prompted Rika to enter the apartment, but the latter looked back at him with a stern expression and said to him,
“Emi and Ashiya……are not here after all right?”
“……Yeah, that’s right.”
Maou carefully held his popsicle and nodded with a serious expression.
That’s right, the man who would normally not allow Maou’s popsicle to disappear on its own, and controlled the kitchen and fridge was no longer around.
Ever since Maou started his grand plan of unifying the Demon World, this was the first time Ashiya Shiro----Demon General Alsiel was not at his side.
Maou and Emi’s common enemy, Ente Isla’s archangel Gabriel abducted Ashiya.
Ashiya was the loyal subject who was always by Maou’s side, even when Maou failed to conquer Ente Isla and drifted to the foreign place known as Japan. His disappearance made Maou feel as though he lost both his arms. Furthermore, according to what Gabriel said, Maou’s archnemesis, who plans to stop his plans of conquering Ente Isla chased him all the way to Japan, the Hero Emilia Justina also known as Yusa Emi was similarly imprisoned somewhere in Ente Isla.
“In the end, I did not get any information from Ashiya-san or Emi’s father and things became inconvenient after that….So I requested that Chiho-chan come over with me to hear the truth.”
“The truth?”
“Suzuno, Urushihara-san, Ashiya-san, Maou-san…all your issues and most importantly, Emi’s issues. I heard from Chiho-chan that Maou-san plans to go somewhere to search for Emi.”
“Erhm, yeah…but Suzuno and Urushihara’s issues are referring to…?
How much did Chiho tell Rika?
Maou glanced sideways towards Chiho and the girl shook her head in reply.
“I witnessed Urushihara-san and Suzuno go out in the rain and used some kind of superhuman jumping ability, I also saw Maou-san fly and then disappear into the sky. After that, I heard Ashiya-san say that Emi was not a person from Earth and then Ashiya-san gets captured by a bunch of weird people and disappears.”
From this incident, it can be seen that neither Maou nor the Ente Isla inquisitor who lives next to the Demon Fortress, Villa Rosa Sasazuka Room 202, Crestia Bell---Kamazuki Suzuno, had done any memory manipulation to Rika.
Therefore, Rika came over with Chiho leading the way.
Over to this apartment that was located in a corner of Tokyo, which had gathered many amazing residents.
“If you know anything about Emi, anything about my friend, please tell me.”
Rika wants to kow the truth behind her important friend, Yusa Emi.
Maou turned to the wall which was in the direction of room 202 because of Rika’s words and sighed lightly. “Eh, there’s no need to be so anxious. If you want to listen, I will tell you properly. But you would have to wait a bit. Suzuno and Amane-san…the lady who saved you, will come back later. It would be easier to explain properly then.” “…..I understand. Then I will wait here first.”
Rika replied with resolution. Seems like she had overcame the earlier shock she encountered.
After listening to what Maou had to say, she nodded straightforwardly and walked into the room. Then she slowly sat down next to the Kotatsu.
“You have some guts.”
“This was already enough to cause some trauma. Don’t think I look fine now. I was lying in bed for two days with a fever.” Rika smiled bitterly.
Even if that smile looked a little forced, Maou was not so clueless as to point it out.
“Suzuno-san went out?”
However, after Rika calmed down, it was Chiho’s turn to become restless.
“Hm? Yeah, she seemed to have gone somewhere with Amane-san this morning?”
“Is, is it the hospital?”
“Hm? Ah.”
After Maou’s sensed the reason for Chiho’s worry, he shook his head and replied,
“No, her injuries seemed to have mostly healed, this morning she even looked very energetic you know?”
“Ehhhh?”
Chiho shouted loudly in disbelief.
This was not unexpected, after all, Kamazuki Suzuno, living next to the Demon Fortress, during the incident three days ago where Rika was involved, in order to protect Chiho in the intense battle, she obtained a serious injury from her shoulder to her chest from the demon’s claw.
Even if Suzuno was a spell wielding Inquisitor in the foreign world Ente Isla, based on Chiho’s common sense, that kind of injury would definitely be unable to heal fully within three days.
“Sigh, about that, Amane-san is the one who gives off a stranger feeling. But that person would not talk about any important things at all.”
“……Yeah.”
Chiho nodded.
The full name of Amane the both of them referred to was Ooguro Amane, Maou, Chiho and the rest had worked at the beach house at Chiba prefecture, Choshi city ‘Ooguroya’, not only was Amane the shop manager there, she was also the niece of Shiba Miki, the landlady of Villa Rosa Sasazuka where the apartment of the Demon Fortress was located.
Even though the landlady Shiba and her niece Amane are Japanese, or more specifically, are Earthlings, but mysteriously, they already knew the true identities of Maou and the rest, especially Amane, she even exhibited strong powers a few times which even Maou, as the Demon King, found unbelievable.
“Amane-san……would really return to the apartment?”
“Yeah, because her luggage is kept in Suzuno’s room.”
These three days, Amane stayed in Suzuno’s room.
What Chiho was worried about was that Amane, like in Choshi earlier, would disappear after showing a mysterious power.
Until now, Amane did not explain her reason for coming to Sasazuka and even her actual identity was unknown, therefore Maou and Chiho were unable to trust her fully.
“They said they would return in the afternoon, so let’s just wait a bit.”
“I, I understand……ah, then again, I forgot because I was so worried for Suzuno-san. Maou-san.”
“Yeah?”
“Where is that child now?”
There was a trace of anger in Chiho’s tone, and this was probably not Maou’s imagination.
“……Are you referring to Acies? She’s here.”
Maou pointed at his own temple in irritation.
The owner of the voice had started to make a lot of noise since just now, wanting Maou to give her a mouthful of the mashed potato flavor Gari Gari Kun which he was currently eating.
“Here refers to……Maou-san!”
“I, I have no choice, because the principle seems to be like this! Honestly, even though she’s noisy now, if I let her out, she would really do anything she wants, it’s annoying.”
Chiho’s expression changed to an obviously unhappy one, and even though Maou tried to find excuses to palter it----
“When explaining to Suzuki-san, you need to, mention Acies-chan! Please, let her out!”
Chiho still angrily grabbed the front of Maou’s shirt and shook Maou in accordance with her speaking rhythm.
“Gyaaa, Chi-chan, don’t shake, the popsicle is going to drop! I understand, I know, stop shaking! I’m not used to it yet, I can’t concentrate like this!”
After distancing himself from Chiho, who became very angrily even when nothing happened, Maou grabbed his head, which felt a bit whoozy, and stretched his hand towards an empty space.
“Hm……come out, Acies!”
The same time he said this, Maou’s body instantly glowed purple.
Even though Rika, seeing this at close distance, flinched in fright, unfortunately it was only at this moment did Chiho not have any leeway to be worried about Rika.
“Maou, give me one mouthful of that popsicle as well.
The faint purple glow emitted from Maou’s body did not head towards the direction his hand stretched out towards, but solidified on Maou’s back.
The other party was slightly younger than Chiho.
A young girl who had beautiful silver hair and a clump of purple hair at the front which definitely could not be found on a Japanese person, suddenly appeared in the empty space.
The problem was that from the instant she appeared, she was clinging to Maou’s back with all four limbs.
Not only that, in that position, she directly bit at the popsicle next to Maou’s mouth from behind, Chiho, who had a crush on Maou, could not ignore this situation at all.
“A, A, Acies-chan, what are you doing to Maou-san?”
“Hm~making physical contact with my partner?”
“A, Acies, what are you doing! Let go of me!”
Maou, who summoned Acies, also felt surprised.
Even though until now, Acies had never appeared in the way Maou imagined it to be, but she did not need to especially come out in this manner.
“Hm~Maou gets shy really easily!”
“That’s not the problem! I’m not even giving you one mouthful! Didn’t you already eat my snacks without asking me!”
“This and that are contained in different stomachs!”
“Don’t speak Japanese so fluently only when it’s advantageous to you! I’m definitely not giving you any!”
Just as the king of Demons and the mysterious girl argued greatly over a popsicle and were quarrelling in an ugly manner----
“Stop, this, right, now!”
“Ugoh!”
“Wahh!”
Chiho interrupted forcefully and pulled Acies off Maou.
“Chiho-chan, what are you doing!”
“I also bought Acies-chan’s share, so you can’t snatch Maou-san’s popsicle!”
“Eh~but things taken from other people taste especially good……”
“Even so, you can’t do it!”
“Uuuu……I understand.”
Perhaps because she was afraid of Chiho’s vigour, Acies honestly backed off and searched for the same thing Maou was eating in the shopping bag Chiho had brought over.
“Ooh, Acies actually listened……Chi-chan is amazing……”
Maou looked at Chiho’s back and said this in awe.
“……Maou-san.”
“Y, yes?”
Even though Chiho should not be scolding Maou for what he said just now, but after detecting something similar to killing aura from the expression she showed as she turned back, Maou could not help but straighten his posture.
“If you spoil Acies-chan too much, when Alas=Ramus-chan returns, she might dislike you because of jealously you know.”
“O, Oh?”
“A, and, this isn’t good at all! Even though there might be many complicated reasons, but Acies-chan is still a girl!”
“Uh, even though saying this is a little underhanded, but Acies really doesn’t listen to me……”
“That’s not the problem!”
“Uoh?”
Even if Maou tried his hardest to defend himself, he deeply felt that he was not at the same frequency as the blushing Chiho who was glaring at him.
“A, actually en, engaging in such vigorous ph, physical contact with a girl in broad daylight, th, this is not good at all!”
“Chi, Chi-chan? Hey, have you misunderstood something, I did not……”
“This can’t be helped. After all, I have already merged with Maou in mind and body!”
“Uh~~!”
“Chi, Chi-chan! Calm, calm down a little, you should know that is just an expression problem! Acies, you as well, even though you only partially know Japanese, why are you so knowledgeable when it comes to that kind of thing!”
Even though Acies sounded like she was provoking Chiho, but ignoring the mind part, the fact that both their bodies were merged was a fact.
A clump of purple hair was mixed in Acies’s silver hair.
That is the special characteristic of the children born from the Sephirah----the orbs which make up the word of Ente Isla, and around Maou and Chiho, there was another person with similar characteristics.
That was the young girl who merged with the ‘Evolving Holy Sword, One Wing’ wielded by Hero Emilia, who loved the Demon King Maou and the Hero Emilia as parents, Alas=Ramus.
Even though it was really unbelievable from both their growth rates, it was said that Acies was equivalent to Alas=Ramus’s younger sister.
As sisters, Acies and Alas=Ramus seemed to be equivalent existances, not only did she successfully merge with Maou in contrast with Emi and Alas=Ramus’s relationship, she even helped to solve a certain incident three days ago.
Just from the result, after that, Acies was still merged with Maou, and as expected, like Emi and Alas=Ramus, once she appeared outside, she could not stray too far away from her dependant Maou.
So Acies, who was originally not afraid of strangers, suddenly greatly changed her attitude after merging with Maou.
Even Chiho, who would normally not display obvious feelings of jealously when other females approach Maou was not able to keep her cool, that was how close Acies was sticking to Maou.
It should have been like this----
“You’re called Rika right? Does Rika want to eat a popsicle?”
But she immediately lost interest in the troubled Maou and Chiho who was shaking in anger and turned to pass a popsicle to Rika, who was staring at the three people arguing and not knowing what to do.
“I, I don’t need one, thanks.”
And when she was rejected, she even became a little depressed.
“Maou-san.”
“Y, yes!”
Under Chiho’s cold gaze, Maou subconsciously straightened his posture.
“It’s good if Yusa-san and Ashiya-san can come back soon!”
“You’re right!”
Maou answered with a respectful tone in reflex.
From the side, Rika watched the strange power relationship amongst the three people.
“……I really don’t understand at all.”
Just as she tilted her head a few times and was mumbling----
“Oh, it’s Suzuno’s message. They seem to be returning soon.”
Maou’s outdated mobile phone received a message.
It was a message from Kamazuki Suzuno who went out, saying that she will return to the apartment in 30 minutes.
“Oh, that’s great. In the morning, I asked Amane to buy popsicles~”
“How many popsicles do you want to eat. I won’t care if you get a stomachache.”
Even if he knew that the other party would not answer, Maou still could not help but rebuke.
“Sigh, then when Suzuno and Amane come back, we will start to discuss how to save Emi, Alas=Ramus, Ashiya and Emi’s father. I’ll think about the shift timetable later.”
Just as Maou arranged the shift timetable on the kotatsu and spoke to smooth things over----
“I say……”
“Kya!”
A weak sounding voice which did not belong to anyone present was heard in the room, casuing Rika to stand up in surprise.
The gazes of everyone, except for Acies, focused on the closet.
“It’s fine even if everyone forgets about my existance, but can all of you quieten down a bit. I am different from Bell and have not fully recovered. If the noise around me is too loud, my injuries will hurt.”
They only saw the closet open slightly, and the Demon Fortresses bad debt, Demon General Lucifer, self declared first rate NEET Urushihara Hanzo, showed a plaintive expression from within.

Emi and Ashiya were currently imprisoned in Ente Isla.
In the beginning, this statement was not really appropriate.
After all, Emi came to here from Ente Isla in order to chase Maou, the Demon King, and Ashiya used to carry out conquering activities in Ente Isla as a demon.
In the end, Ente Isla was the place the both of them should be.
But without question, the both of them are imprisoned in the place which they should return to.
The beginning of everything started when Emi decided to return to her hometown in order to confirm what her parents’ standpoint was in Ente Isla and what kind of past they had.
At the point of time, even her enemy Maou, had never expected Emi, known as the strongest human in the world, will meet up with any danger.
However, after the agreed return date passed and Emi did not come back, it was also the same for Alas=Ramus, who was merged with the ‘Evolving Holy Sword, One Wing’ which Emi had.
After that, Maou who planned to take a Moped driving license because of the new business model at his workplace, because he worried too much----mainly with regards to Alas=Ramus, suffered a Waterloo during the theory exam.
(T/N: Waterloo probably refers to the Battle of Waterloo, where Napolean was defeated.)
After that, in the situation where Emi still had not returned, Maou headed to the Fuchu Driving Exam Centre to take his second test and he met a strange father-daughter pair.
This father-daughter pair who called themselves Satou Hiroshi and Satou Tsubasa, obviously acted like they were unused to Japan, got on the bus Maou was on at the Tenmondai-mae bus stop at Mikata.
Because he accidentally got involved with them, Maou was pestered by the both of them during the nerve wrecking second theory exam.
Even though it was not his original intention, Maou still unexpectedly discovered that Satou Hiroshi was actually Emi’s father, who was thought to have died during the invasion of the Demon Army, Nord Justina; and Satou Tsubasa was the younger sister of Alas=Ramus, born from the ‘Yesod’ Sephirah, Acies=Ala.
Just as Maou was busy handling the rapidly developing situation surrounding the Satou father and daughter, the high ranking demons in the Demon World who have been appearing around Maou in different ways, the Chief of the Malebranche Clan also intentionally appeared at the school Chiho studied at, Sasahata High School, at almost the same time, causing Chiho to face a predicament where she had to confront a demon.
Even if Suzuno and Urushihara immediately went to help Chiho, both of their departures were seen by Emi’s friend who knew nothing about Ente Isla----Suzuki Rika, causing her to start interrogating Ashiya about the truth.
Just as Ashiya gave up and planned to admit to everything, Maou, who borrowed Acies’s power in order to save Chiho from danger, literally flew back from the driving centre and after depositing Nord at the Demon Fortress, he flew off again.
As a result, only Rika, Ashiya and Nord, these strange members, were left in the Demon Fortress.
Even so, the three of them still decided to discuss about the truths about what happened to them, but at this time, Gabriel actually led the Josokin Knights and lauched an attack on Villa Rosa Sasazuka.
Even with the intervention of the shop manager of the Choshi beachhouse ‘Ooguroya’, Ooguro Amane, only Rika was saved, Nord and Ashiya were captured by Gabriel, as for Suzuno and Urushihara, they were seriously injured because of the archangel Camael, the comrade of the Malebranche Chief Libicocco.
Just like Emi who obtained strong power from merging with Alas=Ramus, Maou, who arrived at Chiho’s school much later than Suzuno and Urushihara, successfully pushed back Camael and Libicocco after merging with Acies.
But it was not only that.
Chiho, Suzuno and Urushihara were injured because of this, Ashiya and Nord were captured by others, and Maou, who knew that Emi and Alas=Ramus were imprisoned in Ente Isla, this situation was a total defeat.
Maou was the Demon King.
If Villa Rosa room 201 was the Demon Fortress, then Sasazuka is the city which the Demon Fortress started its development.
Ashiya Shiro, Urushihara Hanzo, Sasaki Chiho, Kamazuki Suzuno and his enemy Hero Yusa Emi, were all the Demon Generals personally appointed by the Demon King Satan.
In other to conquer the word in a new way, these were the ‘subordinates’ and ‘comrades’ who Maou deemed were necessary.
Protecting his subordinates, was the responsibility of Maou as superior and master.
He needed to make these idiots who made an enemy out of the True Demon Army pay.
Demon King Satan decided to borrow the powers of his ‘comardes’ in Japan, lead the newly formed Demon Army and depart from Japan, going out to battle to the Basilica Continent Ente Isla.
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“This can’t be true……”
Maou’s gaze shifted around in a dazed manner.
“How can this kind of thing happen!”
“Maou-san……”
Maou could not hide the regret in his voice, causing Chiho to place her hand on his shoulder in order to comfort him.
“But, this is reality. Even though it might be a cruel reality to you.”
Crestia Bell, Kamazuki Suzuno said these cold words to Maou who had lost his spirit.
“This means that your current power is only substandard.”
“Suzuno-san! You’ve gone too far saying that!”
“Chiho-dono, no matter how you defend the Demon King, the reality will not change.”
“D……Damn it……”
The sound of Maou hitting the tatami in extreme regret echoed quietly within the room.
“Why……Why……!”
Maou clenched his teeth, glared at Suzuno with a strong but sad gaze and shouted with all his might,
“Why did you obtain the license earlier than me!!”
“Maou, you’re noisy.”
The voice of Urushihara feeling a lot of pain was heard from the closet, but right now, Maou did not have the luxury of noticing that kind of thing.
This is because Suzuno, receiving Maou’s gaze with a composed expression on her face was holding a shiny card----that was a driving license with Kamazuki Suzuno’s name and photo on it.
“I only took it because I felt that there is a need. After all, looking at you like this, you should be unable to take a re-test before setting off.”
“Even so……even so……”
Maou turned around suddenly and rushed to the window, pointing to the yard below him and shouted,
“Why do you have to buy a Moped directly after getting your license! Are you trying to find trouble with me! Is this mocking me!”
Within the yard of Villa Rosa Sasazuka, next to Maou’s precious steed Dullahan II, there was a beautiful Moped shining under the sun parked there, and it was even the famous commercial grade vehicle Honda GYRO ROOF.
A standard vehicle roof accessory and the exemplary safe three wheel style. As it was able to transport light goods irregardless of the weather, it was greatly favoured by pizza delivery and other similar businesses.
“Hey, Chiho-chan, why is Maou-san so worked up?”
Even though he was finally able to regain his spirits because of the popsicles Chiho bought, Maou still lost his cool immediately after Suzuno returned, causing Rika to ask Chiho about the reason in surprise.
Chiho gave a troubled smile, and whispered in Rika’s ear,
“Maou-san has already failed his driving test twice. The first time was because he failed his theory exam, the second time was because on the day of the exam, before the practical, he went to save me……”
“……Oh.”
“Are you finding trouble with me? MgRonalds delivery is going to use that! No matter how I see it, you’re mocking me right!”
“It can’t be helped. After all, if I do not have a license, I won’t be able to drive it back even if I bought a Moped. If so, the only option is to get a license.”
Suzuno, sitting next to Chiho, was not concerned abou Maou’s anxiousness at all, and stared at him with a stern expression.
“Or are you saying that you plan to move around in Ente Isla without a means to move over long distances?”
“Ugh……uh, erhm……”
“With the powers you and I have, we will be detected once we fly in the air. At least on the other side, there is Gabriel, Camael and the Chieftians of the Malebrache.”
“B, but to a certain extent, we can already pinpoint the location……”
“If we are unable to immediately move to a faraway place to hide our whereabouts after the opening and closing of the gate is detected, it would be meaningless.”
“B, but even if you plan to use a Moped……Ente Isla doesn’t have internal combustion engines you know? If you just do not wish for holy magic or demonic magic to be detected, we can buy horses after getting there……”
“Are you able to ride a horse?”
Even if Maou kept protesting, he still kept quiet after Suzuno chided him loudly when she could not tolerate it anymore.
“Currently, we cannot confirm how long we will wander around in Ente Isla! And we still have to bring the appropriate amount of luggage over! Since we cannot even confirm if we can control the ‘gate’ properly, then we definitely have to move quickly! If so, then we definitely have to prepare as much as we can in Japan! Or do you plan to cross the Eastern Continent on a bicycle, or earn money right now to manage horses?”
“……”
Maou, who had nothing to say in return, could only sit next to the window unhappily.
“Even though I never ridden a horse, but if it’s a wyvern, I am confident that I will not lose to anyone……”
No matter how strange the world of Ente Isla seemed when seen from Earth, humans still do not tame wyverns.
“Sigh……listen carefully, Demon King.”
“What.”
“Look carefully, this Moped is a single seater.”
“Yeah.”
“Even if it is in a place where Japanese laws have no control, I do not wish to share the same vehicle as you.”
“Y, yeah?”
“T, that would result in a 20,000 yen fine.”
Chiho overreacted to two people riding on the same vehicle and started to say strange things.
“Chiho-chan, that is for bicycles. For Mopeds, the demerit points and fines are rather different.”
Rika rebuked her softly.
“So……”
“O, oh.”
From Suzuno’s well formed lips-----
“I bought another one for you to ride. If you ride a Moped in Ente Isla, you would not need a license.”
She said something shocking.
“……Another one?”
“Yeah.”
“Moped?”
“Yeah.”
“……You bought it?”
“Who else will buy it.”
Suzuno said directly. The atmosphere in the room momentarily froze, then-----
“It can’t beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???”
“Maou……you’re really noisy.”
“E, even though I felt it was unbelievable before! But how much money do you have?”
Urushihara complained again because of Maou’s scream, but this time it was not just Maou, even Chiho also asked in surprise,
“I, I’m not so clear about this area, but Mopeds should not be that cheap right?”
“It is very expensive, but I did not buy a new one. Amane-san should be riding the other one back soon. The price of both of them is around 50,000 in total. Luckily, the seller prepared well, so the transaction took place quickly, it was really a big help.”
Suzuno easily threw out the number 50,000.
“F……fifty…..f, f……fifty thousand……”
His brain lined up the ‘0’ which he had never seen before, causing Maou to momentarily feel dizzy.
“M, Maou-san! Maou-san? G, get a hold of yourself!”
“Is, is he alright? His face looks bad.”
Chiho and Rika rushed to Maou’s side, who had fainted in a textbook like manner.
Chiho looked towards Maou’s sweating pale face in worry, but Acies’s head suddenly blocked her vision.
“Alright, let’s do CPRuh!”
“He’s still breathing! It’s not needed! Acies-chan can sit at the side obediently and eat your popsicle!”
Chiho pulled Acies away from Maou with all her effort.
“……It feels different from the situation which I was mentally prepared to face.”
Watching Chiho’s and Acies’s secret battle, Rika picked up the fan in front of her and started to fan Maou’s face.
At this moment, a light engine sound was heard approaching from afar and stopped below the apartment.
After some sounds of someone climbing the stairs, that person opened the porch door of the Demon Fortress.
“Oh my~I’m sorry, I got lost after taking a detour. But I bought cheap fuel……uh, what is this situation?”
A brown skinned Ooguro Amane with a black ponytail carried a helmet while staring in surprise at Maou inside the room and Chiho and Acies who were arguing relentlessly.
With the arrival of Chiho, Suzuno, Rika, Amane and Acies, causing the female density in the Demon Fortress to have a rare increase, Maou, who gradually regained consciousness, groaned with a poor complexion while lying down.
“Two for 50,000 huh……I don’t know whether to say well-prepared, or too well-prepared, isn’t that spending too much money? Is there a need to prepare so completely?”
Suzuno, who felt flabbergasted at Maou’s words, looked towards Acies sitting in the corner of the room eating her popsicle while watching the situation unfold.
“Your power right now is definitely overwhelming. Considering the situation when Emilia and Alas=Ramus are merged, perhaps just Demon King alone would be able to suppress Gabriel and Camael. But don’t forget, this time Alsiel, Emilia and Alas=Ramus have become hostages. Even if battle cannot be avoided in the end, but in the end, we have to move quickly and secretly, trying our best to not interact with the enemy until the last possible moment.”
“Acutally taking older sister as a hostage, those people are too much! They should get a death sentence!”
“Hey, Acies-chan, your popsicle is going to drop~”
Amane’s warning did not have any effect, Acies’s second popsicle of the day left her hand and dropped onto the tatami.
“Ahhh! My popsicle…..angels, unforgivable!”
“Ah, let me wipe it.”
Just as Chiho walked quickly to the sink, wrung a cloth dry and returned----
“Chiho, don’t throw it! Such a waste!”
“Ah, y, yeah……”
Chiho returned the popsicle she picked up to Acies ad start to wipe the stain on the tatami.
Acies did not mind the fact that it had dropped on the floor before and started to continue eating the popsicle.
“Erhm, can I ask a question?”
At this moment, Rika raised her hand and spoke.
“Ah, I’m sorry, Rika-dono. This is because Maou……Demon King is too noisy. We should explain properly to Rika-dono right.”
Suzuno turned towards Rika in realization.
Even though the members are different, the interaction just now were unexpectedly close to the usual scenes at the Demon Fortress.
The only difference was probably just Suzuno referring to Maou as ‘Demon King’ in front of Rika.
“Y, yeah, sorry, even though all of you seem busy, but in the end, what kind of people is everyone?”
Chiho, who had asked the exact same question as Rika, suddenly felt a strange emotion.
“Ne, it’s a rare chance, why don’t we let Chiho-chan handle this explanation?”
“Eh?”
Amane suddenly named Chiho.
As for Chiho herself, she was holding the cloth while blinking nervously.
“I feel that even if Maou-kun or Suzuno-chan explains, Rika-chan would probably not know what to believe. Considering this, if it’s Chiho-chan, who is in the same position as Rika-chan, it should be more trustworthy from an objective standpoint right?”
“Yeah, perhaps it would be better that way.”
Suzuno also agreed with this opinion, Maou who gradually recovered from the chaos looked towards Chiho with a stern gaze, looks like he also felt that this was a good idea.
“I, I can do it if everyone is fine with it……Suzuki-san doesn’t not mind as well?”
“Uh……before that, I want to ask a question, Chiho-chan seems to be very used to Maou-san and Suzuno and the others doing strange things. Don’t tell you that you’re actually a high school girl who can use supernatural powers and fight with bad guys like in manga?”
“Pu!”
Rika’s response to Chiho was actually extremely unexpected in some sense.
“Uh, erhm……how should I say this?”
If it was the Chiho from earlier, she might still be able to deny it, but as someone who had already learnt one kind of spell from Ente Isla, she was unable to directly deny it right now.
Maou helped the hesitant Chiho answer,
“Chi-chan is different. In the beginning, she had nothing to do with us, she was simply my junior in the workplace, a high school girl who can be found anywhere.”
Even though ‘nothing to do with us, she was simply my junior in the workplace’, these descriptions hurt Chiho, because she knew that Maou did not mean it that way, she did not interrupt.
“But she was the same as you this time, knowing the truth because she was involved Emi and my issues. Even if she had experienced a situation which was scarier than what you faced, Chi-chan still said that she did not want to forget these things. So now, she is still willing to be with us, just like this.”
“Chiho-chan, is that true?”
Rika, unable to understand how deep Chiho’s determination was asked, and Chiho answered after thinking for a bit,
“Like this, hm……”
Even though Rika had also experienced an unusual experience of being attacked by strangely dressed knights……
“My situation, how should I say this, the first time I noticed the strong powers of Maou-san and the others was when I was almost flattened by a collapsed highway……”
“Eh?”
Rika gave a stony expression because of the content Chiho nonchalantly said.
After that, Chiho, with a raised finger, started to talk about her experiences such as being kidnapped and brought to the roof of the Metropolian building, being surrounded by weapon wielding angels from the Heavenly Troops, watching large groups of demons fight close up, being sent to hospital because of demonic magic poisoning, the fight at Tokyo Tower where she flew around and the two times she voluntarily confronted large demons.
“Even though it’s strange to say it now, but it’s amazing that I survived until now.”
In the end, she made this kind of conclusion.
“……”
Rika’s face becoming pale should not be a result of Chiho’s imagination. After Chiho discovered this----
“Ah, ahhh! But, because Maou-san, Yusa-san and Suzuno-san protect me everytime, so in reality, I didn’t get hurt at all you know?”
she frantically showed her lively side.
“B, but you still met with danger right? And you even went to the hospital……”
“R, rather than saying that it was something which was out of my control, it’s more like most of the responsibility lies with me, and even though I did go to the hospital, I was discharged the next day because there were no complications.”
The fact that Chiho obviously triggered Rika’s fear made Chiho anxious, so Maou lent a helping hand.
“Erhm, we are able to let you forget everything about us. In addition, we are also aware that these things do not follow common sense, so you’re free to not believe us. No matter what conclusion you make, we will respect your will, regardless of whether you forget us or not, we will try our best to protect you so you will not meet any danger.”
“Uughh……”
“It’s fine even if you don’t wish to be involved with us any longer, we will definitely not stop protecting you because of this. If you feel that today is too tiring, we can talk about it another day. Uh, but because we are going on a trip soon, you might have to wait until we return……”
“R, returning after hearing all this, will only bother and scare me……no, but, erhm, even though I don’t know where all of you are going, but it’s very dangerous right?”
“Yeah……probably.”
“At least this journey would not be as safe as travelling within Japan.”
Maou and Suzuno answered honestly.
Rika looked at both of them in turn and asked jitterly,
“I say, if what all of you said is true, hasn’t it been a long time since Emi went to that different world which is not Japan……Emi will be fine right? To Emi, isn’t that an unsafe place as well?”
““““…………ah.””””
Faced with this question, Maou, Chiho, Suzuno and Urushihara within the closet made a sound as if they only just discovered something.
“W, what is it?”
“Erhm, even though you might feel that we are cold for saying so……but we have never worried about Emi being hurt or being in danger.”
“Eh?”
Maou continued to speak, selecting his words carefully,
“……Emi’s strength, cannot be measured with your imagined human standards at all.”
“S, she said before that her leg bone was fractured when she saved me, but when I think about it, she also healed immediately after……”
Chiho added on in a tone like it was hard for her to say so.
“That, even know I do not know what kind of example I can use to help Rika-dono understand.”
“If it’s the Yusa who returned to Ente Isla, forget about guns or swords, even if she was attacked from behind by a tank, I think she would be unharmed.”
“This isn’t a manga!”
Rika could not help but rebuke Suzuno and Urushihara’s words.
But Maou calmly accepted what Rika pointed out.
“Sigh, you having that reaction is normal. But on the other hand, the problem is that Emi, with this kind of strength, was actually unable to return. Perhaps Emi is not facing a physical problem, but is unable to come back because of mental issues, I am actually worried about this.”
“Eh?”
“Oh?”
“Hm?”
“Huh?”
For unknown reasons, Chiho, Suzuno and Urushihara seemed to be unable to accept Maou’s calm answer to Rika’s words, and looked towards Maou in surprise, and Maou himself, surprised at the reactions from the trio, stared back at them.
“W, what’s up with all of you? Did I say something strange?”
“……Aren’t you aware of it?”
“……Seems like he’s not.”
“Maou-san……I’m happy, Maou-san is kind after all.”
“W, what is going on?”
“What is this……?”
Maou felt it was strange, and Rika was of course clueless.
““No, it’s nothing……””
“Eh heh heh……”
Urushihara and Suzuno replied in unison. And only Chiho looked at Maou happily.
Even though he felt uncomfortable because of these vague and difficult to understand reactions, Maou still stared at Rika and continued to speak,
“A, anyway, even if Emi will be fine after being hit by the tank, she is still human. Although she has invincible powers, humans will still be restrained by various shackles and feelings right? If Emi met up with any trouble, I feel that this kind of problem will be more likely. And you might know about a girl called Alas=Ramus, she is currently with Emi because of some reasons. We also need to consider the safety of that child. Even though it might look like we are
handling this matter leisurely from your viewpoint, but spending this time to evaluate the situation and preparing is actually appropriate.”
“Sigh……it feels that I cannot really grasp the scale of this matter……”
Faced with this information exceeding her processing power, Rika pressed her hand against her forehead and covered her eyes.
“Then, what do you plan to do next, it feels like we have already told you many things, have you decided whether to cut off ties with us……”
“About this, let me decide after I properly listened to everything.”
Only this answer was certain.
“……Is that so?”
“Chiho-chan is the same right? Then I want to do that as well. I want to think about it after properly accepting the matters about Emi.”
“How lovable.”
“Amane, what does lovable mean?”
“It means that a person is so cute that you want to tight~ly hug them, just like this, tight~ly!”
“Tightttly!”
Chiho ignored the noisy Amane and Acies and said to Rika,
“Even though it might be a little underhanded to say this before explaining……”
“Chiho-chan?”
“But……I hope Yusa-san would be able to gain another true friend.”
“……”
Chiho’s unexpected words caused Rika to momentarily become speechless, she surveyed her surroundings in surprise.
After seeing the expressions of Maou, Suzuno and Urushihara, who poked his head out of the closet, Rika sighed, moved her gaze to Chiho’s face and said,
“Even though it’s not like it’s fine as long as lies aren’t told, I also have things which I find difficult to tell others.”
“Suzuki-san?”
“I will not be influenced by Chiho-chan. On the contrary, I will honestly accept all of this. So tell me. The things about Emi, Maou-san and the others, tell me everything without holding anything back.”
Rika, with her normal attitude, looked at Chiho with a gaze containing strong determination.
After Chiho showed a kind smile----
“Then, let’s start from when I knew about Maou-san and the others……”
and started to slowly talk about the truth about Maou, Emi and Ente Isla.
“Sigh~~~~~~”
After Rika heard everything from Chiho, she sighed deeply, then----
“Like this, no wonder Emi dislikes Maou-san.”
She glared at Maou with a stony expression.
“Are you willing to believe me?”
"After all, Ashiya-san did disappear in front of me, and I also saw Suzuno and Urushihara-san demonstrate abnormal jumping abilities with my own eyes, and Maou-san and Acies flying through the air.”
In addition, to help with Chiho’s explaination, not only did Suzuno demonstrate changing her hairclip into a giant hammer on the spot, Maou and Acies also showed their merging and separation, all of this forced Rika to believe them.
Rika nodded tiredly to reply Chiho’s question, then----
“Uwahhhh, I really want to hide in a hole right now, it’s really embarrassing!”
She suddenly grabbed her head and leaned back, falling backwards on the tatami.
“Suzu, Suzuki-san?”
“It’s so embarrassing, I might as well die in the hole.”
“W, what’s going on?”
Maou also felt surprised at Rika’s reaction, Rika got up with tears in her eyes and grabbed Suzuno’s hands from the front.
“R, Rika-dono?”
“Suzuno, I’m sorry, really sorry! Forget about what happened that day! Being the only person not knowing anything and doing that kind of thing, I’m really sorry, gah, I’m going to die from shame!”
“W, what happened that day refers to?”
Rika’s sudden regret caused Suzuno to become dumbfounded.
“What happened the day I first met Suzuno that is! Uwah, didn’t I lose control that day, and said many unnecessary things? I really thought, ah I hate this……uwahhhh.”
“Ah, so you’re referring to what happened that time.”
After describing to that point, Suzuno finally remembered.
When Rika first met Suzuno, she had assumed and misunderstood that Suzuno was Emi’s rival in vying for Maou, and interfered with unnecessary things.
“But I intentionally made you misunderstand, and after misunderstanding, it was also cleared up on the spot. Rika-dono would not have known about us in the first place, so there is no need to be so bothered……”
“That’s not the problem! Even though I might have not known anything, I actually, in front of Ashiya-san of all people……uwahhhhhhh!”
“H, hm?”
Even though she still felt a little confused, Suzuno still hugged the teary eyed Rika and patted her back lightly.
“It’s alright, the ones in the wrong are us, who have been keeping secrets, Rika-dono is not at fault at all.”
“Uwahhhh, so embarrassinggggg!”
Suzuno tried her best to comfort Rika who started crying loudly with a red face.
“Suzu, Suzuki-san is fine, right?”
“She seems to be unable to accept some parts of the truth.”
Chiho and Maou looked at each other, compared to the true identities of Maou and Emi, Rika seems to have received a huge shock because of a certain incident, but at least from this, she does not seem to dislike Maou and the others.
“The thoughts of young people right now are really adaptable.”
Only at this moment did Amane seem to be surprised at Rika’s reaction.
“Sigh, anyway, Suzuki Rika has also accepted it.”
“I haven’t accepted it at all! When Emi and Ashiya-san comes back, how am I supposed to face them!”
“…………It’s about time we start discussing our action plans in Ente Isla right?”
Even though Maou did not know the details, but it seems like the mine buried between Rika, Suzuno, Emi, Ashiya and himself, had significant explosive power.
But right now, there was no time to comfort Rika, so Maou ignored her temporarily and picked up the pieces of paper placed on the kotatsu.
“This is the information and map related to the Eastern Continent which Ashiya left behind. He seemed to have deduced that Emi is in the Eastern Continent quite some time back, which also means that she met up with trouble in Afashan.”
“W, why is that?”
Suzuno, who continued to hug Rika, turned her head towards Maou and asked.
“About that, I’m not sure, but the main reason should be because that is the base of the Malebranches who have been instigated by Olba. In a different way from Chi-chan, Olba is the only human who understands Emi’s power and origins completely, and Afashan is currently declaring war on the different countries right? There should be a limit on how suspicious they are. So, Urushihara.”
“……Yeah.”
Under Maou’s instructions, Urushihara stretched out a hand from within the closet.
He was holding a wrinkled namecard in his hand.
“What is that?”
Chiho took the namecard from Urushihara’s hand, and discovered that a mobile phone number was recorded on it.
“That is Gabriel’s mobile phone number.”
“Eh? Why is there such a thing?”
“W, why would an angel have a mobile phone! The Demon King communicating over the phone with an angel, what kind of hotline is thisss!”
Whether they were confused about the fact that an archangel from a foreign world would have a mobile phone was sufficient enough to prove the difference in experience between Chiho and Rika.
“Yeah, anyway, thanks to that good-for-nothing leaving the namecard with Urushihara, at least we can confirm that Ashiya, Emi, Alas=Ramus and Emi’s father are at Afashan.”
“Why are you sure about this?”
Chiho felt suspiscious about Maou’s words which did not seem to relate.
Maou’s answer was simple,
“After calling, he admitted it directly.”
“…….Is it fine to believe him like that?”
Chiho was familiar with Gabriel’s personality, so it was not strange for her to voice these doubts.
Since Gabriel’s personality was elusive, and the actions he made within the range of sight of Maou and the others lacked consistency, taking actions advantageous to them even if he was an enemy, his true intentions could not be seen through at all.
“I know what you want to say.”
Maou gave a wry smile.
“But at least in just this situation, he has no reason to make contact with us in order to lie. The matter with Emi as well, after all as long as he keeps silent, we would be unable to take action at all.”
“He might have predicted that we would think that way and plans to checkmate us that way……”
Urushihara, who obtained the method of contact from Gabriel said in distress, and Maou also nodded seriously,
“So just in case, I am leaving you in Japan.”
“I know, but I need to wait until I healed to be able to move……”
Urushihara, who already lacked dominance and motivation, said in a weaker voice compared to normal.
“Urushihara-san, you’re not going with Maou-san?”
Chiho asked in surprise.
Suzuno would be able to open a ‘gate’ as long as she has an amplifer, so it was already confirmed from the beginning that she would accompany Maou to Ente Isla.
Even if she had learnt Idea Link, Chiho was not so immature to want to go to Ente Isla, where the degree of danger cannot even be compared to Japan.
With a body which could not match up to Suzuno toughness at all, if she appeared on the battlefield, what kind of burden would she cause to Maou and the others, about this point, she had already deeply understood it from the battle between Suzuno and the Heavenly Troops at Sasahata High school.
But Urushihara, no matter how fallen, was still a Demon General. Even though he was like this now, but he still showed a certain level of standard when he rescued Chiho from danger, if he returned to Ente Isla, he should be an important fighting force.
“It’s more like, we are unable to bring him over.”
Suzuno, who freed herself from Rika after much difficulty, answered Chiho.
“Even though I calculated it repeatedly, considering the situation when going and returning, it’s already pushing it with me and the Demon King. After all……”
Suzuno looked towards Acies next to the window.
“She’s heavier than expected.”
“I’m not that heavy! How rude!”
Even though Acies protested, but Suzuno did not mean it that way.
“And even if we do not consider the situation when we are going there, we still have to bring Alsiel and Emilia’s father with us when returning. Even though we would be able to accumulate enough holy magic to create a ‘gate’ as long as we have Emilia’s help, once more people pass through the ‘gate’, it would be harder to control. It is still better to leave some allowance.”
“And there will be trouble if the other party acts during the opening when we are not around. It would really be a disaster if Chi-chan or Suzuki Rika is targeted. So just in case, I am leaving Urushihara here.”
“If nothing happens, then staying here would be more relaxing……fu, owowow.”
Even though Chiho no longer doubts Maou and Urushihara with everything that has happened, but in Japan, where Urushihara (seems) to be unable to exert his power, how much protection he can provide was still worrying.
Perhaps he sensed Chiho’s thoughts, Maou nodded once and said,
“Don’t worry, even if something really happens, there is still Amane-san.”
“I knew you have this kind of plan.”
Amane, throwing the popsicle stick into the faraway bin, nodded like she had given up.
“Even though I did not come here for this purpose initially.”
“Then shouldn’t it be about time you tell us what you came here for?”
Until now, Amane had not said anything about the reason she came to Sasazuka.
But according to Suzuno, who let Amane stay in her room, Amane’s luggage only consisted for one box of clothes, wallet, cosmetics, mobile phone charger and other normal items, it looks like she did not come to Sasazuka for a mysterious reason.
As if to verify this point----
“Didn’t I say so? Because you messed up with the business of the beach house, I was scolded greatly after my dad returned, and he even said that it’s about time I became independent and chased me out.”
Amane started to repeat the explanation which she had been saying for the past three days.
If Ashiya was around, it feels like he would use this chance to chase Urushihara out of the house.
“Even though I’m grateful to Suzuno-chan for letting me stay, since I have already contacted Aunt Mi-chan, I think that the lock to a room in this apartment should already be unlocked.”
Amane puffed up her cheeks like a child, and sighed like she had given up,
“But the favour for providing lodging and food, if anything really happens, I would help you to protect Chiho-chan and Rika-chan. After all, up to this point, it is still considered my duty to a certain extent.”
Even though he did not know what Amane’s ‘duty’ referred to, Maou finally felt relieved after he obtained her promise.
Based on Rika’s explanation, even though Amane only protected Rika alone three days ago and watched as Ashiya and Nord were taken away, Maou deduced that this might be because the both of them were not facing any direct life threatening danger.
“Then……Suzuki Rika, what do you plan to do? Do you want your memories erased? Honestly, it would definitely be safer that way.”
“Rather than my memories, I would rather erase whatever happened that day……sigh.”
Even if she let go of Suzuno, Rika was still bothered about what happened ‘that day’.
She shook her head repeatedly, but said clearly,
“Honestly, even though I heard those words just now, I still feel afraid, even though there are more strange things……but I still wish to met Emi face to face, and decide after properly talking to her.”
“Suzuki-san!”
Chiho smiled happily.
“I see.”
Maou smiled lightly and nodded.
Suzuno and Amane seem to have no opinion about Rika’s judgement, and everyone present looked towards the documents on the kotatsu once again.
“Then returning to the original topic, even though Gabriel did not tell us the exact location of where Ashiya is in Afashan, but I have a rough idea.”
“Oh, let me hear what basis you have.”
Suzuno nodded to prompt Maou to continue, the latter pointed at the map with the main cities of Afashan indicated on it and said,
“The goal of Heaven, Olba and the Malebranches is Emi’s holy sword right? From how Gabriel and Raguel are searching for Emi’s parents, it can be understood why he would kidnap Emi’s father. But, why would they take Ashiya, take Alsiel?”
“Hm?”
“Barbaricca should know that we do not like the Malebranche, and from Olba’s standpoint, he should also know that when Alsiel returns to Ente Isla and regains his demon form, he would be a difficult opponent. In the battle at Tokyo Tower, the only person able to block Gabriel’s attack is Alsiel. However, Gabriel took Alsiel away, someone who would be an obstacle no matter who he faced. In other words, those people acting suspiciously in Afashan found a benefit in Alsiel which would overrule these disadvantages.”
“What do you mean?”
“Gabriel said, ‘Emilia is going to come here soon as well’. Emi is going to ‘head towards’ where Gabriel and Ashiya is.”
Maou looked down at a certain place on the map with a stern expression.
“If they want Hero Emilia and a Demon General to do something in Afashan, then no matter how meaningless that thing is, I can only think of one place.”
He pointed at a certain place and said,
“The place where Alsiel and I……met Hero Emilia for the first time. The only place where Hero Emilia was unable to successfully defeat a Demon General.”
Chiho, Suzuno and Urushihara, knowing about this for the first time, widened their eyes slightly.
“That is the capital of Afashan, the castle where the Unifying Azure Emperor is staying----“Azure Sky Canopy Castle”.”