"You got it." Azazel replied.

Meanwhile, the two males stopped kicking the demon, and paused for a moment.

"Is the ground rumbling?" one asked, as the other looked over in another direction.

"Uh... uh, chief?" they said, talking to the female.

"We... may have trouble." they told her, as Cerberus got closer, and they say Azazel was on top of the middle head... alongside Aly.

"Oh great." Azazel muttered.

"Is he being shaken down to repay a damn debt?" he growled.

Azazel had Cerberus stop relatively close to them, and had the canine lay down, putting its heads down and allowing the riders to slide down onto the ground.

"Yo." Azazel greeted them, after clearing his throat.

"What?" one of the demons responded, clearly unimpressed.

"Oh, just wondering what it is that HE owes you." Azazel said, gesturing to Aly's 'partner'.

"What do you care!?" the same demon snapped.

"I care because when you dragged him down here to collect, you ALSO brought down the human partner that he had attached himself to." Azazel responded.

"And while this situation is, admittedly, in a very grey area in terms of what's allowed and what isn't... with the status I have with the higher ups, I could, in theory, escalate this." he explained.

"Not that I will, for sure." he quickly clarified. "But I want to know why you dragged him down here." he said.

"...he owes us 300 Orange Cores." one of them said, referring to a type of 'currency' among demons.

"For the love of..." Azazel growled, before looking at the female that seemed to be 'in charge'.

"If I give it to you, will you consider the debt closed?" he asked her.

"Don't tell me you care about THIS little turd." one of them said, pointing to their target.

"I don't." Azazel responded.

"The debts that come back to haunt him are his own business, not mine." he said.

"However, when a personal friend of mine..." he went on, gesturing to Aly. "...is harmed in the process, I MAKE it my business." he told them.

"Also, Cerberus has taken a liking to her." he continued.

"And if we can't reach an arrangement where they can re-attach themselves, and she can return home to the surface, they might not like it." he added, as the canine heads glared at the demons.

Azazel was silent, and then sighed.

"Yeah, yeah." he said.

He then flicked his wrist, and a large sack appeared beside him. He reached in dug through it, and then produced three strange rock-like spheres, with holes in them. And through the holes, it looked like there was a deep red substance glowing inside.

"Here." he told her.

"Three Red Cores." he said.

"That should more than suffice." he sighed, as Aly's partner started to crawl over towards her.

The demon crawled over towards her, and as soon as he was close enough, she felt the ties that kept them together 'reattach' themselves.

And as soon as they did, his influence surrounded her, giving her a MUCH stronger shield than Azazel had been giving her. Granted, she wasn't completely protected, and it was still only a matter of time before she was mentally broken, but it had slowed down considerably.

Azazel, having paid the demons, made his way back to the pair.

"Now YOU owe ME." he told the demon.

"300 O-Cores isn't exactly chump change." he growled.

"...." the demon was silent, and Azazel shook his head.

"Right, Alyssa, ready to go home?" he then asked Aly.

"All right then." Azazel responded.

"I'll get a portal ready on the quick-fast." he told her.

"Gimme a sec." he then said, as he started prepping.

As he did, Cerberus nudged Aly's back slightly, whining lightly... though, considering the size of the canine, the whine was decently loud.

"Heh, guess he doesn't want you to go." Azazel laughed.

Azazel paused for a moment, thinking about it.

"Hmmm." he mumbled.

"Yeah. Yeah, I bet I could come up with something." he said.

"I'll let you know soon." he told her.

With that, he created a portal in a nearby wall, and Aly could see Levi on the other side of it, looking VERY confused and concerned.

"Through it, ya go." Azazel said.

"The sooner, the better."

"Uh... you okay?" Levi asked her.

However, before she answered, a crumpled piece of paper was thrown through the closing portal, mere moments before it closed itself completely.

"Huh?" Levi muttered, picking it up and looking at it, uncrumpling it slightly.

"Oh, it's for you." he said, handing it to her.

When Aly accepted it, she saw it was a note from Azazel.

Call me if, tomorrow, you still can't get the Hell out of you. was all it said, and it had Azazel's cell phone number on it.

To Levi, the message would be confusing nonsense, but Aly would know what it meant.

"Uh?" Levi muttered.

"Um... yeah, all right, sure." he said.

"Sure, I got nothing going on." he told her.

"I'll grab a quick shower after you." he said.

After a few hours, at the Unit HQ, Azazel made his way to a dorm door, and knocked on it.

"Hey, Rylie?" he called in.

"It's me, Azazel. Got a minute?"

"Oh...!" Azazel exclaimed lightly.

"I didn't mean to interrupt you." he said.

"I wanted to discuss something with you, but it might take a bit." he muttered.

"If you want, I can wait until after your shower." he told her.

"Because... whatever happened, it couldn't have been pleasant, considering your ribbon seems to be MIA." he then commented.