Darkness.
Once again, Dante found himself floating in absolute darkness. His senses were cut, and so were his thoughts. He only had his instincts to lead him around, but a the mont, they proved to be utterly useless. He couldn't tell back from front, up from down, left from right. Was he standing still? Or was he moving? It was impossible to tell. Ti seed to halt, and with no advancent, his frustration kept growing.
"Tsk…"
Dante opened his eyes, catching sight of his bionic hands, which rested on his legs as he sat in a lotus position. As he heaved a sigh, his Absolute Awareness activated once more, picking a few things in his surroundings that caught him by surprise.
The white haired hero was sitting across from him, deep in ditation while still fully transford. He seed to be struggling quite a bit going by the wrinkles warping his face. Oliver was there, too, though he was clearly asleep, making Dante want to give him a good smack on the head. As they had started around the sa ti, Dante wasn't too surprised by their presence, unlike that of Bella and rry, both of whom took his side and joined their ditation session.
'This is getting a bit out of hand…'
They probably got bored watching them train all morning, but if that were the case, wouldn't sitting in complete silence just make things worse?
A sigh drew his attention to the white haired hero, and the others seed to open their eyes because of it.
"Having trouble as well?" Dante asked.
"You could say that." Wolf replied.
While Dante was trying to learn Soul Manifestation, the white haired hero was looking for a way to better control his powers. Apparently, even though almost half a year had passed, the wolf side of him still took control whenever he tries to pass the Level 5 threshold.
Rembering their fight in Blue Ember still gives Dante the chills. Thankfully, the scar from that ti had long since healed, but he still feels it from ti to ti.
"Let's call it a day, then." Dante said. "The ladies look like they're about done with us."
"Finally!" rry stretched her arms in the air. "I don't know how you guys can do this."
"It takes a lot of patience, I gotta admit." Dante chuckled. "How about we go do sothing fun? Maybe a movie?"
"That sounds great!" rry clapped her hands together. "It's been a while since I last went to a theater!"
"We can have dinner afterwords. What do you say?"
Dante turned to Wolf with that question, but the white haired hero seed to be lost in thought. He only reacted when rry addressed him.
"Wolf needs to go back and check with the others, right?"
"R-right. Leader ordered to co back early this ti!"
"Well, suit yourself." Dante turned to his Raven haired subordinate next. "What about you?"
"I…" Bella cast her gaze down. "I will excercize so more before going ho."
Completely unprompted, Oliver raised his hand in the air.
"They're doing a Lruce Bee run in the 36th complex's cinema. We really should-"
"What are you saying, Oli? Didn't you promise to help Bella with her training?"
"O-Oli?"
Though they had talked while watching Dante and Wolf spar, one wouldn't say that the hero and the two gangsters were suddenly good friend. Maybe it was rry's bubbly personality that let her give people nicknas, but even though she had the sa smile as before, the light was gone, and that seed to terrify Oliver.
"R-right! I guess soone has to keep an eye on B-"
The words caught in his throat, stopped by a glare that warned him against the mistake of using a nickna that has never been approved.
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Dante ended up leaving with just rry, who seed to be a believer in the fewer, the rrier. Having set their eyes on a particular theater in the city center, the two used one of his cars to get around, with Dante doing the driving.
"Oh, it already ca out…" Dante said, looking at one of the posters near the entrance. It depicted a young man about to fire lasers from the sci-fi gauntlet on his left arm.
"Were you waiting for this one?" rry asked.
"Yeah. I rember reading the comics back in the day. Can't believe it took them this long to adapt it."
Dante rembered Carlos saying that the artist behind those comics was the sa one who designed Inferno's logo, which was one of the reasons that made the original artwork frad in his office a little easier to bear.
Through his Absolute Awareness, Dante noticed a few people looking their way while whispering among themselves. Without making it obvious, he moved a little to the side, blocking their line of sight so they couldn't catch rry's face.
"It's decided, then," She said. "Let's go with this one."
The two of them had stopped by a clothing store on the way, changing their outfits in an attempt to disguise themselves. Thankfully, they managed to find clothed with temperature adjustnt functions, allowing them to cover themselves completely despite the heat. Even then, rry's long orange hair still caught a lot of eyes, and so did the way she seed to glow from ti to ti.
"Try to control yourself when we get inside." Dante said. "The darkness will make it easier to notice you."
"I can't promise anything." rry replied, looking away from him with a clearly fake frown. A Mont later, her radiant smile was back on, and she grabbed his arm, pulling him toward the entrance. "C'mon, let's go! I want to get so popcorn before it starts!"
As he let himself be guided by the bright rry, Dante couldn't help but feel the situation was a bit familiar. It took him a while to realize that this wasn't the first ti a hero in disguise pulled him along.
-Are you going to do it?-
The question appeared in his mind just as the smiling face of a red haired hero flashed in his mind.
-Are you going to kill her, too?-
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