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Iruma walked the halls of Babyls towards his battler's room. He had just finished reading another chapter of Hatsukoi Memory to Ameri in the student council room, and now he was planning on meeting his two best friends for a Magical Tools Research meeting.
When he entered the room he was greeted with Asmodeus and Clara having a full on fist fight in the middle of the room.
"Azz! Clara!" he called, "what's going on?"
The two immediately stopped fighting and looked at Iruma.
"Well," replied Asmodeus haughtily, "I was planning on using this magical ruby to make a beautiful gift for you, Iruma, but this one" he narrowed his eyes at Clara " won't let me have it!"
"I want to use it to make a glowing pencil! Azz-Azz is just being selfish and won't share with me!" cried Clara
"I'll bet you don't even know how to make a glowing pencil!"
"Yes I do! I saw a tutorial on DemonTube yesterday and I was going to follow it!"
"Like it would actually work! You can't trust everything you see on-"
"Wait," Iruma looked between the two of them, "What's DemonTube?"
Asmodeus and Clara stopped bickering and looked at him for a moment, confused.
"How do you not know what DemonTube is? Do ya live under a rock?"
"Valac!" Asmodeus cried, "Iruma can't help what he doesn't know! His Grandfather sheltered him for so long, so of course he doesn't know what DemonTube is!" He took out his phone and clicked on an app that had the picture of a demon with a play button where his face should be. "DemonTube is a platform where people can share videos of themselves with many different demons. There's many different types of videos on there: gaming videos, makeup videos, reaction videos, dancing videos, and many more!"
Iruma looked at the app over Amodeus's shoulder. "Wow! There's so many videos!" Iruma thought the app looked like something they had back in the Human world, but since he spent so much time working for his parents, he never had the time to watch videos on apps like these. The three of them continued scrolling through videos. Suddenly, one of them caught his eye: "Hey, is that Kuromu?"
"Yeah! Lots of Demdols post DemonTube videos to show off their dancing and singing."
Iruma clicked on one of Kuromu's videos where she was singing and dancing to her latest single. They watched her performance intently.
Suddenly, Clara grabbed his hands. "Iruma!" she said, "I just had the greatest idea! We should record a video and post it on DemonTube!"
Iruma blinked. "What would we even post?"
"A dance obviously! You're great at Demdol dancing! We can all dress up like last time and do the same dance again!"
"As if Iruma would do something so demeaning." Asmodeus snorted. "You won't see me in those clothes again."
"Fine." Clara ginned mischievously, "Then just Iruma and me can dress up and do the dance together!"
Asmodeus immediately started glowering at her. "No! You cannot have fun with Iruma without me!"
"Then you can hold the camera!"
Iruma could practically see steam coming out of Amadeus's ears. "No! If you're going to dance with Iruma, then I'm going to dance with him too!"
"Hmm...I don't know...I think if you gonna dance this time you'll have to wear a frillier dress!"
"Why you-!"
Iruma laughed nervously as his friends started bickering again.
***
They agreed to do the same choreography as last time, with some added flourishes. However, since they didn't have access to the same outfits as last time, Asmodius agreed to ask his mother for dresses they could wear. She, or course, was more than happy to help and gave them the cutesy-est outfits she could find. They spent the next week practicing the dance routine during their normal club hours until they felt ready.
On the day of the recording, the three of them dressed up in their frilly outfits and quickly headed towards the battler room. There, they handed the camera to Schenell and started recording.
"Hey!" Iruma exclaimed, "We're Irumi-"
"-And her Happy Friends!" yelled Clara
"And we've got a dance for you." Said Asmodeus, blushing hard
Clara then turned on the music and they performed their song and dance number. When they were finished, they posted it to DemonTube with the title "Irumi and Her Happy Friends Dance Again!"
***
When Iruma got to class the next week, he had nearly forgot about the video the three of them had posted. That is- until he walked through the doors of the Royal One to his classroom and saw the whole class huddled around Jazz's computer.
"Iruma!" Clara ran up to him and hugged him tight. She then pulled away and looked at him seriously. "Iruma," she whispered, "I think we broke the evilweb!"
Iruma stared at her, confused. "...what?"
"Hey Iruma!" said Lead as he waved Iruma over, "Have you seen this?"
Iruma walked up to the group and froze. There, on the laptop, was the video of him, Clara, and Azz dancing. "Um..."
"It's the most popular video on DemonTube right now!" said Jazz "It's got 666,000 views!"
"Um..."
"Actually I think it's in third place," said Allocer, "behind the video of Kuromu's first performance and that video of a demon rat eating a slice of pizza."
"Um..."
"They're such fine women!" swooned Camui, "Aren't they so cute?"
Iruma could feel his face heating up. "Um..."
"Iruma!" someone snapped behind him. He turned and found himself face to face with Kerori. "Could I talk with you outside for a minute?"
She and Iruma walked out the classroom, with Clara and Asmodeus following.
"What have you done!" yelled Kerori
"Nothing! I mean..." Iruma blushed furiously. "We didn't mean for it to be a big deal! We saw a video of you as Kuromu and thought it would be fun to do the same thing!"
"Well it did become a big deal and now everyone's bothering my agency to ask about you because they think you guys are associated with us! It's becoming a big headache for management."
Asmodeus stepped forward. "We are sorry. We did not mean to cause trouble for your work, nor did we expect the video to get so much attention. Although, I should have known better: Iruma is such an amazing person that of course people would be enchanted by his dancing! I would know since I watched that video on repeat since we posted it and have dazzled by his performance every time!"
Kerori sighed. "Anyways, even if you didn't mean to blow up, it doesn't change the fact that you guys are the most talked about people on the evilweb right now, so.." She looked up at them determinedly, "You all will have to accompany me DemCon."
Asmodeus's jaw dropped. Clara squealed. Iruma looked between the two of them. "What's that?"
Kerori glared at him. "How can you not know what DemCon is? It's only the most important convention in the entire demon realm! It's where popular Demons on DemonTube can meet their fans!"
"Oh," said Iruma, "Then why do we have to come?"
"Because you three are currently popular Demons on DemonTube! So you've got to come!"
"Oh, I don't know...I don't really think I'm cut out to meet so many Demons all at once.."
"But you've got to!" Kerori exclaimed, "You don't understand; if you don't show up, everyone will be so mad they'll riot! And my agency will face the blame. You absolutely must come!"
"Well..."
Clara then faced Iruma and took his hands. "Let's go Iruma! It'll be so much fun! We could wear our fun dresses again, do our dance, and meet lots of fun new demons! So could we please, please go together?"
Kerori grasped his arm, "We would be so grateful if you helped, so could you please, please come?"
Asmodeus grasped his other arm "We could show everyone how amazing you are! So could we please, please go?"
At that moment, Iruma realized something: despite all the time he spent in the Demon Realm, he had not overcome his greatest weakness- the word "please".