Chapter 65 - Temptation Abounds

"It looks rather decent." Valentine and Fayette commented upon reaching the 'pub' filled with partying demons, they danced, drank alcohol... some of them sat on top of their human pets, but no more than that... overall it looked like a common nightclub.

"Thank you, I guess... buy one liver, get two." Sasha shrugged her shoulders as her business side came out suddenly.

"Huh?"

"Nothing..."

The serving demonesses had attires nothing short of alluring, a skirt so short that they might as well not wear anything, boots and a bikini top that barely covered anything, yet the demons seemed to not pay attention to this, meanwhile Valentine, Fayette and Vera's eyes wandered as the latter two glared in outrage at the poor bastard.

"You dare look once more..." This time the threat didn't come from just Fayette, Vera even took out her Rose Eagle Thorn!

"There is nowhere else to look at!" Valentine ranted in outrage, this is not to be between the wall and the blade, this is to be trapped between four blades.

"Then look at the ceiling!"

They moved their gazes to the ceiling and there it was, a shining naked demoness with pink skin showing her open butt, exposing herself to the world.

"..."

"..."

"Damn... you know what? you can keep ogling at them, fuck it." Fayette resigned to fate, you can't negotiate with the netherworld.

The trio didn't notice how Sasha too was 'pouting' while looking at Valentine with her shoulder gaze, however, she managed to conceal this swiftly enough.

She was about to have them head to their room when a red-skinned slutty demoness showed herself with a light smile, holding a tray with a big cup that contained some dubious red liquid that looked like fruit-punch, but they're sure as hell it is not.

When she regarded Vera though, that smile disappeared giving way to some sweat to fall through her pristine skin.

"Oh... you're back Sasha." She greets Sasha instead, trying to avoid Vera who she now considered to be more of a demon than she herself is.

"Andrea, right? how long has it been?" Sasha stuttered as she had forgotten this demoness' name.

"You have been out for a month... but, I'm afraid that the business is not yours anymore." The girl confessed with curled up lips and a shameless demeanour. 

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Sasha furrowed her brows at the sudden unexpected event, this shouldn't have happened, right?

"Maze has already taken over the business, and none of us is really against it~ she pays more than you do and makes sure to give us a prey by the end of the week... it's carbon, but... it's something." The girl with the tray bent her waist and awaited the small rant before Sasha eventually departed the shop, were she to get funny, the other demonesses would gang up on her, that's how it works.

In this city the strong ones rule, there is no one who is the rightful owner of anything, only through strength does one own a business and Maze happens to be stronger while Sasha was away, that's all.

Contemplating this outrageous event taking place in front of her, Vera stepped up to defend her friend right before Sasha stepped forward to pull the demoness' crimson hair!

"Is that so? where is that bitch?! take me to her before I take that cup and stick it so high up your ass, you won't be able to walk anymore!" Vera took out her knife ready to kill again and acted like a thug, surprising both Valentine and Fayette as they couldn't believe this is the girl that would always stay behind them and let them talk... right now she looks as if she's going to gouge your eyes out if you do so much as to look at her wrongly.

"Is that supposed to be a threat? I'd be delighted you know? in fact, how about we head somewhere else more 'private' in haste and delight each other on my butt's volume capacity?~" Recalling this violent protector, Andrea thought this is her chance.

If she can seduce Vera into becoming her pet demoness, who knows how delicious her soul will be?

"..."

"..."

But rather than seduce her, what she caused was a wave of absent-mindedness that only subsided when they recalled that this is the netherworld and 'people' here, are not normal.

"I'll swallow your core." Vera pointed her knife at her, switching her intimidation strategy, and it was efficient.

"OH COME ON! no need to get so worked up will you!? Move that thing away!" The red-skinned beauty almost dropped the tray at the sudden threat to her life which prompted the four individuals in front of her to deadpan, yes... Sasha included.

"Then hurry up and show us the way! we don't have all day!" Vera slapped the knife against the girl's thick leg, prompting her to shiver in fear and move forward amidst the giggling mess caused by Sasha when she witnessed this.

"Vera, you look like a hooligan~" Valentine laughed at this, he's usually the one behaving like a rogue but now Vera trying to extort a demoness is a sight to enjoy for as long as it lasts.

Truly she made his day with this move of hers, to his side Fayette was also smirking not knowing which version of Vera is better.

The two versions are polar opposites from one another for sure.

"W-What?! T-That... I... ugh!" Rather than dig her own hole further, she just sighed and continued.

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"Sasha, you still dare to show your face here after not working for an entire month!?" inside Sasha's office, a sexy demoness with dark skin, two horns and a pair of moderate wings, sat.

She wore a long black dress with golden embroidery... one that also had belonged to Sasha... and smoke something that resembled a pipe... presumably Sasha's.

The beauty curled her legs lustily one above the other with arms crossed beneath her buxom chest, awaiting a rant and preparing to fight were it necessary, she had already adverted Sasha's presence and prepared her other subordinates who were coming to make an act of presence to intimidate the purple-skinned demoness.

When strength is equal, numbers will make the difference.

With her job done, Andrea excused herself, not wanting to be in the middle of a battle that has nothing to do with her, she didn't forget to bow down slightly towards Vera, trying to gain the latter's good eye even now.

"I'm the owner, Maze... I don't have to work, get out of my office." Rather than rant straight away, Sasha just spoke lightly and decided to give the demoness in front of her an opportunity to live.

Alas, the demoness is one of pride... the most troublesome ones around, she waved her raven silky hair to the side and stood up, walking in front of the desk until she was a few metres away from Sasha, they had roughly the same height, but Maze looked more imposing with those two wings behind her coupled with her horns.

"I don't care... and the amount of money you're paying us, do you think it's fair!?" The villainess started her monologue and the reasons for her uprising, money as always.

"Where do you think you are? the heavens? get lost before I kill you, I'm not talking anymore, if you don't leave... you're fucking dead." Sasha didn't even issue an increase of wages, no... she immediately ordered the woman to get lost, they don't have time for this.

"Hmph! Do you still think you're-!"

*WOOOSH!!!*

*SLASH!!*

*THUD!*

A phantom stepped forward with impatience, if there is something Valentine doesn't like is meaningless chatting.

Maze's seductive body that could only belong to a seductress plopped under the lack of a commanding unit, the head that had already fallen to the ground without even knowing how she died.

"Stop wasting time... if you're going to utter words, at least make it important."

"..." Sasha's eyes quivered as her slitted eyes shone with great brilliance, a phantom seemed to have appeared before her at that moment.

She lifted up her delicate lips to say something but eventually, just bit them.

'Not yet... it's not the time.' 

Her current expression looked like she was more aggrieved than anything else, prompting Valentine to throw her a slight gaze before cleaning his knife.

"What? you said you wouldn't speak again..." He uttered with disinterest while Fayette and Vera had already expected this outcome, they felt vindicated.

"..." Sasha still didn't say anything, she just shot him a glare, a really deep glare.

"Take us to our room, I need to speak with these two." Valentine felt something odd within the gaze that he couldn't point out, it's not a threat at least so he just walked past her and out of the office followed by Vera and Fayette.

For a few moments, Sasha stood up there, clenching her hands profusely with her gaze towards the ground.

'You're making it difficult for me, I shouldn't have appeared, stupid me... surely Vera would have been able to save you without my intervention. S-Should I leave now?'

'N-No, I have appeared so I can't leave now, not yet... I'll enjoy this briefly and then leave... I already killed the bitch and burned her corpse, no one should find out...'

Sasha held her forehead for a minute, regaining her composure and calming her palpitating heart.

She lost her calm just now, even her skin seemed to be flickering in colours... changing from its 'original' purple to a more caucasian colour before eventually settling for the purple.

'Calm down.... it's just a few days.'