I'll stand my ground
No one can stop me now !
It had been three weeks since Urushihara had convinced Samael to come back with him, but things hadn't got better right away.
At first, everything was fine –more or less– Maou worked himself to the bone, Ashiya did the housework with Samael who willy-nilly helped, and Urushihara slacked off. But after less than a day, Samael had collapsed. It turned out that if she had been fine for two weeks without eating, drinking or sleeping, it was because of the magic she had left from her time in Ente Isla. She had unconsciously been sending herself back in time until she had spent all her magic and the effects of food and sleep deprivation caught up to her.
Since she didn't have any identity in Japan yet, Emi tried to give her a bit of her Holy Power hoping that Samael's angelic part would absorb it. It somehow worked and she spent three weeks healing up.
During those three weeks, she spent most of her time sleeping under the computer desk –which is a lot more comfortable than it looks–. When she had started to feel better, she had started to productively help Ashiya, since they now had another person to feed.
One day, Maou came back with a lot of papers, and with just one sentence, put Samael's world upside-down.
"I'm getting you in the system !"
"The system ?"
And after two long hours, Urushihara Meli, 26 years old, older sister and legal guardian of Urushihara Hanzo, was born. The next step was, of course, finding a job. And it turned out to be far more complicated than they thought. After getting fired seven times in a week, the three demons had agreed to let her stay at the apartment to let her learn about human life and how to behave in the human world.
It was hard at the beginning, and despite the reading of the many books Ashiya borrowed from the library for her, she still struggled with the fact that she was just an average human and not a powerful Seraphim or a Demon Lieutenant anymore, and therefore had no authority on anyone.
Slowly but surely, she started adapting to human life. She continued reading lots of books while helping a bit with the chores, and eventually got hired as a hairdresser. But her wounded ego was left very unsatisfied with this low position in the human hierarchy, and she quickly sought a higher rank.
One day, she wasn't working and was trying to keep herself from falling in the abyss of boredom; which means she was reading books like "How to behave in society, for introverts" once again. Ashiya was doing something in the kitchen, though she didn't know what, and Urushihara was on his computer as usual.
After a few nanoseconds of reflexion, she got up and kneeled next to him.
"What're you doing ?"
"Searching knew games."
He moved to the side to give her a little more space.
"You're messing around on that thing a lot, right ?"
"Yeah, why ?"
He turned towards her slightly, intrigued by her question.
"And you're pretty good with it, riiight ?"
"Uh uh…?"
"Uh uh."
She stretched her legs under the computer desk, a mysterious smile on her lips.
"Do you think you could teach me ?"
Her soft voice was like a blaring alarm in Ashiya's ears that screamed "suspicious angel !" in his head. Trusting his instinct, he glared at them suspiciously.
Urushihara apparently wasn't worried by Meli's mysterious behaviour, probably used to it by now.
"I could, but this one's incredibly slow, you wouldn't be able to do much."
"Oh don't worry about that brother, if everything goes as planned, I'll buy a brand new one."
This time genuinely curious, he faced her completely. Her eyes were shining with malice and an evil grin had replaced her mysterious smile.
Powerless, Ashiya watched the fallen siblings exchange a few words in a language he couldn't understand, and then snicker to themselves while evilly plotting to take over the world. He had tried to warn his king when he got home, he had even told the Hero and Crestia Bell, but no matter how they would look at it, they would only see two siblings who were catching up with each other. And it was precisely what they were doing, most of the time anyway.
But there was indeed an evil plan, and it all went as it was supposed to.
After spending a month learning about human life and two months learning all about computers from Urushihara, Meli finally achieved her goal.
She became a lawyer.
I'm back, and on time ! Rising Star was supposed to be just one chapter, but it was exactly 1702 words long so I decided to cut it in (almost) half. Anyway, looks like things are getting better ! Is it a happy ending I see at the end of the tunnel ? I think it is ! As always, feel free to leave a review to tell me what you thought of the story so far !
Until next time, take care guys and see you next week !
