Chapter 1: A Different World

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The demon was confused, lost, and alone. He wanted help from someone... anyone! But how can he trust them? Most importantly, how can they trust him even though he doesn't know who he was?

He looks down and notices that he was wearing gloves with 4 fingers, two black dots on the back of each. He seemed to be short, seeing as his legs didn't extend very far. The demon saw big black shoes at the end of each leg, with white spats on each. He also had a very round black body, the same colour as everything else apart from his gloves which were mostly white.

The demon's eyes were big black dots with a slice taken out of the right side, kinda like a pie but oval. He seemed to have a white face marking that followed his expressions. There was other indicators of his emotions like a question mark beside him. He had a long tail that had a weirdly coloured and shaded fountain pen tip at the end. His mouth also seemed to have very straight teeth, and no visible distinction between the top and bottom row.

The demon finds himself at the top of a building. He needed to find a way to escalate down to the ground. He checked at the edges of the facility. As he was looking down, a gust of wind made him lose balance. He tripped and fell down the building. Even as a demon, fear has filled his eyes as he kept falling off the building.

He closed his eyes, hoping all of this is a bad dream.

"私はここにいます!"

The demon felt that someone or something break his fall. He opened his eyes to see a muscular man, his eyes were are dark as the inky depths he had seen and his smile is as wide as his. The demon then loses consciousness and passes out.

The only noises he heard before he closed his eyes were people speaking in a weird language he can't understand.

The demon couldn't speak at this moment of his life. He opens his eyes to see the same man he saw during his fall.

He crawled back, scared and confused. He didn't know who this man was.

"ちょっと若い男。大丈夫?"

"I-I.... wh-who are y-you?"

"Hmmm, English huh? I see... I speak English myself too. It seems that you do not recognize me. Do you not know the No. 1 Hero?"

The demon tilted his head with confusion. He then realized the man's face. It was the same man from the billboard.

"O-oh, you're th-that man f-from the billboard I saw!"

"That is correct, young man! Now, what is your name?"

"I....I....."

For a split second, after he stuttered, the demon ran away from the man as fast as he could. Why would he trust someone like him... a human? But he saved his life back there, why did he run away? These words flooded his mind as he kept running.

"Huh? I wonder why that young man ran away. Most importantly, he didn't recognize me at all! Oh well, life is full of surprises after all."

The man then jumps off from the scene with incredible speed and power.

"Wh-what's happening? Where am I?"

The demon ran and ran through the streets. He saw a lot of people, staring back at him. Tentacles? A dog for a face!? Is that fire on her hands?

His face was filled with confusion as he ran through a nearby alley. The demon is trembling, scared. He wanted to wake up but he couldn't. He covered his face as he began to cry. His eyes were full of ink that resembles his tears. He still doesn't believe what he had been throu-

"大丈夫ですか?"

A voice suddenly uttered through his fear and sadness. The demon turned around to see a young girl. Her hair was as black as his eyes, her face was angelic as the angels above, she was bringing some sort of container and was wearing a formal dress for outdoors.

"ねえ、大丈夫ですか?"

The demon crawled through the darkness away from the fine lady. "S-stay away...!", the demon uttered a low raspy voice.

"Oh, you speak English... well, don't be afraid. I'm not gonna hurt you."

The girl reached out her hand, as she wants him to take her hand. The demon, still scared, slowly crawled out of the alleyway and takes her hand.

"See? There's nothing to be afraid of," the girl said, "Want to come over to my place? I can take you to my home until you can find your parents

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"See? There's nothing to be afraid of," the girl said, "Want to come over to my place? I can take you to my home until you can find your parents."

Parents? Home? These words were unknown to the little devil darling. Her soothing voice was the only reason his fear was starting to fade.

The two walked along on the sideway, the demon still holding her hand like a lost child.

"Oh and by the way, I'm Momo, Yaoyorozu Momo. What's yours?"

The demon stayed silent for as long as he can bear, grasping the girl's hand very tight.

"He didn't say his name. Is he lost? For how long? Where are his parents? Did they lose him or maybe abandon?", the girl thought as both of them walk together in the city of Musutafu, Japan.

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To be continued...

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