A casual Thursday afternoon at the Kurumizawa residence, now with plus one resident in addition to Satania. Both of them were sitting at the brand new living room table. Raphi had just gone and brought over most of her furniture to replace all the stuff that Satania had recklessly wrecked. But by complete accident, she had forgotten to bring over her bed.

"Strip." Raphiel looked at Satania with the same ever bright smile she had worn when she was an angel. A few days later and the long weekend right ahead, literally so because they were just about to transport up to the dimensional crossroads.

Satania instinctively covered her breasts and down below, slightly stepping away form her abusive girlfriend. Not that she ever got physical or anything, and she didn't have proof, but she just knew it! That god damn, literally so because she was now a devil, former angel was definitely abusing her somehow! She knew it! And this is the proof I needed! "You pervert demon! Even Asmodeus herself wouldn't ask me to just strip!"

"Do you want me to push you down and take my angel clothes from you? Oh, I understand, as an angel, you are doing this for my sake. To show me how a demon ought to behave." Raphiel smirked. It is still so easy to set her up for disaster. Stepping towards Satania, Raphiel raised her hands. "Now, transform, little angel."

Oh, right, I have her clothes. I guess we do need to- Satania transformed into a human formed tomato as she finished that sentence. She hadn't actually seen Raphiel naked and other than that first kiss, the furthest they had gone was holding hands. Even though that damn newbie demon constantly pretended to try and seduce her! Turning from tomato to holy tomato, Satania glanced away.

"Surely a former arch demon, a queen of seduction and demonic conduct, is not afraid or embarrassed to strip in front of an apprentice demon." Raphiel was smiling both on the out- and the inside. But this, making Satania strip, was not done purely out of malice. She actually wanted to see her strip because it would be erotic. Over the past few days, she had found herself very much attracted to Satania physically. Which was not a problem for her at all. On the contrary, it allowed her to combine pleasure with even more pleasure!

And sure enough, Satania hadn't learned her lesson, probably never would. Looking like a million volts were running through her, she tried to look pompous and confident, only to fail miserably at both. "B-Behold my magnificent form." Luckily for Satania, taking off an angel's clothes was pretty simple. Foolproof. So easy that even a monkey could do it.

Raphiel was bent over and about to go on all fours because Satania just tried to pull the dress over her head and got stuck with that, looking like a violated teru teru boozu that was hanging upside down. This… this is too much. But Raphiel had learned from her mistakes. Getting control over herself, Raphiel pulled the dress back over Satania's head, returning her to normal. "It seems that heaven itself is preventing me from seeing the splendor of the great angel Satania."

"Huh?" Satania didn't understand what she was saying.

"My, I thought a divine force was preventing you from taking off your, my, clothes. Surely it wasn't the case that the great Satania couldn't even undress herself." Raphi mimicked a surprised, a mildly perplexed look while she was dying on the inside.

"Heaven has a lot of rules. As the next great archangel, of course I know all of them already. At most I could let a lowly citizen of hell get a glance at my angelic splendor!" Satania could shift gears quickly. Their situation wasn't showing any signs of reversing and getting that staff back would be so hard that even a Hollywood heist movie would get slammed as unrealistic in reviews. So if she was gonna be an angel, she'd be so great that even Lucifer would fall down to his knees in awe. But of course, she was still Satania at heart.

"I never heard of rules regarding exposing yourself to demons, but if Satania-san says so." Raphi continued to beam. "Now that I think about it, stripping is not required since our clothes change with our natures. How silly of me."

"I-I knew that of course!" You dumb demon-angel! Why didn't you say so earlier! You made me strip for no reason! Try to strip! Anyway!

"Then, should we do it?" Raphi very much enjoyed Satania's flapping fish mouth when she said do it. "We are supposed to be meeting Gab-chan and Vigne-san at the crossroads in a few minutes."

"You're so greedy, you're like a demon!"

Raphi returned to her real form with a smile, wearing what had been Satania's clothes. Unlucky for her, they didn't adjust in size, so her breasts were squeezed together a bit and her butt was a little exposed. "But I am a demon. And I still have so much to learn from the great former arch demon."

Satania's nose immediately grew as if someone had rubbed space fertilizer on it. "It will take a thousand years for you to reach the greatness I held as a demon! B-But I won't mind teaching you the ways of a demon." Looking coy offering her help, despite her arrogance and delusion, Satania was surprised by how much she wasn't bothered by Raphiel sleeping next to her every night.

"Now-" Raphi got up and grabbed a metal box from the nearby desk that had three compartments. One was filled with ground lilies, the other two with bits and pieces of hair. Having that at hand was important just in case they had surprise visitors. "I am looking forward to-"

"Being your old self?" Satania tried to look haughty but fell short, managing only overly curious.

"I am actually comfortable as a demon. I was going to say experiencing Satania-san's kiss again, but I guess someone as experience as the great Satania would not even give that a second thought." Raphi still liked to push Satania's buttons, and thankfully she was gradually building a bit of resistance against laughing too hard on the inside.

"N-No problem. A kiss is almost the same as a greeting." Satania on the other hand was not building any resistance to anything, especially not Raphi's advances. Her composure was shaky when Raphiel sat down next to her and then fell apart entirely when the ex-angel suddenly pushed her down, the second after Satania had taken her share from the box. "W-What are you doing you perverted angel?!"

"I'm a demon now." I love how I can get away with anything by just saying that. I could perhaps even strip her now. "And I am learning from you, the great arch demon. You were the one to push me down, so surely that is how a demon ought to behave." Raphi loved to turn Satania's own goofs against her. Of course she knew Satania hadn't pushed her down by intent; despite her personality, she was far too coy to actually do that.

Satania's eyes were shaking, rotating almost, in their sockets as the lips of the angel-turned-demon came closer and closer. And then she stopped. "Satania-san."

"W-What?"

"Do you have any breath mints?" Raphi nearly lost it when Satania looked shocked and quickly held a hand in front of her mouth to smell her own breath. "Oh, I was thinking of one for myself. As a demon I brushed my teeth this morning with your toothbrush and I only brushed for half the required time."

What a vile, evil and nefarious demon! This… this isn't good! She will take over hell! She'll take my spot as the queen of hell! She'll-! Her thoughts became nothing and Satania ascended to a higher plane of existence as Raphi's lips met hers. This time it was different from before. The ex-angel didn't just kiss her, she toyed with her lustfully. Intense kissing sounds filled the apartment and each sound was accompanied by Satania's arms and legs moving about without clear direction or purpose. Saliva was exchanged and their natures returned to what they were before. And still Raphi only gave Satania a brief break, her face within licking distance of the demon's.

"I see you already understand the true nature of being an angel." Raphiel, now with a halo and angel wings, was still pinning down Satania. "To remain so selfless in the face of evil. In the future they will speak of the great archangel Satania for sure."

"O-Of course. To endure and turn the other cheek is what being an angel is all about. Who knows who else you would attack if it weren't for me?" Back in her own skin, with horns and devil wings, Satania felt both comfortable and strangely out of place.

Finally leaving the deeply flustered Satania be, Raphiel crawled backwards off of her and sat on her knees. Waiting for Satania to sit up as well, Raphiel got in one last personal pleasure. "Before we go-" Reaching out to demon Satania, Raphiel started to tug and pull on her girlfriend's clothes. The ends of the long gloves, the strings running from her neck to her chest, even the stockings. And each touch, each slight adjustment to make her more presentable, turned Satania into more and more of a stiff board. "Now nobody will suspect a thing." Raphi beamed from ear to ear. I should touch her more often.

Up ahead, or up above, or down below, the crossroads were rather poorly defined in their specific whereabouts, were Gabriel and Vignette, waiting for the other two. Not because they had to, but because they had agreed to. "I should have brought my PSP." Gab was in a foul mood to begin with because she had to assume her prim and proper angel form, which was a fake stacked on top of a fake now. "Vigne." Just calling out to the demon made the girl nearly jump on the spot.

"What?!" Vigne was so nervous about going back to hell that she had not slept at all last night. Unlike Raphi and Satania, she wasn't actually taking this so well. Being good had been astoundingly easy for her, that she realized on the first day. But there was still the issue of her parents, going back to hell, concealing her changed nature and all that. Gab made fun of her, saying it was very angelic that she was so worried about all of those things. Gab on the other hand was so easy-going, so demonically uncaring, about it that Vigne was jealous of her.

"Date me." Gab just dropped those two very important words on Vigne like they were something simple. Like Gimme a candy. "3D is kinda, you know, but you're my exception."

Vignette was overcome with shock and embarrassed for just one moment. Then the part of her, the one small part that was actually suited for hell, took over. Grabbing Gab by her shoulders, Vigne shook her harder than a cocktail in a skilled bartender's hands during an earthquake. "Don't mess with my feelings you stupid fail angel!"

Gab was as unimpressed by the violence as usual. Waiting until Vigne had exhausted her, she just calmly looked at the four heavily swaying Vignette's in front of her. "We kissed. Twice. I liked it. I like you. And you behave kinda like my girlfriend anyway. We got along even when you were a demon and I was an angel." Gab, unhanded by the fuming demon, put her arms around Vigne's waist and tried to look as cool as possible, which was difficult because she still couldn't pin down which of the four Vigne's was the real one.

"Y-You can't just drop that on me like that!" Now that the anger had passed and it turned out it wasn't just one of Gabriel's jokes or stupid comments, Vigne's embarrassment was increasing fast. "You w-want to date me? Girlfriends?"

"Is there some other form of dating I don't know about?" Gabriel had ulterior motives. Of course she actually liked Vigne, there was no way she would do this otherwise. But what had prompted her to go from I like Vigne to I want to date Vigne was that the new online RPG that was coming out had a permanent partner setup. And she wouldn't trust any online person. And she definitely couldn't trust Raphiel or Satania. No, the only one she could rely on was Vigne. Date her, slowly get her interested in games. If they could live together, Vigne would have the extra time to game with her. It was a completely foolproof plan! And as a bonus, she would get to do all that stuff with Vigne that was otherwise exclusive to dating simulations. Three or four birds with one stone!

Before Vigne could give an answer to that, Raphiel and Satania showed up, both in their correct states. Satania as a demon and Raphiel as an angel. Raphi greeted them first, noticing the tense atmosphere around them and obviously wanting to know what was going on. "Gab-chan, Vigne-san!"

"About time." Gabriel was not so easily messed with. "Were you two fooling around before you got here?"

"Satania-san was a little forceful~." Raphiel tried to appear as innocent and embarrassed as possible and that caused both Gabriel and Vignette to look at Satania like she was some despicable person.

"She's lying! I wasn't-" Satania opened her mouth before she had time to think about what she was doing.

"Satania-san is right." Quickly thinking of Satania naked, something she had seen the previous evening after announced entering the bathroom, Raphi blushed strongly. "She was really forceful."

"I didn't think you'd be that kind of person, Satania." Vignette looked at the redhead with eyes that were crystalline disappointment.

"You're the worst." Even Gabriel judged her.

And to make matters worse, Raphiel grabbed hold of Satania as she tried to rush forward, to explain herself, pressing the girl's arm right between her breasts. "After today I can no longer live without her touch."

"Eh-?! W-What are you doing?" Satania was so visibly distraught and yet Vigne and Gabriel didn't do anything to help her.

"You reap what you sow." Vigne just couldn't believe Satania would take advantage of the situation like that.

"Go and explode." Gab was even colder than Vigne.

"You're all so mean..." Satania felt like she was near tears.

"The truth is, Satania demonstrated to me how a demon ought to behave after I asked her to." Raphi liked to bully her partner but she didn't want to go as far as making her cry. In the end, she had a sizable soft spot for her.

Both Vignette and Gabriel looked hardly surprised. They played along with whatever happened between Raphiel and Satania because there was basically a fifty fifty chance that it was true. One of them was a taste deaf idiot with delusions of grandeur and the other was a sadistic stalker with possessive-obsessive tendencies. It was a recipe for chaos.

"Let's get a move on. I want to get home and go into casual shut-in mode before the spell wears off." Gab knew she wasn't going to be able to smuggle anything meaningful into heaven; she had already failed once before. But this time she had a backup plan. Or had.

"Let's go one last time over how we are going to meet up to… to-" Vigne swallowed. "Re-cast the-"

"I forgot how to meet up for making out." Gabriel felt the force of a quality sledgehammer made by Underworld Inc. connect with her head. Falling to the ground like a piece of wood, solidly unconscious for a few moments, Gab's example didn't do much to deter Raphiel from pouring fuel on the fire.

"I didn't know you two had advanced so far. How bold." Holding on to Satania so tightly that the physical contact made the demon blush and overly nervous, Raphiel was very much enjoying herself.

"We-We're not like that! Gab!" Pulling the angel up from the floor, Vigne tried to get Gab to join her in denying Raphi's assumption. But she was stabbed in the back, just like a demon would.

"Vigne's pretty good at kissing," she said, fully knowing that Vigne would either shake her like a pneumatic drill or just slam her again.

But nothing of the sort happened. Gab was merely dropped and Vigne staggered backwards, her face flushing with red with every step. And then something inside her just broke. "There are access ways between heaven and hell that have basically been sealed off. The gates in hell can only be opened by angels and the other way around in heaven. Since angels are not allowed in hell to begin with, they don't need guards to guard something that is unusable by everyone in hell. That's how we'll meet up. To make sure we're not caught, Satania and I will come to heaven by using our angel access to the route, then go back to hell by using the demon route. The next time, Gab and Raphi will come to hell with their demon access and so forth. We'll need to do this twice a day, in the morning and the evening." Luckily for them, the spell lasted for six hours, forty-six minutes and change, longer than anticipated.

Gab, Raphi and Satania all thought the same thing and it wasn't related to the explanation at all. She's running away from reality.

"Okay, let's go. Vigne, you got my stuff?" Gab knew that Hell had far less strict customs than Heaven, so she gave her would-be girlfriend a big bag that contained portable consoles, chargers and a laptop.

Vigne was mildly annoyed about it but didn't say anything. The four of them separated into angels and demons and went their intended ways.

Raphi felt strangely out of place being in line with other angels. It didn't feel right. She didn't feel like she was really back where she belonged, like being a demon was much more suited to what her personality and nature had become. But she was an expert at pretense and so nobody suspected a thing. For the time being she really was an angel, so there was nothing to suspect anyway. Stepping through customs ahead of her, Gab set off an alarm. Not the type that made heavily armed guards storm the place and shout freeze or everyone get down but the kind that made everyone in line groan and pull out a book or a cellphone if it happened in hell.

Two examiners from customs approached Gab, who looked as innocent as can be. "Hold still please." Scanning Gabriel with what looked like a modified ping pong racket, the attached box made buzzing noises. "Have you recently had close physical contact with a demon?"

"Yes." Gab answered without hesitation.

The examiners exchanged looks. "If we may inquire about the nature-"

"No." Gab shut them down with the biggest, most innocent smile possible. "Thou shalt not be suspecting of your fellow angels and thou shalt not carry within you doubt of the goodness of all that is holy." Quoting the angel's doctrine to them, Gab felt like a super villain on the inside and it was a pleasant feeling. Take that you damn fools! That's for confiscating my laptop the last time!

Raphi ended up setting up the same alarm and ended up being asked the same question. But her answer was very different. "Oh yes. I have been teaching a demon about love through my own hands." The response put both examiners on their guard.

"You are aware, that as an angel you are not allowed to have intimate relations with any demons or hu-"

"Any male demons." Raphi corrected the first examiner with a big smile that was a sadistic smirk behind her facade.

"Come again?"

"Our doctrine explicitly forbids relations between two angels of the same gender and relations with demons or humans of the opposite gender. But according to the doctrine, as a girl, I am allowed to have relations, however intimate I please, with a demon girl."

The two examiners were put off by Raphi's overflowing confidence. "Wait there," one of them said and gestured Raphi to wait outside the line. Then he turned to his colleague. "Is she right?"

"The rule against same-sex relations between angels is only a few years old. They probably didn't account for the possibility that would happen between an angel and a demon." The second examiner had been among the people that voted against the same-sex ban.

Raphi had sharp ears and could overhear them arguing about this and then she took matters into her own hands. "I would like to speak to your supervisor. According to heaven law, detaining an angel that has noticeable demonic particle remnants on their persona but has provided an explanation for where the remnants come from is a violation of personal rights."

I would like to speak to your supervisor, was a sentence that was universally despised by workers of all ages, occupations, hell, human world or heaven alike. And it worked. Both examiners started to hiss at each other until the first examiner walked off and Raphi was cleared.

Gab was already gone by the time she left customs and so she went home as well. I might have to think about purchasing a small flat in Hell so I can stay there. Perhaps a one-bedroom one, so I can force Satania to sleep in my bed. Thinking about fun ways to bully Satania by withholding kisses, Raphiel started to fly towards her home in heaven.

=== Of Angels, Demons and the Mishaps connecting them ===

Heaven was a very large place and getting around took a bit of effort. It took Gab fifteen minutes to get to the access point, while Raphiel took about seven. In some ways, they were lucky to be that close to the nearest gateway. It was early in the evening now. Seeing Gab approach, Raphi looked at the wristwatch she had put on specifically so she could tell the time accurately.

They were way out in the middle of nowhere, so to speak. An uninhabited floating island made up entirely of a single large hill that was overgrown with forest. Gab hadn't landed yet when her angelic glow disappeared and was replaced with demonic horns, Vignette's clothes and devil wings. But she just kept approaching the demon Raphiel and landed without any issue. "Yo."

"Gab-chan. Ready to go?"

"What do you think? I'm about to die of boredom. I need my consoles already." Gab didn't mention Vigne but she was thinking about her. The gateways were in really remote locations in both heaven and hell so the four of them could spend a little time together if they wanted to. I wouldn't mind playing some VS games with Vigne. Maybe while I lie in her lap. Gab tugged on the red strings that connected to the black breast cloth. I'm glad Vigne's not a boob monster like Raphiel or Satania. Or that I'm not one. I'd spill all out of this. Seriously, Vigne, what's with these clothes? They're so slutty. This… what the hell do I even call this thing other than breast cloth. It's like one of those fan service outfits you get through DLC. And this skirt! My angel skirt was already short, but this thing is basically the length of hot pants but a skirt! And then these fetish-esque stockings. This outfit is the most demonic thing Vigne ever had going for her. But she looked nice in it.

With Gab in her own little world, Raphi opened up the gateway. It was quite literally a magically sealed iron gate embedded into the ground right beneath a large tree. As a demon, it responded to her touch and just opened up. The inside was pitch black and Raphi was not about to try for an echo. "Gab-chan, ready?"

"Beauty before age." Gabriel jumped into the gate and despite her expectations of magical portals it was incredibly disappointing. There was a brief moment of darkness before she popped out in a similar forest that was clearly situated in hell. And in front of her were two angels, Satania and Vignette.

Gabriel didn't hesitate, walked right up to Vigne and gestured with her index fingers to give her something. And she was immediately hit on the head. "Ow, what the hell?"

"A-Asking me to kiss you the second you show up! You're worse than the real demons!" Vigne was serious embarrassed with Gabriel's behavior.

"I am a real demon and I was asking for my games. Get your mind out of the gutter!" Gab spotted the bag she had handed over to Vigne before right behind her. "Praise god, you brought them. You're seriously an angel. Well, I mean both ways. Not just on the outside. You do look good as an angel and- hey, Vigne." Noticing that the girl wasn't paying attention to her, Gab followed Vigne's gaze and regretted that immediately.

Demon Raphiel had walked up to Satania, grabbed her by her shoulders and immediately kissed her. They didn't have the spell ingredients with them so Raphiel was doing it out of pure lust. And that realization made both Gabriel and Vignette incredibly self-aware of how they felt about each other.

Satania on the other hand was just completely melting under demon Raphiel's pressure. They had only kissed twice before this and both times it had been to change back to their old natures. But this was different. Raphi was almost eating her up, tugging on her lips, her tongue, greedily pursuing any attempt to retreat or back away, trapping Satania in a corner. And kissing was not enough.

The redhead's knees gave in and she fell to her knees, Raphi hot in pursuit, kneeling next to her, now pushing the angel down into the leaves. Raphi's hand moves over Satania's legs, upwards, skipping the opportunity to reach below her dress and instead follow her sides upwards, towards the angel's breasts. Wow, I didn't think any of them would watch for this long. I am getting pretty turned on myself. Maybe just a peek at their faces and- Raphiel instantly summoned every ounce of self-control she had to not break out in laughter.

Vigne was watching, her face red like a blister and covered by her hands. But she was watching nonetheless, through gaps between her fingers. Gab on the other hand was just staring like a juvenile delinquent that was seeing a porn video for the first time in her life. Unable to pursue anything else like this, Raphiel got on her feet, licking her lips. "Thanks for the meal."

"D-Do that at home!" Vigne still covered her face.

Meanwhile, Gab was waving her hand in front of Satania's face, who looked every bit like a defeated heroine in some kind of adult only manga. "You broke her." Being a demon herself, Gabriel was impressed with what Raphiel had just pulled off. "I can't believe you're not dying of embarrassment. I damn well would be."

"My, what do I have to be embarrassed about? Satania-san has taught me how demons ought to behave. I am still far away from reaching the stage she stood on as a great arch demon." Kneeling next to Satania, Raphiel picked up the angel with a princess carry. "Isn't that right, oh holy Satania?"

"Y-Yeah…" Satania took the opportunity and made the most of it. But she was still somewhat out of it.. "Behold Gabriel… I can command even a demon to act as my steed!"

Raphi was still enjoying herself a lot. "So, what shall we do now? Maybe Satania could introduce me to her parents and Vigne-san could introduce Gab-chan to her would-be in-laws."

"We're switching and going back. There is a time limited raid going on and-" Gabriel was already eying the portal.

"They have wireless internet in heaven now?" Vigne was curious about that, remembering Gab's previous complaints.

"Ah." Gab's face turned pale. "Sorry Vigne, I gotta stay with you until Monday."

"No." Vigne shut her down harder than any reasonable analogy could possibly convey. "My parents would get a heart attack if I let an angel stay there!"

"So I won't change back."

"Then I'm the angel and forget a heart attack they'll die on the spot!"

"So you switch with Raphi."

"I refuse." Raphi immediately destroyed that idea. Well, that escaped me. It might have been funny to tempt Vigne-san but I see now that I am more interested in Satania than I thought. But that by itself is quite interesting.

"So hide me in your room, Vigne."

"Why don't you go stay at Satania's place then!"

Gab turned to the odd couple. "Does your place have wi-fi?"

"A family of arch demons has no need of something as primitive as the internet!" Satania had already recovered to be her normal, haughty self. Mostly. She tensed up when Raphiel shifted her hands a little, fingertips not so much resting but pushing against the angel's breasts. "R-Raphiel, your hands..." Satania said this quietly enough that neither Gab nor Vigne could hear it.

But instead of moving them back, Raphi raised the angle of her arms a little, her whole hand resting on Satania's breasts now. "What about them?" Saying this with obvious glee in her voice, Raphi just loved combining her lustful antics and messing with Satania's head. "Could it be that a talented angel like you has impure thoughts about me?"

"This much is nothing." Satania just couldn't help herself.

Meanwhile, Gabriel was begging on all fours for Vignette to let her stay at her place. "Please! Heaven has no wi-fi anywhere, the only place that has any internet is the goddamn library and it's all cable there!"

"I told you I can't just bring back an angel!"

"Hide me in your room!"

"How am I supposed to hide a person?! My room doesn't have space for another bed, not even a futon!"

"I'll sleep with you in your bed!" Gab shouted that out before she thought it over. Oh shit.

Vignette tried to think of some strong response but the prospect of having Gab sleep in the same bed as her with a really convenient excuse as for why it was happening. N-No. Vignette, you shouldn't do that, it's wrong. Only demons would… Vigne shut her eyes tight and felt like she had just punched herself in the face. I… I am a demon. Or was a demon. Letting out a heavy sigh, she felt her embarrassment dissipate into the air. "You are going to follow me home or refuse to switch unless I say yes, right?"

"Pretty much." Gab was not gonna give up on her ultimate rare raid quest armor set. Not without a fight.

"Sharing a bed with an angel can be very comfortable, Gab-chan. Satania graciously allows me to sleep with her every night." Raphi worded it in a way that seemed aggressively lewd on purpose. And with great effort, too.

"I merely allow this lowly demon to sleep next to me because a great angel is selfless!" Satania was still in Raphiel's arms and made an attempt to get back on the ground only now. "I command you to unhand me."

And Raphiel did. Putting Satania back on the ground, she immediately moved from carrying her to hugging her from behind, forcing the back of the angel against her breasts. And that wasn't all. "If Gab-chan stays at Vigne-san's place, then I must return the hospitality you have afforded me so far. Demons cannot be in the debt of an angel, so-" Touching Satania's butt with her thigh by raising her right leg a little, Raphi enjoyed sexually harassing the new angel. "I insist you come with me to heaven for tonight."

Meanwhile, Vigne had just about resigned herself to the fact that there was no way she was gonna get rid of Gabriel. "What are you gonna tell your family?"

"Staying at Raphi's place." Gab just said that as a matter of fact and looked at

"You want me to lie for you?" Raphi looked almost enticed by that proposal. "How utterly demonic of you, Gab-chan."

"You're a demon too, now."

"I suppose I am." And I am quite enjoying myself.

"So… what do we do now?" Satania was hoping that someone would have a plan since she lost complete track of who was gonna do what now.

Vignette took control like an experience rider with a new horse. "Gab, we'll go back, you write your family a note and then you can come over. Raphi, Satania, what are you two gonna do?"

"I suppose I will take Satania back, switch with her and spend the night." Raphi tightened her hug, whispering something in Satania's ear that made the redhead's neck hair rise up. "Unless Satania will force me to spend the night at her place. Capturing an angel might impress your demon parents."

"Raphi, stop." Vignette stepped in because she could smell this was heading down a dangerous path. "I know you like to mess with Satania but if she is caught bringing an angel into hell, she might be put into criminal detention."

"Detention is nothing for someone of-" Satania was just bragging again and Vignette cut her off.

"It's prison for juveniles."

"P-Prison?!" Satania tried to turn around and look at Raphiel.

The demon was not smiling anymore. "Vigne-san, could I talk to you for a moment? Alone?" Leaving Satania and Gab behind, Raphiel stepped away and waited for Vignette to follow. They were just out of earshot of the other two. "I do like to… tease Satania, but I think you are misunderstanding the relationship I have with her."

Vignette wasn't used at all to Raphi talking to her so seriously and without her kind smile. Seeing her with horns, devil wings and Satania's clothes only made her feel even more uncomfortable. "You seem like bully and victim, most of the time."

"Teasing her is great fun, but have I ever done anything to her that left lasting damage?" Raphi had some lines she was not willing to cross.

"Not that I know of." Short of turning her into an angel. I beat she swung that thing around or something like that because you riled her up.

"So there is nothing to worry about." Raphi returned to her usual smile. "So please don't ruin my fun."

Her being a demon only changed that she's more open about her sadistic tendencies. If she's that open… "How do you feel about Satania really?"

Raphi touched her left cheek with her left hand and closed her eyes. Now, I suppose the truth will be the most entertaining. "I love her of course." Saying it with a big smile meant that Vignette was left not knowing if she was serious or not. "Now, shall we go?"

Using Vignette's and Satania's angel powers, the four of them returned to heaven together. A demon could only pass from hell to heaven by traveling with an angel. For Raphiel and Satania, this was no problem; one needed almost a mystical level enchanted crowbar to pry Raphiel off of Satania. For Gab and Vigne however, just holding hands was embarrassing for them. Even more so because the other two were so intensely attached to each other.

"I'll go home for a sec. Vigne, wait me me, okay? I'll be right ba-" Gab was already flying off when Vigne grabbed her by her leg and kept her there. "I said I'd be right back!"

"You can't go flying around in heaven as a demon!" Vigne was worried about Gab.

"Eh, it'll be fine, everyone will just be like I must be seeing things and what not." Gab on the other hand was absolutely not worried.

"I am not getting arrested because of you! Get down here!" Pulling harder on Gab's leg, Vigne got her to land. "We can't switch because I can't go home as an angel. I'll go deliver the note."

"Vigne. You don't know where I live." Gab didn't think it was a good idea to just explain to Vigne where she lived. "What would you do if you run into my older sister? She knows your face and that you're supposed to be a demon."

"I can tell your family you are spending the weekend at my place for a study session." Raphi offered up and immediately earned a smile of gratitude from Vigne. "Of course both of you will owe me for this quite dearly. I am a demon after all."

"Behold my student, Gabriel! Few days and she already binds you to her whim!" Satania really found something to boast about in any situation.

"Shut the hell up, you failed demon." Gabriel, now that she was a demon, found that having a foul mouth was quite useful. I'm gonna make so much money from my stipend going up over all of this. "Raphi, I'll owe you. I am not giving you the trumpet though."

"You mean this thing?" Vignette pulled out the trumpet of the apocalypse and immediately held it over her head so it was out of reach for Gab. "It's mine now." Gabriel, futilely, tried to take back the horn and then backed off when Vigne gave her a glare promising a holy death. Angel or demon, Vigne had something scary deep inside.

"Then, we will see each other at school on Monday then." Raphiel was just about ready to go home. "I'll contact your house later then, Gab-chan." She magically procured the spell materials from her storage space, the existence of which explained perfectly how Raphi was prepared for dozens of possible Satania bullying situations at all times.

Using that type of magic was not exactly allowed in the human world but rather than a rule that was more of a guideline. Of course, actually good angels would adhere to that. It was also not exactly taught at school, which meant the holier-than-thou Gabriel hadn't learned to use it. The Gabriel that was now buried deeper than C grade games at the bargain bin.

"Now then, Satania, let's turn you back into a demon." Raphi was looking forward to this weekend a lot.

=== Of Angels, Demons and the Mishaps that connects them ===

Swearing her maid to secrecy under the threat of firing her, Raphiel brought Satania into her house without issue. Her parents were, as usual, conveniently absent. When it came to her parents absence, Raphi made even the most abandoned light novel protagonist look like a beginner.

Heaven was not the most interesting place to spend a weekend, and strangely enough, and despite the expectations of the entire universe, Raphiel didn't pass her time by bullying Satania. Or at least not the way everyone expected her to bully the demon that turned into an angel and now back into a demon temporarily.

"M-Mercy… Raphiel." Satania felt the eerie smile of the Angel again. "Raphiel-sama please have mercy." Satania was at her limit. W-What did I do to deserve this? She's worse than a demon! She's like the devil herself! Not even the great Satan would do this to someone! God? God, can you hear me? I am technically one of you now, right? Can't you do something about this?

"Satania-san. What might you be thinking about? Surely it isn't some foolishness instead of what you should be paying attention to." Raphiel's voice was a whisper, coming from behind Satania, her warm breath kissing the demon's ear. "I thought someone as great as you would have little trouble with this. Demons and greed. Angels and duty. Surely you can master either of those."

"Of course, but even a great arch demon or angel cannot endure this-" Satania froze up when she felt Raphiel's hands on her shoulders, almost as if she was massaging her. But with Raphiel it was never that easy. Her neck felt hot and damp moments later and then she felt a tongue going over it, creating a swamp of nervous sweat and saliva. "Raphiel, please-" The hands moved from her shoulders to her cheeks, the right middle finger sliding into her mouth. "I'll do it, I'll do it!" Satania was slurring her words a little and the molesting stopped.

The demon's heart beat like crazy. I have created a monster. The future of hell is bleak. My genius got the better of me and I made something I cannot control. Hot and cold surged through her, feeling Raphiel's smiling presence still behind her.

"Satania-san."

Not again, not again, spare me! Satania just wanted to run away now, to get away, escape back to hell. But she couldn't. Right now she was a demon and the only way to get back to hell would be to take really roundabout and long detours to get to the gateway unseen. And by then, it would be all over; she'd turn back into an angel.

"You used the wrong formula here. This one is used for the previous problem, not this one." Raphiel leaned over Satania's shoulder and pointed at problem number twenty-two.

For the past three hours, Raphiel had tutored Satania in math, molesting her a bit whenever she started to slack. They were in the mansion's library, Satania sitting at the long wooden table, with Raphi behind her. The walls were lined with bookshelves and there were chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. Over twenty chairs lined the long table. Four empty glasses of iced tea were on the table, complimentary from Raphi's maid. A pack of miniature pretzels was there as well. Yet, Satania was only allowed to partake in either after solving a problem correctly.

After arriving at Raphiel's place, the two of them changed into casual clothes. Few angels and demons actually wore their respective garments casually at home or for work, especially those that were underage. Since Satania had effectively been abducted, Raphi had handed her some of her older clothes, which fit very well.

This torturous one-sided study session kept going until very late and Satania was just a burned out shell of herself, laying half on the table, her head turned sideways. "Why… is this… happening to me..." The demon turned back into an angel right after she complained. I'm too tired to try and escape now. Can't even open the gateway anyway…Ah… so hungry, I can't move.

"Satania." So far, Raphi's switching back and forth between Satania and Satania-san had been really arbitrary, at least to Satania herself. But she was starting to figure out a pattern. The missing honorific meant that whatever Raphiel was about to do was not related to her suffering. "Dinner is ready."

"Dinner?!" Hunger granted the angel rejuvenated life force. Jumping up and out of her chair, she found the demon girl right by her side, smiling a little different from usual. "It's… it's a trick isn't it?! You're going to serve me poisoned-" Satania's face froze in mid-sentence when Raphiel stepped forward and kissed her on the cheek before walking past her. W-What?

"Even Demons do not betray their loved ones." Raphiel didn't stop and just walked towards the far end of the library, opening the door to the second dinner room.

L-Loved ones? I- what? Is she serious? N-No, this has to be a trick! Satania was a little falling apart on the inside. W-What do I do? Her rumbling stomach answered that for her. A-A little poison won't hurt someone like me! Probably.

Following Raphiel into the next room, a feast was prepared. A small scale feast. It was all food from heaven, which was a little spartan by human standards when it came to seasoning and flavor, but Satania's family was a little on the poor side of things, so for her it was most definitely a feast.

Because Raphi had specifically asked for it, they were eating in the second dinner room, which was much, much smaller than the main one and still twice the size of the dinner room at Satania's place. The thought that went through Satania's mind was Rich people are amazing.

The second dining room, or dinner room, consisted of a large round wooden table, six cushioned wooden chairs, a few wooden cupboards with dishes, two wooden bookshelves, a large golden chandelier and several paintings on the walls as decoration.

Satania was not so much partaking as wolfing down food before Raphi could even sit down. Waving over her maid, Raphi said something to her that Satania couldn't hear over the sound of stuffing herself with some sort of ridiculously delicious spaghetti in white sauce. Eating like this on someone's dime was demonic, but she didn't care. Angel or demon, her stomach took priority.

"Do not eat too much or you will fall asleep in the bath. I might have to come and take you to my bedroom if that happens. Stark naked." Raphi had timed it just so that Satania had barely finished stuffing her mouth full when she heard the last part. Trying to swallow everything at once, of course she started to choke and had to flush it all down with the conveniently placed mineral water. And as anyone knows, that is not a good idea. The carbonation immediately rose back up and went out through her nose, not her mouth, causing the poor angel to clench her nose with both hands.

And despite the warning, Satania ate her fill and then some. She didn't quite achieve the comically bloated stomach level one saw manga, but if she had worn pants instead of a skirt, they would be in danger of sending a button flying now. But this did little to dampen her enthusiasm about seeing the bath of a rich person.

Meanwhile in Hell, Vignette was about to lose her mind. Gab had pretty much not moved an inch from the floor in her room, glued to her laptop. Letting the angel in through the window, Vigne was lucky that her parents rarely popped into her room unannounced. But rarely didn't mean never. And of course, because Gab was a magnet for terrible things, they caught the two within five minutes of Vigne letting her in. It had been Vigne's mother, who just took a single glance at Gabriel, who was already looking like a slob, and then smiled to Vigne. "Corrupting an angel is a great achievement even for famous demons! I'm proud of you, Vignette."

"I'm Gabriel." Gab introduced herself as if the situation was perfectly normal. "I'm Vigne's girlfriend."

"Her girlfriend?!" Still standing in the door, Vigne's mother's voice cracked a little. "N-No matter which way you prefer, Vignette, mom is on your side." Closing the door slowly, she burst right back into the room. "H-How long has this been going on?! When did you two meet?!"

"Right before the school year started. Human world. If not for Vigne, I would've never discovered all the amazing fun stuff the human world has to offer. I ditched Heaven for the weekend because they got no wi-fi and Vigne can't go there." Gab spoke almost entirely the truth.

"Why didn't you tell me about this before, Vignette?! Not even the honor students at hell academy would be able to corrupt an angel so quickly!" Vignette's mother could be a little nosy.

During all of this, Vigne's brain tried to recover from a fatal crash that just looping back to shutdown, reboot every time Gab opened her mouth. "S-Surprise?!"

"Keeping secrets from your mother… that's so demonic! But you should still tell mom about this sort of thing. I'll bring a futon-"

"Nah, 'is fine. I'll just sleep with Vigne in one bed." I don't want to clean up and move the table around and everything. And it'll be a pain to disconnect the cables and everything. And I need space to put my laptop somewhere where I can check for surprise quests at night.

This girl is more demon than angel already. What did my Vignette do to her? D-Did she already- if this angel is so ready to sleep in the same bed as her and they're girlfriends, then-?! Stepping into the room, around the table and grabbing Vigne, the two demons, adult and teenager, left the room. Gab could hear Vigne's mother start with some famous parents-only lines and she immediately put on headphones because she couldn't be bothered to listen to that.

She managed to go through two entire dungeons before she noticed the door opening from the corner of her eye. "Do I get to eat dinner with you guys?" Moving her headphones off her right ear, Gab waited for answer and didn't get one. "Hey, Vigne-" Looking at the door, she found Vigne already, looking like she was near tears. Oh shit. "Uh. Lemme just finish this dungeon and I'll get going." I better not push my luck too much. And seriously, I didn't want her whole family situation to get screwed up like this. As lazy, egoistic and game-addicted as Gab was, she did care about her friends, especially Vigne.

Staggering back to her bed, Vigne sat down, then fell backwards and let out a huge sigh. "Don't bother. Mom just asked me a thousand details and gave me the whole if you want to have an adult relationship then you need to know about this talk. I couldn't tell her the truth because I can't possibly tell her now that you and I switched places." Vigne sounded monotone, almost as if all desire to keep on living had left her body. I was so embarrassed for so long, I just can't feel anything anymore.

"So, we're dating for real now? Nice." Gab was dealing with all of this in the most deadpan way possible because the second she didn't, she would totally overload and fry. It was a defense mechanism against dying from embarrassment. "You good with sharing your bed with me?"

"I'll kill you if you do something strange." Vigne knew there was no way around this now, and once her emotional center came back online she would figure out how to make the most of it, but for now, she just wanted to have some peace and quiet to recover.

"I'm not Raphiel." Gab was sitting in a waiting queue and took the chance to leave her laptop for a moment. Putting down the headphones, she stood next to the bed, looking at Vigne, who needed a moment to meet Gab's eyes. "I do like you that way. Seriously." And if I have to say this again I think I am going to explode. Lucky she can't see my hands or my legs or else she'd know I'm shaking like a SNES era boss that just got their death animation triggered.

Vigne had no answer for that. Instead she just slightly blushed and looked away. Only when Gab stepped away, saying she was going to the bathroom, did Vigne respond. "I… I like you too, Gab."

"Uh… that's good." Wow, nice going me. That would reduce all my love points to zero if this was a galge. What the hell did you play all those dating sims for, Gabriel? You're worse than a level one protag at this. "I mean… thanks." Just stop. Wanting to hit herself in the face, Gab left the room and was suddenly face to face with Vigne's dad that had just come home. "Uh. Hello."

While Gab dealt with one of the most fearsome things in all of existence, meeting the girlfriend's parents for the first time, Vigne was just wondering where in life she had taken the wrong turn to end up here. It's not really that bad… Gab is a slob but a lovable slob and most of all my slob. And she does care, in her own way. And she's cute. She's seriously cute. Even when she sometimes doesn't shower… well, let's downgrade that to 'a little cute'. That was what her heart was telling her. But her mind disagreed. I ended up as an angel because of Satania and Raphi. Kinda. If Gab hadn't tried to play handyman with some ancient artifact, I wouldn't be in this situation. But the truth is that my stipend was getting so low, I would probably have gotten recalled in a few weeks or months at the most. Mom will be heartbroken, probably, but there's nothing I can do. Living my entire life while constantly switching sides with Gab seems like an enormous drag. Ugh, I'm already thinking like Gab. Well, I guess it's kinda true though. Sighing in her mind, Vigne rolled over and looked at Gab's laptop. I never thought that super nice and pure Gabriel would turn into that brazen and lazy Gab. I guess it would be a problem if she was still as good on the inside as she had been on the outside then.

As she kept looking at Gab's game, she noticed something odd. The character bore a striking resemblance to herself. Short deep purple hair and the accessories on the character were large succubus horns, a devil tail and wings. Did she make me her character? That's a little creepy… but also cute.

Gab returned to the room, shutting the down behind her and looking like she had just escaped a cage full of starved chimeras, ready to tear her limb from limb for sustenance and fun. Flapping her lips and producing a noise that could only interpreted as thank god that's behind me, Gab looked up at the ceiling and glanced at Vigne. "This has to qualify as an ultimate difficulty solo dungeon."

"It's your own fault." Vigne sat up and suddenly felt self-conscious. She was alone in her room, at home, with Gab. And she had basically told her parents they were dating, that she had smuggled Gabriel into Hell to spend time with her. I didn't even say yes to dating her myself! "Gab. Um… about us..."

"I already asked you to date me. I'll take the not kicking me out and having me arrested as a yes." Gab couldn't directly look at Vigne. Now that she was literally committed to this, she realized the gravity of it. E-Eh, no big. I'll just keep on gaming, sleep next to Vigne and what not. Piece of cake, right? I got the platinum trophy on that notoriously difficult galge Ultimate Heart-Throbbing Harem Legend XII Perfect Score. This… this is gonna be easy. Quickly marching through the room and sitting down in front of her laptop, Gab returned to her real duties; vanquishing the hordes of the monster lord to reach max level. This was the open beta of the game and her second account, one she intended to hand off to Vigne. Her plan to rope Vigne into playing this with her far preceded their current predicament, but the circumstances of how she was gonna do it had changed drastically.

"Gab...riel." It didn't escape Vigne that Gab tensed up a little, her clicking becoming clunky. Wait, her clicking got clunky? How did I even notice that? I spend way too much time around Gab already. "I'll let you sleep in my bed but-"

"I won't do a thing! I don't even play H-games! You demons have seriously lewd minds!" Gab nearly kissed her laptop after a pillow hit the back of her head. "At least warn me so I can put away my game!"

"W-Why does that character look like me?!" Vigne changed the topic away from herself and Gab.

"I made an account for you. I was gonna buy a new laptop when the game goes gold and give you my old one so we can play together. The open beta is gonna reset when it's over, but anyone who reaches max level gets a unique HP to MP skill on all their characters. If you play a priest, you can get an infinite MP combo going so you can basically infinite heal me."

Under normal circumstances, Vigne would have whacked Gab in the head. And it was her first thought now, too. But she was spending the long weekend with Gab and if she was gonna date that gaming addicted slob, she had to make some compromises. "I don't know anything about online games."

She didn't shut me down. Having a girlfriend is the ultimate co-op jackpot! "Want me to show you? It's got a little bit of a learning curve, but if you play priest it'll be my job to keep you safe." Looking over her shoulder, Gab found Vigne to be blushing hard. What the hell are you blushing for... You're making this way too awkward. "Come here."

=== Of Angels, Demons and the Mishaps connecting them ===

Bonk. It was the second time Gab walked into a wall; the same wall she had hit on the way to the toilet she had now hit on her way back. She was not used to this place. Slipping back into Vigne's room, gab promptly hit her big toe on the table in the dark room, staggered backwards, hit a bookshelf and something heavy immediately landed on her head. With a loud thud, Gab landed on her butt. God. I know you're angry about me deserting but seriously, cut it out.

She could feel the steps of someone heading across the room, stopping in front of her. The room was really dark, but of course she knew who that was. "Gab. Gimme your hand." Vigne let out a yawn. It was quite literally the middle of the night. After spending hours and hours letting Gab rope her into one video game after another and then a late night snack, Vigne was too exhausted to be nervous about sharing a bed with Gab. Even now, standing up, she could barely stop herself from succumbing to sleep.

Taking Vigne's hand, Gab was quickly led back to the bed. It was not really designed for two people, but with Gab being rather compact, it didn't matter so much. Vigne slept on her back while Gab was more the turn and toss and kick someone in the face type. She herself said so. To avoid that, Gab moved one of her legs between Vigne's and held on to Vigne's left arm with both her own arms. Treating her like a hug pillow would have been terribly embarrassing for both of them under normal circumstances, but they were all out of embarrassment for the day.

Gab just wanted to go back to sleep but Vigne had other plans. "Gab."

Managing a sort of hum as a response, Gab just tightened her grasp on Vigne's arm for a bit. Only when no more questions came did Gab give up. "What?"

"When did-"

"Before we kissed. Can't pinpoint."

"How-"

"I play dating sims sometimes."

A moment of silent annoyance occurred that Vigne simply powered through. "Why-"

Cute. Tidy. Responsible. Nice. Wife material. Sexy. Gab was thinking about an abridged version, but she knew that would backfire. "You're responsible and neat about everything you do. You can cook, clean, so even if I suck at that I can count on you. You're seriously cute. But Vigne..."

"W-What?" Having Gab say all those things right next to her called on the reserve reserve embarrassment stored away for absolute emergencies.

"Go to sleep already… this weekend is the final stretch to get your account to max level in open beta." Gab looked up a little, even though there was no way she could possibly see Vigne's face in the dark. "Night." And unceremoniously, Gab plopped her head down onto the pillow and pretended to immediately have fallen asleep.

Vigne was a little annoyed by this, but a little annoyed was basically a standard reaction to everything Gab did. I guess I already knew this was not going to be the stereotypical kind of relationship where we go on dates, kiss on the way home and call each other in the evening. Closing her eyes, ready to fall asleep, she thought one last thing. Gab smells a lot nicer after she takes a bath than I thought.

While the situation in hell was rather peaceful, the situation in heaven was unexpectedly calm as well. But unlike the two girls in hell, the angel and demon in heaven were not yet asleep. Or at least, one of them was not.

She's cute when she's not talking. Lying in bed, her elbow pressed into the pillow, head resting against her hand, Raphiel the demon was watching the sleeping angel. Seeing her like this makes me want to tease her all over, but it would ruin her perfectly cute expression. With the full moon shining through the window, Raphiel had a good view of the girl by her side. It's strange. All of this started because of her ego and now I find myself gazing at her so differently than before. I still feel within me the urge to mess with her even now, but more so than that I feel… I suppose that is just it. I have feelings for her. It is so unexpected. To think that there was some truth to the ages old proverb that states those that love each other will tease each other. And that it would bridge the gap between angels and demons. Not that she was ever much of a demon or will most likely ever amount to much of an angel. And still, maybe it is perhaps just this gap between her desires, her faith in herself, and reality that make me care for her. Or perhaps it is simply because she entertains me so and is very attractive. Not everything has to be as thoughtful as the revelations were thousands of years ago.

Using her free hand, Raphi kept her left bangs from falling into her face, then leaned over Satania and kissed her in the dark. A smooth, shallow kiss intended to not wake her. Lying down properly and looking at Satania from the side, Raphiel smiled different from her how she did usually. This was not a smile that was based on the reactions of others but her own feelings. I suppose I could be a little nicer to her. I wouldn't want her to become sick of me. And once we return to the human world, I will go on a date with her. And with this special smile on her face, a smile that no one had ever seen, Raphi went to sleep, looking forward to the next day.

=== Of Angels, Demons and the Mishaps that connected them ===