Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 374 Mission: 11-2 Prison City
What the two hadn't expected was that the reflected world within Limbo wasn't limited to the river's vicinity, but expanded infinitely, at least as large as the city itself. The only difference from above was that beneath Dante and Nero's feet, a seemingly endless downpour of rain fell from the abyss-like sky.

At this moment, they had crossed the bridge and returned to the city streets. Countless dark shadows passed over their heads in a creepy silence.

But the streets were not silent. Every screen in the city was pulsing with images and emitting sounds. Those images and sounds belonged to the same existence—

Raptor News TV host, Bob Barbas.

"...Be grateful for not killing me...Dedicate everything to God..."

The voice said this, echoing throughout the city.

“…” Nero pursed her lips and frowned, and made a low voice that was completely inconsistent with her usual image: “So, this Bob Barbas is the devil guarding here?”

"I had a premonition. Living in such a topsy-turvy place, it's no wonder its statements are always distorted."

Just down the street, the Raptor News Tower stood firm in the heavy rain that defied gravity.

This tower, and the demon that resides within it, controls the entire city... and indeed the entire world. The upside-down city before us is a perfect illustration of the demon's domination of the human world.

Countless dark ghosts wailed silently in Bob Barbas' voice. They were the souls of humans tortured by the devil's domination, unable to utter a single sound even after death.

"Is this... a world without freedom?"

"..."

In Nero's silence, Dante reached out, grabbed the pendant on his chest, and sighed softly.

Then he turned to look at Nero, who was staring at the tower in silence, and asked, "So this is why you and Virgil..."

"Let's go." Nero interrupted him, gritting his teeth viciously: "I want to make that guy repent."

Nero had already decided to make the person who published that news regret having been born with a mouth. This was what he had decided after hearing Bob Barbas throw such disgusting dirty water at him on the news program.

Now knowing that it was a demon, it was the best news for Nero.

"……Yeah."

But it was unknown whether Dante, whose train of thought was quite simple, had noticed such a complex mental process. He sighed softly, scratched his head helplessly, then grinned grimly - and finally sighed again.

"Well, let's go and make it regret all this." He summed up the two sighs into this final sentence, while staring at the palm print left on the wall by the dark "blood" and the words "Save our souls" that seemed upside down in his eyes, and made up his mind about the pendant left by his mother.

Then, a sudden premonition made Nero and Dante turn their heads and look behind them.

"Strange, who are you?"

"Demon?!" Dante immediately adopted a hostile attitude.

The only physical life forms that can move around in this world are demons. Human mediums without demonic powers can only enter the spirit hell as souls.

The creature behind them was indeed a demon. Although at first glance it looked like an old human in tattered robes, humans wouldn't remove half of their heads and replace them with mechanical structures.

A green light shot out from the demon's mechanical eye, sweeping across the two men. Dante initially thought it was some kind of attack and almost instinctively attacked, but Nero reached out and stopped him. "Who are you?" Nero asked succinctly.

"Son of Sparta and... huh?"

The demon didn't answer, but instead muttered Sparta's name to itself. After Nero repeated it, it finally realized what was happening and replied, "I am Phineas, a prophet."

After introducing himself, Phineas looked at Nero again, his face full of confusion. "I see some of Sparta in you, but what's going on? I've never heard of him having a daughter. And your powers are a bit strange."

"What a shame! That guy should really hear this." Dante made a little joke mixed with sincerity, and then said, "What do you want to do?"

"I originally wanted to see what my new cellmate looked like, but it seems I have to change things up. I'm afraid you weren't imprisoned by Mundus?"

"Lock him up... So this is a prison?" Nero asked in surprise.

"What else could it be?" Phineas spread his hands. "Look at the suffering souls above you... I can't leave here just like them. All the demons that oppose Mundus are here."

"hiss……"

"What did you do?" Dante asked.

Although surprised and angered by the fate of those souls, Nero keenly perceived the hidden message: "Phineas and Mendes are not on the same side." Adhering to the belief that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, she calmed her breath and began to try to rally this "unitable force": "Then can you help us get to the bottom of that tower?"

Phineas spoke in the order in which the two asked their questions: "It's simple, because I predicted the 'Fall of the Demon King'. After Mundus became the Demon Emperor, I was the first one to be imprisoned in this prison."

"Is that the one that says 'Only the Nephilim can kill the King of the Demon Realm'?"

"Yes, that's right. And you are a Nephilim."

Then Phineas looked at Nero: "Of course, I am also honored to serve the future king of the demon world. I can help you find a way that will not be discovered by that loyal dog. Please..."

"The future king of the demon world?"

Dante frowned and made a louder sound than before.

Phineas, who was about to lead the way, turned back with a puzzled look: "If it wasn't for this, why would you go against Mundus?"

"You see, I asked you this question a long time ago." Nero shrugged.

Dante glanced at her, then shook his head solemnly. "I have no interest in being a king or anything like that. I don't want to rule anything."

"Then what will follow will be chaos and strife without a king." Phineas gazed deeply at Dante and calmly predicted, "Because the Demon Realm is just like that, a place without order, where strength reigns supreme. Kill Mundus and you will become the strongest in the world. Even if you don't want to, you will naturally become the king of the Demon Realm."

Then he left a word and turned away.

"If you haven't figured out what to do yet, there's still time."

(End of this chapter)