Helluva Boss: ''Helluva Human Kid''

Ch.35 - Queen Bee ...and Stella

Stolas was walking through the hallways of his mansion with a novel in his hand as he passed by Via's room.

He peaked through her bedroom door to see her sending a couple of text messages with a yawn before pulling up her blanket for the night.

The owl demon prince smiled softly as she went to sleep, a happy owlette. Admittedly, he hadn't seen her this relaxed since her mother started having her tantrums about him and Blitzø's partnership.

Speaking of...

When Stolas shut the door silently, he heard a talon scratching at stone and instantly frowned, knowing who it belonged to.

"I always wondered what he'd look like in stone." his ex-wife smirked evilly, looking at the Striker statue. "Sedimentary, in your case."

"I don't suppose you had other plans for him?" remarked Stolas hatefully.

"Granted, he was incompetent." Stella replied. "But, even if I have to do everything myself, I always have a back-up plan."

STOLAS - "That doesn't make you as bright, thinking you can just waltz into a house you don't associate with much."

STELLA - "I did tell you I like tormenting you, darling."

STOLAS - "Even so, you've got a lot of nerve showing your face around it. And I 'really' mean one, striking, nerve."

STELLA - "Ohh, someone mad about a divorced one coming to visit? I wouldn't blame you, even if I wanted to."

STOLAS - "No, but I would, for everything I now know you've put me through. Why are you here to begin with?"

STELLA - "Which is why I'm not exactly 'here' here."

And she was right. She was actually still at home in her ice castle, owned by her brother Andrealphus, using a holographic message machine, and Stolas began putting his hand through her hologram.

STELLA - "I suppose us Goetias are the kind of demons with moments of recompense, in terms of the line between magic and science."

STOLAS - "Yeah, you're right, wow. I don't think there's been a time of magic where I touched you."

Stella then rolled her eyes in disgust by that statement, before turning her attention to Via's room.

STELLA - "I see our daughter's finally comfortable."

STOLAS - "I'd slap those talons away from that door if you had one on you."

STELLA - "So what, I take it you have a full custody plan now?"

STOLAS - "It took you long enough to recognise? Shocker."

STELLA - "Shocker if what? I did or I didn't? Not that I care still."

STOLAS - "Well you should! This is the Goetia future you're speaking the name of, whether you'd like to or not. One future you could still take interest in."

STELLA - "Please. Even the fantasy of whatever future you're thinking of is unpredictable, and everyone in this family knows it. This needs to be the future of Hell you're speaking of."

STOLAS - "And what in Hell is the relation to what we're discussing?"

STELLA - "I'd tell you, but once again, it'd imply that I gave a shit about our marriage, as you oh-so say I don't. But in any case, I do. That, and I'd have to start at where it was first established."