Chapter 159: We're Similar

Perseus POV

This is a really weird situation that I'm in, I know people got pride and all that, especially the gods whose so powerful and good looking that they have a reason to be, should I target his pride like how I would approach a regular prideful person or do I specifically target his self centered attitude.

"I think I know a way to put him down a peg or two."

"Then do it!" Maple demanded "I've literally offered marriage, isn't that what you want?"

"I'm not that low, if I want to marry you, it will come from love, not a request, though it is tempting. But it might be hard to put him down, because he will definitely lash out."

"For mother's sake, you have 2 goddess in the room on your side."

"I've never seen you angry before, it's like so refreshing, you're acting like Lilith."

"Yeah, even I'm surprised." Lilith agreed "You rarely do see the sight and it's very out of character, maybe this idiot serve some purpose after all. Go ahead, do your psychology thing or insult him till you crush his ego."

"Before I piss him off, I need to know why he's here? So, O ugly one, why are you here?"

"I just want to ask what you're up to, o envious one." he mocked me "This is my continent you're on, I also believe you've killed my believers and it's more than just confirmed that you did it."

That's a half lie, Maple looks like she knows and like Saber, he's probably here to investigate who and what I am alongside with trying to find out my intentions, I killed his followers after all.

Even though half of those that I killed weren't really believers in his teachings, but the other half are despite their actions, if I really pose a lot of threats, he is here to see if he needs to eliminate the threat. Saber did it too based on what Ruka said afterwards.

"You don't look asymmetrical."

"That's your great insult?" Lilith asked

But it worked. The narcissist frowned and check his own body, I remember learning somewhere that symmetry makes them more beautiful, so a perfect looking guy should want no imperfections on his body.

"That one ab over there is slightly larger than its counterpart on the right, your right side of your chest is also slighter a bit higher than the one on the left."

I then start to nitpick everything about the guy's appearance and his frown started to get worse and worse each second.

"Stop, I shall not endure anymore blasphemy from you any longer." he said as he then looked into the mirror to calm himself down "You would kill for half of my beauty."

"No, I'm pretty much content with what I have."

"Now, it's my turn to take the reins and directly say what I'm here for." he said as the sisters sighed and put their hands over their ears "I don't care what you do, as long as no innocents get caught up in it, I am in charge here and my word is law, if I want, I can tell this whole continent fake things about you and they have no choice but to believe my words.

"I have other conditions, you all here have to leave my continent in one month time since you're more trouble than you're worth, and lastly, I want you to pick a side, our side, the human side or hers." he pointed at Lilith "You've chosen to mess with Saber, you've chosen to join in the world where us gods are involved, there will be neutrality, but even you have a bias, it's just up to which side you will choose."

He just got serious all of a sudden, would be scary if it weren't for the pink hair and him only looking at himself in the mirror instead of looking around, well lucky he doesn't like eye contact, I don't like it all that much either.

"My own."

"You're confident." he commented

"Not as much as you."

"Well then here's the biggest warning that you'll probably get from me, it's if you were to side with her and not with us, your village and everyone in it will die, all of us brothers are ready to rid of our competition and take our rightful place as kings, and I will finally earn the tile as the god of beauty."

"Isn't that your mother's title? And the beauty also include like inner beauty as well, not just outer appearance."

"That's why unlike the others, I don't miss her." he shrugged "She left us and it seems that you probably met her on the other side, I couldn't care less, I'm doing well for myself and I just need to prove to the world that I deserve a lot of her titles that was rightfully mine in the first place by eliminating the current strongest."

The current strongest god, Lilith...so this guy is not just any annoying narcissist, well he is, but his current title is the god of spring and wellbeing, he wants other titles to make him look and sound even better than he is now, even more perfect than what he perceives himself to be now, titles...

That's his goal in the war, the elimination of demons isn't his endgame, it's something he has to deal with since it's the barrier stopping him to achieve what he really wants.

Which means we're similar in a way, but my barrier is the war itself, I know that I'm perceived as a threat by both sides after everything, that's why I wish to kill the demon lord or heroes after the war is over, because only if I do that will I ever live my life in peace.

For a selfish goal, I would eliminate the heroes and demon lord whom are saviors to their respective side. And now it comes down to whether I choose to stay neutral or not, I've received my offers, but I don't have a lot of time to think about it.

The guy then explode into pink floral smoke which was so potent that we had to open the window and use wind magic to ventilate the whole room.

"We're lucky he didn't hire a choir to announce his exit this time." Maple said between coughs