Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha:Volume 1 Chapter 2
First Master and Servant Contract
Naruse Mio, chased out of the Toujo House, came to a park on a hill with Maria.
It was the park, where she had watched the sunset after cycling around the city on Basara’s bicycle.
---30 minutes since they had arrived there. Mio silently watched the glow of the city at night.
It was a beautiful sight. The glow of the buildings and the light of cars or trains appeared just like an illumination. Mio thought, if that how it looked when one looked down from the stars in the sky.
…Just like he said.
Remembering about the guy that taught her about this beautiful view, Mio frowned slightly.
“I knew coming together would be impossible…”
Back then, Mio had replied with a vague answer on Basara’s suggestion. Because she had known. That there wouldn’t be such a chance. Ever since they met, they had deceived Basara.
“Excuse me, Mio-sama… please do cheer up.”
Maria next to her looked up at her with worried eyes. Her appearance was back to one of a human.
“We were just unlucky that they turned out to be Heroes. With someone else, I am sure---”
“No, Maria… let’s put an end to all the deceiving.”
Mio shook her head.
“I wanted a base without involving anyone if possible, but… deceiving someone for that is certainly not to my liking.”
It wasn’t like they were penniless. Mio’s late foster father left them plenty of savings. But for a base, a single house was the best. If they carelessly rented an apartment or mansion in a living complex, the other inhabitants might get dragged in.
However, Mio was a minor to begin with. Furthermore, without relatives. And Maria was a child by appearance.
Like this they obviously couldn’t buy a place, nor rent. Of course it was possible that Maria manipulated memories with her magic, but she would have to manipulated the memories of a lot of people, if they wanted to buy a house as a minor and live without drawing the suspicion from the real estate office. Moreover, the memories would need to match each person’s position and relationships. The memory manipulation magic wasn’t that powerful.
That was why Mio and Maria had done such a roundabout way.
“I understand… I will abide by your words, Mio-sama.”
Maria didn’t object. She must have understood her feelings. With a soft smile,
“That is what makes you kind, Mio-sama… I personally do not see any problem with deceiving a humans that approach us with ulterior motives though.”
“Maybe…”
Maria said something reasonable. After their current parents had passed away, the lawyer entrusted with the will had tried to deceive Mio to steal her inheritance. When Mio had walked around at night with Maria, guys had approached them worried, yet with the ulterior motive in the open. Therefore they became unable to trust anyone than themselves. However if guys like them existed, they thought it wouldn’t be bad to deceive them. After all, both side were lying.
---So, one month ago, when they were surrounded by delinquents in the city, Jin had come to their rescue.
They couldn’t trust him either. He would just deceive them as well.
He would betray them in the end…That was what they thought.
That was the reason Maria manipulated his memories and planned to take over the house. But, by doing so, they turned into the same kind as these guys.
“…But, who could have imagined that these two were Heroes.”
Mio showed a self-mocking smile. She wasn’t blaming them for hiding their lineage. They had done the same. Of course they might be able to overwhelm Basara if they went back to the house now and fought at full power. There was a possibility to make that house their base then.
“But…”
Jin and Basara both had been different from the others they had deceived. She thought that she might have found people she could put her trust in, for the first time after the death of her parents.
…But.
What was the point of that now. It was too late. Time couldn’t be turned back. Upon that,
“Mio-sama…”
Maria next to her called with a calm tone.
“Sorry… We need to figure out what to do from now on, but first we need a place to stay tonight.”
But Maria lightly shook her head to the side. And then, she said with a slightly stiff voice.
“No--- It looks like there is something we have to do before that.”
On these words, Mio noticed the surrounding atmosphere.
Unnoticed, the park had become ominous quiet. An unnatural silence. Mio immediately understood what that meant. For the past half year, she had gotten the necessary knowledge.
“Magic to keep humans away….”
Mio or Maria hadn’t used it. Then there was only one explanation.
“Please watch out… It is an enemy.”
Maria glared in front of her. Upon that, there was a movement in the darkness there.
What appeared from the shadow were three ominous shades. These shades gradually changed shape.
One changed into a [shadow] that had a black humanoid silhouette with a long hilted scythe, like a death god.
The remaining two into a magical lion beasts with wings--- A manticore.
Without doubt. It were devils. And most likely servants of the current Devil Lord. They emitted an obviously bloodlust. It exposed them their existence. And also their aim. Therefore,
“I see… To think that you would come on your own accord.”
Mio challengingly glared at the three [enemies].
Her squeezed out voice was faintly trembling. It wasn’t out of fear. But out of---anger.
“Unforgivable… I’ll avenge my parents….”
Needless to say, Mio learned the truth and her lineage from Maria after her parents’ death. That she, Naruse Mio, was the only daughter of the previous Devil Lord. And that the two people she considered as her parents were just foster parents.
As unbelievable it was, she accepted it when Maria showed her true appearance and magic.
Yes. Mio’s parents weren’t related by blood to her. They might just have raised and looked after her because of an order from her real father.
….But.
Naruse Mio thought. The two that raised her were surely her parents.
Rather than the real father she never met, they were her precious family.
That was why she would never forgive it. Mio certainly had yet to awaken the power of her father--- of the Devil Lord. Still,
“Kindly getting rid of all humans… Fine, bring it on.”
Mio inherited something in the blood of her father. That was--- the talent for magic.
“Prepare yourselves… I’ll kill you a hundred times.”
At the same time she said that, Mio’s body emitted a crimson aura. She released her own magical power.
---Usually. The magical aura was a negative black.
The magical surge emitted by the enemies right now was a jet black, darker than the night.
In regards to that, Maria or moderate Devils like Mio’s father Wilbert had a blue aura. It was a colour of these that had sworn to free themselves off the revenge against the God Tribe.
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