Chapter 207: Too Pure to be a Devil.
"You fucking traitor..." Mark stared at his supposed best friend scornfully. "One taste of their money and you're taking their side like some kind of people-pleasing lackey, open your eyes Eve, this man is a scam, there's no way someone like Dina would do anything someone like him wanted unless he corrupted and threatened her..." He grabbed her shoulder and eased her off his side, staring at Sol.
"Walk away, Mark."
"Or is it that you're also corrupted by him, I mean you did spend an entire week with him after all, who knows what kind of things he made you do, you weren't line this before, tell me, Eve." Mark glared at Sol. "Did this bastard force himself onto y-"
Mark's teeth went flying and he himself hit a table behind himself and snapped it, flipping several times and colliding into the wall face first leaving a splotch of blood as he slid to the floor.
"Dina!"
"I've had just about enough of you." Dina crackled her knuckles and walked over to Mark, picking him up by his collar and slamming him into the wall again whilst casting [Minor heal] to save him from any fatal damage.
"Rude, always staring, always stalking!" She slapped him so hard more teeth went flying out of his mouth before she picked him up again and cast [heal] once more.
"I can handle all of that, but how dare you bad-mouth Sol in front of me, how dare you accuse the most genuine person on this planet of something so disgusting!?" She gave him a backhanded slap and he spun out of her grasp and hit another desk breaking that one too.
"T-that's enough!" One of the faculty members attempted to approach Dina, but she looked around at the woman with her eyes blazing pink and her sigils burning giving her a feral almost demonic stare as she ground her teeth.
"I promise the same to anyone who even tries to help him!" Dina snapped and raised him by his shirt again.
"Dina..." Arla wanted to intervene but Sol held her hand and took picked up a chair, taking a seat and tapping his lap.
"She's okay, I've yet to see Dina dish out any personally justice and honestly if she hadn't stepped in and decked him across the face just now I'd probably have sent him flying through space myself." Sol rested his back while Arla sat across his lap and Eve who overheard his statement glanced at him horrified.
"Um... Mr Vestic-"
"You can call me Sol." He looked at Eve while Arla ignored everything else, rested her head in the crook of his neck and hugged him, closing her eyes tonfurtherbshow she was impartial after he had toldnher tonlet it be.
"...Okay, Sol." She cleared her throat wincing when she heard Mark scream out and beg for mercy when Dina started slapping the crust off his skin. "Is this really okay, eventually people are going to-"
"Eve, take a look at your friend's name tag." Sol instructed her, and using [view] Eve gasped when she saw that Marks name was all the way in orange, nearly red coming from green, a week away and a nother few days without her and he managed to do something that got him under.
"What's going on, what did he do?" She asked and Sol closed his eyes.
"I'm responsible for global security, not the misdoings of a single person, having an orange or red name doesn't necessarily make you a bad person, but it does show how compatible you are with society, it's not a fair one considering the contributions she's made but look at Dina's." He instructed her and she did as told again.
"It is white, but I thought only kids had... No, it's brighter than any I've ever seen before, it's glowing with gold..." She mused.
"Does that seem like the bearings of someone who's been corrupted by anything or anyone, or are you going to question a phenomena that has helped rid the world of 70% of the ongoing surface crimes after just six months?" Sol asked watching her use [view] on him and Arla, finding their names the same white and gold glow as Dina's.
"I'm not dictating that what we do is right or wrong, frankly we only need to believe that it's right or wrong to act, but we do act with everyone's best interest at heart, always.
The things we do, nobody else can, we've put our lives at the fkrefront of every major threat, an attack on my women; on my allies, is spitting in the face of that service, we don't want or value recognition, all we want and have are each other." He looked at Dina who was brutally slapping the orange out of Mark's name... Literally.
Since he hadn't committed something as serious as getting his name in the red by which the state or government would have intervened, Dina's harsh treatment was punishment enough, not that it mattered since the poor man was being beaten within an inch of his life by hands hitting with the weight and malice of police battons while nobody was the wiser since she healed him between every blow.
"You never told me exactly what it is that you do though... Aside from taking down Atlas" She took a seat much like a lot of other students and even the teachers, they had been paying attention to Sol, they mostly heard what he had said, and a lot of them hearing her mention the extinct Atlas cooperation broke into murmurs. "What's your organisation even called?"
"We never named it, to remain out of the limelight and stay away from publicity so people would just live and move on, we never named it." Arla answered with her eyes closed.
"Master has a cute dream about retiring someplace quiet when we are all done, and we would have been in another six months while this place was being built... But things started happening again, and now we have no choice but to leave and become active once more." She pouted while Sol pet her head to console her.
"As for exactly what we do, I'm afraid that's classified information none of you here are cleared to know, not that it would matter even if you did; the responsibility is one only I as their patriarch bare." Sol added, and saw Eve pout and lean her head at him.
"Are you calling yourself a king?"
"Haha, master, she thinks you are a king." Arla chuckled and looked at him, and then across the room when Dina righted herself and took a deep breath.
"I swear, if I ever see your name anywhere near orange again, I'll break your legs and cripple you, got it?" She stared at Mark who was sweating with drips of blood surrounding him on the ground.
"Y-yes... ma'am." He shuddered when their eyes made four. "Never again..."
"His name really changed from orange to yellow." One observer shuddered as well looking at the mess he was as he laid there heaving and crying on the floor traumatised into being a good citizen by his crush.
"Good, we're done here then." Dina huffed a d looked at everyone else. "This is a warning for anyone who thinks they have the eight to touch or approach me outside of master's permission, Dina Levina is off-limits, if you fuck around you're gonna find out the hard way, and be damn glad I'll be the one beating your ass because if you manage to piss him off you're already a walking corpse."
"Is she serious?"
"I'm not above killing someone who threatens to tear my family apart, gods or demons, whatever they may be, Ikaris, Dina, Arla, and Sara are the most important people to me, for them id gladly drop everything ane become the world's most cruel devil."
"Master you shouldn't say things like that, it is unbecoming of a Hero." Arla snuggled against him.
"Even heroes break when you take what's most important to them." Sol responded honestly and Arla opened her eyes and kissed his neck.
"You are my guidance, the golden beacon of hopeful light in a dark and unforgiving universe, to lose you is to lose my reason for life itself, Master, you who gave me a second chance and a reason to love again are too pure to be a devil." Arla sat up when Dina approached them, wiping Mark's blood off her fingertips and looking at Eve who was visibly afraid of her now that she knew she had been this dangerous all along.
"Are you saying you'd leave me?" Sol asked. And both Arla and Dina responded "absolutely not" in the same breath almost on the same pitch as well.
"If you became a demon I'd be your mistress in a heartbeat." Dina pouted, but sucked in a breath and looked at Sol apologetically as soon as she caught herself saying something like that after what they'd all been through; him especially. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that." She held her face and lowered her gaze from his stare. "I wasn't thinking..."
"It's okay, Dina." Sol smiled and stood before her, taking out his phone. "It's in the past, you don't need to walk on eggshells around me... Ikaris is calling for us."
"let's head home."