Talk:Madama Butterfly/@comment-12202589-20140714130446/@comment-76.19.155.222-20141106063210

I feel like the demons view a contract with a witch as an investment. They loan the witch thier power, and in exchange, the witch kills angels and feeds the demon thier soul, which in turn makes the demons more powerful. Presumably, the longer a witch keeps this up, the more powerful their soul will become. So, when the witch finally does kick it, they claim the witch's powerful soul, and gain power from it; so the demon gets the power from all of the angels the witch has killed, plus the witch herself.

This explains why Madama Butterfly seems to like Bayonetta so much. I mean, HOW many angels has she killed? And how many of them were in the First Sphere, or Audito level in the Hierarchy? I mean, I can just imagine Butterfly's face lighting up as a fortitido-sized portal opens in her dining hall, even after a 300-year drought, and then twenty years of table scraps.

The problem with this theroy is Madama Styx's apparent silence on the matter; after all, Jeanne's soul should have been hers to claim under this system. Maybe she was banking on Bayonetta succesfully reviving her? After all, things have been going to shit lately out on earth, and having a witch on the front lines pouring angel souls down her face only benefits her, but she couldn't intervene directly because that would give them the wrong idea, and she certainly wouldn't want to be the one holding the bag when Bayonetta got down there.