Break

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"Where am I?" Arthur asked himself in a slow and tired voice as he awoke from his slumber feeling as if he was on a mattress of some kind. Arthur slowly brought his head forward so that he could look around where he was however his head was too heavy and is such just ended up being forced down on the bed. Although he couldn't get up, Arthur kept his eyes open waiting to see who had brought him here and what their intentions were with him.

Arthur was right in his assumption that someone did in fact bring him to the place he was resting in which was a small cottage similar to the one that Yosel owned and Arthur was seemingly resting there. Once the person who had brought him into the cottage entered, they noticed that Arthur was awake and slowly walked up to him.

"Are you awake?" a gentle girl's voice asked as she slowly walked to him.

"No, that's why my eyes are open," said Arthur in a sarcastic tone which the girl didn't seem to appreciate.

"You should be more grateful when someone saves you. Anyway, what kind of dungeon did you go to get injuries as severe as those?" the girl asked to which Arthur just looked confused.

"What do you mean? Aren't all dungeons supposed to be hard?" Arthur asked to which the girl seemed to think for a second before replying to him.

"Well, I guess some of them are a little hard but not to the point where you're bleeding from head to toe and have countless bruises," said the girl to which Arthur just looked even more confused.

"I don't know, maybe you're just pretty weak," said the girl before laughing a little at Arthur.

"Maybe once you recover we can go to a dungeon together and I can show you how to actually deal with a dungeon," said the girl to which Arthur seemed intrigued so he nodded in agreement before stating to speak to Lucifer.

"You were so helpful during my time in the dungeon," said Arthur in a sarcastic and annoyed tone.

"Nope, you can't blame me. It was a journey for you and you alone to discover what was wrong with yourself. If I helped you out, you never would have found the confidence in yourself to use dimension expansion," said Lucifer which made a good point and Arthur understood so he didn't bother to insult him anymore than he already did.

"So can you heal me now?" Arthur asked to which Lucifer gave a confused 'hmm'.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that," said Lucifer.

"What do you mean?! I finished my self discovery journey or whatever so you shouldn't have any problem with helping me.

"Relax Arthur. Learn to relax for once. You're not in a race. No one is going to attack you or kill you while you enjoy yourself," said Lucifer which annoyed Arthur.

"I seriously hate you," said Arthur as he prepared to cast a spell to heal his own body which Lucifer stopped by causing an immense amount of pain in his chest.

"I said to relax Arthur. Just calm down. Take a break for once. You don't need to push yourself to the point where you pass out," said Lucifer which further annoyed Arthur however he couldn't do anything about it since Lucifer had full control over Arthur's body.

"Whatever, watch though, I'll get my revenge soon enough," said Arthur as he stayed quiet and went back to sleep.

For the following week, Arthur began to heal his body slowly but surely. For the first few days, Arthur couldn't feed himself so the girl which had allowed Arthur to stay with her had to spoon feed him. Although it was embarrassing, she forced him to accept it. Even though Arthur was capable of not eating for days and then eating his pill of food, the girl still forced him to eat which Arthur found annoying yet as tike went on, he found more comforting.

This had gotten so bad that even after Arthur's body began to recover and he could feed himself, he still refused to use his own hands and allowed the girl to feed him.

"So when are you going to start feeding yourself instead of forcing me to be your maid," said the girl to which Arthur's face turned red in embarrassment as he had been found out.

"Oh ya, my bad," said Arthur as he didn't want to go on with the conversation any longer tried to reach for the spoon to feed himself however the girl pulled the spoon away before he could grab it.

"If you enjoy being spoon fed by me, just say so," said the girl before continuing to feed Arthur.

"What's this feeling? Why is my heart burning up? I feel my ears turning red," said Arthur to himself in wonder.

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"Hey, I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself. My name is Arthur," said Arthur to which the girl looked confused.

"What's your last name?" the girl asked because she found it odd that Arthur introduced himself with just his first name but not his last name.

"To be perfectly honest. I honestly don't know. My parents died before I could have even known their name. I barley learned my own name before they died," said Arthur to the girl which made tears pile up in her eyes before she rushed to Arthur's side and held him in her arms.

"Man this seriously hurts my body so much. Even so, it feels nice to be like this. I wish I could stay like this forever," said Arthur which were words he never thought he would even think about.

"Hey it's alright. It's not that big of a deal," said Arthur as he didn't want the situation to get weird.

Hearing what he said, the girl got up from his side and wiped away her tears.

"My name is Sofia," said the girl with a smile as she imitated Arthur in that she didn't introduce herself with her last name just like Arthur.