From Another World

seven

A couple of hours had passed... I woke up, I blinked several times. My head doesn't hurt anymore and then I looked around the room. It didn't change, just as I expected. It was already nighttime, the moon's light shone onto my bed. I sit up and look out the window beside my bed, even though it's dark, the streets still look as bright, and it is as beautiful that day.

Did I saw a silhouette of a person running towards the inn, must be Diana huh? Their body figures looked similar to hers but her hair looks different.

After a while, the door in the room I was in creaked. What I thought I saw was Diana, but it was Dazel... What she's doing here? Before she entered the room she looked both sides, is she checking is someone there? It's way too dark I don't know anyone's gonna be awake at this hour...

"Da-Dazel?! What are you doing here? And at this time?" I yelled and she instantly jumped at me and covered my mouth.

"Are you insane human? Someone could hear you!" I removed her hands from my mouth, it sorta smelled like iron.

"Alright, alright I'll keep quiet. But why are you even here anyway?" Come to think of it she isn't wearing her armor, I don't if it was but she's wearing casual clothes for girls, but what are those ribbons on the back of her back? It seems like they have a will of their own.

"That's nice." She casually said and sat down on the edge of the bed. She smiled at me and faced the window.

What is Dazel doing here? Wait she didn't even answer my question. I suddenly sat up and she instantly cut what I was going to say. What is it with her reflexes?

"I know, I'm here because I was suspended as a demon lord by the Demon King..."

"Wait why were you suspended? Was it my fault?"

"No human, you have nothing to do in this. It's about this town I recently massacred, he said I can't just go to random towns and destroy it and said I even used my own trump card and it failed miserably."

"I'm sorry to hear that. It must be tough eh?"

"It's alright, this is my third suspension for this month." She scratched her head afterward.

"Wait... did you say third?"

"Well... I always get suspended when I do something I wasn't supposed to, and I can't help it! I'm always bored!"

"That's not the problem here. Why are you even here to begin with?"

"Oh that... Um... I didn't have anywhere else to go..." She pouted and fidgeted with her two fingers from both her hands.

"So... why did you decide to go here?"

"Um... I am suspended as a demon lord so my battle armor was confiscated... And I would get scolded again by Big Sis if I returned to the Dragons Den."

"Big Sis?"

"Oh, she's not really my sister I just call her that, she's actually the eldest out of us six dragons so I decided to call her big sis."

"Does she scold you often?"

"Every time!"

Heh, figures. Who wouldn't scold the strongest dragon with the behavior of a child, good thing she doesn't retaliate on her or we could have been toast!

"Well, you can't stay here. I don't know what they would think if I hung out with a demon lord and the strongest dragon."

"Well, you see..."

"What?"
"I can go out in this form if I really wanted to, only my dragon form is known to most humans, well some have seen me in this form, being you and that lady. So can I stay with you until my suspension is over?"

"I don't have a choice. Do I?"

"Nope." She casually smiles and threatened me with a dark flame in her hand.

"Fine, fine. You can hang out with but just until your suspension ends. Okay?"

"Yeah!" She smiled widely and kinda looked like a cute girl from an anime.

"So... when is your suspension going to end?"

"Um. About a month?"

"A mo-month?!"

"Well yeah... The Demon King got mad at me and said if I do anything stupid again I will be provoked from my position as a demon lord."

"Maybe it's time to learn how to be... mature..."

"Huh? Am I not mature? Human?"

"I really don't want to get on her bad side so I guess I have to agree.

"I was just joking! Hehehe, you are definitely mature!"

"Just what I thought human."

"So Dazel... if I can call you that."

"I just think a human isn't my name." I giggled and scratched my head.

"So what do you want me to call you? Peasant? Garbage? What?"

"Um... I'm Shane by the way."

"So you do think a demon lord would call a human with his or her name?"

"Well, you are technically suspended."

She glared at me and said. "You dare insult me human?"

"Shane." I hold out my hand to offer a handshake. "Nice to meet you... Dazel?"

"What is this nonsense?"

"I was just making friends with you..."

"Well, I guess I can in the meantime. Hmph!"

We shook hands and after that, she quickly retracted her hand.

"So Dazel... What can I call you, well Dazel can make you so obvious to other people and they might think I'm hanging out with a demon lord."

"That's fine by me, I don't care about those midgets."

"So... you want everyone to find out that you're hanging out with me? A mere human?"

She was astonished by what I said. You really are a child. Then she suddenly smashed the floor and shoved her face into mine.

"G-Give me an alias this instant!" She breathed heavily and returned back to her position at the edge of the bed.

"Okay, what kind of alias would you want?"

"Anything's fine. Just not something too obvious."

"I don't know what to call you..."

"You do the thinking! Thinking makes me tired."

I wonder why you are so careless though, and so energetic sheesh! Is this really a demon lord? Just because she's strong she was considered a demon lord? What the heck really. I facepalmed myself out of my own thinking, good thing Dazel wasn't looking or it would lead to a massive misunderstanding.

"What now human? er, I mean Shane if that's what you want. What could you call me?"

"What if I call you-"

I was cut off by the door opening, I slowly turn my head around and was frozen when I saw a silhouette of someone familiar. She too was frozen and Dazel didn't even care.

Who was it?