Dante had to prevent Little Ava from eating her stuffed animals, but it seems she had no plans on eating them and just wanted to put them in her mouth since she fell asleep as soon as Dante took them away.
He scooped her up and started cradling her and felt inexplicably happy as soon as he picked her up. It felt like there was a piece missing from him prior to cradling her only for that missing piece to click into place as soon as he picked her up.
Maybe it was his long years of loneliness or the fact that he's never given or received any love from anyone. Well, he may not be receiving any love from Little Ava right now as she was just born, but he is providing unconditional love to her.
It wouldn't be wrong to say that Dante has never truly loved anything in his life and maybe that's why he's feeling like this.
Immortality was his dream. Cultivation was the method to reach his goal. His thirst for knowledge was would make him a god. He can't say that he loved these things and they sure as hell didn't love him back.
It's sort of like how people go to school and strive to make good grades all so they can get into a good University. These people don't most likely don't like school and would prefer to do something else, but school is necessary for them to reach their goal.
One might ask if he ever received the love he's talking about from his parents. He had two sets of parents after all!
The answer to that would be a no. Though it's not like his parents didn't love him, it's more like they were disappointed so the amount of love they showed was minimal. Or they just regarded him as crazy.
I mean, who would possibly believe their kid if they said they wanted to become a god or at the very least an immortal?
Back on Earth, cultivation and gods were basically just regarded as a myth. But even in the Immortal Realm, there are no Immortals or gods… At least not real ones.
And the number of people at the Peak of the Immortal Realm is probably not even .00001% of the population. Dante would be surprised if there were even that many people.
Naturally, his parents in his second life just thought of it as the wild fantasies of a child and didn't support him at all. They only wanted him to live a shitty village life while settling down and mating with one of the shitty village women to produce a bunch of shitty babies.
Who would want to live such a mundane and boring life and then die at the age of 80-100?!
That's why Dante feels weird but incredibly happy every time he looks at his daughter. She's someone that he can love. She's someone that will stay with him till the end of days and beyond…
That's when Dante realized one very important thing that he hadn't thought of before creating his daughter.
"What if she gets married to another man, settles down with him, and… and… NO! I can't think about this anymore because if she really does have… k-k-k-kids… with a man, wouldn't my bloodline be wasted?! Heh. Heheh… HehehehAhAhhAHAhaHAHA! I'll kill them all! I'll slaughter every man in existence!! I will not allow their filthy hands too dirty my daughter! That way my daughter won't even have the chance to mate!! HAHAHA!"
Dante was going crazy and the more he thought about it the crazier and angrier he got. That's when he spread out his senses to the max and covered the entire Immortal Realm and even beyond that. His senses didn't stop there! He even looked into the past and the future as well as other Realms and Universes.
"Nobody! And I mean NOBODY will lay a hand on my daughter except for me!! I alone am enough for her! If she wants to have a child, then she can do what I did and make one by herself!"
His senses locked onto every male and at that point, every male in existence froze! It's not that they didn't want to move, but they couldn't. Whether they were working, having sex, walking, running, cultivating, fighting, or whatever they were doing, they all stopped.
Those men couldn't help but feel they were about to get erased! Not killed, but erased! Nobody would remember them when they are gone. Everything they have done up until this point will be forgotten! Women won't even know what a man is once Dante is done with them!
"Hahaha! You will all die for the sin of thinking about laying your hands on my daughter!"
Okay, maybe Dante has gone off the deep end. It seems he's forgotten the fact that Little Ava hasn't even seen another person other than Dante. And because she has his bloodline, she probably won't even want another man to touch her just like how Dante hasn't touched another woman.
As long as someone has a lesser bloodline than her, which is everyone since her bloodline is literally perfect, then she won't even be able to stand the thought of being around anyone other than Dante. At least that's the most likely scenario.
It's just that Dante's imagination went a bit wild and his first thought was to kill all men! As any father would in this scenario.
Just as Dante was about to Than*s half the multiverse, Little Ava made a cute giggle in her sleep.
"Hehehe~"
All thoughts of erasing an entire gender from existence vanished without a trace and his crazy smile went back to the normally gentle and loving smile he usually looked at Little Ava with.
*Phew*
There was a collective sigh coming from all of the men in the multiverse as Dante let them go. This day went down in history and became something of a myth or folktale later on since there wasn't any proof of whether it really happened or not. But many men thought it to be a curse of some sort or maybe a god was angry with men for some reason. Regardless of what the people thought, let's just say that more and more people became religious after that day.
Dante could easily find this out, but he was too busy 'booping' Little Ava's nose and rocking her back and forth in his arms as she sleeps.
"Maybe I should bring Little Ava to her weapons vault. Although she has me to protect her and make sure she never gets hurt, she might not want me to do that. Though I can understand where she's coming from! It feels much better to slaughter your enemies with your own hands! Ahhh! As expected of my daughter!"
Dante's imagination has gone wild again…
"No, no, no Dante, what are you thinking?! It's too early for Little Ava to pick out a weapon!"
Ah! Maybe he's starting to realize that his daughter is only 2 days old and can't produce rational thoughts yet?
"I still need to come up with weapon and cultivation techniques that have a 100% body compatibility with her! Only then can she start learning weapons! Sigh… what was I even thinking? I hope you forgive me for scanning your body with my powers. It's just so I can make something that fits you perfectly. You can punish Daddy however you want in the future."
Nope, it seems he hasn't gotten any better. At least he's a caring father though… right?
Anyways, it's nice that he's basically omnipotent and he can scan Little Ava's body with merely a thought.
After he scanned Little Ava's body, he could now picture an exact replica of Little Ava in his mind. Except for this model in his head didn't just record her skin, bones, blood, and other surface-level stuff, Dante could see information on everything that makes up her body.
Every cell.
Every atom.
Every proton, neutron, and electron.
Even everything that makes up those protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Not only that, but he can then choose to see how her body will grow until she reaches maturity. Everything after that is useless information since in Dante's mind she's going to become an Immortal like him, at some point down the line. Therefore, she'll always be at her optimal state which is usually right after the body fully matures.
There is something interesting that Dante found out while looking at this information and it's that Little Ava's body will develop extremely slowly. This is something Dante didn't fully expect since he was already tens of thousands of years old by the time he created his bloodline.
All that he knew was that Little Ava should be able to live for an extremely long time even as a mortal without any cultivation. It could almost be said that she's already half an Immortal just based on her lifespan.
And just like how it'll take Little Ava's body a long time to mature, the same goes for her mind. Even if she's 500 years old, she might still have the body and mindset of a 5-year-old.
Though this isn't unusual for beasts or people with extraordinary bloodlines. It's just her rate of growth will be a lot slower.
But Dante was happy to see all this! She might even be older than the current him by the time she starts having thoughts about kids!
He also felt much more relaxed knowing this information. He doesn't want her to grow up quickly! If she grew up at the same pace as humans, wouldn't he only get to experience this for like a few years before she starts growing up and wants to be more independent?! His naps are longer than a few years!
"Hear that, Little Ava? You'll be staying with Daddy for a very, very long time…"