Jo scoffs at his excuse. Since Dean hadn't even known the wings existed until then, but even if he had? That's a child's argument and an outright lie. There's no way Lucifer would have walked away without the wings even happening. A truth she's all too aware of while she's watching him across the far too-small space between them.

His second tactic choice is worse. Deciding to paint her as powerless, foolish, and not old enough, riding the rails of another voice who liked all the same examples and had lost a much longer battle of it than he'd ever get the choice of.

"Yeah. I do, and I know it still makes them better than all of you and the shit you put them through because they still keep coming out on the other side of it even though they shouldn't have had to deal with your bullshit to begin with."