Carnival Games: RIP To Fishes

Pulling Asmodeus all around town before the festival even began, Asmodeus looked to Aster as he had him by the hand(with the liquor in that same and only hand) and was being pulled.

And looking at him.

The first thing that came to mind was Sarah?

Looking at his son he couldn't help but shed a single phantom tear. Despite Aster's hostility and coldness towards him he resembled the 2 people he loved more than anyone or anything and it made him quicken his pace and walk at Aster's side, following along with his plans and forgetting about his own plans

"So where do you wanna do first, Asy?"

"let's just walk around a bit, I wanna see what they got~"

"Sure, I'll keep an eye out for something interesting then"

"Awesome!"

. . . . .

Walking around the both of them caught eye of this fish game where you have a little stick with a paper net and you have to try to pick up the fish and put it in a bucket without tearing the paper.

They both took shots at it but it ended up leaving Aster sour as Asmodeus cheated every time to get under his skin and he knew.

"That's not fair! You're using your ice powers to freeze the paper Asmodeus!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about? And you can't freeze paper, it's paper?"

"Stop acting stupid, *hiccup* you know what you're doing!"

"Maybe you're just hallucinating, you are drunk after all?"

"Drunk my as-*hiccup* -s, I'm soberer than you"

"Say that with a straight face and I'll admit to whatever you claim..."

Drowsy "I am sober and your a cheater, *hiccup*"

Asmodeus laughed, "Can't prove anything kid"

Looking over to the main in red operating this carnival stand, "2 more boss!" he said and the man behind the counter of fish gave him 2 more of those thin paper catchers.

"You gonna try again huh?" Asmodeus said while pulling out a few copper coins to pay for the both of them in total.

"Give it your best kid" the man in red said and Aster looked up at the both of them.

"You see that even he believes in me! Ha! I gotchya boss! Believe it!!"

Rising his hand up the both of them watched him with anticipation and as his hand came flying through the air fastly which had already started tearing the thin sheeted paper, his hand erupted in orange flames and his hand hit the water exploding it all into steam...

"Uh..."

Looking to the tank where the water and fish were, the thick cloud of steam cleared up and Aster was looking into the now empty tank where there were boiled bait fish just laying there.

His kill count just raised by 3 dozens...

Slowly looking up to the man in red, "The water disappeared???" the both of them looked at him with blank faces along with everyone else around that stand as he said that.

AND WITH THAT SAID AND DONE, ASMODEUS PUT HIS LIQUOR DOWN ALONG WITH A SILVER COIN AND THEN DIPPED!!!

Grabbing Aster by the arm he threw that motherfucker over his shoulder since he was still in his primitive form and could carry another person easier. And with that done he vanished; leaping away and landing on a roof 2 streets away from that paper fishing stand.

"Seriously, why the hell did you use your fire!"

"Water go puff~...pffff hahaha!"

There was a deep stair bing shot at that moron "..." and Asmodeus was questioning ever giving him alcohol again.

. . . . .

Not long after, Asmodus was thrown into a wild goose chase as Aster snuck off when he wasn't looking and for the next 20 minutes he spent all that time hunting Aster down and he saw him 12 different times but every time he went after him, Aster slipped away?

When finally finding him and catching up to him, Aster was sitting down outside of a building and drinking again, but where'd he even get the drink from, and with what money?

But then looking at a sign at the entrance, there was a drinking contest and the winner got to take home a house special drink of choice?

Looking down at Aster as he had a bottle of booze that was a quarter dunk, he just walked over and sat next to him.

"Your exhausting, you know what"

Looking over to Asmodeus as he said that, Aster just passed over the booze, and without a second thought, Asmodus grabbed the bottle, and instead of taking it, he drank a good share of it before passing it back.

"Hey still wanna do some games? I was looking around and I found some stuff you'd like? I even found out that there's another drinking competition that's here in 2 hours, so I kinda wanna come back since they said that they'd make it stronger if I joined, Wanna join me?"

Looking over at him as he said that, Asmodeus spoke,

"How can you drink so heavily? Aren't you about to pass out"

Saying that he actually managed to make Aster laugh and remember some very old memories.

"Naw. One of my old girlfriends was a hardcore drinker so I kind of had to develop a strong tolerance. Ha I wonder what she'd think if she had some of this, she'd fall in love with it for sure"

"An old girlfriend? Do tell, I wanna know everything"

"Stop prying so hard into my past old man"

"Hey, I'm not that old! Plus I just wanna know more about you? We don't talk and your always busy, so hearing stuff like this from you on the rare occasion that we do see each other is super interesting to me"

Taking another big gulp and then passing the booze over to Asmodeus, he spoke since those words managed to persuade his drunk ass.

"It's been so long I don't really remember much about her, but what I do remember is that she's a Demoness of our kin, I met her in... Nefumia... No, maybe Shin Garu... Anyways, I used to absolutely hate her and we tried killing each other a few times, but she grew on me and I guess something grew between us"

"So how'd you two... Split?"

"Hm? Don't remember, it was a really long time ago"

"That's a shame"

"Meh, not really, we don't talk much anymore so that's debatable"

"Ha, you taking to people? Maybe only the legends"

"I talk to people, just not you or humans"

"Huh? Why not!"

"I have grudge against them"

"No, I mean against me!"

"I also have a grudge against you"

"Boo-hoo..."

Pushing up off the wall, Aster stood up, and finished off the rest of the alcohol in that bottle after getting it back from Asmodeus and helping him up.

"How can you drink so much? Doesn't your stomach get full?"

"Actually, being a Fire Barron has its perks. My metabolism is the same as a blast furnace and I can drink endlessly, since, after the substances in my body is absorbed, it all evaporates from out of me in the form of steam which helps since I don't have to excrete waste much anymore"

"Stupid fire people... Ice is still better..."

"Actually I think earth manipulators are better than both fire and ice users???"

"Ah ah ah let's just get off the topic already!"

"Okay, let's go back to having some fun~"

"Yeah!"

. . . . .

Spending the next hour and a half running around, both in their original forms, they returned back to where Asmodeus found Aster and as they were a little tired from the games, they both decided to sit in and wait for the drinking competition to start.

Half an hour passed and 34 contestants were sitting at a single table which included both Asmodeus and Aster. They were waiting patiently for a bell to ring for them to start round 1 of the drinking competition.

. . . . .

With Asmodeus sitting next to Aster he looked next to him and over at the 20 shot glasses in front of him that looked purple and not clear and he was just questioning what the hell was in front of him?

"Why does everyone else have clear stuff and only you have that purple stuff"

Looking back over Aster smiled maliciously.

"Because everyone here has sharp vodka and I have the strongest thing they got~ So bring it!"

*Ding!*

"Round 1 start!" Announcer girl.