Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 398 Mission: 17-2 The Careless

After an unknown amount of time, a new guest arrived in the quiet cemetery.

Nero couldn't help but feel confused at the call that seemed to come from the distant underworld.

Didn't Virgil, who had fallen into this world, come to find Eve? Based on her understanding of the two brothers, this should be impossible.

Without thinking too much, Nero stepped into the tomb.

She came alone, without Dante, mainly because Nero was worried that Dante's presence would have a counterproductive effect.

Dante is a heartless, uncouth man, while Virgil is a thoughtful, artistic man. Their conversations are, if not polar opposites, at least incomprehensible. As brothers who didn't grow up together, Dante and Virgil struggle to understand each other's perspectives. Yet, both possess a certain tsundere streak, unwilling to express their thoughts directly.

The efficiency of communication is too low, it would be faster to just fight.

So, in order to save them from a fight, Nero decided to talk things out with Virgil himself.

But she originally thought that Virgil would definitely come to find Eve, and after listening to the truth from Eve, he would understand the current situation to some extent...but now the situation is not like this.

Deep in the tomb, Nero saw the red-haired Eve again.

But Nero also found that he was completely wrong.

Virgil is here. Eve's call did not fail to call Virgil here, on the contrary, she was preventing Virgil from leaving.

She held the blood-red magic stone pendant in her hand and asked, "Virgil, what have you done?"

Nero also instantly tensed her muscles vigilantly. When she saw Virgil turning to look at her, her heart sank.

there is a problem.

The dark demonic energy surging from Virgil proved that the angelic power Nero had injected into Virgil to suppress his strength and desires had been broken. However, with the seal broken, the evil within him only grew stronger.

What happened in less than a day?
"answer me!"

Eve cried in pain.

"Dante is dead." Virgil tilted his head and sneered, "I killed him. This pendant is proof."

Nonsense, Dante never entered this hell, he is still alive and well outside.

But this conversation did help Nero understand the current situation more easily. Virgil... was "taking revenge" on his mother.

But why?
"Why?" Eve also asked the same question: "How could you do such a thing? He is your brother!"

The earth began to shake. Nero knew this was because Eve, the core of this area, was shaking violently, her unstable mood directly projected into the space formed by her memories.

Now that Limbo has been destroyed, any disturbance in this space means its disappearance. Nero must stop Virgil immediately.

"Ms. Eve, he lied to you."

Nero flashed out, blocked Eve's way, and snatched the pendant from her hand: "Dante is not here, he is alive and well. This pendant is just a fake."

As he spoke, Nero exerted a little force and crushed the hard magic stone into powder in his hand.

That's right, this isn't real. Although Virgil and Eve both believe it's real, their souls resonate with this space, forming this fake that seems real.

Here, it is true. But it cannot be taken out of here, so it is false.

"Is it... fake? Is it true? Dante is still alive?" Eve quickly grabbed Nero's skirt.

"Yes, he is very healthy, Ms. Eve." Under Nero's comfort, the mother who was made up of the remnants of Eve's soul slowly calmed down.

Meanwhile, Virgil, feeling a headache, pressed his forehead. "Not dead? Not dead yet..."

Then, an evil smile appeared on his face, which was eroded by the black evil energy. "Ah, that's it. I forgot he's not dead yet. But this is not bad. I will really kill him with my own hands."

"Virgil, what the hell is wrong with you?!"

Even Nero couldn't help but question this. Before she sent him here, Virgil could still say that his thoughts were just a little extreme, but his intentions were actually good. He showed enough kindness to Dante, and his attitude towards humans, while cruel, was not evil. But now, what was going on?

"……What's wrong?"

Virgil slowly raised his head, a sinister glint flashing in his eyes beneath his messy hair. "I'm normal."

No, not normal, quite the opposite.

As Nero's gaze grew colder, even more defiant, Virgil drew his weapon: "Dante betrayed me, and my mother ignored me. Isn't what I'm doing now what I should have done?"

"Ignore? What are you talking about?" Eve huddled in Nero's arms, raised her face and resolutely retorted, "I have always loved you deeply!"

"But never as good as Dante."

"But I have always treated you two equally!"

"I came to say goodbye." Amidst Eve's pained voice, Virgil's tone remained unchanged: "Wait until I kill the real Dante, and I will hand the real thing over to you."

what……

Nero seemed to understand that this was the truth.

She failed to seal Virgil's power. Perhaps it was because Virgil's true strength was stronger than she imagined, or perhaps it was because she had just fought with Mendes that night and had not fully recovered.

Or maybe Virgil did something with the Yama Blade.

But in short, after falling into this space made of memories, the demonic power, carrying with it the evil thoughts, fear, and hatred in Virgil's heart, separated from his soul and transformed into a being similar to V's familiar.

And one of them appears in the image of Dante.

This is almost exactly the same method as when Nero took out the Sin Stone, transformed it into the Angel Stone, and absorbed it again, using their power to break the seal, but the final result is very different.

Although Virgil broke Nero's seal by defeating the incarnations of evil and reabsorbing them, his negative emotions, in stark contrast to Nero, became even more terrifying, and thus he became what he is today.

"We clearly taught you strength and love, but you use your strength to kill people?! Kill the people you're supposed to love?!"

Eve looked at the cold Virgil and asked him angrily, but Virgil smiled happily, as if he had gained supreme happiness from his mother's pain.

"Doesn't your heart ache?!"

Virgil smiled at the question and placed his hand on his chest.

"Heart?"

“I don’t have that,” he said.

His fingertips were cold and he couldn't feel any beating.

(End of this chapter)