Lilith POV
"Shit, it's 4 am." Perseus cursed
"What's wrong with that?"
"You're gonna mess with my sleeping schedule, I have to like teach kids tomorrow. So by the end of today, I need to sleep early and charge up my social battery."
"I can just tire you out again tonight." I suggested as he just sighs and got up to get a shower anyway
I joined him and we got out to only come back to sleep, I only sleep to pass time since I don't necessarily get tired, mental fatigue maybe, but I can survive, as for him, he did well for lasting till the morning.
He's not asleep yet, but I can tell that he's trying his best to sleep now and wake up by noon to be on time for lunch, his parents aren't strict towards him unlike how they are with his younger brother. Vincent, compared to Perseus, is more outwardly timid, and got some talent, but not on his brother's level who is now widely respected and feared.
"Why are your hands inside my shirt?" he asked "I'm trying to sleep and you're here massaging my muscles."
"Why? Is it distracting?"
"Yes."
"Leilah and that fox snuggle up against you everyday, heck, I've done it, why is it distracting now?"
"Because your hands are planning to drift down further below." He grumbled "We just changed the sheets, let's not."
"Well, do you want me to feel someone else's body?" I asked in a fake angry and yet joking tone "Who else should I be touching then? I'll have you know, I'm very popular. You should consider yourself lucky."
He just turned and faced me with a small smirk.
"Yeah, it's not like I worry, you're replaceable." he joked which caused me to pinch him "Hah, backfired."
"Unlike you, I am very loyal, replaceable my ass. You won't find another like me, don't think you're all great and you can just dump me once you slept with me once."
"Well, first of all, you don't have much of an as-ok, I'll stop, ow." he winced in pain as I twist his skin
We were then mostly silent after that, though he sometimes teased me by playing with my tail which I just kept his hand away from by whipping it around, it didn't take long for him to finally fall asleep, and I, of course, have dating other people before, both humans and demons, but this guy is the first who understand my feelings a bit.
My inferiority complex, my wants and need...he knows me emotionally, and I like that, I might consider becoming mortal and marrying him in the future, but like my own sister, even I'm scared of that, and he knows it too, but he's not saying anything yet. I will just have to think about that when the time comes.
*****
Perseus POV
I woke up and saw that I was hugging Lilith, who is just reading a book while I was sleeping, I felt a pair of arms around me and turn back to see Leilah.
"Good morning, lunch is almost ready." Leilah said and kissed me
"You're better than Lilith."
"Really?" she then giggled and pull me in for a kiss again where I was then forcefully separated by Lilith
"Hey, you aren't supposed to show favorites." Lilith complained "And me? Worse than her? I may have been with many people and only slept with half of them, but I definitely have kissed a lot more than enough people to be better than experienced than her."
How do I tell her that she's a bit selfish? She literally doesn't need to breathe, so I literally have or be careful, or else I would die. Hard to breathe when you're kissing someone.
*****
After lunch, I am accompanied by my younger brother and my fox to the venue where I'll be teaching some kids tomorrow, just some basic magic and all that stuff, Edward is also at the site and wanted to talk about a short 2-day discussion between me and the heroes to see what we can learn from each other.
Though I don't know what I can learn from those guys, what they know is learned through my grandfather anyway, I get that Rolan is already knowledgeable, but he wouldn't be able to teach me much, but that 2-day discussion would be very useless to me and beneficial for them.
And there are rumors that I managed to get through Vince who I had to have his ear out at school and on his walk home, to see if there are rumors about the heroes or anti-magic cult that I would find interesting, he did, and it was a rumor of a hero being able to hear a voice of a god in their head, and this particular hero is not Sarah, Trevor, or Rolan.
It could be Cassius or Saber, or the god of the northern continent whom I've yet to meet, I angered the 2 former a bit, Cassius is currently very unhinged after the fact that his cathedral is destroyed and with no step closer to finding the actual culprits, while Saber definitely wants to skin me alive.
What does the god want though? Why choose now of all times to contact a hero? Either way, this hero will start separating from the group, and it will only be the start, I got to the venue and went to greet Edward, whom I'd later told about the rumors, his eyes got wider for a slight moment, confirming that this rumor is true.
It's clearly not Maple, she doesn't talk with any hero, and she also barely contacts her top followers like the pope and Mark, so I at least got one god out of the way.
"It is true." he admitted "John, heard a voice in his head claiming to be the god of war, a title succeeded by lord Saber."
"Are you sure that he isn't just mentally insane?"
"How he described it was similar to past events?"
"What did the god want?"
"He wants to personally recruit him to be his holy knight, which John is contemplating on whether he should accept or not." He answered
Well, there are going to be several people with a connection to a god now, troublesome bunch.
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