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Chapter 7

"Why are there so many people here?" Emi called out to the other three. They had reached the school just as the panic began, and they were surprised by the random amount of students there after hours. The panic was having its effect, however, as they saw when it caused Ashiya to change into his demon form.

"Drats, and me here without my general's cape," Ashiya muttered.

"Forget the cape, look over there," Emi ordered then pointed to where many of the students were running from.

The areas was the center of the courtyard, where they saw Sariel watching the crowd with a confused look and Maou floating in the air in magical chains. Only, like Ashiya, Maou was also no longer in his human form. Sariel noticed this too with a hint of panic as Maou broke out of the chains with ease.

Once free, Maou thundered out at Sariel, "Ya, you little freak, you better look scared now that I'm free. 'Cause you're in for a world of pain!"

Maou blinked as he noticed that his voice was different…and was it his imagination or did everything look smaller? Following this curiosity, he looked himself over only to then realize that he was not only taller but currently had horns on his head, a heavily muscular torso, and goat legs. He began to ask what happened to himself, only for his mind to finally except what happened as his memories returned. That everything he thought sounded crazy was the truth, and that he was in all actuality the demon overlord. At last he commented, "So then they were right…I am the Devil."

"My Lord, are you alright?" Ashiya called as he, Emi, and Suzuno rushed through the crowd towards him.

"Aciel?" Maou asked in a slight daze as he watched the three come up to him.

Upon hearing his overlord say his true name, Ashiya was filled with such relief that he bowed and said, "My Lord, does this mean that you finally remember who you are again? If so then this would be one of the happiest days of my life."

"Ya well it's kind of hard not to believe you guys when I suddenly get a powerful body like this," Maou answered as he scanned the area with a frustrated frown. There were too many people around seeing them for his liking, and as he realized with a flash not all of them were running away panicked without at least one photo souvenir. His attention was then pulled back to Sariel when he spotted a bright light from the corner of his eye, only for him to turn around with his giant sword in hand and deflect it.

Sariel had also realized what had happened, and that he was almost out of time to get rid of Satan. But he also knew that Maou should have been weakened from all of the torture earlier and may still be uneasy with using magic. So Sariel decided to make one last effort, only for his opponent to deflect it with the same sword he used before to vanquish him.

"That was pretty rude of you Sariel, attacking while I'm talking with my friends. Don't they teach you angels manner up there? Or is this only how you act towards me?" Maou asked. He was tired, annoyed, and exhilarated by the magic pouring into him. But he also decided that perhaps he could have some fun teaching his opponent a lesson.

Sariel noticed the devilish grin on Maou's face as he thought this. When he saw this, be began to fly off, only to instead run into Lucifer. Upon catching the angel, he asked, "Where do you think you're rushing to?"

By that time Maou had caught up to them, and Urushihara had barely gotten out of the way in time as Maou swung his sword and struck Sariel. He watched as Sariel fell to the ground, his face still looking annoyed. He had thought that Sariel would put up more of a fight, but then again this was the second time they fought. Seeing that Sariel was not going to get up any time soon, he returned to the ground and his friends as his body returned to that of a human.


"Well, now that that problem is fixed what are we going to do about all these kids?" Emi asked. It would have been different if only one or two people had seen them, but over fifty had witnessed the fight. And of that fifty there was no idea of how many pictures or videos were taken. They all knew that it was for the best if their true identities were not known to a bunch of teenagers, so now what?

"I still have a little power left…you guys shouldn't have let them run away. I could have erased their memories or something," Maou concluded.

"They were running away before we reached here. It would have been an impossible task," Suzuno concluded. She then looked purposefully over to Urushihara as if expecting him to find some way to fix the mess.

"I still have no idea why all those kids were here anyways," Ashiya commented.

"Hey, what's this?" Maou asked as he spotted a strange screen on a dropped phone. On the screen was a social media site, telling the students that there was supposed to be something too awesome to miss happening at the school. Upon closer inspection, they noticed that several hundred people had seen the message, and several pictures of the group were being posted under the message. They then looked to who sent the mass message, only to see that it was Urushihara.

"Urushihara?" Maou began, causing Urushihara to laugh nervously.

"…Do you think…they would think it was some movie promotion?" Urushihara asked cautiously. Here he thought he was thinking ahead. After all, he had accurately determined who the opponent was, where he was keeping Maou, and that if this fight happened Maou would regain his memories. And all of this with not destryoing any buildings this time! So what if he had a slight oversight in teenager's addiction to phones? Three out of four things assumed accurately was still passing, right? And it was not like Emi or Ashiya did anything to help.

"Urushihara, when we get home you are to make sure that those pictures are off the interweb," Ashiya ordered.

"That's not exactly going to fix anything. Even if he erases the message and hacks all of the accounts to get rid of the pictures they will still be somewhere on the web. Besides, it's not going to get rid of the original photos or stop those kids from talking about it," Emi explained.

"And what are we going to say if people start wondering when this movie is supposed to be released?" Maou asked.

"Well…I'll set up some bogus date in the future and before then have the movie suddenly run out of funds and have production stop," Urushihara answered.

"Urushihara, for your sake that idea of convincing them it was for a movie better work. Now come on, we should get out of here," Maou commented with a sigh, only for the group to leave the school for home.


"Chi, sweety, isn't that your school on TV?" Chiho's mother asked the next morning as she listened to the morning news. Urushihara had stayed up all night leaving the correct trail for anyone, including the local news, to think that a small-name movie company had shot a scene at a local school. If he had the news on, or for that matter if he was awake, he would have been pleased to know that all his hard work was not in vain.

Curious, Chiho looked up from her phone to the TV screen to watch as the newscaster showed a clip of what was seen and talked over what kind of movie it was speculated to be and when it should be released. She had called the others before she went to bed to hear if Maou was alright, and knew already about both the true and bogus stories. Like the others, she was a little worried about if anyone learned the truth, and her school-friends' protests that there was no cameramen or that it was all too real to be a movie did little to fix her anxieties, but she decided to not dwell on it. She kind of wished that she had not had to work so that she could have seen the fight.

How she saw it, everything was back to the status qou. With his memories returned Maou was back to normal, and their secret about Ente Isle was currently still a secret. She smiled as she thought about this, and smiled more as she realized that she could ask Maou all about it later that day during work.

Wow, that finished up a lot faster then my stories usually do, but then again it was shorter.

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