It would be a lie for me to say I wasn't expeg the Underworld to look simir to Earth except for the purple sky.

  When Serafall first told me she'd take me to the Underworld, I was already brag myself to stomach the sights of humans being tortured, blood and fmes everywhere, along with red-skinned devils roaming the ground and the sky.

  Instead of those things, what I'm currently looking at are a bunch of trees, grasses, and even some small but weird-looking animals that resemble bunnies and squirrels with a few distinctive features that separate their appearance from the aforementioned animals.

  "What do you think?" I heard Serafall's question as she probably noticed the lost expression on my fad couldn't help but ask for my opinion about her home.

  "…I feel like I'm still oh. Aside from the purple enviro, I wasn't expeg Underworld to also have their own…nature and forest?" To be ho, this part was what surprised me the most. Devils ba my previous world, are known to be destructive and pure chaotic, seeking nothing but to take life in every path they e across.

  "I knht? For your informatiohe Sitri family are one of the rarest Devil Pilrs that preserves and appreciates nature, unlike some other Pilrs who are disgusted with Nature because of, you know, Big G's creation and stuff."

  "Alright enough talk about that, let's head directly to Ajuka's boratory, oh and also, just to remind you, don't act like a human, not every devil is like me." With a final warning, a wing sprouted from her back which immediately gathered my attention.

  "What the fuck?" I couldn't help but utter a curse in surprise.

  "Hmm? Ohhh, I fot to tell you but we Devils have wings for veravels. You have your own wings actually, just feel it in yut and and it to e out, it should feel natural like moving a limb. Try it." Landing back down on the ground, Serafall guided me into sprouting my own wings.

  It would be a lie for me to say I wased by the thought I could fly with my wings.

  Thanks to Serafall, it only took a single minute for my wings to e out.

  "There we go!" Smiling widely, Serafall looked at my behind and I noticed her smile quickly faltered slightly.

  "W-Wha-!?" She muttered in shock.

  "Why? What happened?" I asked in worry. Could it be there's something wrong with my wings? Maybe I only sprouted one wing? Or my wings are too small?

  "Take a look for yourself." Saying this, she extended her hand, and a blue magical circle lit up which quickly prompted my inner sorcerer side to analyze them.

  Unfortunately for me, the magical circle only sted a sed as a huge water stream magically appeared out in the middle of the magic circle and started to shape into a thin circur mirror in front of me.

  Knowing her iion, I turned my back to face the mirror and looked behind me as I also stared at the mirror in shock.

  Unlike Serafall's pitch-bck wings, mine was also pitch-bck except that there was a tinge of dark purple on its lower part. The most distinctive about mine pared to Serafall's was the fact that Serafall only had a si of wings while mine had two sets.

  In short, I have two wings on the left and right side.

  "This is bad. You 't show your wings out there."

  "What? Why? Are my wings unon?" I was fused. Could there be something wrong about my wings? Sure they were different from Serafall's but these are just wings, right?

  "I'm sorry for asking this now but may I ask your name? Your full name?" Hearing her question, although fuses me, I still answered for the sake of hopefully clearing up any fusion there is towards my wings.

  "Chamberin Bke," I answered. It's an Ameri surname, I know. Holy, I have no idea what was going on in my parents' minds that made them name me after a title of a chief officer to a king's household, were they hoping that naming me Chamberin would give them a child that meets their expectations?

  "Chamberin Bke…Bke. That's a pure human name, I don't remember anyone from the Underworld having that kind of surname. Maybe it's just a ce?"

  "…I'm sorry for interrupting you, but do you mind expining to me right now? I'm getting more and more fused as time ticks by."

  "Well, how do I say this. Your wings aren't unon or something like that but there's someone I know who also has two sets of wings like you and aside from you, he's the only oh the two sets of wings in the Underworld."

  "…And who is this guy you're talking about?" Slowly uanding Serafall's surprise earlier, I was now curious about who is the guy that Serafall was talking about.

  "….I'm talking about the ruler of the devils and the underworld, Lord Lucifer." As if thunder had struck me, upon hearing the name, I was frozen in shock.

  "Not eveher three Satans, have two sets of wings like Lucifer and you. That's why I was stunned and asked for your name earlier. I thought that the reason behind your four wings is that you're somehow reted to Lord Lucifer, after all even his desdants only have a si of wings."

  Hearing the expnation, I finally uood the fusion. She's implying that the reason behind my two wings is because my heritage might be close or reted to Lucifer, the king among the devils.

  "Maybe you know the answer?" Serafall's words made me think about it.

  'Am I really reted to Lucifer? But I just arrived here though.' Muttering under my breath, I tried my best to recall anything that would somehow rete me to Lucifer.

  Taking notiy dilemma, Serafall spoke.

  "Well, let's not dwell too much about it, okay? Sihere are no answers, we just keep this between us. Don't worry, I keep my mouth tight shut!" Giving me a promise, my shoulders which I just noticed was tensed, finally rexed.

  "Now. As I said earlier, you 't show your wings to the public, so either we ride on a transport which takes around a whole day before arriving at Ajuka's boratory or you just furl the other set of your wings."

  "'t we just directly teleport inside his boratory? Why do we have to gh all of these trouble?" Asking the question I've been wanting to ask, Serafall answered after a moment of thinking.

  "Well, first of all, Ajuka has barricaded his boratory and the surroundings with an anti-teleportation spell. As for why? Well, let's just say, whenever someoeleports to his bs would always interrupt him and his experiments, ever sihen, he kept everyone from telep directly to his boratory and its viity." Serafall embarrassingly scratches the back of her head as she replies.

  "And I'm guessing that 'someone' refers to you." Crossing my arms, I watch as she shyly looks anywhere but mine.

  "W-Well, Ajuka is the only friend I have in the middle of this war. Everyone else is either too focused on their own goals or wao win this war." Seeing her bowing her head down on the ground, I realized that Serafall was just seeking friendship, and robably not her iion to annoy her only friend named Ajuka.

  "I-I'm sorry, I didn't realize." It was my turn to be embarrassed but despite it, I still apologized to her.

  "Hmm? It's okay." Serafall shook her head and responded in kind.

  "If it makes you feel better. I want to be your friend." I offered and what I saw made me speechless.

  As if she was a cartoon character, she disappeared and appeared a few inches away from me with her face close to mine, a wide smile with a blush bears in her face as her eyes frantically looked at mine.

  "R-Really?! Y-You'd be my friend?" She asked for firmation, as if being her friend is a bad thing.

  "Of course I will. In fact, I want to be more than just your friend."

  "M-More than friend?" I see Serafall tilt her head sideways in fusion.

  'How cute.' I muttered under my breath, I wasn't expeg someone who es from a known evil race to be this adorable unless she's a succubus.

  "Yeah, its called a Best Friend."

  "Woah….Best Friend." Serafall muttered the new word she just learned with a dreamy expression in her face.

  "How about it? Want to be Best Friends instead?" Smiling softly, I extended my hand forward to 'seal' the deal.

  "If Best Friend is more than friends, then I want us to be more tha Friends!" Imagining that friends are like ranks, Serafall assumed that there is something higher tha Friend status.

  "Thats…." I turned speechless, coughing and looking away from her to hide the small blush on my cheeks. There's indeed a more tha Friend but that's airely new level!

  "Maybe we should stick to Best Friends for now, okay? Anything more than that would be a bit too….beyond the boundary." Clearing my throat, I answered her professionally.

  "Oh." Lookiedly, Serafall took a few seds to recover and nod her head.

  "The's bee Best Friends! Someday, I want to be more tha Friends, promise me that okay?" Spping her hand in mine, we shook hands while I remained a bit dumbstruck.

  "…I promise," I responded with a hint of slight hesitation.

  "Okay the's get back to the matter at hand!" More lively than before probably due to finally having a best friend, I nodded my head in response.

  "I could try to furl the other wi. Si is part of my body, that means I have full trol over it."

  For the few minutes, both Serafall and I tried several ways to furl the 2, however no matter what we did, such as pulling it out, pushing it baside my bad even going as far as trying to fold it in half but none of those worked!

  "Maybe I could try this?" Having an idea, I furled my two sets of wings and tried unfurling it out again but this time, trying to only unfurling o of wing.

  "It worked!" I hear Serafall gasp in surprise.

  Once again juring another water gss, I turned around and saw that my wings has iurned from two sets to o!

  "Well, should we go now?" I asked with a smile, excited that the problem has been solved and now I experience what flying is like!

  "Yes!" Though from Serafall's rea, she seemed to be more excited than me who would be experieng it for the first time.

  Serafall started flying first, fag me, I heard her speak.

  "Now, since you're teically o flying and I'm not totally a flight instructor, I only tell you what it felt like to me when I flew for the first time." I then nodded my head at her, promptio tinue.

  "First things first, I heard humans have quite a lot of fear, and among them is heights, so try not to look down while flying. Sed, flying es your stamina so not every time you maintain yourself in the air."

  "Last but not the least, imagine yourself being lifted off from the ground. My mom told me that the teique to flying is imagining yourself as a small figure and a huge hand grabbed you and lifted you up. From there on, you'd sta-" Before she could even finish her sentence, I was already floating off from the ground, swerving around and trying my best to bance myself while in the air.

  Teically, Serafall didn't provide any support as I'm quite adept when it es to imagining things. After all, how else would you be able to cast spells and jure portals without intations?

  So with a simple imagination of me flying like Superman, I was now off to the skies, feeling the gush of wind spping my face.

  "This feels wonderful." Unbeknownst to myself, I tinued asding to the skies all while spreading my arms widely, as if trying to hug the entire world!

  A few meters down from me, I failed to notice Serafall staring at my floating figure with a plicated expression.

  In Serafall's eyes, a certain someone's figure is slightly overpping with mine.

  "Is he really not reted to Lord Lucifer?" After muttering this to herself, she shook her head and tinued.

  "That's impossible. After all, he was a human and I just turned him into a devil earlier."

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  [ Chapter: Ch. 5 - Ajuka, The Devil Stist]