She Belongs To The Devil

Ariel and Damien played with the toys for quite a while. They pretended to be the owners of a forest that was full of animals and vegetables. They cared for the wild animals, fed them, and then ended up 'devouring' all the animals.

And after they ate those animals, they decided to play some other game.

"Do you know how to play hide-and-seek?" Ariel used to play this game with her cousins all the time. So she thought of playing that with Damien as well.

But Damien had never played such a game. So he shook his head and asked in a confused tone, "What do we have to do to play that… hi dan sick?" He scratched his chin and guessed, "Do we have to make someone sick? Someone named Dan?"

Ariel didn't know what made Damien think that. But she corrected him anyway, "No. As it is just two of us, one of us will hide and another one will find that person."

"What do you want to do? Hide or find me?" she asked him.

"Um… find you," Damien half-shrugged, still not knowing how the game really worked.

"Okay, I will hide then." Ariel got up on her feet and then instructed Damien, "You count till 100, and then come to find me."

"But I…" Damien also got up and informed while being a little ashamed of himself, "But I don't know how to count till 100."

"Me neither," Ariel giggled and then said, "Just count the numbers that you know. I will shout 'Come and find me' after I hide. And then you can come."

Damien nodded his head.

And as soon as he did, Ariel ran at the top of her speed towards the door of the living room.

"Ariel!" Theodore called his daughter so as to stop her, "Don't go out of this room, honey. There are demons outside."

Ariel turned back and looked around the room. But she didn't see a place to hide. She pouted and shouted back, "I can't hide in here."

"Then I will come with you," Theodore got up from the sofa.

However, Lilith grabbed his sleeve and pulled him down. "Give her some freedom, Theodore. No one inside this mansion is going to hurt her."

Theodore gave a mistrusting look to Lilith so she snapped her fingers and said, "I have put up a barrier so that they won't wander around too far away from this room."

Theodore was still feeling uneasy about it. But he sighed and nodded. Lilith had already called him a jealous father. He didn't want Lilith naming her as clingy father next.

Lilith then clapped her hands and instructed the children, "You can continue playing. But don't go too far."

Ariel happily jumped sideways, turned around, and then immediately ran out of the room.

Damien then began his count. Though he was missing a number here and there, he kept on counting.

When he counted to 20, he heard Ariel's voice which resounded throughout the corridor. "I am ready! Come and find me."

"Okay," Damien shouted back and then ran outside towards the direction from where he heard the voice.

He ran down the corridor. He hadn't even reached far when he found Ariel hiding in between the narrow gap of two huge pillars.

So he happily said, "I found you, Ariel."

However, according to Ariel's rule, he still hadn't found her. She was facing the wall and was covering her eyes with both of her palms. And she denied his claim, "No, you haven't."

Damien wasn't sure what he was supposed to do to 'find' her. So he poked her back and said, "You are right here. I can see you."

"But I can't see you." Ariel was still covering her eyes when she shouted instructions to Damien, "Make me see you. Else how will I know that it is you who found me? But you can't touch me!"

"Ahh!" Damien nodded his head. He found this 'Hi Dan Sick' game very interesting and challenging.

He folded his arms and then tried to think of a way to make her see him without forcing her eyes open. His eyes widened as an idea struck his head.

He then screamed at the top of his lungs, "Oh hell! There's a huge one-eyed demon! Look!"

"Where?" Ariel instantly turned around to check the demon. However, instead of the demon, she saw Damien grinning at her.

"You saw me! I finally found you!" Damien shouted in victory.

"Oh! You lied!" Ariel slapped her forehead and laughed for falling for that trick from Damien.

"Where's the demon?"

Both Ariel and Damien screamed in fear when Theodore suddenly appeared in front of them with glowing red eyes.

Ariel slammed her back against the wall and shouted while pointing her finger at Theodore's eyes, "Dada! Your eyes! It's red!"

Theodore closed his eyes and opened them again. And he laughed as if he didn't know what his daughter was talking about, "Red? What are you talking about? You must have been mistaken."

"No! I saw it too," Damien instantly agreed. And then he asked, "But isn't it normal? Aren't you the dev–"

Theodore instantly clasped Damien's mouth with his palm and laughed even more awkwardly, "Something must have gone in my eyes. I think it was dust or something."

The last time Lilith had called Theodore the Devil Prince, he was glad Ariel wasn't paying attention to the conversation. He had thought that she would ask once they reached home but she never did.

And he wanted to keep his identity a secret from his daughter for some more time.

Theodore let go of Damien and then patted his shoulder. And he tried to steer the conversation away, "Damien, did you have fun today? I bet you learned a lot of things about Earth from Ariel."

Damien smiled and nodded, "Yes, I learned several things. And I also enjoyed a lot."

Theodore picked his daughter in his arms and then asked, "You also had fun, didn't you."

Ariel glanced at Damien and smiled, "I had so much fun."

"Then shall we go home?" Theodore tucked Ariel's hair behind her ears and said before she would get sad, "We will come again soon."

But that was not enough to console the kids. Both of them were already looking sad.

Ariel still had a lot of games in her mind that she wanted to play with Damien. However, she knew she had to return for today. She was already feeling hungry. And she could guess that she wasn't going to get any food at her friend's house. She couldn't survive on air like her friend.

So she agreed to go back, "Let's go and get my bag. Then we will go home."

"Okay," Theodore gave a smile to his daughter and then started to walk back towards the living room.
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Damien also walked beside them.

"Damien..." Ariel could still see her friend's sad expression. So she tried to cheer up her friend, "Don't be sad. I will come back soon, okay? Till then, you can play with the cow and the stick."

Damien put on a smile on his face and agreed, "Okay. But promise that you will come back soon."

Ariel also gave a sweet smile to her friend. And she said, "I promise. And I will bring a lot of food with me the next time. We will eat together."