Sunday night
At the motel
"WHAT!? Minoru was attacked by monster!" Satan got angry after hearing the whole story from Lucifer and changed to his demon form, as a result of his turbulent emotion.
"Calm down! Satan!" Lucifer said.
"..." Satan turned back to his human form "Did you get any clues from the monster?"
"No, I wasn't able to. The monster exploded as it died, leaving no trace that it ever existed. The cultists following it were just clueless pawns."
"Haizzz..." Satan sighed "If there is no clue, how can we continue to investigate them? Even magic needs something remained from the monster's corpse to help us trace back to the mastermind."
"...Exploded? Isn't that similar to the series Minoru are watching?" Mammon said.
"Huh, what series?" Satan was puzzled.
"It's a series about some transformed super heroes fighting monsters. When a monster die, it explodes. Like BOOM, and nothing remained of that monster." Mammon explained what he saw "I wonder what's so good about those kinds of things that Minoru is so into it."
Lucifer, who was sitting at the head of the table, turned to look at Minoru, who was sitting at the end of table and watching something on his phone, instead of participating in the conversation. Mammon and Satan followed Lucifer's gaze and looked at Minoru. Little D. No. 2 was not there as he was doing the dishes after dinner.
Sensing eyes gazing of him, Minoru looked up and saw 3 pairs of eyes looking at him intensely.
"Uh, what?"
"It seems that you're not worrying about your future at all?" Lucifer opened his mouth first.
"...Well, I'm still listening to you three talking...Satan said that magic couldn't trace back the mastermind without something remained of the monster."
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"WOAH! Minoru, how could you both watching your thing and listening to us at the same time? Mammon was surprised.
"I don't know. But I think there are many people who could also do it. It's not like I'm the only one."
Satan nodded
"It's good that you're still listening to our discussion, otherwise,..." Lucifer looked at Minoru with his black-red eyes.
Minoru gulped, he could easily imagine the scene of him being punished by Lucifer right before his eyes.
"Minoru," luckily, Satan called him back to reality "has it ever been mentioned why the monsters exploded when they died?"
"Ummm, let me see." Minoru stopped to think for a bit. "Ah, I think it's this episode."
Minoru opened his WeTube app and went to the production company's channel. After finding the video, he showed his phone to the 3 infamous demons. Little D. No. 2 also had just finished the dishes as he returned to the table and began to watch with the others.
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After the opening, the scene on the phone screen showed 2 men inside a surgery room. One man was in black military outfit, the other wearing white coat. Surrounding them were identical henchmen in black. Behind them, on the wall, was a symbol of two red eyes looking down upon Earth, as if they wanted to devour the beautiful planet.
"Dr. Anthony, begin the cyborg operation!" suddenly two red eyes on the wall shone brightly.
"Yes, Great Leader!" the man in the white coat bowed down and said.
"Remember to put the explosive substance inside so that no trace could remain in case things went south."
Dr. Anthony did not reply this time but bowed lower. He then took the scalpel from his assistant and began the surgery.
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"Zettanger, Episode 3..." Lucifer looked at the title of the video.
"Yes. Zettanger was the first Tokusatsu series made by country J, aired from 1985 - 1986. It was so popular that it paved the way for Tokusatsu to flourish in country J. Although the series is quite dark, it's one of my favorite."
"Interesting!" Lucifer commented.
"Hahaha, it looked like Minoru has won Lucifer over to Toku-something villain faction. I bet you 100,000 Grimm that he's gonna...EEEKKKKKKK!"
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At a small town in another region of country J
After finishing all the house chores, Ms. Takahashi, Minoru's mom, was preparing to go to bed as she heard a door bell.
"Who is it?" Ms. Takahashi came to the door and looked through the peephole.
"Ma'am, we're the police!" said the man in police uniform "It's about your son!"
Hearing them mentioned Minoru, Ms. Takahashi immediately opened the door. "What happened to him?"
But what greeted her was a lot of spider silk, to the point she was immobilized by all the silk and webs.
"Get her into the car!" the previous man barked.
Many henchmen in black uniform appeared and carried Ms. Takahashi to their car.