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Chapter three
"Thank you for coming and have a nice day!" Chiho stated after giving a customer her meal. She then looked towards the door and noticed Emi slink through it. She smiled brightly and asked, "Hi, Miss Emi, what are you doing here?"
"Hi, Chiho, is Maou around?" Emi asked as she quickly scanned the area for Maou. Several days had passed since Maou fell and lost his memories, and part of her was curious as to how he was.
"He's in the break room right now. If you want I can get him for you," Chiho offered.
"No, that's okay, it's just," Emi quickly stated to stop the high-schooler, only to then lean closer to her and ask, "He hasn't been acting weird since he lost his memory, has he?"
"…Not really…I guess If anything he seems a lot less suspicious of Sentucky Fried Chicken's manager. Of course, if asked he still would say that he doesn't like the place," Chiho thought than answered. Emi simply looked thoughtful as she listened to this. She was not exactly sure how or why, but Emi simply had the feeling that something bad was going to happen because of those lost memories.
"And he hasn't remembered anything about his past?" Emi asked.
"That's right. You must be worried about that too, huh. But you know, it is still kind of nice that even without those memories he still acts almost the same" Chiho answered. Emi simply nodded at this, then deciding that she should leave before Maou came back up, she ordered a drink then left.
"I see, so that's why good Sadou has been acting a little off," Suzano commented as she talked with Emi. Suzuno had been away the last few days on personal business, so her small conversation with Emi was the first she heard of Maou's lost memories.
"Since it's been a few days I kind of wonder if he's memories will even return on their own. Maybe Emeralda could make a potion or something, but I'd kind of hate to ask her to help me do something nice for the devil," Emi mused.
Suzuno simple nodded at this, only to then comment, "I remember in a book I once read a character lost his memories, and it took a hit to the head to regain them."
"So you think that we should hit him in the head until he starts remembering his past?" Emi asked for clarification. It was not that she was exactly against the idea, but she still felt a little concerned about hitting someone who was not doing anything bad.
"Maybe. It's at least worth a try since you are already outside their apartment," Suzuno answered, causing Emi to look surprised that they made it to the apartment building so quickly.
So the two girls walked up to the devil's castle, knocked on the door, and then entered before any of the residents opened the door. Inside they found the three residents acting normal for them. Urushihara was doing something on his laptop, Ashiya was washing the dishes after dinner, and Maou was sitting at the table reading a manga.
"You know, polite people would wait for someone to open the door instead of simply barging in," Urushihara commented as he spotted the girl in his laptop.
"And why would I want to be polite to a bunch of demons?" Emi asked.
"Seesh, are you still going on about that? Maybe you're the one who should be put in a hospital for brain damage," Maou commented as he lazily looked up from his manga to the girls.
"And what brings us the pleasure of your company?" Ashiya asked dryly as he wiped off his hands.
"I heard that good Sadou fell down the stairs and hurt himself. Is that true?" Suzuno asked.
"Well, yes, that's true. Did Emi tell you?" Ashiya answered then asked.
"Perhaps. So is it true that he hasn't remembered anything yet?" Emi asked. To this the two demon generals shook their heads. Emi sighed at this, and as she grabbed a pan that Ashiya just washed she said, "I kinda hate to do this to ya, but it's for your own good."
With this said, she rushed the few paces towards Maou and swung the pan at the top of his head; only to stop it from hitting him at the last second. Emi glared angrily at first the pan, then Maou, only for her to then slowly lower it and proclaim frustrated, "I can't do it. I know what you are and that I should have every right to hit you, but I just can't bring myself to do it."
"What the hell is wrong with you?! Seriously, do you hate me or something? And don't you know it's rude to try hitting someone when you are their guest?" Maou erupted after getting over his quick shock.
"That's just the problem! I can't hit you because at the moment you have not done anything wrong. It goes against my morals," Emi answered.
"If you couldn't do it then why did you even try?" Ashiya asked.
"I just thought that another hit to the head could help him remember correctly." Emi weakly answered.
"True, but it could also make things worse. Just give it time and I am sure that everything will work itself out. After all, they like to say that patience is key in this world," Ashiya replied.
Emi sadly began to put the pan back only to instead throw it at Maou when she heard her enemy say, "Crazy freak."
Slightly to Maou's own surprise he instinctually moved his head out of the way and had the pan miss. He quickly brushed this off, however, as awesome luck and watched as Emi stormed out of the building and left. Suzuno noticed this, however, and replied, "That was quite interesting. Most people would not be able to miss that pan."
"It was a fluke," Maou simply shrugged and tried to get back into his manga's story.
"She probably just threw it to scare him. At least she did not break anything," Ashiya commented as he checked the pan and the wall it hit.
"That or she has really bad luck when she's pissed off," Urushihara commented as he looked out the window as Emi left; the hero still obviously annoyed.
But Suzuno did not fully accept the idea that Emi purposefully missed or that Maou was simply that lucky. Realizing that she had things to ponder over, she bid her own farewells and headed next door to her apartment.
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