All done.
Now I just add some celestial force...
I did it!
This light will lead me to a shard of Yesod.
Okay.
Miss Suzuki...
Mr. Ashiya!
So he's not alone after all...
Is something the matter?
Soaked Rice Crackers
I brought you some souvenirs from the Choshi trip.
I hope you like them.
Huh. You told her we went to Choshi?
Thank you!
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Well, it's a very "Ashiya" gift.
So, what are you all here to buy?
I'm buying a TV, but I don't know about these two.
We're here for a TV, too!
Personally, I'd like to consult you as I look for a mobile phone.
The phone is no problem, but I'm not sure I can give you advice on a TV.
You can.
You're a TV owner, and that's key.
You bought it yourself, I imagine?
Yep! I bought a 26-inch.
But it's outdated now, so I'm considering going 4K soon.
What is "4K"? Does it stand for something?
You don't know?!
Now I think it'd be dangerous to go to straight to the electronics store.
Say, have you guys eaten yet?
How about I prep you with the basics over lunch?
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So this is the famous Manmaru...
I never knew there was an udon place like this.
Plain Udon (S)
110 yen?!
That's for a small with no toppings.
But you can add two toppings and it'll still only be a bit over 300 yen.
I figure this is cheap enough not to impact your TV budget, right?
D-Do you come here often, Miss Suzuki?
Now and then.
Broth in Kanto is usually thick, but it's relatively light and yummy here.
Plus it's easy on the wallet.
Time to eat!
Here I go!
I-It's...!
Wh-What's wrong, Suzuno?
You don't like it?
Why is such delicious udon only 110 yen?
Firmness, chewiness, saltiness, ease of eating—
I find no fault with any of it!
I'm glad you like it...
Anyway, let's talk TVs. Any idea what you want?
I just wanna be able to watch shows.
Sheesh. Fine, what's the ballpark budget?
It's 26,239 yen!
Why is it so specific?
Household circumstances.
Is it possible to purchase one on that budget?
I did some research this morning,
but I only found advice like "buy it at the same time as a plan."
I couldn't find prices for just a TV.
I think we can manage it.
Sweet!
I can go up to 70,000.
I bet you can get a great one with 70,000!
Oh, good.
I'm afraid I don't know any more about Japanese consumer electronics than they do.
My knowledge stops in the Showa era.
Sh-Showa?!
Er, Suzuno, did you go to school in another country like Emi?
Huh?!
You specified "Japanese"...
Oh! Er, yes, that's right.
You see, my parents are missionaries, so we lived overseas.
I don't know much about machines because we didn't have such luxuries...
Oh, wow. Me, I actually know less about Showa electronics...
This udon is delicious! I'll go order another helping!
Whoa, another helping?
Kamazuki seems to love udon.
So he knows her tastes...
Any forks here? Huh?
Chopsticks are like drumsticks for me.
U-Um, sir?!
Are they fighting?
I'll be right back.
Wait, I think that's a bad idea.
Hey, man. She can't understand what you're saying.
What are you asking her?
Any forks here?
Do you know of any laws that forbid using a fork to eat udon?
I don't. But if you don't clean up your language by tomorrow,
udon restaurants will forbid your entry.
Excuse me, could you please bring him a fork?
Yes, sir, gladly!
You're cool, considering your age.
Thanks. I've had a lot of situations.
Mr. Maou is a mystery. Why is he just a part-timer?
I don't get how someone can speak English but not know what 4K is.
Sorry, guys. I couldn't help going into staff mode.
Oh, we should go. This place is getting crowded.
Hello? Hey!
I chose English because you said it was the language in this world,
but nobody here understands it!
No, my English was fine!
And if you already knew what country the target was in,
you should've given me that country's language to start!
Yesterday I thought I finally got a hit,
but it was just some normal girl who had a dramatic reaction.
Fine, I'm starting my second job of the day!
Dang it, why do I have to do all this by myself?
I think this is the way to Meiji Shrine.
I thought she might've gone to Japan to see you.
My mother...
Huh?
It's not at Meiji Shrine?
No way. My mom is here?
Miss Yusa, is that you?
P-Pardon?
Chiho's mom?!
So it is you. Are you visiting this hospital, too?
"Too," ma'am?
Do you have a few minutes, Miss Yusa?
I'd really like it if you stopped by.
Here she is.
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Let's go, Ashiya!
Right.
Talk about plenty of choices!
You need to stick with Suzuno.
Wh-Why is that?
Think about it. What's her budget?
As I recall, she had the nerve to say 70,000.
That's why! You need to both capture one salesperson,
and get negotiations going by saying you'll buy both TVs together.
If one TV is over 70,000 yen...
I-I see! We might get a bigger discount if we're together!
Thank you so much, Miss Suzuki! I was right to invite you here!
I may be able to afford a phone!
Y-Y-You're welcome!
I'll see you later.
R-Right!
Suzuno Kamazuki! We shall make the rounds together!
Wh-What? What's gotten into you?
Hey, what idea did you put in his head?
Hey!
H-Huh?!
Mr. Maou, how long have you been standing there?
Several seconds?
So, can I ask you something?
Wh-What is it?
Have you by any chance...
fallen for Ashiya?
What?!
H-Huh?!
Wh-Whoa, a-a-are... are you okay?!
Why do I have to drink tea with you?
Why not?
We managed to buy our TVs and everything. Humor me.
What do you think of those two?
Alciel and the good Rika?
Alciel's a bit too plainly dressed compared to her.
She dressed nicely, but he didn't.
That's my point!
Why did Rika Suzuki accept Ashiya's invitation and then dress up?
D-Do you mean to imply
that the good Rika has feelings for Alciel?
Yeah. When I asked her today, she screamed and collap—
How did you phrase the question, you monster?!
I-I just said, "Have you fallen for Ashiya?"
That's too insensitive even for you.
C-Can't breathe!
Come on, people are looking at us!
This isn't like your situation with the good Chiho.
Do you want to make me or Emilia rewrite her memories?
Say what?
The good Chiho knows who we are.
She must have prepared herself to some degree for all that might happen.
The good Rika is different.
Falling in love with Alciel can only lead to a bad future for her.
Come on, now...
Alciel shouldn't interact with her any further.
Shall I tell you how we can change that tragic future?
What?
It's easy. We just tell her that we're demons from another world
in a way she can find believable.
If that makes her stay away from him, that should make you and Emi glad.
But if Rika Suzuki still wants Ashiya after that,
I'm sure she'll prepare herself for the consequences, too.
If nothing else, she won't end up suffering all by herself.
R-Ridiculous! What's the point of involving more humans from this world?!
"I don't want to involve humans from this world"
stopped working the moment Emi and I landed in Tokyo.
And Rika Suzuki was involved the moment Emi unthinkingly made friends with her.
I don't know if that's good or bad, and I won't tell you to actively involve her.
But you're too rigid in your thinking.
It's not my place to say this, but isn't it boring to live life alone?
It's good to have comrades.
D-Don't touch me.
And I have to be rigid because you and Emilia aren't careful!
Mr. Ashiya, are you and Mr. Maou friends with Suzuno?
We shouldn't be, honestly.
It's a complicated story, but the time may come for us to tell you some day.
Mr. Ashiya, how about you just take some pamphlets home for today?
You already bought a TV, and you don't have to buy the phone today, right?
That's true...
I'll come back with you if you want.
You don't mind?!
Wh-What happened?!
The screens went white, and then all the LCDs shattered!
Hey, Ashiya. You take Rika Suzuki home, just in case.
H-Huh?!
I swear on my life.
W-Wait, I-I'm not ready emotionally—
And I didn't clean my apartment—
Was this magic? Barbariccia's faction, perhaps?
I don't know. For now, let's meet up with Urushihara.
You call Emi.
And Chi is banned from the apartment for a while.
Emilia
Emilia?
Bel, something's happened!
Chiho has magic poisoning from some highly concentrated magic.
She's in a coma!
Thank you all for coming.
What happened to Chi, ma'am?
When I came home last night around dinnertime,
she was asleep on the living room sofa.
I thought she was napping.
But for some reason, she wouldn't wake up.
I called her name and shook her...
I even slapped her, fully prepared to be yelled at, but she didn't react.
So I called an ambulance.
Apparently none of the EMTs or doctors could pinpoint the cause.
Her life isn't in danger,
but they admitted her so they can run tests to determine why she's in a coma.
And when I followed the Yesod shard's light,
I wound up at this hospital.
Then you don't know what the shard was reacting to specifically.
Exactly. I don't know if whoever has the shard is deliberately hiding it,
or if there's some other reason, but—
Mr. Maou, Miss Yusa?
I have to run out for a little while.
I asked the nurse to watch her, but could you please check on her, too?
Yes, ma'am.
Got it!
Got what, all of a sudden?
What have you even been doing?
I'm not sure I've written a formula from scratch since Church school exams.
But I got it.
Again, got what?
I could clearly sense residual magic in the good Chiho's body.
You felt it too, didn't you, Emilia?
It seems to be the result of magic being generated inside her body.
I gave her a bit of celestial force to gauge her reception capacity for it.
Based on her capacity and the amount of residual magic, she'll be okay.
Celestial force accelerates the neutralization of magic,
so the good Chiho will wake up.
Now hold on—Chi is a normal human! She can't generate magic.
Someone sent out a celestial force-based sonar pulse,
and her life force transmuted into magical energy when it hit her.
That's my theory.
Who knows what the sonar was looking for, though.
Life force changing into magic? Is that really possible?
Chi!
Sire!
Satan, this is exactly what happens with a celestial sonar.
Your and Alciel's hair—well, bodies— are resisting the celestial force.
What?
But I don't know who's using the sonar, or where they're located.
Emi and I will go to Chi.
Ashiya and Suzuno, you search the hospital
and find out whether anything else odd is happening.
I hear and obey.
Why is this happening?
It's the watcher.
Urushihara, it's about time!
Lay off.
A big, dumb angel was at our place, so I couldn't leave right away.
Big and dumb...
You mean Gabriel?! Why was he there?
I'll fill you in when we meet up with Maou and the others.
Tl;dr: The watcher's sonar pulse probably caused this.
I saw on the news that LCD screens on TVs
have been periodically exploding throughout the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
That's happening all around Tokyo?!
The watcher is using TV broadcasts to send his signal.
Chiho Sasaki got caught in the blast.
The big, dumb angel visited?
Did he do something to Chi?
Things would be simpler if he were behind this, but no.
He wanted something else.
Evidently he got pulled off the Yesod case because he kept screwing up.
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He says he's looking for "Demon King Satan's treasures" now.
Demon King Satan's treasures?
Do you know about them, Satan?
I mean, I have some guesses, but...
I feel like they aren't the sort of things Heaven would want that badly.
Yeah, I agree with Maou.
Anyway, another angel came to Japan— I assume on Gabriel's behalf.
The watcher.
I assume you're referring to Raguel the Watcher,
said to monitor the actions of all the other angels.
Yeah.
Raguel isn't particularly high-ranking,
but he's been granted a specific authority...
Namely, to declare final judgments.
He monitors the angels' actions and decides their punishments.
They mainly involve Falls...
No, wait a second. Even assuming Raguel sent the sonar,
people all over Japan watch TV.
Why was only the good Chiho hurt?
Chi's house was once the epicenter of a sonar pulse explosion.
Right, when Albert was here looking for me!
Guess it made her more physically vulnerable to sonar than other humans.
What is Raguel looking for with his sonar pulses, then?
I doubt the angels are really after the Devil, the Yesod shards, or Better Half.
They're after Lailah... my mother.
What?
Chiho?!
Ma'am!
I h-heard there was an incident here at the hospital.
Is Chiho —Is she—?
Not to worry, ma'am. Chi is safe.
Thank goodness...
Things have mostly calmed down here.
We'll be going now.
What are Raguel's "final judgments," exactly?
The main one would be making someone Fall, like me.
Raguel and Sariel worked as a pair.
They'd strip angels of their immortality, banish them to Ente Isla—
And then?!
That's a scary look, Emilia.
She's my mom!
I've never met her, and I only just found out she existed, but...
But... but I have to meet her!
She has to stay safe until I meet her and hear what she has to say!
So what happens after angels get stripped of immortality?!
S-Sometimes they get killed...
Does that mean Sariel's an accomplice?!
I doubt it.
I've seen strong indications that he couldn't care less about Heaven.
In which case, even I can't imagine what Raguel is planning.
It's unheard of for him to travel to another world
just to declare a Fall for one archangel.
Sounds like we gotta put the screws on this Raguel jerk.
Just to clarify, why does the Devil need to put the screws on Raguel?
I don't care about the relationships between angels,
but a candidate for future general of my army got hit by their crossfire.
Isn't that reason enough?
It certainly is, Your Majesty.
Allow me to assist you in defending my brilliant future colleague.
Urushihara, Emi, Suzuno!
We're gonna make that Raguel guy pay for making Chi suffer.
You cooperate, too.
Sure. I'm not busy.
And I'm aware that I owe Chiho Sasaki one.
Feel free to die before you ever mention Chiho being your general again,
but I'll do this to keep my friend safe.
I want to ask about my mom, too.
I'll correct the angels' doctrine to protect my friend.
I'll give you my formal cooperation, this one time only.
Chi-sis?
Is Chi-sis here?
You're awake, eh?
Do you like Chi-sis too, Alas Ramus?
I love Chi-sis!
Where is Chi-sis?
Wanna come with us, Alas Ramus?
Yeah!
Do you have an idea of where Raguel is?
Two.
Oho, we agree.
Since he's using TV signals to send his solar pulses,
there are only two possibilities.
Miss Chiho Sasaki!
I think you'll get to go home soon, thanks to your powerful friends.
You, who keep together two beings that by rights should be incompatible...
may one day become the mother of a new Daath.