Chapter 108: Chapter 108 - Sleeping in the same bed as a Goddess!
Everyone inside the room was shocked for a bit to see a woman they had never seen before in Darius' room. After all, they had clearly seen him enter his room completely alone, which meant one of two things.
The first one being that the woman, who was standing right there, had been inside his room for a very long time.
The second one was that the woman had appeared out of nowhere.
The second option was so unlikely that none of them actually considered it for more than a second.
Yuna was the first one to voice her concerns as she ignored Ariel's greetings, turning toward Darius with a worried look on her face.
"How long has it been since she's been in this room? Have you been spending all your nights with her?!"
Yuna didn't want Darius to see how hurt she was currently, but it happened nonetheless. The look on her face and the tone of her voice betrayed her, and Darius was able to notice the pain she was feeling instantly.
She wasn't even jealous anymore.
She was just hurt that Darius hadn't told any of them about her when it had been most likely days since she had been living in this room.
"I think there's a misunderstanding…" Darius said, starting to realize what was going on in everyone's head. "Ariel hasn't been spending any time with me. She just arrived a few minutes ago, actually."
"So, you don't know her?"
"Well, it's complicated to tell you everything. I don't really know her, but she's not a stranger either."
"Then, where does she come from?"
"Uh…very far away from here."
Yuna wasn't too sure what to think of those answers. However, when she looked at Ariel, she felt angry for some reason.
'Why is she perfect?! Ugh, so annoying…' Yuna thought in the back of her mind as she stared at Ariel's smiling face.
Ariel hadn't done anything, but Yuna had tried comparing herself to Ariel, and she knew that they were extremely different.
"Tsk, if you don't want to say how you met with her, just don't. She's already pissing me off," Yuna said as she turned her back and left the room, leaving behind Clara and Avery all alone.
Ariel continued smiling as she approached Clara and Avery, who were still on the ground, not moving a single muscle, just staring at Ariel.
Ariel bent down very slightly and held out her hand with a smile.
"Nice to meet you! I'm Ariel, what about you?"
"I'm Avery. I-It's nice to meet you."
Avery didn't know why, but she felt intimated while talking to Ariel.
The reason was extremely simple, though: She was talking to a literal Goddess. Everyone would feel intimated when doing such a thing.
"We have the same hair color!" Ariel said. "I didn't think anyone else would have pink hair in this world."
"This world? What do you mean?"
"…ah, it's just an expression. You don't need to think much of it, haha!"
Avery frowned as Ariel moved away from her and looked toward Clara with bright eyes, holding out her hand.
"Nice to meet you, too! Darius already told me all about you!"
All those meetings were actually quite stupid for Ariel since she already knew about them from observing Darius. She had already seen all of them through his eyes, and she knew all of their personalities and occupations.
"He did?! What did he tell you?" Clara asked.
"He told me about your talents to become one of the greatest actresses in the entire world!"
Clara just blushed as she subtly looked toward Darius, not saying another word.
Darius looked at how the situation was progressing and was quite happy with the result. He had a strong feeling that Ariel would get along with everyone apart from Yuna because of how she had reacted earlier. However, Darius could only trust that Ariel's charm would also work on Yuna later on. At least, he hoped so since it would make things much easier to deal with.
Nevertheless, now that most of the girls had met with Ariel, Darius decided to "kick" them out of his room as it was actually getting quite late.
"Can you two leave us for tonight?" Darius suddenly asked. "I need to talk to Ariel a little more."
Avery and Clara immediately nodded as they ran out of his room without any hesitation.
"Good night!" Darius said to the two of them with a smile.
Now that the door was closed, Darius quickly checked that no one was on the other side of it and listening in to their conversation.
"So, what did you tell me about back in your personal space? Were you actually serious?" Darius asked, still unable to believe her goal.
After all, Ariel hadn't decided to come to Earth without any goal in the back of her mind. She had an objective from coming here.
"Of course I was! I want to be known as the most beautiful woman in the entire world!"
Darius shook his head.
He had no doubt in the back of his mind that it would be possible, considering she was the Goddess of Beauty, but Darius just thought that Ariel would attract too many eyes to him. After all, Darius was still hiding his skills from the outside world.
He didn't want to attract bad crowds to him as that would make things a lot more complicated.
"Are you going to respect the promise we made back then, though?" Darius asked Ariel.
"Of course! I'm not a liar. Don't worry, nothing that bad will happen."
Darius shook his head, thinking, 'That's exactly what's worrying me. Who knows what you're going to do?'
Nevertheless, after giving Ariel his last warning, he looked out the window and saw that the sky was already dark and that the moon was out.
It was time to go to sleep.
However, Darius wasn't sure if he wanted to right now. After all, as soon as he would go to sleep, he would be meeting with Persephone again.
Nevertheless, all humans needed their sleep, so Darius headed toward his bed. But just as he lay down inside it, he felt a presence on his right.
"W-We're sleeping in the same bed?!" Darius practically shouted.
"Is that a problem?" Ariel asked as she was practically naked, her breasts almost coming out of her clothes.