One day Emi went to visit Suzuno but she didn't find her at her apartment. Since she was already there, she decided to see how the demons were doing too.

'A minute.' She heard Ashiya's voice through the door after she knocked. He sounded unusually weak. He opened the door, and Emi saw he really looked weak, his face was pale and peaky. 'What do you want, Emilia?'

'I was looking for Suzuno. And are you all right, Alsiel?' she sighed.

'I sent Urushihara with Kamazuki to the shop. And I am not all right, as you can see. I feel very faint. Do not waste my time if you don't want to help.'

'You really look ill. Why don't you go to the doctor's anyway?' Emi asked as she stepped in the apartment and took her shoes off.

'I do not have to go to the doctor's. I just need to rest a bit, that is all.'

'You don't seem to be resting right now, you know...' Emi said as Ashiya lifted the mop stick and his face turned whiter and whiter. 'Ashiya!'

The tall man collapsed, and Emi ran to him. She needed a little time to realize he murmured:

'No doctors... we don't have the money... no doctors...'

'You're so careless! You have a fever. You need to go to the hospital!'

'No... no hospital...'

Ashiya's eyes couldn't focus, so Emi worried it could be serious.

'Come on, how can a simple fever knock a demon general out? And not for the first time,' she snapped at him, and attempted to lift him up.

'No matter how much beneath my dignity, I am a simple human being right now... don't... I am not going to hospital... no money...'

'I can't believe it. You should get a job too!'

If she called the ambulance, Ashiya would resist with his last strength, even in this state, and she couldn't take him to the hospital by herself. No matter how much she didn't want it and how much she was disgusted by the idea, Emi knew she had to help him take a cold shower at least. His fever wasn't that high, so she decided to call a doctor only if the shower didn't help.

'You can't even imagine how much I hate you,' she murmured while she drew the half-conscious Ashiya to the bathroom. 'I need you to help me as much as you can, okay? Or I won't care and I'll call a doctor.'

Constantly cussing in herself and with an annoyed look on her face, she managed to pull off the T-shirt and trousers he was wearing, leaving the shorts on, and with much difficulty, but managed to drag him in the small bathtub. She dashed his body and his face with cold water, then wiped him with a towel. At this point, he got a bit better, so she didn't have to help him with his clothes as much as before the shower. Afterwards, he wobbled to his mattress where he lied down, Emi covered him with his blankets, put a wet towel on his forehead, and sighed. She decided to finish the cleaning until Urushihara and Suzuno arrived. After they came, she went home and left Ashiya to them.

Two days later, Ashiya was feeling well again, fortunately without the help of a doctor. He hadn't seen Emi since then and the others realized he was more louring than before.

'Is there anything that's bothering you, Ashiya?' Maou asked while the three demon boys were having breakfast. Urushihara next to his laptop, as usual.

'I am indebted to the Hero for curing me.' He put down his chopsticks tensely. 'I have to talk to her. But thanking the Hero, as a demon. I cannot do that.'

'Suzuno said Emi had caught something too,' Urushihara spoke, while he was clicking wildly with the mouse. Ashiya stood up, and opened their wardrobe.

'What are you doing, Ashiya?' Maou asked.

'There is only one thing I can do now,' he answered, starting to put his clothes into a backpack. 'Thanking her and staying indebted is like losing my pride as a demon general. So the only thing I can do is to pay the debt right now. I am sorry, my lord, but I must leave the castle to you and Urushihara for a few days,' he turned towards them. 'I will inform Kamazuki about this so she will help if needed.'

'Okay, if you wish,' Maou said, still a bit uncomprehendingly.

'So your solution is to nurse Emi?' Urushihara asked. 'She didn't do the same to you.'

'But she technically saved me. If she hadn't helped me, I would have been in a much worse state. And she also respected my request not to call an ambulance, unlike you back then.'

'Dude, this is not true!' Urushihara turned to him. 'If I hadn't called one, you would definitely have been dead! You looked miserable!'

'Stop it, guys,' Maou interrupted, not wanting it to become another argument as usual between the two. 'What is it between you and Suzuno anyway?' he asked Urushihara. 'I heard you calling her Crestia one day.'

'We agreed to call each other our real names in private.' He turned back to his laptop. 'Because why not if we know each other? We only do this in private.'

'So is there... by any chance... so are you two getting closer to each other?'

'What do you mean?'

'King Satan is hinting at the possibility of you two getting close to each other, like a couple,' Ashiya said while he continued packing. 'Which I also consider dangerous. We may act like friends on Earth, but we are still demons and they are the Hero and the grand inquisitor of the Ente Islan Church.'

'Dude, chill, this is not like that!' They didn't see his face, but they both felt he got a bit more tense. 'She is just not a jerk to me, unlike you!'

'I'm not saying anything, I was just curious,' Maou shrugged his shoulder.