Seeing this, Shesi freed a hand and pushed aside Chima-chan's bangs.
"Oh, Chima-chan, what's wrong? But it's true, you look cuter with your bangs pulled back," Shesi said, tucking Chima-chan's hair behind her ear.
"This looks much better."
At this moment,
"Urusu-chan, let's discuss countermeasures!"
"Ah, coming, but I mean... a tie is fine, right?" That day, he remembered this person who said one thing but meant another, and it was then that he recalled his older sister's answer from back then.
"It was very sudden. One day, my heart felt like it was seized, and I encountered my desire, as if it was completely exposed. That immense shock." After that, he watched Urusu, who was trying her best to hide, and laughed loudly.
Although he seemed to have seen someone who might be his girlfriend after that, I, Chima, will not give up. To be with Lord Shesi... I chose Lord Shesi's school, Babyls, to become Lord Shesi's bride.
It was just like the line in Kerori's lyrics: "As a demon, be careful not to be careless, for suddenly one day, your heart will be stolen."
"Lord Shesi, I am the freshman representative, the most outstanding freshman!"
"Ah, is that so? Then it seems you've worked very hard, Chima-chan." Shesi looked at Chima, who was clearly expecting praise. It seemed his previous thoughts were just an illusion, merely a child hoping for praise. So he smiled, though the words that followed made it hard for him to keep smiling.
"No matter how powerful the demons at Babyls are, I will strive to seize my sparkling ambition... I will not lose. I will snatch the most important thing..."
Shesi, Ameri:!!!!
Both of them simultaneously turned to stone, and then Chima retreated, full of fighting spirit.
Ameri watched Chima's retreating figure, then walked over to Shesi and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Can you explain this properly?"
Shesi stiffly turned around.
"J-just a minute, I think I can exp... I can't explain it... But! Ameri, you know me, I only like the mature woman type..." Shesi said in a panic.
Hearing this, Ameri's face immediately flushed. Mature woman... was she like that?
"Then... never mind. I'll forgive you for a little while, but you have to go study during all your free time today."
"Huh?" Shesi didn't know what he had said, but seeing Ameri seemingly forgiving him, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, his right hand had, at some point, crossed his ring and index fingers (people believe that God will forgive lies spoken while doing this).
...It was another beautiful day. Today was exceptionally beautiful for Kalego, because after today, he would no longer be someone's familiar. So much so that you could even see the usually stern Teacher Kalego humming a tune in the hallway.
Meanwhile, on the lawn outside the Royal Classroom.
"Alright, next, I will teach you the familiar contract renewal and release ritual," Robin said, looking at everyone in the problem children's class.
"It's an important ritual for deepening your bond with a magical beast!" Robin introduced.
"Huh? Where's Iruma?" Jazz looked around but couldn't find Iruma.
"It seems he was called away by Teacher Kalego."
"No wonder, Asmodeus seems a bit agitated."
Robin looked at She Si.
"She Si, please come to the front."
She Si looked at Teacher Robin.
"Teacher, every familiar summoning class you make me go first, and this class is always at eight in the morning. It's become 'morning eight o'clock,' and Mo has complained to me so many times," Shesi grumbled.
"Haha, have you already given her a name? But this isn't an official naming yet," Robin said, completely unaffected by Shesi's grumbling. Then he looked at Shesi with excitement; the Demon King's familiar was endlessly fascinating.
Shesi sighed, then summoned Mo. When Mo was awakened by the big sun in the sky, she looked up at her surroundings, then weakly lay back down.
Shesi also sighed helplessly. Indeed, morning eight o'clock was truly a painful thing; Mo's state was understandable.
"Oh, oh! You've grown quite well! Alright, Shesi, place your hand on, uh... Mo? On Mo's body, and then proceed with the renewal."
Renewal: Officially vow to serve this magical beast, inject your magic into the familiar, and bestow an official name.
Shesi followed Robin's words, but it seemed that when the magic circle for serving Mo appeared, the formation directly shattered, then reformed.
"Huh?"
Everyone was startled by this scene and immediately ran to Shesi, asking if he was hurt.
"Hmm... It's not servitude. It seems to be an equal contract," Shesi said after processing the information that appeared in his mind.
At this moment, Mo, next to Shesi, suddenly spoke in demonic language.
"Of course! My father wouldn't let you serve me. I'm his daughter, so when you summoned me, he placed a magic circle on me. When you tried to use that old method again, the magic circle shattered and then directly imprinted an equal contract onto Shesi's location."
Everyone: I see...?
Everyone looked at Mo in surprise, Shesi included.
"Mo actually spoke?!"
Shesi came over to Mo and tentatively pushed her with his hand.
"Mo, how did you... speak?"
"Hmm? I only learned recently. I wanted to complain that the new popular novels in the demon world are really bad. It's always about enslaving dragons or something. How rare are dragons now? How could the protagonist just casually encounter dragons anywhere? Honestly." Mo started complaining, and everyone realized... she was reading novels? With such a large body, how did she turn the pages?
"Alright, is there anything else? If not, I'm leaving. Waking up for morning eight o'clock is rare; I need to go back and get my beauty sleep." With that, Mo didn't wait for Shesi's agreement and directly self-released her summoning, returning home.
Shesi didn't feel any dissatisfaction, seeing this. After all, he didn't want to enslave Mo; this servitude was more like enslavement, so this was just right.
Seeing how quickly things happened, Robin also just reacted. Seeing that Shesi seemed to have no complaints, he could only exclaim,
"As expected of the Demon King's familiar!" After that, he continued the familiar renewal ceremony.
"I bestow the name Vino," Asmodeus said, looking at the Gorgon Snake in front of him.
...No, it seems I should start calling it Vino now. Now it is a snake with a name.
"Then you shall be called Ouma!" Sabro said, looking at his familiar, the water horse.
The water horse seemed to like the name, whinnying once, then rubbing against Sabro.
As for Clara's side,
Shesi looked at Clara with a black line on his face.
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