It's officially October. So we definitely need the Devil here. Here's to another chapter and many more to come on October(probably not).

Some stuff happens; Nico is an asshole and Maki just wants to go home. Also special guest appearance!

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

They always say "When life gives you lemon. Make lemonade."

But what if the lemon that life decided to give you was rotten and disgusting? Are you expected to make lemonade with that? No. You go march right up to life and smash that lemon in their face.

And that's exactly what Maki wanted to do with the stupid supernatural cat that was hiding in her bag during class—trying to distract her with meaningless conversations.

"Psst, hey brat." The small voice, muffled inside the bag and a furry head poked out. "How long am I suppose to stay in here? It's hot in here!" Maki only reply by poking the small cat's head back inside the bag. "You're from hell. This heat should be nothing. Now shut up and stay quiet." A harsh whisper sent the devil cat pouting and curling in the bag.

"This is stupid. I don't even know why you dragged me along to your dumb human cult gathering."

Maki rolls her eyes. "It's not a cult gathering. It's a college class." Her eyes refocused down to her professor who was writing and explaining a formula.

The black cat shuffled a bit in Maki's bag before holding the girl's phone in her paws, tapping on an app with her paw. Might as well pass the time with some games. "Whatever. You all brainlessly gather around another human who claims to have more knowledge than you guys and soak up whatever BS he says, regardless of if it's true or not. If college isn't a cult then I'm just a little pixie." She taps on the screen repeatedly with her paws.

Maki kicked her bag, a small yelp erupt from the bag and everyone turns around trying to pinpoint the sound. She simply just turns her head, staring at the wall while humming innocently. A small furry paw raised up from the bag; a small weak voice mumbles, "You can't tell right now. But I'm flipping you off."

The red-head only smirks.

The rest of class was pretty quiet, except for that little mishap when a very loud "BUSHIMO!" was heard from Maki's bag and as such Maki confiscated her phone away from Nico. Finally the professor looked up from the board and rubbed his eyes, glancing at his watch before facing the class.

"Alright, you're all free to go. Just remember that this will be on your test." The class all groaned at this as they slowly shuffled out of the classroom. "And just a reminder that there has been some mugging as of lately. You're all adults, but let's spread some awareness so everyone stays safe. Don't go out late on your own, be sure to avoid alleyways-" The professor's voice was already drowned out as Maki already packed her stuff and walked out the classroom. "That was a huge waste of time." Nico yawned, poking her head out of the bag and pawing at Maki's side. "Gimme back the phone. I was just building my team too!"

Maki rolled her eyes. "Be quiet or else I'll keep you as a cat forever."

"You do that and I'll hack a huge ass fur ball on all your shit in your bag." How can a cute cat look so annoyingly smug?

Maki glared down at Nico in her bag. "You wouldn't dare."

Nico held a paw to her mouth, making fake gagging noises. "Hold on. I think I have one coming up right now." She ducked her head back in Maki's bag.

Gripping the bag tighter in her hand, Maki twirled it around a few times—hearing Nico's screeching as she did so. She stops before hoisting the bag up—the small little groaning sound emitting from the bag and Maki grins, taking a bit of delight at actually being able to handle the devil a bit better than before. It wasn't like the little thing was even scary to begin with. She was just…really hot-tempered and always had something to say.

It wasn't easy, but Maki finally got used to it so she wasn't always entirely playing to Nico's tune. She learned that the tattoo that occasionally burned or glowed seem to have some sort of reaction towards Nico that caused her to turn into a cat. The young devil girl apparently never even heard of such a thing and Maki have no idea what to think about it either. But it was very useful to get a sulking pouting devil out of her room before she downloaded some more games on Maki's laptop and also to come to class with her so the red-headed human can keep a closer eye on the little devil brat.

Nico have tried and snuck out several times during class. But being a cat with no actual powers except a very sassy mouth, Nico wasn't able to get very far before being picked on by some elementary children—who ended up running away screaming in terror as Nico cursed and described in detail on how she eats delicious misbehaving children. She gave up and accepted her fate of going with Maki to class this afternoon after being chased by several dogs and almost catnapped by a crazy cat lady. At the end of the class they were to go and see if they can find the occult shop that Maki stumbled into a few days ago.

Maki went into the restroom, locking it. She then turned the bag upside down, emptying the cat out of it. Maki shook it several times checking to see if there was any fur balls. Luckily for her (and Nico) the bag was clean.

"Ugh. Boring show. Crappy crumb for food. And then horrible landing. 0/10 would not ride again in that bag." Nico stretched, purring contently at finally having some fresh air and space to actually move around. "Should probably call animal abuse on you though. Seriously."

"Shut up." Maki simply shrugged and dropped Nico's clothes right on top of the cat, burying her in a pile of clothing—her head barely poking out. "Now let's see if this works…" Maki kneeled down and placed her palm on Nico's head. She exhaled slowly, clearing her mind and watching as the tattoo slowly started shimmering. It shimmered brightly and the small cat trembled underneath it before...

Poof!

Maki coughed as she staggered towards the windows and opened it, clearing out the smoke.

"Ugh...disgusting." Nico frowned as she still sat on the cold restroom floor naked, her clothes all around her.

Maki covered her eyes, turning her back towards Nico, her face a bit flushed—she was still unused to the whole transforming back completely naked thing. "Just hurry up and get changed already."

The young devil girl grumbled about lack of decency (Maki promptly snorted very loudly) as she pulled on her jacket, pulling the hoodie up to hide her devil horns; although in Maki's opinion still kind of stupid considering the hoodie Nico dawned on was a devil hoodie itself. The long skinny tail wrapped itself around Nico's waist snugly like a belt, keeping her skirt up since it was so loose. "Okay, Red. You can look now and not have to pay for the show." Nico sang as she continued fiddling with her skirt to keep it on.

Rolling her eyes, Maki turned back facing Nico. "Took you long enough. Let's go." Maki grumbled at the time being wasted and yank the door open, coming face to face with Rin; whose hand was out reach to grab the restroom door handle.

Rin blinked, staring inside the restroom behind Maki, looking directly at Nico who was still fiddling with her skirt. "N-nyah…" Her eyes widen and a small blush appearing on her face.

"R-Rin…" Maki gaped at Rin, turning bright red at the implication of what looks like Maki coming out of a locked restroom—slightly flushed with a young girl, still struggling to put her skirt back on…and is the room feeling hot or is it just her?

The orange-haired girl staggers back a little before placing both hands on Maki's shoulders; tears streaming from her eyes. "M-maki-chan…I didn't think you were…" She paused, sniffling a little with a small gasp. Her yellow eyes wide with a strange look of panic. "T-this is immoral, Maki-chan!" She cries out as if she just discovered a huge scandal.

What?

"What are you talking about?" Maki gulped audibly. Her eyes darting over to Nico who only reply with a shrug, before quietly squeezing out of the doorway between the two girls. She threw Maki a peace sign before running off. Traitorous demon...

"Maki-chan! I'm not stupid!" Rin threw her hands in the air and Maki looked at Rin with an aghast expression. Did Rin finally figure out somehow or… "You shouldn't be going out with a minor!"

"What?" Maki paused. She looked at Rin's serious expression. "W-what?" She repeats again dumbly.

Rin pushed back with a sigh and a disappointed look on her face. "Look, Maki-chan. You're one of my best friend and all. So I'm saying this because I love you. But you really shouldn't be going after middle schoolers. I know they're cute and all, but it's really wrong!"

Oh.

"Oh." Maki reply slowly.

"I mean you're lucky it was me that caught you two the other day!"

Maki covered her face in embarrassment, remembering the event that Rin was talking about. "Rin. Listen to me. It's complicated. She's not…I'm not…we're not…" Maki gestured with her hands trying to convey what she was trying to explain. Rin only looks at her with that same concerned expression and Maki's hands drops to her side in defeat; knowing that no matter what she said there was no digging out of it.

"She's actually a senior in high school." Maki lied. "She just…looks really young for her age." Not an actual lie. "I met her through a tutoring program and we just sort of hit it off. I know, it's still bad since she's a high school student. But she's about to graduate next month and I haven't laid a hand on her! I swear!" This story felt like she just took a plot from a shitty romcom.

Yellow eyes looks into purple eyes and Rin sighs in satisfaction, taking a step back. "Okay. I believe you!" Rin giggles a little "Although a high school girl, Maki-chan? I didn't think you had it in you!" Neither did Maki, to be honest and why was Rin really just accepting all of this? "So I'm guessing she tried to seduce you that time. Did she plan it with Stan or something so you guys get some alone time?" a grin and an elbow prodding the red-head's side and Maki wished she came up with a better story on the spot.

"You really should introduce me to her! You know…when you guys aren't…" Rin does an annoying gesture with her hands and whistles while waggling her eyebrows and Maki just wants to step back into the restroom to close the door in Rin's face so she can scream into the toilet.

"Yeah…maybe next time." Maki says stiffly as she moves around Rin and briskly walks off. "I'll catch you later. I promised that I'd go on a…date with her earlier." Maki shivered, feeling like she just ate a slug and it was crawling out of her mouth as she said the word "date"

Rin waved, giving Maki a thumbs-up. "Go for it, tiger. Nyah!"

Maki covered her burning red face as she continued walking away and silently cried.

"You finally ditched her?" Nico asks floating down from the tree she was hiding in. Luckily no one else was around, but Maki glared at Nico. "Oh boy. If looks could kill. That kind of look actually turns me on though." The small demon laughs as Maki's face turns as red as her hair.

"I'm surrounded by perverted idiots." Maki ran a hand through her hair, sighing loudly. "Why did YOU ditch me anyways?"

Nico blinks as if Maki asked a really strange question. "You said she was off limits. So I'm just staying away from her." Maki narrows her eyes at the devil trying to see past that cute innocent facade. "What about when you were a cat?"

"I was a cat. My powers were sealed so I can't do shit to the girl even if I wanted to." Nico shrugged and walked ahead of Maki. "Anyways enough chitchat. What's the first place we heading to, Red?"Maki took out her phone, raising it over her head as Nico attempted to swipe it from her. "Well, I already narrowed it down to all the black magic or voodoo shop in a three miles radius from the bar that I was at." She swipes down at lists of all the shops.

An eyebrow shoots up in amusement. "Three miles? You were drunk, I don't think you would have been able to go three feet."

Maki raised her right arm above her head and Nico scampered off, not wanting to be turned into a cat again. The things Maki had to deal with. Sheesh.

The two made it downtown towards the district where Maki was at the night she summoned Nico. They arrived at their first stop, a little shop that smelled heavily of incense downstairs. Maki already began descending downstairs; pausing and looking up when she realized the smaller girl wasn't following. The devil leaned again the wall and stared at Maki with a raised eyebrow. "You go ahead. I'm not into these kinda things."

It was Maki's turn to raise an eyebrow with a bemused expression on her face. "These kind of thin-you're the devil!"

"Exactly!" Nico huffed with a pout. "And yet instead of my beautiful glorious form. They have some ugly goat head or some big red naked dude representing me. No thanks. I'd rather watch people get mugged."

A sigh and Maki rolls her eyes while shrugging. "Whatever. You just better not cause any trouble then." Maki descended down the stairs into the little shop, leaving Nico alone outside the building.

The shop was cluttered with random things like fake skull heads, shrunken heads, feathers, crystal balls, etc. The sort of typical things you'd find in an occult shop. Maki approached the small bookshelf looking through to see if any of the book was even remotely similar to the one Maki used for the summoning. None of them rang any bells nor look like it could be it. Damn. "Um. Excuse me." Maki asks, approaching the shopkeeper. An elderly old woman who smiles up at Maki with a soft expression that you wouldn't expect someone who was selling Satan related items would have. "This is a strange question…but did you see me come in…like last week, drunk…and bought a book?"

The elderly old woman looked at Maki before shaking her head. "I'm sorry, dearie. I don't think I recall you coming in ever."

First one was a bust, of course. Maki thanks the old lady and left the shop, dragging Nico with her go the next one.

"What is that red stain on your hoodie?" Maki asks pointing at the small splotches of red on Nico's hoodie.

Nico waved her hands nonchalantly in reply, "Blood. I beat up some dude in a weird uniform that kept asking me where my parents was at and how a little girl shouldn't be out so late." The red-head deadpanned before hearing some sirens in the distance and quickly dragged the devil far away from the area.

They continued on with their journey through the district. Hopefully they would eventually find the right shop. They tried several other different shops. but to no avail. Just how far did Maki go? "I don't think you bought my book here." Nico muses to herself actually browsing along the store, poking at some of the objects. Maki growls, her face beet red as she swat away the anal beads that were hung as decorations. "No, really? What gave you that idea?"

An oily shady looking cashier popped up from the counter with a disgusting grin. "Can I help you two ladies? Today is a special sale! Half price on our special Lucifer Lubrican-" Maki grabbed Nico's arm and bolted the fuck out of there before she even let that man finish his sentence. Nico cups a hand around her mouth and yells as she's dragged off. "I like your enthusiasm, buddy! But maybe a Satan Sex Shop isn't the best idea!"

Maki panted as she tried to catch her breath. Fifteen shops they've been to and no luck. Why were there so many occult shops to begin with anyways?! And who's bright idea was it to make a sex shop inspired by black magic?! "It probably would have been better if they called it Devils' Dildos." Nico shrugs.

"Do you want to be turned into a cat forever?" Another groan and a sigh as Maki started walking again, Nico walking close by. "We checked all the shops around. I thought we would be able to find at least a copy of it."

"A copy of an actual book that summons the devil. You just somehow got lucky coming across mine." Nico scoffs, taking out a lollipop from her hoodie pockets. She was right, Maki supposed. There was no way that they can come across the book so easi-

Maki froze causing Nico to bump into the taller girl and drop her lollipop onto the ground. "What the shit, girl? Why'd you stop?" Red eyes looks over and an eyebrow arches up. Across from them, a young girl wearing a very large trench coat, her face hidden by the face mask and ridiculously large sunglasses. She glances around as she walks by, doing her best to avoid everyone on the street. Clenched tightly in her arms was a very large brown tattered book with a strange insignia on it. She briskly walks by Maki and Nico, her long blue hair flowing by—causing Nico to sneeze as it brushes up against her face.

The girl jumps in shock as she lowers her sunglasses, staring at the other two girls. She didn't even look that much older than Nico and that little devil looked really young. Her purple eyes hidden behind the sunglasses seems to target in on Nico and she pulls off the face mask, a coy grin on her face. "What's this? Are you a little devil that worships Yohane?"

"What?" Nico and Maki both look at each other before at the young girl. "What?" They repeated again.

Yohane only puts a hand up in front of her face and sighs, the book held close to her chest. "I can't believe that you follow me here up to the surface! Ah, what should I do? Being a fallen angel and having such followers."

Maki nudges Nico's shoulder. "Do you know her? Is she a devil too or something?" She whispers. The real devil only shrugs with an disgusted expression. "No, I think she's those...what do you call them? Losers?"

"Advent followers of Satan?"

"Yeah, losers."

Maki rolls her eyes and looks at the strange young girl, "Uh...Yohane-san. My name is Maki. If it's not too much trouble, may I ask where you got that book?" She asks as she points at the book that "Yohane" holds close to her. The young blue-haired girl blinks before looking down at her book. She looks back up at the pair with an excited expression, "Oh? This book? I'm actually about to do a web-show right now! If you want, you can both come with me and join me!" She grabs Maki by the arm and starts tugging her, dragging the older girl with her. "T-that's nice and all, but that isn't what I wanted at all!" Maki yelled as she was dragged off by the strange girl. "Help meeeeeeeeeeee..." her voice fades away in the distance. Nico looks up at the sky and shrugs before going down the path, following the two girls. "Whatever. Might as well kill some time."

The strange girl dragged Maki—with Nico following by—to an apartment building, she bounced up and down excitedly as she unlock the door and let the two in. The apartment room was dark and cold. "The parental humans that are currently caring for my human form aren't home right now, so this is the perfect time!" She smiles and Maki scoots closer to Nico.

"What sort of human just go around inviting random people? Is she trying to get killed?" Nico whispers to Maki who only just sighs and shrugs. "I don't know...but there's something about that book that seems familiar. You said that you could sense the book, right?" She nudges Nico with her elbow and gestures to the girl. "Can you sense anything?"

Nico only sighs. "Well, kind of...but uh..."

Yohane opens the door leading to her bedroom which was also dark. The whole room decorated in an occult fashion, dark heavy black curtains blocking out the sunlight making the room seem ever darker than the entire house. "Oh gross. It's a serious one." Nico wrinkles her nose as she glances around. A camera stood in the corner and the girl goes over to it to set it up. "Hey, Yohane-chan~" Nico says in a sickenly sweet tone that made Maki want to vomit. Yohane looks over at Nico and then freezes.

Maki raises an eyebrow as the excitable girl suddenly quiets down.

"Give Nico-sama that book, hm~?" Nico coos, approaching the young girl and staring her down with those glowing red eyes. Yohane nods as her body—almost robotically hands Nico the book. The devil hums in satisfaction and her glowing eyes dims and the book in her hand combusts into flames. Maki jumps in shock, shoving Nico and stomping on the book trying to put out the fire. "What are you doing?! Why did you do that?!" She yells, the fire still going until the book is nothing but charred ashes. She glares up at Nico angrily at this, "What the actual fuck?"

The raven-haired girl shrugged. "It's better if a human like that stays away from that book." A frown forms on her face and Nico scratches her cheek. "It is concerning that this kid acquired such a dangerous book though."

Dangerous book?

"What do you mean?"

Nico crouches down and swipes some of the ashes into her hands, clenching it tightly in her palm. "That was an extremely dangerous book she had there. Not as dangerous as mine though, but dangerous enough to probably get herself killed if she wasn't careful."

A shiver runs down Maki's spine as she watches the devil's serious expression. "You mean...there's more books like that?"

"That's the thing. There shouldn't be. But someone is bringing them to the human world and just handing them out to you dumb humans." Nico grits her teeth, releasing the ashes in her hand. "And whoever thinks it's fuckin funny to mess with the Great Devil Nico is seriously gonna pay." A dark look and Maki realizes that the devil may be as scary as she originally though.

"Y-you're..." Maki and Nico pauses before looking over to the girl—they have forgotten all about her. She staggered a bit, looking at Nico with wide shocked eyes. "Uh oh. Looks like the charm wore off. Oops." The scary expression gone, and back to a dumb cute expression as if she was saying "Oopsie, I made a booboo~Teehee!"

"You're the real deal!" She squeals excitedly. "I-I'm so sorry, Devil-sama! I-I didn't think you would actually be here. I'm sorry I called you a follower...my name is Yoshiko-I mean Yohane! I-I'm 15 years old and currently in-in high school! I mean...I...you...I'm...thank you very much!" Flustered, she flung over body into a polite bow in front of Nico; and Maki idly wondered if high school girls were this insane nowadays. Nico sat down on the girl's bed and Maki had to cover her ears when Yoshiko let out another loud squeal.

"Hey, Yoshiko-chan~" Nico grins, obviously enjoying the butt-kissing.

"I-It's Yohane..." "Whatever. Don't really care. Mind telling Nico-sama where you got the book though?"

Yoshiko's eyes widen and she blushes before averting her eyes. "T-truth is..." She fidgets a little as if trying to figure out how to explain properly. "...I-I don't really remember! I'm sorry!"

"You don't remember?" She wasn't sure why, but Maki had a small feeling of deja vu.

The young girl just sighed as she sank to her knees on the ground. "I decided to ditch school today. And was wandering around downtown for a bit." She furrows her eyebrows as she tries to recall a memory. "It's honestly a little fuzzy, but I just kind of...found it at the cafe I was at. It wasn't there at first, but before I knew it. It was right next to me." She sighs a little. "I was going to do a show tonight with the book since it looked like a good prop to use...but..."

Yoshiko looks up at Nico with expecting eyes, "Now that I have the real deal, I think I can make a really amazing show today!"

"No." Nico flat-out rejects Yoshiko. Her arms crossed and brows furrowed—red eyes staring into Yoshiko's entire being. "I'm a fuckin devil. A citizen of hell. I ain't gonna waste time entertaining a bunch of humans. I should just wipe your memories here and now."

"But..." Yoshiko's eyes widens and began to water. Maki sighed, being unable to continue watching this. "Just do it, it's not like anyone gonna believe it's real." Maki shrugs and gives Nico a smirk. "Or is it because you're actually really boring and can't do anything besides cheap tricks you see at a kid's birthday party?" This caused the devil to growl at the accusation and she stood up from the bed—pointing at the camera. "Get that shit set up right now, bun-head. We got a show to do."

"It's Yohaneee!" Yoshiko cries, but starts excitedly setting everything up. Maki wondered why she was still here and why did she talked the devil into helping a girl with some weird web-show.

The room was pitch black saved for a candle in a magic circle drawn on a large sheet in the middle of the room. Yoshiko cackles softly as the candle flickers, "Welcome to another show, my little devils." She says with a chuckle and places her hand in front of her face—posing dramatically in front of the camera. Maki wished she was at home right now instead of pouring warm water in a bucket of dry ice and fanning the smoke around the room to give it a bit of a more eerie sinister atmosphere. "I'm here tonight with a special guest." Although she looked stoic, Yoshiko's voice cracked a little in excitement—her face twitching from her coy grin to a silly happy dumb smile. "Here with me tonight is the Great Devil herself! Nico-sama!" Her voice booms and the candle flickers even more. The smoke that Maki was fanning around, swirled and Nico appears out of nowhere from the smoke. She giggles and winks into the camera, "Hello, you pitiful humans." She had already shed her hoodie, so her small black bat wings flap freely and her tail sways back and forth. Her red eyes glows brightly as she smiles into the camera, giving a very look that makes Maki want to throw the bucket of dry ice at her.

"My name is Nico-sama and you should all be glad that I'm here to grace you guys with my presence." Her eyes began shimmering red and Maki shivered, feeling a strange pull towards the red-eyed devil. She shook her head, avoiding looking at the two girls for the rest of the webcam show. After twenty minutes of fanning dry ice smoke to the room. The candles finally blew out—Maki still wondering how Yoshiko was able to time it like that. Yoshiko turned off the camera before hopping onto her laptop and gasping, "Nico-sama! We actually broke five hundred thousand views!" She turned around and grabbed Nico's hand, looking at her with an awestruck expression. "I-I just can't believe an actual devil decided to star in my web-cam. I...I just, I'm so sorry. I'm just so excited right now."

Nico grinned while prying her hands out of Yoshiko's grip, cringing as her hands was now covered in sweat from the excited fan. "Yeah, yeah. Don't get too excited. It was a onetime deal." Maki glanced at the screen, noting how a lot of the comments mentioned about how cute Nico was and how the effects were amazingly real. She grabbed Nico by the collar and began dragging the small devil out. "Thanks again for everything, Yoshiko-san. The information you gave us really helped." Not really, but Maki really wanted to get out of here.

Yoshiko grins widely as she opened the front door for them. "Thank you again, Nico-sama! Maki-san! I hope you can come by again!" She watches as Maki drags Nico down the hall out of view before gasping, seeming to remember something important. "Oh no...I...I think I should have also told them..." She murmurs to herself, a look of worry in her eyes. "I remembered something important...Nico-sama's red eyes...and...blue eyes...clashing..." Yoshiko panted, holding her head in pain. "Blue...eyes...? Who?" Light purple eyes blinks and Yoshiko looks up as she still stood outside her apartment. She tilts her head with a confused expression. "Hm? Was I...Was I doing something?"

Maki and Nico walked out of the apartment building, it was already getting late. "And another day wasted." Maki sighed as she walked towards to the closest bus stop nearby. Red eyes flickers up in the sky and Nico shrugs, following close by her contractor. "I wouldn't say that. At least I found out exactly what's going on."

Purple eyes look over and an eyebrow raises up. "What are you talking about now? Did all that smoke get into your brain?" They made it to the bus stop, no one else was there so Maki took a seat.

"There's someone out there spreading dangerous books. I don't really care what they're really planning. But the fact that they drag me into it...well...Nico-sama is just going to have to find out who's pulling the strings...and pull out their spines." Her voice dripped with venom—eyes blazing brightly and her lips contorted into a snarl. Maki held her breath as she could feel an overwhelmingly sinister aura emanating from the small devil. It was then that Maki began realizing.

The Devil is truly a monster.

Author's Rambling: I had a mighty need for a fangirling Yohane and some serious plot. There's still going to be stupid comedy in it too, of course. Also next chapter is going to have a bonus Q&A with Devil Nico and Summoner Maki. So if you had any questions about some of the aspect of the story let me know in the reviews!

Chapters are probably going to be booted up to about 5k each from now on. (Not including the Q&A or omakes) So more asshole devil chapters!

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter and if you did, feel free to drop a review!

RRWhitey signing out!