Repay him? Now that sounded tempting. Now wait a moment.

"Raphael," Lucifer pointed out in a tone that was half-amused, half-wary, "May I remind you that I am the tempter in our family? Don't try to do my job."

He reached for the blade. "What would an angel do with a cursed blade anyway? They're not precisely down your line of usual work. Unless you want it to practice destroying stuff, and in that case, I'm not interested in wasting a perfectly good curse on it."