•Black Sheep• || The Devil is a Part Timer || Urushihara / Lucifer

༺Chapter 16༻

Aiko couldn't help but laugh at the entire situation that just happened in front of her.

"Whoa! There's even food!" Maou exclaims excitedly.

Everyone gathers around the few boxes he had opened.

Urushihara crawls over next to where Aiko is kneeling and picks up the note sitting on top of a few bottles filled with pink liquid.

"This note says she wants us all to eat the food together..." Aiko reads the note over his shoulder.

"Ugh, lame." He comments.

"What's g-ua-va juice?" Suzuno tries to pronounce the foreign word on the bottles' label.

"Why dont we try it?"

"Ill go get cups!" Chiho jumps up and quickly skips next door to gather enough containers for the beverage. Returning only seconds later.

"I could only find six Mr. Maou,"

"Well none for Urushihara then," Both Aiko and Hara's heads whip in Maou's direction.

"Dude, why not?! There are exactly six of us!"

"Me, Emi, Suzuno, Chi, Aiko, and Ashiya's not dead yet." Maou states matter of factly.

"How about you stick to water," Emi pipes in.

"I might have seen a used to go cup,"

"Gah! What the crap?! Why do you guys keep treating me like the plague?! What did I do to deserve this?! You guys suck so hard!" The boy pouts. Looking, honestly, genuinely depressed.

"...Um. Hey guys?" All heads turn towards the short female who spoke.

"Don't you think it's not a very good idea to give Ashiya anything that might aggravate his upset stomach. We don't want him to get worse right?"

For a few seconds there was nothing. Until a short sigh broke the silence.

"Yeah, you're right Aiko. Well Urushihara, today's your lucky day then," Maou tosses him one of the empty cups.

He catches it not so smoothly before glancing over at the blue-haired girl who debated in his favor.

His cheeks blush pink as he looks down in shame and mumbles a 'thanks'.

Raising her arms above her head, Aiko stretches out her back muscles.

The other girls and Maou brought the last of the items down to where the bazaar was being held, whilst she, Hara, and Ashiya stayed back in the apartment.

The purple haired boy was, unsurprisingly, back on the computer, and Ashiya was asleep on the floor.

The bluenette checks her phone again.

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"Hara, can we please talk?" She speaks up as she shoves her phone back in her pocket.

When she got no response, she marched right over to him and pulled the headphones off his head.

"Hey! What the hell man-!"

"What is your problem?"

He froze for a second, raising an eyebrow at the female in front of him.

Aiko crosses her arms.

"Don't look at me like you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm tired of this cold shoulder bullshit! Just tell me why you won't talk to me, why you keep avoiding me!"

The former Demon General's eyes widen are her vocabulary. He has never heard her curse like that before. And with so much anger behind it.

He really pissed her off.

"Are you seriously just gonna stare at me like that?! Say something!...Is this all about that kiss?"

Feeling his face heat up, he instinctively looked away. Not being able to look her in the eyes.

"...So that's it." Aiko bites her bottom lip, feeling incredibly embarrassed but also upset and frustrated at the same time.

"You know the least you could have done was told me. Not beat around the bush with this silent treatment crap! Do you realize how anxious I have been since that night? I thought you hated me. I thought you wouldn't want to be friends anymore. And with this cold shoulder shit you have been giving me...Holy hell Lucifer this whole thing was making me go insane!"

He glances back over at her at the use of his real name.

"...I was just-"

"No, I don't want to hear any excuses!" Tears started forming in her eyes, "You know, I thought you were different. I believed you weren't as immature as the others seem to think you are. But this entire time you have been proving me wrong! Even after everything! I thought we were so similar...but I couldn't have been farther from the truth it seems...W-Why did I ever look up to you?..." She turns on her heel as the tears began to roll down her cheeks. Unbeknownst to the fact that the door to the room had been opened only a few seconds ago.

"No, Aiko, wait!" Urushihara jumps from his seated position to stop her, but trips over his own feet in the process. Falling onto the floor.

Aiko runs out of the room past Maou who had been the one to open the door.

"Lucifer," he intimidatingly starts, "What did you do?"

The fallen angel didn't bother to push himself up from the ground. His face was pressed into the tatami mats beneath him, and his fist slammed down on them as he answers his superior with a muffled voice.

"I screwed up...big time..."