If anyone had told Ellie just a few months prior that a former Crown of Satan would one day swoop in and play the gallant knight on her behalf--versus another Crown of Satan, yet--she would have called them delusional. Sometimes it was extremely satisfying to be wrong.

Lopping her arms with pointed familiarity around Belial's neck, she glared at Beelzebub with undisguised venom as she replied, "Quite well, thank you. I regretfully seem to have misplaced my flyswatter."