[Sebastian, meanwhile, doesn't read everything on the Network exactly, but a decent part of it, and he tends to keep an eye on what the demons and demon-adjacent creatures reveal about themselves: he's heard Vaggie describe herself as someone whose job was to kill demons. Not that he spares the matter of his own safety a single thought.]
As you might know, I am earl Phantomhive's butler. Thus I would offer my assistance should it be within my power to facilitate your work with him this month.
If I may, I would also enquire as to your capabilities to ensure his safety, given the general nature of the Barge.
[See, she likes a practical approach. Butler? That's... a little precious, but in practice? It doesn't seem that different from being a hotel manager. All about logistics.]
If we get one of our violence outbreaks? There's only one thing here that can meaningfully hurt me, and I'm holding it. So if I can get to him in time for him to stand behind me, he'll be fine. If it's sneaky violence or he's right there when it starts, well, I'd need his cooperation to set up a signal and a plan. I'll see what I can do about that.
I should note that I have the means to keep him safe from any potential threat, but I am unfortunately not immune to the effects the Admiral enjoys inflicting upon us. I am relieved to know you will be well to protect him, too.
Now, then. As for your plans to help him work towards graduation? [No, she's not allowed to not have a plan or not care about a temporary inmate's graduation.]
My condolences on your previous Inmate, ma'am. [This is not a platitude he'd offer to someone he has a more genuine relationship with (such a person would know it's not sincere), but in a new business arrangement, it doesn't hurt to grease the wheels.]
The young master is not irrationally violent, no. [At least not most of the time.] He is likely to wish to be left alone, however.
I'm not gonna hold him down and make him be friends. If he knows what he can rely on me for and we have plans in place for catastrophes, that's enough. From there it depends how well we click.
Goal is getting mortal souls out of hell. Guests come stay with us, we work on addressing their issues, extracting them from whatever fucked up mess they've gotten stuck in since they got to hell, still working on soul contracts and the gates of heaven and shit, but they've all made progress. Anyway, mandatory feelings sharing has... not been our most successful program.
Right, universe stuff. I've never actually been to wherever mortal humans live in my reality, so I don't know how it works for them? But in hell it's how overlords cement power. Protection deals, mostly, but they can get a lot weirder.
Mm, yes and no. Some of them, you take away their contracts, they wouldn't have a lot left. Some deal mostly fairly, not that they're safe, just, honest about how they'll fuck you. Some have spun the power from souls into all the other kinds of power that make hell the delightful place it is.
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As you might know, I am earl Phantomhive's butler. Thus I would offer my assistance should it be within my power to facilitate your work with him this month.
If I may, I would also enquire as to your capabilities to ensure his safety, given the general nature of the Barge.
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If we get one of our violence outbreaks? There's only one thing here that can meaningfully hurt me, and I'm holding it. So if I can get to him in time for him to stand behind me, he'll be fine. If it's sneaky violence or he's right there when it starts, well, I'd need his cooperation to set up a signal and a plan. I'll see what I can do about that.
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I should note that I have the means to keep him safe from any potential threat, but I am unfortunately not immune to the effects the Admiral enjoys inflicting upon us. I am relieved to know you will be well to protect him, too.
Now, then. As for your plans to help him work towards graduation? [No, she's not allowed to not have a plan or not care about a temporary inmate's graduation.]
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[She hasn't met the kid, but she's spotted him on the network here and there.]
My disappeared inmate--
[She holds out hope that Striker's disappearance is temporary, and she can get back on the dumb bastard's case someday soon.]
Was an assassin with a macho streak. I had to fight him every time I needed to get anything done. I don't get that vibe on this assignment.
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The young master is not irrationally violent, no. [At least not most of the time.] He is likely to wish to be left alone, however.
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[DISAPPROVAL.]
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Enjoy you your work to such a degree that you would do it in two different places?
[Anyway.] "Soul contracts", ma'am?
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Why, I would say I am intimately familiar with what a Soul Contract is. They have nothing to do with human souls in Hell.
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May I assume Overlords to be a particularly powerful type of demon?
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[Phrasing it as "your Hell" is probably something of a clue to what Sebastian himself is. It's not like he bothers to keep it a secret these days.]
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