The Devil Takes the Night Shift

Chapter 11: The Manager Learns the Truth

Talking about what he wanted to in public was a pretty horrible idea for both Rame and Asaga. So once everything was taken care of at the restaurant, they all moved to a much better location. That being the humble home of the devil.

"I see that you're done with your little shopping trip." Mifuru was there to greet them as they arrived. While she thought it was strange that Juuto was there, at least that made sense to her. Asaga on the other hand. "And you are?"

"It's a long story." Rame spoke up. "But he's from Enatis too."

"He is?" That was enough to get a little bit of a reaction from her trusty retainer. "Wait, but I thought you told me to keep our identities a secret from him." She directed that towards her manager. After the only time she ever met him, Rame had drilled it upon her to try and act more natural when they were around guests. It wasn't easy, but she did her best to change her normal ways of talking.

"It's fine, I'll tell you everything when we get inside." She pushed aside her to let the others in. It would be a problem if anyone else found out the truth as well.

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"I see." Those were the first words out of Mifuru's mouth when they told her what happened today. "A shame to think that I couldn't protect you during such a critical time." She nearly fainted onto their small futon from how upset she was about it. How could someone devoted to protect their most important person fail so badly?

"Everything's fine." Rame wasn't a huge fan of this babysitting act. "We all made it out okay, so I'd say that's a victory."

"But that guy got away." Asaga pointed out. "Who knows when he'll strike again?" It upset him, considering what that person was already willing to do. If they let this continue on for much longer, then more innocent people could get seriously hurt. Or worse.

"He will be a problem." Juuto agreed, but there was something else that he wanted to cover first. "But how about you tell me this first. Who are you people?" This was why he came with her back home. Everything that he saw them do, it felt like a dream. Yet it was all real. He actually saw Asaga moving water. He actually saw a demonic form of Rame. What was all this about?

"..." They were quiet at first, because this was quite a big revelation they were going to show to him. Rame was the first one to tell her story.

It was confirmed to him now, that she was the demon lord of the world known as Enatis. Back then, she was a force to be reckoned with, as she control so much of the land. She was bloodthirsty, wanting to rule the entire world. Because of her insane desires, the people living under where she reigned suffered from endless war and violence from demons.

Everything would come to an end, when a hero would arise and take her out. Through means of battle of course.

"All right. I'm starting to get it now." Juuto took a second to soak all of that information in. If this hadn't been accompanied with what happened before, then there was no way he'd believe it. "Then, you must be the hero that beat her, aren't you?" To him it made complete sense why Asaga would come charging in with intent to kill Rame. It was his job, wasn't it?

"Actually, I'm just a farmer there." Was the response he got from the man. Complete with a happy-go-lucky laugh, while grabbing the back of his head.

"Well I suppose plenty heroes do come from humble beginnings." He continued to miss the point.

"You're misunderstand." It was up to Rame to correct this. "He's just some dumb loaf that jumped through our portal because he wrongfully accused me of destroying his farm."

"Ya were there when it was burning down. How did I wrongfully accuse ya?" Again, the two of them got into another argument. "You're the demon lord, I bet ya just did it for fun."