Luminescent

Cozy

"Ah, Rin. Did you enjoy your day off?" The Headmaster grinned at the pair knowingly.

"Yes." Rin smiled. "I was trying to show this dork how to cook food for himself, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't listening at all. He just wanted to eat the food and then stuff me full of it too. We still had leftovers though, so we figured you'd want them." Rin explained, offering the containers to the man. He raised a brow, but took them.

"I warmed them up already. Why don't you eat somewhere comfier, you must be stiff from sitting in that chair all day?" Rin suggested. The Time Lord gave him an appraising glance before snapping them all to his room. They were laying side-by-side in his bed, propped up by the ridiculous amount of pillows.

"I don't need to be mother henned, but I do appreciate your care, Rin." The Demon King admitted, opening the first container–it was filled with Onigiri. Before he started eating, he leaned over to deliver a warm, unhurried kiss to the half-demon. He pulled back and gave a playful tug on Rin's earlobe with a fang before starting his late dinner.

"So about courtships, do they happen more often or less often in Gehenna? You'd want more power, but greed is a double-edged sword because then wouldn't they also want to keep their power so no one else can benefit from it?" Rin wondered.

Mephisto looked thoughtful as he chewed. "I'd say it depends on the demon and how greedy they are. Some are willing to be stronger with someone they trust at their side. Others prefer to keep their power to themselves until they take that power with them to the grave, so to speak." He voiced the explanation like it was a thought that rarely came across his thoughts.

"And what do you think about it?" Rin inquired.

"Why are you so focused on this, Darling?" Mephisto eyed him suspiciously. Rin laughed, cheeks flushing red at what the man was implying.

"I'm not thinking of that! It just seems a lot more convenient and well, permanent, than Human marriages. But I wanted to know if Demons get married nearly as often as humans do? Because of the different traditions and customs, not to mention all the different species of demons...." He trailed off, thinking about if Demons could have interspecies relationships. Could some that were similar enough have a child, like a Lion and a Tiger did once? Or different types of lizards?

"You really are much smarter than you're given credit for, Dear." Mephisto told him, brushing a stray piece of hair out of the teen's face and tucking it behind his ear.

Rin blushed heavily. "Eh, it depends on the subject. Things that are more interactive and have more interesting topics are easier for me. If science wasn't made up of so much bullshit, I could probably understand it. Although, I was the first person to figure out how to make a small explosion during a lab once." He remembered the small mushroom cloud coming from the trashcan beside his table as the class evacuated and grimaced. "I haven't looked at salt the same since...."

Amaimon let out a surprised laugh at that and they both looked at him. "I'm the King of Earth, I know all the elements of the ground. Sodium can be explosive if you mix it with the right things. Most humans don't know that." He explained. Rin grinned proudly and Mephisto ruffled his hair fondly.

"It seems having Amaimon around you makes it easier for him to express himself, however dull his face may be." The Time Lord chuckled. "As for your questions on demon marriages, I'd say they happen more often than Human marriages, at least. The lower-level demons marry and usually combine into one stronger demon–a fusion, if you will. That's how Kings and Queens of nests come to be. Demons multiply like rabbits, especially the lower class. Gehenna is ultimately much more populated than Assiah, but that is because there are pockets of limbo everywhere and because demons can occupy every planet in the solar system and survive the conditions of each planet depending on their species and element, which very much helps keep overpopulation down. And the fact that while humans cannot take the cold well, there are many demons who thrive in the cold and densely populate the poles here in Assiah, along with several other climates considered deadly to humans, like volcanoes or water sources ruined by toxic waste." Mephisto began.