The Devil Is a Part-Timer!, Vol. 14 by Satoshi Wagahara

Author:Satoshi Wagahara [Wagahara, Satoshi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2019-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

“Goddammit, Sariel…”

“Huh? What was that?”

“N-nothing…”

Maou instantly swore in his mind to take revenge against the archangel when Himeko Tanaka, the manager Sariel swore wouldn’t be around again, had marched right into MgRonald that same evening. Chiho, and the rest of the crew familiar with her, swallowed nervously as they watched Maou engage her.

“Let’s see…I’ll have a teriyaki burger combo with fries and orange juice. Also, one regular hamburger by itself. Regular-size juice, no ice.”

She didn’t look much different from before as she strode up to the register, lassoing Maou before he could run off in a panic and ordering like a regular customer for a change.

“All right. That’ll be six hundred and fifty yen, please.”

“Here. Sorry for all the change.”

She tossed a small collection of coins on the change tray. Maou mentally counted them up.

“Er, I apologize, but this coin here…”

There were four 100-yen coins, four fifty-yen coins…and then, among the five copper coins on the tray, there was one that didn’t look like the standard ten-yen piece at all.

“Oh, I’m sorry!” Tanaka chirped, not sounding at all apologetic as she replaced it with another coin. “I must’ve forgotten to take this out of my purse after I got back from England.”

It was a two-pence coin, the same copper color as the ten-yen piece but a completely different size. Mixed in with a bunch of other spare change, it could’ve easily been overlooked.

“…You were traveling there?”

Tanaka gave him a natural nod. “Yeah, sort of.”

In the midst of this, the completed order was sent to the counter on a tray.

“Here you go. Enjoy!”

“Thank you.”

Then she took the tray and sat down by the front window, a bit out of sight from the registers. Maou watched her go from the corner of his eye.

“Wow, Marko.”

Behind him was Takefumi Kawata, a seasoned coworker of Maou’s, better known by Kisaki and the rest of the crew as Kawacchi.

“Me and Chi were freaking out back here, but— Huh?”

He realized that Maou had his right hand out toward him, palm up, from an angle that customers couldn’t see in the dining space. A “stop” signal. Once Maou was sure Kawata got the message, he approached him as casually as possible, then quickly whispered into his ear as he passed by:

“Wait until she leaves.”

And with that, Kawata went back to his own work, as if nothing had happened. Maou gave the same warning to Chiho before doing the same.

After a good hour or so, Himeko Tanaka finally got up, cleaned off her tray at the trash bin, gave a light wave of the hand to Maou, and left. Even when she was no longer visible from the inside, Maou stayed on guard for a while to come—half an hour, in fact, until he finally felt it safe to breathe normally again. Chiho and Kawata immediately ran up to him.

“What was that all about, Maou?”

“I think we were probably being tested.”

“Oh?”

“What do you mean?”

“The teriyaki burger she ordered is easily affected by the condition of the plates. It’s a pain in the ass to assemble, too.

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