Reincarnated as a Failed Villain: Fallen Angel

Chapter 75 Arc 2 - Do You Want Power?

The next day, Lucas was woken up by a loud knocking at the doors.

"Lucas? You're there?" He heard Sarah's voice.

"One minute," Lucas yelled with eyes still closed as he rolled over to the edge of his bed. "Dammit, I hate school," Lucas exclaimed as he opened his sleep-deprived eyes. After the mistake of drinking strong coffee at night, he couldn't fall asleep until two hours before school started.

Lucas slowly got out of bed and put on his robe before opening the door. When he did that, he froze on the spot for a moment when he noticed that with Sarah, there stood Lilith as well.

"Uh... Hello?" Lucas exclaimed in shock. This was the first time that Lilith came together with Sarah to pick him up. Usually, she just followed him around after school.

"Hey..." Sarah smiled, but she was breathing heavily as if she just ran a marathon. "Sorry! We were running late."

Meanwhile, Lilith stared at him with her golden eye. She walked into the room and looked around as if she suspected someone else to be there.

"Hello to you too, Lilith..." Lucas awkwardly said but did not receive a reply. After Lilith checked the bathroom, she returned and whispered into Lucas's air.

"Where the fuck are those angel whores?" Lilith's face was scrunched up, "I know they were here. I can smell them."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Lucas awkwardly smiled as he pushed her outside of his apartment. "Anyways..." Lucas tried to change the subject, "How was school yesterday?" He wasn't going to hide from Lilith about the angels of Eden. He knew it was pointless to hide something from the nigh-omniscient deity. But while he wasn't going to hide it, he wasn't going to explain himself to her.

"Tsk." Lilith clicked her tongue in annoyance. She looked Lucas straight in the eyes but nodded. "Fine. Keep your secrets."

Sarah looked at the ongoing situation between Lilith and Lucas with worry in her eyes, then asked. "Did something happen?" she asked, not knowing about Lilith's and Lucas's argument.

"Nothing... Nothing..." Both Lucas and Lilith said in unison as they chuckled awkwardly before giving each other glares.

"Seriously? How dumb do you two think I am?" Sarah sighed as she placed an arm around Lilith's shoulders to comfort her.

"Pretty dumb," Lilith exclaimed bluntly. After a few moments of silence where nothing was spoken between them, Lilith raised her hand towards Sarah's head and rubbed her hair.

Sarah's face turned sour, and she pouted as she muttered. "You should think before you speak."

Lilith took a step back and chuckled, "Sorry, sorry. Lucas sometimes just drives me crazy!" she started laughing hard at that point until tears rolled down her cheeks. "Sorry! Don't you think Lucas keeps too many secrets?" she gazed at Lucas, who was glaring at her.

Sarah looked shocked by Lilith's sudden outburst, but after thinking for a moment, she shrugged and answered: "I guess? But it's his right to..." she wanted to say that he has the right to keep secrets, but before she could, Lilith interrupted.

"Exactly!" Lilith said with a big grin. She walked to Lucas and placed her hand on his shoulder, "So why don't we share some secrets? What do you think, Lucas?"

Lucas didn't answer immediately. Instead, he grabbed her wrist and gently pulled her hand away. He stared at her in disbelief. "Lilith," he said calmly. "Enough."

Lilith shrugged in response. However, she felt a chill down her spine as Araniel showed up invisible to speak to Lucas.

"It's her," Araniel said to Lucas's ear. "It's our sister." then she disappeared back to Eden.

Lucas nodded and stared at Sarah without saying anything more. Now he knew the reason for his attachment to her, but he was confused about what this meant for the future. He couldn't even remember his past life as Lucifer, so this attachment to Sarah might be something entirely new for him. It made him uneasy because he didn't know how it would turn out in the end.

"Is something wrong?" Sarah asked him after noticing Lucas's long gaze at her.

"Nothing's wrong..." Lucas lied after a moment of hesitation. "I just wonder... Would you like to become stronger?" he gave a forced a smile as he said. "What if there was a way to increase your power?" he ended his statement by looking at Sarah straight into her eyes.

"Lucas?" Lilith asked in disbelief. "W-What are you saying?"

Lucas stood there and continued to stare at Sarah without paying any attention to Lilith. He waited for Sarah's answer. If she agreed, he would give her the fruit of purity and hope it would turn her into an angel. But he had no idea if that'll actually happen. Maybe she wasn't destined to become an angel? What if she could end up becoming a pure-blooded demigoddess or even a hero?

After a few seconds that felt like ages passed by, Sarah finally opened her mouth to speak: "That would be amazing. I would be closer to achieving my goal."

"Which is?" Lilith asked as she had never heard Sarah speak about her future plans.

"To make the world a better place for those with no magic power." Sarah's face lit up. "Ironically, one can only do so much without magical power."

"That's quite true," Lucas added.

Sarah turned to Lucas and stared at him. He was staring right at her, his face filled with concentration. He didn't say anything; instead, he slowly walked over to her and placed his hands on her shoulder. He stared at her with such intensity it was almost scary.

"But..." she began to object but was interrupted when he lifted his head to look at her. She looked at Lucas in surprise. "What?"

"I can turn you much stronger, and I can..." Lucas told her, but Lilith quickly interrupted him.

"Do you want to turn her into a Nephilim?!" she whispered so Sarah couldn't hear them.

"Not Nephilim," Lucas said in a low tone. "I want to turn her into an angel."

"Are you insane?!" Lilith's eyes widened from shock. "Do you ever think about others?! It would ruin her!"