32 Chapter 2: Meeting

It has been several days Alex's Café has been opened, and tonight, he decided to visit. He already visted it with Alice and Judecca during the day, but his café has two sides after all.

During the day is the time for ordinary people, while during the night is the time for beings from the Supernatural Side.

Ghosts, Youkais, Exorcists, Spiritualists, and even Psychic Users. His café accepted all of them during the night.

Of course, Alex himself layed down a multi-layered barrier that wards off ordinary people from going near the café during that time.

And now, he decided visit it after he put Alice to sleep. 'Man, Ashiya can't catch a break huh? I haven't seen him that much ever since the café was opened.'

However, he looked down at his watch, it was only seven PM, the closing time of the café for the ordinary humans, and the supernatural side will open in around nine.

He still have two hours and he doesn't know what to do about it. So he decided to first go to MgRonalds and enjoy some Iced Mocha.

On the way, he was thinking about what Lailah has said to him. And he couldn't help but just smile wryly.

Protect her daughter? Seriously, that crazy woman would've pulled out her sword and stabbed him in the guts before he could even say as much as "protect".

But Alex really couldn't blame her for that. Even though what he did was for the good of Demonkind, it completely destroyed the life of Humans.

If that woman does not blame him for what he and his subjects did, he'd probably cut off whatever connection he has with her.

Before he knew it he arrived in front of the MgRonalds, which is really similar to one Sadao Maou worked in.

As he was about to walked in, he paused as he felt three rather familiar presence.

He looked to the side, and saw young woman with long red hair with ahoge, emerald green eyes, she's wearing a yellow shirt and a blue pants and a yellow sandals.

Beside her is a girl with a petite body and child-like face, she has a short emerald hair and green-blue eyes, she was wearing a pink blouse and white denmin shorts, paired with a pink sneakers.

And behind the two is a man who has a short, white hair, a goatee and yellow eyes. He is also well-built in physique. He's also wearing a gold, hoop earrings. His attire is a simple black sleeveless collared shirt and a black pants and a black sneakers.

Compared to them, Alex was only wearing a white tank top with a black sweaters, a gray joggers and an azure and cyan "Nike" tennis shoes.

'Now, this is troublesome.' With thoughts in mind, he immediately turned around and walked away.

'I should probably go back to the Inn.'

"W-Wait! Stop!"

He heard someone calling out to him but he ignored it and hastened his steps. He can feel the three people following him, so he decided to run.

"Stop right there! I know its you! Demon King!"

Alex paused and send a pulse of Minor Hypnosis to send every ordinary people away from them.

The three were surprised, as if feeling the pulse of magic Alex just released, while the red head narrowed her eyes, "I'm right. It's really you."

Alex sighed and turned towards the three people. The redhead was glaring at him, the loli was just looking with a lazy look, while the man was just grinning.

"Who are you?"

"Don't give me that crap! Why are you in that pathetic form?! Demon King Satan?!"

Alex scratched the back of his head as he stared at the red head, Emilia Justina, or also known in Earth as Emi Yuusa.

"Umm—"

"No wait, where's the child? What did you to her!?"

"Well—"

"As expected, you are really the Demon King, you did not even spare your own daughter!"

"No, like I said—"

"Prepare yourself! Demon King!" With that, Emilia took out a small knife from her handbag as she rushed towards Alex.

'Aah?! This woman...! This woman is really troublesome!'

Alex just casually moved his body to dodge the knife, "Like I said, listen to me f—"

"Enough! Just man up and let yourself get killed!" She twirled her knife and send an overhead slash which Alex easily dodged.

She did not stop, and she followed up with a stab, a punch, a kick, a slash, elbows. Even Alex has to admit that her knife handling and martial arts are surely at the level of an expert.

"Stop dodging and let me kill you already!"

When she was about to stab him again, Alex finally decided to stop her by grabbing her wrist, causing the hero to glare at him.

"Alright, alright, Emilia? Just...chill for a bit yeah? This is Japan you know? You'll go to jail if you try to kill me."

Emi narrowed her eyes and sent a kick at Alex's jewels. His eyes quickly widened at that as he retreated and stared at Emi as if he was looking at the evilest being in the universe.

"Are you crazy woman?!" he then looked behind her, towards her friends who was just observing them, "Oi you two! Stop this crazy woman here!"

"Who are you calling crazy?!"

Albert, who is also known as Albert Eden in Japan, just gave a wry smile as he scratched the back of his head, "Riii~ght, about that....aren't we enemies?"

Emeralda, or Hisui just nodded her head lazily.

Emi smiled as she took a stance and prepare to attack once again.

Alex sighed and was tempted to use Minor Hypnosis again to send the police here, 'Oh Lailah, you and your daughter are really troublesome.'

"Wait Emilia, that knife..."

Emi flinched at the mention of her knife, she gripped it tightly as she glared at the demon king.

"Isn't that knife something you can buy from a 100 yen store?" he internally smirked seeing her getting flustered, "What happened to your holy sword? Don't tell me you also lost it? Hmm, your magic is also lost, right now you are only a bit stronger than an ordinary human thanks to your training."

"Wh-What?! Y-You say that, but your magic is also lost isn't?! That magic you used earlier is like a drop of water from an ocean you used to have!"

Alex stared, wondering whether he should inform her that he didn't really lost his magic, but in the end, he decided to keep silent and just gave a shrug.

"Besides, I know for a fact that you won't kill me." Alex stared straight into her eyes, "You've gone dull, there is no intent to kill behind your attacks. Hm, you're hesitating."

Emi flinched as she took a step back, staring at Alex with wide eyes, but she quickly snap back as she glared at him. "Hesitating am I? Don't make me laugh, I am a Hero, and to kill you is my sworn duty."

Alex tilted his head before he nodded, "Hm, I see. Let's say that you managed to kill me, what will you do after?"

"Huh? Of course I'll drag your corpse back to Ente Isla to clear my name."

"Hm, I see. But do you think the church will allow that?" Alex took a step forward, slowly walking towards Emilia until she stood in front of her, "{The Hero Emilia had an affair with the Demon King Satan and bore him a child, the Church are the ones who slayed the traitors and the demon king} that kind of setting, is pretty overused ain't it? But certainly, a nice one. The church will hunt you and your friends after you kill me and take all the glory, this world doesn't restore magic like in Ente Isla, so killing the hero here should be easy yeah? I'm sure they already sent someone to kill us both."

He leaned forward, and whispered into her ears, "Whether you kill me or not, you will still going to die along with your friends. So isn't better to let me live so we can work together and have a higher chance of survival?"

Emi was almost tempted to agree that's the most logical thing to do, but when she remembered what happened to her hometown, about the "death" of her father, her hatred clouded her judgment.

Gritting her teeth, she swung her knife, Alex quickly reacted and jumped back as he shook his head. 'As expected, her hatred is clouding her judgment. Well, I can somewhat understand her.'

"Shut up. Don't start acting like that, there's just no way that I'll work with someone who doesn't care about human lives, someone who love a world filled with blood and corpses!"

Alex remained silent and just stared at her. He knew about what he did in the past, that though it was for his race's survival, he still ordered his demons to conquer Ente Isla, leading to the lost of countless lives.

But even still, he would do it again even if he return back in time. It was his fault that the Demon Race are facing extinction, and as a ruler he shall correct it.

In the eyes of Ente Isla he is the personification of Evil, Despair, and Fear, and he accepts that, because he knew what he did was wrong. But as a ruler, he need to make that decision.

He was sure that if it was Ente Isla who face extinction due to the lack of resources, they will do the same thing as he did. Though they might not necessarily conquer an another world, but they will surely start a war with each other to fight for the remaining and limited resources.

He stared Emi's eyes which is starting to water, probably remembering about her past.

He shook his head, Lailah said that he should look after her daughter, but what can he do in this situation? She'll probably slit his throat before he could say anything.

'Aah, what a mess. If Alice is here with me right now I don't know how she'll react. She'll probably cry her eyes out if she saw her mama trying to kill her papa.'

He thought of something, but he doesn't know if he should reveal or not. But...he looked at Emilia, and sighed.

For Alice, yes, this is for Alice.

He opened his mouth, "You know...I met your mother."