Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 228 Mission: 09-3 Nothing

No, how could it be?
V wanted to say so, but the blue magic and the demon body undoubtedly testified to Nero's words. A poet that V liked very much once said, "If you don't trust your own eyes, then you will never know how to trust." Nero had quoted this once before. Obviously, Nero was definitely a descendant of Sparta, but she was definitely not the daughter of Sparta or Dante. By simple elimination, the only person who could be her biological father was -

Indigo-colored Urizen waved his fists in frustration, his movements completely disorganized, and Nero dodged them easily.

The fruit-bearing Demon Realm Tree had naturally entered a period of decline, no longer able to provide Urizen with an endless supply of mana. Nero chuckled softly, slipping through his fingers like a playful lark, and reappeared beneath the Demon Realm Tree, drawing his Yama Blade.

"If a fool persists in his folly, he will become wise."

She carelessly brushed the red sap from the blade with her fingers, creating a crack and vanishing from the spot. A crisp, shattering sound spread along the crack, revealing a blood-red space beyond the illusion where fruit was cultivated. The next moment, Nero placed the blade under his body, sat in the bleeding crack, and swung his legs. "It's a pity that if a wise person abandons his intelligence, he will only become foolish."

The first half was also a line from William Blake, a poem that V loved. It was probably his fifth favorite, for its profoundly realistic philosophy. Nero had taken the liberty of adding the second half, but it seemed fitting to V—after all, he was the very essence of the "wisdom" that had been abandoned.

V is intelligent, but it is precisely intelligent people who are more prone to distress. His thoughts have now drifted far away to the scene when he met Nero several hours ago.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Nero—Nero Fortuna."

At the time, V was so captivated by Nero's striking resemblance to his mother's that he hadn't noticed the hidden meaning in his name. Nero Fortuna, or "Nero of Fortuna." At the time, V had simply thought the name sounded familiar, but now he remembered having once visited the town of Fortuna during his quest for Sparta's power.

At that time, he was far from being as mature as he is now. According to the popular saying now, he was "in the middle school period" - although he was already an adult at that time.

It was there that he killed the demon sent by the Demon Emperor and met a blonde, blue-eyed girl...

So, is this what is happening?
Everything seemed to make sense. If he'd grown up in that small town, it was no wonder Nero had developed the personality he did. However, V had never dared to think that way. His long time in the demon world had made V somewhat confused about the passage of time, but from his facial features, he could tell that Nero was around seventeen, and presumably hadn't seen his biological father in over a decade.

So the question now is, when did Nero recognize that he was her father?
As smart as V was, it took him less than one tenth of a second to grasp this heartbreaking answer - he probably knew it from the very beginning.

If anyone is to blame, it's V himself who failed to control himself. Since Nero had already met Dante and already knew he resembled his grandmother, it's easy to say what made V lose his mind over this face.

After understanding these things, looking back at the conversation between Nero and V, it seems even more meaningful.

The only good news is that judging from the tone of voice Nero used when talking to V, she doesn't dislike her biological father...

...Is that so?
Urizen launched another beam at Nero, but she dodged and cut it off with a single blow. From V's perspective, Nero, with her wings fully spread, looked like a beautiful manta ray, glittering with starlight, gracefully swimming in the shattered glass tank.

Nero's eyes met his, and the next second, several sky-blue magic daggers fell from the sky, severing the tree roots that bound V. This move was all too familiar to him.

"……ha!"

V laughed in relief and collapsed to the ground, holding his poetry collection and crutches. At this moment, he once again realized how much of a failure Virgil had been as a person.

Such a beautiful, dignified and lovable daughter, but Virgil was unable to witness her growing up and leave any trace in her life. What a huge and regrettable loss!

Recalling Nero's teasing, a mixture of disdain and concern, V lay on the ground, gradually feeling the strength surge through his broken body. "As expected, you were wrong."

V slowly rose to his feet, the dark shadow transforming into a sharp blade, slicing through the tree roots and returning to him. Urizen, completely focused on Nero, who had taken the fruit from the Demon World Tree, didn't notice what was happening here until the burning nightmare transformed into a meteor, piercing this crumbling beautiful illusion.

"--you?"

Only then did Urison remember that there was such a poor little bug on the other side. He stretched out his hand, and the roots wrapped around his body pierced straight forward, about to pierce the heart of this "weakling".

With the help of magic power, the noisy griffin spread its wings again. As soon as it appeared, it nervously shouted, "Don't blame me for not warning you!"

V understood this, and Nero had shown some suspicious qualities along the way, but V had been deceiving himself the entire time. This is exactly the truth behind the saying, "A fool and a wise man don't see the same tree."

The same principle also exists between V and Urizen.

"Only strength is right!"

Urison said so, but his outstretched tentacles were smashed into two by the falling Nightmare, and the rain of lightning that followed was also caught by Griffin.

Standing behind the three familiars, V spoke slowly.

"It is true that he who possesses power possesses everything.

"But you keep losing. You lose your humanity, your memories, your beauty, your dreams—you keep losing, leaving nothing behind.

"This is enough to show that you are the weak one."

Faced with V's condescending and sophisticated sarcasm, Urizen angrily gathered his magic power, a hundred or even a thousand times more than that of the weak V, intending to annihilate him in one blow.

"Without power, you have nothing!"

"Who said that?"

As an unmatched attack was about to arrive, V quirked his lips and laughed mockingly:

"I have a daughter."

A bright flash of sword light passed by, crushing Yurison's attack before it was launched.

(End of this chapter)