Suddenly a huge black creature appeared from the golden ring on Iruma's finger and enveloped the human boy, taking all of the wild magical energy with them. Sullivan realizing what was happening and reacted rapidly, surrounding the house with protective magic and dampening any magical signal from the inside of the house. He had already put his grandson in a precarious position by being human, he won't allow his future status as a Demi Demon to be publicized to anyone outside the room. Especially when the position of Demon King is still unoccupied and the parliament wants it filled. The birth of a Demi Demon would be all they were waiting for... especially since the previous Demon King was also a Demi Demon- though he was born naturally.
"Principal! What's going on?!" Alice asked, panicking, even more, when that black thing ate his master.
"That's what I would like to know as well," Azazel Henri demanded, appearing out of nowhere.
"Henri-kun," Sullivan spoke up, but his tone was not his usual gullible one but a serious one, with a hidden threat in it. "Didn't you know that the polite thing is to knock on the door before entering someone's house?" He chided him as if there was not a Demi Demon being born in his living room.
"I normally would, but as the Head Demon Officer I could not sense such a strong emission of magical energy and not react," Azazel replied, eyes never leaving the young boy his daughter enjoys keeping company, a young man whose company he had grown to like. "Why is your grandson being swallowed by his equipment ring?" He demanded to know, sensing how the human's life was starting to fade little by little.
I should have returned the boy to his world long ago. Henri berated himself internally, feeling guilty and frustrated for not fulfilling his job and putting such a kindhearted boy into such danger.
"What are you doing in my house?" Sullivan answered the demon's question with another question.
"I was coming here to thank your grandson for saving my daughter and her friends by defeating the magical beast" the fox demon replied rapidly "Now tell me what is going on here!" he snapped, starting to get agitated.
"Iruma-kun is turning into a Demi Demon," surprisingly the one who replied was Opera, whose eyes had never left the form of his young master... of his little brother.
"Demi Demon!" Azazel exclaimed, shocked. Alice and Clara were not any better, looking at Opera in utter disbelief before turning their eyes to Iruma's cocoon of darkness. "I knew I should have returned him to the human world! I knew you were planning something! Now he is dying because of you!" Azazel shouted at the greater demon, glaring in impotence.
How will I tell my daughter that his dear friend is dying?! Henri thought angrily.
"Human world?" Alice exclaimed not understanding what was going on. "Why would you return him to the human world when Iruma-sama... is a demon..."
By the end of his sentence, he got lost in his thoughts. Iruma-sama never flies; he made our teacher, a demon, his familiar; his endurance has always been lower than the average demon; he had only seen him use magic after gaining the gluttony ring; he is kinder than any demon Alice had ever met; and comes up many things that he had never seen in the demon, like friendship, the sakura tree, and fireworks. There had never been stories about a demon turning into a Demi Demon, it was always humans turning into Demi Demons or Demi Demons being born.
"Iruma-sama is... was human?" Alice asked the principal, dazed, not believing what he was saying. "You kidnapped him from the human world and made him lie to everyone about who... what he was?!" He shouted this time, his flames, unintentionally, burning up.
Yes, he was angry and betrayed. But not at Iruma-sama. Alice knew that Iruma-sama would never lie to his friends, he must have been so afraid about being a human surrounded by demons... no wonder the school's anthem always put him nervous. How could the principal kidnap a human and put him in a school for demons? How did Iruma-sama not go insane? He even manages to raise his level to Gimel, how the heck did a human rise up in the demon hierarchy?
Well, that's easy. Iruma-sama is simply that amazing. As expected of my mate. Alice praised him in his head but rapidly frowned afterward. How does he dare to put my mate into such a dangerous position?! Now he is dying because of him! Alice growled in his head, starting to give up to his demonic instincts. Knowing quite well that most don't survive the transition and if they do they do, they do not stay the same.
"Everyone calm down," Suvillan did not raise his voice, but the serious expression on his face and the release of magic were enough to freeze Alice and send shivers down everyone's spine. "There was a stupid couple trying to summon a demon, I decided to accept that call and scare them off so they would not do try it again. You'll know my surprise when what they were planning on offering me was not their souls but their son's." Those words froze everyone in the room. "You should have seen Iruma-kun, he was so skinny I could see his bones, surely starved by those imbeciles, and tight up to a chair. I knew that if I did not accept their offer they would continue trying until someone did. After all, they were the class of people who would sell their son for money." Those words made everyone in the room even angrier. "What was I supposed to do? Leave them with them? I simply tried to give him a better life, even if it was in the Netherworld. He has been doing great... how was I supposed to know that they would be attacked by a magical beast and he would have to use the gluttony ring to swallow the whole thing. How was I supposed to know that the ring could not contain all that magic and it would end up mutating his body into becoming a Demi Demon?!"
By the end of Sullivan's speech, everyone had stopped blaming the demon and begun thanking him for saving the boy. However, it did not mean they had stopped feeling anxious at Iruma's situation or angry, this time they were angry at Iruma's parents. How could they use such a wonderful and kind boy like Iruma to gain money? They were demons and they would never betray one of their own like that. They were the real monsters.
"Tell me the names of those humans," Henri demanded. "It seems that they need to be taught a lesson."
"Relax, I did not make a deal with them. I simply took Iruma-kun and made it with him. He would become my grandson and I would give him the life he deserves. They are at the moment still poor and without a son to sell to get out of the problem. Not to mention I already made sure they can't ever have another one." Sullivan explained. "All we need to do right now is focus on Iru..."
But he could not finish his sentence, because at that right moment Iruma's cocoon broke.
