what does freedom really mean, when demanded of you by a god?

Pov venti

POv u are in a restaurant w venti, it is very fancy and there is fancy piano musics playing in the background, you two are enjoying a nice glass of wine and a deliciouso meal when

Suddenly, venti gets up and sprints to the bathroom, you sit there in disbelief. Maybe he just had to take a shat rlly badly, idk

U continued eating ur tasty meal and scrolling through instagram. You keep checking the time to see how long Venti is taking and it feels like an eternity since he first went in. You brush it off bc maybe he's just having explosive diarrhoea or something, probably nothing

It's been an hour since he went and his food is cold on the table, you are quite concerned now so u go to the bathroom and knock on the door

"HELLOOOO???? VENTY?????" You pound on the door

No reply. Just silence. Is
Is... is venti okay??

You want to barge in but you don't know if you should, just in case you see something... you dont want to see. You take out your lock pucker and pick the lock, when you get in the bathroom, nobody is in there, not even a trace of venti except a singular shoe and an open window

"What... the... fuck?"

You stand in shock. There is a bard with just one shoe running loose somewhere... You get worried because he said he would pay for the meal

But you realised... Venti has no fucking money. So this is why he left so suddenly..... he didn't want to pay because he knew he couldn't

You take the shoe and put it in your bag, then climb out the window venti climbed out of. It was pretty easy to follow his tracks bc that man pretty much reeks of weird god energy

You follow the path of the weird god energy and it takes you to a strange shack in the middle of the woods

On the porch, you see another shoe, one that matched the shoe venti left in the restaurant bathroom... but why would he leave his shoes???? Was he barefoot??? Why...

It feels like there are people in the run down shack so you knock on the front door, but no reply. You look through the cracked windows, but nobody is there, yet you still feel an odd presence

You turn the handle of the front door to discover it was unlocked, as you open the door the hinges fall off and the door crashes to the ground with a loud thud, you hear muffled voices

You follow the sound of the muffled voices and realise that it's coming from the weird cellar down a flight of greasy, dusty, dirty, slimy looking steps. You really dont want to ruin your crocs so you put on venti's shoes and go downstairs

You open the door at the bottom of the stairs and gasp...

VENTI!!!

And...
AND TARTAGLIA???

The three of you look at each other, venti's face pale, childe's eyes full of embarrassment, you feel the hairs on the back of your neck stick right up

Venti is there and... and there was childe licking his feet

"W-what does this mean.."" you sob

"I'm sorry y/n, i need the money..." venti says
"Childe pays well... i... i'm sorry... i shouldn't have lied and told you i was going to pay.. but... with the money i get after i'm done... we can at least get a tesco meal deal 🥺"

You smile a little through your tears. What a gentleman. You forgive him for this

Childe quickly leaves and throws the money at venti, cursing something on his way out. Venti looks disappointed as he counts the cash but you walk over to him

"I appreciate the effort you went to get us money....... You are so sweet" you say to him

He tears up "really?"

"Yes ofc" and you grin at him

You both leave the shack and give venti his shoes back

"Lets.. never speak about this again" Venti said

You nodded, and both of you walked home together