Chapter 234: I've Tried Being Nice

Perseus POV

I managed to fight my way to the quarter-finals of the tournament, good news, it's that by fighting stronger opponents continuously for the past week or so caused me to be on the verge of the 7th star. Tomorrow, I'll have the match, and hopefully, that'll push me to the next level, but after that, I'll be fighting the tournament's favorite.

If I lose, a large chance that I will since Phineas got the powers of Michael, I'll have to fight for the 3rd spot, if I win against Phineas, I might as well fight and win the whole thing because there's a reason why he's the favorite, he's the clear strongest, the other finalist would rather fight me if I somehow managed to win.

"So you've finally gotten a hold of Maple." Lilith said as I woke up

She's currently crossing her arm and watching me sleep with Maple and Leilah by my side, Buddy is also snuggling under the blanket to separate me and Leilah.

"Hmm, aren't you supposed to be working today?"

"I did a lot of overtime and covered extra shifts so I can get time off." she replied "Only to be rewarded by you snuggling closer to my other sister. Well, at least that means you now can shift some effort to seduce Ruka instead, hey, stop tightening your hold, you're purposely trying to make me jealous."

"Well, there's a thing that I like about you sisters, you're all real clingy."

Lilith then pouted and got right in between me and Maple, waking her up, she didn't really fight it and just hugged Lilith from behind instead.

"Damn it, I see why you like her pressing onto you now." Lilith complained

"Yep, she's very gentle unlike you, even Leilah is."

"Hmph." she then tightened her arm around me "Just because I like you, it doesn't give you an excuse to say whatever you want, the tighter my grip is, the more I like you, you're lucky I'm holding back and not breaking your back."

"I'd rather not want you to have a tight grip, I want kids. Well, you might want to release your hold a bit, I'll go take a bath since I got a free day today."

"I'll join you. Oh, and it looks like Leilah will too, she's waking up."

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Luckily the private bath at this place is big, well, since most participants are rich, they got to have great facilities, and the private bathtub was big enough for one at a public bathhouse. I always book one for a free day, I usually come here with Buddy as the others would go out shopping.

A warm bath is so relaxing every once in a while, and I don't really have to worry about the bill, it's free unless I want some 'escorts', participants get a lot of services for free.

"You were mumbling about something when you were sleeping, what did you dream about?" Lilith asked

"I don't really remember."

"It was about Keith." Leilah said

"Is he a friend of yours?" Lilith asked

"Hah, if he was, I'd have a much better life."

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*Flashback*

Loki POV

I blacked out, and all I saw was Typhon using his feet to stomp where Lucifer was standing, sending over a whirlwind of dust and debris coming my way, and the next thing I knew, I was bit by a large piece of metal to the head and I blacked out.

I didn't know what happened after, but I remember being put in this intensive care unit as my body filled with pain, what happened to Lucifer? I did not know.

My ears rang, I can't hear anything, but I can feel the blood flowing right out of my ear, I can see bright lights and hear loud noises were going around me, I then felt something put over my mouth and I start to black out again.

When I woke up again, I can see myself handcuffed with my ankles also cuffed. My body is also restrained to the chair that is built and attached to the ground, I can feel restraints everywhere, and just as I was relieved to be able to move my head, I can feel them put restraints over my neck.

I seem to only be able to see with my left eye as I felt some bandages wrapped around my head and covering my right eye.

I can see this man in front of me put back 2 syringes into a box and hand it away. The scientist in front of me wasn't in the best of conditions also, he got scratches and bruises over the exposed part of his body.

"He then pulled his chair closer to the table and took some documents out.

"Well, Loki, your escape attempt was slightly successful as one of you managed to escape." he said "I'm Keith Hughes, and I'll be in charge of getting information out of you today, I have injected your neck with truth serum, if you worry about any severe side effects, don't worry, I have worked with these a lot of times throughout my life, I'm an expert."

I didn't say anything, I shouldn't say anything.

"Thanks to your efforts, we have lost 3 projects, 2 are found dead and 1 managed to successfully escape." he continued with this stupid smile

He is trying to look friendly, but he's just like all the others, his eyes show no emotion or feelings whatsoever, he doesn't care what happened to me, if anything, it seems he wants to hurt me, probably due to the fact that I have killed his comrades.

But 2 dead...? At least one of us managed to escape, that's good, it means one of the 2 girls made it to a safe zone or got on a flight, they wouldn't use the word 'escape' so carelessly.

"What do you want from me?" I asked

"Your plans." he asked "We know some of the places that you may be heading to, we can narrow it down, but we don't know what you're planning once you arrive, so tell me al you know, we may be able to reduce your punishments."

"The only thing I know...is that, if I was given a chance to mount that escape again, I'll do it without a second thought, I'll kill all of your asses over and over."

He then just gripped his fists hard and beckon people over.

"I've tried being nice." he said