The Heroine Of Ente Isla (The Devil Is A Part Timer)

1. -The Devil Finds A Coupon

"Ashiya, one of my coworkers gave me this."
Maou held up a square piece of paper.
"It is what they call a coupon, sire. I expect it is a sort of way to lure humans into restaurants." Ashiya responded.
"50% off..they would really give away that much? Humans are astounding."
He waved the coupon around in the air.
"Perhaps we should use this 'coupon'."

Later that day, they made their way to the restaurant.
"Behold, humans, we bring with us a coupon!"
Ashiya announced, holding the coupon high up in the air.
"Yes, sir, that's very nice. Now I assume you want a table?"
He walked them in.

"This is your table."
The waiter said, then walked away.
They flipped through the menu. "Ooh, the pasta salad looks great!"
"That's the most expensive thing on the menu, Ashiya."
"But the coupon!"
"..I thought you were the reasonable one."

Once they had finished ordering after calling over the waiter, they looked around at the restaurant.
And, just their luck, there was Emi Yusa. The Hero.
"Did she really have to show up in the exact same moment as us?"
Ashiya asked, tired of bumping into her.
"Let's just hope she doesn't notice us. We probably won't have to talk to her."
Maou replied.

The waiter came over, delivering bread.
"While you wait, there's the buffet over there."

"A buffet!"
They said in unison, and stood up to go over to it.
"Mozzarella!" Ashiya exclaimed, piling a mountain onto his plate.
"You can go sit back down. I'm going to take one of everything."
Maou said.
So Ashiya went to sit back down, enjoying his feast.. of only mozzarella cheeese.

"Hmm.. should I take the feta or the shrimp.. I'll just take both!"
And, of course, on the other side of the buffet was Emi, scooping up cherry tomatoes and mozzarella. And of course she had to walk around the buffet - and see him.

"The demon lord?!"
"What?! Don't call me that in public!"
"Well, maybe if you didn't want to be called the demon lord, you shouldn't have becomw the demon lord."
Maou rubbed his head. Did she really have to be this difficult?!
He put another thing on his plate.

"Have you been using the same tongs for each plate?! That's so unhygienic! What if someone has an allergy? Plus now nobody can take the food the tongs are actually for! They'd have to use some other tongs. It would be a- a wrong tong cycle!"
"Hey that kinda rhymes doesn't it. Wrong tong."
"Oh yeah it does- but you missed the point!"
"Fine, I'll put the tong back if it makes you so happy."
and Maou put the tongs back.

But from then on, Maou did always use the right tongs.  So, on that day, Emi won, and Maou and Ashiya did not because their coupon had expired.

"There was an expiration date?!"