はたらく魔王さま! 13 [Hataraku Maou-sama! 13]

The Devil is a Part-Timer! Light Novel #13

by Satoshi Wagahara, 和ヶ原聡司, Satoshi Wagahara (Illustrator)

悪魔に恋する乙女達がまさかの女子会!?
その裏で、異世界の真実が明かされようとしていた！

天使と勇者の母娘喧嘩は落ち着いたものの、依然仲が悪いままの恵美とライラ。二人の関係にうんざり気味の真奥に、ライラから異世界を救うための“お仕事”の内容が伝えられる。しかしそれに不信感を抱いた真奥は、ライラに自宅を見せろと提案。全力で拒否するライラを尻目に、皆で練馬の自宅へ行くことを決める。
一方千穂は、恵美のために動く真奥を見て落ち込んでいた。二人が仲良くなることを望んでいたはずなのに、ヤキモチを焼いてしまったのだ。しかも二人が異世界に帰ってしまうのではないかと、授業も手につかない。その日の夜、思いがけず梨香から声をかけられた千穂。芦屋と食事に出掛けていたという梨香と、「悪魔に恋する乙女達の女子会」をすることになって――!?
女子会の行方は、そしてライラの自宅で真奥が目にしたものとは!?　庶民派ファンタジー、異世界の真実に迫る第13巻！

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Manga, Japanese Literature, Slice Of Life, Magic, Comedy

344 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2015

Reviews

[KathleenB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good movement in setting up plot development, but the relationship stuff is getting boring and too obvious/predictable.

[Jack Keener · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume ramps up the progression towards the next arc. Emi is forced to actually deal with her mother by the end of the volume and not in small part from Maou's efforts. We get movement on Chiho and Maou with a really sudden resolution of Rika and Ashiya. I won't run it, but it seems that Maou and life in Japan has Ashiya following his liege's playbook with people. It was really nice to see that from him and look back at his view of humans in the early volumes. This is mostly a Chiho centric volume though and that's not bad. She starts to assert herself more at the end and at some point Maou is going to have to deal with her feelings. We have yet to really get his view on her romantic interest in him other than what little he mentioned last volume, so that ever comes of this will be nice. We get to see where Laila lives and how she was able to be around Chiho to slip her the Yesod fragment. The reveal of her living space was hilarious for me. Her job background reenforces for Maou that she has been hiding behind the scenes in ways that left her family in danger and isn't really interested yet in listening to her request for help. Gabriel in the last chapter is more forthcoming on the stakes of what is coming. He then name drops the big antagonist of the Angel system in Ente Isla and it makes some of Chiho's questions about Ashiya's actions make more sense. Very good build up and excited to see what comes of the bomb drop in the last sentence of this volume.

[Diné *The Lazy Kitsune* · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG!❤️❤️❤️ the best in the series so far!

[Abi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked that this focused a lot on romance. We get to see Chiho talk with one of her friends at school, and re-confront Maou. Laila and Emi make a little bit of progress, although we still don't know all the specifics of what she wants Emi and Maou to do for her. Speaking of them, they're finally friends which is nice. Rika and Alciel did not go where I thought they would. I was thinking they'd maybe get together, but sadly they did not. Sigh. I get it though. At the end (on an annoying cliffhanger) we get some important information about the angels, the OG Satan, and also the reasons why humans have holy force, why angels are angels, etc. I look forward to seeing where all of that goes. Overall, a decent installment. I've greatly enjoyed the character development of the last two or three books, and I do look forward to seeing what Maou says to Chiho, as I suspect that will happen in the next book. Hopefully we'll soon move into the final arc of the series, which I think should be happening in maybe two books? The next book will probably be spent on preparation and working out a few things relationship-wise. 4 stars.

[Creativeimaginator · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a little slow in comparison to the others, but one I still found enjoyable.

[Roxanne Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly relationship progress in this one, which is good to prepare for the next adventure.

[Kayleigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

That cliffhanger! Amaaazing.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took a long break from this series after burning out on it after volume 12, but it was just my luck that volume 13 is more or less aimed at organizing and summarizing the story up to this point. It does away with the action and instead focuses entirely on character relations, which does read quite well and feels interesting.