Have you ever drifted away from someone? Lost contact with that person and, when you reunited, exchanged topics, experiences, and the feeling of emptiness they left was completely erased simply by their return to your life? Now, erase that from your memory and put yourself in Dante's shoes.
He lost several things completely when he was controlled by "evil", if we can call the corruption that passed through all natural defense systems that.
His great perception? Completely nullified, allowing himself to be hit, or rather, protecting Valentina at all costs, which also had some interference, preventing her from having any reflex; even so, it was his fault.
His great intuition? Nullified. He couldn't distinguish if what hit him was malevolent.
His protections? They didn't exist. The title of Hero didn't work, his pseudo-demonic body didn't resist, his numerous magical layers that Morgana placed in mental control, completely evaporated.
That day, Dante lost three things.
First and most obvious, his wives. The women he had decided to love completely until the end of time.
Second, his achievements. Facing the end, he realized that he was nothing more than a speck of dust that could be completely erased with just one slip.
And third, and most importantly... His Humanity... A being's humanity is said to be the moral compass they carry from their creation. Dante is a reincarnated, someone who transmigrated from another reality to this one, and this often condemned him. Despite his mother telling him not to bow, he continued to bow out of respect, to avoid conflicts. He thought of himself as weak...
And yes, he was weak... Because he was still human.
When he opened this huge gate, Dante stopped following right and wrong and followed only one thing: His Will. The Dante of now, was no different from Valentina. If he wanted this Empire to bow to him, he would and he would do it better than anyone else, and if anyone opposed? He would simply exterminate them following his will.
But one thing was missing in Dante, one person in fact.
The Woman who created the most terrifying monster this world has ever seen, Valentina Scarlet.
The only woman who can order Dante without any excuse, his sovereign, his first empress, his celestial goddess, whom he would kneel before with just one request, although he would probably just find another way to demonstrate his loyalty to this entity.
Dante considers her the pinnacle, she is his dream, she is his power, she is the woman who gave meaning to his crappy life when he was reborn as an orphan.
"It's time to see you again, my scarlet rose," he said in front of everyone, but it couldn't be that simple.
"I presume you brought her for fear of her losing control, didn't you?" he questioned directly to Kaalindra, who still held the cube in her hands. "Yes," she replied, serene. She already understood what was happening and this man... he wasn't just her master's adopted son, he was her Master. She already felt an aura similar to Valentina's when she was younger, when she was still a...
"The time difference can end up driving my mistress insane, so we decided to bring her to have more chances of survival... I don't trust Vlad," Kaalindra said. Then, Dante didn't notice, but a woman with black hair and crimson green eyes appeared near his field of vision and he stared at her, dressed in common clothes, in shades of gray, red, and black.
"It's good to see you again, my savior," Elizabeth Tepes greeted him and bowed slightly. "It seems that our statuses are really similar now, Demon King. Or should I call you Emperor?" she smiled, and Dante remained poker-faced and looked at Sara, who shrugged.
"You're watching too many magical soap operas, don't you think? Who introduces themselves like that?" Dante said, completely breaking the mood and leaving Elizabeth completely embarrassed. After all, she was in front of great women, especially the Witch Princess, Oriental Princess, and Western Princess; in short, it was almost a ONU conference here.
"Humph! I'm not talking to you anymore!" She roared, stomping her feet. She was really different from the person he knew. On the other hand, Sara and Kaalindra looked at each other and put their hands on their heads, thinking the same thing: "Is that a way to greet the person who saved your life?"
"Anyway, stopping these jokes, thank you for checking my body, Voralith. Sorry for taking your time," Dante said playfully, without any seriousness. Everyone there felt it and looked directly at Dante, but he denied it. Voralith just nodded and left, without saying anything and not really showing anything... That was... strange.
"Did you two fight by any chance?" The first to ask something was Aldria, but she wasn't really interested; she just wanted to break the silence that ensued. "She has issues to deal with, and I have a wife to get back," he said...
They all looked at Dante in a complicated way, who really didn't seem right in the head to ignore Voralith, something that didn't match his behavior at all, but they didn't know that this was something Dante did precisely for Voralith's sake.
Dante is attentive; he knows very well when someone is having a problem. The same thing happened with Aldria recently; she hadn't even really mentioned the situation of becoming the Regent Empress without an Emperor, Dante found out by seeing her change in posture. Voralith wasn't any different, he knew something was wrong, but this was internally with her.
Voralith was the one who played and was strict with him; she gave strong slaps on his face and moaned when she received slaps, but since he fully revived, she seemed quite dissatisfied.
"It's not time to talk to her yet, I'll give her a few more days to return to herself, and if she can't, I need to try to talk to her, something has changed," It was his conclusion after coldly analyzing Voralith.
"Do we have a plan to bring Valentina back?" Dante asked, but before he realized, there was a girl trembling too much among them... "Aaralyn, are you okay?" He asked, he already knew the reason but wanted to wait to confirm, but Aaralyn was already very anxious, and Dante couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha Morgana, hold that cube for a second," Dante said smiling, and when the Cube left Kaalindra's Magic and headed towards Morgana, a green rocket flew towards Kaalindra...
"Mommy," She said, burying her face in Kaalindra's breasts while hugging her tightly, Dante saw that scene and was happy to see that Aaralyn was better, she really seemed down since she found out about Kaalindra, but he didn't expect her to want to find her adoptive mother so much.
Kaalindra didn't say anything, just felt her little daughter, who was not so little anymore, hold her tightly out of longing, after all, they hadn't seen each other for over ten years, since Kaalindra had to keep an eye on the cube, Aaralyn really missed her, a lot.
"Oh, my little girl, how long are you going to keep doing this? I thought you had already grown up," Kaalindra joked while hugging the girl back, very tight, she missed Aaralyn too, how could she not? Their connection was very strong.
"Mommy... I have so much to tell you," She said muffled while she still had her face buried in Kaalindra's. "Yes, I'm eager to hear what happened to you and this little troublemaker," Kaalindra said looking deep into Dante's eyes as if pointing a sword.
"I didn't do anything," He raised his hands saying with his eyes, without needing to open his mouth.
"Even as an adoptive mother, she really is as beautiful as her daughter." He thought, letting the thoughts corrode him slightly but he quickly returned to normal. "So, how are we going to deal with all this?" Vex said, she hovered beside Dante who began to stand up and summon a red suit from the flames and sunglasses.
"First, I'm going to punish Aldria for having stupid thoughts." Dante said and waved his fingers creating a kind of rope that held her by her feet and lifted her up, this scared her deeply. "Kyaaa!" She screamed in surprise while everyone looked at this woman upside down, her big breasts made weight and fortunately, she was wearing a dress so...
"Wow, you wear sexy panties," Dante said looking under Aldria's dress, where she had fishnet stockings and a very sexy black panty, which left Dante speechless... "Congratulations, you have beautiful thighs, and a phenomenal ass," Dante said as the woman twirled upside down.
"Kyaaa! Let me go! Let me go!" She screamed and writhed as she tried to hold onto her black dress so her private parts wouldn't be exposed, but it was in vain. Clumsily, she ended up revealing her padded bra, black like her panties, and it was extremely sexy. Dante only caught a glimpse of it, but he wouldn't miss the chance to tease her.
"Velryna, your aunt is really something..." He commented, finally revealing to Velryna in an extremely embarrassing moment for Aldria, that she was her real aunt.
"A-AUNT?!"