Levi finally was done passionately talking about TSL and all the things he wanted to do in the human world. "...All right, enough. This is starting to depress me. Anyway, I didn't bring you here to tell you about TSL." Levi sat back down in his bean bag chair, looking at me seriously. "I don't think there's any harm in just coming out and saying what you already know is true: Mammon is a complete and utter scumbag. It's very important that you understand this. So I'll say it one more time. Mammon is a hopeless worthless scumbag." 'You can say that again Levi. I understand completely!'
"I lent that scumbag money, and now I want him to pay me back. But being the scumbag that he is, he won't do it. I wish I could force him to, but despite what a rotten waste of space he is, Mammon's still the second oldest. As the third oldest, no matter how hard I try, I don't stand a chance against him." Levi was getting angry, not to me, but to Mammon. Though I was angry at him too for the stunt he pulled on me, I felt kind of bad for Mammon, being seen poorly in the eyes of his brothers. "I'm curious, how did you and Mammon come to despise each other?"
"You say you want to know how Mammon and I first became enemies? Well, it's a long story, but sure. I'll tell you, human. Once, a long time ago, Mammon won a prize in a convenience store promotional campaign. If you bought something, they let you reach into a box and pull out a piece of paper that told you what you'd won. And the prize Mammon won was a Seraphina figurine, something I would've died to have. But, despite the fact that Mammon had no interest in it at all, he refused to give it to me." I raised my eyebrows, confused as to why Mammon, a demon who only cares about money and valuable things like gems and expensive clothes and cars, would want an otaku fan collectible.
"Why, you ask? Because I wanted it...that's it. That was the only reason. I wanted it, and he said no just to torment me. I mean, how awful is that?! So, I got to thinking... Mammon's going to end up treating Seraphina like some random piece of junk. That much is a given. I can maybe handle it if he at least leaves her in her original packaging, but what if he actually takes her out of the box?! He might just do it! And if he does, he'll get dust on her, won't he?! I decided I had to save Seraphina, so I snuck into Mammon's room in the middle of the night. And what do you think I saw there?!" The menacing expression on Levi's face was getting worse, and I wondered what Mammon had done to tick off Levi so much. 'I am not much of an anime figurine collecting type of person, as they are expensive and require lots of care. I am more of a plushie and card collecting type of person.'
"You're not gonna believe it. He didn't open the box... No, it's way worse than that. He didn't even taken it out of the plastic convenience store bag, which he'd tossed on the floor of his room. THE FLOOR! He actually left SERAPHINA on the FLOOR! The Queen of the High Elves Herself! Sure, she seems cold and prideful at first, but once you get her alone, you find that she really wants affection, she just doesn't know how to admit it, and it's soooo cute! Yet Mammon just threw her on the floor! And I don't think he'd cleaned it in three months. It was covered in junk. Old empty cup ramen containers, tissues with dried snot and...and boogers in them. Stuff was strewn everywhere. And there she was, lying amongst all of that! On the FLOOR! Tossed aside like so much junk! How COULD he?!" Even if I never owned a single anime figurine, I understood why Levi's anger, as they need to be treated delicately with care.
"It was so awful that I just lost it, and flew into a rage. I walked straight over to Mammon, who was lying on his bed asleep. Then I raised my leg up into the air over him and brought my heel down onto his stomach as hard as I could. But the next thing I knew, he wasn't there on the bed anymore. It all happened so fast. He moved with incredible speed. He grabbed me, picked me up, and slammed me headfirst onto the floor in a pile driver. And the worst part is that he was STARK NAKED!" I gasped, picturing Levi slowly losing consciousness while looking at Mammon, who was naked. 'Great, now I have that mental image stuck in my head. I won't be forgetting it anytime soon, and it's going to scar me for the rest of my life. Why would guys sleep naked anyway?'
"...As I started to lose consciousness, I remember thinking...why does he have to sleep in the nude? He could at least put on some underwear. I don't remember anything else after that... You've seen just how fast he is yourself, haven't you? No one aside from Lucifer or Beel has that kind of speed. But if, say, a human made a pact with Mammon, and bound him to their service...then he'd have to do whatever that human told him to. Which means that if you made a pact with Mammon and then ordered him to give me back my money...he wouldn't have any choice but to do it." Levi smiled at me, probably at the prospect of me making a pact with Mammon and how I could make him do whatever I command.
"What's a pact?" I had a general idea of what a pact was, but I wasn't entirely sure if I knew about pacts and demons were true. Most of my knowledge of pacts comes from watching anime and movies, which is most likely fictitious and not true. "A pact, with a demon... Haven't you seen that in movies and such? The demon lends his strength to a human to make their wish come true in exchange for their soul." 'So I what I know is true. I am excited to try this out, but isn't there some other way to make a pact with a demon without forfeiting my soul.'
"That's so cool! But, I really don't want to give up my soul!" Without a soul, if I die, I will be stuck in an endless loop of torture and torment for the rest of eternity. "That isn't always necessary. It depends on what's in the pact. But, well, you need to give SOMETHING to the demon to make it worth the exchange, so it's pretty much inevitable. If you don't want to give up your soul, then I'll tell you how you can negotiate with Mammon. Also, despite how awful he is, he's still a powerful demon. But I bet you feel worried, being dragged down her to the Devildom and all. So, I don't think it would end up being a bad deal for you, either. Don't you agree?" I appreciated how nice Levi was being to me. Sure, he's helping me for his own benefit, but he still understands my worry of being dragged to the Devildom, having to stay here for a full year for an exchange program, all while trying not to be killed or eaten by demons.
"How would I go about doing that? I'm absolutely sure that I won't be able to form a pact with Mammon easily." Mammon didn't want to take care of me and ditched me at the first opportunity he got. Plus, I am NOT giving up my soul, so I am going to need something else. "I take it this means you think this plan of mine could work, right? Excellent. You may be a human, but still...you show some promise! Regardless, if I'm being honest, I don't really care what you think. What's important is that I have a plan, I'm going to explain it to you now. So, shut up and listen." Soon my appreciation towards Levi dissipated, and I gave him a steely glare. 'Just because I am a human and you are a demon, you could at least show a little respect to me. You could, I don't know, say name instead of calling me human.'
"If you just walk up to Mammon and ask him to make a pact with you, he'll never agree. No, you need some leverage...a bargaining chip. You're going to offer him something in return... Something he wants so badly that he'd do ANYTHING to get it." I started growing concerned when Levi had a huge grin on his face. 'Are you going to tell me, or you are going to make me guess?'