CiP: Interlude 9.b: Faustian Antithesis (Patreon)

I'm confident about how late this interlude will be. I'm not confident it'll be in arc 8. In either case, I'm being careful about when and how much I work on this, because there's a massive spoiler for the direction of the story that's going to take place fairly early in.

Link is here.

EDIT: Moving this to arc 9, now. Arc 8 was way too early for it.