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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 9h

punished Belphegor once.”

Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 9h

“That’s the loophole they used,” he replies with anger as he remembers that day. “My child’s birth was a matter of Heaven and Hell that disturbs the balance. They actually wanted me to hand him over to be killed. The curse was the most they could do to me. I feel that I remember they also+

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

though I had seduced every Angel I ever met.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

and every Angel who was involved.

“It was the one thing both Heaven and Hell could agree on. They said to me that they would punish me in such a way that I would never open my legs for another Angel. Brother, I am what I am, but I was untouched before Sariel. Still, they spoke about me as

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like the wound is opening all over again, and he feels the pain and humiliation of that trial. How he’d wanted to call to his brother, but they’d mocked him and spat on him, telling him he was pathetic.

A scroll appears in his hand, which he hands to Satan. It has the name of every Demon

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

me. Heaven and Hell collaborated and agreed to place this punishment on me. Sariel endured lightning strikes. One strike everyday for each year that our child lived for a total of a thousand years. They stopped at one thousand because they didn’t expect Xi Bo to live even a year.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

“That’s the thing…” his fist clenches against his knee, gathering up some of his robes. “I should have reached out to you to tell you what they were doing to me, but I was… I was too prideful. I worried about how it would look — the brother of Satan crying to him for help. They were all against

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

“Details,” he waves his hand. “The point is, they made real on the threat. Michael is also subjected to lightning strikes as punishment. Heaven isn’t joking, at least not when it comes to punishing the Archangels of Death. And to me. You must have heard by now that I’ve been cursed.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

“Some of those threats are real, I’m afraid,” he sighs. “You haven’t met Taohua’s twin sister yet, have you? Azrael basically sacrificed his life for hers. He and his husband were sentenced to Heavenly Fire.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

disappointment is his own fault.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

After saying this, he shrugs. “I’m fine because my only job was to be your brother. Even if I wasn’t always the best at it, it’s still something that I’m willing to do without complaint. But those children, he purposely made them to love him, but expected them to only love him. His

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s interesting,” he remarks as he also leans back and rocks in the chair while fanning himself. “He told the mortals to be fruitful and multiply, but it’s a disappointment that the angels are doing the same. He really only meant us for worshipping him and babysitting his mortals.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

other words, they’re at the stage where adult children want to turn to their parents the most.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

occurs to him, and this he shares with his brother.

“It’s… very late in their lives, but I did notice something. The ones who broke down the hardest, Jeremiel, Michael, and even Azrael a bit. They’re all just now beginning to experience falling in love, and Azrael is a first time parent. In

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

opinion, should only grow. The Heavenly Father completely severed his bond. It makes sense to want his children to be independent and to stand on their own, but part of the way to foster this is to make sure that your children know that you’re there.”

He smirks a little as something interesting

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

even when they go, the job of parenting is never ending. Now that my own child has babies, I’m even closer to him than before because he needs me, but in a different way. He’s beginning to understand a lot of what I’ve been through. That is to say that the bond between parent and child, in my

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

He knows all too well the pain of letting go of a child. After giving Xi Bo to Belphegor, he contemplated ending his own life then and there, that was how painful letting go was.

“All children have to leave their parents eventually,” he says softly. “And it hurts no matter how old they are, but

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 2d

“So he must talk to you often then,” Ba’al quickly remarks upon hearing that the communication occurs when things HE doesn’t like occur in Hell. Poor Satan probably has twenty missed calls and sixty text messages as they speak.

Ba’al considers his brother’s perspective and then shakes his head.

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 3d

Goodness no.

[He laughs]

He’s big enough. I married him, after all. He’s just a little sensitive. Easy to bully.

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I don’t own any dragons. Just one crybaby phoenix.

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 4d

“Good. Then all you need to do is stay away from my child. You’re capable.”

Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 4d

@palpablewrath.bsky.social

“So father still speaks to you.” He nods slowly. “I understand why he wouldn’t have anything to say to me, but I don’t think Sariel and his brothers deserve this treatment. Maybe Lucifer does, but not the others.”

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 6d

The urge to pick up my son and take him home, but he appears busy with some dragon.

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Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 6d

“Azrael is a stressed out nerd. Now he just looks like it,” he chuckles as he sits and then makes his husband sit. “Ignore Sariel. He’s having a fit.”

(暴怒 wrath) 𝐰𝐞𝐢 𝐰𝐮𝐱𝐢𝐚𝐧。 @palpablewrath.bsky.social · 6d

“Allegedly Azrael is the president of the underdressed club.”

Points a thumb over at sloth (also severely underdressed) waving around lightsticks and Azrael nonchalantly waving one with him.

Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 6d

I’m here, Didi! But Jialun says we should pretend not to know Azrael?

Bie Ba Er - King Ba’al @kingbaal.bsky.social · 6d

I’m here, Didi! But Jialun says we should pretend not to know Azrael?