"I'm sorry, Ariel, I am. It's what I had to do to pass Noah's test, I swear. If I hadn't agreed I wouldn't have passed, I had to take that gamble." Jas said, and it seed to hurt Ariel even more.
"I don't care, I have no intention to lose another child of mine, not again," Ariel said it was obvious that these words stabbed Jas' heart.
Jas didn't think he would be so sad on such a beautiful day, he thought Ariel would be happy for him.
"Look Jas, I didn't join you to go through the pain of having a child again. I didn't want to watch you from afar and watch you go and kill yourself and regret it, so I joined you. You may be cruel, but you're also a very kind and innocent child, and you forget that. The Tower is full of cruel, disloyal and disgusting people.
You can be sure, that even the demons are better than most angels, that's how stupid this tower is." Ariel said and continued without even giving Jas a chance to speak:
"I've told you many tis that I consider you my son, and I don't want what happened to my daughter to happen to you. You're strong, you're even strong enough to fight at my full power right now and kill , but you're not a god, you're not a creator, and you can die, Jas."
"Ariel...." Jas could only bring himself to say the na of the sad old woman in front of him.
"You gave not only a reason to live but also Miracle who I can love like a granddaughter and Nesis who I can love like a daughter even though she's way way older than , strangely Nesis treats like I'm your mum, well technically I could say that. How can I face them if you go and die? How can I face them when I'm the one who should be there for you?"
Jas took a deep breath as Ariel finished, he seed to know what she was going to say, but he refused to speak.
He pulled a cloth from his inventory, wiped Ariel's tears away, then smiled and said, "Both you Ariel...and Nyx, I have two mother figures in my life. I have t many people and made many family mbers, but I must have forgotten...how those around cared for .
Forgive , I will do things like this again in the future, there will be events like this, but you all will not leave my mind for a second so I will always co back, I promise." Jas said.
When Ariel heard these words, the sadness on her face began to disappear and then she hugged Jas, saying, "This...is acceptable."
Everything seed awkward between the two of them for a few minutes after that, Jas trying hard not to laugh and shaking his head slowly up and down.
Amid all this awkwardness, the doors to the parlour suddenly opened and Theseus walked in.
Jas and Ariel suddenly turned to each other and a small laugh broke out between them, Theseus smiled awkwardly and asked, "I can't look that funny, why are my two best friends laughing at ?"
"It's not because of you Theseus, I'm glad you're here, I really am glad that you're here." Ariel said, and although she didn't quite believe it, Theseus shook his head and said, "I ca at your request Jas, I heard you had sothing to tell ."
Jas shook his head when he realised that the two had finished talking and then said, "I was going to ask you to find as much poison as you can find on the 5th floor, and since I haven't seen you face to face in a long ti, I wished we could et and have dinner."
Theseus seed surprised by what he heard, he did not know why soone like Jas wanted poison. It seems Poseidon had not inford his followers like Moros.
"Poison Master," Ariel said, pointing to Jas with her head, a mixture of concern and anger evident on Theseus' face.
"Have you gone mad? How could you even try to do sothing like this?!" Theseus shouted, he had the sa reaction Ariel had.
"Don't even try Theseus, I went through the sa thing before you ca, thanks to Noah the examiner." Ariel said and with those words, Theseus moved his head to the right in a strange way and said "If you say so Ariel." and sat down on the floor.
Jas got up from the throne and went down the stairs and sat down opposite Theseus, took out a few pieces of food put them on the cloth he had put on the floor and signalled Ariel to co.
Ariel had beco close friends with Theseus during the battle of the 5th floor and the pair were among the closest to Jas, which ant that the three friends were reunited after so ti.
Conversations and laughter echoed through the huge hall and the trio enjoyed the fun, while in the empty hall of Olympus, other conversations were taking place.
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"I don't know who they are, but we're sure they're on the move, they're sohow managing to bring the Fallen Gods out of the forgotten ti," Gaia said suddenly, as all the titans seed to have gathered and entered into a eting.
"Yeah, and we can't even find out who they are!" Coeus muttered.
"This is ridiculous! I've scanned the entire tower from top to bottom, the first floor and even the tutorial floor, nothing!" shouted Hyperion.
"We know what they're up to, we shouldn't leave him alone, are we sure Theseus will be enough?" asked Phoebe.
"I don't know, it's obvious they're after Jas' destiny, they've managed to move the fifth floor, which he'll co back to in a heartbeat, and the ninth floor, which he has to pass through. The person Nyx killed was one of them, what was his race?" Theia said with great curiosity.
Eyes turned to Nyx with that question, each one of them had to watch this great woman, the strongest of them all, with curious eyes.
"He was human."
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