Sitting on top of Tatsumi's bed, Kaito was reading one of Tatsumi's manga while he and Furuichi were playing a video game with Beel watching in excitement.
"Going back to the Demon World?" Furuichi asked after Kaito told the boys what Hilda told her at the barbecue. "Who?"
"Furcas and his assistant, Pipsqueak." Kaito responded.
"Oh, you mean that doctor guy and the squirt." Tatsumi clarified.
"Yep. Now that Beel's all better, Hilda said that there's no reason for them to be here anymore. Now it's time for them to go back home." Kaito explained.
"Hmm…Honmakai…" Everyone in the room froze when the most horrible pun came out of Furuichi's mouth.
Game Over!
Kaito closed the manga and crawled towards Furuichi before smacking his head with the said manga. "Bad pun!"
"Lame!" Lamia stared down at Furuichi with a neutral expression while Furcas stood by her side. "Just try saying that pun again."
"If he does, I will punch him." Kaito stated, still sitting on her boyfriend's bed while Tatsumi's head was resting on her lap this time.
"We're heading back to the Demon World! Come on…!" Lamia urged him.
"Shut up! Just go already!" Furuichi shouted in embarrassment.
"That was our intent. But I can't seem to find Alaindelon." Furcas spoke. "You live together with him, yes? Do you know anything?"
"Nope, I dunno." Furuichi shook his head.
"I see. That is a problem." Furcas stated.
"Maybe you'll find him trailing behind a cute boy." Kaito joked, causing Tatsumi to snicker a bit.
"Doctor, why don't we wait until tomorrow?" Lamia suggested with a blissful expression. "I wanna stay with Beelze-sama a little longer!"
"Fool! I have flocks of patients back in the Demon World, you know!" Furcas denied immediately, causing Lamia to sneer at him.
"Better listen to your boss, Pipsqueak." Kaito said.
Lamia snapped her head towards Kaito and shouted, "For the last time, I'm not a pipsqueak!"
"Hmm, I guess you haven't learned your lesson the last time. Either that or you like getting spankings." Kaito said with narrowed eyes, causing Lamia to yelp.
"Why don't you simply call for him?" Everyone turned towards the door to see Hilda standing before them with her arms crossed. "Perhaps he will come if someone near-and-dear calls for him, Furuichi." Hilda suggested.
"I wouldn't say I'm near-and…" Lamia cut Furuichi off and shouted, "Do it! Or are you gonna spout that lame pun at Hilda-nee-sama?"
"Lame pun?" Hilda asked out of curiosity.
Lamia smiled and said, "Right! You see…"
"Wait. I'll call for him!" Furuichi exclaimed. "Just don't say it to Hilda-san!"
"You'll call him for us?" Hilda asked.
"Well, if it's what Hilda-san wants…" Furuichi said, acting all suave.
"That will do, however…That pun wasn't funny." Hilda pointed out, causing Furuichi to drop his suave look.
"Now you're just rubbing it in!" Furuichi whinnied.
"Dude, just quit your bitchin' and call him already." Kaito ordered.
"All of you just shut up!" Furuichi shouted with a glare. 'Calling someone near-and-dear…At this point, I've got a sure-fire way of getting him here." Furuichi closed his eyes and said, "I won't call for him."
Suddenly, Alain popped out from under Tatsumi's bed and asked, "You called?" His sudden appearance caused Furuichi to scream in terror while everyone else was nonchalant about it.
"Impressive." Both Tatsumi and Kaito complimented.
"Dabu!"
"I'll give you credit for that."
"I didn't call for you!" Furuichi cried out with tears pouring out of his eyes.
"Um…Is there some reason we're going elsewhere?" Furuichi asked as everyone was standing by the river and Alain was doing his stretches.
"Yes. Transferring to the Demon World is special." Hilda stated.
"Special how exactly?" Kaito asked while she held Beel in her arms as he was playing with her strands of hair.
"We have to cross dimensions. It requires the natural energy of rivers or mountains. Plus, there is a limit to the amount of mass that can be transferred at once. I believe that Alaindelon can safely transfer no more than two people." Hilda explained.
"Huh…" Kaito was a bit impressed by the new information.
"Just a sec!" Lamia walked towards Kaito.
"Huh? You still want something?" Tatsumi asked.
"Not from the two of you! I wanted to say farewell to Beelze-sama!" Lamia exclaimed as she pointed towards Beel.
"Oh, right." Tatsumi muttered while Kaito gently pulled her hair out of Beel's hands and held him towards Lamia.
"Dabu! Da!"
"I wish you could just take him home instead." Tatsumi thought out loud.
"I'd like to do that too! But if Beelze-sama gets more than 15 meters from either of you, you'd both be lethally electrocuted. That means you'd die!" Lamia stated, freaking out the couple.
Beel reached out towards Lamia and played with her face for a bit until Lamia gently held his hands in hers and said, "Beelze-sama…Make sure to become a wonderful Maou! And remember…No matter what, I'm on your side, Beelze-sama!"
'That was oddly specific.' Kaito thought as she stared down at Lamia.
"We'll be counting on you." Hilda spoke up. "Until we meet again, Lamia."
Tears started to build up in Lamia's eyes by Hilda's kind words. "Hilda nee-sama!"
"It's about time we left!" Alain announced. Furcas and Lamia stood in front of him, ready to head back home. "Then…" Alain split himself open for Furcas and Lamia to enter.
"Farewell!" Lamia exclaimed as she and Furcas waved to everyone with Hilda and Furuichi waving back at them. Tatsumi kept his arms crossed and Kaito said, "See ya."
Furcas entered through the portal first while Lamia followed behind him.
"The Demon World, eh? I wonder what it's like?" Furuichi asked.
"Like I care." Tatsumi said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"I'm kinda curious myself about the Demon World." Kaito stated.
"Enough for you to go visit?" Furuichi asked.
"Hmm…yes and no." Kaito responded.
"I'm sure it's gloomy and depressing anyway." Tatsumi said.
"Wait a minute…" Kaito looked around herself and asked, "Where's Beel?"
"Eh…" Everyone looked at Tatsumi who was looking down at Lamia just as she was about to enter the portal.
Lamia looked over her shoulder to see Beel holding on to her leg, stopping her from leaving. "B-Beelze-sama?"
"Dabu!"
"What'll I do?" Lamia felt something on her arm that's through the portal. "This feels like…" Suddenly, Lamia screamed when she felt her body being pulled through the portal. "My arm, it's…"
"T-This is bad!" Furuichi shouted while Tatsumi's and Kaito's eyes widened in shock.
"Beelze-sama! Why?" Lamia doesn't know why Beel is holding her back, but she doesn't drag him along with her considering she has no idea who or what is trying to pull her through the portal.
"T-This is…If Baby Beel heads to the Demon World…I'm dead!" Tatsumi shouted in fear with sweat building up on his face.
"Not just you!" Kaito shouted as she charged towards Beel and attempted to pull him off of Lamia's leg. "Beel, let her go!"
"Where the hell do you think you're going?!" Tatsumi shouted as he also charged towards them and grabbed Kaito by her waist before attempting to pull Beel away.
"H-He's got such a tight grip! H-He won't let go!" Kaito exclaimed as she and Tatsumi struggled to pull Beel.
"Stop pulling on me!" Lamia shouted with her cheeks turning red while pulling down her skirt since her left arm and leg were fully through the portal.
"Shut up! Come back out here!" Tatsumi ordered.
"Don't be crazy! The transfer has already started!"
"Fine, then someone get me a knife and I can chop off her leg!" Kaito shouted.
"You wouldn't dare?!"
"Why not?! Beel seems to want your leg, might as well just give it him!"
"F-Furuichi, help us!" Tatsumi shouted.
"S-Sure!" Furuichi ran towards the couple and grabbed Tatsumi by the waist before pulling him.
Lamia is not halfway through the portal and Beel still isn't loosen his grip on her leg.
"Don't pull on me like that, you perv!" Lamia shouted.
"Shut the hell up! We're the ones that are going to die if Beel goes with you!" Kaito shouted.
"Hilda-san, you too!" Furuichi shouted while struggling.
However, before Hilda could do anything, Lamia was suddenly pulled through the portal completely, dragging Beel, the couple and Furuichi with her, leaving a surprised Hilda behind.
Alain closed the portal and wrapped his arms around himself before saying, "Now, hug myself…And do a spinning transfer!" Alain spun himself so fast that he flew up in the air and into the sky, disappearing completely.
"This will be trouble…especially since she's going to the Demon World." Hilda thought out loud.
Kaito groaned as her closed eyes twitched before slowly opening. She blinked a few times to get rid of the blurriness in her vision. Once her vision cleared up, she could see large trees surrounding her and sounds of what she hopes to be animals. Her nose started to twitch as various scents were immediately filling her nose.
'What the hell is with all of these scents?' Kaito thought after placing a hand over her nose.
"Crap…What happened?" Furuichi groaned as he and Tatsumi woke up as well.
"You awake?" Lamia's voice whispered, causing everyone, including Beel who was laying on top of Tatsumi's chest, to blink.
Everyone slowly sat up as they looked around the area more clearly. The area looks to be a jungle of some kind and the "animals" looked very demonic.
"Hey…Don't tell me, this is…" Tatsumi trailed off, not wanting to accept that they…
"Yes." Lamia looked over the edge of a cliff before looking over her shoulders and stated, "It's the Demon World!" Her response caused the boys to scream in fear. Beel was excited while Kaito dropped her hand from her nose and looked at the scenery.
In front of her was definitely like a jungle, maybe even a rainforest based on the greenery she's seeing along with a river that was red instead of the usual blue color back home.
"It's really…the Demon World…" Kaito said breathlessly, whether it was in shock or amazement, not even she could tell.
Suddenly, the moment broke when everyone heard footsteps coming towards them. "Something's here…" Kaito and the boys looked over their shoulders to see…some kind of alien…thing?
Standing before them was a green creature with an alien-like shape of head and the rest of the body was that similar to a monkey.
The alien-like creature made a sound, "Yopalelime…" The creature lifted its hand and said, "Yople!"
"It's okay if I punch it, right?" Tatsumi whispered to Kaito and Furuichi, each of them not taking their eyes off the creature.
"Wait. I think it's trying to speak to us." Furuichi whispered back.
"I'm more curious of whether this thing is supposed to be an alien or some kind of monkey." Kaito whispered.
"Does that really matter?" Tatsumi whispered.
"Anyway, maybe we should just say Yople back to it, yeah?" Furuichi suggested.
"Seriously? Is Yople some kind of greeting?" Tatsumi wondered.
"It could be. Couldn't hurt to try." Kaito pointed out. The teens held up a hand towards the creature and greeted, "Yople."
The creature held up a hand as well before suddenly opening its mouth to reveal its sharp teeth. "Yople!" The teens screamed in fear, thinking that maybe it wasn't a greeting at all.
"Yopolomeli…papi!" The creature started to get closer to the group until Tatsumi swung his fist back and shouted, "Yople!" His fist came in contact with the creature's face.
"Yople!" The creature cried out as it flew up in the air and crashed into one of the trees before dropping down on the ground, unconscious.
"What the hell have you people done?" Lamia exclaimed, holding her face in terror and her eyebrows twitching.
"It attacked us." Tatsumi simply said.
"It was just saying hi!" Lamia shouted with a glare.
"That was its way of saying hi?!" Kaito exclaimed in disbelief. She's sure anyone else seeing what just happened would've come to the same conclusion.
"The Yople aliens are the friendliest tribe of the Demons in this area!" Lamia stated/shouted.
"How the hell should I know that?" Tatsumi groaned. "And wait…Yople Aliens? Are they aliens or Demons?"
"It looked more alien than demon…" Kaito thought out loud, pondering the same question as well.
"Demons…" Everyone turned their attention to Lamia who was holding her face in shock. "I went and brought humans to the Demon World…Plus…Plus, of all the places…This is Vlad's Haunt!" A couple of large creatures flew in the sky from Lamia's shouting.
"Vlad's Haunt?" Tatsumi echoed.
"What's that?" Furuichi asked.
Lamia groaned before shouting, "Vlad's Haunt!" Lamia suddenly yelped when Kaito smacked her on the back of her head.
"Pipsqueak, you shout one more time, I swear that I will hit you!" Kaito shouted.
"Would've been more effective if you didn't already hit her." Tatsumi and Furuichi muttered.
Kaito snapped her head towards the boys and asked, "What was that?"
"Nothing!" Tatsumi and Furuichi immediately responded with sweat building on their faces.
Kaito snapped her head back towards Lamia and ordered, "Start talking."
Though shaking in fear form Kaito's wrath, Lamia began to explain, "It's the valley where it's said that the Ruler of Time, Vlad Dracul, once went exploring, and came back all shivembling. Vlad said this: That place is way scary! Yes! This is a truly frightful, dangerous place! There are ancient Demon Beasts and poachers that are after them!"
"…That's it?" Kaito's eyebrow arched after the explanation. "That's not really a whole lot to go on."
"Well, I don't really care." Tatsumi said with his arms crossed, leaving Lamia in a state of shock at the couple's reactions.
"Yeah, we just have to go back in Alaindelon." Furuichi agreed.
"That's right! Alaindelon!" Lamia cried out, snapping out of her trance.
"Yes?" Everyone looked over Lamia's shoulder to see Alain…except he was covered in bruises and was tangled up in red vines while being stuck in a tree. His appearance left everyone in a state of shock.
"I do apologize…This is what happens when you exceed the maximum occupancy…"
"…He's all banged up…" Kaito said what everyone else is most likely thinking.
Alain coughed before saying, "I'm going to fall now…"
After catching Alain from falling off of the tree, everyone gently placed him on the ground, laying on his back before Lamia attempted to heal his injuries.
"It looks like the transference pathways are misaligned." Alain explained before he noticed everyone was staring at him with a worried expression on their faces. "What? There is no need to fear. A little sleep, and these light wounds will…" Alain let out a sigh before adding, "See, I'm feeling more at ease already…"
"Don't go to sleep! What'll we do if you die?" Furuichi cried out, though more worried about going back home than Alain's injuries.
"Yeah, seriously! Don't you die! If you die, I'll friggin' kill you!" Tatsumi shouted.
Alain smiled and stated, "What? I'm not going to die from something like this." Alain looked up at the sky and added, "It's almost my daughter's birthday, you see…"
Kaito's eyes widened. "Your daughter's…"
Alain closed his eyes and said, "I promised to buy her a new dress…"
"That's a total death flag!" Furuichi shouted.
Kaito snapped her head towards Lamia and asked, "Lamia, isn't there anything you can do for him?"
"I have been! But for wounds like this, without the doctor…" Lamia trailed off.
"Speaking of which…Where'd that flaky guy go?" Tatsumi wondered, looking around the area.
Alain opened his eyes and responded, "He was the only one who transferred properly."
"Crap…" Kaito grumbled.
"Lamia-dono…I leave the rest to you…" Alain managed to say before dropping his head and closed his eyes.
Everyone gasped when Alain's actual soul started to leave his body. They could practically hear his laughter ringing through the air.
"ALAIN/ALAINDELON!"
"Okay, now you're really screwing with me!" Tatsumi shouted as he, somehow, grabbed Alain's soul and attempted to shove it back in Alain's deceased body. "Open your eyes, you! I told you, this ain't no time to die!
"No mercy…" Both Kaito and Furuichi said with widened eyes.
"I said open your damn eyes!"
Kaito blinked when she noticed something popping out from Tatsumi's shirt. Once on the ground, she noticed a black and purple phone of some kind. The phone started to beep with a light blinking.
"It's a communicator!" Lamia exclaimed before grabbing it.
"A communicator?" Tatsumi asked, dropping Alain's body on the ground.
Lamia pressed a button on the communicator and answered, "Hello? Hello…"
"Is that you, Lamia?" Hilda's voice was heard through the communicator. "Are you safe?"
"Hilda nee-sama!"
"Hilda-san!" Furuichi sighed in relief, hoping that Hilda could figure out a way for them to get back home.
"Damn it, Hilda!" Tatsumi shouted with a glare.
"Ai! Da!" Beel cheered with a clutched fist.
"I was contacted by Doctor Furcas. It looks like you are all safe?" Hilda asked.
Kaito took the communicator from Lamia's hand, ignoring her glaring eyes, and responded, "We're all fine, but Alain is…" Kaito couldn't finish her sentence. This is a first for her that someone she considers a friend died, and on his daughter's birthday too no less.
"Exceeded his capacity, yes?" Hilda finished. "So where are you now?"
"According to the pipsqueak, we're in a place called Vlad's Haunt." Kaito responded.
"I see. Those lands are protected. The Kingdom cannot lay a hand on them. Don't tell me…Have you done something to a local inhabitant?"
"Uh…" Kaito trailed her eyes towards Tatsumi and said, "Not intentionally."
"Explain." Hilda ordered.
"Well, there was this Yople Alien thing and…"
"You did what?!" Kaito winced at the loudness of Hilda's voice.
"I said it wasn't intentional!"
"Thos are Vlad's watchmen!" As soon as Hilda said those words, a loud and sharp whistle was heard through the area. Everyone turned around to see the Yople Alien standing on its feet and whistled with its fingers in its mouth.
"That sound…Run! It's calling an ally!" Hilda ordered.
"It's ally?" Lamia asked.
"The Ak-Baba!" Hilda shouted.
"Ak-Baba?" Kaito echoed. "Where have I heard that name before?"
"Isn't it the one you rode on, Hilda-san?" Furuichi asked. "In that case, you could…"
"Yeah!" Tatsumi kicked up his leg and said, "One swift kick and…"
"Really?" Lamia asked, a bit surprised that a human can defeat a demonic creature with just one kick.
"Fools! I should tell you…" Everyone looked up to see a very large bird-like demon beast and this one was completely different than Hilda's Ak-Baba. Besides the feather colors, this particular Ak-Baba is ten times the size compared to Hilda's. The Ak-Baka began to charge towards the group.
"Wild Ak-Bakas…are huge!"
"Already figured that out!" Kaito shouted as she and the others immediately started to run away with the wild Ak-Baba chasing after them.
"Stop screwing with me! This thing's a completely different creature!" Tatsumi shouted.
"That's why I told you to run! Right now, you are considered an enemy everywhere within Vlad!" Hilda explained.
"It would help if you'd tell us where to run!" Kaito exclaimed.
"Dabu…" Suddenly, Beel's body is covered in a reddish aura before standing up from Tatsumi's shoulders and launched himself up in the air.
"Beel!" Everyone stopped and watched Beel landing back on the ground and standing on his own feet with no problems.
"Baby Beel is standing!" Tatsumi exclaimed in shock.
As the wild Ak-Baba was getting closer to Beel, Beel's body began to produce electricity.
"Baby Beel!" Kaito and Tatsumi cried out.
"DAAA!" Beel built up a huge ball of electricity in his hand before launching it towards the Ak-Baba. The Ak-Baba screeched in pain while being electrocuted until its body is covered in burns and ceases its screeching. Beel stopped his power and watched the now unconscious Ak-Baba fall from the sky and landed on the ground amongst the trees.
"Whoa! Did he power up from coming to the Demon World?" Furuichi wondered.
"Holy shit dude…" Kaito muttered with widened eyes.
"It sounds like you were saved by the Little Master's true power." Hilda stated through the communicator in Kaito's hand. "But you shouldn't let down your guard. Listen exactly to what I say. You are to seek out Alaindelon's daughter. Ask her to transfer you."
"How exactly are we going to find her? We don't even know what she looks like." Kaito pointed out.
"Do not fear, I will guide you." Hilda reassured her.
"Got it."
"Man…Why do I have to be in a place this nuts?" Tatsumi complained as he and the others were walking on one of the many large tree branches while following Hilda's directions.
"Stop your grumbling! We're just doing exactly as Hilda nee-sama says." Lamia exclaimed with a glare.
"Tch…" Tatsumi turned his attention to Kaito and asked, "What's with you, Kaito? You're pretty quiet over there."
Kaito snapped out of her trance and said, "Sorry. It's just…" Kaito looked around the area and said, "This place feels like…I don't know. I can't help but think of home for whatever reason."
"Like home?" Tatsumi asked with a risen eyebrow.
"I don't know. It's a feeling that I can't explain it."
"AAHHH!" The couple and Lamia stopped and turned around to see Furuichi wrapped up in a vine by moving tree with pinkish leaves stylized like a hat and a feminine face while forcing feeding him apples from her tree branches.
"You like my apples, right?" The tree asked while forcing more apples down his throat.
"Is that a talking tree?" Tatsumi asked.
"Let's see what Hilda has to say." Kaito pulled out the communicator from her pocket and called Hilda.
After a couple of rings, Hilda answered, "What is it?"
"Hey, sorry for bugging while your show is on, but we came across something we think you might know." Kaito said.
"What does it look like?" Hilda asked.
"A walking, talking tree with pinkish leaves and heart-shaped apples hanging around them. I think it's female and is forcing Furuichi to eat the apples."
"A Demon Apple Tree?" Hilda asked. "They force you to eat their fruit through any means."
"Very desperate for affection, huh? Do we need to do anything to help Furuichi?" Kaito asked.
"Don't worry, it'll get bored soon enough." Hilda stated.
"Soon enough?" Furuichi managed to say before being force fed with more apples.
The tree cackled witch-like until she noticed Tatsumi and offered him one of her apples. "Now, you too!" The tree offered.
Tatsumi looked away and declined, "Don't want any." His response was not what the tree was expecting. The apple fell to the ground and tears started to form in her eyes.
"How cruel…I know that I'm bitter. And I know that my skins are dry and I'm tall…But I almost never get any customers in a dark, damp place like this! It'll really help me if you just eat one…" The tree cried before presenting another apple to Tatsumi.
"I said I don't want any." Tatsumi denied, upsetting the tree and making her drop the apple once again.
"A normal person would just eat it after saying all this!" The tree shouted as she charged towards Tatsumi.
"BACK OFF!" Kaito shouted as she kicked the tree in the face, sending her flying and releasing her vines off of Furuichi.
"Kai-chan…"
"Regardless of what age they are, girls need to take a hint when guys aren't interested." Kaito stated after putting her leg down.
"I can't tell which one's the demon here…" Lamia muttered with widened eyes after seeing Kaito's strength in action.
"Dabu!"
"What is it now? Haven't things calmed down?" Hilda asked after answering Kaito's call again.
"Not exactly…" Kaito trailed off as she and the others watch Furuichi getting eaten by a giant red flower with yellow polka-dots.
"The flower…?! Why is it always me? Stop it, that tickles!" Furuichi cried out. "What is it this time?" Suddenly, the flower swallowed him whole. "Man, this stinks!"
"A Demon Rafflesia, I suppose?" Hilda guessed.
"It's kinda different from the plants Beel planted for his summer homework." Kaito pointed out.
"It catches its prey through a special scent. Don't worry, it'll get bored soon enough." Hilda explained.
"What the hell does soon enough mean?!" Furuichi's voice muffled from within the flower. He managed to pull himself out of the flower, covered in green pollen.
"Why don't you take this one, babe?" Kaito offered. Tatsumi nodded before walking towards the flower and kicked it off of the branch, releasing Furuichi from the flower's mouth. The flower quickly got up on its feet and scurried off.
"The hell…Man." Tatsumi muttered.
Furuichi pulled himself up and cried out, "You really saved me there!"
Suddenly, everyone else froze up when they smelled something foul coming from Furuichi. "You stink!" Everyone cried out as they ran away from the confused Furuichi.
"W-Wait! Wait for me!" Furuichi shouted before chasing after them.
"Is that it?" Furuichi asked with the stink still lingering over him.
"Thanks to the help of someone, we arrived faster than we thought." Tatsumi stated while he and the girls looked over from a branch to see a trail leading up to a small house on a hill.
"Why are you standing so far from me?" Furuichi wondered.
"We'll go on the road. You swim up the river." Tatsumi ordered.
"Agreed." Lamia obviously agreed.
"Damn you!" Furuichi shouted before yelping when Kaito kicked him away, sending him flying to the river.
"I'm sorry, but I just couldn't stand the smell anymore. I think my nose hairs were starting to singe off." Kaito said before Furuichi popped out of the river and gasped for air.
"Kai-chan!" Furuichi shouted with a glare.
"What? At least, the smell is gone." Kaito said with a shrug. "Now, come on. You can play in the water when we get back to our home." She said while walking away with Tatsumi and Lamia following behind her.
"So, this is Alaindelon's house?" Tatsumi asked as the group stood in front of a surprisingly nice house.
"No, no…This is his daughter's house." Lamia stated. "She seems to do research on ancient Demon Beasts. That's why she lives so far out from the Demon Kingdom, I hear."
"The water was freezing! If I catch a cold, I'll blame you for it, Kai-chan…" Furuichi shivered, completely soaked from the river, and caught up with the group.
"Would you stop complaining? We're literally this close to be sent back home. I thought you'd be excited about that." Kaito said, looking over her shoulders.
Furuichi sighed to himself before saying, "I just can't get excited about this."
"About what?" Tatsumi asked.
"I mean, think about it, man. She's his daughter! I bet she's all…" Furuichi thought about what Alain's daughter would look like…only to end up thinking of her as a muscular sophisticated female with curly blonde hair.
"You've got such a pitiful imagination. She'd be more like this, right?" Tatsumi imagined that the daughter to be a female version of Alain with curly blonde hair.
"Da! Da! Da!"
"What? You say that's not it? Then how about you, Baby Beel?" Tatsumi asked.
"Dabu!" Beel imagined the daughter looking like a giant white squid with Alain's mustache and a pair of round sunglasses.
"Are you all idiots?" Lamia thought out loud with a sweat drop on the back of her head. "And they all had mustaches…even Beelze-sama's squid…"
"Just ignore them. They don't have an open mind when comes to imaging what other people look like." Kaito said with a wave of her hand.
"I'm almost scared to ask, but…what do you imagine what Alaindelon's daughter looks like?" Lamia asked.
"Hmm…" Kaito pondered for a moment and responded, "I'd imaging her being a nice girl and looks lovely in her own right. The only thing she has related to Alain would be his abilities." Her response took Lamia completely off guard. She was thinking that her train of thought might be the same as the boys. "She'd probably has some of Alain's features and if she's muscular like her dad, who am I to judge?"
"Huh…"
"Anyway, we'd better see if she's even home." Kaito said.
"Right." Lamia walked ahead and stood in front of the door before knocking it. "Excuse us!" Noticing the door wasn't locked, Lamia pushed the door open. "The door is open, so we'll be coming inside." She announced before her eyes widened.
Inside the house was completely in shambles. Every piece of furniture was out of place and/or knocked over, glass pieces scattered on the floor and plants were destroyed. Anyone can guess right away that a struggle took place.
"Abandoned?" Furuichi guessed.
"No…The broken stuff is still new." Lamia stated.
Kaito quickly pulled out the communicator and told Hilda what they found at the house. "Perhaps it was the poachers." Hilda said.
"Poachers?" Kaito asked, not liking the sound of it.
"Yes. They're people who sell rare Demon Beasts…They may have been after her ability to transfer." Hila explained.
"Yes, that's right!" A voice was heard from behind. Everyone turned around to see two men, most likely demons that appear human like Hilda, Beel and Lamia. One of them had short blue hair with a dark purple streak-like tattoo on his left cheek and black eyes. The other was bald with the same dark purple streak-like tattoos on top of his head, giving it an appearance of hair, and black eyes as well. Both men wore sleeveless tops, one being orange and other dark blue, and white pants.
"And you people are going to become my wares! Especially you, with the black hair!" The blue-haired man declared, pointing a finger at Kaito. "Weak humans can't stand up to us! Edda, handle this!"
"Yeah!" The bald man, Edda, charged towards the group and was about to attack them…until Tatsumi quickly beat him up with his fists and sent him flying, leaving the blue-haired man in shock.
"Yople." Tatsumi greeted while staring down at the remaining poacher.
"Wait, wha…? W-Wait, hold it…Are you really a human?" The poacher's eyes widened when he noticed the seal on Tatsumi's hand. "That mark…That's the Royal Crest! You're in a contract with the royal family?!"
"That's right and so is my girl you just threatened to take. Yople!" Tatsumi punched the poacher, knocking him unconscious.
"Hilda, do you know where we can find their hideout or something where we can find Alain's daughter?" Kaito asked, not even paying attention to the poachers at all. Though, she would be lying if she wasn't curious as to why the poachers specially wanted to take her away and sell her.
"Their base should be nearby. She's likely to be there." Hilda stated.
"In other words, we have to go rescue her!" Lamia clarified.
"Lamia, hold this." Kaito handed the communicator to Lamia before walking towards the poachers who were tied up and sitting in the middle of the house. She grabbed the blue-haired poacher by the hair and asked/demanded, "What's so special about me that you were trying to capture me?"
"Huh? Why should I tell you?" The poacher asked with narrowed eyes.
"Because if you think my boyfriend's punches are painful, you haven't seen what I can do with my punches and kicks." Kaito said with her glaring eyes that it caused his entire body to shiver in fear. "So, start talking."
"A-Alright, alright! We were planning on sell you to the highest bidder because of your abilities as a priestess!" The poacher cried out.
"…Excuse me? Do I look like a priestess to you?!" Kaito shouted, tightening her grip on his hair.
"It's true! Your aura and your scent are the exact same as the priestess we already captured. In fact, you're the spitting image of her!"
"So, you've captured more than one person…" The poacher grunted in pain when Kaito suddenly punched him in his stomach, going completely unconscious due to the pain. "How long can one person get? Selling their own race like that…"
"Hey, Furuichi, Kaito…" Tatsumi called out. "We're going to wipe out a band of thieves now. Man, what a pain."
Before Kaito could say anything, Furuichi interrupted, "What are you saying, Oga-kun?" Furuichi looked up from what he picked up from the ground and revealed his "serious" face. "Our goal is to rescue the lovely damsel! Let us go!"
"…Huh…" The couple blinked a couple of times in shock from their friend's sudden change in attitude.
"Well, now…" A figure looked out through the barred window in a cell they were in as they felt a familiar aura from afar. "Isn't that something?"
"What is it?" Another voice asked.
"It appears that I'll be expecting a little reunion sooner than I hoped."