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THE PLACE IS... SHUTTING

DOWN?

um, AAAOU- SAN, X

THINK...

...SHE MIOHTVE I TOLD YOU BACK WHEN YOU WERE

STILL DEALING WITH ALAS

RAMUS-CHAN'S DISAPPEARANCE, i

\K V J

WE TALKED ABOUT THIS TWO WEEKS OR SO AGO,

Wi]\'

10

PON'T TELL ME...

...YOU WEREN'T

LISTENING TO ME?

...WELL., NOBOPy

ELSE HAS

I MEAN, THERE'S EVEN A NOTICE FOR CUSTOMERS

ON THE POOR

SINCB ALAS RAMUS

SHOW SO UP, I'VB 8BBN

RUNNING ON TUB SAMB

FIX BO SHIFTS.

J STOPPBO LOOKING ATTHB

SCHBOULB COMPLBTBLY

12

WE'RE BUILDINO A fM&CAFZ?

DO WE HAVE THE SPACE

FOR IT?

WE'RE PLANNING TO HAVE THE

REGULAR SETUP DOWNSTAIRS,

MAOCAFg UPSTAIRS, AND NINETY SEATS

TOTAL.

WE'RE TAKINO

OVER THE SECOND FLOOR.

LOCATION'S EXTERIOR

AND PRODUCT LINEUP...

IF YOU TRY TO

HALF-ASS IT, THAT'LL

TURN OFF YOUR

CUSTOMERS.

SO WE'RE CLOSINO

UNTIL WE'RE

READY...?

YOU NEED TO HAVE THE FULL

PACKAGE READY, OR ELSE YOU'LL

BE SCRAPINO FOR DIMES IN THE OUTTER.

SO YOU PIPN'T

NOTICE AT All...?

16

ALAS RAMUS/

STOP ACTINO

LIKE SOME MIDPLE-

THE VERy NERVE OF THAT FOOL, PLANTER

IN FRONT OF HIS COMPUTER ALL PAy ANP

NIOHT...

...THE mwr- MEkT?

VACATE.

PAPAAAA! Allll-CBIUIU wakey; wakey/

POOOOOOV!

28

I NOT MUCH POINT

OPENING THIS NOW, IS THERE

TRUE.

VWBO- TAPB?

.......

ca n you GUYS JUST STOP

ALREAPY?

M. CUP!

twat

VfPEO’S CUKSEP/

her PHOTOS were

I CAN'T OBSTRUCTIVE WIN ENOUGH AS

THINK if I S' AMOT

HER IN A VIPEOH \ \

ITS A FWMW’

VIDEO MESSAGE f*om ou*

lAVDlOfcD/ YOU’VE met he* BEFORE,

HAVEN’T YOU./?

YOU'RE MAKINO NO SENSE. JUST PLAY IT ANP SEE

WHAT'S INSIPE, ALU RIOHT?

irisr

^ y|si ■Mmv\

32

AAOOQW YOC DON'T HAVE

TO TELL THEW EVERYTHING/

37

During my trauels, I receiued

word that you

encountered disaster in your

apartment.

Since these

will likely be some rather

afraid large- you’ll both scale

need to repairs...

b-but YUSA-SAN, IT'S KIND OF FAR

FROM HERE TO SOME

BEACHFRONT SHOP IN CHIBA.

YOU BETTER CALI. HER NOW. IF

SHE HIRES SOMEONE

ELSE, IT'LL BE TOO

LATE/

' \

Oh? Veah, K. Hunt

Mikitty’s neuer too

fussy about details like

that... %•

Oh, and not to cut to the chase, but I

can’t really pay you a fortune

either.

Just picture the far

eastern edge of Chiba, and that’s close

enough.

Veah, you probably

wouldn’t. I guess Inuboh

is better known.

WELL, WITH ME AND My

ROOMMATES IT'D BE THREE

PEOPLE.

When can you show

44

well, m NEEP TO

OET SOME THINQS SORTEP

OUT TOMORROW

SETTER oet you ouys's ROOM REApy QUICK, HUH?

coulp m MAKE IT THE

VAY AFTER THAT? AUQUST

FIRST?

Okay, so... uh, where should we be going,

then? XT'S JUST A LIIIITTLE BIT

REMOVEP FROM POWNTOWN TOKyo, you

KNOW?

OH/ YEAH, QUESS X

SHOULP TELL YOU THAT.

...then transfer to the JR Sobu Main Line

to that end station, which is Choushi.

there’s something Vou’ll get

on that and take it to Inuboh, one station awag from

the end.

called the Choushi Electric Railwag.

work barefoot,

okay? You’ll cut your feet

on stuff all ouer the beach.

Otherwise, you miyht

...or lose trip in the a sandal sand...

in the water or some-

The kind you can strap

to your ankles with

Uelcro.

WHEN YOU SAIP "THREE PEOPLE," PIP

you MEAN URUSHIHARA-

By the way...

...did you know

they offer belly dancing classes here

in Egypt?

MAMA'S GOmA BE WITH YOU, ALAS RAMUS/

55

0ESIPES, I'P JUST OET IN

THE VW THERE/ I PON'T KNOW HOW TO WORK OR ANYTHIN^/

56

ANP MOST IMPORTANTLY,

SHE CAN COOK, CLEAN,

ANP PO LAUNPRY FOR

HERSELF.

PELL'S JOBLESS IN JAPAN,

BUT IN ENTE ISLA, SHE'S

AN ORPAINEP CHURCH CLERIC.

DUKE. KirS JUST AS

JO WESS AS !AM/«M T>0 YOU GET

Off!?

PECOMINO UNEMPLOYED

AND HOMELESS ON THE SAME

DAY WOULD SET ANYBODY

OFF.

PUT CHOUSHI IS RATHER

A LONG DISTANCE

FROM HERE, NO?

THE DEVIL KINO AND

ALCIEL ARE ONE THINO... ...PUT I WORRY

ABOUT LUCIFER. HE'S THE ONLY

ONE OF THEM TO HAVE ACTIVELY

HARMED ANYONE IN JAPAN. YOU'VE NEVER

MET THE LANDLORD

FACE-TO-FACE, RIOHT?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

HOW SHOULD I PUT

WE MERELY EXCHANGED

LETTERS.

AS LONO AS THEIR

LANDLORD'S INVOLVED

WITH THEM SOMEHOW...

...I HAVE A FEELING

THEY WON'T DO ANYTHING

BAD.

I'M NOT OONNA LEAVE THEM BE,

BUT I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO WATCH THEM THAT

CLOSELY EITHER.

we may have BEEN ORANTEP A

PIVINE FAVOR, BUT WE RISK LOSINO IT IF WE PO NOT PREPARE WISELV

I EXPECT, MV LIEOE, THAT FOUR VAYS' WORTH OF A WARPROBE SHOULP BE

ENOUOH.

UNIFORM ANyTHINO, SO

WE'LL PROBABLy BE USINO

fVi y N a

'COS I FEEL LIKE OUR

i n f i QOALS ANP METHOPS HAVE KINP

OF SHIFTEP A LITTLE,

\ y'KNOW?

=

i

fm.

\ W

SERIOUSLY ARE WE EVEN

TRyiNQ TO CONQUER

THE WORLP?

IT'S TRUE, THOUGH.

RENTING IN SASAZUHA CAN'T BE CHEAP...

MAYBE MAOU-SAN ANP THE

REST WON'T

UVE THERE ANYMORE...

THEY MIGHT EVEN

GO BACH TO ENTE ISLA...

IF THIS JOB

DOESN'T TURN OUT

OKAY...

DON'T WANT THAT.

...MAOU- SAN AND

HIS FRIENDS MIOHT 60

SOMEWHERE REALUy FAR

AWA/..

...AND yUSA-SAN TOO, AND SUZUNO-

SAN... | CHIHO?]

AND AS - — LONO AS YOU WANT. 3

DON'T DO ANVTHINO TO EMBARRASS YOURSELF...

CHAP1BZ CfO: Tf/£ D£WL MWDS /» M£W JOg 7/

MAOU- SAN!

GOOD MORNING. \J OH, HEy,

YOU GOING CHI-CHAN.

SOMEWHERE TOO? OUESS v-—'"

WE'RE SHARINO A /• TRAIN TO fr

SHINJUKU, TO THEN.

A LITTLE LONOER

THAN THAT, j l\ii } ACTUALLY. Of '

IP : r- w

...SO THEy CAN STICK AROUND

FOR A LONO TIME TO COME.

ALU I WANT IS FOR

EVERyONE I LIKE TO OET

ALONO...

WOW, ALAS RAMUS-CHAN!

YOU KNOW THE

Wn-

5

I T

4 WORP "WINP-

UH- | MIU-* NC>W? jr HUH!

1 HEE As_'K J A HEE/ ]

PUPE, IS THAT

REALLY A TRAIN?

THE PE-HA 1001

ROLLING STOCK...

I SUPPOSE you PEOPLE

WOULPN'T UNPER- STANP...

THIS IS WHAT

NOSTAL¬ GIA'S ALL

ABOUT

...YOU'VE LIVEP HERE

FOR AS LONG AS WE

HAVE, YOU PRICK.

...USEP ON THE

CHOUSHI ELECTRIC RAILWAY

SINCE 1994.

80

YOU REALLy

SUR¬ PRISE?

ME YES¬ TERDAY.

cm we I TALK FOR A SECOND,

I CHIHO- CHAN? .

I'M AMAZED YOUR MOM gave you

PERMISSION.

I WAS THINKING

I'D ENSURE YOUR SAFETy

BEFORE I WENT TO

STAKE OUT THE DEVIL

KING...

CHIHO- DONO, I HAVE A

MESSAGE FROM YOUR

MOTHER.

...SO THIS IS

KIND OF A GODSEND FOR ME,

BUT...

...SORRy I CALLED

you OUT OF NOWHERE.

'I MAY BE A TAP BIASED, BUT CHI HO IS

SUCH A BRIGHT YOUNG LADY. SHE NEVER UES

TO ME EITHER.

'...THATIF SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH MAOU-SAN’S JOB,

THAT'LL MAKE ALL OF YOU DRIFT AWAY FROM

HER TOO.

'ANDJF CHIHO'S WILLING ' 'ip CONFIDE IN ME

•THATMUCH, I'M SURE SOMETHING'S INSPIRING

ALL THAT CONCERN."

THANKS FOR MAKINO IT ALL THE WAY OUT

HERE. WELCOME

TO IN UBOH!

SET YOU'RE

THINKIN' WE PON'T

LOOK ALIKE, HUH?

SORRy, SORRy. i ouess you'p NEVER REALLY KNOW ANyWAy.'

x-■:

BUT ANYHOW,

I'M AMANE OHOURO, MORE OR LESS THE 01RL WHO

RUNS OHOURO-

AUNT MIKITTY

AND I LOOK PRETTY

CLOSE ONCE SHE TAKES

. OFF HER \ MAKEUP.

IF YOU SAW SOME

PHOTOS WHEN SHE WAS MORE

MY AOE, I'M A DEAD

RINOER/

NICE TO MEET YOU.

MY NAME'S SADAO MAOLI. I AM

SHIROU ASHIYA. THANK

YOU AOAIN FOR YOUR OENEROUS

OFFER.

HANZOU URUSHI-

HARA. |

I've I CAN'T NEVER BELIEVE SEEN THE

HOW SEA OVER BLUE IT HERE...

NOT AS MANY

PEOPLE AS I

PICTUREP.

YEAH, THE

BEACH POESN'T

OPEN TILL

TOMOR¬ ROW. .

OH, I SEE THEM/

OFFSHORE A LITTLE WAYS...

5ASAKI- SAN?

WHAT'S UP?

LEMME SHOW

YOU THE OUEST HOUSE FIRST.

NOTHING.

RIOHT NOW,

^ // uux s THERE AIN'T OONNA BE

MUCH BESIPES A FEW

SURFERS.

/ \ I /. -J;_

CHAPTER hi: THE DEVIL REMODELS A SEASIDE SNACK RAR

BUT SOMETIMES WE'D INSTALL

STAOE PROPS, ADVERTISE ON STREET

CORNERS, OR KEEP TRACK OF

HOW MANY CARS

121

...I HAD NO IDEA

you COULD

DO THAT.

AH, DEVIL KINO...

IT IS NOTHINO

THAT IMPRES¬

SIVE.

SOME OP THE ASCETIC

MONKS OP OUR PAITH

STUDY CHURCH

ARCHITEC¬ TURE OR

RELIOIOUS ^SCULPTURE.

THE CHILD 8EOOED ME

TO CARRY ON, AND I BECAME

A LITTLE... WRAPPED UP

IN THE WORK.

COMPARED TO THAT, ONE CAN ALWAyS START OVER

IP THINOS TURN OUT

POORLy WITH A SAND

PIECE. ,

r ^ LIS¬ TEN,

COULD you suzu- BUILD THAT NO.

NEXT TO . , THE SNACK BAR LATER

ON? /

VERy WELL...

BUT WHAT WOULD BE THE PUR¬

POSE?

you REALLy DON'T

KNOW? THAT'S JUST

SCAR/

I'LL MAKE SURE THAT AMANE-SAN PAys you

POR IT.

126

WVB'U HAVE A mAQCOUNT

J&F FOUR STARTING MORROW...

PEOPLE ARE CARRYING

AROUND A BUNCH OP BILLS

IP THEy'RE OOINO IN THE

|| 1C Q0B

M aiaMn

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MA/V\Aii SPACK’Ls', SPACKUVi

H&! THAT WOULP BE THRE& IN A

ROW FOR ME.

PAHH/ SHE'S SO CUTE IN

THAT KIMONO. I PON'T EVEN

MlNP LOSING TO HER/

WOULPN'T SAY THAT,

NO...

IZZAT rmtTY

TOO?

wm? WHAT'S

UP?

UWfJFM\A__X._Lk

r WHY ALL THE HATE FOR SPIRITS,

JUST BECAUSE THEY MAYBE HAP

SOME REORETS IN LIFE THEY PIPN'T SET AROUNP TO ATONINO FOR? OETTIN'

SCAREP ABOUT VENOEFUL

SPIRITS ANP STUFF...I BET

THEY LIVEP PRETTY EVIL

LIVES.

I MEAN. WHAT'S REALLY

SCARY—

I GUESS WHAT I'M

TRYING TO SAY IS...

...ARE IMMORTALS.

PEOPLE WHO CAN'T PIE.

—

WHAT'P YOU MEAN BY THAT?

AMANE- SAN?

m / ;r

£

£

SS

r ...PON'T RAISE I

THAT'S

YOUR CHILP 1 TO START 1

PISCRIMINATING 1 PRETTY

MUCH IT. AGAINST SPIRITS.

150

YEAR, BUT WASN'T IT TOTALLY

CLEAR JUST A SECOND

A&O?

152

NAH, I HAVE A COUPLE THINGS I

OOTTA TAKE CARE OP. KINP

OP RELATEP TO My PAY job, you

KNOW?

UH, DUPE, ARE YOU

SAyiNO THAT

STORy AMANE TOLD

EMILIA JUST A

SEC AOO..

NO WA/ THEy SHOW

UP ON BOATS, RIOHT?

^ '/ (au/viKi

A BEAST PEMON- om?

<HUMANS... OP THIS

WORU?...>

<00 VOU , SPPK

SATTIP WITH1 MPT00?> i

YOU INSOLENT FOOL! I

AMALCIEL, GREAT DEMON GENERAL OF

THE—

CUPTUS PI6HT, SO I MAV SHOW VOU HOW

My SW0RC7 TASTSS/>

<SN0U6H with youe

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WHA417?

THIS... THIS IS KIMIOA-

HAMA.' IN CHIBA!

WHAT IS A PEMON

POINO HERE.'?

HOW PID THAT BEAST PEMONOIP

RETAIN ITS PEMONIC FORM?

ABOVE US' HERE COMES

ANOTHER ONE.'

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IT'S I CONE.../

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ir SHUT UP ANP SET

CAM\0 BACK INSIDE/

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<I...I WAS UNABie TO tee? you?

ReAUA ?torec.reo... Arret your P£PARTURe.>

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CREAM too. IT vJAS GooD!

WE'VE FINALLY PLUNGEP INTO THE EVENTS OF THE PEVIUS A PART-TIMER! NOVEL VOLUME 4.

I'P 64/ PRODUCING THIS VOLUME WAS THE MOST EVENTFUL PROCESS IN MY ENTIRE WRITING CAREER. I SPOKE WITH SOME BEACHFRONT CABANA MANAGERS, OF COURSE, AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR THEM, ANP IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I GOT TO VISIT CHOUSHI AS WELL. IT HELPER ME EXPLORE A LOT OF NEW THINGS, NEW PLACES, ANP NEW WA/S Op THINKING.

I WAS POING ALL THIS RESEARCH IN THE SUMMER FOLLOWING THE MASSIVE TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE OF 2011, WITH SIGNS OF THE QUAKE STILL FRESH ACROSS QUITE A BIT OF THE LANP. THERE WAS A HUGE AMOUNT OF GARBAGE LINING THE SHORE, ANP WHILE IT WAS PAST THE ENP OF SUMMER BREAK, By THE TIME I ARRIVEP ANP THINGS WERE GOING TO BE SLOWER ANyWA/ I WAS LITERALLy THE ONLy PERSON STAYING AT THE INN I CHOSE. "I'VE NEVER SEEN A SUMMER LIKE THIS," THE WOMAN RUNNING THE PLACE SAIP—ANP SHE SHOULP KNOW, BECAUSE SHE'P BEEN AT IT FOR THIRTy yEARS.

HIIRAGI-SAN TRAVELER TO CHOUSHI FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES BEFORE PRAWING THE EVENTS IN VOLUME 0 OF THE MANGA THE PEVIL IS A PART- TIMER! I CAN ONLy HOPE THAT, IN THE ENSUING FOUR yEARS, THE SCARS FROM THE QUAKE HAVE BEGUN TO HEAL A BIT.

TURNING TOWARP NON-SERIOUS SUBJECTS FOR A MOMENT, I REMEMBER VOLUME 4 WELL FOR SEVERAL REASONS. FIRST, I FEEL LIKE I SPENT A GOOP THIRP OF MV ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PEPICTING A TEENAGE GIRL TRYING TO GET PERMISSION FROM HER PARENTS TO FOLLOW SOME STRANGE MAN TO A BEACHFRONT SLEEPOVER. SECONP, RESPITE THE FACT THAT THE ENTIRE CAST WAS AT A SUMMER BEACH ANP ALL THE FEMALE CHARACTERS HAP SWIMSUITS ON, NONE OF THEM ^MEP THE ANP INSTEAP THEy ^MEP ANP HHEP THE CCENSOREP FOR FUTURE- VOLUME SPOILERS/}. I REALLy PON'T THINK PENGEKI BUNKO'S PUBLISHER ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE.

THE FEMALE CAST ALL VISITER THE HOT SPRING INSIPE THEIR INN AT ONE POINT. IT WAS...NOT GOOP. ESSENTIALLY, THE EQUIVALENT OF APPING "GO TO THE HOT SPRING" TO yOUR VACATION CHECKLIST ANP MARVELING AT WHAT yOU JUST WROTE. "WHY," M/ EPITOR ASKEP ME, "PIP YOU BAREL/ SQUEEZE A PARAGRAPH OUT OF A BATH SCENE WITH ALL THESE GIRLS, BUT yOU SPENT OVER A PAGE PESCRIBING THE LANPLORP'S OUTFIT?" EPITORIAL OUTBURSTS ARE ONLy TO BE EXPECTEP IN MY LINE OF WORK, BUT NOT FROM THAT PARTICULAR ANGLE.

BUT NEVER FEAR/ I'M SURE THAT HIIRAGI-SAN HAS PRAWN UP ALL OF THE TICKLISH, TITILLATING SCENES THAT OCCURREP BETWEEN THE LINES OF MY ORIGINAL TEXT/ HE HAP TO/ PROBABLY! MAYBB! Cl FERVENTL/ HOPE ANYWAY.) FAR AWAy FROM SASAZUKA, ON THE TOWN WHERE THE SUN CASTS ITS FIRST MORNING RAYS PAILY ON THE ISLANP OF HONSHU, MAOU ANP GANG'S PAILy LIFE SURE ISN'T GETTING AN/ EASIER. KEEP REAPING TO SEE HOW THINGS TURN OUT/

SATOSH! WAGAHARA

HBRB WB ARB AT VOLUMB 3. BIGHT VOLUMBS. ..I UKB THB SOUND OF THAT. AND ILIKB THBCONTBNTS TOO, BBCAUSB I'M FINAUY COVBRING THB BVBNTS OF OHGURO-YA, SOMBTHING I'VB WANTBD TO DRAW BVBR SINCBI RBAD THROUGH THB NOVBLS.

ONCBI GOTSTARTBD, I FOUND IT ROUGH AT TIMBS, WHAT WITH AU OF THB SCBNBS AND SITUATIONS I'VB NBVBR TRIBD MY HAND AT DRAWING BBFORB. STIU, AU THB SUPPORT THAT WA GAHARA -SBN SB I AND BVBRYONB Bl.se INVOLVBD WITH THIS PROJBCT HAVB GIVBN MB, ALONG WITH ALL THB FUND WORDS OUR RBADBRS HAVB PROVIDBD, HAVB BBBN A HUGB HBLP. ONCB AGAIN, I THANK YOU.

THE DEVIL IS A PART-TIMER! ®

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.

HATARAKU MAOUSAMA! Vol.8 © SATOSHI WAGAHARA / AKIO HIIRAGI 2015 All rights reserved. Edited by ASCII MEDIA WORKS First published in Japan in 2015 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION,Tokyo. English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo, through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc.,Tokyo.

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