A week after the abduction... After the deal with Lucifer, Astasia came to check up on him alongside Kai. To her surprise, he was given a land for him to train hunters that could potentially act as soldiers for any possible war that might erupt at any moment.
Lucifer was conversing peacefully with Jaena until he felt Astasia's presence, "Great, you're here. What do you want this time?" Lucifer's usual annoyed expression was equipped. Seeing how his expression was somehow different towards Jaena, a small smirk formed on Astasia's face, "Kai and I will be taking over. I want you and Jaena to do something for me."
"Excuse me, Lucifer may be working under you but I am not someone you can just order around," Jaena stepped up as Lucifer smirked at her guts. She clearly knew how capable Astasia was yet she didn't allow that fact to change her attitude, and that interested Lucifer.
"Well, it's your choice. I have two extra tickets for the Evening Carnival and I wanted you guys to go so I wouldn't feel bad wasting my money. If you don't want it, then would you two prefer to stay here to train the hunters?" Astasia waved the red and orange ticket in her grasp, but Lucifer quickly took that.
"Since you insist, we'll go," Lucifer grabbed Jaena's hand and dragged her to the event taking place. When they arrived at the place, Lucifer was still holding on to her hand, making her blush and eventually let go, "You don't want to hold my hand?" Lucifer questioned her.
"What? N-no, it's just... Are you fine with holding hands with me?" Jaena blushed while averting her eyes. She was panicking at the moment because of Lucifer's straightforward personality, "Of course I'm fine with it. Do you think I do this with just anyone?"
"No I didn't mean that... It's just... I'm not that pretty like Astasia and you're too handsome..." Thinking about Astasia's beauty made Jaena feel insecure. In terms of body, face, skin, and even powers, she excelled in everything. It made her feel like an ogre.
Seeing how sad she's gotten, Lucifer was pissed at Astasia. Every problem he has always involve Astasia somehow and someway, and that fact irritated him, "You're way prettier than her, don't you know that? That bitc- I mean that person is not as good as you," Lucifer grabbed her shoulders and stared right into her eyes.
"Thank you, Lucifer."
"No need to thank me. It's a fact. Let's go,"
The two of them went inside the ferris wheel and silently enjoyed the view. Lucifer was quite impressed at the inventions of earth while Jaena was too focused being shy about being alone together, "You earthlings are really creative," Lucifer commented. From that point on, the conversation began to come naturally, and even though Jaena was still nervous being alone with him, she was able to talk freely.
Meanwhile, when Jaena and Lucifer left, Kai was wondering why Astasia did that. He didn't have to give her that question before she explained herself, as if she understood Kai just from his expression, "It's good to tie him down with something," she told him, but an imaginary question mark formed on top of his head. What exactly did she mean by tie him down?
"Okay, all of you! Break is over," Astasia clapped her hands then rested them on her hips the next while Kai was still in the process of understanding her vague explanation.
"You, fight me," Astasia pointed to a random hunter. The hunter was an A ranker from Athen's guild and seeing Astasia's attitude pissed him off, "I heard you soloed a dungeon yourself. I'm sure you're not all that compared to our devil instructor," he commented, referring to Lucifer, "I can go all out right?"
"Of course. Show me what you got," Astasia smirked, allowing the hunter to make the first move. When he recklessly threw a punch at her, Astasia was quite disappointed. Why is someone who has no patience is being trained by Lucifer?
Rudolf surely felt a shiver travel up his spine while shuffling through his documents, "What was that?" he questioned himself.
However, that disappointment quickly disappeared when the A-rank hunter made a feint punch and attempted to give her an uppercut. To add on, his punches seems to pack a punch, but Astasia easily dodged his attack as if it was the easiest thing to do on earth, "You're strong, but your footwork is messing up your rhythm. If you want that punch to land on me, close our distance. Now, do it again," Astasia instructed the A-ranker.
He had thought that he would never meet anyone more stricter than Lucifer, but he was wrong. Astasia was worst than all of the people he and the other hunters in the classroom had encountered. A few minutes later, her guardians came out of the summoning room and directly trained the other hunters along with Kai.
They ended up training the hunters instead of going to the Evening Carnival since Astasia gave her tickets away. Though it was probably worth it in the end.
Instead of attending the event, they both decided to stay home.
"Darling!!!!!" Astasia jumped on Kai while wearing an oversized shirt printed with clouds. She immediately showered once they got home while Kai finished handling business regarding his guild, "You got heavier. Have you been eating too much?" Kai commented.
Angry, she jumped off and kicked his shin, "Are you saying I'm fat?!" Astasia raised her voice, her cheeks reddening from embarrassment and frustation.
"Your words. Not mine," he shrugged his shoulders, squeezing her forearm. This action made Astasia mad as she grabbed a pillow and threw it at him, but he obviously caught it with one hand. He looked cool, even to Astasia's eyes, especially when he grin after catching the pillow, but she didn't allow herself to succumb to his looks and threw more pillows.
Kai did the same. He threw back the pillows and when one safely landed on her face, things changed. The throws were becoming much more deadlier as seconds continued to pass, so when Kai dodged one pillow, it went through the balcony's window causing it to shatter.
"Oops," Astasia smiles sheepishly, slowly placing the pillow back on the couch.
Kai could only let out a deep sigh, "Just leave it. Let's go to sleep."
"Sounds like a good idea"