The Hero and the Demon General's Secret Is Finally Revealed

'What the hell was going on?' Urushihara turned around when the four of them entered the apartment.


'I will tell you in a minute,' Ashiya said. They took the things they brought away, and sat down at the table. Urushihara turned to them half, elbowing on his table.


'But doesn't it mean... that Emi turned against you, right?' Chiho asked doubtfully.


'It all started when one night I couldn't sleep and decided to go for a walk nearby. It happened a few weeks ago. I found Emilia in a park, which I found very unusual that late and the place was closer to our apartment than to hers. I walked up to her, and after a while she told me her mother had found her here.'


'Her mother?' Maou was surprised.


'Isn't her mother an angel?' Chiho asked.


'Yes, she is, and her name is Lailah,' Ashiya continued. 'Emilia told me that she had asked her to defeat us and go back to Ente Isla while we had lacked the power to do so. I saw them talking sometimes. Not that often, around four or five times. That night, Emilia asked me not to tell anyone and left me there, so I couldn't even ask why she had told me that. I didn't ask later because I was sure she wouldn't answer me, but according to the fact that she told me her mother's plan, I thought there was hardly any chance that she would choose to turn against us. Of course, I did not understand why. It has always been her aim to kill us, but she never did it. She even said we were friends on Earth. And now it turned out there was another thing: Lailah saved Emilia's father back then and he is here in Japan.'


'What...?!' Maou exclaimed.


'So it means she could not decide because of her feelings,' Chiho said. 'Her mother and her goal, or enemies-turned-friends. And even her softest spot, her father's death turned out to be false, but she's still caught in the middle, because you're still the 'evil' on Ente Isla. Poor Emi...'


'But are we that important to her? I don't understand.'


'That is the other thing,' Ashiya said. 'I was thinking if... she really fell in love with you.'


'I don't think so. She's not that type at all.'


'I had asked her before and she told me she didn't,' Chiho said a bit more heatedly than she wanted to. 'And she was pretty much convincing!'


'And not her and Maou are the ones who are 'dating',' Urushihara said, resulting in Ashiya's eyes flashing at him with a deadly glare.


'Stop it!'


'Even if it's not the case, just as you said, Good Sadao, intentions are similar,' Suzuno said. 'We all fight for the sake of our kind. I wouldn't be surprised if she chose humans.'


'I would do the same if I were her.' Maou nodded. 'Everything I did, I did for my race. For their well-being. But now that I understand humans better... well, that's hard.'


'I think she understands you better as well,' Chiho said. 'After all these... she has to know that comrades are important for you.'


'We have to be careful anyway,' Ashiya said. 'We don't have enough magic to fight against the celestial force of an angel if Emi chooses Lailah over us.'


'That could not happen!' Chiho frightened.


'And you, Suzuno?' Maou turned to the blue-haired girl.


'As I said, I am not going to turn against you as long as neither do you.'


'Nice to hear.' Maou smiled. 

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