u/embyquinn

Phoenyx is perfectly capable of shutting Vox down by force. While she is a purely defensive angel and is incapable of delivering a first strike, the fact that Vox has declared war on heaven and stated his intent to commit mass murder gives her reasonable cause to well and truly smite him and anyone associated with him.

Yet if she commits an act of violence, she's proving him right. Some other Overlord is going to step into his place, and the common sinners will feel justified in an uprising against heaven. They might even attack the hotel and endanger its residents. Words of peace and reconciliation haven't worked either.

But our little Firebird lived among humans for millennia, and she is more than capable of going after the media Mogul using his own weapons against him.

Words.

She is going to verbally strip him naked in front of his own audience.

Game on.

Vox wasn't expecting an angel to just walk on to his stage without any fanfare or threats or pleas or... well, really, anything he could twist to look like a potential threat.

He could make a cutting remark about her smart mouth, but that would make him look like a fifth grader when he's pretending to be a responsible adult.

He's not sure how to handle this development but he certainly got to try. His public is watching.