Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 426 Mission: 04-1 Storytelling

"Well, you're making such a big deal right after you get back, right?"

When Dante heard about the mess between Virgil and the Demon World Tree, his first reaction was to jump up and get angry.

"Things got out of hand because you're missing." Virgil said awkwardly.

"What did you say? Do you want to fight?"

"Come on. Don't you dare?"

A little further away, Mr. Nero pointed at the two men and turned to his uncle and father and asked, "Don't tell me that's why you started fighting while I was rushing to the tree roots."

"How could that be?" Mr. Dante cleared his throat righteously and said, "When mistakes are made, someone needs to correct them. I'm only on the side of justice."

Mr. Virgil, standing next to him with a stern expression, snorted. Although he didn't refute, he didn't sound very agreeable.

"Why, you want to say you are not wrong?" Mr. Dante glanced at him.

"I just wanted to remind you of your failure."

“But I won it back.”

"Is it you who won back? Not Nero?"

Mr. Dante's eyes widened instantly. "You're the one who's truly oblivious, aren't you?! Didn't you say that losing to Nero means losing to me?!"

"Really? My original words seemed to be that beating Nero meant beating you. What does losing have to do with it?"

"Cheating, huh? Come on, let's have another match! No need to rest!"

Mr. Virgil laughed and shrugged at Mr. Nero, who was standing next to him with a speechless expression. "Look."

Mr. Dante then realized that he had been tricked. He pointed his finger at Mr. Virgil, took a deep breath and nodded repeatedly.

Mr. Nero only felt that the determination he made at that time, "I will never let you die here," became even cheaper.

"No wonder I can't compare to her." He sighed and looked away.

"Okay, both of you be quiet-!"

Nero stood up forcefully, intervening between the two men and ultimately stopping their quarrel. It had to be this kind of work for the younger generation. Dante and Vergil had only just met at this point, having last seen each other during the battle for the Spartan Blade—after all, Vergil hadn't been awake that time with the Black Knight. So, it was natural that both men held prejudices against each other and disliked each other.

Therefore, someone has to mediate, otherwise they will really start fighting. Although fighting should eventually make things better.

But Nero didn't want to watch them fight. That would be disgraceful. If a fight really broke out, Nero would definitely intervene and beat up both of them to calm them down.

So after Nero stopped the two men, he looked at Virgil with a serious look: "Dad, apologize."

Virgil's eyes were filled with resistance; it could be said that the last person he wanted to bow to was Dante. But Nero reiterated, "If you do something wrong, you must apologize, no matter how long it's been."

Alas, there was nothing to be done. Nero was clearly serious.

Not wanting to anger her, Virgil could only slowly lower his head: "...I'm sorry, Dante, for causing you trouble."

Instantly, Dante's skin was covered with goose bumps: Who is this? The Virgil he knew was not like this!
He looked at Virgil who lowered his head, and there was even fear in his eyes.

Fortunately, Nero's voice caught his attention. She smiled, placed her hand on Virgil's shoulder, and asked, "Can you forgive him, Uncle Dante?"

...It's still weird. It's a little better, but still weird.

"Never mind, I had my issues back then too..." Dante muttered, turning to the side. His voice grew weaker as he spoke. He vaguely sensed that something was amiss—were he and Virgil being treated like children?

At this moment, Mr. Nero looked over here with envy, thinking that this was something he could never do. He turned back to look at Mr. Dante and Mr. Virgil, and recalled the previous conversation between Kyrie and Virgil, and a vague idea came to his mind.

Will the relationship between these two people improve only after Jillie can legitimately interfere in the internal affairs of the Sparta family?
Just like over there.

If it turns out as expected, he will have a direction to work towards.

Nero finally breathed a sigh of relief. The farce was now over, and it was time to move on to the next topic.

But before that——

"Then I'll thank you on his behalf."

Nero said with a smile, and Virgil instantly raised his eyebrows and regained his confident look. Until the next second, Nero took out a gift card from his pocket and began to take something out of it.

"This is--?"

"Pizza!!!" Dante's eyes lit up as he exclaimed loudly, even startling Mr. Dante on the other side.

"There's also a strawberry sundae and iced cola." Nero smiled and pushed all these things in front of Dante. "Because someone recommended it, I prepared an extra lemon-flavored sundae for you. If you don't like it..."

"I like them all." Dante answered immediately without any hesitation, holding up a box of pizza happily. "But where did you get this from?"

Virgil opened his mouth slightly, speechless. He knew that the Gift Card could be used to store food, and that it had a built-in function to keep food fresh and at a constant temperature, but he had never used this function himself.

He never expected that Dante would use this function before him.

"As long as you like it. I figured you'd be craving these things after staying in the Demon Realm for so long, so I brought some with me using my Gift Card."

"...Gift Card?"

"This old man can explain it to you."

As he spoke, Nero pulled the dazed Virgil and stuffed a sundae into his hand: "Come on, Dad, this blueberry sundae is for you."

"Ah, thank you..."

He took the cup in a daze, and after a few seconds he reacted: "Oh, are you asking about the Gift Card? Actually..."

"...Do you think I will be kicked out if I go there?" On the other side, Mr. Dante leaned close to Mr. Nero's ear and asked in a low voice.

Mr. Virgil shook his head and covered his face, saying he couldn't bear to lose face. Mr. Nero, on the other hand, held it in for a long time before finally saying, "If you want to go... then go."

He left as soon as he said he would. Mr. Dante immediately came over, waving his hand and shouting, "Hey, man! I haven't had a sundae in a while, can you share one? Just one! It doesn't have to be strawberry flavor!"

Fortunately, Dante was magnanimous: "Oh, then this lemon flavored one... No. How about strawberry flavor, Nero?"

He still remembered that the lemon flavor was specially prepared by Nero and it had a different meaning.

"If you don't mind."

Soon, the two Dantes were arm in arm and started clinking glasses with Coke.

Virgil sighed helplessly while talking about the little garden.

If I had known, I wouldn't have come to see this guy, he thought.

(End of this chapter)