Why can't humans do it too?

She is the manager of this McDonald's chain store, but also the barista. Her name is Mayumi Kizaki.

With her well-groomed shoulder-length hair, brown and yellow striped store manager uniform, and black stockings, she was a quintessential professional woman. She was also quite decisive and efficient. Although she sometimes appeared fierce, her personality was actually quite good, and could even be described as gentle.

She took in Maou Sadao, who was still in a state of ignorance and poverty, and patiently taught him some work-related matters. Now she has become the person Maou Sadao respects the most.

Although Su Er always felt that this person was quite frivolous.

"...Have you considered going to Ginza?"

When Su Er heard the woman behind the desk across from him stare at him with a serious face for a few minutes before suddenly uttering this sentence, his lips twitched.

Ginza is Japan's most bustling commercial district, filled with all sorts of shops. But what this woman meant here was... to make Su Er a male escort. Ginza male escorts are quite famous in a way.

“I’m sorry, there are absolutely no plans in that regard, please don’t overthink it,” Suermu replied with a straight face.

"That's a real shame..." Kizaki Mayumi seemed genuinely disappointed, not at all like she was joking.

"...Instead of feeling sorry for me, how about giving me a raise?" Without the typical Japanese sense of hierarchy between superiors and subordinates, Su Er directly made the request, and Kizaki Mayumi didn't get angry about it.

“Okay,” she nodded without hesitation. “Well done, Sue. Thanks to you, the store’s sales have been steadily increasing recently, so starting today your hourly wage will increase by 200 yen.”

? ?

It really is a pay rise?!

"I am extremely grateful." Although this amount of money is not enough to affect Suer's survival, the pleasure brought by this increase in income is still very pleasant.

"Well, keep up the good work. Maybe you'll be called in by headquarters for training soon and become the manager of a new store," Mayumi Kizaki said with a smile.

"Uh, I'll do my job well."

"Promoted to store manager?" Su Er chuckled twice in response, but he wasn't really planning to spend his retirement here... After all, you get tired of games eventually.

"Go ahead. Oh, and remember to call Mao over when you get out. You guys have been doing really well lately," Mayumi Kizaki said, leaning back in her chair and squinting her eyes.

"Okay," Suer nodded in response. It seems that Makoto is going to get a raise too.

While pondering this, Suer closed the door and came out, immediately spotting the guy pacing nervously back and forth in front of the door.

"Ah! Are you alright, Sur?!" Despite being a mortal, Sadao Maou managed to catch a glimpse of something amazing, grabbing Sur's arm and asking.

"...Ah, the situation is serious, really!" In an instant, a pained expression appeared on his face, and Suer's eyebrows were furrowed.

"The situation is very, very serious—??" The simple and honest young man was so frightened by the sentence that he stammered, as if a thunderbolt had exploded in his heart.

“I don’t know what to say…sigh,” Su Er sighed dramatically. “Anyway, you go in first. The manager has something to ask you…Good luck, survive.”

In the end, Sull even patted Maou Sadao on the shoulder with a mischievous grin, while maintaining a somber expression on his face.

"Live on, live on, live on, live on?!?!"

Like a vaccinated germ, Sadao Maou trembled so much from saying a single sentence that his entire body turned noticeably ashen.

withered.

Since the act had to be convincing, Su Er kept quiet and simply dragged his heavy steps toward the corridor exit, weakly waving his right hand as he did so.

Sadao Maou: "..."

Filled with fear of death, Sadao Maou embarks on his journey.

Upon hearing the knocking and opening of the door behind him, Su Er straightened up from his slumped back. It has to be said that such jokes are quite amusing, especially since Maou Sadao, a simple-minded young man, believes everything he says, as if he didn't grow up on Earth, which adds to the fun.

Suer quite liked this kind of life. There was no pressure of life and death, he could make good-natured jokes with his friends, and he didn't feel lonely because he was in an unfamiliar era. Both entertainment and life were very convenient... Although there were no supernatural abilities on the surface, this era was not boring.

"Large bucket of chicken wings, four hamburgers, five medium colas, two sundaes, enjoy your meal~", Sue said with a smile as she placed the food on the table.

The situation that is supposed to be boring is exactly what we're talking about right now. To be more precise, it's about the five middle school students sitting around the table—two boys and three girls. What Suer is particularly interested in is one of the two boys.

She has short brown hair and a barely perceptible... demonic aura emanating from her body.

It was so faint that it almost made people with poor senses doubt that it was a monster. He was the only one who was special; the other four were all very normal and ordinary humans.

Suer thought that monsters and gods had long since disappeared in this era, but he never expected to stumble upon clues while working a part-time job. So, monsters do still exist? Hidden in human cities?

What about the gods?

Squinting slightly, Suer walked back to the counter and glanced at the boy out of the corner of her eye—he looked incredibly shy, and would lower his head shyly when his companions' conversation touched on him, occasionally glancing at the chestnut-haired girl beside him.

During the food delivery, Sull happened to overhear his companion's way of addressing him.

Nura Rikuo.

Chapter 100 Monsters Appear Out of Nowhere

Have you had close contact with a monster recently?

Or did we pass through a place inhabited by monsters?

But for a middle school student who still has to go to school, his daily routine is nothing more than going back and forth between school and home... Oh right, there is indeed a possibility that he might wander into a store like McDonald's, but no matter what, it won't be too far from school and home.

So the monster is either near the school or the boy's house?

With his extraordinary vision, Suer observed the barely perceptible demonic aura emanating from the boy and pondered deeply.

To be honest, if it were any other person or monster here, Suer doubted that they would even be able to discover the boy's special qualities.

[It couldn't be a demon in human form; the demonic aura at this level wouldn't be enough for a demon to maintain its form.]

"Yes, it's really impossible," Suer murmured to himself. Let alone maintaining his physical form, even surviving would be difficult.

But why, if it's already so faint, does it show no signs of dissipating?

So... a hybrid of a monster and a human?

If she were truly of mixed race, someone this indistinct would probably have been excluded from the world of monsters long ago, right? She lives completely like an ordinary person.

“Who knows?” Su Er replied softly to Xin Ke, shifting her gaze away from the cheerful middle school students. “But let’s follow them and leave a mark on him.”

"What are you muttering to yourself about?" Suddenly, Sadao Maou patted Suer on the shoulder from behind and came out, looking indignant. "Seriously, you just lied to me like that! I trusted you so much! And then—!"

Maou Sadao's voice stopped abruptly. He seemed embarrassed by recalling what he had done and could only wave his hands haphazardly.

"What do you mean I lied to you? I was just joking." Turning his attention away from the boy shrouded in demonic energy, Su'er grinned mischievously. "Only by looking up at the mountaintop from the bottom of the valley can you truly appreciate the grandeur of the mountains. Only after weathering storms can you appreciate the beauty of a rainbow... How about it? Embracing the most desperate possibility to welcome the beautiful moment?"

"...You're not some kind of demon, are you?" Words couldn't describe the expression on Maou Sadao's face at that moment. He then sighed, "Whatever, I'm happy right now anyway! My hourly wage is up!!"

Like a watermelon rind giving a thumbs up, Sue seemed to see a gleam in the corner of this guy's mouth. He didn't even know where he had learned English... and trendy phrases mixed with Japanese and English.

Sue called it the Metamorphosis.

The simple country boy is undergoing a transformation.

"Well, anyway, prices are going up—"

boom!

"Little Lord!!!"

Suer was interrupted by a shout before she could finish speaking. The McDonald's store entrance was slapped ninety degrees by the girl who suddenly appeared, and the loud noise followed.

"Young Master! Why did you leave me behind first!" The girl with light blue hair and long black hair who suddenly appeared strode over to the middle school student who had been marked by Su Er, complaining as she grabbed his arm without hesitation.

"Let go, Bingli...didn't I send you a message?"

The brown-haired boy awkwardly tried to pull his arm away, but the girl who had suddenly appeared was holding him too tightly, so he could only plead and say nice things.

【Oh?】

"Oh huh?"

Suer couldn't help but exclaim in amazement at the same time as Xin Ke. She didn't know how to describe her luck; it was just too good.

Her long, dark blue hair was thick, smooth, and without a single split end. Her beautiful skin was flawless, giving her a refreshing feel even in the hot summer. She seemed to be a cold beauty, but when she opened her mouth, she revealed a fiery personality.

Like several other junior high school students, she was wearing a school uniform, but she was wearing a thick white scarf around her neck out of season, and she didn't seem to be hot at all.

Without a doubt, Suer could tell at a glance that this was a monster. In fact, it could be said that the demonic energy hidden within her body was begging Suer to recognize her. In addition, there were those blue eyes... with very dense yellow irises inside.

What normal human being would do that?

Suer had thought that the monsters and gods of this world were either dead or in hiding, but he never expected to encounter a monster that jumped onto his face in this way at this time. It didn't even know how to hide. What kind of human would wear such a thick scarf in the middle of summer and not even sweat?

"Hello! I'd like three sundaes!!"

Completely unaware that her monster identity had been exposed, this monster, known as Bingli, chattered among the middle school students for a while before running straight to the counter to order.

"...Okay, three sundaes...Please rest over there for a bit, we'll bring them to you later."

Suer provides smiling service.

"Hmm, thanks!" The monster said, seemingly without any guile, and then ran away without looking back.

'Three sundaes... Just because you think monsters won't get sick from eating them doesn't mean you can do whatever you want! Be a little more careful when you're pretending to be human, little girl.'

Suer had some complaints he couldn't quite express.

[Maybe it's an ice-type monster? The name Bingli already strongly suggests that.]

'Ah, indeed,' Suer nodded to himself, 'but this invalidates our initial assumption; the boy doesn't seem to be completely ignorant about monsters.'

[The title "Young Master" isn't used casually, is it? This eliminates even the possibility that my childhood friend's neighbor is a demon.]

Xin Ke said casually, but compared to such deductions, Su Er was more concerned about what books his wife had been reading lately... She seemed to casually mention certain light novel themes.

Having deeply felt the terrifying power of culture, Su Er resolved to carefully examine the books Xin Ke had bought online—even in this world, strange books from Japan were still appearing in an explosive manner, especially in the light novel category.