Arpious of the Planes

"Then… you won't mind…?" The woman chuckled before pressing the shadows even further, but I remained calm with my deduction of the situation.

A few seconds passed, and then,

"Welp, it seems that didn't work," The woman burst out laughing before releasing my granddaughter from her grasp, several marks still plastered and nearly burnt into her skin.

"Clearly, your power here is weak… otherwise you would've taken my entire family hostage… but instead, using a defenseless little child," I sighed before getting up and walking over to my sweet little granddaughter.

I brought her to her feet and hugged her, and she then genuinely hugged me back.

"You are correct. I could only contract with your granddaughter when she was weak… but that doesn't mean I can't slaughter everybody here. Paimon was strong enough to fight you pre-evolution… so what makes you think I can't fight you post-evolution? Huh?"

She was clearly bluffing, but I couldn't be a hundred percent sure until I really saw it… that overwhelming power of hers.

As the ruler of hell, she must be crazy strong, and just from her aura, I could tell she was at least triple my power in every single stat possible… but,

"Why is she so fucking hot?" I muttered under my breath as she returned to her female form, those massive… things just bouncing around.

My granddaughter deadpanned as she stared up at me, unable to believe the words that just came out of my mouth.

"Are you serious, grandmother? You just reunited with your wives, and here you are, attempting to pick up another woman?"

"That's uhhhh… that's a bold assumption," I stuttered as the devil's ears perked up, and she swayed over to me, her hand cupping my chin as I still hugged my granddaughter.

"Then, as a peace pact, how about you marry me? My family will join yours as I'm also quite interested in you…." She licked her lips before drawing her eyes downwards to my granddaughter.

"Why did I have to be born into such a family…?" She muttered with a slight tear of disappointment nearly running down her cheek.

"But, what do I get in return? I'll marry you, but then what? Are we forced to fight in this silly little war of yours? I don't think I'll give into a moment of lust and forsake the future and safety of my family,"

"Oh, don't worry. You all will be under the protection of my servants and will be granted gifts unimaginable to your feeble minds,"

"That's not something that I'll need if I become the enemy of the angels… give my family and me something that will make us nearly untouchable. Give us tons of power to rule over planes,"

"Hmmm… but already have that? You yourself rule over a few planes, though one might be a bit conjoined. You have no use for that,"

"I'm talking about ten planes, fifteen planes, twenty planes. I want so much power that nobody will be able to ever disobey an order that I give out,"

"Huh… that's… impossible…."

"And why?"

"Because you have this thing sitting inside your soul," She grinned before reaching her hand through my chest but surprisingly doing absolutely no damage.

And when she retracted it, she pulled out a woman nearly identical to me and tossed her to the ground.

She attempted to quickly stand up, but the devil's heel pressed against her stomach, preventing her from moving even an inch.

"My sweet little dragon. What happened to you? You have fallen so far," She sadistically smiled before pressing her heel deeper and deeper into the woman's stomach.

"Grandmother… who is that?" My sweet little granddaughter asked, and since she was so special, I decided to answer truthfully.

"A parasite," I chuckled, and as the woman snapped her head towards me, the devil sat on her stomach and ripped her face right back to face her.

"A PARSITE!? AGHHHH! YOU ASSHOLE! SAVE ME!" She shouted, but I was having too much fun watching this spectacle as the constant voice nagging me on in the back of my head was finally gone.

It was as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

"HEY! LITTLE DRAGON! LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!" The devil shouted, bringing her face closer and closer as she smiled sadistically.

"H-Hello sweetie… long time… no see?" She shrugged, and my jaw nearly dropped to the floor as the sudden realization, and final puzzle piece had slotted into place.

So the one she's been talking about this entire time… was the devil itself?

"Yeah… long time no see. I was wondering where your soul went, but it seems you just attached yourself to a nuisance on my side. This woman is ruining and slowing down everything. Everything that we tried to accomplish,"

"Hey, you think I wanted to be stuck with this weakling? Get me out of here and give me my old body back?" The woman demanded, but as the devil stared down, her annoyed expression soon shifted.

"Well, it's a bit amusing seeing such a big and burly dragon in the form of a little cutie…." She chuckled, and as the woman blushed from embarrassment, I looked around, attempting to find some kind of exit out of this place.

But to no avail; I found nothing. Absolutely nothing with my granddaughter witnessing all of these crazy events.

"Grandmother… you're pretty amusing," She chuckled while looking up at me with a strangely taunting smile.

"Uh huh… you will not speak of this to my wives when we return. Understand?"

"Sure~" She responded, but just judging from her tone, I could tell she was going to be a little shit and inform everybody as to what occurred in there.

"Fine, what do you want? Candy or something? A castle? Handsome men? Beautiful woman? I can give you anything you want… well, within my capabilities."

"Give me somebody I can trust," She responded, and as she looked at me with a pretty serious expression, I couldn't help but feel my heart ache.

"As you wish, little princess."