The room detonates immediately.
âYOUââ Satanâs roar tears through everything, fire erupting as he lunges forward.
âOh, thatâs him?!â Beelzebub snaps at the same time, half-rising, eyes lighting with sharp, offended interest. âThatâs the one who ate power he couldnât handle?!â
âOH, THIS IS JUSTâNO.â
Mammon shoves his way forward into the chaos, pointing aggressively at Vox like heâs about to tear him apart in a boardroom instead of a battlefield.
âYouâyouââ he sputters, almost offended he even has to address him directly. âDo you have any idea what you just pulled?!â
He doesnât wait for an answer.
âThat wasnât a power moveâthat was a liability!â Mammon snaps, pacing now, voice rising with every step. âYou hijack the most valuable asset in Hell, no acquisition strategy, no risk assessment, no exit planâjust grab it and pray?â
âThatâs not dominance, thatâs amateur hour!â
Mammon leans in sharply, jabbing a finger toward Voxâs flickering screen.
âYou donât steal a brand like thatâyou leverage it. You negotiate. You position yourself so when you take it, it looks intentional.â His lip curls. âWhat you did? Sloppy. Loud. Unsustainable.â
He circles, shaking his head like heâs personally insulted.
âAnd donât even get me started on executionââ he continues, gesturing wildly now. âYou couldnât maintain control, couldnât stabilize output, and now look at youâdragged in here, signal glitching, about five seconds away from getting liquidated!â
A sharp, humorless laugh.
âCongratulations,â Mammon sneers. âYou didnât just failâyou failed publicly.â
He stops in front of Vox again, eyes narrowing, voice dropping into something colder.
âYou know what we call that where Iâm from?â
His grin sharpensâpredatory, final.
âAnd bad business doesnât get corrected.â
Leviathan doesnât raise their voiceâbut it cuts through anyway, cold and precise: âSignal instability. Degradation under pressure. Interestingâheâs already failing.â
âTalk?!â Mammon scoffs, circling like heâs already pricing out the damage. âHe owes compensation before he gets a word in!â
Ozzieâs voice slides in, calm but firmâalmost drowned out by the rest. âYouâre all missing the pointââ
âNo,â Leviathan interrupts smoothly, eyes locked on Vox, âweâre circling it.â
Satanâs flames surge higher.
âI AM NOT LETTING HIM SPEAKââ
âOh, youâre absolutely letting him speak,â Beelzebub shoots back, grinning now, something feral creeping in. âI want to taste the logic.â
Mammon points aggressively. âIf he says one thing that even sounds like justification, Iâm billing him for itââ
Ozzie exhales sharply. âCan weââ
âOH, I KNOW YOU ARENâT JUST GOING TO SIT THEREââ
Beelzebubâs voice slams into the room, cutting straight through the noise as she surges forward, wings flaring wide. Whatever playful edge she had before is goneâburned out, replaced with something sharp, visceral, and loud.
âYou took it?!â she snaps, pointing at Vox like she might actually lunge next. âYou didnât earn it, didnât build up to it, didnât even understand itâyou just stuffed yourself full of something that wasnât yours?!â
Satanâs flames roar beside herâ
âand she matches the intensity.
âThatâs not power, thatâs overconsumption!â she yells, pacing now, energy spiraling, volatile. âYou donât just grab something that rich and choke it down like youâre trying to prove a point!â
Her eyes blaze, locking onto Voxâs glitching screen.
The word cracks like a whip.
âAll that potential, all that flavor, all that weightâand you turned it into some cheap, flashy meltdown?!â she continues, voice rising, almost overlapping Satanâs fury now. âThatâs disgusting!â
She steps closerâtoo closeâheat and pressure building as her presence crowds in.
âYou didnât just cross a line,â she snarls, âyou ruined the experience.â
Satan slams Vox harder into the groundâ
Beelzebub doesnât even flinch.
âIf youâre going to take something that big,â she snaps, gesturing wildly, âyou handle it. You savor it. You respect itââ
âNot binge it like some desperate idiot who doesnât know when to stop!â
Another step forward, voice peakingâ
âSo no, I donât care what he saysââ
She jabs a finger downward.
ââbecause whatever explanation he has? Itâs already unsatisfying.â
The air feels thick, suffocating, overloadedâ
Satan and her now yelling at once, fire and excess colliding, neither backing down, neither lowering their voice. Bee and the Lord of wrath screaming at the top of their voices at him while Mammon is yelling about bad business still
Hereâs the moment pushed to full overloadâWrath, Gluttony, and Greed all crashing together at once:
It stops being a confrontation.
âYOU DONâT GET TO TOUCH THAT KIND OF POWERââ Satan roars, flames detonating outward as his grip tightens, cracking the floor deeper beneath Vox.
ââAND YOU DONâT GET TO WASTE ITââ Beelzebub screams over him at the exact same time, her voice just as loud, just as furious, the air around her thick and suffocating with excess.
Their voices collideâoverlapâfight for dominance.
âYOU CONSUMED HIMââ
âYOU STOLE WHAT WASNâT YOURSââ
âAND YOU DIDNâT EVEN DO IT RIGHTââ
Fire lashes violently across the chamber as Satanâs rage spikes again, heat distorting everything in reach.
Beelzebub surges forward another step, wings flaring, energy spiraling outward in waves that feel like drowning in too much of everything at once.
âTHAT WASNâT POWER, THAT WAS GLUTTONY WITHOUT CONTROL!â she snaps.
âTHAT WAS A DECLARATION OF WAR!â Satan fires back, louder.
âIT WAS UNFORGIVABLE!â
âIT WAS BAD BUSINESS!!â
Mammonâs voice cuts inâjust as loud, just as aggressive, shoving into the chaos like it belongs there.
Heâs pacing, ranting, pointing, completely unwilling to be drowned out.
âNO STRUCTURE, NO STRATEGY, NO LONG-TERM GAINâJUST A STUPID, HIGH-RISK GRAB WITH ZERO RETURNââ he shouts, gesturing wildly at Vox like heâs presenting a failed quarterly report. âYOU DONâT HIJACK A MARKET LIKE THAT AND EXPECT TO WALK AWAYââ
Satan slams Vox down againâ
âYOU DONâT WALK AWAY AT ALL!â
âYOU DONâT BINGE POWER LIKE THAT AND EXPECT IT TO HOLDââ Beelzebub yells over him, voice cracking with sheer intensity. âYOU CHOKED ON IT!â
âYOU CRASHED YOUR OWN VALUE!â Mammon adds, furious.
âYOU SHOULD BE ASHââ
âYOU SHOULD BE EMPTYââ
âYOU SHOULD BE BANKRUPTââ
âDISGUSTINGâBADâBUSINESS!!â
Mammonâs voice cuts through the overlapping screams like a blaring alarm, somehow louder, sharper, more grating than everything else stacked on top of it.
He storms forward, shoving into the edge of Satanâs inferno and Beelzebubâs suffocating pressure without a second thought, completely committed to the rant.
âDo you even HEAR yourself?!â he shouts, pointing wildly at Vox, rings flashing. âYou hijack a premium asset, you mismanage it, you burn through it like youâve got infinite backingâand then you crash?!â
âHE DOESNâT GET TO CRASHââ
ââHE DOESNâT GET TO OPERATE LIKE THAT!â Mammon snaps right back, not even looking at him. âThatâs not how power works, thatâs not how markets workâthatâs not how anything works!â
Beelzebubâs voice slams in from the other sideâ
âHE DIDNâT EVEN ENJOY IT RIGHTââ
âEXACTLY!â Mammon barks, seizing on it instantly, jabbing a finger toward her before whipping back to Vox. âWasteful AND incompetentâworst combination possible!â
He leans in, furious, voice dropping just enough to sharpenâ
âYou didnât just steal something valuable,â he growls. âYou devalued it.â
Then he explodes again, louder than before:
âDO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT DOES TO A SYSTEM?!â
Satan slams Vox harder into the groundâ
âHEâS ABOUT TO FIND OUTââ
âNO, HE ALREADY DID!â Mammon fires back, throwing his hands up in exasperation. âTHISââ he gestures violently to the entire room, the destruction, the pressure, the furyâ ââTHIS IS THE CORRECTION!â
His lip curls in disgust.
âThis is what happens,â he spits, âwhen someone runs a disgusting, unsustainable, idiotic excuse for a power grab!â
He points down at Vox one last time, voice dripping with contempt:
âYouâre not a disruptor.â
Satan doesnât shout it.
And somehow, thatâs worse.
The words cut through everythingâthrough Mammonâs rant, through the lingering echo of Beelzebubâs outrageâclean, final, absolute.
His claws press down harder.
The stone beneath Vox splits.
Flames coil tighter around Satanâs arm, no longer explosiveâfocused. Controlled. Ready.
âHeâs not a threat,â Satan continues, voice low, lethal, each word deliberate. âHeâs a mistake.â
âAnd I correct mistakes.â
Beelzebubâs wings twitch, energy still crackling off her in uneven waves. âHonestly?â she snaps, still heated, pacing tight circles. âAt this point heâs already ruined the experienceââ
Mammon cuts back in immediately, refusing to be sidelined. âNo, no, noâyou donât just kill himââ he gestures sharply, already recalculating, ââyou make it visible. You make it clear what happens when someone pulls a stunt like thisââ
Satan doesnât even look at him.
âIâm not running a lesson,â he says flatly.
âIâm ending a problem.â
ââKILL HIM! KILL HIMâKILL HIM!â
Beelzebubâs voice cuts through the chamber, loud, sharp, and relentlessânot measured outrage anymore, not even angerâ
Sheâs grinning now, wide and feral, wings flaring as she starts pacing faster, energy spiking with every word.
âKILL HIM! KILL HIMâCâMON, DO ITââ
Her chant falls into rhythm, almost playful in cadenceâbut thereâs nothing light about it. It feeds the room, feeds the fire, feeds the violence already coiling tight around Satanâs grip.
âKILL HIM! KILL HIMââ
She claps once, sharply, like sheâs kicking off a show.
ââEND IT! HE BLEW IT!â
Mammon lets out a bark of laughter, half-agreeing, half-appalled. âOkay, Iâm not saying youâre wrongââ
Beelzebub leans in closer, eyes locked on Vox, voice dropping just enough to turn vicious.
âYou had your moment,â she sneers. âAnd you wasted it.â
Then, louder againâright back into the chant, escalating it:
âKILL HIM! KILL HIM! KILL HIM!â
Itâs no longer just a suggestion.
Itâs a pulse in the room.
And Beelzebub is more than happy to conduct it.
âYOU DIDNâT EVEN THINK ABOUT BRANDING ITâYOU JUST TOOK HIM?!â
Mammonâs voice cuts through the chaos like a siren, loud, sharp, and absolutely incredulous.
He throws his hands up, pacing in tight, furious circles like heâs seconds away from combusting.
âNo rollout, no messaging, no positioningânothing?!â he snaps, jabbing a finger toward Vox. âYou had access to the single most recognizable power structure in Hell and your plan was whatâwing it?!â
Satan snarls over him, flames surgingâ
âHE DOESNâT GET A PLANâHE GETS ENDEDââ
âNO, HE GETS CRITIQUED FIRSTââ Mammon fires right back, not even looking at him. âBecause this? This is offensive!â
He leans in closer to Vox, eyes blazing with a different kind of furyâcalculating, disgusted.
âYou donât just hijack a name like Morningstar and do nothing with it!â he continues, voice rising again. âYou build narrative! You control perception! You make people believe it was always yoursââ
âBut noâyou went loud, messy, unsustainableâno identity, no consistencyâjust a cheap grab for attention that collapsed the second pressure hit!â
Beelzebub laughs harshly over his shoulder. âHe couldnât even handle itââ
âOF COURSE HE COULDNâTâHE DIDNâT PACKAGE IT!â Mammon snaps.
He straightens, gesturing wildly like heâs presenting the worst case study of his life.
âThis is why amateurs fail!â he barks. âYou donât respect the product, you donât understand the market, and then you wonder why everything crashes down around you!â
Mammon points at Vox one more time, voice dropping into something cold and cutting
âYou didnât just steal power.â