POV Julius
A week has gone by since I first entered Hell. While the first couple days were very eventful, fighting the angels to getting Makima as a Mythic Rank companion, the rest of the week was pretty much normal.
After the deal with Makima was made, she told me she'd be busy for a while and disappeared right in front of me. I figured she went to check out the rest of Hell to get a bearing on her surroundings.
After that, I called up Carmilla to see if she wanted to study with the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown for a couple of days. She agreed but only had about 2 hours of free time in the afternoon each day of the week.
So, as to not just waste my time like I would have done when I was alive, I decided to "win over" some smaller Overlords from the list Carmilla had given me whenever I wasn't with her.
Obviously, by "win over", I mean beat the brakes off them until they agreed to give me their souls along with all the souls they owned! Of course, with them being small time Overlords, I didn't get many souls. I only got 42 souls. Bringing my total to 69 (nice hehe).
While it sounded like a lot to me, to Carmilla, that was barely anything. According to her, all of the upper echelons of Overlords had a combined total surpassing millions! With Carmilla herself having nearly 500,000 souls! Damn, my friend (and potential love interest) was powerful!
While reminiscing about how my week went, Alastor was playing a commercial Charlie had asked him to make advertising the Hotel in the lobby.
Apparently, the commercial had ended because the very first thing I heard was Vaggie yelling.
"I'm sorry, what the FUCK was that!?"
Yeah, I'm not about to listen to her yell at Alastor again. Just going to keep doom scrolling through my phone.
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"-ius."
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"Julius!"
"Huh!?"
I looked up from my phone after hearing my name being shouted. I noticed Vaggie, Angel, and Alastor were all looking at me.
"Huh? What's up?"
"Clearly you didn't hear my question, but first off why are you sitting like that?"
"I'm actually reclining, not sitting."
"It doesn't matter what you're doing! Why are you floating upside down in the air!?" Vaggie yelled.
I decided to finally pay attention to my surroundings. Huh, I am floating upside down, aren't I?
"Well, because I can?" I lazily reply.
"Well can you get down?"
"Nah, don't feel like it."
"Just imagine all the kinky shit you can do while floating like that." Angel suggestively chimed in.
"Not happening with you, Angel."
"Awe, you must be thinking about me to think I was talking about myself!"
"You're obviously implying it."
"Can we get back to our original topic!?" Vaggie interrupted.
"Hmm, I'm more curious about how you're doing that than why. Julius, care to enlighten me?" Alastor asked, his ever-smiling face looked at me with interest.
"Just think of it as spatial manipulation."
"OH! Interesting, interesting!" Alastor chuckled to himself.
"Guys, PLEASE!" Vaggie pleaded, "Julius, can you please come down and help us with filming a commercial for the hotel?"
I sighed as I flipped myself over and landed on the ground. "I appreciate you asking nicely Vaggie but I don't like being filmed or having my picture taken."
"I am totally behind that sentiment!" Alastor cheerfully replied.
"Ugh, please Julius. Do this for Charlie?"
"Is there a reason you said Charlie and not you?"
"Because you and Charlie are friends. I don't like you. Charlie cares a lot about this hotel, and this commercial could help get more people to come to the hotel. I'm sure she would appreciate it very much if you helped out. Plus, you're an Overlord. Which would make this place much more credible if an Overlord who CARES *glares at Alastor* endorses the hotel."
"Wow," I say as I take a seat on the couch Vaggie's on, "First off, I'm not a very big Overlord. Second, I never knew you had it in you to try and emotionally manipulate me like that." I say, feigning sadness.
"It's not emotional manipulation."
"It is."
"Is not."
"Is too."
"Is not!"
Vaggie was about to throw a punch at my face when Charlie excitedly called her over to where she was. Vaggie walked by me and gave me a glare, saying "We will continue our talk when I get back, understood?"
"Uh huh." I replied casually. Putting my foot out in front of her to cause her to trip. Luckily for her, she avoided tripping and turned to glare at me before continuing her walk while cussing me out in Spanish.
Given how an opportunity presented itself, Angel got up from his couch and sat close to me.
"So, daddy-"
I immediately got up and walked away.
"Awe, come on daddy! You could have allll this!"
I didn't even bother to look at him as I walked over to the bar. Alastor suddenly appeared in front of me, causing me to stop in my tracks.
"Are the rumors true?" He asked.
"What rumors?"
"Of you being untouchable of course! What else would I be talking about!?" Alastor said with a joyful laugh.
There were rumors about me? Oh wait, that makes sense. People are bound to talk when someone suddenly comes out of nowhere beating Overlords while never being touched.
"So," Alastor continued, "are they true?"
"Yeah, they're true." I sighed and answered.
I could have sworn I saw the briefest flicker of a sinister smile appear on his face. Maybe I need to get my eyes checked.
Suddenly I heard music start playing. Alastor and I turned to see Charlie singing and dancing out of the hallway her and Vaggie were just talking from.
"Uh, what's she doing?" I ask no one in particular.
"Get used to it, singing out of nowhere is normal here." Husk said flatly.
I simply stared as Charlie started singing about something being a happy day in hell before she stopped in front of the lobby doors and looked at me.
Oh God.
"Oh yeah!" Charlie said with the brightest smile imaginable.
Please don't.
"Apparently, you're needed at the meeting too, Julius. Come with me!"
Dear God, no!
Unfortunately, God didn't answer. Before I knew it, I was suddenly dancing along with Charlie down the road towards the Heavens Emissary Building.
The singing and dancing finally stopped once we entered the building. I never felt so mentally and physically drained in my life! And how the fuck was she able to force me into a musical number with her!?
I sigh as I looked at Charlie, who was bouncing like she was high off crack. "Could you please not do that next time?" I asked her.
"Do what!?" Charlie asked, as if she didn't just force me to do what we just did, "That felt great! Besides, I'm glad you are here with me. I could use to emotional support!"
Charlie started proudly walking towards the desk of the dimly lit building. You know, for a heavenly building, the vibes it gives off are kind of creepy.
"Eh, creepy." Charlie nervously laughed. Clearly, we were both thinking the same thing.
By the time we reached the desk, a golden paper and quill floated down from the sky. When we finished signing it the paper disappeared and the doors on our left opened. Signaling it was an elevator.
Charlie and I looked at each other before entering the elevator. The elevator doors closed, and we slowly made our way up.
"So..." Charlie began, "How are you doing today, Julius?"
I turned to look at Charlie and noticed that her hands were a bit jittery.
"Nervous, huh?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah! A little bit. My dad allowed me to take this meeting on his behalf and I'm hoping I can pitch my idea about the hotel to the leader of the angelic army without messing it up." Charlie nervously laughed as she tucked a bit of her hair behind her ear.
I looked at her for a bit before summoning the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown and pulling out a plate of cookies from its Dimensional Space. I held out the plate of cookies to her as I desummoned the staff.
"Here, have some cookies!" I said as I offered Charlie a small smile.
"Oh, thank you!" Charlie said as she began devouring the cookies. We chatted a bit before the elevator doors opened to a nearly pitch black room.
What the fuck? Why is this room darker than the lobby? Was this supposed to be a haunted house experience?
Charlie and I slowly walked into the room before all the lights suddenly turned on, causing Charlie to fall backwards onto me. It looked like we were in a conference room and at the other end of the table were two angels.
The one sitting in the chair had a gold and white robe on with an A symbol in the middle of it. His face, or should I say mask, seemed to resemble that of a demon with a golden halo floating above him. He also looked big. Not big as in tall and built, but FAT! Like holy hell dude was all you did in heaven eat!?
To his left was an exorcist angel. Her outfit looked like it still had blood from the extermination a week ago on it. Don't know how she doesn't smell that on herself, unless she likes it. Which would be weird.
"Sup." The fat angel said.
"Um, hi!" Charlie quickly responded. She looked up at me and noticed she was leaning against my abs. She quickly stood up straight with a bright red blush on her face before fixing her hair.
"Thank you Julius." Charlie replied shyly.
"Anytime princess." I said after I leaned in and whispered into her ear, causing her to blush more.
"Ugh, ew! Look at these demon trash flirting in front of us!" The exorcist replied. I could hear the disgust coming out of her mouth.
I simply smirked and winked at her, "Sounds like you're jealous! You should get laid."
"How DARE YOU-" before she could finish her sentence the fat angel cut her off.
"He's got a point, Lute. You need to get laid! You're holding on to all that aggression! It's not healthy!"
"See, the fat guy gets it."
"Hey, I am not fat! I'm big boned!"
"Uh huh, sure you are pal."
"OK!" Charlie cut us off, "How about we begin the meeting, please? I got something GREAT I want to talk to you about!"