Chapter 205 Chapter 205-Azrail's Plot.
A creeping silence filled the whole place. Adria and Azrail's eyes met on a rough patch, the two of them gazing into each other's eyes. The words that Azrail spoke were disrespectful to Adria. The call towards her past now, a sense of dishonor, isn't good at all. Not to mention, in terms of power and status, Adria is indeed someone of untold status.
It would be similar to a little kid calling up to her 40-year-old teacher and telling him to find where the kid hid the cookie—a call that, depending on the perspective, would either look cute or very arrogant from the eyes of a child that hasn't seen the world at all. The situation now brimming between Adria and Azrail can be said to be the latter if one were to look at it through unbiased eyes.
The growing tension seemed to have reached its peak as Adria muttered, "Fine, it was my fault anyway. I was too careless to ask another their secret when it's just a stupid question."
Adria's words just lightly surprised Azrail. He was already expecting the situation to unfold in a similar manner. To Adria, he is an enigma, and from what Adria must have gathered till now, someone protected him in the level of aspects that exist above all. She isn't going out of her way to mess with Azrail, not when he seems to be the ticket to achieving Adria's long dream. The source of this content can be connected to n0v3lb!n★
'Yet even then she will try to find everything she can about me. The little call I made has affected her pride, thus she will strive in the dark to get me.'
Azrail didn't throw those words at Adria to just piss her off. Each word he articulated to her has a deeper meaning to get her to move. Sure, manipulating a person like Adria seems close to impossible, and in a way, it is. But as established, Azrail didn't go out of his way to heal Adria's soul purely out of the good of his heart.
If it was before, Adria wouldn't even hesitate twice to just say no to him. It's just plain stupid. But as Azrail said so, Adria is feeling things at 10 times the strength. Thus, within this new realm, Adria starts to deal with emotions, her emotions going out of her way to show that since Azrail is Valencia's lover, would he harm her at all?
In her cold-blooded mind, she would have seen and gone through several scenarios to know that people like them who have overcome their broken selves, even when repaired, would be very cunning to let things just flow. But she couldn't see it, for Azrail fully showed himself as a 'family' kid.
Each word he represented moved towards showing off Azrail as a family guy who won't hurt his family, and subtly during his words, he would indicate that Adria is his family too. All these small words kept increasing certain feelings of attachment within Adria's soul.
After having come back to his real self, Azrail kept an eye on Adria, and he could see the changes taking place within her soul. With her emotions being let loose, the things she should have focused more on, the connections she should have kept close, and those regretful things she left behind had slowly begun to bloom within Adria's self.
Adria would believe that the surprise is bringing her out, but it's not fully true. It's the sense of her feelings now truly having 10 times effect, thus showing her towards the regrets that are blooming beautifully. And Azrail kept an eye on it, for he knew for someone like Adria, it wouldn't take long for her to reach her own enlightenment.
And above all that, Azrail has read a lot about Valencia's journey, at least till the parts the book ended. In those, there were the great descriptions of how this fully cold-blooded woman had changed toward a very sunny shine, being the Moon elf that shines light within the darkest times for others, basically becoming much kinder and accepting.
Thus, Azrail knew that she was at her phase of trying to be more accepting, coming to understand that she should let more people in and be more connected. Thus, Azrail took advantage of that to spell his family words and nonsense, to get Adria to be more accepting of him. That, along with the surprises, her 10 times feelings, the new discoveries, all went forth to Adria suddenly going with the flow to let Azrail heal her soul.
And that's where she made her first mistake. The moment he had seen her face, Azrail had decided to make her his. He can't do that now, but he has already placed the seed of that deep within her soul. And when it's right and ripe, this beautiful woman that terrorized the powerful will helplessly fall for him, plus he has helped too.