Mephistopheles shall not be considered when computing Maintenance Costs, i.e., a Corporation pay no souls to maintain Mephistopheles as they employee, nor does Mephistopheles double the Maintenance Cost of any other Daemon. Additionally, a Corporation controlling Mephistopheles gains one extra Soul per Daemon they employ each time Time is Advanced by the Government, in addition to any Production spent on Souls.

Alethiophile had 2 Deamons, so should get two souls as a result of this. E did not pay anything for Mephistopheles, and eir other Deamon should have only cost 1 soul. Thus e should’ve gained a soul—not lost one. I fail to see how e dies because of this.

Indeed