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(This chapter will be mostly from the POV of the characters involved in the pranks)

-------------conference room of the devil council----------------

The councilmen of the devil council had already met up beforehand in small groups of two or three, in order to walk to the next meeting together and prediscuss their parts. Once the first of them entered, which just so happened to be the great king Zekram Bael. The moment he set foot into the room, an illusion of a futuristic spacehangar was played, with soldiers in white armor saluting him and the other councilmen coming after him. All the while an imposing piece of orchester music was playing. All of them were extremely surprised and wary of attacks, but for some reason jst couldn't stop slowly walking to the end of the path. Once there, everything disappeared and they stood just behind the door, as if nothing ever happened. But they all knew something happened, since they had all seen and heard it.

Zekram was the first one to say anything.

"What in the four original Satans name was that !?! Immediately search the entire room for any spells or mechanisms that could have caused this! And bring me the person responsible for guarding this place!"

"Yes, immediately"

A few minutes later, Zekram had already questioned all personel involved and searched the entire room, only to find nothing.

'Who did this? Whoever they or their reasons are, they have to be capable of sneaking into one of the most protected places in the underworld and placing an extremely powerful illusion, control and detectionspell, while also making sure, that none of these spells can be found! This is a major threat! After all, what if they didn't plant an illusion but a bomb as a spell? Are they warning us? Did we offend someone like that recently? No, at least not to my knowledge.'

"Dear Councilmen, I will ask you this only once, and I demand a truthfull answer! This question may very well decide the fate of a large majority of the devil race, including us ourselves! Did any of you, your subordinates or families recently offend anyone strongly enough for them to place such an obvious threat in our meeting room?"

One of the councilmen answered while laughing "Threat? I don't think an illusion such as this can be called anything but a prank! And you have to admit that the piece of music was quite excellent."

"While that may be true, it is, without a doubt, a threat directed towards us! Whoever did this is saying, that if he or she wanted, they could have killed us all right here and now, simply by swapping the illusion with something as simple as a strong enough explosion spell!"

After he said this, the conference room was filled with awkward silence.

Even several days later he and most of the other councilmen would be acting more than just a little paranoid, though you could sometimes catch a few of them humming an onimous and regal piece of music, for some even going as far as searching for similar pieces of music in other cultures and the human world in general.

---------- at the Grigori Headquarters ------------

Azazel had just entered his lab, when he saw a note with a letter on his otherwise clean and empty table. After reading it he already seemed to have a bad premonition, as he began mumbling to himself.

"What does this mystery person mean by payment? I just hope it's nothing too excessive... And how in fathers name does this person know about those names!?! I'm nearly certain that only Shemhazai, some of my other siblings and maybe a few of the geezers know about those!

That aside, these tips... I need to test them out immediately!"

And with that he went to work, only to be disturbed by a grinning Shemhazai about two and a half hours later.

"Hmmm? What makes you so happy?"

"Oh, it's just that both me and Vali seem to have received a gift. By the way, why aren't you working? You still have a lot of documents left to sign!"

"Whaaat? I didn't quite understand you! The silence is just way too loud!"

"Oh my, do I need to convince you once again? In that case, may I quote, 'It matters not, be it a mouse or a heavenly dragon, this dark monarch shall quench his thirst for victory!'. Should you not begin by triumphing over your paperwork first?"

"WHA- How do you know that line!?! I was certain that noone was nearby!"

"I do not know how, but both Vali and myself received a booklet full of such lines, along with happenings and nicknames of a certain person. You wouldn't happen to know, just who said the lines before, do you? Because both Vali and myself have a lot more of that. And you cannot even destroy or hinder it, as it is selfrepairing and soulbound!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

---------- with Tannin ------------

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, NYAA!!!!!"

-------- all the while with a certain white haired prankster ------------

"Pff, Hahahaha! Worth it!"