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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He brings a hand up to his chin to consider that.]

You're not wrong to be concerned. If the situation is already tense, my arrival and subsequent connection to you could very well make things even more volatile. Quite the conundrum, indeed...

[Maybe he can start with something that he found peculiar the last time Beelzebub mentioned this.]

What did Belphegor do to be accused of treason, exactly? Do you know?
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whispers: I see.

[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-04 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
A substantial threat to the human world…

[He repeats, lifting a stray chip to chew on as he considers this. Judging from how deeply his brow furrows, things just aren’t adding up for him.]

Belphegor had a love for the human world, did he not? Did that change over the years?
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-04 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I see...

[Yeah, that sounds like a logical conclusion to wind up on. The human world was all fun and games until it inadvertently caused their downfall.]

Whether he intended to act on it or not, perhaps his harboring of such rage against the human world was enough for Lucifer to not want to take any chances.
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-05 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Temenos nods along, feeling around for another snack without taking his eyes off of Beelzebub.]

What information he's withholding must be the crux to understanding the situation in its entirety. For everyone's sake, I hope you are successful in getting it from him.
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-07 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah... Even Beelzebub can find some topics appetite-ruining. Looking back on it, Temenos can think of a few moments that may have been similar and he simply hadn't known Beelzebub well enough to realize it at the time.

He sets the unopened snack on his lap and reaches out to touch Beelzebub's hand.]


I'm looking forward to it.

[He wants this to be another hope to hold onto, given the situation.]

And I'll do my part to make sure you have a fighting chance. One hurdle at a time, hm?
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-07-07 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[A deeply selfish part of him wants to say "yes." But what he ends up saying is entirely different as he takes Beelzebub's hand.]

It was very brave of you to come forward, and it was also the right thing to do. That bravery is the reason why an innocent person isn't being executed instead.

...I just wish we could have found Nona's killer as well.

[That guilt hasn't left him yet either, and it likely never will leave him.]