Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 349 Mission: 05-1 Reminiscence
Boom boom boom!
"are you done?"

An urgent knock on the door was followed by Dante's impatient voice. Nero, still soaking in the bathtub, dabbed his hands in shower gel and made round bubbles, frowned helplessly.

"No hurries?"

Nero relaxed in the hot water for a moment—the feeling was practically like a rebirth. Then she slumped over and replied in a weak voice, "If you have any questions, feel free to ask."

This was an unused villa provided by an unknown kind-hearted wealthy person. Nero not only found a place to take a hot bath here, but was also lucky enough to find clothes that she could wear. Although doing so might be suspected of burglary, as she had said to Pest before -

It's not stealing if you pay for it.

Although it was a twisted logic, Nero managed to convince herself that she really needed these things, so she could only apologize to the owner of the house.

"..."

After a moment's silence, Dante's voice came from outside the door: "How do you demons know my identity?"

"The smell, probably."

"perhaps?"

Nero replied confidently: "I'm not a demon, of course I don't know."

"You? Not a devil?" Dante's tone clearly showed that Nero was either joking with him or teasing him.

"I am a human being." Nero insisted on this point as always.

Of course she is considered human. Even the gift card of the small garden only says that she is "half demon". Half human is also human.

Furthermore, according to his bloodline, Nero should be considered three-quarters human, much more than demonic. Although... this classification is not very rigorous.

"Ha-ha! That's a funny joke."

"Forget it if you don't believe it."

Dante obviously still didn't believe it, but he changed the topic of conversation: "Okay. Then can you tell me more about my parents?"

"How much do you remember?" Nero asked.

“Nothing.”

There was the sound of a stool being moved outside the door, and Dante really found a chair and sat down at the door. "I told you, my memory starts when I was seven years old. I was already in an orphanage at that time. They said I had acute meningitis."

"It is undoubtedly a lie," Nero replied immediately.

After repeated attempts, she successfully blew out a hemispherical bubble half the size of a bowling ball. She carefully placed it on the water and then continued, "You have demonic blood in you, so you can't get human diseases."

"Then why did I lose my memory?"

"I don't know, but it should be related to your father. Did he leave anything for you?"

There was a moment of silence, followed by a slightly awkward shift. He clearly had something to say, but was doubting whether he should.

Coincidentally, Nero also felt that the water was starting to get a little cold, so she pushed the bubbles she had blown aside, left the bathtub, and stood under the faucet with her body covered in foam.

The slightly scalding water carried away the foam, but Dante outside the door remained silent.

"Is it a pendant?"

At this time, remembering another incident with Dante and Virgil, Nero asked tentatively.

"how do you know?!"

Dante blurted out a question in astonishment, and he even bumped his head against the door.

But soon, he calmed down, and while adjusting his breath, he added some descriptions: "I don't know who left it, but it must have been left by one of my parents. A red pendant. How do you know this thing?" In Nero's cognition, it was the key left by Sparta to the two brothers to lift the seal of the Spartan Blade, and it was also the fuse for the two brothers to kill each other.

But another key to the Blade of Sparta is Vergil's Power Blade... could that thing actually exist?

Even if it existed, it was probably destroyed by Mendes. More likely, Sparta, having lost to Mendes, never had the chance to keep the sword.

So this pendant is probably just a symbol.

Thinking of this, Nero turned off the faucet and wiped the water droplets off his body.

"Don't tell you."

"Grass!"

There was a knock on the door outside.

"I can only tell you what I know." Nero ignored Dante's vulgar words and said calmly, "Your father was once the sworn brother of the Demon Emperor Mendes, but they later became enemies for some reason."

"So all these powers of mine...are from demons?"

"That's probably the case. You're the son of Sparta, so Mondes is probably afraid of you and wants to catch you and kill you as soon as possible."

"So, I lost my memory because my father did something to me...hid me?"

"That's probably it."

Nero didn't know much about Dante's past in this world, and as for Sparta... this guy was always mysterious no matter which world he was in. It was difficult to find any trace of him, and Nero was even less clear about him.

So she could only agree with him and let Dante guess for himself.

"Then he really failed to hide it."

"How to say?"

After drying himself, Nero dried his hair. Amid the whirring of the hairdryer, Nero pricked up his ears and listened to Dante's description.

"The orphanage I was in...was the devil's territory."

"Oh--"

That was quite a failure indeed. How did he manage to hide himself and end up right under the enemy's nose? Speaking of which, Dante also came from an orphanage. Does that mean that Spartan men are destined to become foul-mouthed after entering an orphanage?
While thinking about these inconsistencies, Nero heard Dante say again: "When I discovered that there were demons living there, I knew I had to escape. It was then that I realized I possessed some incredible power that would attract demons and also help me easily defeat some lesser demons."

"So what is that sword of yours?"

"That was a long time later. I was captured by a group of demons and thrown into a prison. The prison itself was a huge demon. I remember being beaten until I was unconscious..."

"Then?"

"Then he escaped in a daze. It was probably thanks to this sword."

As they were talking, Dante suddenly banged on the door: "No, this is not the topic we were discussing!"

Nero immediately distanced himself from the matter: "You are the one who said that. It is none of my business."

"Damn it! I must be out of my mind to be talking to you!"

Nero's hair dried slowly, gradually transforming from a light silver to a dazzling gold beneath her fingers. After a moment, Nero turned off the hairdryer, changed into the clothes he had found in the villa, and said to the door, "Are you interested in finding the truth?"

She opened the door.

(End of this chapter)