Entropy's Servant

Chapter 38 - Execution

(Just gonna put a little thing here: this chapter is a bit darker than most. Whoops~?)

Hello everyone, Astaroth here.
As compared to a mortal, you'd expect a god to be far more powerful, right?
Able to restrain someone just by looking at them and kill them with a snap of their fingers.
Well, the reality isn't quite that sweet, but it's surpringly close.

I looked at the small gathering of Heroes who lay before me, all but forced into unconsciousness by the powerful increased gravity of [Gravity Well].

All of them except for one, that is.

"Kh..."

Saniel sent me a defiant glare even while she was bound by Lady Entropy's chains.

Due to these chains, she couldn't move, use magic or do much of anything at all.

That being the case, I figured she posed little threat, even with her dangerous Aspect, so I decided I'd taunt her a little.

"Rushing headfirst into enemy territory without regard for your own and others' well-being... How very like you, Saniel."

"What do you know about me?!"

It appeared Lady Entropy had loosened the chains around Saniel's neck, allowing her the room to speak.

"What do I know? Well, let's see here..."

A sly smirk contorted my face as I began to recall what I could.

"You're the Saint of Exorcisms, you've always been frustrated you can't draw out the Aspect's full power, you have a complex about your small height despite your peers being envious of your chest, you--"

"How do you know about that?!", she cut me off, apparently still having the room to blush in this situation.

I felt Lady Entropy shift her weight on my lap. The resulting position was a little less comfortable for me.

Of course, even without her doing that, I could easily tell from her thoughts I had invoked her jealousy.

I decided to move the subject forward before the situation got worse.

"How, you ask...?", I said, a light mocking in my tone of voice. "Just look at my eyes and it should be obvious. Though I suppose if you can't see them from that distance, I have another hint."

The smirk on my face only grew in size as I spoke the all-important word--or rather, name.

"Arthur."

The slow transition of her expression from confusion to a sudden jolt and finally to a grand realisation was rather amusing to behold.

"Ar... Arthur? Is it really you?"

"Who else but me could it be?"

"But... I thought... We all thought you died! We were so worried!"

Again, Lady Entropy shifted her weight.

"Are you sure? Theliel seemed to have forgotten about me entirely, until I mentioned my name."

"Such... Such a thing..."

"Hm?"

"Even if it happened to her, there's no way it'd happen to me!"

It took me this long to notice the tears building up in the corners of her eyes.

"Oh...? Guriel said she remembered, too... But if you say you remember me, then why did it take as long as me saying my name for you to recognize me?"