CELESTIEAL RAY "Loving You Is A Sin"
BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY

Shigeyo and Kana set their sights on Sena who was still staring tensely. They were waiting for a reaction from Sena on Satan's greeting. Moreover, they did not know that Sena knew this new man.

"Sena, do you know him?" Kana finally asked.

Sena suddenly laughed discordantly trying to dispel suspicion among her friends. He had to deal with this because of Satan.

"Hahaha, that's right! He's my cousin who came from far away. I didn't recognize him because it was so long ago. Cousin! How are you!"

Sena walked out of the counter to Satan and pretended to be close to him while patting Satan on the shoulder.

"You've changed a lot, yeah!" Sena's laughter does not stop while treating Satan like a cousin who has not met for a long time.

"So then, what kind of cousin doesn't recognize his cousin like that" Shigeyo scolded Sena.

"Yes, Sena. Even yesterday he came here to visit you but you said you didn't recognize him. It's evil" This time Kana's scolding Sena.

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry. I haven't seen his face in a long time. I didn't think it had changed drastically like this" Sena returned with her lame excuse, but was taken for granted by Shigeyo and Kana. He did not understand whether these friends were indeed lousy or the reason was indeed reasonable.

"What about your family in Kyoto? Is everything okay?". Hmh! What the hell, Sena was just trying to be natural like a cousin.

"Not so good" Satan replied.

Sena's discordant smile faded slightly upon hearing Satan's reply. He recalled Lucifer's story about Devildom. Yes, it is not wrong if Satan says his family is not so good.

"So, what's your name?" Shigeyo turned the topic to his initial question.

"Satan"

"There!"

Say Sena and Satan at the same time. Sena rounded her eyes to Satan in protest because Satan mentioned his real name.

"Satan? Terada's? Which one is right?" Shigeyo frowned staring at the two people in front of him.

"There! Name's Terada. He was an otaku so he often changed his name to a game character" Sena gave another lie and responded to nods by Shigeyo and Kana. Really, Sena is grateful to meet friends who are easily deceived. Oops!.

Satan held back his laughter seeing Sena's panic. Instead the girl seemed to want to finish Satan because it had brought him into trouble.

"ah! I just remembered there was something very important I wanted to tell you" Shigeyo changed the topic after he sipped his cold coffee. Sena and Cana noticed, while Satan sipped his jasmine tea for the first time after he ordered it.

"The chipmunk I bought, suddenly disappeared. I bet I put it next to my bed yesterday. But it wasn't there after I woke up this morning"

Sena gasps at Shigeyo's story and soon his gaze is turned on Satan. The demon looked casually gulping down his tea.

"really? You sure you didn't lose it?" Kana responds to Shigeyo's story.

"Let's go, I'll ask my mom when she gets back. Maybe my mom threw it away" Shigeyo casually took another sip of his coffee.

"Your mother threw away your belongings without permission?"

"Hehe, especially for useless things. How do you think my mother responded when she saw her son keeping such a cute thing?"

Kana nodded in understanding. Sena was trying to get Satan to look back at her to give her some kind of explanatory code or something. But the demon did not budge in the slightest as if it was insensitive to Sena's gaze. However it was not a problem, Sena was relieved that Satan actually took the doll. The words of Lucifer who said never to believe Satan had made him worry.

"By the way yesterday Sena came to my house to pick up the doll" Kana's sentence turned Sena's gaze to her.

"Eh? Really true?" Shigeyo. He will soon tease Sena but is quickly denied by the girl.

"Disappeared! Sorry Kana, I think I dropped it somewhere"

"I'm sorry, I'll replace it with another better doll"

"Hey! You mean my gift doll's not good, is it?" Shigeyo immediately denied Sena.

"If I say yes?"

Shigeyo pursed his lips in annoyance, Sena always managed to make Shigeyo annoyed and kept quiet.

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It did not feel the afternoon, customers who had been very crowded filled the cafe bar now gradually shrank. Now it's time for them to change shifts with other employees, which means their work today is done. As usual, Shigeyo helped them work with so many customers. Satan became involved in serving customers because of Shigeyo's coercion. He invited Satan to serve the order of the girls. With the handsome face that Satan had, it certainly captivated the hearts of the girls. Shigeyo felt proud to consider himself a senior of Satan in this regard.

They walked to the bus stop to wait for the bus. Satan also came with them, all day he spent time in the cafe bar to be willing to blend with Shigeyo's accent to wait for Sena to finish work. Sena wondered why this creature did not leave.

"A busy day as always!" Shigeyo pulled his hands up and stretched his muscles stiff.

"Shigeyo is always useful" Sena praised her friend.

"But this time the customer came more because Terada also helped" Kana did not forget to give appreciation to their new friend. The compliment was again met with a smile by Satan. Really, if smiling can make money, maybe Satan has become a millionaire and even a billionaire.

Kana's praise of Satan was taken for granted by Sena.

"You must come often, Terada" Shigeyo embraced Satan's shoulder slightly higher than his. Satan smiled again in response.

They've reached the stop. It didn't take long for the bus to stop in front of them. But it's not the bus that Sena will be riding, it's for Kana and Shigeyo. Sena waved her hand as the bus that Shigeyo and Kana were riding passed. Now it's just him and Satan. The quiet afternoon atmosphere made Sena become a little afraid alone with this creature. Honestly Satan is a bit scary for Sena even though Satan never does anything. Perhaps seeing the superpowers that Satan did when he eliminated the curse doll, making Sena imagine what it would be like if he were in the position of the doll. But how is it possible, Satan would not attack him without cause.

"Humans are a hassle!" Satan's voice broke the silence after the bus passed.

"They're my friends!" Sena does not accept Satan's words.

"I'm talking about you" said Satan casually.

"What?"

"Why should you lie to them? And it got me involved in your charade and doing unimportant things"

Sena scratched her non-itchy head. He suddenly felt bad for having implicated Satan. But Satan was guilty of greeting her like that in front of his friends.

"I'm just not ready to tell them everything. Besides, I'm not sure if what I'm going through is the truth. They'll think I'm crazy"

Satan was seen sighing slowly and suddenly changed its shape. That form, Sena is not ready to see it. Sena walked backwards but her feet tripped over the sidewalk behind her. He was still unfamiliar with their original form like that. Satan walked closer.

"Why are you scared? That's not the expression you showed when you met Lucifer"

Sena swallowed her saliva trying to get up. I don't know, maybe the first impression he got when he met Lucifer and Satan was different.

"Satan!"

The loud voice that Satan knew so well. The voice he always hated. That's Lucifer. Sena looked back when she heard that voice.

Lucifer walked closer to them. Soon Satan eroded the distance with Sena still sitting on the sidewalk.

Sena has managed to rise after Lucifer faced Satan. He did not understand what the dispute between this brother and sister made them have to throw sharp glances at each other every time they met. But thankfully, Sena never saw them fight, never, Sena didn't want to see if it happened. Who knows, maybe they have fought in the past. Thankfully, Sena was not alive at that time.

When the afternoon comes, this is the beginning of Sena's dream will begin again soon. When Lucifer appeared, that was when Sena felt in the midst of dreams and reality.