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suspiciously pointed ears and speak a language that you can’t find on Google Translate.  \nDevil Apartment Complex  \nby Eric Yang  \nHis first thought was: Lords of Kobol, Ihave to run.  \nHis second thought, the one that formed after a second of processing the chaotic scene before him, deactivated his flight-or-fight and instead activated his second-hand embarrassment, and for the part-time student plus part-time minimum wage retail worker plus part-time commissions artist plus part-time journalist, the black-haired scarlet-eyed twenty-two-years-old devil-without-powers Daemon Kang couldn’t decide the worse of the two outcomes. It’s not every day that his options on a cool fifty-degrees afternoon are limited between public execution or public embarrassment, and the shock upon finding out that the once-in-a-century elven heroes have followed him into the parallel world known as Earth would have sent him into a state of complete meltdown if it weren’t for the fact that he held thirty dollars’ worth of buy-one-get-one-free deals in his hands. And if the heroic elven twins that saved the world are a once-in-a-century talent destined for greatness, then the deal he got at the local supermarket is an occurrence that only happens every blue moon (which Daemon heard was very rare on Earth) .  \n“Look,” Daemon raises his free hand, the hand not carrying his precious haul, and his fingers twist into that semi-open-palm gesture that he picked up after living a year in the human world.“I don’t know who this ‘Demon King’ that you’re talking about is, and I really need to get back to my apartment before these mini-ice-cream bars melt. Really wish you goodluck in finding that ‘Demon King,’ though! I would highly recommend the local police station.”  \n“Don’t bother yourself with those wretched lies of yours, Demon King!” The source of his embarrassment—the younger of the twins and a talented weapons expert that had mastered  \nevery divine tool in existence—pointed the wooden stick that had fallen from the tree just seconds ago at him. The language she spoke was not the standard English, or any other human language on Earth for that matter, but rather the language from their homeworld. To any outsiders watching, it might well have been a foreign language from another country.  \nDaemon had no doubt she could easily kill someone with that three-inch-long and half-an-inch-wide stick that is barely staying connected together, but Daemon had also spent enough time listening to boring physics professors lecture about force and mass and acceleration to know that if force equals mass times acceleration, there is no chance in the thirteen planes of Kobol that the flimsy stick could inflict enough damage on him to warrant an emotionally and financially damaging trip to the emergency room.  \nInstead, there is a much greater and more probable chance that the crowd of onlookers gathering around them in the middle of a busy four-way intersection during rush hour willshatter his will to continue on. Daemon facepalmed. He has to disperse the attention before more people gather—or worse, before the police are called and he gets fined for public disturbance for the sixteenth time in a year. Not only is his wallet in danger, but his chances at securing that internship at the local research lab will drop to absolute zero if they find out about this.  \n“Let’s just calm down, okay—” Daemon started, but the hot-tempered younger twin that could never think before acting, Lumine Von Celestialspeareg, charges at him with the flimsy stick that suddenly looks much, much more menacing in the hands of someone who could make the Absolute Divine’s holy weapons look like those elastic sling-like toys that every demon, elf, and human played with as a child for no apparent reason. 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