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"As I said, I was....a loyal customer of hers." "Discuss away, but that is the price I want and the terms under which I will extract it. Though perhaps it seems more ominous because I am a demon and a Demon General at that. Perhaps if Milly were to ask, you'd be less suspicious, hm?"
"I...just explained what I expect. The reason I forbid switches....if you're aware of those fools who believe they can outwit me with a loophole, you know how many have tried to swindle me."
"Of course I wouldn't ask you for something so base or trite. While a date with you would likely be enlightening and interesting, I'd rather earn your approval first, let you come voluntarily. In all likelihood, it would be something similar to how I got this dining room, or this cask of brandy. I am a demon, not a monster."
"I think you misunderstand your positions here. Perhaps you forget that, by not fighting me, I'm removing one of your more powerful foes from your equation. If you WERE to try to take my head, I would be forced to fight back, and no doubt I'm quite confident I'd win. But.....it would be a shame to hurt you all, especially men with such devilishly handsome looks," he says as his eyes sweep over Keith, Vlad and Rosencrantz, 'and women with such beautiful faces." he continues as his eyes sweep over Yliss, Asuna and....well, essentially the rest of the female party bar Serena, really.
"Hm. Allow me to make a counter-offer you might find more to your liking than fighting me." "I will lower my part of the barrier and ease your journey. In return, however, your entire group will now collectively owe me one favour. I may extract this favour at any point I wish, and it may be anything I wish, and I may ask as many or as few of you as possible to collect this favour, and you must do as I ask without asking for a different favour. You have my honor as a General and a gentleman that I will not ask you to do something unreasonable or against your moral code, not unless you are willing to do so. Are those preferable terms?"
"Ah. You seek my part of the barrier being lowered. It seems hardly fair to me that I'll give you the intel AND the barrier for only one favour. Now, while I don't particularly care for Mephistopheles, I'm going to need something more. A quid pro quo; I'm sure you understand. So, what can you offer me, in exchange for the barrier being lowered? And don't say that you won't fight me; if you did, that would defeat the entire point of this talk, would it not?"
"Of course. Do you take me for a fool? Your cooperation helps both of us. I'd be foolish not to try to sweeten the deal."
"People believe I'm Samuel Prometheus, not General Lucifer of the forces of the Demon Lord. After all, if I used my proper identity, do you really think I could freely go about Generia? Foolhardy adventurers like you would constantly be eyeing my head. Your only fear joining me for the tournament is being associated with a man as charming as Mister Prometheus. Also, would you rather be associated with her?"
"I-I wasn't hiding it! I was just....c-concerned that it wouldn't be relevant....but forget about it. So, I guess....w-we should try to get to Warche somehow, right? It's the next clue."
"R-right...."
"Warche's been abandoned a-as long as Kizamo's been inhabited, if even longer. It's to the southeast, still has active volcanoes that cause volcanic rains elsewhere. I-if you've ever been caught in dark, ashen, smelly rain, chances are the cloud blew over Warche first. I-I'm not actually sure if dragons live on Warche, t-that's just what I read. I've never actually been, i-if that helps...." "W-wait....the climate changes....surely that would've had a larger area of effect if it was from Warche...n-no, you're overthinking things again, Karin..."
"Oh, I....uh....I'm sorry..."
"By all means, take all the credit you want. I just want to stretch my legs, play a game, as you mortals do. I don't plan on using my full power against a mortal unless I have to; such a thing is beneath me. As for what the intel is, it concerns my colleague Satan, and his plans vis a vis the Wybernian royal family. If you wish to find out more, my price is your entering the tournament with me and defeating the good Baron. I'm sure some of your comrades are dying for the chance to fight anyway, so why not kill two birds with one stone?" "Warche? Volcanic island off the Kizamo coast? Only dragons live there, I think. I-I didn't bring it up earlier because I-I thought it was too obvious an answer...."
"Maybe it could be Warche? .....n-no, that couldn't be it, could it?"
"M-maybe it's somewhere already inhabited? If it was so long ago, things might have changed since then."
