"He's entirely too emotional for that, I'm afraid," says the devil who's been playing on his emotions for a couple hundred years.

Before all that, he would take the criticism in stride and apply it constructively.

Instead, he gets pissed off. "What I want is for you to understand the stakes. Things can always, always get worse." He keeps his gaze on Steve, both more and less intense than it was when his eyes burned like fire, and gestures towards Asmodeus. "You think he's some ultimate evil, but he isn't. There's a god of torture, a god of conquest, a god of slaughter - "

"You're talking about my brothers, Zerxus."

He does glance over this time, distinctly unimpressed. "You've tried to murder all three of them."

"Only when they deserved it."