pika318: In this AU, instead of Olba taking Lucifer to Japan, when he returned to get her after the war was over, he found out that she was gone because some knights from the Western Continent sold her to the Eastern Continent as a slave (she has a collar on her preventing her from using demonic magic). Cue lots of suffering in the slave market and under a new cruel master until the events of Volume 10 when Maou found this out from the Unifying Azure Emperor as a reward for helping the continent and he had to go save her.

One shot: Misunderstanding

They brought her to the inn they were staying at.

The inn owner, a kind lady, was taken aback when she saw them come in with a woman wrapped in a blanket. But Suzu quickly explained that the woman was badly injured and possibly bleeding to death, causing the inn owner to get out of their way when she did see blood seeping through the blanket as they ran up the stairs to room which Maou and Ashiya shared.

Putting her gently on Maou's bed, they unwrapped her from the blanket.

And that was when they saw the full extent of her injuries for the first time.

Maou snarled on instinct when he saw the messy criss-cross of old scars mixed with open wounds on her back. And because she was naked, it was obvious that other than her face, there was practically no other place on her skin which was not marked by a scar or a bruise. There were even bruises in her most private areas, which only meant…

Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Demon King, if you're just going to stare, leak out demonic magic and affect the people living in this inn, then get out of the room." Suzu said sternly.

This snapped Maou out of a trance he did not know he had slipped into. Numbly, he stepped aside, letting Suzu do the healing, knowing that Lucifer, being a fallen angel, would not be affected by holy magic.

Then he let himself breathe, calming his emotions and controlling his demonic magic.

Maou watched as Suzu used holy magic for healing, closing up the new wounds.

As the last open wound closed, she stirred.

Maou, Ashiya and Suzu watched with bated breath as her eyes opened, revealing slightly hazy purple irises as she fought to get rid of the fogginess in her brain.

"Lucifer?" Maou called out tentatively.

Suddenly she was looking straight at him from where she was lying on the bed, the source of the first voice she heard. From her confused expression, she clearly did not recognise him.

And suddenly she was sitting up, wrapping the blanket around her, wary and on guard.

An unfamiliar place. Being naked. Three men she probably did not recognise sitting around her bed.

The implications hit them like a truck. Maou, Ashiya and Suzu stepped back at once, with Suzu blushing as he looked away.

"…"

For a second, they stared at each other, then Ashiya spoke, coughing awkwardly as he did so.

"Lucifer, you might not recognise us now, but I'm Alsiel. This is Demon King-sama." He said in the demon language.

END