Chainsaw Man: Heart of Hell |Aki Hayakawa|

Chapter 10: Compromise

PRESENT TIME

...Location: Devil Home

"I don't want to share a room with the devil woman! She's gonna entice me!" Power badgered.

Power jumped to her feet with Nyako in her embrace.

"It will be only me and Nyako!" She added turning her head away from the others in contempt.

Love had her eyebrows knitted and bewilderment resided on her face upon Power's comment about her. 'Entice?' Love thought Power had heard a lot about her and her abilities. But she's overthinking it too much.

"Power, I would never do that to you. It's only natural for girls to stick together. " 

"Liar! I can already feel it!"

Love decided to ignore that subtle confession being certain that she had not activated her abilities. She earned a disbelief look from the black-haired male and she only shrugged. 

Aki cleared his throat as he rubbed his temples.

"You'll be sharing a room with Love and that's final."

With an exasperated sigh, the black-haired male left the room with plates in his hands. 

"Power, as the Love Devil I promise not to do anything to you." Love put her hand over her heart. It was the only way she thought that would compromise the strawberry-blonde-haired female. Also, sharing a room with the blood fiend might be a good way to strengthen the bond between them. 

At first, Power was adamant about being in the same room as the girl but her heart was swayed when Nyako entered the room nonchalantly and she felt compelled that she had no choice but to enter the room.

When she settled in, putting her bag on one side of the room Love had gotten an extra futon for the girl. She immediately left the room with Nyako. A moment passes and as Love prepares the room of three, Love, Power, and Nyako, she feels chaos brew in the room over. 

She peeks over the door to see the bunch huddled near the bathroom.

"The toilet? I'm the kind of person who almost never flushes!" Power had a look of disinterest.

"Flush it!" Aki ordered.

"It stinks!" Denji sided with Aki.

"What's with you... Humans are sooooo sensitive! Isn't that right, Nyako," Power jeered petting the cat.

Love shuffled closer to the group smelling the problem. "What's going on here?" 

They turn their heads to the silver-haired girl.

"Ah, Love! This stink devil won't take a bath and flush the toilet!" Denji complained. 

"Power, we're living together now. We'd like you to take a bath and flush the toilet." Love strolls over to the girl until she was close enough to pet Nyako.

Power glared at the female with wariness. Throughout her life, she only had awful interactions with devils and now that a devil in flesh was in front of her so close, her senses should be triggered to be in fighting mode, the thought to kill, but with the female devil, all she felt was peace. 

"If you don't, I will start to annoy you! No, I will do the evilest thing I could do on this earth!" That tranquil disappeared upon that statement was made by Love. It was at her best intention to make the stubborn female do what they had asked. 

The three studied Love in both interest and unease. She thought if she should have thought what she should have said first. She would never say that in public but since she was safe in the comfort of her home it just came out of her mouth.