For the following three days after Dante summoned Krom, he kept returning to the lab to practice his skills while Paige studied them closely.
On the first day, Paige told the warlock that she wanted to analyze his body with an X-ray machine, as she wanted to see the difference between Dante's composition and other humans.
Still, even when Dante tried to convince the scientist that he was a normal human, she insisted, making the warlock take off his shirt and enter the X-ray machine.
"Hmmm, you were right. Your body is just that of a normal human…" said Paige with a hint of disappointment.
Next, she analyzed Cerberus, who was brought down to the lab by Camille, and the scientist was surprised to see that the demon puppy had three stomachs.
"Well, his true form has three heads. Even if his body and organs get smaller, he still eats the same amount of food…" Dante explained.
Paige's eyes were gleaming with excitement as she took notes, asking the imp to go next.
Krom was scared of entering the machine, but Dante gave him a severe gaze that changed his mind in an instant, prompting the demon to step into it with caution.
"Interesting, his composition is similar to a human child, but…" Paige commented, writing it down in her notebook.
"What's this?" she asked, noticing that Krom's heart looked like an orb.
Dante explained that imps had something they called "beads" as hearts, which was a material that could be used for the creation of magical gear and artifacts.
Every imp had a bead with a different effect, so people who hunted imps wouldn't know what they would get until after they killed them.
"You can't have my bead!" Krom exclaimed, fearfully clenching his chest.
"We don't want your bead, man. Relax…" Dante replied, his tone slightly irritated.
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During Dante's training session, Camille returned to her office with Cerberus, telling the puppy in the elevator that they had a meeting with an old friend.
When she sat behind her desk, she noticed that there was still some time before her guests arrived and asked one of her servants to bring Cerberus some food.
Camille had asked the warlock what kind of food she should feed Cerberus, and he said that the puppy loved any type of meat—the bigger the cut, the better.
The handler took those words to heart, and when the servant returned with a rolling tray, there was a massive cow leg on top that weighed a little over a hundred pounds and was double the size of the dog.
Cerberus barked heartily and happily wagged his tail as the servant put the plate down, prompting the dog to smell the meat with curiosity.
'It wasn't easy finding a butcher that could sell me an entire cow's leg… Maybe it's too much. That might last him for some time,' Camille thought, turning her gaze at her monitor for a moment.
Suddenly, she heard a loud growl that caught her attention, and when she quickly turned to look at Cerberus, she saw specks of bone dust around the plate and the cow leg nowhere to be found.
The puppy walked up to Camille's chair, still wagging his tail, and the handler noticed the traces of bone and meat on Cerberus' face, reminding her that this was an infernal beast.
Still, she couldn't contain herself from Cerberus' puppy eyes, so she carried him on top of her legs before using a handkerchief to wipe his mouth with care.
A few minutes later, Camille's servants notified her that her guests had arrived, and she asked them to bring them to her office, allowing Detective Alice and June to enter.
"Huh, you got a puppy?" said Alice as soon as she spotted the dog.
"Yeah, isn't he the cutest?" Camille replied.
Cerberus stared at the two women for a brief moment, approaching Alice and happily wagging his tail, using his charm to make the detective crouch to pet him.
Camille remembered what Dante had told her about the demon dog and how it could read a person's intention by looking at their energy flow like him.
Seeing that the puppy was acting friendly around Alice confirmed that her friend had no ill intentions toward her, and while it was something that she already knew, she still thought it was nice that Cerberus confirmed it.
However, Cerberus didn't seem to have those same feelings for the rookie detective, June, and kept smelling her with curiosity as if the dog couldn't make up his mind about her.
'Hmm, I suppose the girl doesn't fully trust me…' Camille thought, but she wasn't bothered by her distrust since she believed it was natural.
"How was the analysis? Did you get any results?" Alice asked, cutting straight to the chase.
"We did—we identified all of its components," Camille replied, opening her drawer, pulling out a piece of paper with the test results, and handing them to the detective.
"Let's see. Energonix, Neuroblitz, Vitalyte, and…" The detective stopped herself, raising an eyebrow as she read the last component of the drug.
"Demon blood?" she pondered aloud, looking suspiciously at Camille.
"I know what you are going to say, but I can assure you the results are correct," the platinum-haired woman commented.
"Hmm, strange… You are not lying," Alice replied, her eyes locked with the handler's.
June couldn't believe her ears and thought that Camille was trying to play games with them by giving them ridiculous information.
The rookie detective stood up from her seat in frustration, and her courage built up enough to give Camille a piece of her mind, but her superior promptly stopped her as she felt her shoulder being gripped.
"Calm down, June. I'll explain later…" Alice said, making the rookie sit back down with embarrassment.
"I'm guessing it isn't time yet," the detective continued, directing her words at the handler, who shook her head in denial.
"I see. I'll let you handle this for now, then…" Detective Alice said, shocking her junior with her words.
"I appreciate it, Alice—I'll give you more details soon," said Camille with a friendly smile.
Before making their way out, Alice petted Cerberus for a bit, and as they went down the elevator and walked to their car, the senior detective couldn't ignore her junior's silent treatment.
"Are you angry?" Alice asked.
"I just don't understand. How could you accept such a bold lie to our face?" said June, gritting her teeth.
"She wasn't lying, June…" the senior detective calmly replied.
Alice had known of the events that had happened at the Jade Dragon's residence since Camille told her years ago, but it was never a case that she was able to pursue as it landed in the "supernatural" area of the law.
"Miss Alice, please tell me why…" June said.
The senior detective let out a long, tired sigh. "If you believe it or not, it's on you," she said, recounting the events that happened eight years ago when a supposed demon killed the leader of the Jade Dragons.