superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

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[teufelshund]

Apparently! I respect the dedication to the theme.

[psynchronise]

Even down to the lighting.

[ pff. ]

Somehow I'm not that surprised you know a fair bit about how maid cafés work.

[teufelshund]

I might have considered it as a possible business opportunity for True Cross Academy Town before.

[ if he was the owner he'd get services for free!! ]

[psynchronise]

[ .... the way he is deeply not surprised by this. ]

To supplement the cost of running a busy school?

[ ... ]

Fair though, you'd probably rake in tons.

[teufelshund]

[ yeah, sure, let's call that the reason. ]

We do already make a pretty good profit off of Mepphyland, but it never hurts to have more funding, or another place for fun and leisure!

[psynchronise]

[ a charitable excuse for him. ]

...

Mepphyland.

[ he can. he can guess. but. ]

[teufelshund]

Mepphyland! ☆

[ smiles. ]

Not the same as the one you've been taking trips to, of course.

[psynchronise]

[ closes his eyes for a second there. ]

I’d have a lot more questions if you were like “yeah, I make funding off that”, actually.

[teufelshund]

Probably wouldn't go over too well for a school administrator, unfortunately.

[ taking out his phone to look for some mepphyland photos... ]

[psynchronise]

I'd love to see how you'd explain away that as a money making scheme, to school admin as well.

[ he's leaning in to try and peek at the phone. ]

[teufelshund]

Not like they could really get rid of me even if they wanted to, but I do want to maintain a classy image.

[ he says as he scrolls through some selfies of him in a weeb yukata with a kid behind him who looks almost identical to him except green and unexpressive? ]

[psynchronise]

The true nightmare. Shareholders and investors you just can't ditch.

[ the "classy image" thing gets a laugh out of him, especially after the weeb yukata. but-- oh. ]

Relative?

[teufelshund]

[ ? for a second, but then looks back down at the picture he's on, where he was totally not paying attention to the background. ]

—Ah. Younger brother.

[psynchronise]

[ huh.

he's tilting his head to look at the background closer. ]

You give off more of an only child vibe, honestly. [ pause. ] I guess it's different for non-humans.

[teufelshund]

I mentioned before that I had siblings, right? One older, six younger, including Amaimon. Though he's the only one that looks that much like me.

[ guess why ]

[psynchronise]

[ thinks. ]

You did, actually. [ ... ] Are they all full siblings, or...?

[ help he doesn't know how demonic genetics work. ]

[teufelshund]

Haha... well, it doesn't really work like that; we were never physically born in the first place, and never had a mother.

[ rin isn't included on this list. ]

The eight of us began as concepts thousands of years ago, and gradually developed personal egos and gained physical bodies. Which I imagine must sound pretty ridiculous to you.

[psynchronise]

I wander through people's brains for a living, I'm pretty fine with ridiculous.

[ i mean. it's not wrong. ]

So you all just... formed into physical beings over time and went from there?

[teufelshund]

Pretty much! Of course, as you heard before, that came with its own problems.

[psynchronise]

Right. Your Section 13 problems.

[ … why is hell complicated in every single form? ]

And omnicidal maniac problems. [ christ. ]

[teufelshund]

Mm. Lucifer is the eldest of us.

[ he may have skipped over the part about the omnicidal maniac in question being his brother before. ]

And Amaimon's current body is one of Section 13's rare successes.

[ you know, the one that looks exactly like him.

anyway! back to scrolling for mepphyland pics. ]

[psynchronise]

[ ……

no, no. feel free to back up a second here. while he’s just piecing together the familial connections in his head. ]

And you?

[ in terms of rare successes, where does he fall? ]

[teufelshund]

I've been able to stop my original body from deteriorating, so I've never had to find a new one.

Perk of being the King of Time. Light and earth aren't so helpful in that department.

[psynchronise]

... Sounds like you basically got handed a cheat code.

[ king of time. ]

So, deterioration doesn't have an effect on you, but your siblings are a whole other story. That's how it goes?

[teufelshund]

Well, it's not that it doesn't have an effect on me, but that I can passively use my power to counteract it. I have limits, though, so I can't maintain that same level of resistance if I'm expending too much power elsewhere.

[ like personally keeping up a barrier around the gate to hell for months on end. side effects: looking like shit when some dude barges in on you in the bath. ]

Still a much better deal than the others.