Simple lies

A Yes or a No

                  

                  
Maou pov:

Along with everyone else, I sat in a tense silence as we waited for Chiho to answer. I was surprised when I heard her start to laugh.

"Of course I'll help Mr. Maou; Mr. Urushihara is my friend as well. I wouldn't want to sit back when there is a way to help him" she said kindly. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"Thank you Chiho." I finally spoke as what she said registered in my head. She smiled for a moment before getting a serious look.

"Mr. Maou, when do we want to go question Sariel. I have a feeling the sooner we do it the better right?"

"Yes that would be correct Good Chiho you have a point." Suzuno piped in.

"Why don't we head out now? It's early enough and we'll still have time to find him if he's not at Suntuckey Fried Chicken." Alciel suggested.

"I can't believe I'm agreeing with a demon like you but that's probably the best idea. The longer Lucifer is gone the more time they would have to move him and keep him hidden if he does have him that is...."  Emi said with a matter of fact tone.

"Alright then let's get to finding Urushihara." I finally said, my mood looking up a bit. With everyone working together to find Urushihara there was no way we wouldn't find him. With that said everyone got up and we began to make our way over to Suntuckey.  We were surprised though to find the building closed down and not a worker was in sight.

"what happened here" Chiho. asked as she looked at the "sorry we're closed" sign that hung in the window.

"I guess they're closed but, that seems way too convenient with Lucifer's disappearance if you ask me" Emi stated with her hands on her hips and I couldn't agree more.  But if they're closed where else would we be able to find Sariel and question him until we find him.......... 

"This may hinder our plans Good Sadao; we may need to split up again to look for him....." Suzuno suggested.

"We could do that or we can check out the room in the school that Lucifer originally appeared in, maybe we could find something there. At the very least we could find out if someone else has come to this realm and is working with Sariel" I stated, remembering when Lucifer had sent us out to get his PASTA game console from the room long ago.

"Good idea sire." Alciel said and the others agreed. This is what led us to following Chiho to her school. Unlike the last time we were here it was midday so the creepy atmosphere that the school had at night was completely absent, much to my relief. As we walked through the school the floor boards creaked and groaned under our weight and it made me wonder if the school would ever get that looked into. It didn't take long to find the room that Lucifer had stayed in and it was still looked like a disaster. There were wrappers from food everywhere and it was collecting dust in certain areas of the room. For a moment I thought my idea of finding anything useful here was a bust but we hadn't searched anything yet.

"Okay guys lets search the room for anything that could be helpful." I said before we began to fan out and search the room. As I was looking I felt myself get more frustrated as I found more and more wrappers. There's got to be something here to help us......we can't lose our only other lead to finding Lucifer... I sighed as I picked up another piece of wrinkled paper. I was about to throw it away when I noticed writing on the paper. I slowly unfolded the paper to further inspect the writing. I noticed that it had a bunch of symbols on it along with a language I didn't recognize. I stood up and looked to see everyone still searching and they looked annoyed.

"Hey guys I think I found something..." I said, and this drew their attention.

"What did you find sire?"

"It's a paper with writing on it. It looks like it came from a journal or something so we might be able finds a journal with more writing. We can figure out what it says later."  I replied and with that we went back to work taking extra time to make sure there wasn't anything we missed.

"I can't find a journal" Chiho said after a while.

"Maybe it's not here, maybe someone came and took it." Emi suggested and I couldn't disagree. That was definitely a possibility.

"Mr. Maou can we go now? We've been searching for a while and I don't think we will find much more. That and my legs hurt" Chiho said gently before sitting down in the middle of the room. When she did we heard a dull and hollow thunk. Chiho seemed just as surprised to hear the noise and looked down to see what was up.

"Good Sasaki, would you mind moving? I think there might be a false bottom where you're sitting"

"Ahh okay Suzuno" Chiho replied before getting up. Suzuno walked over before crouching and running her hands on the floor. By this point the rest of us had made our way over to where they were and waited. When Suzuno found the lining and pulled it up. Inside the hole was a small purple journal that looked tattered and worn.

"I think we've found a lead...." I said

A/N: okay so the journal at the top is a reference to what it looks like, just imagine it being purple. hey guys sorry this took so long, I was stuck on what I wanted to do with this chapter and where I wanted it to go buuuut here it is. Also For those who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas! I hope you guys had a great Christmas. And thank you, everyone really for reading this story. It makes my day to see that and I appreciate it so, carry on my readers and thanks for memories and good times.