Lucifer laughs, teetering backwards and smothering his face with his palm.

No, he thinks. Stop, he thinks. He continues to laugh, shaking his head. "You're too trusting, Wilhelm; that's your problem. You try to see the best in everyone, right? The bright side. That's how someone else is going to take advantage of you."

He half turns away. "'Lucia,'" he throws out, from when they first met in the dining hall and Wilhelm was trying to staunch a wound. "Lucia, really? You're so sunk in your own head that you still haven't realized that I am the actual devil!"