☾𝙰𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚒 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜'𝚜 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚕☽

💫Chapter 15💫

꧁𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕚𝕗𝕖𝕣'𝕤 𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟꧂

The Next Morning...

The brothers and Asumi awkwardly ate together in the dining hall. The only noise you could hear was the soft dings of the utensils against the plates, the tension looming over the room. Asumi had trouble eating and keeping herself in her seat to due all the stress that was surrounding her. Glares tossed from Mammon to Lucifer, from Lucifer to Belphegor, from Belphegor to Beelzebub, and Beelzebub to Mammon. Asumi fingers stumbled and lost grip with her utensils. It caused a loud ring.

"Asumi, are you alright? You're shaking," Satan asked. Asumi didn't answer. Her heartbeat was booming in her ears so loudly that she couldn't hear a word around her. She only picked up her fork and knife again and eat.

FLASHBACK

"That wasn't a choice now was it..? Do you think I'd let some lowly human make that choice? To think that you can have whatever you want?! YOU, A MERE, NON-MAGICAL ONE A THAT!! NO....!"

"Ah! I have an idea, but you'll have to trust me on this one, Asumi! My apologies if you feel any discomfort!"

END OF FLASHBACK

Lucifer's words bounced around at the back of her head, and only that, she was worried about what happened to the voice. Her vision felt like it was about to collapse, but luckily for her, Mammon snapped his fingers in front of her face. "Yo, Asumi? Wake up!" he shouted. "Hm?" Asumi flinched. "Are you alright? You've been shaking for the past ten minutes," Asmodeus asked in a concerned voice as he piped into the conversation.

Asumi stared at the ground, unable to say anything. Lucifer stared at the human, having a hunch that what he did last night was still distracting her. He saw the utter distress in her eyes like she wanted to get away.

Away from Lucifer.

He tapped the human under the table with his foot, causing her to look at him. Lucifer gave Asumi a strange expression— unreadable almost. Asumi jolted at the sudden contact and shot a glare at the Avatar of Pride, slightly glossy in the lights.

Lucifer pressed his lips into a thin line, not happy at the look the human was giving him. Asumi could only let her brown hair fall on her face as she tapped Lucifer's foot in response. "I'm heading to class early..." Asumi sighed, standing up as she grabbed her plates.

The brothers watched Asumi turn on her heel as she was about to leave the dining hall. "Be safe," Lucifer managed to mutter under his breath, setting aside his pride for just a moment. "What was that, Lucifer?" Asmodeus chimed. "It's none of your business, Asmo. Now finish up quickly or we will be late," Lucifer said rather loudly. It seems that he put his pride back in place once again. Mammon raised a brow at his older brother's sudden attitude as he took a bite of his scrambled shadow goose eggs.

Once the food was finished, the brothers cleaned. Mammon nudged Lucifer with his elbow once they were alone. "Yo..." the white-haired demon said.

"What do you want, Mammon?" Lucifer sighed with a hint of irritation in his voice. He was occupied with thinking about... things. "Oh, c'mon now. Don't gimme that tone!" Mammon smiled sadly— he knew when his brother was upset. "The Great Mammon knows that'cha wanna talk to the human, I get it. But after what you did, it's best ya give her some time, yeah? She'll talk eventually."

Lucifer looked at his favourite brother, whom he is the harshest to and ridicules the most, with shock that was clearly evident on his face. He had a flashback of that strained expression Asumi had before she fainted. His chest ached for some ungodly reason and he hated it. Nevertheless, the only thing Lucifer could do was glare at his white-haired little brother and leave for the Entrance Hall after he had finished his share of cleaning. Mammon was surprised at Lucifer's rather docile response. He wondered what the human had done to his sadistic and stoic older brother.