Chapter 4: First day on Job, First Match

Somewhere in Asta's mind

The place is full of red. Asta is floating and still sleeping. Asta opens his eyes up and sees that he back at this place again.

"Where am I? I'm back at this place" Asta groaned and put his hand on his head. He realized something change

"Huh?" He looked at his hands, hair, ears, and body. "I'm back at my old body" Asta confused about what is going on

"He He He" an unknown voice laughed behind him

"Huh?" Asta turned around and saw it was his devil. "WAAHHH?! You again?!" Asta yelled

"Well Well. Look like we meet again" the devil said

"Who are you?" Asta asked him. "Like I said that you no need to know about me" the devil replied

"Oh, then why am I here?" Asta asked him and looked around. "Remember what I told you. I want your body. Soon your body will be mine" the devil told him and laughed evilly

"I see" Asta said and held his hand out to him. "What are you doing?" the devil asked in confusion

"I want to say thank you for giving me your power. It helps me a lot in many these days. I don't know there was a devil inside me. Let's befriend to get to know each other" Asta knows his devil was alone inside him and he wants to befriend him. "Fine" the devil transformed to his original body

"You don't look so bad" Asta said and the devil confused "Huh? Aren't you scared of me?"

"No, why would I be scared of you? You are not a bad person at all. Your Ki is telling me that you are a good guy" Asta said with a smile. The devil's eyes widened at his face

'That face looks so familiar. Is he...?.No way, he looks like "her"'. Is he really...?' the devil thought as he looks at Asta's smile face. It looks familiar to him

Asta's devil's past

Somewhere in the forest

The small devil is covered with some serious injuries. He got hurt by Magic Knight. He is heavily breathing and can't move. 'My body is stopped moving and this is the end of me. At least... this worthless life will be over' the devil is slowly dying but someone approaches him

Meanwhile, in someone's house

The devil groans and opens his eyes. He found out that he is bandaged up and don't know where he was

"Hey, you're awake? Oh, thank goodness!" the female voice said next to him. He turned and saw a woman with gray hair and green eyes

"My name is Licita. Nice to meet you!" she introduced herself to him. "Don't worry. No one knows you're here" Licita calms him down

"This is my magic" She puts the small bottle down and opens it. The smoke comes out and turns into some firewood."As long as something lacks mana, I can put it into and take it out of containers"

"I found you while I was gathering firewood and carried you back in this" Licita told him

"But talk about a surprise!" She pulls out of the bottle and shows a five leafs grimoire. "The other day, I found a five-leaf-clover grimoire but I didn't think I'd actually run into a devil!"

"You're ... not scared of me?" the small devil asked her and she giggles. "Why would I be scared of an injured child?" Licita replied

"Besides, you don't have any magic, and you're so weak" she added. "Still, I'm a devil' he told her

"Tsk Tsk Tsk. I can give you a run for your money when it comes to being loathed" she said and the snake came out of nowhere but it got drained and died

"My body robs magic and life from whatever's near me. Just like that" She explained her magic to him. "So I live out here by myself, away from the village, so I won't bother anyone"

She realized and said "But wait! Maybe it's because you're a devil without any magic but it looks like I'm not stealing away your mana or life" She said and pointed at him and the devil gave her a blank look

"Don't you think ... this is destiny?! You should totally be my kid!" She said that she wanted him to be her kid and the devil's eyes widened at this "Huh?"

'A devil ... adopted as a human's child?' the devil thought about this human. "By a way, what's your name?" she asked his name

"My name?" the devil asked. "You don't have a name. Then I'll call you ... Liebe!" Licita names him

Another day that he got full recover. She brought him to go fishing. She caught a fish so she can make dinner for him and her. In the evening, she cooked him a meal and he started eating it quickly. She smiled at this. In the autumn, she brought him out to enjoy the autumn tree. Liebe looks at her and sees she is happy. Liebe thought 'This human ... For someone like me who was born in a dark, shitty hellhole, tormented for being a devil with no magic and who cursed the fact that I was ever born ... She changed my world"

The next day, outside the house. Licita told him "Just because you're a devil doesn't automatically make you a bad guy! Because you're not a bad guy!" She pointed at him and added "You saved me from the suffering of being all alone. Thanks, Liebe" she said with a smile and Liebe smiled too

Asta's devil's past end

'He is really ... Licita's son after all" he thought with a small smile appeared on his face. He starts a handshake with Asta

"I'm Liebe" Liebe told Asta his name. "Let's get to know each other Liebe" Asta shakes his hand

Suddenly, the small words appear on both Asta's and Liebe's wrists. "Wow. That's new" Asta looks at his wrist

"We should talk on mind to get to know each other" Liebe said but Asta asked "How? Am I going to close my eyes to see you and talk?"

"No need to do that. You can talk to me by thinking so I can talk to you. And don't talk by your mouth, they may think you are talking yourself" He explained to him

"I see. Well, I got to go now. I have work today. It's nice to meet you Liebe" Asta said with a smile. "It's nice to meet you too, Asta" Liebe replied back

In real world

Asta wakes up and looks at his wrist. 'It does not appear on wrist. I should wake up and get dressed now' Asta thought himself

"Asta. Are you awake? Come on and get dressed or we'll be late for our work" Marie called him and he replied "I'm awake, Marie! I'm going to take a shower!"

"Ok. Hurry up" Marie said

Asta gets up from his bed and takes a shower. He got out and get dressed in his new clothes. Today, he's going to get old clothes that yesterday he asked them. He got out of his room and went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. Callie has already prepared a lunch box for him

Outside the house. Marie asked him "Do you have everything you need before we go?". "Yeah. I got what I need!" Asta said

"Ok. But first, you need to keep this secret. Don't tell anyone that you from another world and don't tell them your weapons from your grimoire. Just says you are from very far and the weapons that you earned from your teacher. Ok?" Marie advised him and he nodded "I understand!"

"Also, don't tell them that you are living with us. Fans these days are really annoying. Just tell them that you are living in the apartment on your own" Callie added and Asta said "Don't worry! I won't tell anyone about this! I promise!"

"Good. Come on. Let's go" Marie told them and they nodded. They now on their way to Inkopolis

Timeskip to Inkopolis

"Ok. Remember what we told you?" Marie asked him and he replied "Yes! Not to tell anyone about this!"

"Alright. Let's go, Callie" Marie turned to Callie and told her to get to work. "Ok, Bye Asta!" Callie and Marie waved at him and Asta waved them back

Asta enters the Ammo Knights and looks around where is Sheldon. "Down here" Asta looks down and sees Sheldon on his horseshoe crab form

"WAAH! What is this?!" Asta looked shocked at this creature. "It's me, Sheldon" Sheldon said as he transforms back to his original form

"Holy Crab! I'm sorry for being rude, sir!" Asta bows down for him. "No need to apologize" Sheldon told him

"I'm ready for the first day of my job today, sir!" Asta said with determination

"Alright, Wear this and I'll explain everything at this shop" Sheldon gives him a workshop apron and Asta wears it. Sheldon explains everything how to do in this shop and tells him there is a prize on the weapons shelf. He taught him how to be a cashier

"Ok. That's everything I told you. Also, can you clean the weapons? Sometimes they get dirty" Sheldon told him and Asta nodded

"If you have any problem just meet me in the workshop room so I'll help you" Sheldon said

"Thank you, sir! I'll do my best!" Asta said and saluted like he did to the wizard king. "Sure you are energetic and determination" Sheldon commented and went inside the workshop room

"You know what to do, right?" Liebe said in his mind. 'Yes, thanks to Squid Sisters. They gave me an Inkopolis Plaza magazine. They want me to know more about Game and Stuff even Sheldon. He gave me a Weapons Manual to know more about them' Asta said in the mind and looks at the books that they gave him

"I should start work now" Asta said to himself as he checks the weapons on the shelf if they got dirty. He found there are a few dirty weapons

He brought them to the counter and starts clean them. Suddenly, he feels a Ki is walking close to the Ammo Knights

The inkling enters the shop. It was a blue inkling boy. He wore a White Tee shirt and a Camping Hat

"Hello there, customer! What can I help you with?!" Asta asked him. "I'm here for buying a weapon" the inkling boy looked around the shop

"Which weapon do you want to buy?" Asta asked. "Do you have an Octobrush?" he asked for the weapon

"Yes, we do have Octobrush. Just a minute!" Asta goes to the shelf and picks two different Octobrush. One of them has the Nouveau logo. Also, they do have different special weapon and sub-weapon

"Here you go, sir! They have different special weapons and sub-weapons because one of them has a logo on it!" Asta put them on the counter and shows them to the customer

"Is it your first day on this job?" the inkling asked Asta and Asta looked at him and said "Yes, it's my first day on this job"

"I see. No need to overwork for yourself. Are you new here? You look different from other inklings" he asked Asta "Yes, I'm new here. I just moved to Inkopolis Plaza yesterday"

"What's your name?" he asked him "Oh, I'm Asta. What about you?"

"My name is Donut. You know you should try Turf War. It's fun" Donut introduced to him. "Thanks. I just asked Sheldon. He lets me play in the afternoon. So which one you choose?"

"I'll choose this one" Donut pointed at the Octobrush with no logo. "Ok, that'll be 8,500 coins" Asta told him

Donut pulls out the bag of coins and gives it to Asta. "It's nice to meet you, Asta. Hope we meet again" Donut waved to him. "Yeah, it's nice to meet you too"

Sheldon goes out of the workshop room and asks "So how is it going?". "I did it, sir! I got the first customer!" Asta said with star eyes

Sheldon said with a smile "Well, keep it up. I'm back to my work now". "Yes sir!" Asta replied back

On the first day of his job, he's doing it very well. He's helping Sheldon move the stuff and clean some weapons even he's helping the customer find some weapons they need. Not only that he's also finding some information about the game before he starts the first match


Meanwhile in the afternoon

Asta is having lunch now. He's resting a bit before he starts the game

"You did a good job today, Asta" Sheldon said. "No problem, sir" Asta said with a smile

Asta has just finished his lunch. He was about to go but Sheldon stops him "Wait before you go. Here your scabbards you're asking" Sheldon gave him three scabbards for his swords. Asta walks to the Inkopolis Tower. Right now, he stands outside the entrance

"Are you ready for the first match?" Liebe asked in his mind

'Of course, I'm ready!' Asta thought

"Yosh! I'm ready for my first match!" Asta said in determination. Asta goes inside and starts to choose the map

"Hmmm. Which map should I choose?" Asta holds his chin and thinks but got irrupted by someone choose the map. The map is Walleye Warehouse

Asta turns and sees there is a group of 4 yellow inklings. Their team names Yellow Team. Their team leader is an inkling boy. His name is Paintball, he wore Paintball Mask, a black Camo Layered LS, Moto boots, he uses Blaster. The next inkling boy is Gasmask, he wore Gas Mask, Grey College Sweat, Blue Slip-ons, he uses Splattershot. Next is an inkling girl. Her name is Olive. She has black skin, she wore Olive Ski jacket, Pro Trail boots, she uses .52 Gal. The next inkling girl is Takoroka. She wore a Takoroka Mesh cap, Black Squideye shirt, Orange Arrows shoes, she uses Splattershot Jr

"Hey, are you going to choose it, or we going to choose it?" their leader asked him

"Oh sorry there, I was thinking which one I choose. So what are you doing here?" Asta asked him

"It isn't obvious. We are here to finding some match to play here" the gas mask guy told him

"Well! If you are looking for some opponents, then I'll be your opponents for your match!" Asta thumb-up at him with a confident smile

Their leader looks at him for a few seconds and starts laughing. "Seriously?! You really go 1v4? You don't even have a team"

"Hey! I'm new here and I want to try the first match here!" Asta yelled in an angry tone

"Well, then what weapons do you have?" Paintball asked. "These!" Asta showed him three swords

He laughed at him again "Really?! These weapons? They are old and rusty". Asta doesn't like someone insults him and his weapons

"Well, this is gonna be easy. Ok then, we will fight you. We're going to easy on you" Paintball said

"Umm. I don't think that's a good idea to face him, Paintball" Takoroka said and Olive nodded in agreement "I agree. We have already lost to Idiot Team"

"He. Don't worry. He's just a newbie. Not only that, he doesn't even have a team yet so this is going to be easy" Paintball told them

Meanwhile in Walleye Warehouse

"Today's play-by-play report will be brought to you by the Squid Sisters. This stage is just filled with cargo containers!" Marie said in the mic

"Each team will need to hide behind the obstacles and make their way up!" Callie explained to them while carrying the Splattershot Jr

"We have a newbie, who's going on 1v4!" Marie said and they looked at Asta

"Look at his weapons. Those are strange weapons that he has but let's see what he can do!" Callie said in a cheerful voice

In the audience, each of them said:

"What? A newbie goes on 1v4? Is he stupid?"

"Yeah. No one can go 1v4 like that. This is new"

"That inkling has strange weapons but they are old and rusty"

They are talking about a new inkling, who is on 1v4

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Liebe asked him

'Don't worry. I know what I'm doing' Asta thought. Asta chooses Ink Slayer and Ink Dweller

On the other side

Gas Mask asked his leader "Are you sure this is going to be easy?"

"Don't worry. He's just only 1 person here so this will be easy" Paintball told him

"Alright! The match will start in 1... 2... 3... GO!" Callie said in the mic. Both sides start run and ink the turf

Asta holds two swords and starts to ink both sides of him. He rushes in the stage of containers. Suddenly, he felt 4 Ki on different sides. They jump out their ink and start shot at Asta. "WAAHH!" Asta got splatted

"A hit! A newbie just got surrounded by them!" Callie said

Asta respawns from his spawn point. "Not yet! I'm not giving up!" Asta rushes in again but he stops and looks at his opponents

Paintball laughed and said "Just give up. You can't win"

"Look at it. We already painted most of the stage yellow. We're the winners here!" He points at the stage from behind him

Asta smiled and he's not giving up yet "That's my line. I haven't used my full strength yet! I'll not give up!" Asta charged himself to Paintball

"Seriously? Charged yourself in here? You're weak" Paintball pointed at Asta with his Blaster and shot at him but Asta transforms into a squid to dodge the Blaster's shot and transforms back and swings his Ink Slayer towards Paintball. He got splatted

"Wow! This is amazing! His left weapon has a long range! Yellow team's leader got splatted!" Callie said in excitement

"Paintball got splatted! We need to hide and shoot him!" Olive told her teammates

They go to different sides and hide in their ink. Asta felt a Ki approach from the right side. Asta rushes and splats his opponent inside the ink

"YAAHH!" Olive got splatted

"Unbelievable! He knew where his opponent!" Callie said

"I agree. We don't know how did he do but let's continue!" Marie replied and the crowd cheered

A two Ki approach from behind him. "Behind you!" Liebe told him

'I know!' Asta thought

"Take this!" Takoroka and Gasmask pointed their gun at him but he blocks them with Ink Slayer

"That's what I'm going to say!" Asta uses his Ink Dweller and swings it harder "White Splash!" Asta creates a Splash towards to them

"WAAAH!" Both of them got splatted

"Wow! This is insane! A newbie is overpowered them! They can't beat him!" Callie said with a cheerful voice

Asta keeps ink the turf while stopping his opponents from inking the turf

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Game!" the match has stopped

"Now, let's check the result. Which team is won?" Marie said

The result is 64.2%/35.8%. Asta won

"Omg! A newbie won the first match on 1v4! This is crazy!" Callie said and the audience gasped in amazement and shocked about a newbie goes on 1v4 and wins

"I did it! This game is fun!" Asta said with a tear falls from his star eyes

"I can't believe it! We got beat by idiot again!" Paintball said in an angry tone

"Hey! Who are you calling an idiot?! And what do you mean again?!" Asta asked him

"We just got defeated by Blue Team! But next time, we won't lose to you again!" He pointed at Asta and left

"Blue team?" Asta asked himself

In the first match, he has won against the Yellow team when their team told him that they got defeated by the team names Blue Team. Asta is curious about that team but he will deal with that later. In the next match, he equipped himself with different weapons. And he won again. He fought so many on 1v4 and he won. He got claimed as the title "A mysterious inkling with strange weapons". Outside the entrance, Judd told him that only use 1 weapon in the match or else he will ban him


Almost nighttime, the sun is raised down. He got the old clothes that he asked for. Now he is waiting for Squid Sisters to go home

"Hey Asta!" Asta turned and saw Squid Sisters is coming to him. Callie waves and rushes to give him a hug "How is going today, Asta?"

"Hi Callie and Hi Marie. It was great today. The job was easy and the game was fun" Asta told them. "That's good to hear" Marie said with a smile

"Yeah. That was crazy in the match. How do you know where is your opponent?" Callie asked in excitement and curiosity

"I agree. What was that move you use?" Marie asked him too

"The one I use is Ki" Asta told them. "Ki?" They both said

"I'm not sure to know much about Ki. From what I hear about Captain Yami says Ki is a life force energy inside every living being. He said that when people looking at you, the sound of their breathing, their smell, the motions of their muscles, the vague sense that they're here. That's why he asks me to train to sense everyone's Ki. That's how I know where they are even their attack too" Asta explained to them. "Well, that's very useful for the match" Marie replied

Asta suddenly remembers something so he asked them "Hey, do you know any about Team Blue ?"

"Uhh. No, we don't know any about Team Blue" Marie answered

"We only know about Team S4" Callie added. "Team S4?" Asta asked

"The big four of S-plus Rankers and they also are different leaders from a different team. They are the S4" Marie told him. "Do you know any about them?" Asta wanted to know

"Hmm. I'm afraid that I can't tell you. You will have to find out on your own" Marie told him

"You wanted to beat them. You need a team to face the S4" Callie added

"I see. Yosh! I'll start finding some teammates tomorrow!" Asta fist-bump in the determination

"Sure you are energetic. Just like Callie" Marie commented

"Hey! I'm not that energetic!" Callie blushed a little

"Come on! Let's go home!" Asta and Squid Sisters are walking on their way home. But Squid Sisters still remember what happened yesterday. They blushed again. Asta is in front of them so he doesn't notice their blushes

'He's strong and friendly' Callie thought

'He doesn't look the same as other inklings. Even though he's from another world but he's very kind to us' Marie thought

'I hope I can tell him how I feel someday' They both thought

They got home. They are enjoying playing some video games. Now they are having fun at home

Note: Sorry about the match. I'm not good at writing about fighting yet

Also in this chapter, I let Asta uses two swords but in the next chapter, he will use one sword

Donut is OC belongs to ZozaZero on DeviantArt and Twitter