Lie no. 45:
It was a Saturday morning about a year and a half of knowing each other when he met Squalo's coworkers. He was sitting on his usual chair at the bar as Harry cleaned the counter before lock up, after he heard the door open. "Apologies, we're clos-" he began, before looking up and seeing two adults, a baby and a child walked in all in the same uniform Squalo usually is.
"Ooooo, so this is where Squ-chan spends his free time?" the flamboyant adult says
"Voi! What are you idiots doing here?!" Squalo roared.
"Shishishi, it's boring when the strategic commander isn't around to tease!" the child, who seemed to be a little older than Rosa, snickered. Harry just put down his rag and gotten out a glasses for the adults, a bottle of coke for the child and and a glass of orange juice for the baby.
"What are you names?" Harry asked casually "I can't keep calling you 'those guys Squalo knows'."
"Lussuria, but you can call me Luss," the bright one said
"Female pronouns?" he asked passing over a beer. For a moment Lussuria was speechless as the bartenders accommodating nature and his disarming kindness before nodding with an easy smile.
"I'm a prince, I don't need to introduce myself to commoners." the blond said arrogantly ('Note to self, keep him away from Rosa they will get along like a house on fire' Harry thought to himself).
"He's Belphegor," Squalo told him. "He's Levi A Than and the baby is Mammon."
After that, an awkward silence blanketed the bar and they all sat until Squalo decided to just leave with his co workers while he went to the toilet. As he was locking up, he got a text saying 'I'll see you tomorrow'. He couldn't help but think Squalo could sense how awkward his coworkers made things for him (knowing Squalo, that was absolutely true and he would refuse to accept the fact that it was true).
Truth no. 6:
As the Varia walked down the street toward a waiting car as Lussuria looked at Squalo and asked "Is he the guy?"
"What guy?" Belphegor asked
"The guy Squalo is dating," Lussuria teased
"He dates?" Mammon mumbled.
"Voi! Knock it off!" he roared. As they got to the car, he was absolutely annoyed. Slipping into the seat, he heard the sun say: "He's a strong, active cloud Squ-chan,"
Gritting his teeth, he growled "We aren't talking about this."
"If he can handle Squalo, he could probably handle Xanxus…" Mammon mumbled, dodging the sword Squalo always carried under the arcobaleno's flames. "What's his territory, peasant?"
"It's his family." Squalo answered
Lie no. 46:
When Harry found a sword in his apartment, he took in stride.
When Harry saw Rosa with a sword, however, he spent two hours chewing into Squalo and the assassin set aside his pride, apologised and kept his swords away.
Truth no. 7:
"Tell him, Squalo."
"The less he knows, the safer Harry is, kid."
Truth no. 8:
When someone broke into Harry's apartment, Squalo had to tell him. Told him about the Varia. About the Cradle Affair.
They took a break for the month.
It was mid-July when Harry opened his doors to Squalo again. Things were still awkward and patchy and clunky… but after a while things went back to normal (well… as normal as these things can get).
Lie no. 47:
At this point Harry and Rosa had both been somewhat inducted into the mafia, and with their flames and association with Squalo, they would soon become targets. To keep Rosa relatively safer, she was inducted into Mafia Academy's lower secondary school (immediately becoming a menace to both faculty and students alike) and she and her brother moved in with him.
Oddly enough, Squalo's job was what affected him the least. Squalo was proud, and unlike that Granger girl from Hogwarts (whatever happened to her in the end?) Harry didn't exactly have such a strict moral code. As long as Rosa was safe, Harry didn't care what Squalo did. And the Varia were the best of the best, being part of the organisation proved Squalo was as such. It was a pride thing.
Lie no. 48:
Six knocks on the front door woke him up. Crawling out of bed, he pulled on Squalo's discarded sweater and walked out of the room. Seeing his boyfriend (still not entirely sure, even after all that happened) about to put his sword down, he waved him off and went to the door. With his hand on the doorknob, he paused when he heard 'Shishishi! Open the door Squalo!'
Turning away, he returned to Squalo. Blandly, he said "You might want to deal with this one."
Watching carefully as Squalo put his blade on the coffee table, kicked away his maintenance kit and walked to the door. He laughed as the man opened the door and saw the wing-like daggers embedded in the door. "VOI! HAVEN'T I TOLD YOU TO STOP DOING THAT SHITTY PRINCE!"
Suddenly a water bottle barely missed Harry's face and slammed into back of Squalo's head.
"Shut up! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Rosa screamed at the top of her lungs.
"VOI! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" he roared. Belphegor watched on and laughed at the the arguing duo. "Now, now, Rosa apologise," Harry ordered "And Squalo, please lower your volume, Rosa is right."
Lie no. 49:
Harry knew from the moment he met the child that if Belphegor and Rosa met, they would get along like a house on fire. He was right.
The two spent every moment playing horrifically gory video games and going out of their way to annoy Squalo. The prince might have been Rosa's first friend (outside of Harry, but technically he was her brother). So when Rosa came home from school with a report saying she got into a fight and Belphegor was standing behind her with a cheshire grin, snickering and seemingly having the time of his life.
"So you're not horrible, for a peasant," he admitted
"Damn straight I'm not!" she grumbled as Harry signed the report.
"Belphegor, why are you even here?"
"A prince doesn't have to answer a peasant."
Lie no. 50:
When he opened the front door to the apartment, Harry was expecting the delivery guy with his new tablet, he was not expecting Squalo's happy coworker. "Lussuria?" The bright assassin smiled and pulled him into a short hug before pulling him into the apartment. "Harry, dear! I'm so sorry we haven't talked before, Squalo is a kill joy. I love your hair, by the way" she complimented, patting the top of his head and staring at his straight black hair for a moment.
As the green haired fighter walked into the apartment, Harry couldn't help but awkwardly tuck his hair behind his ear. "Um… what exactly are you here for?"
"Squalo was worried about your little Rosa, even if he would never admit it-" she began
"You know Rosa?"
"Belphegor told us about the bottle incident and Squ-chan complains a little. Anyway, Squalo wanted to make sure she was relatively safe. Said she might learn Muay Thai better than swords, plus he said they don't get along. Is she here?"
"No, she's at school… but you can wait in the living room if you like. Would you like some tea?"
"Thank you, dear."
Lie no. 51:
Unlocking the door, Squalo walked in and tossed his keys to the side as Rosa followed him in. Every since Belphegor inadvertently got her into a fight, Harry had been adamant that someone went to get her from school to make sure that 'Prince the Ripper' couldn't egg her on again into another fight. She was still in trouble for the last one.
Stepping into the living room, he was surprised when he saw Harry and Lussuria drinking tea and laughing with each other. "Voi! What the hell is going on?!"
"Ah, Squ-chan! Is that Rosa? You're adorable! I'm Lussuria, call me big sis Luss, ok?" she said, waving at the small, confused girl. "Whatever," the girl replied.
"I work with Squalo,"
"So you're Varia, like him and Belphegor?" Rosa inquired, kicking off her shoes and falling onto the empty couch. "Yes, you know?"
"I was a street kid, 'course I knew. Harry knows because some idiot tried to get to him and Squalo loved him to much to disappear."
"Voi! SHUT UP ROSA!" Squalo commanded "Stop telling people about my life!"
"Whatever!" she retorted as Lussuria laughed a bit at their banter.
"Well, Rosa, I'm here to teach you Muay Thai," she expanded
"Does that mean I can learn to kick ass?"
Lie no. 52:
Mammon was an interesting character. They obviously knew who Harry was and they appreciated how well he played the British wizarding world. They were an interesting person (child?) to discuss magical theory with. It was nice to talk to someone other than Sirius.
"Are you planning to tell Squalo?"
"Mhmm, I'm waiting for the paperwork. I'm planning to tell Rosa too,"
"Are you going to blood adopt her?"
"It will be her choice in the end, but I might."
So I was reading the Varia arc again and I'm super annoyed by Iemitsu's callously making Lambo the lightning guardian, and quite frankly I'm really annoyed by the fact that Takashi (a kid who had been learning to fight for about a month?) beat Squalo (aka the sword emperor). May redo the Varia arc because of that.
