Chapter 30: A Fight between Husband and Wife

I immediately descended into the edge of the forest in which the cocoon is located, and convenient enough, the cocoon that already got broken as of now is located in the place in which Leon stopped flying, so I immediately intercepted her and prevented her from advancing into the current location of Idun that is currently being guarded by a crab, a goat and a Scorpion atleast forty meters tall, they look imposing at first but you can see that they are scared and is just being strong because of their loyalty towards their master and mother, Idun.

I looked at Arachne and, yeah, she's still hot and her body is still desirable, if only she is not currently glaring at me like she's out to kill me... Ahem, going back, Arachne have three pairs of blood colored eyes that is lined up vertically, she have white hair that reaches the back of her spider half and covers her whole body and serves as her only clothing.

Like I mentioned earlier, the half of her body, from her waist down is that of a spider, it has a white color that have purple lines in the sides that served as a magnificent complimentary designs, the lower part of her body also have sharp and briskly spider legs that have sharpness akin to a blade that she uses to either slice meat or stab her enemies to death and right at this moment, I have to deal with this very blades of my wife.

I have conflicting feelings but mostly, my battle junkie side is really excited because for the first time, I will be fighting my wife, and both of us not restraining ourselves and will go all out. Oh, by the way, as a side note, Arachne spits out her threads through the tips of her fingers and not in her butt, Understood? UNDERSTOOD?

Okay, good, going back she have a different fingertips for the sticky threads and also have a different one for the normal threads, though I said normal it's still sturdy enough to hold hundreds if not thousands of people, her poison is her bloodline magic so she produces it through magic, but of course she also have natural poison given that she is a spider and according to her, she makes her natural poison stronger through magic.

Well, I am not sure if sharing a secret to someone, even if that someone is your spouse is a good thing, but it's not like knowing how her poison works can actually help how to nullify it. Well, yes, I can nullify it, theoretically, by severing the vessels and the organ that makes poison, however, of course I cannot do that to my wife right?

Anyway, as this things was circulating in my mind, I glanced at the sky and saw Leon with Altair once again flying, but this time towards the co-members of the twelve heavenly stars that is guarding the place in which the bedridden Idun is currently being housed, so Leon escaped huh?

Well, no matter how many pride he have or how arrogant he is, he is still a monster, (though an artificially created one) and of course because of this he have a strong self preservation instincts and that very instincts is telling him that it is dangerous for him or for anyone to be near the soon to be the fighting site of me and Arachne, well that was a good thing that Leon knows his place because Altair is also safe now and even though she have a lingering bad taste after she was slapped by reality, the important thing right now is that she is safe.

I can't have one of my subordinates dying on me right now after all, that would be a total bummer for me and everyone doesn't want that right? And so, after assuring that Arachne and Leon is already in a safe distance I immediately went and focused my whole attention to Arachne who is still glaring at me at this moment with her crimson colored eyes.

"Rrg... Grk...!? Loki-sama... What are you...?"

She started to drool as as she stabbed her spider claws firmly into the ground, she seem to be trying her best to not attack me for interrupting herself in quelling her unreasonable anger, so she still have some of her "self" and the curse is still not the one I am talking to, that's quite the relief.

I looked at her in the eye, the pair in the middle of the column of her three paired eyes as I pointed my index finger in myself.

"Arachne, I am here to save you."

Arachne was jolted holding her head as if she is about to get mad from an agonizing headache, the whites of her eyes started to be bloodshot and have the same color as her blood colored eyes.

She gritted her teeth and once again looked up to me as she continued fighting with the voices of the curse that is trying to take over her mind, actually it won't make any difference if Arachne or the curse is the one in control for they have the same mindset add to the curse that resents Idun from the bottom of its heart and doesn't love me at all, if the curse ever have heart, but of course if Arachne just let the curse take over her, then she will not be Arachne anymore and will just become an alter ego to a vengeful spell of a dead person.

And of course, because she have pride and she also have a family to return to, she doesn't want to be taken over with and wants to retain herself, of course, of course I can understand that, after all, like I said a while earlier, I didn't called myself a manipulator when I can't scan the emotions of other people with just their behavior.

However, like you all already know, I am someone who will do anything to make my desires come into bloom, I am already like this before I was thought the wonders of being a womanizer and it just intensified when became one, I will not be satisfied to just set aside myself and my plans and whims just to fulfill the pride of someone, even if that someone is my wife.

And what I want right now is to save Arachne and Idun at the same time and it is necessary to fight the curse and let it takeover her, it is written (planned), it will be done, (1) and I will not allow anyone, even Arachne herself to not agree with this.

However, Arachne knew all of this and wants me to change my views for once as she started to shout at me in a frenzied manner in the verge of insanity.

"Huh...? What... Save... No...! NO! NO! NO! ARACHNE IS MINE...! Shut up! Shut up! Stop trying to take over me! Please, Loki-Sama... Please leave! Leave! You cannot fight me... The only salvation I have is killing Idun, Don't interrupt and listen to other people for once!"

Her voice became hoarse for a second as she slipped for a moment and the curse successfully took over her, but she still have a good amount of mental strength to brave it out and cancel the curse taking over her momentarily.

That is not good, please just rest for now and leave it all to your spouse.

"No."

I smiled casually in front of her as her claws started to extract themselves to the ground and slowly come towards me, in which Arachne is currently still stopping with all her might, Arachne once again gritted her teeth as she looked at me with her completely bloodshot eyes indicating that the curse is just a little strands away from actually forcibly taking her over.

"No! Don't say that! Please! Please, I don't want to hurt you! After you came back, after I went on a rampage because of you, do you think that I want myself to harm the person I love!?"

I only made a chuckle as I looked at her with a confident smirk as I put some power into my speech.

"Don't worry, I already have it all planned out. This night, I promise in the name of the King of the Devils, that I will crush that curse until nothing of that parasite remains."

My voice gave shockwaves of air blades into the surroundings as the trees started to kneel, as if to kowtow to me to have mercy for them, Arachne looked at me with all of her six eyes blankly just like that. I actually made my voice like a badass villain like that for the curse to be more agitated and for it to successfully take over Arachne, because Arachne will be removed instead of the curse if she didn't back away now, though the circle being made by Virgo is still not even halfway through, well better safe than sorry as they say.

The curse seem to once again succeed on taking over my wife's mind as Arachne (the other one) looked at me with extreme contemp evident on its eyes.

"YOU...! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! NGAAAGHG!"

However, the last bits of sanity of Arachne was still there as she immediately answered me with some confusion in her eyes.

"Planned out...? Are you sure about this... Will you really... Save... Me..."

I once again made a confident smile, this time with a hint of warmness and love towards her as I immediately replied.

"Of course I do, I am me after all. Trust me, just sleep for now, and when you wake up, you will be finally free from your curse."

Her eyes went wide for a second as tears started to flow out of her eyes as she remembered how I courted her (though it only lasted for the whole day and she's already in the bed with me after that) and didn't felt repulsed by her being the vessel of the curse of my friend as tears started to flow out from the last pair of eyes in the very bottom of her three pair eyes.

"Really... I... Then, I will trust you... Please save me... Loki-Sama..."

She then closed her eyes as her upper half slumped in the ground for a moment and she then suddenly got up with all of her six eyes completely drenched in blood red color, their is not a single  pupil that can be seen in her eyes and only pure crimson red was visible.

At this moment, I knew it, this time, this is it, finally I can now fight the damned curse that made my wife agonize for hundred of years.

The curse looked at me for a moment as she gritted her teeth in front of me, and the next instant she disappeared from my sight and appeared in front of me raising Arachne's lower back in front of my face as the curse tried to stab me right in my heart.

"I WON'T ALLOW YOU GET ARACHNE FROM ME! SHE IS MINE!"

I only gave a faint smile in front of the curse that is using the body of my wife to attack me as I whispered simple words.

"Won't allow me? No, you will, you have no choice."

As I said those words, I casually caught the front leg of Arachne that is being used by the curse without even batting an eye into the blade coming for my heart, the curse was shocked but recovered instantly as the curse once again used one of Arachne's legs, now in the mid section of the spider part of Arachne.

"Oh?"

I looked at the blade like legs indifferently and coated my legs with earth magic, the earth I used is highly condensed, one meter will be equal to a millimeter when condensed until  I made an inch of pure earth as a shield for my foot, I then raised it and made my foot coated in earth intercept the stab coming for my ribcage in which it successfully did, it stopped and it won't budge no matter what the curse do.

I then looked at the curse in the body of Arachne that is still flabbergasted with my display of reflexes as I gave him a jeering and mocking smile.

"Already finished? That was fast."

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Author's note:

Citations:

(1): Yul Brynner as Rameses in the movie, The Ten Commandments (1956)