3rd Demon General
Chapter 1
The Battle of Enta Isla and Earth?
I also decided that Italics will be Ente Isla speak "Speak."
Normal will be the Japanese "Speak."
My eyes widened in disbelief at the news that I heard. I grabbed the demon that was an underling to my army. "Are you sure?"
He spoke back to me in our native tongue. "Yes, General! General Lucifer is dead! Defeated by that Emilia the Hero!"
I snarled, dropping the demon. "Damn her, that cursed hero. A general lost to a human. The Devil must be told. Did many of you survive?"
He bowed his head, nodding. "Yes, General. Many of us survived."
I looked up as the castle shook. I scowled, my tail swishing angrily behind me. I tapped the talons on my fingers of my right hand against my left forearm in thought. "Alright, Lucifer may be lost, but we still have myself, Alciel and Satan himself."
I looked down and asked sharply. "Where is Lucifer's Army?"
"Protecting the Devil's Castle."
"Continue that with my army, I give my permission for that."
With another bow of the head, he disappeared. I wrapped my tail around my waist. I walked to the window and looked out. The fighting was happening down below. What I would give to join them. Sometimes I hated that King Satan has named me a General of his army.
I slammed a fist into the wall, cracking it and making masonry crumble to the ground. I didn't particularly like Lucifer (though I did get along with him a bit), with his mocking comments and almost amused attitude about everything, but he was still a demon general, it was insulting and worrying at the same time. What type of strength did Emelia the Hero have to defeat him?
I moved away from the window, moving him from my thoughts. We needed to think about King Satan. I felt my cape on my back as I jumped out the window and used my magic to fly up to the highest floor. I landed on the top where I saw Alciel and King Satan. I let my tail unwind from my waist.
"King Satan! Alciel!"
I walked forward with a purpose. "Lucifer is dead."
King Satan's red eyes narrowed. "What? How?"
I felt my upper lip curl into a snarl, exposing my sharp canines. "By that filthy human hero, Emelia."
My King's expression mirrored mine. Alciel cursed. "A General?!"
King Satan looked forward. "The human gets stronger."
I interjected. "Not much more, she would never be able to defeat you."
King Satan scoffed, smirking a bit. "Of course not."
Alciel bowed his head. "King Satan, I'll take vigil ahead."
He flew away, the identical cape to mine flapping behind him, only green. I held my hands behind my back. "King Satan, what do we do now?"
King Satan snorted. "Defeat the humans and that foolish Hero. We still have demons at our command."
I let out a sharp bark of laughter, which King Satan mirrored. I said. "My Lord, I shall go ahead!"
With that, I jumped out the window, allowing my magic to keep me in the air. I noticed the human army fighting down below with the other demons. I grinned sharply. At the corner of my eye, I noticed that Alciel was fighting one of the church's soldiers, Esmerelda. I snorted to myself, he would be fine. He was a demon general and the Hero was a lot more dangerous than her.
I flew down toward the humans and floated above them at a couple of feet. I raised a hand above my head, knowing the blue magic circle was there. I saw the demon soldiers scatter as much as they could and I brought a bolt of magic on the humans, hearing them scream.
"How dare you!?"
My head snapped to the right and I saw Alciel fall for a moment. I scoffed at her being able to attack him. "Human."
With a flick of my hand, I sent another demonic stream of magic her way. It forced her to be thrown several feet away. I then saw Alciel race back toward the Devil's Castle. I noticed that celestial magic that belonged to that cursed Hero at the Castle. I snarled. "That cursed Hero!"
I used the magic in me to make it there in a few seconds, speeding at an almost blinding rate. I broke through a window and stiffened in rage to see my King's horn cut off. I glared furiously at the Hero. "Damn you!"
Alciel was looking just as angry. I firmed my feet to the ground as he blew them away. He went to King Satan. "Apologizes Sire, I have failed."
I bowed my head slightly. "As have I, my King."
Alciel continued. "These human forces overcame my army."
I scowled in indignance. "And my army is at a standstill with the humans as well. I cannot tell the outcome."
Alciel nodded. "Tis only a matter of time before your Castle shall fall."
I let out a sigh, thinking it over for a moment."Alciel is correct. Waiting it out is not work the risk."
Alciel nodded his head. "I never dreamed one human "hero" would have the ability to force us into such dire straits."
I spoke. "My King, the best solution is a tactical retreat as much as I hate to say so."
I saw King Satan nodded in the corner of my eye. As the Hero went to attack, King Satan dived out the window, rising up in the air. I followed, standing on the roof and listening to what he would say.
King Satan called out. "Hear me, humans! I leave Ente Isla in your hands today! But know this, 'Pon my return, you and all of Ente Isla shall be crushed!"
I used whatever magic I had next to follow my king into the portal he went into. If I knew Alciel like I did, then he would follow after us, with his loyalty. Then we would find out what world we would show up in.
/ / / / / / / / / /
I slammed down on something hard. I gave a pained grunt, flipping on my back. As I checked myself, nothing seemed broken, which I was grateful for, I wasn't the best at healing. Lucifer was better at it than I. I was just injured from the fighting beforehand. I heard King Satan and Alciel on the other sides of me. I heard my king. "Where are we?"
I frowned, sitting up and looking around confused. Alciel asked. "Are you alright? Are you well, Sire?"
I looked around to see we ended up in some narrow opening, dirt and waste along the ground we were on. King Satan said. "I shall be, Alciel. First, we must find a place to heal."
I grimaced at the buzzing, where ever we were, they were loud. Alciel agreed. "Yes, Sire, but this place seems awfully noisy."
I got up and Alciel asked. "Are you well?"
I nodded. "As well as I can be. You as well?"
I got a grunt and a nod too, which I took for as yes. We moved out of the narrow opening and I felt my eyes widen in disbelief at what I was seeing. "My King, where are we?"
"Yes, Sire, what-why have you taken that form? It is small!?"
I snapped my eyes to King Satan and gaped in shock. He looked…he looked… "…Human!"
Alciel snarled at me. "How dare you!?"
I gaped more as I stared at Alciel. "Wait, you too!?"
King Satan wasn't angry, he was shocked. "What!? No, it cannot be!"
Alciel eyes snapped back to mine. "Mellano! You too."
I felt dread build in my stomach and actual sweat on the back of my neck. To my horror, my sharp talons were gone, my ears were rounder, my teeth blunted and most of all, my tail gone. Also, I voice was a little softer and quieter. As a demon, I had a rougher tone and slight deeper tone.
I knew my face was pale white in shock. The others looked as human as I felt. King Satan had his dark hair and red eyes like before, but he was missing his mighty horns and height. He looked like one of those young humans.
Alciel had his white hair, but his face lost the roughness he had as a demon and his other demon features were gone. He also lost his massive height. To my annoyance I lost mine and was maybe an inch or two shorter than my king as he was now. Alciel cried out. "These are human hands!"
I knew how he felt, I was staring at my own hands the same way. I moved out the way of a moving mass of space on wheels. "In all of Ente Isla, what was that?!"
King Satan shook his head. "I don't know." He raised a hand toward both of us. "Calm down, Alciel, Mellano! Be careful not to use magic."
"Hey, kids! Mind if we talk to you?" Some humans spoke in their language.
I stiffened and glared at the humans in some type of identical uniform came over. Alciel snarled. "Don't speak to me so familiarly, human? Do you wish to die here?"
"Looks like we got a couple of foreigners. Do. You. Understand. The. Words. I. Am. Saying. Right. Now."
I walked forward in annoyance and anger at their insult. "Humans, before you speak, watch yourselves or it will become your deaths."
Alciel was confused. "Yet still? They are not even speaking our language…I am a demon, a user of magic who could easily kill…"
I glared darker at the humans. "Why don't we pay them a lesson for their-"
"Mellano. Alciel."
I stiffened, raising an eyebrow toward my king. "My lord?"
King Satan said. "Do not use magic. We must learn of this world. We shall cooperate."
I stared at him for a moment before shrugging. "If you say so."
He was right, we knew Ente Isla, we didn't know this world. We needed to learn it. They started talking to each other and then walked back to what was their mode of transportation. Alciel said. "This seems to be some sort of carriage. It is not aided by horses either."
I tilted my head to the side and narrowed my eyes at it, but could not feel any magic coming from it. "There's no magic involved in it."
King Satan nodded. "I agree, I cannot sense magic on it. I wonder how it works?"
The human came over to us. "Now, kids. Will you join us to the car?"
He put his arm near Alciel and he jumped back, his cape swishing. "How dare you? Do not presume to touch me, lowly human!"
I moved back a little from the human and snickered at him, smirking. "Calm down, Alciel."
He glared toward me. "Watch your tongue, Mellano! Don't mock me!"
I just smirked wider. I trying to mind the most amusement I can out of the situation. The uniformed man raised his hands. "Now kids, calm down."
Alciel went back to glaring. "Die, you inferior human!" He raised his arm toward the air and I watched with shock as nothing happened.
I said lowly. "My lord?"
King Satan voice was just as stiff. "Not now, Mellano."
All I could do was nod, my mirth from before gone. We were then ushered in the strange transportation with myself stuck in the middle. I sighed, leaning back in my seat and crossing my arms over my chest. It was quiet the whole way.
As we moved, I was stiff. This weird transportation thing kept on rumbling and it was too strange. Nothing like this on Ente Isla was around. From the looks on King Satan and Alciel's faces, I could tell they felt the same. When the thing finally stopped. We were brought to a nice looking building. One of the humans went inside and we were herded toward the building. Once we got inside, they tried to separate us. I glared furiously. Alciel felt the same. I snapped. "How dare you!? Filthy humans!"
Alciel was snarling harshly.
"Alciel. Mellano."
We both looked up at him. He said quietly. "Remember the plan from before."
I grimaced before ducking my head which told him, 'I'll do what he wanted'. Alciel bowed his head lower and we each followed one of the uniformed humans to different small rooms. I sat in the chair they showed me, sitting up straight in the chair, my hands at my sides. The male human has short black hair and dark eyes with a stocky build, a ordinary looking human, similar to the many I've killed.
We just stared at each other until the door opened and a female human with a white shirt and black skirt with the same coloring as the male came in, carrying a tray with a bowl, a smaller one and two plates with a small cup. They had the aroma and appearance of some type of food.
I was hungry, I stared at the tray in front of me, even after the female left. I was wondering if I should eat it or not. How do I know they didn't poison it? Most poisons wouldn't hurt me because I'm a demon. But this was a new world. On the other hand, I wanted to eat something and I was hungry.
I stared at the food with distrust. The human spoke in a tone laced with humor. "The food isn't poisoned, you know?"
I looked up at him and scowled, speaking in my native tongue. "How would I know that, human?"
He frowned a little, leaning closer. "I'm sorry, I don't understand you."
I pursed my lips, listening to his language, deciding to copy it. Demons are known be multi-tongued and after a bit of exposure to language, we can understand it. I was getting the hang of whatever language this one was called. I was also the better one out of the three of us who could speak foreign languages.
I spoke again, this time in his language. "How would I know that?"
He stared at me, eyes wide and for some reason filled with horror. "Why would I poison a kid?!"
I took in his answer with a tilt of my head and realized he thought I was a child because of the form I was in. I didn't know if I felt angered or amused. I had more blood on my hands than he's seen and he thinks I'm some infant? I gave him an amused tilt of my lips. "No reason."
I then figured to eat it, that being a demon would stop anything he had from poisoning me. As I ate what was like meat, but different from what I was used to along with some type of grain, he seemed to be relieved. It was one of the most amusing things, it didn't even make me angry anymore. After I ate most of the offering, I leaned forward. I stared the human in the eyes. He flinched back at my sharp green eyes.
I then spoke coldly in my native tongue, allowing whatever magic I had to coat my voice. "Me and my comrades has done no wrong. You will allow us to leave without consequence."
I expected there to be slight resistance, but nothing like that happened. He nodded his head as he gaped and stared into my eyes dumbly. "Yes, I will stay here."
I scoffed. "Idiotic human."
He nodded slowly. "Yes, I'm an idiot."
I let out a laugh, amused once again. "Now, sleep."
He fell back in his chair and his head fell back, unconscious. I had to do this because I couldn't kill him, King Satan told us to corporate to learn about this world. I took the half-finished bowl of food with me. I was curious to where my king actually was.
I opened the door and was surprised to see King Satan peeking his head through an open door, talking. I recognized his cape and state of dress. He was the only one that dressed in those type of clothing, they showed his status as Demon King. His cape was a different color and design from ours as we were his Generals.
I walked forward, my boots making a slight sound as they hit the floor. As I looked around at pictures on the walls of people in uniform it was obvious why we were looked at weird. None of these humans wore capes. Then again, humans rarely did, only the arrogant ones.
King Satan said in an exasperated tone. "Alciel…"
I smirked and moved closer, I heard Alciel's voice from here. "Satan, 'tis you?!"
Alciel was so shocked he didn't use his title. As my king silenced the human that must have been inside, I said. "King Satan."
He moved from the door and turned to look at me. "Mellano. You're alright, then?"
I scoffed. "Like these humans could leave a mark on me."
He nodded his head. "That is true."
King Satan looked back when Alciel spoke again. "It is you, King Satan. I'm glad you are all right and found me, Sire. Mellano seems to have found her way."
I nodded. "I have."
King Satan then sent me the same exasperated look with the same tone. "You too?"
I chuckled with a smirk. "I was hungry."
He rolled his eyes. "Back to the matter at hand, I used hypnotism to gain info about this place from a human."
I moved in the room, leaning against a wall. I placed the bowl on the table and leaned back against the wall. Alciel was standing, most likely from shock. King Satan said. "This place is called Earth. We find ourselves in one of Earth's nations. An Archipelago which they call Japan. We stand now in its capital of Tokyo. And this building is some place they call a police station. These police are a state institution maintaining public order."
He also went to sit in the chair Alciel must have been in. The Alciel spoke. "I see, Sire. What's that substance on the table they fed me?"
"Cat's doom. It's an extremely common food in this country."
I raised an eyebrow at the strange name. Alciel said. "Cat's doom. Yes, that has a powerful ring to it. It has great importance to this country…"
I shook my head. "No, we have more important things to worry about than food."
King Satan nodded his head, crossing his arms over his chest. "Mellano is right, focus Alciel, food in neither interesting nor important right now. In this world, we are only fantasies, they don't see things like demons or the Devil to be authentic. No one believes magic legitimately exists- "
Alciel gaped in horror, throwing his arm to the side roughly. "They do not believe it exists?!"
I was just as shocked. "It makes sense, it's why the persuasion is so easy on these humans. It was marginally harder on the humans from Ente Isla. Though no magic at all…"
Alciel cried out. "Yes, but how do they ever survive?"
I frowned for a moment and said. "From what I seen over the years, humans can be very resilient with certain things."
King Satan's frown was deeper than mine. "Yes, that is true."
A dark look came to Alciel's face. We all knew why we were in this 'Japan' in the first place. The thought of the humans from my homeland brought that anger to my chest, but I kept it from my face.
A moment later, we left without any problems and were back outside. It was nighttime and King Satan was ahead of us, I was walking by Alciel. As King Satan went over what he learned, Alciel said. "I see, since there is insufficient magic in this pathetic realm, we are unable to retain our demonic forms."
I scowled deeply at that, I wanted my demonic form back, I looked like a human. I wanted my claws, pointed canines and ears and most importantly, my tail!
King Satan said. "I never imagined stripping our magic would cause this. Our transformation makes me wonder if humans are the foundation for all living creatures."
Alciel scoffed. "Surely you jest, Sire."
I snorted harshly. "They're overpopulated enough." I looked in the mirror they were looking into, a circular reflective surface on a type of pole. I still had my sharp green eyes that had the slightly dilated pupils of a demon with my dark, inky black hair, a couple inches shy of my shoulders. Looking at King Satan, he didn't lose his eyes either, they were still red and dilated at the pupil.
Alciel said. "I'm sure it's merely an effect of this world and the gate."
I ran a hand through my ruffled hair as we walked on in the night. "I hope so."
King Satan said. "I still retain a fraction of my magic. But 'tis quite the effort to stem it's outward flow. How is it with you, Alciel? Mellano?"
I frowned for a moment, trying to get the feel of something that was always there, but grimaced when I could barely feel it. "I apologize, Satan. I could barely use the little bit of persuasion magic from earlier."
I was so stressed at the loss of my magic, I didn't call my king by his title.
Alciel yelled out, lifting his arm in the air. Suddenly one of their carriages came in front of us, the doors open. My eyes widened in disbelief. "It worked?!"
Alciel nodded in agreement. "It did work, Sire."
Alciel sent me a smug look and I glowered at him. "Shut it."
King Satan sent me a look. "Enough. Alciel, I highly doubt this was conjured by magic."
I rubbed the back of my neck, dunking my head to him. "This is just great."
We left the carriage and sat against a wall, Alciel on King Satan's side, I on the opposite one. King Satan said. "If I adjust the amount of magic I release, I won't run out for a fair amount of time. The deniable problem is we have to amass more. However, if the Earth is familiar with the concept of magic, even as imaginary, we may have a chance. The path left to us now is to discover that method and regain our natural strength. Until then we have no choice to live in this world and obey their human rules."
As he spoke, we got up and walked around again, just wandering around the city. We stopped at something that regulated people from walking across without the little human in white on it. Soon enough, the sun was shining so I suspected it was daytime. Alciel's voice tinged with despair. "What a cruel reality this is."
King Satan sighed. "Indeed, but we might as well do what we can."
I nodded my head. "No need to whine about it, where to next, my lord?"
He thoughtful for a moment and then started walking, we followed him. He said. "We must obtain official records at what is called a Ward Office."
We walked into this large dwelling and waited in the line. I glared at the human in front of me, he was taking too long. I felt my right fist twitched and my shoulders slumped when I realized I didn't have magic to smite him with. Surprisingly, King Satan and Alciel didn't seem bothered. Finally, it was our turn.
King Satan changed colors. I raised my eyebrows at him. I spoke in Ente Isla tongue. "What's wrong?"
Alciel said, in the same language. "You are changing colors."
Eventually with little magic he had, we got what we needed. It was a slip of paper with fake names on it, ones we thought of.
Afterward, we went to this "Bank", where the currency was. King Satan explained this as we walked to the dwelling called the "Bank".
"Then we create accounts at the bank. We use this."
Alciel asked. "What is that paper?"
I tilted my head to the wide, staring at the strange paper with symbols and numbers on it. "What is this?"
"'Tis this country's currency. I borrowed it from that human police officer before I created our own personal seal. I have to say I'm rather proud of myself."
I smirked at that as we got these bank 'cards' which would allow us to use Japan's currency. We then went to a 'retailor', which the king explained about. We all sat in this small room, across from two human men sitting at a desk made out of a tree I didn't know of. King Satan said slowly. "We are three…Searching…We need a house."
"Sure, what sort of home did you have in mind, sir?"
Alciel was shocked. "He understood you!"
King Satan exclaimed in Ente Isla. "Calm down, Seriously, Alciel! A little language acquisition is nothing for me; nothing I say!"
"Yeah, okay, bro! I am final getting into the grooving."
I said back in Ente Isla. "With your best interests, don't say that again, it sounds weird."
I turned to the men and said in their tongue smoothly. "Could you find us a place of living with our amount of currency."
One of them sent me a strange look, but the thinner one nodded with a smile. "Yes, ma'am! We'd be happy to!"
They both told us to wait and went into a room with a door. I felt stares at my head. I looked, only to see King Satan sending me an intense glare. I moved back a little from the look and turned to see Alciel giving me the same look. I raised my hands, asking in Ente Isla. "What?"
King Satan snapped, talking in the same tongue as he still has trouble with this world's one. "SINCE WHEN DID YOU SPEAK THE LANGUAGE?!"
My eyes widened at the yelling. "Since we left the police station, you know one of my strengths is foreign dialect."
Alciel snapped. "You should've said something!"
I shrugged. "I apologize then."
King Satan's eyes narrowed even further and then, suddenly I was feeling a pain in my ears, my king was pulling on them sharply. I yelped in pain and he said. "You don't lie to your king!"
I nodded. "I didn't-argh, okay, fine!"
Suddenly the two men came out with a folder and King Satan let go. I sat back sullenly, glaring. Alciel smirked and I glared in his direction, rubbing my ears. The dumb humans were oblivious. They looked through the places they had for us and found us a place, which is where they took us to.
/ / / / / / /
My eyes were wide with disbelief as I looked at the place the two men showed us. This place was insulting. Me and Alciel were Demon Generals and King Satan was the Devil! King Satan and Alciel were just as shocked. The building was brown with a blue roof. It had wooden stairs which led up to a door and windows on the side.
One of the humans said. "The landlady of this location is a very admirable person. If I may speak frankly, she wants to set an example of taking on persons of unknown backgrounds. Like the three of you fine adults."
Alciel said in Ente Isla tongue. "This is complete…"
King Satan finished for him. "…shit. Even I can tell that."
I scowled at the insulting place in front of me, but I reasoned. "It makes sense in a way."
Alciel snapped. "How so?!"
I rolled my eyes. "The Devil's Castle back in Ente Isla was imposing and great with big lengths. We don't have much of the new currency nor a reputation like in Ente Isla. Therefore, we have a smaller and weaker place for residence."
Alciel and King Satan nodded, understanding my reasoning even if none of us like it. Alciel reasoned. "Well, at least it's a two story house, with six rooms; that is good, right Sire?"
I smiled slightly. "This is correct. We'll still have three rooms to spare."
We followed the human up the stairs which creaked as we walked up them. The human was then behind us as we went to the front door. We walked into a hallway that said 201 close to it. I was behind them, annoyed because of my new height as they were blocking the way in. "You will be renting the room 201 here."
I froze, stiffening. "One room?!"
King Satan sighed. "We should be grateful it has a roof. Certainly when you compare it to the Devil's Castle…"
"Good afternoon."
I snapped my head up and turned around sharply, looking at the speaker. It was an oversized female human with quite ugly features wearing a bright purple dress. She had purple hair and a huge purple hat with a feather in it of the same color. I raised an eyebrow at her. She spoke. "You three are the adorable renting applicants."
Alciel gasped. "It can speak!"
I snorted with amusement, none of the humans in Ente Isla never looked like this. "That's a plump human. And a stupid hat."
The human telling us about this place said. "This women owns these apartments and lives next door."
She spoke once more. "My name's Miki Shiba. In kanji that means beauty and radiance. Please, call me Mikitty instead. That's much more fun."
We all said in unison with disbelief. "Totally…"
They left us alone then with Miki Shiba giving us a paper with the 'rent' on it. Before she left, she spoke. "It's strange to see a lady living with men, but I don't care as long as I have my rent."
I frowned in confusion. "I know not of what you imply, but I shall be fine."
They left and I asked. "What was that about?"
King Satan face brightened in realization. "Right, that police human said something like that. Apparently, the females of this world are docile and weak."
I chuckled, amused. "They certainly never met that blasted Hero."
Alciel nodded. "It seems so, some of our resilient soldiers are female demons."
I shrugged as we walked in our room. "I care not for human's opinions."
Alciel and King Satan both nodded. "Of course."
It was a bit insulting, I was a Demon General, one of the Devils closest consultants. Them looking at me as weak is laughable. "One thing is for sure, that plump human has quite the ego."
King Satan scoffed. "That's for sure."
We all sat down in the new place, on the floor. It was small that was for sure. It was already night as we ran around all day. Alciel said to us. "Are you sure we should waste our time here?"
King Satan sighed. "Remember, in this world they have a saying, "Patience is a virtue", in the end this castle might be a welcome change of pace."
I grimaced and Alciel said softly. "Oh, Sire."
King Satan said with a strong tone. "It will be hard, but we will move one from here. We…"
I flinched back when he fell to the side, knocked out. "The hell?"
Alciel panicked. "Ah! King Satan!"
All of his yelling was giving me a headache. "Alciel, quiet."
"Shut up! The king is injured!"
It was worrying as he has never ever done that before. "It probably has to do with our human forms."
He took that in and nodded. We then decided to use a 'ambulance', which is something that will take him to a medical center.
/ / / / / / /
A couple of hours later, they said he was fine, but needed to eat. I am guessing he didn't eat the food like we did, therefore, he didn't get any substance. It was strange not having my cape, we took it off before we left. I usually always had it around my shoulders unless I was sleeping. Alciel's was green and mine was blue.
King Satan sighed as we sat down, his face was in his hands. "I didn't know this human form required food."
Alciel sent him a blunt look. "Well you do have a human body, Sire."
I snorted, leaning back in the chair I was in. Me and Alciel were on either side of him. "He's right, my lord. Human need food."
The Devil sent us both dirty looks. "That gruesome IV thing will cost us more than a full month's rent. You know what that's called, rubbing salt in a wound! 'Tis what the nurse said at least."
Alciel replied. "That landlady spared us a good deal of trouble, Sire. She tells me Japan requires everyone to carry something called Health Insurance."
King Satan leaned back on the chair with a groan. "Nevermind her, money is clearly the essence in this human society so we need to posses it somehow. I can not afford to expend anymore of my magic, so that means we only have one option left to us."
I frowned at him. "And that is?"
King Satan pointed a finger in the air. "That's simple! We'll get jobs!"
I stared at him in disbelief and Alciel called out. "Yes, Sire!"
I spoke slowly with the same disbelief. "You want two Demon Generals and the Devil to get human jobs?"
He smirked at me, a gleam in his eyes. "Of course, surely you don't have a problem with that?"
I stared for a moment more before sighing. "No, my lord. Not at all."
With that we went to get something that would allow us to get jobs and then we went back to the new and poor looking Devil's Castle where we got some sleep.
The next morning, we sat at some boxes we had in the Castle, filling out 'resume forms'. With this, we had many trials and mess ups. By this time, they learned the Japanese language. Which I was happy about because it stopped them from glaring at me whenever I spoke it. Alciel cursed. "Damn it, I got it wrong again."
King Satan snapped. "You idiot! Resume forms don't grow on trees, you know!?"
I raised my writing utensil in the air. "According to the Japanese, the paper we use do."
King Satan snapped again. "That's not the point, Mellano! Focus! My name is Sadou Maou."
Alciel said back. "Mine is Ashiro Ashiya."
I said, staring at the strange and formal form. "Mine's Haru Akito."
Alciel asked. "Do you find this name strange, Sire."
"It's too late to ask that now, we already made our ID's."
I scoffed, focusing on writing my name and the 'address' of this place. "Doesn't matter, we won't have to keep it for long. At some point, we need to get back to Ente Isla."
King Satan and Alciel both agreed with that.
/ / / / / / / / /
It has been at least a week later and King Satan has gotten a job and so has Alciel, but he kept on getting fired. I just couldn't find one yet, making the king annoyed with both of us. This made King Satan give Alciel the duty to look up stuff to help get our magic and for me to keep looking for a job.
Later on, Alciel went and bought us clothes instead of our Ente Isla wear. King Satan also went out while I stayed here. I changed into a baggy blue shirt in a cloth material and trousers that stopped at the knees of a black color when they came back.
King Satan was in a yellow shirt and light colored undergarments. He was reading some book with pictures while I leaned against the wall, reading something called a 'newspaper' where these 'jobs' were listed. If he was serious, then I needed to find one.
Alciel suddenly said as he was using a sink to wash something. "King Satan?"
The king looked up. "Yeah?"
"Might I suggest you put a little more thought into your spending?"
"Give me a break, I put thought into spending. Summer's around the corner, so we need a fridge. Owning a laundering machine is cheaper than a laundry mat in the long run and I have to get the bike to get to work."
"It's not what you purchase that concerns me, Sire. I just think it would've been better paid in installments."
"So, I hate loans."
I looked away from the paper. "That's true, remember that one demon you loaned that sword from. But he was too impatient so you killed him."
King Satan pointed at me. "See, Mellano knows."
Alciel sighed. "Don't so me! You know that's not the point."
I went back to the paper, circling a Pacy's as a choice. It was a place that sold clothes and other things. Also, a Pizzeria Rapoli. I circled that one too. The jobs were in a place called Shinjuku. King Satan already got a job at a place called McRonalds, a place that served food.
I ignored King Satan and Alciel conversation/argument while I looked. I heard King Satan amused voice as he mocked Alciel. I looked up from the paper to hear that tone in Alciel's voice when I knew he was panicked. "You propose we eat burgers three times a day until you get paid. What is this, super-sized meat? A…"
I stared at him blankly before unlacing the boot on my right foot and throwing it at Alciel's head. King Satan looked relieved. "Thanks for that. Crap, I have to go to work! Mellano, keep on looking!"
He got up and ran off, Alciel called. "Wait, Sire!"
"Lecture me later!"
"That's not it, you forgot your umbrella!"
Soon enough, he was off with a cry of "Dullahan!"
I smirked. "He named it."
Alciel sighed again. "Well, you know how Sire is."
I nodded. "Yeah and why are you so worried? He's the Devil going to a human job."
Alciel frowned, leaning against the wall. "As much as I hate to say it, we are all weak to this, we have strength except for a fraction of our magic. No doubt King Satan can get sick in this world."
I frowned deeply. "I guess your right, we'll have to play by this world's rules. Which mean, I need to get that job."
He tossed me an umbrella. "Don't need you getting sick, Akito."
I shook my head. "Call me by my demon name when were here without humans."
Alciel chuckled, shrugging. "Whatever you say, Mellano. We have to get used to our role. King Satan says so."
I nodded. "That we do."
/ / / / / /
I did get a part time job at that place called Pizzeria Rapoli's. Just as King Satan got a raise or increased pay which was good. Also, King Satan was acting strange.
Since I started, they were teaching me to write what people wanted and then giving it back to them when it was done. They even gave me my uniform. A white long sleeved shirt with buttons all down the front, a red tie that went around my neck and black vest with buttons and black shoes.
It wasn't too bad except for the stupid people that were horribly mannered half the time. I had to restrain myself many times. I worked mostly during mid day toward the night.
King Satan or Maou as he now wanted me to call him, he was getting very strange once again. He was acting well, human. It was worrying, I didn't really hate the humans here, but to see him acting this was beyond strange.
He used to be a bit easy going before he held the title of Demon King, before the War escalated as it did. As he went higher and higher up the later, he was amused by many things. This world seems to be bringing out that side of him again. I didn't mind at least, not now.
Though he insisted on calling me Akito and Alciel the name Ashiya. I gave up on caring at this point and had been calling him Maou instead of King Satan or my lord. Alciel was the most formal of us anyway. Speaking of him, he seems to accept it too. Demon King or not, he had mine and Ashiya's loyalty.
Back to work, I was finishing up a shift and sighed, smiling falsely at the couple that just left, demanding everything from new drinks to a different meal, the tip was good though. I was a demon, I could control myself and fool them. My manager came up to me. "Miss Akito, another good day of work."
I nodded. "Thank you, pleased to work."
He patted my shoulder. "Keep it up and we might start teaching you how to cook the pizza's."
I gave a more genuine smile. "That sounds great, thanks."
It did, better than dealing with these costumers. "Goodnight, Mr. Fujiwara."
He laughed as he said goodbye to me too. I grabbed the free piece of pizza they called a 'slice' after every shift. I walked the way home until I got money for a bike like Ki-Maou had.
I could not help but feel like something bad was going to happen. I didn't know what so I just shook it off. I loosened the tie around my neck, it was a strange thing, to had some tight around my neck and to wear these shoes instead of my battle boots.
/ / / / / / / / / /
I got home and no one was home. I looked at the clouds and saw that it was cloudy, which meant ran was going to happen later. Ashiya was also out, most likely at the library. I dressed in different clothes and then relaxed.
There it is, about 7000 words in one chapter! I don't think all of them will be like that, but I don't know. I know I have some unfinished things, but this was stuck in my head and we don't have many of these out in this fandom.
That can be because the anime is only 13 episodes. Even when the anime ends, I probably use some original stuff.
