User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 19 Spoilers/@comment-77.253.101.192-20141123093720/@comment-24502975-20141123211906

Just to clarify: Azazel stepping down as leader of the FAs has nothing to do with his pact with Fafnir ending, iirc. He just decided to step down from the front line after that, and thus had no more need for it.