Takumi, who finally understood why he felt like he was holding a pillow last night, was ready to go to school after taking a shower.
Self-disciplined, he is the legendary child of someone else's family, a top student among top students.
"Est, please hide your form as a holy sword within my body," Takumi said to the little loli who possessed the power to kill a Demon King.
"Um..."
Est nodded, then turned into a white light and rushed toward the contract emblem on Takumi's hand.
"My physical strength seems to have increased; it's almost reached the level of a Middle-class Devil."
Takumi shook his hand, feeling the abundant spiritual power permeating his body.
Takumi didn't know before that while he thought a single Queen's piece would be enough to elevate his strength to a High-class Devil, in reality, he would need at least a truckload of them.
His body is like a bottomless pit, not so easy to upgrade.
But on the contrary, he is invincible within his current realm; can the physical strength of a Lower-class Devil be compared to a High-class Devil?
Feeling that his strength has increased significantly, Takumi, who was in a good mood, opened his door.
"Click!"
"Huh?"
Takumi felt like there was something in front of his door.
Because he did not have the almost omniscient effect of Krishna active all the time, he did not notice there was someone at his door.
If he truly reaches the level of the original Vishnu, Krishna can basically be omniscient and omnipotent.
Now it is more like having a buff that can expand his perception significantly. Of course, it's not just perception; he also occasionally obtains strange knowledge.
"Uh... what is she doing at my door?"
Takumi finally realized who was there.
Even if you are a Maou, that's no reason to loiter at someone else's door!
With this thought in mind, Takumi just kicked the door of his room open.
"Boom!" "Thud!"
There were two sounds: one was Takumi kicking the door, and the other was a heavy object hitting the ground.
"Huh? Doesn't she even know how to avoid it?"
Takumi opened the door and saw Serafall, who was lying on the ground with her body bent forward in a frustrated posture.
"Hey! Hey!"
Takumi saw that although her eyes were open, there was no trace of a highlight at all. He didn't know why she had become like this.
It's like... like she's been broken. But he didn't have any memory of doing such a thing.
"Poke."
Seeing that she didn't respond, Takumi wasn't polite and just gave Serafall's upturned rear a nudge with his foot.
This move seemed very effective. Takumi originally thought she would stop him before he kicked, but he didn't expect the kick would send her directly toward the door of the room opposite.
With this, Serafall recovered from her catatonic state.
"I messed up... screwed up... ruined it... failed..."
Serafall looked at Takumi blankly, then continued to fall into a state of autism.
"What messed up? What did you screw up?"
Takumi asked suspiciously; even if you messed something up, you wouldn't be this despondent, right? After all, you are a Maou.
"Now! This time, Sona-chan will definitely not recognize me as her sister!"
Serafall's eyes were filled with tears. She recovered from her self-closing state and glanced at Takumi.
Then, her expression became even more broken.
"Ah! Sona-chan! Don't abandon your sister! You can do anything to me!"
While saying this, Serafall jumped up from the ground, slipped out of Takumi's house, and rode away!
"Um... what exactly happened?"
A trace of cold sweat dripped down Takumi's forehead. Serafall was autistic? What did she do to make Sona angry?
"Master, I think it should be because of what happened last night. She has been in that state since she came to your room yesterday."
The coat of arms representing Est on the back of Takumi's hand shone with white holy light.
"She came to my room last night? What did she do?"
Takumi frowned, an idea suddenly popping into his mind.
"Yesterday, that woman stuffed some red things into Master's body. I wanted to stop it, but Master's physical and spiritual power was not enough to give me the strength to repel her."
"Then why didn't you tell me when I woke up this morning?"
"Because... because I forgot."
"Pfft..."
"Forget it. What exactly did she stuff in there?"
A phantom appeared in Takumi's hand, representing each piece in a chess set.
"Well, six of these, and one of this, and this..."
Est pointed out which pieces Serafall had put in yesterday.
After realizing this, Takumi also began to look inward.
Although the power of the Evil Pieces was very small relative to him, he did have six Pawn pieces, one Rook piece, and one Bishop piece in his body.
"Are you sneaking Evil Pieces into my body? You really went there..."
Takumi gritted his teeth, feeling that just kicking her butt earlier was too light; he should have given her a real earful.
Did the devil reincarnation process really happen sneakily?
"However, I don't really feel like I've become a devil, and the magic power in my body feels like a very small fraction of my power. Combined with what she said before about getting into trouble, it means... the reincarnation failed?"
"It's really ironic..."
Takumi smiled, guessing that Sona would probably pull on Serafall's ears for this.
"Forget it, I'd better go to school first. I wonder if Sona will already know about this when we meet today."
Takumi smiled, but still packed up and went to school.
"Oh?"
Walking into the living room, he noticed a small object.
"Is this a souvenir she left behind?"
It was a pink magic wand.
Of course, unlike ordinary cosplay wands, Serafall's wand can release skills. Although they aren't world-shattering, it still contains many useful spells and charms.
"I'll take it as my consolation for now... When I have the strength, I will get back to where I am today."
Takumi narrowed his eyes and put the magic wand in his room.
When his hard power reaches the level of a Middle-class Devil, he should be able to parse and understand the Maou-level spells on this wand and eventually learn them.
"Let's go, time for school. There is one more sign-in to do."
Takumi's mental state was quite good, probably because he obtained so many Evil Pieces for free yesterday.
He just walked out the door.
Takumi saw Issei Hyoudou looking at him with inexplicable eyes.
"Hey! Takumi-kun? Was that your girlfriend who ran out of your house just now? She was still wearing magical girl clothes. I didn't expect you to have such a hobby!"
Issei Hyoudou looked at Takumi with a look that suggested "we both know what's going on," so no explanation was needed.
"By the way, Takumi-kun, you should be very good at dealing with girls, right? A girl asked me to go on a date yesterday! You know, I'm really not interested in girls!"
He suddenly remembered something important and spoke to Takumi.
"Oh?"
Takumi raised his eyebrows; was Raynare looking for him?
"That's why I want to ask you for a favor!"
Issei Hyoudou made a gesture of supplication toward Takumi, hands folded, with a hint of hope in his eyes.
"Well, tell me."
Takumi still had expectations for this kind of event.
"She asked me to accompany her shopping today, and I agreed because I couldn't say no. So... could you go instead of me?" Issei Hyoudou said embarrassedly.
"If it's a handsome guy like you, Amano-san wouldn't be too angry, right? Hehe."
This was Issei Hyoudou's method.
Sure enough... girls are so troublesome! Boys are much cuter and easier to talk to. This was Issei Hyoudou's logic.
"Well, okay. Where are you supposed to meet her?"
Takumi nodded.
His thoughts were very simple.
Maybe some useful sign-ins can be obtained from Raynare's body?