Arpious of the Planes

"Oh my, does this really feel that good?" Loni asks after seeing my face practically drooling.

"N-no," I respond before pushing her away and then hugging her tightly.

"Well, I guess it's not for everyone," She mutters.

After a few more minutes of cuddling, I had fallen asleep from exhaustion as the last few days at the demon camp wasn't exactly pleasant.

It was dark and always gloomy there, which I also noticed began to affect me.

This happened when I was also in the corrupted plane, but as I didn't want to use my oni mask again, I resisted the urge and waited until I got back to smoke some more.

"Give me a smoke," Loni says as she takes the pipe from my hand and puffs a large cloud straight from her lungs.

She was currently sitting straight up against the bed's backboard while I was cuddling right next to her, my head near her armpit.

"Are you allowed to smoke?"

"Not really, but this much should be fine," She says before stroking my long black hair.

Each touch of her fingers felt so good that I couldn't help but shiver as she slowly put me to sleep like a hypnotist.

…

"Arpious, wake up. You have to work again," I hear a familiar voice call out to me, and when I slowly opened my eyes, I noticed Loni had placed her head on top of my cheek.

"Go away… I want to sleep some more," I muttered, but a sudden dose of bloodlust instantly shot me awake.

"Go to work," Loni says with a cold voice.

"Then come visit me some time. It's so boring with just Amanda, so make sure to stop by when you can," I say as I get up and immediately walk towards the bathroom where a tub full of hot water had been drawn.

"I'll try… I have so much to do today that I don't think I'll be able to even get back to the palace until midnight, so make sure to not miss me too much,"

"Okay! Love you! Bye!" I shouted, but there was no response, so I just shrugged it off as I stripped.

All of a sudden, I felt a pair of lips kiss me on the cheek, and when I went to turn my head, a pair of lips kissed me on my own lips.

"I love you too," Loni mutters before trailing her finger down the back of my neck.

"S-stop," I muttered, lifting her finger away.

She giggled a bit before leaving the bathroom… and I couldn't stop blushing.

…

"*sigh*..."

Amanda glanced at me after the first sigh.

"*sigh*..."

Amanda then decided to ignore me, but I continued to sigh countless amounts of times, causing her to slam her desk as she stood up.

"Can you shut up! Also, do your work! I'm almost done with my first stack, and you haven't even finished your first paper!" She shouts, jolting me out of my trance-like state.

"Oh, sorry," I muttered before picking up my pen again and then immediately getting to work.

After noticing my down attitude, Amanda sighed herself and then walked over to me, placing a blanket around my shoulders.

"What's wrong?" She asks.

"Loni said she wouldn't come back by midnight," I muttered, tears beginning to well up in my eyes.

I could already feel the bloodlust exploding from Amanda, who wanted to slap me in the back of my head so bad, it felt as if needles were sticking into my skull by just her glare.

"Geez… Arpious, she has a job. You have to learn that you are no longer a ruler and you can't get away with everything,"

"But I did work as a ruler… In fact, it was so much the number of sleepless nights I had was uncountable,"

"Girl, I've had so many sleepless nights that if I stacked them on top of each other, they would probably make up for half my life span… So stop complaining and get back to work!"

"Yes, ma'am…" I sighed before cracking my fingers and continuing with my work.

"Good, now you can tell me about what happened at the demon camp anytime you want," Amanda says, reminding me of what I was supposed to do.

"Ah, that's right. I'll just tell you now as it isn't any bad news that is hard to swallow. In fact, it is fantastic but a bit scary news,"

"What is it?"

"Well, your kingdom is going to be spared from destruction while the other kingdoms will be completely wiped out. The commander said to just sit back and do nothing annoying,"

"Oh, really? And you're trusting the words of a demon?"

"No… I'm already aware of how he is plotting something out of my reach of knowledge… But there is nothing I can do about that, right?"

"I guess. We'll just have to prepare. We won't send reinforcements when the other kingdoms ask for them, but we'll stack our own army around the perimeter. We can't let any demons through,"

"Yep… Any other questions?"

"Actually, I do… How come they brought so many demons? They should only need a few to overpower this entire plane,"

"I was thinking the same thing, but I felt like if I asked him, I would've been in deep trouble, so I withheld for now,"

"I see… Well, that's good enough. I'll make sure to prepare a feast for tonight,"

"Really!?"

"Yep,"

"Thank you!"

I jump out of my seat and coat Amanda in a flurry of kisses to her cheek, which she immediately got annoyed by.

FWOOSH

She immediately tossed me across the room, breaking my heart as I thought she didn't love me anymore.

"D-do you not love me anymore?"

"Huh? When did I say tha-"

"You don't love me anymore!"

"When the hell did I say that?!"

"B-but you tossed me across the room, rejecting my love,"

"Tch… Girl, I better spank you so hard you get sent flying across the room again!"

And so, she began to chase me around the room.