Chapter 26

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"Wings.?! HOW MUCH DOES SHE KNOW 'URUSHIHARA'?!" Maou stormed up to Luci and I. If I was completely honest, I was absolutely terrified at that moment, I had never seen Maou angry before.

"She knows about our real identities, as well as Ente Isla itself" another figure walked into the apartment.

"Suzuno..." I breathed out in relief, but whether or not she was in here for my defence or demise, I couldn't tell.

"Urushiraha, I'll deal with you later! But right now..." Maou turned his attention to me. "I have no choice but to erase your memory" His crimson eyes looked into mine, but before he could take two steps closer to me, Emi jumped to my rescue, standing in the distance between Maou and I. Stopping him in his tracks.

"Don't you lay a finger on her, you demon!" Emi growled at the demon king, "We don't have to do this the hard way. We can analyse our options, there are other ways than just wiping her memories!" Emi stated.

"Yusa, do you have any idea what's at stake with the information she knows? Our entire civilisation, no, our entire world?" Maou argues back, "Im not doing this for our benefit you know? This is for her own safety too" Maou looks back down at me, I was hidden behind Luci, afraid of Maou who had shown so much aggression moments earlier.

"As the hero, it's my duty to protect and find a solution for every problem so both sides are satisfied. So you aren't going to alter her memory in any way, not on my watch!" Emi scolded him, not leaving one second to lower her guard.

"I'm just trying to keep (y/n) out of all of this! It's selfish of us to drag her into Ente Isla's problems that she has nothing to do with, same goes for Chiho" Maou replied as he gestured with his hands, seeming to had calmed down. He turned his attention back towards me.

"I'm sorry, but this time Urushihara has crossed the line, a memory wipe is for the best, Chiho knows a portion about us yes, but (y/n) knows too much" Maou takes another step closer as Emi growls at the demon, he walked even closer toward me.

"I... I don't want to forget!" I cried, this seemed to stop Maou, he thought for a moment before he said, "everyone out, I want to speak with (y/n) alone"

"That's a dirty trick, you foul, loathsome evil little cockroach!" Emi growled at Maou in response, but he held up his hands in response.

"I will not lay a finger on her 'hero'. You have my word, I simply wish to speak with her- wait, wasn't that one of Hermoine's lines from Holy Potter?" He asked her with furrowed eyebrows, this caught Emi off guard.

"Wha?! N-no! That's absurd! I-I don't watch t-those movies!" Emo replied flustered as she stormed out of the door after being exposed as a potter head.

After Emi stormed out, Ashiya and Suzuno took that as a sign to follow her outside the door.But before Luci stood up to leave, he pulled me in for a quick embrace before leaving, his way of wishing me luck with convincing the king of demons to let me keep my memories.

Now it was just Maou and I left in the small apartment, he sat down at the table.

"I know all of this sounds scary to you, but it's just a pinch, then it's over" Maou started his claim, but I was determined to win over his trust and faith in me.

"It's not the process of erasing my memories Maou, but the though of forgetting about Luci and all of you guys is thousands of time more painful" I looked down at the table, unable to look him in the eyes.

I took a deep breath before I began. "Ever since I moved here and met you guys, my life had changed, it was so much more exciting and predictable before you all came along, your all unique in a good way, I call all of you my friends... But erasing my memories, I will go back to being the person I once was, boring, anti social and alone, and I can't bear the thought of that! I can't forget all of you!" I tried to reason with him, but something told me persuading the demon king would be a much bigger ball game than convincing Suzuno.

"The reason I believe erasing your memories is for the best is in no way personal, believe me when I tell you I wish things didn't have to come to this, but your own safety is at risk just as much as ours, you could become the target of an enemy and get caught in the crosshairs, it's happened" Mao replied, his crimson red eyes stared deeply into mine as I gained the courage to look into his.

"It was Chiho, wasn't it?" I asked him, he only nodded in response, "High Priest Olba and Lucifer targeted her to lure Emi and I out and tried to kill us, she could have easily been killed that day, It happed again only months later when the Arch Angel Sariel kidnapped Chiho and Emi to obtain Emi's Celestial Sword. That's why I want to keep you out of our affairs, the next time we are targeted can end bad on your end, that's why it's best to wipe you memory of us and Ente Isla before it's too late" He asked me.

"I understand that Mao, I know I'm selfish for putting myself and your world at risk. But..." I looked back into his eyes as tears began to form in my eyes. "I can't just let you all go like that!" Seeing the tears, Mao tensed himself as he began to grow nervous.

"But forgetting Luci... would be the most p-painful thing of all, I'd rather die now t-than go f-for the rest of my life w-without remembering him!" My voice began to crack as a single tear rolled down my face, now Mao lost it.

"O-okay okay! I trust you and you can keep your memories, just please stop crying" Mao panicked, he must be the type of person who gets uncomfortable when girls cry infront of him, who knew?

But did I really do it? Did I convince a kind of demons to let me keep my memory?

Y-you're letting me keep my memory?" I asked him as he grabbed a tissue box and handed it to me, I took a tissue and wiped away my tears with it.

"I can tell how much you care for Lucifer and all of us, and you would never throw us aside or sell us out" he smiled softly, "your eyes told me, they are the window to the soul after all"

Is that why he was looking into my eyes a lot as we spoke? He was just reading my inner feelings?

"I'll let you keep your memories, but you can never breath a word of us or our world to another soul, but I think you understand that clearly" he asked me which I nodded in agreement.

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Lucifer's P.O.V

I leaned against the wall as the anxiety built up inside me, but it wasn't for me, it was out of worry for (y/n).

I had faith that she could convince Maou our secret is safe with her, he's changed since he's come to the human world, but I still worried.

Suzuno's ear was pressed against the door, eavesdropping in on their conversation, suddenly her mouth opened for a bit before closing again, before I could ask what she was hearing, she took her head away from the door.

"It seems I overestimated Jacob Satan, he really has grown soft..." she said no nobody in particular.

So... that means she's okay, right?

"I'm up to Deathly Hollows Part 1 myself, Holy Potter is truly a masterpiece, you have a good taste in movies, Yusa" Ashiya praises Emi as he talked to her about Holy Potter since we stood outside of the apartment.

"Just shut up Ashiya!" Emi snapped with a beet red face of embarrassment as she crossed her arms with a huff.

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Wow, I haven't published in some time but finally I managed to write out a chapter. Sorry if the argument seemed boring or not convincing enough, it's because I'm not good at writing scenes like that especially persuasive ones.

And if your wondering why I snuck in that Harry Potter reference, it's because;

1. I like Harry Potter 😊
2 Hermoine insulting Draco in Prisoner Of Azkaban is what popped into my head during that part 🤷🏻‍♀️

Besides I think that Emi would seem like the kind of person who would be a big fan of Harry Potter but denies it 😂

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