In a deserted alley in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a green gateway opened, and Kraft stepped out in casual clothes.
Once the gateway closed, Kraft tried drawing on the Hell Power he had gained through the Contract. As expected, nothing happened. Only then did he open another Portal and bring Arale over.
Since that lousy mage, The Ancient One, was busy putting Hell in order and piling more responsibilities onto her two students, she hadn't come along this time. Alice didn't like traveling everywhere and had stayed in their original world, so only Angela and Arale had joined him.
"Ohoho, so this is another world? It doesn't look any different."
After stepping out of the Portal, Arale tilted her little head back and looked around.
"Under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be much difference anyway."
Kraft smiled and ruffled Arale's hair, then tried using Hell Power again...
It actually worked!
Compared with their original world, however, drawing on Hell Power in this new world took considerably more effort.
In networking terms, it was probably the difference between a ten-megabit cable connection and a hundred-megabit internal fiber connection.
He wasn't sure whether crossing worlds had weakened the signal, or whether this world also had a Hell and a King of Hell, restricting Arale's access...
Ah... come to think of it, didn't I just alert this world's Mephisto?
"Tsk. Angela, first check whether anyone we know exists in this world."
Kraft dismissed the Hell Power with a flick of his hand and clicked his tongue. He wasn't afraid of Mephisto or any other demon. Mainly, he'd already visited Hell once, so another trip wouldn't offer anything new.
"Okay~"
Angela's cheerful voice rang through his earpiece. After all, her original hobby had been breaking into other people's computers and matching wits with firewalls, cybersecurity