Chapter 158: The Narcissist (2)

Perseus POV

"Aren't you supposed to be blond?"

That's what he supposedly look like in the paintings and what the rose described him to look like, though pink hair does make him stand out a lot.

"That was my old self, I have now colored it like this to make myself more beautiful." the god then flexed is muscles as I rubbed my eyes just to see if I'm dreaming.

The 2 guards are in some sort of trance out there and the 2 gods are still there, Lilith is facepalming and shaking her head while Maple is red with embarrassment as they came in.

If I remember his name correctly, Cassius Clay, the god of spring and wellbeing. Arguably the weakest god. He went to the best armchair in the room and tried to shoo Buddy away, but Buddy didn't move an inch.

The god is giving a perplexed look as most animals usually heed his order, but Buddy is a creation created by his own mother, he will not heed any order apart from mine or Trevor.

"Be grateful as I let you have that chair, I'll take this one, it's better anyway." Cassius said as I sensed a lie in the latter part of the sentence

He then sat on the chair and made himself comfortable. The perfume smell has now filled the room as Buddy gagged on the smell due to his more sensitive nose, my smelling sense is enhanced too, but with magic, I dull my nose a bit, this is just unbearable.

"Hey, long time no see, Maple."

"Yeah, same." she replied "You might want to greet him first next time since he might be offended if he's not the first person you greet in the room, that includes if our parents are with us too."

"It's his first time and my beautiful self shall give the boy forgiveness." Cassius said "After all, I am the most merciful god."

"Didn't you once turn a man into a goose because he rejected you?" Maple replied

"And that time you made a woman impotent because she already have a husband and chose to not betray him." Lilith added

"That was long ago, when I was imperfect and only strive to be what I am now, but as a now perfect being, I've learned to be merciful." he said as he spread his arms

Oh man, I thought I'm somewhat of a narcissist, but this guy takes it onto a new level.

"Perseus, please end him." Maple requested "I will literally do anything you want, like anything."

"Can't you just kill him?"

"I don't want to dirty my hands."

"I am always clean." Cassius retorted "I take 4 baths a day and the only one dirty here is that one over there, the dirty demon."

He pointed as Lilith who is being held back by Leilah and Ruka from beating the crap out of him. The guy is just nonchalant while he just checks his own face in a mirror. Like dude, you know what you look like, why constantly checking it?

"I will literally marry you right now." Maple said as she shook my shoulders "Make him sad and end his ego."

"Yeah, I've never encountered an actual case of a narcissist before. Sorry, I'd love the offer though."

"Then think of something, you're smart."

"Well, I can try to like tell all of you Dawn's message for him, might bring him down a bit, but Cassie, do you wanna let your siblings hear it?"

Ruka and Leilah aren't really ready to hear theirs yet, so I kept it to myself, buddy was the only one who wants to hear it, and it was 'take care of yourself', which didn't seem to sound like much but was well received by the fox who mom saw dropped off an offering at a shrine for the sun goddess the next day.

"What an ugly nickname, change it." Cassius ordered "But when did you even meet her?"

"A couple months ago, do you want to hear what your mom said?"

"They can hear it as I know mother love me most."

"She said that 'I regret spoiling you too much and if you haven't learned to humble yourself, please do, because I feel a lot of secondhand embarrassment.' She had 2 messages for you and this one was for this particular scenario."

I didn't knew what she meant till I see the guy in person when she said to relay the message on depending on how he turns up, but oh man, this guy is a lost cause, he then made an annoyed face before he then waved the message off thinking that his mother would say no such thing.

I'm just distracted cuz the floral scents is just too much for me, even with a dulled smelling sense.

"So, why are you here?"

"That's the question I have for you." he replied completely ignoring the message his mom has for him "Why are you in my territory?"

"Because I wanted a quick vacation?"

"That's a lie and you know it, is this about the army of krakens the people here are raising in secret?"

"You hit the nail right on the head."

"What's wrong with preparing a secret army? Everyone does it, and I know it will increases my chances against that dirty one, I don't even know why you like her, don't you want a woman who's pure like Maple? She's been with more men than you have fingers."

"14 men, 8 women, to be exact." Lilith specified

"See, she's very impure, why would a decent looking one like yourself go for such a vile woman? You can do so much better."

"Yeah, that's why I'm going for the rest of your sisters to make up for it, except the purple rose and Ruka. And besides, can you at least put on a shirt?"

"Why should I hide this magnificent beauty from the world?" he asked as he switch his pose "It's hard to be beautiful."

All of his siblings are just looking at the scene in disbelief, I mean, I am too. I've never met an actual narcissist before and so, I don't know how to interact with them, self centered, yes, that includes myself, but a narcissist who's obsessed with themselves and shamelessly admire their looks in the mirror every 10 minutes, never, and I don't know what to do.