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fMAN. LAST nightfbbls

a zb rr, WAS, ALL A PRBAM:~^_

ITS NICB AN PALL, BUT BACK AT MY OLP PBV/L'S

CASTLB ON IS LA

CENTURUM...

...I HAP A PANORAMIC VIBWOFTHB

SUNR/SB ANY PAY I WANTBP.

SURE HOPE CAMIO PULLS

THROUGH.

...NO. I GOTTA FOCUS

ON OPENING

THIS JOINT TOPAY.

I CAN'T THINK

ABOUT LAST

NIGHT RIGHT NOW.

IT ALL COMBS POWN TO THIS MORNING...!

THIS IS All MADE OF SAND? AMAZING,

HUH?

WAS NOBOPY AT ALL HERB YBSTBR-

PAY...

LOOK AT 'SMALL.

MAOU! I'M OUT OF SALT! IT'U. BF TBN

MINUTBS UNTIL TUB

NEXT BATCH!

CAN YOU HANDLE THE

SEAFOOD ORDERS I JUST TOOK?

I HAVE THREE LEFT. WE'RE ONE SHORT ON THE TABLE

ORDER I HAVE NOW.

I SURE BLEW IT

SIZINO OUR INVENTOR/

/ ORPEREP HALF WHAT THBY RAN

THROUGH LAST YEAR. BUT

NOW WE'RE SHORT ON

EVERYTHING...

WE HAVE PLENTY OF FOOP BUT

NOTENOUGH TIME TO

RESTOCK EVERYTHING

ELSE WE NEEP...

1

THREE PEERS, TWO SOPAS,

ANP ONE ORANGE JUICE/

U£H, I'M EXHAUSTED/

HERE yOU ARE, MAOU- SAN. FROM

AMANE-SAN.

HEX THANKS A LOT,

CHI- CHAN.

if you ouys

HADN'T SHOWN

UP, I THINK WE WOULD'VE

BEEN SCREWED.

SORRy TO PUT

ALL THIS WORK ON

you.

THANKS.

I WANTED

{ ^ ..um, ip You'Re FREE-, WOULD

YOU MIND CLEANING- THE

SHAVED ICE MACHINES?

SO, UKB, WHAT DO

I REALLy DOUBT

OABRIEL'S JUST OONNA

LICK HIS WOUNDS

FOREVER.

THE HOLY SWORD

AND STUFF IS YOUR

PROBLEM ANYWAY, RIOHT?

HE'S WELL- KNOWN FOR

BEINO A PERSISTENT

BASTARD LIKE THAT.

IT'S NOT LIKE WE

KNOW IF LAST

NIOHT WAS UNRELATED

EITHER...

WHAT ABOUT LAST

NIOHT?

..uh, you DIDN'T

NOTICE?

NOTICE WHAT? I WAS JUST

CHATTINO WITH CHI-

CHAN...

WHEN ALL THAT POO

CAME IN, DID you SERiousLy

NOT NOTICE ANyTHINO?

AA/WNE- SAH!

WE'RE HEAPING

OUT BACK FOR A

LITTLE BIT!

TO. asuiya.

SURE THINS/

BACK. WHEN VIOLENCE RULED

THE DEMON REALMS, HE BUILT UP A TRIBE USING HIS INTELLIGENCE

AND MILITARy INSTINCTS.

FOR HIM, I NEVER

WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO FORM A

DEMON FORCE

so... SOMEONE

BESIDES YOU, MAOU-SAN,

AND YOU, YUSA-SAN...

YOU'RE DEFINITELY

NOT RESPONSIBLE

FOR THIS?

...DIS¬ PATCHED

THESE DEMONS

FROM ANOTHER WORLD?

NO. IF I WAS, I

WOULD'VE KILLED

THEM ON THE SPOT.

HUG TWE6TV- TWEET?

I'M THINKING

ABOUT CHECKING OUT THAT

LIGHTHOUSE LATER.

THE FOGHORN SOUNDED,

THESE GUVS SHOWED

UP...

...THEN THEY

VANISHED IN THE MIST.

IT'S GOT TO BE

RELATED.

THEY CHARGE

ADMISSION TO GO UP...

THE INUBOH-

SAKI LIGHT¬

HOUSE?

WE WERE THERE

THIS MORNING.

...BUT WE DIDN'T NOTICE

ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT IT.

K\ y HUH/? LA \ rr^-s& \ K: V

hl3

|

I WILL NOT BROOD OVER THE, PEEP...

PLAYFUL EAGERNESS OF

A CHILD.

LORD SATAN..

...VO I HAVE YOUR

PEEPMISSION TO EXPLAIN MATTERS TO THESE PEOPLE? SURE.

00 AHEAD.

THIS IS CHIHO

SASAKI. SHE'S A HUMAN.

SHE KNOWS ABOUT ME AND

ALCIEL, AND SHE'S BEEN A LOT OF HELP

TO US.

ON My MASTER'S BEHALF, I

OFFER YOU My UTMOST

THANKS.

MAO... ER, SATAN-

SAN HAS BEEN A

HUOE HELP TO ME TOO.

JUST REMEMBER, I'M READ/

TO SLICE OFF THE PEVIL

KIND'S HEAP IN HIS SLEEP

ANYTIME I WANT.

...50, THAT'S KINP

OF HOW IT IS, BUT THERE'S

MORE TO IT THAN THAT.

ANP PON'T YOU TRY

ANYTHING FUNNY, OR IT'S THE PINNER

TABLE FOR YOU.

LEMME PUT IT IN A WAY YOU'P PROBABLY

UNPER- STANP...

EVEN ALCIEL WAS OUR FOE ONCE

UPON A TIME, YEAH...?

REMEMBER HOW WE

MANAOEP TO CONQUER

THE PEMON REALMS?

, IF I'WIN mm/smki

NOT LIKE YOU KEEP ME ALIVE JUST

BECAUSE YOU ACCEPT IT

AS FATE OR WHATEVER,

RIOHT?

THERE A RE TIMES, WITH

A HATED FOE, WHEN EMOTIONS

DO POSE AN OBSTACLE TO PLAIN LOOIC.

YOU OKAY? 'C05 IT

SOUNPEP LIKE YOU WERE

STRANCLINC A CHICKEN IN

THERE.

. . .

i

THE ONE WHO

PLUNGED MY SOLDIERS INTO THE ROARING OF THAT

ENORMOUS DRAGON...

JUST FROM THE RESISTER

ALONE, WE BROKE 350,000

yEN. THAT'S PROBABLy

A NEW RECORD.'

cnmez w\ V jfis nm m.A PZ0P0SAL4FQ&Wmm

r C you

ouys'RE ll COM INO

TOO.

I HAP BELL STICK WITH

CHIHO-CHAN, JUST IN CASE.

TELL 'EM,

CAM 1C.

OKAY, SO...

WHAT? WHY'P X

CALL THE PEVIL

KINO OVER HERE?

YOU PIPN'T CALL US HERE

TO FIOHT RIOHT NOW,

PIP YOU?

...SO BE IT. PEEP. 1 THAT'P BE

| KINP OF i — • -■* — \ / 1 FUN. BUT

V 1 SAPLY, NO.

I

•”*v

LORP SATAN...

GENERAL OF THE EASTERN

ISLANP... LUCIFER...

I PEAR THAT PANGER

IS RARIPLy I APEEP... I APPROACHING 1 THIS LANP. ,

I got a title too,

remember?

THERE ARE

DEMONS OUT

THERE...

.IN A FRENZIEP SEARCH FOR THE HERO'S

SWORP.

PEMONS WANT THAT?

P rj HELL?

1 ) Vv

A HUMAN.. A MERE

HUMAN...

...VISITER ME IN OUR

CAPITAL, SATANAS

ARC.

A HUMAN VISITER

OUR I'VE NEVER

HEARR OP THAT

HAPPENING BEFORE...

THIS PIOURE

CLAIMEP ANYONE

WHO PROCURER THE HOLY SWORP...

...WOULP CAIN ENOUOH

POWER TO RULE OUR

REALM, THE HEAVENS, ANP

ENTE ISLA IN ONE FELL

PEEP.

IT PAINS ME TO SAY...

...THIS STOKER THE 8LOOPLUST OF MANY AMONO

US, SEEKINO REVENOE AOAINST

LORP SATAN'S VICTOR.

AF TER YOUR

INVASION ARM/ COL¬

LAPSED

CAmO RAN HIMSELF RAOOED

TRYINO TO MAKE THEM

COME TO TERMS...

...BUT THAT HUMAN DESTROYED

THE BALANCE HE BUILT.

...THE SURVIVORS

FORMED TWO FACTIONS.

ONE WANTED TO STAOE ANOTHER

INVASION TO AVENOE YOUR

DEATH...

...THE OTHER CALLED

FOR PEACE AND CALM UNTIL you

,RETURNED TO THE

I THRONE. IN FACT, HE

CLAIMED ...THERE

ARE TWO HOLY

SWORDS.

ONE OF THEM IS

THE BETTER HALF

ITSELF...

...AND NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE

KNOW THAT IT'S HERE IN JAPAN

WITH ME.

HE, PEEP, CALLEP HIMSELF

OL3A MEIYER.

WH¬ IM HAT me

news He

THINKING?

CAMIO-PONO, WHO WAS

LEAPING THE "REVENOE"

FACTION THAT FOLLOWER

OL8A?

WHAT'S He eveN PO/NG!?

ANP, PUPe, uKe,

WHeNl? so mew

FOR TAKINO PITY ON

HIM...

IT WAS 8ARBAR-

ICCIA, AIPE TO MALA-

COPA...

w

59

61

...SHE'S OUR

FRIEND, THOUOH.

...I HAP CHIWO-CHAN

ANP ALAS

WHEN cmo WAS

TALKING TO ME,

YOU

AT LEAST TO THE POINT

WHERE I KNOW YOU

WON’T TEU A UE THAT

HURTS CHIHO-CHAN

OR ALAS RAMUS...

...I TRUST IN AU OF you Guys

TOO!

I WANT YOU TO STEP UP ANP TAKE

RESPONSI¬ BILITY

FOR THIS WITH ME!

IF WE'RE REALLY OOINO FACE-TO-FACE WITH A DEMON SQUADRON, I

DON'T LIKE My CHANCES.

ISN'T THAT

THEM?

FAR- LIQHT

DAZZLE.

...UH, THIS IS MORE THAN

JUST A SQUADRON,

ouys.

CAMIO WAS

RIOHT.

I DON'T SEE BAR- BARICCIA

IT'S THE MALESRANCHE

TRIBE, AAAi-ACODA'S SERVANTS.

3UT wny ARE THBY

STILL- IN PEMON FORM

HERS IN JAPAN? THE

PEOPLE AT SEA MIGHT BE IN

PANGER!

1 HEAVENLY

\ FLEET

\ FEET'

THE SWORP I BROUGHT

WITH Me...

OKAY, UH, CAMIO?

I'M STILL WAITING FOR

SOME WOT IPEAS.

if you TAKE IT ANP UNSHEATHE IT FROM ITS SCABBARP...

SOME¬ THING

ABOUT A JEWELEP SWORP? PEEP/

YES, LORP

SATAN.

3Y THE TIME I OET BACK FROM OHOURO-yA,

EMI'S CONNA BE DONE WITH

'EM/

yo, ASHiyA.

you MIND RUNNING OVER?

THESE BEACH

SANDALS... X AM NOT USED TO THEM...

y'ALL WERE

LOOKINO FOR

THIS?

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BIT TOO BIO

FOR OUR LITTLE BIRPIE

HERE...

AMANE.. SAN?

...BUT IT'S KINPA MORE

A TOOL THAN A

WEAPON, RIOHT?

I WAS WONPERINO TOO—WHY THERE WAS

JUST A LITTLE BIT

OF PEMONIC FORCE...

YSP. I'M AMANE-

5AN, ALL RI£HT.

AFTER I THOUGHT

FLUSHEP ALL OF IT

AWAY.

WELL, NO

WON- PERZ

TAKE IT BY ITS OEM-

ENCRUSTEP HILT,

UNSHEATHE IT...

LOOK AT THIS JEWELEP SWORP.

I KNOW WE'VE ONLY

KNOWN EACH OTHER TWO PA/5,

BUT X THINK

I KNOW WHAT TYPE op ouy you

ARE. 50, 00 ANP

SHOW ME WHAT yoU'RE

MAPE OP ALREAP//

...You'Re THE PBVIL KING OF A FARAWAY

WORLP, AREN'T YOU!?

; TO ''' j_i

KRAH-HA- HA-HA/ I NEVER

EXPECTED TO FIND you SO

QUICKLY.

YOU ARB TUB HERO,

EMIL IA JUSTINAH so you

BEAR THE SWORD...

AND WHEN I DEFEAT yOU,

THE HOLy SWORD SHALL

BE MINE/ ...NO POINT HIDINO

IT.

RELEASE

YOURSELF,

MY FORCE,

AND RID

THE WORLD

OF EVIL"

I BESTED THE DEVIL KINO. RE¬ MEMBER.

RETREAT WITH yOUR FORCES OR

PREPARE TO PAy FOR IT/

&mus

YOU'RE ONE WEAPON

POWN... STILL WANNA KEEP OOINO?

NO DEMON

WHO WOULD

TURN AWAY IN FEAR OF DEFEAT...

DESERVES TO

COMMAND THE NEW

DEVIL KING'S ARMY!

BETTER NOT

EXPECT ME TO

JUST UP ANP KILL.

you.

HUH? R£AUUV, MA/VVA?

IT'S EASIER TO KEEP THIS ON AN EVEN FOOTING...

...IF...

HAVE AT IT/

VOH'T WANT yOU

VBAV!

I MIGHT BE ABLE

TO DEFEAT CIRIATTO WITHOUT

STRIKING A LETHAL BLOW...

IF THEY DON'T, I'LL BE FORCED

TO COMMIT A MASSACRE.

...BUT WOULD THE REST OF HIS FORCES

WILLINGLY ACCEPT THAT?

...I'VE REALLY

LOST MY EDOE,

HAVEN'T I?

BUT WHAT IS THE MEAN¬ ING OF THIS? I HAVE

HEARD NOTHING OF THIS

SO-CALLED NEW DEVIL

KING'S ARMY. ,

WHO DARES

TO CALL HIMSELF

"DEVIL KING" AND

REBUILD THE ROYAL

FORCE WITHOUT

ME?

THIS IS WHAT'S

BEST FOR HIM.

CLOSE HIS MOUTH...

CRUSH THE THROAT OF THE

INSOLENT MALE-

BRANCHE.

you WANTED A FIOHT, AND

NOW yOU'RE RUNNING?

PATHETIC, DUDE. TOO PATHETIC.

UOH... IF yOU'RE

OONNA SHOW UP, DO IT EARLIER

THAN THIS.

I'M A LITTLE OUT OF

PRACTICE.

'i. 7-r w vL

' /'j

MALE- BRAN CHE

WARRIORS, FALL BACK!

ARE you... LORD ALCIEL, COMMANDER

OF THE EASTERN

ARMIES...?

AND you... DEVIL

RECENT CAMIO NOT BE

RECEIVER BY THE SWEET

TEMPTATIONS OF HUMAN-

KINR! WHAT ARE you DOINC HERE...?

MASTER

FORGIVE ME FOR MY

FOOLISHNESS, MY PEVIL

ICING!!

THE PURPLE JEWEL A LINK

CRySTAL THIS?

WAS THAT FROM SOME¬

ONE ON THE OTHER

SI PE OF THE CRYSTAL?

THAT PURPLE

LIGHT EARLIER..

All I KNOW IS

THAT THE SWORD

LIES WHERE

ITS LIOHT POINTS US...

WOULD you

SWEAR IT?

ON My NAME?

IF THIS JEWEL IS

CONNECTED TO SOME¬

PLACE, X HAVE NO IDEA WHERE.

3Y THE NAME OF My RULER, LORD SATAN, I AM TELLINO THE TRUTH.

ALL PASSENGERS, PREPARE FOR PEPARTURE'

OKAY, THEN...

HUH?

NO CROWPING,

OKAY? FORM A

line.

AH, THEY WON'T

PIE THAT EASY

LIGHT SPEEP ON THE OTHER

5IPE?

LET THE SINNERS PAy FOR

THEIR FOOLISH

SINS.

WE NEEP TO CLOSE THAT ENORMOUS SATE NOW.

WONPER MAYBE WHAT THAT

Tv/t THEY'RE SHOUTING'S

7/f HITTING THE GROUNP AT

ABOUT.

&MILIA ...GBT YOUR

HANDS OFF MB

ALRBADY! I NOW IS

NOT THE TIME FOR

THIS.

iew us youR

POWERS...

CUT THE FORCE

AWAY? YOU CAN VO THAT?

NOW/

BIGHT! SHUT 'SR DOWN!!

LOOK!

YUSA- SAN!

MAOU- SAN!

ALCIEL! LUCIFER! ARE YOU AUVE! ?

YOU CARRIER THOSE

THREE TO SHORE/?

IT... IT'S PRETTY

MUCH OVER...

HEY, I'M A HERO.

soess what.' MAMA AsJD PAPA AkID TWEETV-

TW££T AiOD AL-SHEL-L AsID

LOOSHIFER...

IT WAS, BOOOOOM,

THEnI 8AAAAAM, AnJD ThEnJ

WErJT ZOOOOOOM,

THEsl OOMPH!

camio-san WENT BACK

TO THE PEMON REALM?

TH£»J IT WAS ALL

LISHT, ThSkI TWSETV-

TWEET WEnIT

HOMEl

YEAH. THE PEVIL

KINO'S SWORP

TOO. THEN THE POO LIPTEP.

RIOHT WHEN IT

PIP, THEY ALL TURNEP

HUMAN AOAIN.

HUH?

I WISH I COULP'VE RECORPEP

THEIR SCREAMINO WHEN THEY ALL PELL IN THE WATER.

LIKE, TWO HUNPREV METERS

ABOVE SEA LEVEL!

...THEY REALLY, REALLY OWE ME

NOW.

PON'T THEY EVER PLAN ANY¬

THING?

WELL/ GOOP work: OP

THERE, GUYS'

OEfcZ, I'M NOT OONNA HURT YOU,

OKAY?

114

M0RNIN6, HUH? THE

PERFECT WAY

117

V/M

'.

119

THAT LIGHT was

FROM THE

LIGHT¬ HOUSE, RIGHT? /

WHAT ms THAT

ANyWAy?

ANP WHAT HAPF’ENEP

TO THE BEAST

PEMONOIP ANP

STUFF?

ANP you WERE

CONTROLLING THE FOG ANP EVERyTHING?

SHE MIGHT B£ ARBAUY,

RBALIY OISTANT

ReLATIVe OF Ml ne.

HUH?

f-A AW, \

makbsurb LOOK YOU DON'T AT LeT THAT HER

KID DOWN, L SLEEP. OKAY? ^

YUSA- SAN!

YOUR CLOTHES ARE ALL

PRY NOW!

I ONLY HUNO THEM

FOR A LITTLE BIT

TOO...

IT'S OONNA

BE A HOT ONE XOVAY!

THANKS, CHIHO- CHAN.

PERFECT TIMINO.'

if...is that a child's fhaAoW

there?

‘«AveK

WH 009- SIE.

A- AMANB-

SAN, WHAT'S THAT!?

THE SEASON ONLY RUNS FROM MIP-

JULY TO MID-AUOUST,

PRETTY

...AND BRINCJ THE

WORLD BACK. TO WHAT IT SHOULD

BE.

SEARCH FOR THE DA’AT OF YOUR WORLD...

I'M SURE

THAT’S

WHAT

MY AUNT

MIKITTY’S

WAITING

FOR.

POES SHE TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY", OR WHAT?

PUPE, BIG

WHOOP.

WE FLEW HIGHER

THAN THIS

JUST—

YOU ARE PESTINEP TO SEIZE

ENTE ISLA ONE PAY,

REMEMBER.

PAMN. THIS IS HUOE.

YEAH, ASHIYA.

SOMEPAY.

\ / RIOHT NOW, \_THOUOH, /-- WE HAP TO

RELY ON A BUNCH

...JUST TO o? OTHER KEEP THIS PEOPLE...

“SPECK* i THEY CALL

CHOSHI I Bi SAFE.

IF I MAY... THIS IS

NOTHING. JUST A SPECK

OF A CITY.

THAT IS... PERHAPS

THE CASE, YES.

AND THEN YOU JOINED

ME TO SUPPORT MY

MISSION.

you ALL

OF COURSE, without you, I WOULDN'T

USED TO BE EVEN BE My ENEMIES RULINO

AT FIRST, THE DEMON RIOHT? REALMS.

14 THAT’S HOW

V HUMANS

WORK TOO, don't you

THINK?

TURNS OUT OLBA COLLECTEP All THE

FRAO- MENTS.

HE USEP THEM TO

FORCE THAT SWORP...

...BUT HUMAN BEINOS CAN'T EVEN WIELP

IT.

I OUESS HE BROUGHT IT TO CAMO AS

KINP OP A BARGAINING

CHIP.

BUT HERE'S

THE REAL ISSUE...

IS... IS THAT...!?

YEP. A YESOP

FRAGMENT.

XT WAS ENGRAVEP

ON THE SCABBARP.

139

I LOOK FORWARP TO SEEINO OUR

REFURBISHEP PEVIL'S

CASTLE, MY LIEOE.

d M i

* pg|J

WrnMm th£ cleric becohes a Mumi-mw ronin

OUR DATE'S SUR-

ROUNPEP/

5065/ 6AP

NEW6/ WHAT

I AM HEUOU

HASEGAWA, CAPTAIN OF THE INVES¬

TIGATION DIVISION

FOR ARSON ANP

ROBBERY!

GIVE YOUR¬

SELVES UP AT ONCE!

STRIKE POWNAU

RESIS¬ TANCE! pamn

IT--'

W.

AH, HOW I LOVE THOSE

SAMURAI PRAMAS...

...WHERE &OOV

ALWAYS TRIUMPHS

OVER EVIL/

151

154

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JEU-* vie SOT*

in -me vJATER-

HERE WE ARE AT VOLUME 9/ I'VE BEEN ABLE TO PRAW THIS FAR INTO THE STORY ENTIRELY THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF WAGAHARA-SENSEI, 029-SENSEI, ALL THE OTHER STAFF INVOLVEP, ANP OF COURSE, ALL OF MY REAPERS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.

I'VE ALWAYS HAP TO RELY ON THE SUPPORT OF OTHERS' VISUAL RESIGNS, BUT THIS PART OF THE STORY'S SUCH A FAVORITE OF MINE THAT I FOUNP MY SELF PEALING WITH BOTH ARTIST'S BLOCK ANP MY OWN WORRIES A LOT. LOOKING BACK, THERE ARE TONS OF THINGS I WOULP'VE TACKLEP PIFFERENTLY, BUT IT'S ALSO GIVEN ME A CHANCE TO TAKE WHAT I'VE LEARNER ANP USE IT TO CREATE AN EVEN BETTER MANGA VERSION IN THE FUTURE.

ANP TO THINK, WE'RE GOING INTO ROUBLE PIGITS STARTING WITH THE NEXT VOLUME/ I GET BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMACH JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. I HOPE I'LL CONTINUE TO ENJOY YOUR SUPPORT GOING FORWARP/

SPECIAL THANKS/ SHIBA / TAKASHI YAMANO / ANP YOU/

THE DEVIL IS A PART-TIMER! (9)

Art: Akio Hiiragi

Original Story: Satoshi Wagahara

Character Design: 029 (Oniku)

Translation: Kevin Gifford

Lettering: Brndn Blakeslee

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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