"It's over" Dante declared as he aimed the next at Nelo's neck, but what he didn't expect was for Nelo to jump over the attack and proceeded to disarm him before engagingly in forcing him to engage in hand to hand combat.
Dante managed to hold his own for a few seconds but a spin kick from the Dark Knight caught him by surprise, which send him flying into a nearby wall.
Dante managed to hold his own for a few seconds but a spin kick from the Dark Knight caught him by surprise and send him flying into a nearby wall.
The Dark Knight grab him in a choke hold and pinned him to the wall.
Naruto who had been spectating the entire match couldn't believe his eyes. He felt like he had just seen the impossible.
'Dante was defeated' This was his first time seeing Dante lose a fight.
Crap. Even Dante couldn't believe that he had lost the fight, that last move that Nelo pulled off had caused him to lose his bearing. He has never seen a demon move or fight like that before, hence, why he was defeated.
Dante grabbed onto the hand choking him. His sudden arm movement caused his half of the perfect amulet to dangle out of his coat.
When the Dark Knight set his eyes on the pendant something snap inside his head.
It tossed Dante aside then grab onto it head and started screaming in pain. Blue lightning started dancing around his body and he slowly float off the ground, turning into a colorful flame.
Naruto who was about to take action to help Dante and Dante watched this scene in shock. The dark knight roars of pain filled the courtyard as the blue flame burned brightly in the sky.
It floated in the air for a few seconds before flying away.
"What the hell just happened?" That was what Naruto wanted to know the most right now. Nelo was already winning the fight so why did he suddenly disappear.
'Shit' Dante frowned at the spot where Nelo had disappeared. He had really underestimated his opponent and it had caused him the fight. Although he was confident about defeating Nelo if the fight persisted since he hasn't activated his devil trigger yet, but he still scolded himself for being careless.
"Are you okay Dante?!" Dante look to his left to see Naruto making his way to him with a concerned expression on his face.
He sighed, stood up to his feet and dusted off his coat.
"I'm fine. Just a little ruffled up" Although he said that, his still couldn't take his mind off the demon's reaction to his necklace
Naruto sighed in relief before he proceeded to express his disbelief. "I still can't believe you lost"
Dante frowned and moved to picked up alastor before saying. "That was my fault for underestimating the enemy."
Naruto also agreed with Dante's words as it was the only plausible explanation. When he turned to look in the direction nelo left in a thought suddenly occured to him and his expression turned sour.
"I wonder just how strong this Mundus guy is. If he has someone that strong working under him then he must be very powerful."
That was the conclusion Naruto came to after evaluating Nelo's strength.
"Well no matter how strong he is, we can't let him succeed in opening a portal to the underworld"
As Dante said that Naruto suddenly realized something and hurried turned to Dante. "Come to think of it why didn't you use force edge?"
After Dante acquired Alastor he had stopped using force edge so Naruto had unconsciously forgotten about the sword. It was only now that he realized that Dante could have tipped the battle in his scale if he had brought out force edge when Nelo was least expecting.
Dante gave Naruto a mysterious smile and replied. "Like I said, I underestimated him"
Naruto frowned at Dante's act but decided to let it go and focus on the more important matter.
"So do you know what this does?" Naruto asked as he pulled out the orb of light they had acquired from the status in the room.
Dante looked at the melancholy soul in naruto's hand.
"I can sense the power of a soul within the orb. I believe I saw something similar on our way here." That was the explanation Dante gave after staring at the orb for a few seconds.
"That so" Naruto stared intently at the orb but he couldn't sense anything out of the ordinary, only the little bit of demonic aura sipping out of it. "I can't sense anything"
"We'll I'd be surprised if you could" Dante nodded with a look that said that he expected it.
"We should get going. I can't sense a path here"
"Okie dokie"
Naruto hurried followed behind Dante and they returned back to the living quarters.
When they entered the living quarters Naruto tried his best not to look at the mirror, afraid that a version of him might pop out as well.
They quickly left room and walked down the long stairs.
They wandered around the tower for a while before they found a metallic door with the imprint of a lion head roaring and a small hole in it mouth.
Naruto walked over and place the melancholy soul he held into the mouth which fit it perfectly.
A few seconds after Naruto put the orb inside the hole they heard a loud clanking soul like gears turning before door slide up revealing a passage way leading into an underground sewer. They proceed through the tunnel eventually entering a door which leads to a large room surrounded by sewer pipes, with an item gleaming in one of the pipes on the far side of the room which is another Rusty key.
"Aw what an awful smell" Naruto pinched his nose trying his best not to inhale the repulsive smell coming from the sewer. It was as a group of people ate something bad and decided to take a dump together. And the worst part was that he is knee deep in it
Or maybe it was demon poo? Do demons even use the restroom?
Dante wasn't any better, he frowned as he nostril was assaulted by the nauseating smell coming from the sewer. "It smells like pee in here"
Let's just get the key and get the out of here" Naruto said and for once Dante seemed to agree with him.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that Naruto nearly flew off the ground as he rushed towards the key.
However as soon as he picked up the key the whole sewer quaked slightly and Naruto immediately realized what was going on.
A trap?