Devil's Business

Heck

 A short course of time laid out solely for waiting and Je-llo finally appeared from his comfortable lair. He wore a yellow latex-made jacket and protective equipments for bicycle riding, similar to the blue-colored ones of Juno. Seeing the person of request, Juno can’t hide his annoyance to the man with a dirty frown upon his mouth.

“Can’t be anymore late than this, okay man? I am tired already by sitting on your sorry ass.” Pouted Juno to Je-llo, which only could lay a grin to the anger.

“Hehe, sorry. My dump slightly too big, it clogged my toilet. I had to run to the nearest closet down the second floor, so yeah-“

Juno shrugged to Je-llo’s prompt, holding his head high to the answer,”Luckily today’s my victory, friend. You have to follow my lead for today’s run.”

“Yeah, definitely, my liege.”

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They twisted more than three laps on one hour sprint on bicycle regiments. Juno decides to pound his companion with defeatist composure and sport deficiency to feel his wrath by cycling across the hill and mound of their elite residence. A bulk of fatigue was seeping out from every single slush of Je-llo’s breath as he gasped for one in each of his pedalling movements. Juno himself had nothing in opposite, making him ahead of the pack in quite a space.

After awhile of focus on their pedal, Je-llo tried his best to topple the lack of speed by squatting his legs, but nowhere near the pseudo-athlete spark of Juno. The scenery of their venture itself has changing, from the cluster of massive houses to the artificial fountain in the center of their residential block. As the trial got more severe, due to the steep contour of the road, Je-llo then shouted to the leader of their group in haste,”Hey, Juno, mind to stop for a sec? My legs got strained.”

“Haha, giving up, are you?”

“No way.” Je-llo rejected,”Just wished to discuss something, as well.”

By Je-llo’s request, Juno’s stopping his strides upon the bicycle on thvae bedside road near the fountain. They both choose to stop by the vacant chair on the top of the hill who were sitting ahead of the spouting waterways. While Juno sitting on the available lazy chair and resting his head upon it, Je-llo chose to incline on top of the floor and straightened his legs immediately.

“What’s up, Jello? Any promise you wished to fulfill over me?” Juno asked,”It’s rare for you to swing by and chilling up here, so please cut the chase and tell me what’s on your mind.”

Je-llo inhaled a sip of breath and shrugging his shoulder a bit,”Nothing serious, really, but-“

“Please, it’s definitely something up to your head if there’s a stoppage midway of our ride.” Juno responded towards Je-llo’s reluctance as he starting to sit cross-legged upon the lazy chair.

“Okay, here goes.” Je-llo paused for a bit to collect his courage, as he seemed embarrassed by his own thoughts,”Would you want to merge your business with mine? I’m really amazed of how fast you have developed in the past months.”

Je-llo’s sudden request has Juno thwarted himself back. He never noticed of how much progress he has been doing since the very first month of the money’s tenure. All Juno’s ever did was spending and thinking wise over the maximum price that he could get from an item, but nowhere close to think that it would influence other person to ponder otherwise.

“Um, I guess that would be too nice of an offer to have, Je-llo, but-“ Juno tried to reason with Je-llo’s exchange. He does not have any further ideas of how would be if he joined the business with someone who never know of what the business has dwell upon.

To the extent of possible refusal from the other party, Je-llo moaned,“Don’t be silly and reject my plea straight out, mate. I’ve spent so many times to research on your business, and it somehow made profit twice its worth despite your way to buy something pricey.” Before Juno could have his own turn, Je-llo continues the barrage of attacks to the man,”I mean, if you don’t accept my opinion and rejected my offer, at least tell me about your risk management as a whole way to make amends.”

‘oh no, what should I do? Please, master, give me your wisdom.’ Juno thought after the abrupt attack from his closest friend of the rich. Like what he relished for, the demon answered amidst the dark void of his mind,’Only one thing to remember when you have to deal with something like this, Juno: Make profits and never hand out our devil’s business to the innocent party.’

Juno is biting his lips on his way to muster correct reply to his friend. The demon’s suggestion tickled his mind and made him more bewildered. Making profits out of this would be harder than ever be, considering all he ever did was flushing out cashes from his pocket, but telling this simple secret is also one ticket to oblivion.

“Hey, are you alright? Don’t be too much on this, okay? I’m just plain curious.” Je-llo grab his shoulder to ease off the issue.

“...”

Not to count over the fact if Juno only speaks on spending, not selling something out in return. If Je-llo found out, the problems would be gradually more perilous than what it has occurred beforehand.

“I’ll have to consult this first with my team, so expect me to answer you in 3 business days.” He wrapped up the tingling discussion and offering a hand to Je-llo,”I am not rejecting your ideas, but I have to read documents of your business too.”

Je-llo then fell into laughter and giving his sly smile to Juno before reaching his right hands to a firm handshake,”Haha, as I have predicted. You have eagle-eyed sense for good business, my man. Don’t be worry, I would be grateful with any of your answer, but don’t forget to hand me advice later on, yeah?”

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Mid-day through the night, Juno and the crew’s activities were mostly consisted of analyzing the ebb and flows of Je-llo’s business. The market that Je-llo’s has had involved is within the area of procurement, which is settled under the terms of supplying threads and equipments for garments and fashion business alike. As far as he concerned, Je-llo’s business in this sector is not definitely at its best. For the year’s first-half semester, he racked only a nibble of profits from the selling of yarns, and eventually closing up to no good for the start of his second-half semester. His reputation as a famous artist has saved his own bottoms for this one, however, as the clients are still laying their hope to the man, yet nothing could be better than producing profits later on the bracket.

When Melina finally went home and disembarked as the last employee from their office, he eventually driven back to his own thoughts and filling the details back to his master bedroom. He is wandering across the bed’s corner, strolling ahead of his thoughts for the finest strategy that he could convey while reading the information that he obtained from various sources.

He even mumbled to himself on the step of his own excitement,“Uh, this business is perfect. I can’t disguise-“

“Boss, your milk-“

A nimble tune appeared before his enclosed door, forcing him to stop babbling his own mind out loud and answered it in advance,”Yeah, I’ll get it. Please don’t disturb me for at least two hours, Betty. I am busy.”

Thus, a thumping voice of her walk through the corridor waltz inside as the cue for his mindful discussion, as he nodded to himself over the latest ideas within his mind,”In conclusion, I can ask him to be my dealmaker and I would be sat behind the scene, bustling money out to the contract itself.”

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Three business days later and he resorted everything in confirmation. Je-llo gleefully stood ahead of him and embraced Juno gracefully to their agreement over the front porch of Je-llo’s mansion, followed by another family hug from B-yon-d and their backstage crews.

“Alright, that’s enough. This is professional business, not family one’s, so please do your best to our partnership, okay?”

“Obviously, my man. I’m honored to sign this with you today.” Je-llo responded with broad smile.

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The prime of Juno’s business and he already have to spend more than 250 million dollars on the spot. There are a lot of world-renowned artists that started their own brands, and Je-llo is standing there as their only well-known businessman-artist to reason with as their supplier. Of course, that would be succulent to their work, but a massive hassle to the man and his ulterior motives of being a big spender of the demon.

“By signing this, I’m officially expanding my chunk of devil’s bank to half my stock from the last month. I don’t get if this is bad, but it’s precisely not gonna be good.” Juno mumbled as he sign another contract to the other third party distributor from which they supplied.

“I wonder, though, what usually that demon does if he is like this? Uh, probably doing his works as a devil, huh.” He rattled once again before staring in focus to the notions implied within the contract.

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Far away from the side of Juno, The demon was in a middle of a fight with someone formidable. His physique as a human is rather small and fragile when compared to the demon and its servants, but still bigger and abnormal to the rest of the demon’s opponents from previous encounter. He stood two meters tall and covered with burly muscles all over his arms, while carrying none other than his fist to the job.

Due to this prowess alone, He can withstand the barrage of blue beam from inside the island castle and even crumbling the castle’s foundation with a burst from his mighty left-hand fist.

“Just quit it, Heck! There’s not a single woman named Megar on my guest’s white list, either. Mind your business and return to your nasty heaven before I buggered you out myself!” The devils groaned to the burly man down the castle’s entrance. To the devil’s wrath, Heru has only a sly smile to the request and proceeded to unleash more of his powers to the castle.

“Okay, okay, I get it. You want to have a brisk touch of my devil’s hand, are you? Believe me, you’ll regret that quick.” Exclaimed the demon afterwards. Before long and waiting for Heck’s response, Lafath smacked the mighty man to the enormous lava pit by a thunderous speed of its glide.

“Come on out, young demi-god. I’ll kick you again to the-“

A blistering knack of fist blasted Lafath to his castle, knocking the entire castle to smithereen. It seems the human has no problem with the lava heat, as he jumped out from the molten rock as if it has made of cold water.

Pile of dragons and numerous giants are sprinkled down the areas, marking the other feat of the lone wolf ahead of Lafath. A drip of blue-ish blood covered Lafath’s blood, made the demon even more impressed with its power,”I suppose century’s work has come to nothing when you are here on behalf of your father, Heck. I’ll have to decimate you to-“

“To what? Pulp?” Retorted the man directly to the demon’s left ear, as he bashed another brief damage against the demon’s body and knocked Lafath out from the battle to the lava pit within.