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Villain Teresa starts pondering her uselessness as an exorcist because she had two malakhim with immense power but wasn't able to harness it. Her ex-malak Phi asks what she's angry about and if it's Velvet taking him away from her. Villain Teresa is still quite cold-blooded, saying "an enemy stole a tool of mine." She also refers to Velvet exclusively as "Lord of Calamity." I see she's still as xenophobic as most exorcists, in addition to being incompetent. The game is trying to have me pity her, but I really can't because she's vile.

Phi is mumbling, trying to figure out how to stand up for himself to a villain, since the remark about him being a tool really hurt him. Unfortunately, said villain hears him and refers to him as "Number Two." Geez, she's awful. Phi says his name's Laphicet and, since Velvet gave him that name, it's important to him. Villain Teresa at first seems bewildered that something can be important to what she considers a tool, which Phi also challenges. She simply agrees to call him Laphicet and says to Eleanor that it's simply to not rock the boat. So she's still very much a slave driver. I really hope we get to kill her even still. And this skit about Teresa and Oscar wiping out dozens of daemons overnight makes me think that I might be being duped, and that both Teresa and Oscar will have to die very, very soon. (Why doesn't Velvet know about Melchior's ridiculous artes? Because she fucking LIVED INSIDE ONE!)

There's a scene where Teresa fetches a thunderstag beetle for Phi, then talks about how she'd always do the same for Oscar. It's nice that the game is giving us a complex portrait of her at this point - yes, I knew she had feelings, but I thought they were mostly ruthless and cold because that's all I was privy to. She's still quite heartless, except in regards to Oscar. He even thanked her with a bunch of cicadas... YIKES. Those things are noisy! Rokurou tries to provoke Eizen into arguing about beetles again and, after Laphicet defuses it, Villain Teresa says she doesn't understand how malakhim could act so human. Eleanor proceeds to educate her that she's a xenophobic piece of shit, because apparently only humans have feelings. Pro-slavery people like Villain Teresa aren't smart enough to understand the truth. Daemons are just the same as people... because all people are daemons. Didn't Teresa know that? She's a hypocrite, too, because she's a daemon... that scene where she was receptive to Innominat still lingers in my head. Like I said, this may very well be a trap, and I'll have to do some Dragonia slaying. The party doesn't trust Teresa at all, either, even though she's being open about things like knowing about Phi sneaking off to the library... and punishing him if he continued. Slaves aren't supposed to know how to read, after all, but... she seems like she's slowly having her eyes open. Of course this could be all for show, for all I know, and... it would have had to be intricately planned.

I finally get to the fucking save point to end for the night. Phew!