Chapter 7 : Night sky

One annoying work shift had passed.

Sitting on a chair with a lethargic expression and filled with a slightly creepy aura, yuki played her smartphone to forget all the work mistakes he had just experienced.

Considering that in the previous few hours, yuki had experienced many mistakes in delivering orders and recording orders given by customers.

With a gloomy expression, Yuki began to play the smartphone in the hope of forgetting all those things.

But unfortunately all this smell of oil made yuki even more annoyed before switching off her Smartphone and started to drop her face onto the table hard.

Glancing towards the entrance of the staff room, yuki saw a young man and a little girl entering simultaneously.

The man had black hair and a rather handsome face while the little girl behind him had a cute-looking face.

Seeing those two people Yuki recognised who they were, they were Maou Sadao and Chiho Sasaki.

Seeing Maou's arrival, yuki couldn't help but reminisce the past when he met Maou for the first time, that time when yuki had just been accepted to work here yuki couldn't help but feel a sense of fear and terror towards this demon king in front of her.

Given that there are some anime characters who have distortions in their own nature that makes yuki unable to view the world he lives in today as a mere story in a book.

So yuki could not 100% say that the maou in front of her was the maou he knew in the anime. But after hanging out with maou for the first few months of work yuki can say with certainty although not 100% sure that the person in front of him is a good person.

"Yo, Maou-san and Chiho-Chan! What's wrong, taking a break?"

"yep right" answering with a friendly smile plastered on her face, maou and chiho sat in front of yuki with curiosity.

"What's wrong yuki-kun?" Maou asked with curiosity on her face.

"Nothing, I'm just lamenting the bitterness of my life in this world" yuki complained again before dropping his face on the table.

"Yuki-kun I heard you were late and got scolded by some customers for delivering the wrong order huh?" Chiho asked with an innocent expression on her face.

Like an innocent baby who didn't know what she was doing, Chiho further stabbed Yuki's fragile heart with a sword until it bled.

"Chiho-Chan! Stop! You're just sowing salt in my fragile heart" as if admitting defeat to Chiho, Yuki said while raising her right hand to the sky quickly.

"Ah! Ma-sorry I didn't mean anything yuki - kun!" chiho stammered in response to yuki's reaction to her words, with a face that seemed to show guilt for her words chiho bowed her head towards yuki.

"Ahahaha just forgive her yuki, chi-chan is still a teenager so she can still make some mistakes like that" maou, as usual still spoke with a hint of laughter.

"Yeah whatever, but maou! You know, me and chiho chan are the same age" Yuki spoke with a flat expression on her face.

"Eh? Is that so?"

"Yes."

There was a moment of silence before Maou spoke again.

"So, how did you end up coming to work late?" maou asked, remembering that yuki was one of the best part-time employees other than herself who was always on time and customers' responses about her were always positive.

So seeing yuki coming in late for more than 30 minutes was a bit of a surprise to maou.

"Yeah I wonder why too?" Chiho replied to maou's question.

Looking at the two co-workers, yuki couldn't help but think for a moment before deciding to start talking.

"Yes, I want to know why too?" Chiho replied to Maou's question.

Looking at the two co-workers, Yuki couldn't help but think for a moment before deciding to start talking.

"You know, I lived alone at home and had some problems before coming to this place" Yuki said as an excuse.

"Is that so?" as if not believing yuki's words at all, Maou nodded her head before going back to talking about some work-related things.

Taking back her smartphone, yuki decided to immediately start writing the novel he just got earlier to help her save time considering he had to get home around 8 or 9pm after the shop closed.

Opening her mobile phone, yuki immediately entered the official website of Library World which is a giant book publishing company and started creating an account there.

Completing the account creation under the name Shadow, yuki immediately started writing.

Slowly one by one the words began to form with the sound of typing done by yuki through the keyboard of her smartphone, although sometimes yuki found mistakes in her writing but it seemed that it itself did not become a barrier for yuki in writing novels.

Time passed, currently the clock showed 21: 05 with some of yuki's co-workers who began to pack their belongings to return immediately.

Realising her surroundings yuki began to stop writing her novel and began to pack her belongings as well before returning to her home.

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That night a beautiful sky full of stars adorned the earth with a beautiful full moon hanging over it. While the cold air blew through his lungs quickly.

Although it was extremely painful for him, she still could not stop running, even though Utaha was aware of this fact he cursed the punks who were the main cause of all the misfortune she was currently experiencing.

'Ha...ha...ha...'

Feeling her breathing getting more and more labored, Utaha slowly began to feel a pain in his throat, a burning sensation enveloping her throat, with her exhausted body Utaha still continued his escape.

Although Utaha knew that if he continued this way she would run the risk of fainting or even dehydration due to this extreme fatigue, Utaha refused vehemently to give up and had to end up in this place without realising her greatest dream.

'I will definitely live' with a strong determination, Utaha continued to run even though her speed slowly began to slow down in a constant manner.

"Hehehehe...Come on! Come on! Come on! Keep running with all your might!"

Looking towards the back of the place where the voice came from, Utaha could not help but swallow his own saliva.

There was a creature that had the head of an old man with the body of a large red spider equipped with 10 octopus tentacles on its body, the creature continued to chase utaha with its crazy laughter. It was as if the creature was savouring every second of this moment of torture.

The creature's horrifying laughter and horror reached utaha's ears, making him grit his teeth and try to move her tired legs.

Trying to remember the beginning of all this madness, it started when Utaha who had just returned from a visit to his editor Machida Sonoko who said that his novel had the potential to be stopped at the third volume frustrated Utaha.

How could it not be? Because becoming a famous writer is a big goal that Utaha has wanted for a long time, but now all his dreams must be dulled due to the lack of popularity of [Love Metronome].

As a result, Utaha, feeling frustrated, had to return with a sense of sadness. Unfortunately, a group of punks intercepted her in the middle of the road, making her feel uncomfortable.

Trying to leave the gang alone, utaha was again confronted by the gang and ended up with the police taking them into custody.

But by the time Utaha got out of the police station, it was already late and he had to continue his journey on foot, considering the distance between the police station and her house was quite close.

But it seems that Utaha's bad luck didn't stop there, because in fact when Utaha had only walked a few blocks from the police station she saw something she shouldn't have seen.

Slowly but surely Utaha began to lose his speed in running which made the strange monster get closer to her.

Approaching Utaha with a crazed expression on its face, the monster chuckled a little at the struggle Utaha was putting up to survive its clutches.

Running with the energy he had left, Utaha found a narrow alley, turning towards the alley he found a dead end there.

Feeling as if her glimmer of hope was dashed utaha fell down, looking back at the monster utaha could only breathe heavily.

"Hehehe!!!!...Hehehehe!!!!! Hahahaha!!!! I didn't expect a weak human like you to provide such entertainment, but I guess we'd better end all these useless games"

With that said, the strange creature began to stomp its feet on the earth to give utaha a greater psychological effect.

"To-Help~" with her hoarse voice remaining, utaha could only sit limply awaiting his unfortunate fate.

"HAHAHA BON APPETIT-"

*BREAK!!!* Suddenly the sound of a window being opened loudly was heard

"You little brats!!! I'm trying to sleep here and you guys are so...noisy...at...night eh?" yuki paused while his face started to turn pale.

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