In the previous episode: Keima discovers that he has switched bodies with Dark Heart, and learns his story. Just Dark Heart, indeed Ryushi Sakari, formulates a new plan to correct Keima. Keima decides to try the body swap again, but Ryushi escapes. Keima is therefore forced to go looking for an old acquaintance of his, from the New Hell.
In this episode: Dark Heart decides to ship all of Keima's conquests to Dimension Z! What it is we won't know now. While Keima finds the person he was looking for, and begins to think of a plan to get his body back.
****Maijima Library…****
Tsukiyo was leafing through a book on constellations, and stopped on a page: "I think Keima mentioned this constellation last time." - Tsukiyo remembered.
"The constellation Leo? (Shishi=Leo.)" - Shiori asked, seeing the image of the aforementioned constellation.
"That's how it seems. I wonder if there are other constellation skills. What do you think, Shiori?" - Tsukiyo asked her, as he began to think about the other constellations, and how they could be used in a battle.
"It doesn't seem impossible to me, and maybe he even has some kind of costume involving books!" Shiori supposed.
"It would not be bad." Tsukiyo commented.
Ryushi Sakari, in the body of Keima Katsuragi, slowly approached the girls, while still hidden: "There they are. - Ryushi took out two black cards from his pocket. - Portal card, open now!"
The papers ended up under the chairs where Shiori and Tsukiyo were sitting, and two portals opened under them: "What's going on?" - and in an instant they disappeared, sucked into their portals.
Ryushi approached the table, and took the book on the constellations: "You will enjoy yourself in Dimension Z. You will be erased, from the face of Dimensions." he said, as he began to laugh, and threw the book away. , with the page open to the image of the black hole.
****THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOW SERIES!****
*When Dimensions are in danger, there are those who have no qualms about fixing them. The one who has this task also has a clear goal in his head. Go back to his home!*
KIRAKIRA kagayaku doma ni boku-ra wa meguriatta to omou kara Kizutsuki migakiage. (I think we met to shine even brighter. So let's clear away the doubts.)
THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOW! GOD ARRIVAL!
Mada masshiro na Sekai wo suberi hajimeta sen doko reso mo ikeru ki ga shita! (I've just started slipping through the lines of this empty world, and I feel like I can go anywhere!)
Dokidoki no Imajin ga Enjin yume wo egaku kedo Soto no sekai hamidasenai mamma! (Our heart-pounding imagination is our engine! As I try to find my way around this new world!)
Jitsu wa motto mawari no me wa ki ni sezu ni (Sometimes, you shouldn't listen to what other people think of you.)
Sakebidashitai, hashiridashitai, so! Kanjita nara Kirame-Go! (You just wanna scream and run, so when you hear it, it's time to go!)
Mirai ga hajimaru kaze wo tsukande jōshō Kikari Kiramentaru! (The future is beginning, so catch the wind, with a sudden flash of brilliance!)
Suki na koto wo shinjiru chikara. (This is the power of believing in the one you love.)
Kirakira kagayaku doma ni bokura wa meguriatta to omou kara Kizutsuki migakiage. (I think we met to shine even brighter. So let's clear away the doubts.)
THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOW! GOD ARRIVAL!
FLAG 291. An old acquaintance!
****Narusawa City…****
"Are you sure the location is correct?" Keima asked as he looked around the abandoned building.
"At 100%. If our target wasn't on Earth, my radar wouldn't have picked it up at all." - explained Cupid.
"All right. - Keima climbed all the stairs, until he reached the roof of the building. Keima saw the person he was looking for. Dressed in a lab coat, a little scruffy, and heard a mantle of purple feathers. Dark purple hair that fell over her face, and tied up with pink ribbons. - I finally found you! Akari Kurakawa, actually Rymuel!" - Keima called her.
The devil of the New Hell was taken aback and turned around thinking that there was an enemy, a very probable hypothesis: "And who are you?" he asked, looking the stranger up and down.
"Huh? How can you not recognize me Akari? - only then Keima realized the terrible bullshit he had said. How could Akari recognize Keima Katsuragi, if the latter was in a different body than hers?! - No, I'm sorry Akari, I was wrong. You know me in another body. Right now I switched bodies with another person!"
"Even if you say so, I don't think I recognize a person who knows my true nature here in the human world. So, are you really there?" - Akari was about to unsheathe her scythe of will.
Keima raised his hands in the air: "Take my hand. And I will reveal to you who I really am." - Keima said, holding out his right hand.
Akari sighed and approached, but without letting her guard down, and took the stranger in front of her by the hand. She was enveloped in the light of Cupid's mark and, within seconds, a myriad of memories flashed through her mind. Finally he uttered a single word: "Keima?"
"That's right, I have an urgent problem…" - and he began to narrate his adventure.
****Classroom of the 2B Pencils…****
By late afternoon, the 2B Pencils classroom was with the band, almost, complete. Ayumi, Yui, Miyako and Chihiro were already there, waiting for Elsie.
"In the meantime we can start warming up." - Chihiro said, as she picked up the guitar.
The classroom door flew open and Ryushi entered, throwing a card on the ground: "Portal card, open now!"
The card expanded, and a portal opened: "What's going on?!" - in a second, Yui, Ayumi and Chihiro, had disappeared from the classroom.
"To never again!" - Ryushi greeted them.
Miyako was motionless, as she began to stammer, and to point to Ryushi, or rather Ryushi in Keima's body, with a trembling finger: "K-Katsuragi! B-But what the hell does all this mean?"
Ryushi snapped his fingers in front of Miyako's eyes: "Forget everything about this scene." - Miyako collapsed to the floor, asleep, while Ryushi left the 2B Pencils classroom, as if nothing had happened.
****Narusawa City…****
"Even though you're in trouble, I don't know if I can really help you." Akari/Rymuel answered, looking away slightly.
"Akari, please! You are my only hope!" - Keima pleaded, kneeling down.
Akari looked at Keima, and Ryushi's body, harshly: "I'm sorry, but you are an imperfect being, I want a perfect man, not you."
Keima already knew about the possibility, and promptly replied: "You are absolutely right. This body is imperfect and, consequently, I myself am imperfect. However, if you take me back to my original body, you will be able to see who is the perfect person in here!"
The superior demon raised an eyebrow: "What if you aren't?"
"Then I will pay the consequences." - assured Keima.
"And you will really pay for it, and not because I'm bad, but because my power is." Akari said mysteriously.
"What do you mean?" Keima asked, puzzled.
"From the things you've shown me, with your memory, I see that you can already control some basic Devil powers. But some things are just disjointed, explosive formulas. And some complicated spells you can only achieve with Fusion Form. I have also seen your Super God Mode, and you could compare it to my powers." Akari explained.
"HH?! Are your powers comparable to Super God Mode?!" - Keima asked him, incredulous.
"Not really, but they're still on a near similar level." - compared Akari.
"What are you waiting for to give them to me, then?" Keima asked.
"Curb your enthusiasm. I just told you this body is imperfect. My power rejects imperfect bodies. So if your body is really imperfect, no pleasant things will happen." Akari warned him.
"What will happen to me?" - Keima was afraid to find out.
"This." - Akari pulled Keima by the collar of his jacket, kissed him quickly, and let him go.
For a few seconds, Keima didn't feel anything, but just five seconds passed he felt a jolt in his body and collapsed to the ground: "I feel like Kanon used his 100 power tasers on me!" he said writhing.
"I told you."
"But it's absurd! If I fail even two or three times, I risk being killed here!" - Keima said, thinking about the most extreme of events.
"Unless the enemy takes advantage of your vulnerability and does something to you before you recover from the shock." - suggested Cupid.
"Simply put, I have to get it right on the first try, right?" - understood Keima.
"Exact. You can't go wrong; your victory depends on it." Akari confirmed.
"Fine, that's fine with me. Then we just have to lure Dark Heart, then we have to switch bodies, and finally we have to defeat him." - Keima summed up.
"And how do we attract it?" Akari asked.
"Leave it to me. I have the perfect plan. And I will tell you that I can already see the ending!" Keima concluded.
****Narusawa City Stadium...****
"It seems to me that my mission is about to end, I have only two more girls to capture. And the next one is coming. - Ryushi was perched on top of a tree, with the card ready in his hand. He knew where Kanon was at the moment, practicing some of his new songs. Seeing Keima again had inspired her again and, at this moment, she was in full artistic splendor. Ryushi had to hurry to find his target's location as that was, perhaps, the hardest he had to deal with. Both for popularity, for character stats, for dangerous weapons. He was rarely afraid of anything, but now he had a slight phobia of safe Tasers. Five seconds later he cuts down a tree, using them. - Ryushi remembered, while he had a slight shiver, due to the fact that he was afraid to end up like a tree, if he made the slightest awkward movement. A fall, a sudden malfunction of the portal card, anything could have gotten him into trouble! He didn't have time to finish his thought, when he immediately saw Kanon exit, with Okada by his side, as he headed out of the studio. Ryushi took aim and - Portal card, open now!" - the card was thrown on the ground, it grew bigger, it lit up.
"But what..." - Kanon pronounced, before disappearing completely.
Okada opened her eyes in disbelief and Ryushi revealed himself. To prevent the manager from starting to give him the fortieth degree, he snapped his fingers instantly, in front of Okada's eyes: "Forget about this whole scene immediately!" - Okada passed out, and Ryushi ran away from the scene like a hare.
****Narusawa City… Late Night…****
"We can't afford to make mistakes. Neither the fact of the Powersharing, nor the fact of the plan, nor anything!" - Keima summed up, while playing his PFP.
"Nice training, Partner." - Cupid joked, as he watched him play.
"I'm also relaxing, trying to exhale away the anxiety, and at the same time find my inner peace." Keima explained.
"What is Zen Meditation?" - Cupid asked him, puzzled.
"Cupid, I'm worried about the others. Will they be okay?" Keima asked him, rolling his eyes.
"I do not know. Honestly, I can only make guesses. Well, if it makes you feel better, I can try to locate them." - proposed Cupid.
"Please do it." Keima told him.
Cupid sat cross-legged on the ground, and closed his eyes: "I will connect to their position, and also to that of my little sisters, so I can't be wrong..." - he began to inhale and exhale slowly, while placing his hands near to his own face, as if he were praying.
However, Keima saw that the seconds were turning into minutes and, after a quarter of an hour, he lost his patience: "Hey, how long does it take?!" - he finally snapped.
"Partner, I don't know if it's serious, even if in reality it is, but the signals of all of them, guests and goddesses, have disappeared from the celestial radar. I'm not on Earth." - announced Cupid, slightly raising his gaze, illuminated by a torch.
Keima was dumbfounded. Eyes wide open, without pupils, staring into space, incredulous, as if he had lost his life. But then he reacted instantly: "I'm in the Old Hell, the New or…"
"Calm down, calm down, I looked for them there too. There is no trace, and signal, neither in the Old Hell, nor in the New Hell, nor on Earth. Nor in Heaven."
"Then where are they?!"
"I do not know! They seem to have vanished from the face of our Dimension!"
"From our Dimension?!" Keima asked, incredulous.
****In fact a few hours before…****
Ryushi had stationed himself near Tenri's house and, after waiting for her, had sent her, with his portal card, to Dimension Z, thus concluding his work.
"I just have to wait for the deadline, and all the girls will be permanently deleted from this Dimension. After doing this, I can say that my mission will finally be accomplished." - concluded Dark Heart, as he entered Keima's house.
****Present…****
"Yes and, in this case, the matter is serious. Because they have not been moved to a remote part of our universe, but to a completely different one, separated from ours with a dimensional portal."
"Can't you prove something?"
"I cannot. If they were somewhere deep in the universe, but in our universe, I could try to locate them. But I don't have access to the celestial radars of other dimensions, if any, without being in that dimension." - explained Cupid.
"How do I find them? What will happen to all of them? Why them…" - Keima began to ask, in bursts.
"Why is the sun yellow? Why is the sea blue? You ask too many questions, and some of them have answers that are too complex, even for me. I can't answer you now, one thinks about the battle, one doesn't think after the battle. - hearing Cupid's answer, Keima fell silent. - You can't get everything you want. You can't guarantee that your plans will work 100%, so you always need to have plan B. Like now, you can't defeat the Dark Heart and find your conquests at the same time. They are two actions that require full concentration on each other. I understand that you don't like to sit around in situations like these, but you have to resist, and then I don't think you don't mind resisting." - concluded Cupid, as he stood up.
"I can only relax because I have nothing else to do." Keima explained.
"So, I'll get back to work. I tell you that I should complete that thing tonight." Cupid warned him as he walked away.
"That thing?"
"Yes."
"How will it come?" - Keima was curious.
"I won't tell you anything, because I could delude you too much, but I think it turned out well. Then I move to the work area. Goodbye, and see you tomorrow!" - Cupid greeted him.
"I wonder how long I can handle this little trick without turning off the PFP, and as long as God will let me." - concluded Keima, continuing to play with his PFP.
NEXT STEP! FLAG 292!
KEIMA: "I'm sorry, this is a trap, and you fell right into it!
RYUSHI: "I expected it, sooner or later."
A battle for your body, and for something more.
KEIMA: "I will decide who is the best ally for me."
RYUSHI: "Deceived! Changing the system is impossible!"
UNMASKED!
KEIMA: "This is Super Devil Mode!"
AKARI/RYMUEL: "So you're perfect."
Author's Note: The goddesses and girls are trapped in a mysterious Dimension, destined to be erased, and Keima knows nothing about it! He must defeat the Dark Heart to figure out where they really are. They are all in danger and they don't know it yet. Leave a comment and turn on notifications. Even if the comment is negative I won't transport you to Dimension Z, and see you in the next chapter!
P.S. I make the chapters short because otherwise I mess up myself.