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Chapter 17 - [17] Dante

-3rd POV-

The fiery explosion revealed the green-haired elf—Riveria Ljos Alf—standing tall, her staff still glowing with the remnants of her spell. She gave a brief nod to Francis and Aiz before the rest of the top Loki Familia adventurers emerged from the chaos, ready to join the fray.

Finn, the captain of the Familia, immediately took charge of the battlefield. "Push forward! Don't let them regroup!" he commanded, his sharp eyes scanning the enemy formations.

Bete rushed past Francis with a sneer as he lunged into battle, clawing at the Evilus agents with savage strikes.

Francis barely had time to acknowledge them before he felt a strong gust of wind beside him. Aiz was already on the move, reinvigorated to hack more of them down. But just as she was about to charge, Francis grabbed her arm gently, stopping her in her tracks.

"Wait," he said, his voice calm but firm.

Aiz turned to him, her golden eyes reflecting both confusion and impatience. "Why?"

Francis motioned toward the battlefield. "The Loki Familia has it handled. You and I..." He trailed off, his gaze softening as he released her arm. "We've done enough for now."

"Enough?" She looked at him in confusion.

Francis sighed as he looked at the air-headed girl. He could tell that she was tired, not physically, but mentally—there's also the fact that she was drenched in blood.

"Yeah, enough" He nodded.

Although reluctant, Aiz complied with his request.

As they stood there, recovering from their fight, Riveria approached them with a calm expression. "You two put up quite the fight," she said.

"But we need to regroup. There are still things to discuss."

She shot a glance at Francis, obviously curious about him. But right now they had more important things to attend to.

Before they left, Aiz glanced at him wanting to thank him for the help, but...he was already gone.

-Scene Change-

In the middle of a random and dark alley, my figure appeared.

"Glad I got the fuck out of there" I sighed in relief as I unlodged [Griphon] out of the floor, a sticky paper with the [Flying Thundergod] formula written in my own blood on the hilt.

Earlier mid-fight, I had written the [Flying Thundergod] technique on one of the sticky papers I had in my blood since I didn't have anything else to write with, and stuck it on the hilt of my word and chucked it as far as I could.

Basically, I made my escape route.

The moment the Loki familia arrived I was ready to dip, not wanting to make contact with them before I joined their familia tomorrow.

But in the end, I made contact with the top of the Loki familia, more specifically, Riveria.

She's basically the best mage in Orario, and also, extremely hot.

Wow, I didn't expect an elf to be that pretty. The anime really didn't do her beauty justice.

Well, besides the point.

The moment both their eyes left me, I teleported to the random place I had yeeted my sword at via Thunder God

Reaching into my storage, I pulled out a walkie-talkie

"Angel, you can come out now" I spoke Into it as a tear in space suddenly manifested in Infront of me.

Both my brothers and Uriel walked out of it...and a kid?

"Francis!!" Uriel shouted as she rushed at me, giving me a tight hug.

I hugged the girl back "Thanks for taking care of her, Angel" I thanked my brother.

He only gave me a nod.

Earlier in the middle of the fight, a small tear in space had appeared, dropping off a walkie-talkie for me.

It was Angel who did that with [Yamato]. I had given it to him earlier temporarily before we got seperated, i didnt want him using his guns in public since they would catch others atttention and [Fragrant Olive] sword was to heavy for him.

He told me that he had already regrouped with the rest of us through trackers he had put on everyone (I already knew about it), allowing him to find us easily.

But the moment he had realized that I was in the middle of the fiasco, he instead sent me the walkie-talkie to talk to me from a safe distance, which he got from his system.

Obviously, I was happy that he did so, it was dangerous for him to come into the fight. Especially when the three of them are so inexperienced.

Well, I'm sort of inexperienced as well but I can revive.

And knowing he was safe along with the others, my mind was at peace, and was able to fight properly.

But there's one problem...the kid.

White hair, dirty, and in rags. I can only guess that he's a kid from the slumps.

"Soooo...." I began, and not only a second later did Angel give me an annoyed eye-roll.

"I don't know man, I got lost when we were walking and I suddenly ended up in this dump. One thing led to another and this kid ended up following me around" he explained with a sigh.

"Did you take pity on him and gave him food?" I asked as I could see this as a very cliche anime scenario.

"How'd you know?!" Asked Angel in surprise.

"That's not the important thing right now Angel, what matters is that we just got a little brother"

"A little brother? were taking him?"

"You want to leave him then?, you gave him food, and after he followed you. He already imprinted on you like a stray dog that was just fed after months"

Angel's face cringed as he realized what he had done. And from now on the kid he fed would be his responsibility.

*Sigh*

"Fucking hell..." He sighed deeply looking at the white-haired kid in rags he asked.

"What's your name?"

"...Dante" he responded in a small hoarse voice it's seems like he hadn't drunk water in a while.

Wait...Dante

Looking at the 'Vergil' in front of me my face morphed into a grin.

"OOOH Vergil~" I teased as I saw Angel's face turn white in realization.

How ironic that the little boy he just picked up was his twin brother in another universe, well it's little brother now.

Heheheh~