Love Will Find A Way [Huskerdust]

Chapter 2

"Can I perhaps assist you, sir?"

A woman, a bit taller than me, stood in front of us, seemingly out of nowhere.

Her face was covered by a black and blue cat mask, made out of metal. Her short, light brown hair was hanging messily on her nape, which was not at all fitting to her formal attire, which most of the employees I've seen so far had.

Valentino let go of my arm and bent down until he was right in her face. Just like I had seen many times before, he took her arm and licked a long stripe over it, leaving behind a red trail of saliva.

She didn't flinch, pull away, or react in any other way. All she did was look at him expectingly, with the golden monocle on her mask turning while looking at Valentino like a camera lens would do to focus. I wasn't sure anymore if the mask was actually a mask or her face.

"Hello querida," he starts. "I'm here for your boss." The moth demon straightens his back, hovering above the both of us. "Where is your appointment?" If I wasn't dead already, my heart would've stopped right here. No one, really no one, should ever ask someone like Valentino for an appointment.

He made it very clear that he didn't need anything like that. People had time for him, no matter when, no matter who. At least that was what Vox put into his stupid little moth brain, with how much he was spoiling the other Vees. Vox made them believe that they were the most important people in all of Hell.

"Excuse me, what was that?" he asks, making it obvious that he is not just anyone. Her monocle turns back, focusing on something else than Valentino. "If you want to play with him, you need an appointment. Everyone does."

Valentino stayed quiet for a short while, indicating that she made a mistake, a mistake that he wasn't going to forget so soon. "Do you know who I am?" he thought of this as a small error, something simple to solve, someone just forgot to fill this unknowing employee in on who he was.

But instead of giving him an apology, she nods. "Valentino, Overlord and member of the Vees. All employees know about the higher demons in Hell." The tall demon gritted his teeth, "Good, then why do I need an appointment?" he asks while dramatically pointing at his own chest.

"Those are the rules," she says already turning around, in search of actual work that she could do. Val's claws grabbed her arm to yank her back, making other employees already look his way. "Well then get me the first fucking appointment you can find!"

Again, there was no flinch or any other reaction. No matter how these people were trained, they were trained well, perfect even. Thinking about it made me shudder. Overlords were cruel, every single one of them.

She nodded slightly. "The next appointment would be in almost a month." He growled, "I'm here today, so I will meet that man today!" Again, his face was in front of hers. I was wondering if she could also smell the sweet smoke, which Valentino always smelled like, through that mask.

"I'll see what I can do," she said in a voice that screamed 'I hate my job'. Valentino had a grin on his face, he was pleased, that again, everything was going the way he wanted it to go.

She signed at one of her colleagues to come over, which he immediately did. "He will escort you to one of our VIP bars. You can wait there until I have information for you." She slightly bows down and leaves, letting the young man, that looked like an fire ant, take over.

"Please follow me," the young man said and so we did.

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I had huge problems with this chapter lol. Also, it's pretty short cause I didn't wanna stretch it too long.
That female employee is inspired by the fatui frost operative from Genshin Impact btw.

translation:
querida = darling

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