"It's A Skill Issue."

"It's a skill issue."

"Maybe I really am the grandspawn of Satan."

"Pretty much." It's a gross oversimplification, but it is correct. "You'd come running if a friend called for you. Demons do the same."

"But I--" Oh god, he really did do all that, didn't he?

"...is that seriously all that it takes? To summon and dispel demons like you do, I mean."

"Listening, sensing, something like that." Maybe that's something to ask Sir Pheles about. "You can't be too lenient with demons and sylphs are elementals." As if that explains it all.

"So, are they just always watching out for you then? Or, listening for you I guess, since chanting would be like a call?" Dennis isn't sure what verbiage he's supposed to be using here. He's too focused on just trying to understand Lewin's methods are so he emulate them himself in later summons. "And.. if they were your friends, then why did you kill them?"

Hinobi. Hmm, wasn't familiar to Lewin so he made a note to look into it later. In the meantime he was listening and fighting against the comfiness of the bean bag chair. With another episode starting, the high squeaked voices of the cartoon became more white noise and it all made him so sleepy.

The kid didn't seem to be an exorcist, but probably someone Sir Pheles were looking to include into his little circle of useful people. Maybe an exorcist in training? There was potential.

There was also potential for falling asleep again.

Eyes glanced towards the offered bowl, then rolled away from Mephisto - effectively pouting now. In the next moment does he carefully take the bowl from Mephisto's hands though, his other hand swiftly reaching in to nab a treat between two fingers, doing his best to avoid having it touch the fabric of his fingerless gloves. "And locay-sh. Just because Hinobi has a method of fast travel doesn't -" a pause, followed by his eyes focusing on the goggles he always wore, specifically the interface overlay. The readings his scans pick up on Lightning have changed somewhat...

A bite of food is done purely to make up for the pause, setting the bowl down beside him. "Where was I? Right, method... It's very time-consuming flying to and from here, and I don't think they appreciate the resources I take to do that." Call him a part of this team as much as you want, but the job still requires a form a secrecy that Mitch does want to take seriously - which means making sure Lightning doesn't know about things such as portals. Some members of the team learned through unique circumstances, or because he does desire to be needed helpful in someway...and because he's sure Rin would strangle him all over again if he tried a 'system reset.' Memory alteration is a necessary part of a job that Mitch gleefully abuses, and Lightning will be no exception. If that puts a damper into Mephisto's grand scheme, well...that's not Mitch's problem. "Either way, I'll be sure to crash his party. If not for a lecture then at least to see him in action. ...He's another teacher here?"

Ah, Lightning hadn't realized he has hit some sort of nerve. How is he going to explain properly... "As a tamer, you cannot be too lenient on your familiars. If you are, they can attack you or others. It mighta been just a couple of cuts, but it's on me to stop it before it becomes more. They're my friends but they're demons. Besides," he says, smiling a little more relaxed, "Sylphs are elementals. They're not very individualistic. It's like blowing out a candle - that light might be gone but fire still exists in the world. It's why they don't have death verses. Same for Naiads and Coal Tars."

"But they were your friends." The boy reiterates, unable to let that fact and their deaths go so easily. It's a dangerous mindset to have in their line of work too, especially as a Tamer, but the aspect of connecting with demons to have better working relationships with them just to kill them so heartlessly doesn't click for Dennis like it evidently does Lewin; The bleeding heart cannot imagine severing a connection so swiftly or that easily. "And, like, I don't mean to sound ungrateful cause the cuts were annoying--" and going to be annoying to heal as well "--but I wasn't like, being killed or anything."

"Uff, yeah pain sucks." Lewin is not sure why she keeps insisting when he already agreed. He must be missing a social cue. "Probably a good idea to get him to a doctor."

"Yeah...because he's in severe pain." Is he really that oblivious, or is this some kind of mind game?

"Even if he heals, Rin is important to us. We love him, and don't want him to suffer, especially because he's suffered so much already. When you love someone that much, their suffering feels as bad as your own, you know?"