Talk of Ambition for One's Future

Bachiko has just finished brushing her teeth doing her signature grin before walking about of the bathroom when she notices Opera is approaching her.

"Lady Bachiko, do you have a moment?" Opera asked.

"Sure, what's up?" Bachiko decided to humor the servant for a little while.

"Do you think Iruma would want to go back to the human world some day?" Opera asked the big question causing Bachiko flinch.

"Huh, why the Hell would he even want to go back after all the crap he's been through not to mention being abuse and taken advantage by his own fellow kind!" Bachiko yelled though Opera seemed unfazed.

"Even if Iruma goes back to that world, he would be put back in the same situation of being used by everyone and never does anything nor think for himself again." Bachiko added as she walks past Opera but stops.

"I know this is gonna sound weird coming from me of all demons, but I really want Iruma to live a happy life so he can finally do something for himself and sure the Netherworld may not be the ideal place for a human, but it's better than not having a home at all." Bachiko clutched her fist.

"It'll be up to Iruma if he wants to go back or not, just hope he can grow a backbone." Bachiko said.

"I see, so you really have grown close to Iruma." Opera said.

"Well, yeah, I guess… I'm still getting use to this whole mom thing." Bachiko blushed a bit.

"Well then, what would you feel about if Iruma were to try and raise his rank." Opera asked another question.

"Iruma raising his rank?" Bachiko surprised a little of the question.

"Well, I guess it wouldn't be a bad thing for him to do so since all students of Babyls are required to do so." Bachiko reminded that school rule.

"I did have a little talk with him about that. In order to even think about going to the human world, he would need to raise his rank to the top just as Lord Sullivan." Opera mentioned as they walk away.

"That's a little extreme! Don't you think!" Bachiko yelled.

"Still though, if Iruma does decide to raise his rank then he'll just stand out more." Bachiko thought and she sighed.

(Babyls Lunchtime)

The two-headed monster school bell rang alerting everyone that it is lunchtime meaning it is time for everyone to eat.

"Yay! Lunchtime! And also, on top of Sabro Mountain!" Clara excited as she jumps onto Sabro head.

"Iruma-Kin, why don't you play too? Sabro Climbing!" Clara invited Iruma to play with her.

"Thanks, but I'm good." Iruma turned down the invite.

"My hardy rival!" Sabro stands up while still having Clara on him.

"Does thou not possess the resolve to conquer the peak known as Sabro?" Sabro asked believing that Iruma is being cocky with climbing on top of him. All this while Clara is still covering his eyes, but he does not need his eyes to know where Iruma is.

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Iruma wondered.

"Can I prep first?" Iruma asked.

"Fine, suit yourself." Sabro said.

Iruma leans his chin onto the desk doing a little deep thinking about that talk he had with Opera about wanting to go back to the human world, but he's not really sure himself.

"(Go back to the human world, huh? I've gotten so use to going with the flow in the Netherworld that I never even thought about it.)" Iruma thought shocked a little in him.

But then he remembers how his adopted mom stood up for him to Ameri about wanting to let him continue living in this demon world, thinking back on that sure made his heart feel great upon hearing her say that.

(With Ameri)

Ameri is sitting at her desk just about to send a text message to Iruma about their reading time.

"I'll be waiting in the common room, sent." Ameri sent the text message to Iruma.

"Perhaps it's rude to just keep sending to him again and aga." Ameri concerned a bit then got an idea.

"I should try one of the human's costumes. Come to think of it, I do seem to remember a scene from First Love Memories where a person was summoned as well." Ameri recalled that scene in the manga.

Rin: Dear Kakeru, I'll be waiting for you behind the gym after school today. Rin.

"(Dear Iruma, I'll be waiting for you in the common room after school.)" Ameri thought of a pretty message for Iruma, but she gasps with her face blushing and quickly deleted the message.

"I have no idea why this is so embarrassing!" Ameri exclaimed shock.

(Babyls Cafeteria)

Iruma is enjoying himself with the food of the school finding this to be so delicious as always while Eiko from afar is admiring how Iruma is so cute with such a healthy appetite while eating her own lunch.

But then Iruma started to remember something Opera said this morning.

"You need to only graduate with a high rank thus reopening the door to the human world allowing you to walk right through it."

"(Me getting a high rank even though I'm not a demon.)" Iruma thought wondered about that.

"(Guess that could happen but ranking high would just make me stand out more. Though there is my mom always telling me to do my best.)" Iruma thought recalled his mom's words.

"Iruma, sir." Alice said getting his attention.

"If I may, I'd love to offer you the remain of my lunch meal as well." Alice said with his tray of good.

"Eat up, Iruma-Kin! Down the hatch!" Clara shoved a loaf of bread into Iruma's mouth.

"Th-Thanks, Clara." Iruma thanked mumbling with the bread in his mouth.

"Master Iruma, is something waying on your mind right now?" Alice aske that got Iruma to look at him again.

"If there's anything I can do to help, please don't" But Alice didn't get to finish his sentence when Iruma's phone rang.

"Excuse me." Iruma picked up his phone seeing it's a message from Ameri to come to the common room.

"Thanks for lunch! I'm gonna head out for a bit, see ya." Iruma said as he was about to walk away.

"I shall go with you!" Alice screamed spooking Iruma suddenly.

"Yeah, me too! Me too!" Clara wanted to go where Iruma is going too.

"Sorry, but this is something I really need to do by myself. Be back soon." Iruma said before running off and leaving both his demon friends in shock.

"Such restless rival." Sabro commented before eating his piece of big meat, then saw Alice and Clara looking depress.

"What's up?" Sabro asked.

"Something's wrong!" Alice screamed from all four on the floor.

"Yeah, wrong!" Clara said with a pouty face which confuses Sabro.

"For the past few days, he's been wandering off on his own and he won't tell us anything. Where could he be going? All this stress is keeping me up at night!" Alice exclaimed of big stress.

"I wanna play with Iruma-Kin!" Clara demanded.

"Then why don't you just follow him." Sabro suggested.

"I could never do something" Just as Alice was about to object the idea; Clara interrupted him again.

"Great idea! Ready, set, let's go!" Clara ran off.

"Valac, no!" Alice gasped and hurry after the crazy childish demon girl.

"Iruma-Kin, come out and play!" Clara called out to him.

"If you're going, I'm coming with." Alice said.

"Aw, feeling lonely, Azz-Azz?" Clara asked.

"No, it just the though of you going by yourself invoke serious concern in me." Alice stated his reason.

"I knew it, Azz-Azz is so lonely!" Clara chuckled.

"Did you even hear a word I just said?" Alice asked annoyed of this girl.

"Oh, perhaps I should've suggested asking Iruma's mom for that." Sabro realized.

(With Ameri)

Ameri is in the middle of a meeting with her fellow Student Council members and some other students from their own group.

"If we all agree, looks like we'll be declining the request from the Disciplinary Butlers." Smoke said.

"Do you think we're still in good standing, having the same budget as we did last year, President?" Western asked Ameri who is thinking of something else.

"President?" Quichelight asked seeing the President is deep in her own thoughts.

"Oh, yes. That's fine." Ameri quickly answered.

"We're done. Dismiss." Ameri said as she walks away confusing her Council members.

"Huh, President, where are you going?" Western asked.

"To make my rounds." Ameri said, then remember a question she asked Iruma when he first rea her First Love Memories.

(Flashback)

"What's this date you speak of?" Ameri asked.

"Oh, umm, well…" Iruma tried to think of the best way to tell her what a date is despite never having the experience himself, but he did learn a few from the manga series.

"It's when two people who really like each other hang out and have fun." Iruma explained with a smile.

(Flashback End)

Ameri didn't know why she was starting to feel a little joy upon learning what that word means and starting to think it's like how she and Iruma are spending time together.

"It's a date." Ameri blurted out with a small smile.

"Did you say date?" The four Student Council members asked shock and confusion at the same time.

Ameri gasp of what she just said.

"Th-That's my own term for extra patrol of the school! And don't follow me!" Ameri hurried out of the room.

"But Miss President?" Grave wanted to know something more about this.

"What did I just say?" Ameri yelled fiercely scaring her members to drop it.

(With Bachiko)

"I gotta say, being out here with the place being all quiet, sure is relaxing to have lunch since some of the students know not to mess with me. As if the delinquents had enough problems with the Student Council." Bachiko chuckled while eating her cookie.

"Although, guess it would be fun to scary them thanks to the detection-warding glasses." Bachiko smirked showing she is wearing a pink-framed glasses.

Allow me to explain. Detection-warding glasses are magical items that makes the wearer harder to detect. It doesn't matter how much you stand out, the instant you put these on, not a single person will notice your existence.

"Though to be honest, I don't really like to wear these much because they're not really my style even if the color is cute." Bachiko said as she takes off the glasses.

"Iruma-Kin!" Clara called out suddenly appearing right behind Bachiko and lifting her up from her pillow.

"What the…?" Bachiko shocked before suddenly dropped back on her pillow.

"Hey, what was that for…?" Bachiko shocked to see that Clara is gone in an instant.

"IRUMA-KIN!" Clara shouted from the top of the monster bell tower.

"WOULD YOU STOP THAT!" Alice shouted angry.

"This is gonna give me a headache." Bachiko sighed.

Bachiko forced Clara down from the monster bell tower and have Alice explained what those two are doing right now.

"I see, you're trying to look for Iruma to where he has been going for the past few days." Bachiko said understanding this now.

"Yes, we've been concerning about him since and all this stress is killing me on the inside to know what he has been up to!" Alice said.

"Iruma-Kin is being selfish for not wanting to play with me!" Clara complained.

"(Aren't you the selfish one for saying that?)" Bachiko thought asked with a sweatdrop.

"Look, you guys don't need to worry about Iruma because he is doing fine right now and probably hanging out with President Ameri." Bachiko revealed.

"What? Master Iruma is with President Ameri as we speak!" Alice gasped.

"President Macaroni and Cheese?" Clara confused about a food being president.

"AMERI! You idiotic gremlin!" Alice yelled to correct the girl.

"Ameri Azazel is the Student Council President who is task with keeping the school in place for the students' safety and balancing everything that goes on here." Alice explained.

"I'm still surprise that Master Iruma is close to her at all!" Alice amazed.

"Yeah, she called him for that giant flower incident, but the two work things out and now Ameri likes to call him over to hang out to relax from all the stress of work and school stuff." Bachiko explained without revealing they also read human books that Iruma can read.

"Oh, I see now. That is brilliant of Master Iruma!" Alice yelled exciting, confusing Bachiko.

"I can see that Iruma has already started to make his move of taking over the school by getting close to the Student Council and forging an alliance! You slain me once again!" Alice cried tears of joy.

"Yeah… You go on and think like that." Bachiko weirded out from this guy's wild mind of Iruma.

"I wanna play with Iruma-Kin!" Clara ran off suddenly to find Iruma.

"Hey! No running in the hall, damn it!" Bachiko angered as she chase after Clara with Alice right behind her.

(With Iruma and Ameri)

"Okay, ready to go again? We'll be starting with volume five since that's where we left off." Iruma said holding up the fifth volume manga of First Love Memories.

"Indee!" Ameri excited.

The manga starts with Rin arriving at a location where Kakeru is waiting with a bird on his finger.

Rin: Wait long?

Kakeru: Not long, just got here.

Rin: Where should we go?

Kakeru: Fly safe.

Rin: You're so kind, Kakeru.

Rin admired how Kakeru was being so nice to that little bird as it flies away and now the panels show the two having a drink together at a café having a conversation.

Kakeru: Do you have a dream, Rin?

Rin: Yes, there was one I pursuit for a really long time. But it finally came true.

Kakeru: Oh?

Rin: My current dream is to use my strength to do all I can to protect the one I love. So, my dream right now is to be a beautiful bride.

This made Kakeru shock in surprise with his cheeks blushing a bit and his heart beating too.

"So, dreams? Ah referring to ambitions!" Ameri believed.

"Well, sure, I guess." Iruma said, not really sure if they mean the same thing.

"So, now she'll destroy anyone who tries to get in her way and throw them aside like garbage!" Ameri excited thinking Rin is a warrior too.

"I don't think we're on the save page here." Iruma stated it's not like that at all.

"So, there won't be throwing? That's disappointing." Ameri sighed a bit.

That's when Iruma started thinking about people having dreams and goals they want to achieve like how Sabro wants to become the Demon King and will work hard to get there, then he wonders what Ameri's dream is.

"Ameri, if I can ask, do you have any big dreams for the future?" Iruma asked.

"Dreams? You're asking me?" Ameri surprised a little, didn't expect a human to be interested in a demon's life goals. She looks down at her armband of the Babyls emblem thinking back on her own goal.

"I am very proud to be a demon, through and through." Ameri said proudly surprising Iruma.

"And my desire is for the other demons to be just as proud. That's why I want to inspire the minds of the students here and make this a house of learning for any who would long to attend. That is my true ambition." Ameri explained proudly of her ambition.

Iruma feels shocked upon hearing those words from Ameri like one of those important people back from his old world, and he wants to see her do well too.

"I'll be helping with my father after I graduate, but it's clear what I must do before then." Ameri said.

"Amazing!" Iruma said.

"Although, I also wouldn't mind working at a barky or a florist either." Ameri mentioned, a bit embarrassed.

"That's cute." Iruma complimented.

"What?! Don't you have any ambitions to speak of?" Ameri asked, quickly changing the topic to be about Iruma.

"Do I have any? Let me think on that." Iruma did a little think and nothing big nor grand came to mind.

"Honestly, I'm pretty satisfied with all the people I met in the Netherworld." Iruma smiled.

"No, that's only an ideal. I ask you what your ambitions are. Ideals and ambitions are different." Ameri explained shocking Iruma a bit.

"What I want to know is what you're eager to achieve, your desire. So, I'll ask you again, Iruma and tell me the truth. What is your ambition?" Ameri asked again.

"A dream… For me?" Iruma stunned of the question.

(With Bachiko)

"Finally… I got you now… you stupid hyper demon bunny…" Bachiko panted hard almost out of breath as she has finally caught Clara tied up in rope tightly with Alice exhausted as well.

"Iruma-Kin is mine to play with and Azz-Azz is the extra playmate!" Clara yelled.

"Will you just give it a rest already!" Alice shouted in rage.


KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

It looks like Iruma is going to get a crash course of what it means to have an ambition of your own from Ameri, and Bachiko managed to keep Clara down though something tells me she won't stay down for long.

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