A Sheep Among Demons

Lesson Two Chapter Fifteen - The Chihuahua's Warning (1)

After a while of me smirking at the struggling Mammon, I finally allowed him to move again. He glared at me but didn't try to do anything as we walked to the school. I was in a better mood now, knowing that Mammon would keep other demons away and that Mammon wouldn't be able to hurt me either.

When we finally arrived at my class and Mammon went off somewhere else, I heard two gossiping demons nearby. "Did you hear the news? Apparently, that human forged a pact with Mammon." A demon, who was probably a female, whispered that to their friend.

"Seriously? I don't get it. Why forge a pact with an ordinary human?" I could feel them staring at me and I tried not to show my discomfort. After a while, I realized they stopped talking and a pair of footsteps came toward me.

"Huh. Whenever you make an important announcement, the demons here couldn't care less. But rumors... they really do spread like wildfire. Just when I thought the uproar about the new exchange student from the human world had started to subside some, now they're all freaking out about this." Turning around at the voice that was behind me I saw a male with short dark green hair with bangs that reached his eyebrows. I could see the fringe on his right side was longer and reached his nose. I also noticed he had turquoise ombre eyes. He was wearing a school uniform like me but was more neatly on his body and also included white gloves. But he was rather attractive to me. 'Are all demons going to be attractive?'

"Come now, don't say that, Barbatos. Actually, I'd say that all this gossip is a good thing. It means that everyone will be watching this human, which makes it hard for any demon to go after Yuki's soul when no one is looking" Diavolo, who was also here, smile at the shorter male, who I assumed name was Barbatos, next to him and the butler looking attractive male just nod his head. Lucifer was on the other side of Diavolo with a frown on his face once he realized that Mammon wasn't with me.

"Yes. Since Mammon's not doing a very good job as a guardian. I told him he was to look after Yuki, but he's off somewhere shirking his responsibilities. Though I figured this would happen." Lucifer let out a sigh, shaking his head, looking tired as he thought about the missing Mammon.

"I must say, I can't believe you managed to forge a pact with Mammon, Yuki. That's no small feat. And what's more, you did it in such a short time." Diavolo was looking at me with a pleased expression and I felt my cheek grow warm at his praise.

"I suppose it stands as proof that you choose well bringing this human here, Lord Diavolo." The attractive butler looking male praised Diavolo and I felt like I should probably figure out if his name was Barbatos or not.

"Who're you? If that isn't rude to ask." I politely asked the unknown male and he stared at me for a second before nodding his head towards me, making me wonder if it was to acknowledge me or something else.

"...Ah yes, pardon me. I suppose we haven't met before, have we? My name is Barbatos. I apologize for not introducing myself sooner. I have the honor of serving as steward to Lord Diavolo. Pleased to make your acquaintance." Barbatos gave me a formal bow and I felt compared to the brothers he was someone I could let my guard down around.

"Barbatos here is a smart and talented individual, so much so that I wish I could trade a certain idiot brother of mine for him instead." Lucifer had a frown on his face as he thought about Mammon and I couldn't help but feel a bit bad for him again, seeing how little Lucifer thought of him.

"Well, as for your brother, in the human world, it is sometimes said that a truly wise man does not flaunt his talents. He keeps them a secret." Barbatos tried to give Mammon the benefit of the doubt and I couldn't help but increase my opinion of him due to this.

"Yes, but then again, an incompetent fool doesn't actually have any talents, to begin with," Lucifer just shook his head at Barbatos' claim, and for some reason, Diavolo was smiling wide at how Lucifer was acting.