The Ameri Azazel Arc is the 3rd Story Arc of the Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun manga series.
The arc centers around the school's student council president, Ameri, catching on that Iruma might actually be a human, and needs to be dealt with. However, Iruma ends up befriending Ameri after she realizes that he can translate the human manga series, "First Love Memories," that's kept hidden within the council room, and she's highly interested in. In the end, Iruma reveals during a talk with Ameri that he doesn't really have anything to strive towards, which Ameri suggests that he should simply start by rising up in the demon rankings.
The arc consists of chapters 9 to 13, and was adapted into episodes 6 and 7 of the 1st season of the anime.
Ameri Azazel Arc Summary
Chapter 9: Everyone Has a Magic Lesson
Continuing his days at school, Iruma is seen attending Suzy Stolas' demon biology class. Here, the students test out their magic on demonic seeds to see how big they can sprout them up based on their current magic power. The rivalry between Azz and Sabro (revealed to be a Rank 2 (Bet) demon) acts up trying to outdo the other at sprouting the better plant. As for Iruma, he continues to unintentionally put himself in the spotlight when it turns out that the Ring of Gluttony he was given allows him to use magic. A magic so powerful but raw that he ends up sprouting a massive Sakura Tree from the seed he was given. Because of his continued spotlight, Iruma winds up getting the attention of Ameri Azazel, the demon school's Student Council President. The peculiar events surrounding Iruma have led her to believe that Iruma is a human, and should be dealt with accordingly.Chapter 10: Ameri's Theory
Ameri and her student council subordinates go about their job patrolling the school hallways keeping students in check from doing anything questionable. Her subordinates discuss if humans really exist given the appearance of the Sakura Tree that supposedly only exists in the human world fairy tales. However, Ameri thinks to herself that she knows for a fact that humans exist. That she believes based on all the oddities surrounding him that Iruma is definitely a human.Returning on her own to the student council room, Ameri releases a spell on a bookshelf that leads to a secret room of many hidden books that only she knows about. These hidden books are said to be treasured items that have been passed down within the Azazel family, and are the proof that the human world exists. She then proceeds to open one of the books, but the content within it turns out to be that of a romance-comedy manga series called "First Love Memories." The pages she's viewing of the novel being the moment where the male main character first bumps into the female main character, and begin their romance. Oddly enough, despite coming off as completely serious up to this point, and despite not being unable to understand what the characters are saying, Ameri's interest in the book's seemingly romantic contents shows off a more girly side to her.
Meanwhile, Iruma stays after school to help Suzy clean up. He ends up bumping into Ameri in the hallway, which catches Ameri off-guard as the moment re-enacts the bumping moment between the main characters of "First Love Memories." Ameri asks who the boy is, which surprises her when he reveals himself to be Iruma. Overall, Ameri misunderstands the content of "First Love Memories" as a human ability to make people fall for them. She then grabs hold of Iruma convinced by all the oddities, and the bumping event, that Iruma truly is a human.
Chapter 11: First Love Memory
At first, Ameri feels the need to follow through with her role as the Student Council President to weed out the things that disturb the school, such as contacting her father to deal with Iruma. Realizing he's in a dangerous situation being held by Ameri, Iruma tries to apologize for whatever he did wrong by bowing down, but to both their confusion, Ameri is pulled down with him into a bowing position as well not understanding what Iruma, a human, is trying to do to her. A volume of "First Love Memories" then falls off her body to the floor, which Ameri realizes she made a big mistake by taking the book with her.Iruma picks up the volume, and surprises Ameri when he shows that he knows about "First Love Memories" having worked on it as a weekly assistant. Iruma then talks about the moment where the main characters, Rin and Kakeru, confess under the Sakura Tree, which Ameri realizes that Iruma can read the book. Iruma realizes he screwed up given away a skill from the human world, but Ameri is left sparkling with interest knowing that she will finally be able to understand what is happening in "First Love Memories." She gets Iruma to say a few of the lines in the book to further confirm that he can read it, and then proceeds to drag him back to the student council lounge.
Within the lounge, Ameri takes a seat in her chair with Iruma now standing before her holding Volume 1 of "First Love Memories." She then asks him to read it to her, which Iruma proceeds to do starting with Rin's introduction in the story. Thus, Ameri remains excited now being able to properly follow the story, such as learning about dates between boys and girls along with the introduction of the story's love rival. Iruma continues to read until the end of the volume, but is shocked to see that he read until it became dark out. Before leaving to head home, Ameri introduces herself, and provides Iruma her contact number. Once Iruma has left, Ameri decides that it's still too early to decide what to do with Iruma. Mainly because she wants him to finish reading "First Love Memories" first.
Chapter 12: Iruma's "Dream"
At the start of a new day before heading off to school, Iruma's house butler, Opera, asks the boy if he wants to return to the human world. However, Iruma remains confused not knowing how to answer given that his life in the human world sucked, and that his life in the dangerous demon world has gone well so far. However, Opera assures him that if Iruma obtains a high demon rank, he will be able to go between the two worlds by his own power.Meanwhile at school, Azz and Clara find it odd that Iruma's been going off on his own a lot. Sabro suggests for the two of them to follow him, which they decide to do so. Iruma arrives at the student council lounge to meet up with Ameri for their next reading session. Azz and Clara are seen watching them from afar, which excites Azz believing that Iruma is working to get the Student Council president under his thumb while Clara is just annoyed that someone is stealing Iruma from her.
The reading session then begins with Iruma continuing where they left off in Volume 5 of "First Love Memories." It reaches a point with Rin talking about her dream to become a bride, which not knowing what "dream" means, Ameri believes must be another way of saying "ambition." Iruma then asks what Ameri's dream is. She answers in return that as a person who's proud of being a demon, her goal is to make the school a learning establishment of admiration where any student can improve their life to one day also feel that they're proud of being a demon. She's also fine with helping with her father's work, or running more girly jobs like a bakery or flower shop. She then asks if Iruma's the ambitious type, which he only answers that he's just fine with having good times with everyone. However, Ameri tells him that that's just an empty ideal. She explains that what she wants to know is if Iruma has the desire to seize anything he wants, and asks once more what his dream is, but Iruma is unable to answer.
Chapter 13: Iruma's Determination
Struggling to provide Ameri an answer, Iruma explains that up to this point, he's just been following along with what people tell him to do to the point that he never thought about what he, himself, wanted. In return, Ameri suggests that he should start with rising up in the demon rankings as it's still a student's duty to work towards getting better ranks. Eventually, Azz and Clara have had enough, and burst into the lounge to take Iruma back, but not before Ameri tells him that she will be waiting for him to stand at the same high position as her. That night, Iruma thinks it over, and decides that, at the very least, it would be good for him to start with a practice goal.The next day in class, Iruma reveals to Azz that he's come to the decision to rise up in the demon rankings, which excites Azz as he was worried that Iruma was satisfied with staying as just a Rank 1 (Aleph). Asking Azz on how to do it, Azz explains that the way to gain ranks is through special "rank advancement classes" such as the flying race they started with. As a result, Azz reveals that the next upcoming event for a rank-up is the "Cannonball Execution" exam. Azz proceeds to teach Iruma about the exam, which is basically the demon world's version of dodgeball. The Abnormal students all join in to practice for the exam, but Iruma starts to worry when he realizes that they're allowed to use their magic abilities during the exam match. Iruma figures he's going to need special training, which Azz suggests that they already know someone who can help. Sure enough, they seek out Sullivan to help Iruma prepare for the exam.
