A young woman opened the door, she had long blonde hair, golden eyes and a soft beautiful face. The girl was still in her pajamas, rubbing her eyes open. Adrien stared at her for a second, she was still half-asleep, but that was not really why he was staring, being a Saturday morning, it was normal for young teenagers to sleep in.
'She's incredibly beautiful even by devil standards'
"Hello, sorry to wake you up. I'm the new neighbor next door, Mister Nakamura told me that he gave you the keys to my apartment". Adrien went straight to the point.
"A-Ahh yes... I forgot about it. I'm s-sorry", when the girl fully opened her eyes and saw the young man in front of her she stumbled on her words. She immediately retreated into her apartment and came back a few seconds later with a key.
"Here it is", she said handing Adrien said key.
"Thank you", he replied, "Oh, my name is Adrien Agares. Please call me Adrien"
"F-First name basis?", she was flustered for some reason.
'Huh? why is she acting like that? Ahh wait, the Japanese call each other by their family names for some reason.'
"I'm a foreigner so I'm used to calling and being called by my first name, but you do you I guess" Adrien said casually.
"I see" She replied, regaining her composure, "My name is Mahiru Shiina, nice to meet you A-Adrien"
"Yeah, nice to meet you too Mahiru". Adrien smiled gently.
After that Adrien headed to his own apartment and opened the door. The apartment was a neat single-person house, with basic furniture. The living room had a TV, a comfortable looking couch, a glass table and a few lamps, giving the place cozy vibe. The kitchen opened directly to the living room, it had all the basic cooking equipment.
"No air-frier? yeah, the owner is gonna hear about it"
He made his way to his room, it had a normal twin size bed with clean white sheets. A bedside table, and a few closets.
"I'm upgrading that shit." Adrien said as he took out his phone and ordered a Queen size bed and a wooden work desk, and a few other furniture.
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A few days passed uneventfully, all the stuff that Adrien had bought arrived. He renovated his room and he set up el cinco in the living room.
"Look at this beauty!", Adrien said looking at his dual basket air-frier. He already had 2 out of the top 3 of all time. He just needed to watch Lebron play live and his life could be considered complete.
He spent the whole day playing God of War: Ragnarök. When the fight with Thor came up he muttered to himself slightly amused, "What would people do if they knew that Thor is real? He's probably in Asgard drinking Whiskey and playing poker right about now"
Then Adrien remembered the last time he went to Asgard and started laughing hysterically, back then, he escaped from the Agares estate, hid his demonic energy completely, put on a priest's clothes and went as a messenger with a group of worshippers. Then he parted with the group when they reached the city, he somehow avoided Heimdall too.
He was 15 back then, but he was already tall enough to not look weird walking in Asgard's city. He randomly found Thor, the God of Thunder himself, drunk playing poker in a bar. Adrien challenged him into a game, he cleverly cheated, took Mjolnir and returned to the underworld.
"BWAHAHAHAHA", Adrien tapped his sofa. "I can't... his face when I lifted Mjolnir put it in my storage and teleported away... Haah... Haah", He laughed so much his sides were hurting.
"Odin caused quite a scene back then, I had all four great Satans and a representative of the Bael clan in the mansion the next day."
Adrien stood up and went to his kitchen to fill a glass of water, he also opened a bag of frozen chicken tenders and threw them in his air frier. He was refraining from using demonic energy for now, so he was acting like a normal human, instead of making things fly around.
Knock Knock Knock...
Adrien, looked at his door.
'Shit, was I busted already? Nah they would have teleported straight into my room'
Adrien went to his door and looked through the peephole. Mahiru was standing outside looking very pale. He was confused and opened the door, "Hey Mahiru, you alright? you're looking pale".
"S-S-Spi... There's a S-Spi... house" She stumbled on her words, stricken in fear.
"Huh? there's a spy in your house?" Adrien asked.
"N-No there's a s-spider in my living room", she said looking toward her apartment and taking another step back.
'Ohhh a spider'
"You're afraid of spiders?", what a stupid ass question Adrien.
Mahiru couldn't even speak, she just nodded.
"I see, give me your keys, I'll go check it out" Adrien said extending his hand.
Mahiru just looked at his extended hand, was she really gonna let a dude she met just a few days ago into her house like that?
Seeing that she had frozen up, Adrien gently took the key from her hand and walked to her apartment door. He unlocked it and stepped inside. Her apartment was almost the same as his, only the furniture was a little different because he had changed his own.
Adrien went to the living room and scanned the area, after a minute or so he finally found He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Adrien killed the spider and threw it in the trash.
He went back to his apartment, Mahiru was still standing in front of his door waiting for him.
"I killed it, you can go back in" Adrien said.
"Wait, but they say if there is one, there should be another, male and female." Mahiru was, obviously, still afraid.
"Well I checked out the house, there shouldn't be another one." Indeed, Adrien was a master at tracking things so if he said there wasn't another one, then there shouldn't be anything to be afraid off. But Mahiru, of course, didn't know that.
"But what if it attacks me while I'm sleeping..."
"It's just a Huntsman spider, it's terrified of humans" Adrien retorted.
"But what if...", Mahiru said lowing her head to the floor. Adrien read her expression and felt bad for her, even though the thing was practically harmless.
"What do you want to do?" Adrien asked her, his voice turning gentle.
Mahiru was slightly taken aback by his expression, but then answered, "I don't know..."
"Want to sleep in my house?", he asked again.
"H-huh? No, I can't possibly...", Mahiru said frantically.
"I don't mind, you can sleep in my room and I'll sleep on the couch, and tomorrow you can call for someone to bug spray your house".
"No, I can't do that..."
"HAAAH!", Adrien sighed in irritation and lifted Mahiru up by her collar like she was a cat.
"Ehhhh- wait...!" She yelped in surprise as Adrien took her inside his apartment.
"Be indecisive inside", He let her go after he had already reached the living room, she looked at him while slightly pouting.
"Don't treat me like a cat", she said glaring at him.
"Yeah, yeah..." Adrien replied as he plummeted on the sofa.
Mahiru looked around the house for a second, "You live alone?" Mahiru asked.
"Yeah, I do", Adrien responded while scrolling on his phone. "When you wanna sleep, just go to my room, it's all yours for tonight".
"But..."
"No buts, I don't want you waking me up in the middle of the night".
"I'm sorry...", Mahiru lowered her gaze, "and thank you."
"Don't mention it, just sit and relax, we'll dine later." Adrien said sending her a gentle smile after he saw her looking troubled.
Mahiru wasn't the type to trouble other people, so she felt like a burden on Adrien for taking his room. But when she looked at him he seemed completely unbothered, and that helped her relax a bit, she went and sat on a sofa, watching tv. Around 30 minutes later, the doorbell rang, Adrien stood up and went to check it out and returned with a pizza, at the same time a bell like sound rung from the kitchen.
"Mahiru can you remove the chicken from the air fryer?", he said as he put the pizza on the dining table and went to prepare plates.
"Yes of course", Mahiru stood up and went to help in the kitchen. From what Adrien observed, he realized that Mahiru knew her way around the kitchen. He understood that just from seeing her put the tenders in a plate and making a sauce to go with them.
"Do you know how to cook?" He asked.
"Yes, a bit, I learned from a helper in our house...", she said that with a slightly sad expression that Adrien didn't miss it, he just didn't push the matter any further.
As they sat on the dining table eating, Adrien came up with a deal.
"I'm not really good at cooking so I mostly eat frozen food, If you cook for the both of us, I'll pay for it."
Mahiru thought for a second, contemplating his proposition, but then shook her head slowly
"I don't mind cooking for two people but I can't agree that you pay for everything, we can split it." She replied.
"No deal," Adrien said as he chewed on a piece of chicken. "I pay for everything, you just cook for us"
"You might not know, but making food for 2 people would be quite expensive"
"Mahiru, not to brag but I have so much money i don't know what to do with it", Adrien said completely serious. Mahiru didn't know what to make from his answer, she just blinked a few times. But she kind of understood where he came from.
"So you're kind of like me, my family is well off too".
"Yeah my family's loaded, but the money I am talking about is mine." He answered while still absorbed in his food.
"Yours...? you work... eum I didn't ask because you looked young, but how old are you" Mahiru asked, she stopped eating and just focused on Adrien's answer.
"Me? yeah i am kind of young I guess, I'm 17. I'll be attending Seijo high as a second year when the school year begins."
"What? you made a lot of money while still this young?", Mahiru was greatly startled, "What do you do?"
"Hmm... that's a secret." Adrien smirked, "If you're lucky enough I might tell you one day". Mahiru didn't like that answer at all.