Helluva Boss: ''Helluva Human Kid''

Ch.43 - Stella's New Friends on the Other Side

The next morning...

"She knows?!" gasped Loona.

"I'm afraid so, my dear." replied Stolas softly.

The I.M.P gang, including Balin, were called to start work early as Blitzø lately informed everyone of Stella's unexpected 'visit.'

"B-B-But, how?" stuttered the boss. "We've been keeping him a secret from the outside like you would've wanted."

"Not in that Striker guy's case, apparently." the owl princess spoke next. "There way I see and heard it, he must've reported this to her when he tried to break into the palace."

"Wait, who's this Striker guy?" asked Balin, who was sitting in Loona's lap. "Was he the one who...?"

"Effed up your fun day with Via?" interrupted Blitzø, as everyone else gave him unamused glares. "Yeah, that's him."

Balin then clung onto Loona still feeling scared of him, even by his name.

"Dammit, Blitzø!" she barked at him. "You know how scared he is of him!"

"Don't you think either one of us is too, Loonie?!" he remarked.

"No, no, it's okay." Balin joined in calmly. "It's just... in one of my nightmares, I..."

"Kiddo, what does this have to do with your nightmares?" Loona interrupted him.

"It's just... he was disguised as the judge that placed me in the foster home. Taking me away from my family." he sighed.

The others felt sorry for the kid every time he brought this up in his grief.

"I'm so sorry, little guy." Via walked up to him and gave his cheek a rub.

"Yeah. Sounds like both those guys left quite a mark on you." added Moxxie in support.

"Hang on, we're getting off-topic here." said Stolas.

"My father's right." Via interrupted. "This is about mother, and whatever she might do to him. In fact, all of you."

"What are you talking about, Your Highness?" asked Millie.

Via soon pulled out a cassette tape.

"They have those things in Hell?" Balin thought in his head, as he tilted it in confusion.

"Before I went to bed each night since coming home, I prepared this in case my parents ever met again and got into another fight. That way, I'd use whatever evidence as proof the next morning."

Stolas nodded at his daughter's effective method, but widened his eyes nonetheless.

"EVERY night?" he sheepishly asked. "Does that mean that one night where Blitzø and I were talking about...?"

"Yes. And it's disgusting." replied the princess.

Everyone else looked disturbed for a second, except the boy who was too young to understand adult stuff, before Via broke the silence.

"Just listen to what I heard that night!" she sighed with frustration.

She then turned on the cassette tape to hear Stella's speech from the night she visited the mansion during Bee's party.

"You wanna know how I heard about that little shit?" she began speaking grimly in the static. "Our little friend the cowboy may have been the first, but don't go thinking for a minute longer that Hell is the only place my ears are."

...

FLASHBACK:

As everyone listed closely to Stella's recorded words, little flashbacks were shown.