Something gnawed at Cixi. Something struck inside her chest like a lingering bolt connecting a thought she never thought could be connected to another.
"Does the Grim Reaper come under your command?" Cixi questioned. She almost took a step closer to Lucifer without realising it.
"Grim reapers are part of the Diwi world," Lucifer replied, as if it were a daily conversation. "And Yama is the one they take orders from."
Cassian looked at Cixi with curious interest. Why was she asking about grim reapers? Meanwhile, the King of Hell stood three feet away, and the immediate threat was right in front of them, and Cixi's mind had gone to reapers.
"I thought they took the souls and brought them to you for punishment," Cixi said.
"They are the middlemen," Lucifer explained. "They take the souls first to Yama, and from there the souls travel either to hell, purgatory, or the next assignment."
His answer made Cixi raise her brows. "You did not speak of heaven," Cixi mentioned.
