Roasting (2)

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After a few seconds trying to process what Icarus has just said, Echidna finally recovers

[Excuse me, what?]

"Come on... don't play dumb! I know you understood me very well!"

After saying this, Icarus lowers his head and covers his face with his hands

And then while pretends to cry, he says:

"Sob sob... When you act like that it seems like you don't even care about what happened between us! You can't just use me and then throw me away, like I'm trash!"

[Damn it! And here I thought you were going to say something important... but in the end it was just another one of your nonsense!]

Icarus then raises his head and with a big smile says

"Oops, it looks like you found out! Too bad, I thought it would take a little longer for you to realize... Huehuehue!"

[Arrgh! You bastard, how dare you make fun of me?!]

Seeing how irritated Echidna is, Icarus is happy with the fact that she has fallen again on his tricks

'Huehuehue! She's very easy to deceive! I think I'm going to piss her off a little bit more. After all... why not?'

With that in mind, Icarus smiles broadly and brightly

Then in a rather childish tone, he calls Echidna's name

Just like a child trying to get his mother's attention.

"Echidna~!"

Seeing Icarus's smile and strange tone, Echidna's sixth sense warns her that she must not answer that voice no matter what

[...]

However, Icarus does not give up after being ignored just once and continues to call her name at the same speed and tone, over and over again

"Echidna~!"

[...]

"Echidna~!"

While ignoring Icarus 'call, Echidna thinks contemptuously:' Humpf! He is very much mistaken, if he really thinks that I'm going to fall for his tricks again!

This time it will be different, because all I need to do is ignore him and eventually, he'll give up!

Honestly, that doesn't seem like such a hard thing to do!'

"Echidna~!"

...

Unfortunately, Echidna underestimated the difficulty of this task.

Seeing that even after five minutes, different from what she expected, Icarus did not give up, and continues to call her name at the same speed and tone as the first time.

Furthermore, with every second that passes she is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore Icarus. Since, strangely, just like a devil's voice full of temptation, Icarus's voice begins to affect her rationality. And every time she hears him calling her name, her curiosity gets bigger, bigger and bigger!

"Echidna~!"

'N-No... I mustn't answer him! I must resist the temptation!'

"Echidna~!"

In the end, after a bitter internal struggle, Echidna still loses to her curiosity

[Argh! Okay, you won! What you want?]

Seeing this, Icarus smiles triumphantly and while still maintaining his childlike tone, he asks

"Earlier you said you were deceived by me just because you were off guard. So tell me... what's your excuse now?"

Her head goes blank for a second, but she quickly recovers and starts cursing Icarus... again

[W-What?... Fuck, I knew! You little piece of shit!]

"Huehuehue!"

[D-Do you still dare to laugh? Arghh! You're so lucky that i can't go to you!

Otherwise... I would make you regret for every single word that you already say! Just so you know, I know hundreds... wait, did I say hundreds? No, I meant thousands! Yeah, thousands of different ways to punish you!

For example, I can extract your insides in a way that you gonna feel an enormous amount of pain without dying! Besides that, I also know how...]

While listening to Echidna describe some of the scariest and cruelest punishments she knows. Rather than being scared, Icarus is quite excited!

It doesn't happen, because he's a great masochist who loves pain or something like that, but because Echidna gave him a very important information

'Wait a minute... so... she can't come to me? Huehuehue! That means that no matter how angry she gets, in the end she can't do anything to me! In other words, I have someone that I can mock as much as I want, without having to face any consequences, right? Oh my God, this is the best thing that has happened to me since I arrived in this world!'

If Echidna of the future knew that something that she said in one of her little tantrums, ended up serving as the carte blanche that Icarus needed to piss her off as much as he wanted. She would for sure want to hit her past self for not being careful enough

However, Icarus' joy does not last as long, as he soon faces a problem: 'Well, in spite of that I still think it is better for me to do nothing so extreme with her! After all, you never know... it may be that she has some way to come to me. However, for some reason she just doesn't want to use it!

Although I don't know exactly how powerful it really is, I still have to be careful! Cause if this is the same as the stories that I read, she for sure is able to beat the hell out of me! And, even though I don't care much about the pain, I'm still not in the mood to get my guts pulled out!'

When mentioning one of the punishments he heard from Echidna, Icarus begins to think of something... somewhat strange

'Oh, my... it seems that after hearing her speak some of the punishments she knows, I ended up getting a little nostalgic! It seems that I went back to the days where I was constantly tortured by that asshole of the Henchman Number 6! Yeah, those were really bad times...'

In this way, both Icarus and Echidna are momentarily lost in thought.

Icarus needlessly remembering what his days were like during the First Trip to Hell.

While Echidna thinking of the cruelest ways to punish Icarus for making fun of her.

The first to recover is Echidna, as soon as she wakes up the first thing she does is clear her throat and then she says

[Ahem! I think that after everything I said, you got the message!]

Hearing Echidna's voice in his head, Icarus also wakes up from his trance and involuntarily responds

"H-Huh? Oh... Yeah! Yeah! Don't worry... I got it!"

[Hmph! This is good! I hope I don't have to remind you of it later! Anyway, what happened right now just proves that I was right! And there is nothing honest in your actions!]

Different from what Echidna expected, Icarus does not refute her arguments full of anger.

On the contrary, he just smiles calmly and says:

"That's where you make a mistake, my dear Echidna! I did not lie, and I repeat exactly as I said before: Everything I did and say in my life, it was in the most honest way possible!"

[Sigh! Come on, how can that even be possible? As far as I know, nine times out of ten that you talked to someone, it was to deceive them in some way- You know what... fuck that! Go ahead, I'll just listen and see where you are going with this!]

"Huehue... Echidna my dear, you're a quite impatient! Well, I don't blame you! After all, I am like that too!"

Echidna feels a little uncomfortable to think that she and Icarus have characteristics in common.

However, she readily ignores that feeling and focuses on his words

"Well, I admit, it's just like you said, I have a small... very small... addiction to deceiving people! I don't know why, but I just think it's a lot of fun do that!"

[Just one question, has anyone told you to go get treated?]

"First of all, this is something very rude to say! Second, if it's as you claim, and you really saw my memories. Then you know very well that every day of my life I heard at least ten people telling me that!"

[Yeah, I also remember that you not only ignored their words, as you also managed to deceive these people, only a few minutes later of they said that to you!]

Hearing this, instead of trying to defend himself, Icarus just laughs and shrugs as if it were what he did was just something unavoidable

"Huehue! What can I say? You know very well... old habits are not easy to change!"

[Yes, I know... I also know that for this to happen, first of all, you must want to change! From what I saw in your memories, you don't want to change!]

Echidna tries to advise Icarus, but before he can say anything, he quickly interrupts her

[So why don't you try-]

"Okay, Okay! Let's stop right there! Come on... why did you suddenly start giving me advice about my life? Who do you think you are? My therapist? If that's what you think, I'm going to tell you soon that I don't I won't pay anything for your sections!"

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Seeing that she has finally stopped saying unnecessary things, Icarus decides to continue

"Anyway, as I said... I have a habit of deceiving others. Even so, I won't be quiet if you dare to question my honesty!

After all, even when I was deceiving people, I always deceived them in the most honest way possible and it is precisely because of my honesty that those people gave me their money!"

Echidna is silent for a few seconds while trying to process what Icarus just said, as soon as she recovers she sighs and then says:

[Sigh! Okay, I must say that there are several problems with what you just said! First... are you really listening to what you are saying? Cause, well, honestly... this sentence don't make any sense and is contradictory as hell!

Second, the reason those people gave you their money, has nothing to do with your "honesty"! In fact, it is the exact opposite, the only reason they gave the money is that you lied and deceived them!]

Icarus then puts his right hand on his chin and starts to think

Seeing this, Echidna is silent as she waits to see what his response will be

After reflecting for a while on what she said to him, he finally says:

"Well, Okay, I admit that you have a point, and maybe... I said maybe, these people may have given to me their money because I deceived them with false promises!..."

Hearing this, Echidna nods with satisfaction and thinks: 'It looks like he still has salvation!'

Nevertheless, Icarus' next words make her realize that maybe she celebrated too soon

"Even so, I still think my honesty played a big part in that! After all, it doesn't matter how I see it, if it weren't for my total honesty they wouldn't have believed me so easily!

So, what do you say if we leave it as a 50/50 and say it was a tie? That way, we both won! You for being right, and as for me, well... for not being wrong, I think! Yeah, that looks really good, let's do this way!"

Hearing Icarus' confident and even slightly proud tone for having found the "best solution".

Echidna is speechless at how thick his skin is, and internally laments:

'Sigh! Why the hell does he have to have that annoying personality?'

Having concluded this matter to the satisfaction of both parties, Icarus sighs and says:

"Sigh! Okay, now that we're done with this. How about I continue your explanation from earlier on how I got you to talk to me?"

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