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The next morning Alvise quietly eats their eggs while listening to Mammon and MC talk about Lucifer guarding stairs or something. They were to tired to really pay attention to the words and vaguely heard something about TSL before resting their head on the table.
As it was a Saturday Alvise had the whole morning to themself until work. So they did the only logical thing and took a nap... Or tried to. Sleep seemed to be avoiding them again, leaving Alvise grumpy and snappy.
That day at work everything was pretty nice, the demons they delivered to were nice enough and only 2 tried to kill them this time. Toby even brought some more of his raven friends, who Xin gave some nuts and small rodents to non on while they relaxed after work.
One of the Ravens even flew off and came back with a shiny piece of scrap metal, Xin recycled it and used the money to buy more food for the Raven. Maybe they should make the Ravens their familiars, that way they could keep being friends. They'd have to check it's okay with the Ravens after finding a proper spell.
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Alvise was in hell, literal hell. MC, Mammon, and Beelzebub decided to have TSL marathon in MCs room. At full volume, and MCs room is right next to Alvises. No matter what he tried Alvise just couldn't seem to block out the noise.
Grabbing their pillow and blanket Alvise drags the objects to Lucifers study, might as well ask if they could sleep there or if they would have to use the library. After knocking and getting confirmation to come in Alvise opens the door.
"Hello Lucifer, can I sleep here?" Lucifer looks up, a questioning look in his eyes "MC is playing TSL full Volume, and I can't sleep cause Mammon is crying loudly and Beelzebub s crunching on popcorn and all the noise is to much noise"
Lucifer just sighs tiredly "Hahh... Fine, find a place and make yourself comfortable. But you owe me" Alvise nods in response before plopping in an empty corner and curling up under the blanket with the pillow under their head.
The sound of a quill scratching against parchment and Lucifers breathing lulls them to sleep, it was so much quieter compared to MC and Alvise loved it.
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The next day, Alvise just ended up having to get Lucifer breakfast in his office as payment, after RAD Alvise scoured the library for books on how to get animal familiars. They were being dragged to a weird TV knowledge thing later so might as well do it now.
Alvise is sifting through some different spell books, specifically focused on bird familiars to figure out the least harmful way to bind themself to his raven friends if they agreed to the bond. Anything useful they scribbled down in their notebook and made a binding circle after a few tries.
Looking up they notice a certain teal haired demon looking at her, Alvise remembers his name to be Barbatos. They give a small wave before going back to their research, not looking up as the demon sits across from them.
The two just sat in silence for a bit, Barbatos quietly watching as Alvise tried to make a summoning circle for when they had familiars. With a sigh Alvise puts down their pencil, their summoning circle was missing a component but they couldn't figure out what for the life of them.
Glancing at Barbatos they contemplate it for a moment before rapping their knuckles gently on the desk to get the demons attention. Quickly they write something on a piece of paper and slide it to him.
'My summoning circles missing a component but I can't figure out what, can you help?' Alvise slide their drawing to Barbatos who looks it over. "Well, everything is stable. You just can't seem to get your target focused. I would-" Alvise listens intently as Barbatos explains some tips about circle making.
As Alvise listens to Barbatos they write anything important into their notebook and listen intently, occasionally posing questions when Barbatos said something a bit out of their level of understanding. This slowly shifted to other topics both shared a common interest in.
Before Alvise knew it nearly an hour has passed, Diavolo running into the library to drag Barbatos to the TSL knowledge showdown between Leviathan and MC. Alvise just follows as they promised Lucifer they'd attend to humor the two.
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Alvise is bored, watching MC fail every single question was damn funny though. Leviathan was making fun of them for it and Alvise was staring blankly out a window when they spot on of their raven friends. Hopping to their feet Alvise goes over to the window and lets the bird in.
Gently petting the raven, she named it Atin, Alvise goes back to their seat and fishes out some nuts for the Atin from their pocket. Watching as the TSL tournament descended into chaos, a small smile on his lips as he whispered to Atin the correct answers for what MC got wrong.
They had watch and read the TSL stuff before, their parents practically forced all their children to, while they didn't know the hyper specific question Leviathan was getting, like lines from exact moments in the show or books, they did at least know the questions MC failed.
As everyone gets louder Alvise decides the corner is quietest and sits Atin while talking about random things, watching as Mammon says that MC has a trump card or something. It doesn't matter Alvise has a bird friend