[Ten minutes before the fan signing event started.
Michy was ready to go on stage, but Azren suddenly called his name and stopped his steps. The idol glared at the assistant, but the assistant only signaled him to enter an empty room in the venue.
"The event is about to start, but you casually invited me to this place. What do you want now?" Michy asked the taller man as he started to lose his temper.
His fans had been waiting for him, and he wanted to get on stage to greet them right now.
"I have an important thing to discuss with you, Michy. It's not really a discussion, but it's more like a suggestion."
Michy frowned after hearing the ambiguous words that came from the blonde standing in front of him. Azren was much taller than him, so Michy had to stretch his neck to see the man's face. It was embarrassing and annoying at the same time.
"Can you get it straight to the point? I really hate it when someone wastes my precious time."
Azren knew that Michy was a temperamental person and would lose his temper quickly, so he wasn't surprised by the harsh words.
"It's about your bad fans, those who are too obsessed with you and dare to cross the line between idol and fan. I think you should punish them, Michy."
The silver-haired idol looked confused, and his blue eyes continued to stare at the emerald in confusion. "You want me to punish them? You mean I should report them to the police and send them to jail?"
Michy's mind was too simple, and Azren couldn't help but chuckle.
"You won't gain anything by doing that," said the blonde as he looked at the boy seriously. "Suing your fans won't get you more fans, but I know a way that can get you more fans."
Azren was doing his job as a demon now. He had never done his job properly before, but now he was very determined to take Michy to Hell. He wanted Michy to sin today.
"What should I do to get more fans?"
Azren held back his smirk upon hearing the idol's question. It seemed the idol had fallen into his trap.
"You can play victim, Michy. If your fans do something bad to you, then you can act more than you should do. You can cry or pretend that you are hurt because of your fans. That way, you will be able to take revenge on your fans, and you will get more sympathy from the public. What do you say about my idea?"
Azren had learned from his past mistake, and he knew what he should say to provoke Michy. Lucifer told him that the idol was easy to provoke, so he tried his luck now. Thankfully, Michy was on his evil side now, not the nice side who was too nice to even consider his idea.
"I understand," replied the idol. "I will not stay silent if someone dares to harass me, and I will also gain more fans today."
And Azren felt like he was getting stronger upon hearing Michy's decision.]
Azren was looking at Michy, who was sitting on a seat with a phone in his hand. The staff was doing his job to remove the makeup, and the idol didn't bother to pay attention to the staff. His cerulean eyes were glued at the phone screen, and his lips formed a small smirk.
The blonde demon was standing next to him, so he could see what was on the phone screen to make the idol smirk like that.
On the phone screen was an article about the incident in Michy's fan signing event that just ended a few minutes ago. It turned out that some fans managed to capture the moment when Michy was crying on the stage because of the 'bad fan,' and the journalist wrote that the innocent Michy was hurt by a perverted fan in his fan signing event.
The articles were full of drama, and they successfully gained sympathy from the public.
["Oh my God! Michy is still young and pure, so how can a man be so nasty toward an angelic idol like Michy?"]
["I'm not Michy's fan, but I decided to join his fandom today after knowing how pure he is! He didn't even want to report the pervert to the police! Michy is a real angel!"]
["Michy is not gay! How dare a man harass our precious Michy like that! Let's spread the hashtag #ProtectOurAngelMichy on our social media!"
The suggestion about the hashtag caused Michy to be a trending topic on social media with that hashtag. And things got even better when Michy's social media account gained twenty thousand new followers in just a few hours. Michy successfully got more fans, and he was so happy because of that.
The staff had finished cleaning his make-up, and Azren finally shifted closer to the idol.
"I didn't think you would go that far with your fans."
Azren voiced out his thought, and the idol finally looked up from his phone. "What do you mean? You are the one who suggested the idea, but you don't look happy because of it now," he asked confusedly.
It was indeed Azren's suggestion, and he could feel additional energy in his body after he managed to provoke Michy to sin. Michy had become a liar because of him today, and the achievement was rewarded with the energy within his body.
Michy became a liar because of the greed in the idol's heart. The idol was so greedy to gain more new fans for the sake of his career, and he didn't hesitate to lie in public. Greed was one of the seven deadly sins, and Azren managed to bring Michy closer to Hell because of that sin.
Even so, Azren didn't look happy even if he just achieved his first success in the human world.
"I told you to punish your bad fan who crossed the line, but I don't think your fan earlier did anything too much to you. His words were bad, but he doesn't deserve that punishment. You went too far today, Michy."
It's the reason why did Michy suddenly play victim, and it's because of Azren. Why did Azren feel upset, tho?