Mittelt clicked her tongue in annoyance and left the master bedroom of Junichiro's home. It only took her a few moments to make her way to the dining room where Azazel himself sat at a table doing paperwork. Despite being an expert at dodging paperwork and responsibility, Azazel was still often caught, cornered, and blackmailed into doing his job by Shemhazai.
As she stepped into the room, he didn't bother looking up as he addressed her, "How is he?"
Mittelt scoffed, "How do you think he is? He's not just a weak human, he's a weak human child. He took one look at his missing limb and fainted."
When she spoke, Mittelt's tone indicated she was just relating the facts as she saw them. Base humans, objectively, were weaker than even the weakest of Angels and Fallen Angels. This was a biological fact that couldn't be denied. Sacred Gear wielders ran the gamut of 'just slightly better than human, but still weak' to 'OMFG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!' though they didn't count in this instance.
"I can't believe the people setting up this place missed the stray devil." She looked at Azazel with her blue eyes narrowed, "I can't believe you missed the stray. In fact, I'm certain you didn't."
Azazel nodded while he continued to do his work, "Why do you think I chose Kuoh for his house? I could literally put him up anywhere in the world to do his thing, though obviously Japan is the best choice given his limited language options. Still, that gives me all of Japan and it's easily within my means to get him a home anywhere. Even with no overseer Kuoh is still, technically, Devil territory. I believe that's why Lillian was hiding out here, no one from any faction makes their home here making it relatively safe from the supernatural factions, at the moment."
Mittelt nodded along, "So, you wanted him to run into that freak Lillian and... what? Get mauled? Die? You'd have been better off just murdering him yourself if that was the case. So, what was your plan?"
Azazel finally looked up from his work to stare Mittelt in the eyes, "I did want the kid to run into the stray, I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. I figured he'd lock himself inside of his workshop for a week or two just to play with all of his new toys. Or maybe a week in the shop and another in the library. Except I made two miscalculations."
Seeing Mittelt's eyebrow rise in question, he sighed and hung his head in mock shame, "First, I forgot to order the kitchen to be fully stocked. I haven't even thought about cooking food for a few centuries. The directions I relayed focused on the bedroom, dining room, library, and workshop. Especially the workshop. Focusing on that so much I simply forgot the simple things like stocking the kitchen with more than just appliances."
As the leader of the Grigori, Azazel simply didn't have time to do minor things like make his own food, or clean up after himself, or anything that didn't involve his research into Sacred Gears and trying to make his own. Even the paperwork necessary for the running of the Grigori had to be forced on him by Shemhazai. He'd just told his minions to furnish the house and listed out what they needed to do, not noticing the holes in his directions. The kid was lucky that the majority of the house had proper furniture!
"Second, Lillian moved locations suddenly and without warning. When I checked before bringing you two here, she was literally on the other side of the city. She had a nice lair over there that she'd been hunting from for the last few weeks without issue. I don't know why she decided to move so suddenly. I had planned to ask the kid to take care of her after he'd settled in. I wanted to see him in action and see how he dealt with the situation."
Mittelt let out a put upon sigh, "So the kid had to go out to get food and that's why he's been mauled by a stray devil not even twenty-four hours after moving into this place? You know this is going to destroy his trust in you and make you look incompetent, right?"
Azazel waved his hand in a dismissive manner, "Nah. I've got minions I can throw under the bus. After all, as the Governor General, why would I be directly involved in setting this place up?"
Mittelt scoffed but dropped the subject, "Why did you want him to have a fight with the stray?