"You only say that due to your fondness for me," Mephisto said with a shake of his head, "And the way my return was received yesterday gave me a fairly good idea that I wasn't particularly welcomed back. I know you are friends with the angels, and there is no reason I would usurp your time from them, including my own loneliness." He tutted as the needle pricked his finger, barely even feeling it.
"I am quite used to being alone, and while you may find that as tragic, I myself find it a comfort. If I surround myself with people, they wind up a sort of people I'd rather dispose of in imaginative, gruesome ways than keep around."