Kaminari was practically shaking in fury as she listened to her sister's ridiculous rant on how she couldn't tutor Maou. "Would you stop with the Maou thing?!" Kaminari yelled at her sister. Chiho immediately went silent under her sister's demand. Ashiya and Lucifer went silent as well. Even Lucifer turned away from his computer to see what had happened. At the moment, Maou wasn't home leaving the two girls with Ashiya and Lucifer, but the two demons had been arguing, and due to Kaminari's outburst, their argument had stopped. "I am not interested in him at all. And out of everyone that Maou knows, I am the only one capable of teaching him what he needs to know. I tutored students for three years! Every single grade level, Chi. I was in advanced courses for a reason! You'll be too busy daydreaming about a wedding to even be able to teach him how to read! You are not capable of handling this responsibility. If you want him to be successful, you let me tutor him, or hire someone to do it for you. I charged ¥5,088 an hour. Do you think you can afford that?"

Chiho sighed, "I know. I think I should be here, so you can tutor me, too."

"I've arranged it with Tai to let me have the same off days as Maou so I can tutor him. If you end up having the time, that's fine. But, if I see you slack at all, I will lock you in the closet so you'll just get to hear Maou."

"Wow," Lucifer said. "You would make a terrible teacher."

"Don't get involved," Kaminari said sharply, immediately silencing the fallen angel. Her eyes were back on Chiho who shied away from the angry gaze. "If you even borderline hinder me from teaching him, I will personally kick you out of this apartment. He can't be distracted. He wants to be ready by next year. By then, he'll know more than enough to pass the test."

"What about a Ashiya and Urushihara?" She questioned.

"What about them?"

"What if they distract him?"

"I'm not going to kick someone out of their house, you dork," Kaminari told her. "Lucifer works a lot now, so he might not even be here, and if anything, Alciel would be right next to him, trying to learn as much as possible as well."

Chiho gave a pathetic look to her sister. "Okay..."

"That doesn't work on me," Kaminari said as she grabbed her bag from the floor. "I'm going to Bell's. I'll be back." Before she opened the door, she looked at Ashiya, "Hey, you wanna come? It's a pretty cool thrift store. Ashiya practically threw his apron across the room as he came to join her for the adventure.

"You can't leave me here with him!" Chiho cried as she pointed at Lucifer who was chewing on a pocky stick.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lucifer said as he stood up. "I have work in a couple of hours and Bell's is close by. You'll be alone."

Chiho turned a dark red, "A-alone?"

"Just don't go through their underwear drawer," Kaminari said as she opened the door. She smiled at her sister and winked, "Let me know if you find one."

"Kami!" Chiho screeched, her face reddening more.

Lucifer laughed while Ashiya rolled his eyes as the three stepped out. Kaminari smiled when she stood on the sidewalk. The skies were clear and the sun was bright and warm. It was still cold enough to need a jacket, but the deathly grip of winter was finally fading into the warm hugs of spring.

"You should be nicer to your sister," Ashiya scolded. "She's been very kind to all of us, except Urushihara, but he deserves it."

"Dude, that is so not fair!" Lucifer exclaimed.

"Urushihara is right, Ashiya," Kaminari replied as she looked up at the tall Demon. "He's actually helping out now. You can be a little nicer to him."

"Yeah, Ashiya," Urushihara smirked.

"Don't get ahead of yourself. You screwed up quite a bit, so you're not off the hook yet."

Lucifer glared at her, but it faded away when she opened the door to Bell's. The musty scent of old storage and mothballs immediately took over their senses causing Urushihara to sneeze. Ashiya stopped Kaminari from walking on while he watched Urushihara sneeze five more times before he sighed and groaned, "Why?"

"Urushihara, you must buy some allergy medicine and keep it with you. Not everywhere is going to be mostly dust free and cat free." Ashiya scolded.

"You're weird," Kaminari sighed as she searched her bag. She frowned as she kept digging through all the stuff she kept in there. Lucifer stood still as Kaminari started pulling things out of her bag and putting them in his hands. A wallet, a charger, a small bag, another small bag, a coin purse, and three large piles of receipts later, she finally pulled out some allergy medicine.

"No wonder you couldn't find it," Ashiya muttered as Lucifer dropped everything back into her bag.

"And I didn't even take out everything," she replied as she reached in the bag once more and pulled out a bottle of water. She opened the bottle and poured out two blue pills then closed it and shoved it back into her bag. "That should help," she told the fallen angel as he took the small pills from her and the bottle of water.

"I hate pills," he grumbled as he popped them into his mouth and quickly swallowed the water.

The adventure in the store officially began, Ashiya following Kaminari around while she looked for old college text books. "What on earth is this?"

Kaminari put down the biology book she was looking at and headed to see what Ashiya had found. Her heart felt like it fell to the floor as she reached for the weird cyclops lantern that had a face. It was Chochin-obake. The strange pillow had a slit in the mouth, which she reached in and pulled out a fluff filled fire. At the sight of the dried blood on the creature, she dropped it and stepped back, trying to calm down as she stared at it.

She rushed outside, throwing up in the alley by the store. As she tried to calm down, she only threw up again before falling to her knees and just gasping. Tears started to fall from her eyes as she just fell onto her side, curling up and sobbing.

Ashiya stood a few feet away, heartbroken as he watched the fragile human cry. Maou was the comforter in the group. Lucifer was soon at his side, the same look on his face. "What happened?"

Ashiya handed him the lantern thing that she had dropped so suddenly. "When she pulled its insides out, she ran out here."

"That's because it was hers," Lucifer said as he pulled the inside of the pillow out.

"How do you know that?"

"It was in one of her pictures. Watch her, will ya? I found something I needed."

"You really don't care about her current condition?"

"Look, I don't know what to do. Let me get my stuff then we'll head home."

"Don't you have work?"

"Yeah, but I have enough time to take her home," Lucifer replied as he headed back inside.

When Lucifer returned, Ashiya frowned at the amount of stuff he bought. "Honestly, you need to learn self control."

The small man ignored him as he passed the heavy bags to Ashiya and headed to the collapsed girl. Ashiya could feel the magic he was using as he helped her to her feet. He took her down the alleyway, disappearing from Ashiya's sight. After a moment, a shadow caught his attention and a black feather floated down from the sky. Ashiya smiled slightly as he started walking home. Perhaps everything would be okay after all.

When Ashiya opened the door to the apartment, he found all the shudders closed and the lights off. The table had been moved so Lucifer's box could be put out. The evident darkness seemed to flow through the room, like wisps of shadow, slowly crawling away. There was a purple glow in the midst of the darkness, peering out, focused on the box in the floor. Lucifer was definitely trying to stay as calm as possible while he watched the box on the floor.

"Is she asleep?" Ashiya asked quietly.

"Yes," the fallen angel replied, his voice low and cold. The shadows around him started to fade as he walked toward Ashiya, "Take care of her. I'll check on her when I get off work."