Chapter 16: Worship Me

Perseus POV

Ruka left the dream first as Leilah asked me to stay behind. She then leaned in clse again to whisper into my ears.

"Please remember, that I was first." she reminded "I don't care who you bring, but I am number 1, got it?"

"Since when...since when were you like this?"

"I'll tell you when we meet in person." she replied with a really weird smile.

*****

I woke up the next day with a headache this time, but it seems to ease up faster than before, it's probably due to the effects of the blue rose. I then just repeated my daily routine as usual.

"The first day and yet you're here just reading books." Ruka complained as I'm doing lying on a couch while reading a book "Aren't you curious about my powers?! Don't you want want to train?"

I just ignored her as she then gradually up her antics to try and nag me, just to get something out of me while a crowd of people watches. Edward muster up his courage to approach me and sat across me on another couch.

"Perseus, I'm curious, what really was the test, milady here was very vague and just said you had the redeeming qualities she needed." He questioned

"She needed someone smarter than her, that's all, no offense to you, just a lot of offense to her, she's clearly dumb and just act knowledgeable with her fake ladylike act."

He still isn't buying it so I quickly eye around to see what I can do to convince him 100%. But there is one way, it's if it's from the person themselves.

*****

*Flashback*

3rd Person View

In the lab, red lights were blaring, and sounds of multiple soldiers were charging in a direction armed with weapons, and in one room in particular...the scientist who was the junior and his team were screaming in rage.

"Failure! Damn it! It was so close!" he cursed "Get the medical unit, Loki needs more time, he's too young! Shit!"

"It's alright, you're new." one of his colleagues comforted him "This is the closest we've ever been with the project, let's just work harder to succeed next time, but we understand your anger."

*****

Perseus POV

Ruka swooped in for the save though.

"My test was simple, it's to have no intentions of taking the rose." Ruka told the prince "It's to simply converse with me, to have no wish for power...or trick me into forgetting to check you even if you have the intention to pluck the rose, so you have to either be not greedy or simply cunning. The children of the Paradis Tree simply all came with the intention of being worthy.

"Of course everyone will start to think as curiosity whether they're worthy, I'll make small exceptions, but the rose essentially that is also a part of me, is alluring, tempting you to ask, tempting you to want the power, the moment you asked is the moment you failed." she explained "Even the children did, they wanted to be a lord, they all failed."

That make sense, I just used her own ego against her, she never thought to check and now I am the new lord of the blue rose. I was just made to create chaos, I guess.

"By the way, when is the adoption ceremony thing taking place?"

"Uh a bit over a month from now." the prince answered "Well if you really want to be engaged or adopted into a high end noble household, you're guaranteed a spot, heck if you want to be adopted by my siblings, you can."

"No thank you, I'll come though, either way, I can't hide that I got the blue rose, I assume some of your guys already reported back the moment they got confirmation whether you told them not to or not."

"Well even then, you can still walk around not that recognized, information can sometimes get jumbled up, but that would only be the case everywhere else." she reasoned "Being a lord is a good thing, you can team up and side with us.."

"Unfortunately, until I get a lot of information, I will choose to remain neutral like my village have all this time, we may have our biases, but collectively, we are neutral since we dislike the losses of our own, so I'll meet him, but I won't be siding with anybody. Besides, I'm 8, what the hell can I do? Destroy people with truth bombs? I can make people cry with words, and I doubt it would work on the infamous demon lord? Does he got a nut allergy, maybe?"

Like why have no one thought of it, what if the demon lord have an allergy or some chronic incurable illness or something, color blindness...no one? Only me?

*****

The prince and his group left at the end of the day since they are no longer needed and was sent off by the chief and some of the watcher, appealing the academies or whatever...I kinda don't care about going to school, if my people are known as weirdos, I'll definitely get bullied and isolated, if I'm known as the lord of the blue rose, I'll be faced with fake friends and being forced to solve their problems for them and getting only recognition in return.

I mean the classical trope of a girl gripping me by the helm of my shirt, tears streaming out of her eye, saying 'help me', so I then have to go face her abusive parents for her, make her heart flutter and fall for me, let me tell you, hell no, I ain't going through all that effort all for that.

I'm like mentally into my 30s, I ain't doing that to charm a teenage girl, I know enough to not catch a case, but just saying, if the demon lord turns out to be actually a beautiful woman, then we can talk about taking sides.

"Alright, the prince is out of town now, even his guards and scouts are gone, we got one month."

"1 month for what?" Ruka asked

"Getting me ready to make people worship me."