She Belongs To The Devil

Damien left his hold on Ariel's wrist after getting the approval to make a quick stop at Hell.

Ariel then turned towards the bathroom door and then walked inside. She sighed and was about to close the door when Damien suddenly pushed the door.

Ariel's heart didn't just skip a beat but stopped for a few seconds there. It started to beat again when Damien pointed towards his dirty clothes.

"Will you pass those clothes to me?" he innocently asked.

Ariel awkwardly smiled and gave a nod. She reached for the clothes and then threw them at Damien. "Here you go. Anything else?"

And Damien pointed at his explosives and smiled. "That too."

Ariel grabbed those explosives. She looked at them while narrowing her eyes and also giving them a little shake. "What are these anyway? I had been meaning to ask you."

"Er…" Damien scratched his head and replied, "Those are blood samples. Explosives."

"Oh!" Ariel trotted towards the door and carefully placed them on Damien's palm.

Damien chuckled at that reaction from her and said, "They won't explode until I want them to."
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"Ah!" Ariel snapped her fingers and gave a nod, "Got it!"

"I will be back soon," Damien said again. And he further instructed her, "Don't let anyone in until I come back. Or else they might get scared. And… I am not ready to face everyone yet."

"I know." Ariel smiled and then made a shooing gesture with her hand.

And when Damien disappeared from there, she finally locked the door.

After freshening up, Ariel went back to her room and then sat on the bed, patiently waiting for Damien to return.

She was at least thankful that no one came to knock on her door while a lot was going on in her room.

Just like he had promised, Damien reappeared inside the room before five minutes had passed.

He was wearing black trousers and a black vest with a 'low V' cut neck. As usual, he was also wearing those explosives around his waist.

Ariel gave a short smile to him and asked, "Can I go and get my maid? I'm also in a dire need of a bath."

"Sure," Damien nodded his head and then turned himself invisible.

Ariel gazed at his ash-grey aura for a while and then finally went to fetch Osanna.

Damien, on the other hand, went and sat down on a wooden chair. He then started recalling everything that had happened just a while ago. And he couldn't help but keep on smiling.

"It might have been a little embarrassing at first. But it turned out well in the end," he thought to himself as he watched Ariel entering the room followed by her maid.

Ariel sat down on the bed again, while Osanna entered the bathroom to run the water for Ariel.

However, when Osanna saw the tub full of water, she asked from the bathroom, "Ariel? Who took a bath in here?"

Both Ariel and Damien felt their heart drop. Both of them were widening their eyes and were holding their breaths.

Osanna walked out of the bathroom and then looked at Ariel. She didn't look like she had taken a late-night bath.

Ariel was running hundreds of scenarios in her mind and was trying to come up with a perfect and believable lie.

Osanna tilted her head a little and asked Ariel while squinting her eyes at her, "Did you play with water magic?"

"Huh?" Ariel suddenly clapped her hands and laughed awkwardly. "I mean…" She then laughed like a maniac and agreed with Osanna, "Yes! Yes! That's what I did in there. I filled the tub and then played… with water magic... all night long.

And I forgot that I had played with magic because I forgot to sleep."

Ariel could tell that Osanna was not buying what she was saying because she had overexplained it. So she made a last-ditch effort to cover up her lies, "And my mind is a little loopy, I think? You know… from lack of sleep. And I don't know what I am saying anymore so I am going to do you a favor and shut up."

Osanna fisted on her waist and pursed her lips. She kept on narrowing her eyes at the Princess for a good while.

"No one is going to buy such a lie! It doesn't even make any sense!" Damien silently face-palmed himself seeing how bad Ariel was at lying. And he was thinking, "Well, I guess I am going to be found out. I'm getting this feeling that Ariel herself will reveal that it was me who took a bath there."

However, to his surprise, he heard Osanna saying, "You do sound loopy."

He twisted his neck and gave a 'Really? You bought that lie?' look to Osanna.

The naïve maid indeed ended up believing Ariel. "So you were practicing magic. And I didn't wake you up thinking that you were resting! But turns out that our Princess didn't even sleep a wink."

She sighed and asked Ariel, "Do you still want me to prepare a bath for you, or do you want to go to sleep?"

Ariel grinned apologetically and said, "I will sleep after taking a bath. If I feel sleepy that is."

Osanna gave a nod and said, "I will let you off the hook for once. But if you skip sleep again for practicing your magic then I will have to sleep here with you to prevent you from doing so."

"That won't be necessary!" Ariel instantly shouted. "I won't practice magic after stepping inside this room. I swear."

She didn't want Osanna sleeping with her as if she was still a kid. She didn't especially want that to happen because that would mean that she would lose the only time she would get to freely talk and fight and do whatnots with Damien.

Osanna finally went back inside the bathroom to prepare water for the Princess' bath.

Ariel let out a quiet sigh and flopped down on her bed.

And Damien rested his head on the backrest of the chair and sighed in relief. "I didn't get caught! It's a miracle considering how close Ariel was to spouting the truth that I was hiding here. If Osanna had pressed Ariel for a little longer, she would have pointed at me and revealed everything!"