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It all happened on a boring night. They did their routines and went to bed.
At the tick of midnight, Lucifer received a call from diavolo. The prince was... frantic. His voice full of urgency as he summoned him and his brothers to the demon lord's castle.
Going to each room, Lucifer woke them up one after another until he reached the second born's room, as he called out his name his eyes recognized the emptiness of the room, Wandering around to locate his figure..
No one was there.
Lucifer sighed annoyingly, noting mammon's disappearance and shrugging it off with the assumption he was out there being.. him.
Greedy, troublesome, scum and mammon, his brother.
He closed the door and walked down, making sure all his brothers are there and finally leaving the house of lamentation.
As they arrived, the atmosphere in the castle was.. dead..Different from it usual cheerfulness and fanciness, Barbatos greeted them with a smile missing from his face.. He allowed them to walk in and started to lead them to where the rest gathered.
"The rest? Are there others here?"
Leviathan asked the obvious question, Only to be offered a nod from Barbatos.. strange, really.. the butler was unusually quiet, lacking his usual..self? They couldn't spot it..
"Hey Barbatos, is everything okay?"
Asmodeus wondered, an expression of worry replaced his sleepy, grumpy face.
However Barbatos didn't answer.. so they let it go.
As they finally arrived to where the others were, surprised to see simeon, Solomon and even luke while diavolo sat at the head of the table, his fingers locked and head hung down.
His face deprived of any of the cheerfulness and delight he would have to see them.. Barbatos motions them to take a seat and so they did, Sharing confused glares with the three from the purgatory hall.
"So, diavolo, why did you gather us here at this hour?" Lucifer wonders, hoping for an answer to the inconvenience.
However was met with a dead silence and after followed by a gulp, and before he could speak again diavolo's voice echoed through the dimly lit, gloomy room.
"I'm.. sorry for having you all come here in a short notice.. I'll tell you why just give me a second.."
That's all it took for everyone in the room to know that this was more than just a matter of party arrangements or event announcement..
It was serious.
No one was able to look away from diavolo, sitting with worry at the news that were to come. They prepared themselves,
They prepared for anything that could come out of his mouth... Anything..
Anything.. but ..
"Today.. mammon..
Mammon was found dead"
Oh.