Disclaimer: As usual, I do not own the characters and properties of K-ON!, Devil May Cry, as well as any other franchise mentioned and included in this story. All properties belong to their rightful creators, media and companies.


Shardclaw: Greetings once again to the readers and followers for this story, I'm glad once again that now things are starting to heat up because officially, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition has been out for awhile and that means more to gather inspiration and ideas from for the chapters ahead for this story now that I recently got myself a PS4 some time ago and ready to tear things up as a gamer and trophy hunter. I must apologize first for the very long delay as real life stuff and tons of work got in my regular progress of working on my fiction, as well as getting to catch up on some recent anime viewing, but now I'm back to make sure this story continues as frequently as possible, thanks to the growing demand for an update.

As you may know now, although Vergil isn't canonically part of the DMC 4 story line and was just an extra character for gameplay purposes along with Trish and Lady, his new given move-set will be part of his arsenal along with Trish and Lady's from the re-mastered game, so be looking forward to quite some unique action when things get set in motion. Anyway, there's going to be quite more development in this chapter as we'll introduce some more of the K-ON universe to the story and the Devil May Cry crew to their own and how their appearances will be involved later on. And as promised, some guests from familiar franchises from both the Capcom, Marvel universe and as well a few appearances and references from the Project X Zone games will be showing up, particularly a few from a couple of notable recent blockbuster flicks that will be hanging around for a few chapters. Do enjoy the update.


Chapter 7

Getting the Band back Together, Part 1


Shortly after the Hokago Tea Time group were told by Dante, his twin brother Vergil and their human surrogate family member Patty earlier about the truth of themselves and the existence of demons in their world, they all left to go to their In their respective homes safely under the protection of the Sparda twins' powers. Meanwhile as this was happening, the demons themselves had secretly begun to plan their schemes in the shadows by passing on their leader's message around in the shadows due to the actions of one of their own acting and revealing itself and its group to the HTT group. Magono, who was sent to do such task, went in his well suited human appearance to a nightclub somewhere located in the shadier districts of the town they resided. Going into the underground level, it was a holding base for one of the other high ranking demons that was in charge of capturing and corrupting their minds and even their bodies, so that they can either fall easily to become their slaves or malleable enough to turn them into lower level of demons themselves.

Magono didn't like working with this particular demon because of his appearance mostly, but his 'methods' has been approved by the Master and proven useful so far, especially when several of the slaves he manipulated for his master turned out to be women whose minds he had broken through unspeakable acts. Magono stepped into a room that almost looked like an evil scientist's room, filled with large flasks with odd colored liquids, and even monitors showing vital signs and rooms where the humans they captured were looked on as test subjects. Magono saw the short and stout figure, dressed in a laboratory coat that was almost covered entirely in stains of blood, looming over one of them with a wicked and twisted smile on his face as he called his name.

"I see your harvesting is going as smoothly as usual, Mokusei." Magono spoke as the demon who was referred to as Mokusei simply shifted his head to see his accomplice and grinned, his contorted face and near pale white skin showing the signs of a true and corrupt demon.

"Well, I wouldn't want to keep production of our new slaves behind, considering our Master likes to keep himself busy all the time, especially with the human women as do myself, heh-heh." Mokusei cackled as he looked at Magono. "So, what brings you over, my ever so high and mighty partner in crime?"

"I don't recall ever being one of your lackeys, how we work for the Master are different methods." Magono spoke as his tone got stern. "In any case, I'm here to inform you that fool Urobuchi got too hasty and acted on his own against the Sparda twins. The Master is hardly pleased with the development and wants all of us to keep a low profile until he is ready. I knew he was always the brash type, but to act against orders and sacrificing some of our own in the progress…"

"That fool, he had it coming. Now I have to replace the ones that were lost thanks to him." Mokusei said in an annoyed tone. "And even with my abilities, that is going to take some work, but not to worry, seeing as I have such lovely selection of women to play with now, heh-heh…"

"Do what you will, just don't get too caught up in your little fun too much." Magono said as he looked around the room. "By the way, where's the other one, Gombacho? Doesn't he normally be around here all the time, he needs to know what has happened as well."

"Damn it, he's probably run off again to cause trouble in one of the rooms. He's certainly the wildest of the group here, doing what he pleases much like Urobuchi. Someone should put a damn leash on that one." Mokusei said as if on cue, a tall human/demon hybrid entered, blood spilled all over his chest area as he had a skinny, yet half muscular appearance. He had a shoulder long cut pale blond hair that nearly covered his face and a half twisted grin on his human face as one of his demon eyes glowed a bright crimson. His left hand appeared to look like somewhat of a large claw as that was where the blood came from the most.

"Hee-heh, that was fun!" The hybrid spoke in a near high pitched and excited tone. "Hey, Mokusei, you have any more hapless girls for me to kill and soak in their blood, hee-hee?"

"Dammit, Gombacho! I told you already not to go after my experiments!" Mokusei cursed his accomplice. "What happened to the stock you brought in earlier!?"

"Oh, that? I already got bored with the trash and had my fun. The last one hardly put up any resistance like the ones before her though, what a bore." Gombacho simply said as Mokusei growled at him.

"Those subjects are vital to the Master's plan, how many times must you screw up my schedule with your insolence everytime you have your way with them?" Mokusei asked as Gombacho stared at him.

"Huh? You can be such a prude, Magono. You can always get more and replace them, these humans are plentiful to our disposal." Gombacho said as Mokusei was about to raise his fist at Gombacho until Magono spoke in an slightly annoyed tone.

"That is enough, you two! We have already enough setbacks thanks to the Sparda twins being here to disrupt our plans and now that Urobuchi's out of the picture, we have less manpower to see the Master's plan become a reality." Magono said sternly. "Mokusei will continue his research into whatever suitable hosts he can find for the plan, but you Gomacho will no longer be assisting him, seeing you here to cause nothing but trouble for your own amusement has shown me that you're not being helpful as we intend you to be."

"Hey, I'm doing my end of the work like you told me too. What's a demon got to do to have some fun around here?" Gombacho said in a joking tone as Magono looked at him hard.

"I see that attitude of yours will not cease no matter how much I warn you that the ones our fellow demon kind fears the worst is in this country right now, probably in the midst of seeking us out as long we don't blow our covers." Magono replied. "For now, we will continue observing those Sparda twins while in the shadows, but none of you will make any rash movements until the Master gives his orders, understood?"

"Yeah, yeah, I hear you." Gombacho said cracking his lean neck. "I just can't wait to actually show that cocky demon hunter what happens when he tries and challenge us when the time comes! We hybrids are not to be taken lightly!"

"I personally don't care about fighting him as long as I get the human women as a prize for more of my future experiments." Mokusei said as Magono let out a small sigh.

"Just don't forget what both your roles are, and don't step out of bounds while you're doing what you can for the Master. The Sparda twins are sharper than we originally thought. I shall take my leave now, the sight of this place really doesn't suit the likes of me anyway." Magono said with his back turned to the two most twisted members of the group. Now he has to go and find the last two what his Master informed them to do while he make his preparations.


Meanwhile, on the other side of the world as they were leaving Fortuna ground, Nero let out a small whistle as he and Trish boarded a first class private jet that the Order of the Sword provided for their travel. The seats were spacious and comfortable enough and they can order just about any condiment on board. He was hoping this special treatment wasn't exclusive because of the fact they were demons working for the Order.

"Man, I could get used to travelling like this more often. I didn't know the Order would provide this level of service." Nero said as he placed his traveling sack into the compartment and sat on one of the seats as Trish took hers a seat opposite from his position.

"This is your first time going abroad?" Trish asked with a small smile as she watched Nero's expression as he leaned back on the seat to stretch himself.

"Pretty much, I lived in Fortuna City all my life, so maybe this trip will be a nice experience for me." Nero replied, as the two passengers heard the attendant advised them to buckle up as the jet began to take off the runway. Nero leaned across to his window and can see the majestic city of Fortuna now below him as the jet was already high in the clouds.

"Goodbye, Fortuna, see you on the flipside." Nero said as he thought of all the people in the city he won't be seeing for awhile, including the newly revived Order members who relied on him, the cityfolk who looked up to him and especially Kyrie. Trish noticed the distant look on his face as she can't help but tease him a bit.

"Missing home already?" Trish asked as she and Nero were permitted to take off their belts as the jet was airborne. "I wouldn't worry about Kyrie and everyone else, Nero. They can take care of things while you're gone."

"Yeah, I know they got things covered, I'm not that worried." Nero said as he took out his pair of large headphones. "I'm just thinking how Dante and the others in Japan are dealing with things if they need us as well."

"Pretty sure things are going over his head as we speak, knowing him." Trish said. "Anyway, we'll know more once we get there then we'll sort out what to do from then. I know Lady too has gotten impatient for any progress from Dante, so most likely we'll be meeting her there too when we land. For now, we better take it easy since it's a long trip."

"Then I'd better take the time to brush up on my Japanese, or how little of it I know of that is." Nero sighed as he took out an English-Japanese translator book to read on, something he found in the Fortuna library that would prove helpful for the trip. He never was much of a bookworm, but under Dante's advice, he took it since he'll be meeting people who don't speak his natural language.

"Never took you for the bookworm type." Trish said with a grin as Nero spoke.

"Hey, I got to start preparing from now, or else those two will make me regret it later." Nero said as he didn't like it as much, but he'll gradually get used to it.

"You mean Dante and Vergil?" Trish asked as Nero nodded.

"Vergil especially, since he wants to make sure I stay sharp mentally as well as psychically, or something like that." Nero nodded in response. He and Vergil weren't on friendly terms when they first met, especially now that Nero had absorbed Yamato into his Devil Bringer. However, Vergil gradually learned of Nero's heritage to Sparda and Vergil had no choice but to accept Nero into the Sparda ranks, although there was still no valid way of how Nero's demonic powers originated from the Legendary Dark Knight's bloodline.

"I wouldn't worry about Vergil, that's just his way of toughening you up." Trish said. "Even if he doesn't show it, he just wants to bring the best out of you."

"Pretty much, I don't mind the extra lessons." Nero said as he yawned a bit after studying the book after awhile. "Man, all this jargon is starting to make me sleepy, I think I'll just crash until we reach Japan."

"Okay, just don't blame me if you didn't catch up on your lessons and Vergil drills you for it later." Trish solemnly said as Nero put the headphones over his ears and leaned back.

"Hey, I pretty much been ran around in Fortuna dealing with demons and studying the enemy Dante's searching for without any sleep for a couple of days, I deserve a break at least." Nero said as he rested his head. "Anyway, wake me up if they're serving anything good, okay?"

Trish looked on at Nero as he started to doze away as she thought to herself. (Well, at least he's gotten a little mature, at least.)


Meanwhile, in the other alternative universe of the city of New York, the superhero group widely all over known as the Avengers, were just taking a well deserved break after the events of defeating Ultron and his forces inside the Avengers tower. The playboy millionaire, Tony Stark, also known to the world as Iron Man, was busy studying the schematics of his previous works as a slender figured redhead woman dressed in a tight and black skin suit accompanied by another man her height with straight and short brown hair wearing casual clothing followed her. He noted the two holding suitcases as if they were going off somewhere.

"And just where the two of you are running off two at this time?" Tony asked, slightly twitching his goatee chin as he saw the woman, codenamed Black Widow, glanced at him before looking at her partner, Clyde Barton, also known to the team as the sharp eyed archer, Hawkeye, as he nodded at her. "You know we can't just run off after the mess we made just a while back. We're under Fury's orders not to be moving about too much until orders are rescinded."

"I know, but we just got a call from an old friend from the other world that requested our help, and asked specifically for only two since everyone else is trying to piece things back together here." Black Widow said as another male, a tall and semi muscular man with combed out flowing blond hair and beard stepped into the room accompanied by two other men, one with straight blonde hair and had a tall and fit appearance, the other with curled black hair and was in a laboratory coat.

"So, an old friend from the other world, you say? Is it somebody we know?" Steve Rogers, aka the super soldier, Captain America asked as Hawkeye nodded. Accompanying them was a taller man with a near muscular stature and long dirty blond flowing hair dressed in an otherworldly battle outfit of a plated armor and a red cape.

"Yeah, during our run in with the other Earth dwellers, we came across that demon hunter and his older twin, surely you know who I'm talking about, Cap." Hawkeye commented as the tall muscular blond standing next to Steve realized who his friend was talking about.

"I see, so it was Dante's summon for aid that must have reached you." The thunder god known as Thor Odinson spoke as a small smile came to his face. "If that hunter wanted my help, he could have asked for my presence as well. And I do hope his brother is behaving more appropriately considering the last time I encountered him, at least he's gotten better than Loki from the last time we talked about him in terms of choosing a worthy side."

"Well, this is a special kind of request he wanted, he says two of us will be enough for this little job he has for us and we do kind of owe him and his brother for giving us a heads up of demons on our end and letting them take care of them if we're not busy saving our world." Natasha said as she finished pack her other suitcase as the man wearing the lab coat approached her. The brilliant scientist, Dr. David Bruce Banner was also the host of the raging green behemoth, the Incredible Hulk whenever he loses control of his rage.

"How long you think you'll be gone?" He asked as Natasha gave him a brief smile.

"Two or three days, give or take. We'll investigate what Dante is up to and if it's serious, we'll stick around until things are normal." Natasha replied. "I'm sure it's just a minor alert on his end, but just to be safe…"

"I heard some pretty crazy things about that Earth while I was there as well, you better be careful since that territory is basically new to you." Bruce said as Tony called out to his science associate while he was busy on the hologram computer decks before him.

"Hey, she'll be good over there considering if it's monsters they could be facing. Not the first time we had outside invasions to spoil our day." Tony said.

"Gee, I don't know, Tony. Other than rogue AI robots, aliens and super powered terrorists, we've never faced a bloodthirsty demon in the flesh before." Steve said as he approached him. "If you really think about how unpredictable they are, maybe just two of our team members in such a world like that isn't really a good suggestion."

"Well, you should have a little more confidence in how your team works on the outside, Steve." Tony lamented back looking at him sternly. "I for one, could imagine the amount of damage they alone can dish out to whatever exists in Dante's world. I say, let them raise some hell, literally."

"Are you two quite done? You have been at it quite recently it's like this is becoming the norm." Another woman, a long haired brunette wearing a red jacket and black corset walked in. She was originally one of the two mutant siblings who recently joined the Avengers, Wanda Maximoff also known as Scarlet Witch who alongside her brother, Piertro Maximoff aka QuickSliver, who killed in combat during their recent battle.

"We just had a major battle with subduing Ultron, and as much as I like to have two of the best in the team handle matters in the other world for our otherworldly friends, we can't risk moving out too soon in case the other enemy forces would target us as we're just recovering." Steve said as one more of the male team members appeared in the room who had red colored skin, a green bodysuit and dressed in a yellow cloak. "Vision, tell everyone here about why they are all needed here, surely you agree that sending Widow and Hawkeye alone isn't a good idea."

The self aware male AI that was constructed to combat Ultron's advanced intellect spoke in a monotone. "I have caught grasp of the developing conversation and have drawn to a probable conclusion that both of them are indeed required to assist in the other world, Rogers. The threat that our other worldly companions are facing are a far greater threat than they had anticipated before, thus requiring the aid of ones skilled in the assassination arts and marksmanship."

"So, in other words, Dante was choosey in having just us to help him out since he said his other teammates are pitching in to help." Tony said as Natasha shrugged her shoulders.

"Look, it's not going to be that bad, but if things do get hot, we'll contact you on status reports and update you on the developments." Natasha said as Steve threw his arms up.

"Okay, I know when I'm beat. But you let Dante know that he owes us after this." Steve said as Thor spoke next.

"You'll let Dante know that I give my best regards." He said as Bruce spoke after.

"Hey, be safe on your trip." Bruce said in a soft tone as he and Natasha recently had formed a secret relationship with each other. Tony gave a small wave to the two departing Avengers.

"Yeah, you guys watch yourselves over there, don't do anything I wouldn't do while having fun." Tony lamented.

"We'll make sure to handle things here while you're gone, do bring some gifts for us." Pietro cut in as Hawkeye nodded with a grin.

"I got it, it is in their world's Japan we're heading, so things might be different over there hopefully." Clyde said as he grabbed his sachet and carrying case which contained his signature bow and arrow. "Ready to go, Natasha?"

"Yeah, all prepped to get out of here and start flying. We got quite a long ride ahead of us." Natasha said as the two Avengers took their temporary belongings and left the large gathering room, as a tall black male with a bald head and wearing an eye patch over his left eye and dressed in all black trenchcoat stepped in as they were leaving.

"Oh, Fury, you came in time to see us off." Natasha said as she spoke to the director of the S.H.I.E.L.D agency and the one who brought the Avengers together, Nick Fury.

"I only came to make sure you two don't overstep your boundaries while staying in the other Earth, it's one thing they know of our existence but there will be potential enemies on that side of the universe who may know of your skills. Try not to make too much of a ruckus while you're there unless you're forced to." Nick said sternly. "Other than that, do what you do best over there and assist that demon hunter and his group."

"We got you, sir. We won't be causing trouble unless we run into it over there." Natasha said. "Is the Quinjet ready?"

"All fueled up, ready and waiting on the heliport." Nick said as he turned his back. "Godspeed to both of you and make it back soon."

"We will, sir. Thanks for this chance to go on this little adventure, I think it just might be fun." Hawkeye said as he and Natasha started to walk down the hallways to soon embark on their journey to fulfill Dante's request.


Meanwhile, just right in front of Dante's temporary apartment, four female figures stood at the front door, with one of them being able to enter the room using a spare key she obtained. She had ghoul like green skin, red flowing hair that draped her back and had a couple of fangs in her mouth. She was wearing something of a long parted dress that barely hid her exotic figure.

"Huh, so he really did go out on his day job at this time. He really changed his tune ever since he came to this country." The woman spoke in a raspy, yet sultry tone. "Well, I'm certain he wouldn't mind you girls staying over until he returns, and if I do recall, you do have some business with his brother, am I right…Morrigan?"

The second woman standing next to her, just as beautiful and bewitching in appearance, had long straight flowing green hair and was wearing her casual clothes of a white blouse and a red, leather tight jeans with high heels. She was regarded a high princess in the underworld, but she doesn't take her role seriously as she was a playful and friendly woman. She was the S rank noble class succubus, the Nightstalker known as Morrigan Aensland. She had become acquainted with Dante in the past during their otherworldly adventures, but has grown more of a partner to his older twin, Vergil.

"That you are correct on, Nevan, but will it okay for us to intrude in his temporary abode without letting him know we are here?" Morrigan asked with her arms folded that helped showed her perfect curvaceous figure. "I did recall he invited us over before in any case, but I don't think he'll expect all of us to see him at the same time."

"Well, whatever he called us for to group up like this must be uber serious, Morrigan! It's rather rare the strongest of the Sons of Sparda will need our help on a time like this." Another female voice spoke as the second woman with them spoke, this one having long and wavy blue hair with strands of white mixed in them, a pair of white cat ears poking out above her head and she was wearing a nun's outfit to conceal her naked body that was concealed in only white furry stripes over her natural human skin, the only thing revealing were a large pair of white paws that replaced her hand and feet. She was the Nightstalker catwoman and popular entertainer, Felicia, who also was acquainted with Dante and Vergil. "But then again, we are repaying a favor of sorts by showing up to whatever they need us for."

"Did he ever say why he really needed us?" Morrigan asked as Felicia shook her head.

"He never really got into too much detail other than saying he was helping some kids out and after gauging the strength of his target, he wants to be extra careful in making sure they are safe while he goes after the bigger demons in the city." Felicia said. "I'm may be a bit paranoid, but there has been a steady rise of demon activity around recently, haven't you noticed?"

"You do have a point, I did have some tireless nights thanks to the rise of those fodder back home in Scotland." Morrigan responded with a bit of a stern look as Nevan got the door open and the trio stepped inside, followed by their third female accomplice. "What do you think, Hsien-ko?"

Just as attractive like Morrigan and Felicia, although a slight different in appearance because of her skin tone, she had pale blue skin and was wearing a traditional Chinese dress of a tall hat that had a yellow talisman stuck on the middle, a red sleeveless top vest with which was bound together at her slim waist area and a matching, almost baggy pants and traditional shoes. Her arms were draped with long loose sleeves as part of the custom most Chinese hopping vampires, or Jiang Shi, wore. She and her sister, another woman named Mei-Ling, are both Chinese exorcists trained in the art of Senjutsu, however, Mei-Ling is acting as ward to prevent Hsien-Ko's power from going out of control.

"It's just like Mei said, the activity of those monsters have been out of the usual patterns, which was why we came along to check things out." Hsien-ko said. "But I never expected Dante to take up residence here just to chase after a seemingly powerful demon. "So, don't get us wrong that we're here to help out with you or anything, Morrigan, this is just business until we get a hold of whatever is happening here."

"No need for the hostilities, I know when it's time to play and time for getting serious." Morrigan said sheepishly. "But it seems it will be a while until he returns here to meet us though. I'd say we make ourselves home at his expense and give him a surprise, shall we?"

"Oh, yeah, I'm certain Dante will appreciate the surprise granted he's in the mood these days." Nevan replied just as Morrigan did before as she was curious for what her fellow females of the night had in store for her master.

"Well, we just have to prepare something for him when he gets back, that's all." Felicia said, getting out a couple of aprons from the kitchen and giving Morrigan one. "We all know all that pizza couldn't be the only thing he's been stuffing himself with ever since he got here."

"Sigh, I'm not really much of a cook, but if it's for Vergil who's coming back here as well, I'm sure it will provide a nice surprise for him as well…" Morrigan mused as she took her apron. "Now….I wonder what is it he would like…"


Meanwhile, back on the onboard flight from Fortuna to Japan in the same world…

"Hey, sleepy-head…time to get up. We've landed in Japan." Trish called out to Nero as she shook him, causing him to mumble and look at Trish with one eye, as he yawned.

"Wha…we're already in Japan?" Nero asked as he felt it was just minutes ago he closed his eyes as he looked out the window to an unfamiliar airport with the morning sun out. She was right, the jet had landed safely in a Japanese airport and was docking. "How long was I out?"

"Well, the trip was about 6 to 7 hours, so I estimate you were asleep the whole time." Trish said with a smile. "You must have been pretty tired to sleep like that."

"You don't say, all that demon hunting in Fortuna must have contributed to that. I hope I didn't miss much while I was asleep." Nero said with a sheepish grin as he got up to stretch himself. "Anyway, let's get our stuff and get out of here. Who's giving us a ride out of the airport?"

"Dante's probably arranged for Morrison to meet us here, so we should head to the front gate." Trish said as the two gathered their suitcases on carts and went on their way through the exclusive passageway to the front entrance where they met a busy crowd of people arriving and departing while several others were awaiting taxis and chaperones.

"Now, where could he be?" Trish said as she pulled the cart carrying her equipment with her as she heard a familiar voice call to her.

"Trish! Nero! Over here!" A female voice called them as they turned to see Lady dressed in her white signature outfit and wearing her single frame tinted shades. Next to her, they saw Morrison wearing his fedora and coat as he waved to them when they came over.

"Hey, old man Morrison. Long time no see." Nero gave the man a firm handshake with his human left hand since it's been awhile the two made contact sometime Dante introduced Nero and Kyrie to him and Patty, whom the two got along with well up to current time.

"Same here, lad. Glad to see you're doing well since I last saw you, and welcome to Japan." Morrison said with a grin as Lady spoke to Trish and Nero.

"I hope you two enjoyed your trip over, I just not too long ago got here myself. I got dropped off by some guests who are visiting Japan as we speak." Lady said as Nero quizzed her on what she meant.

"Let me guess, more of Dante's buddies?" Nero asked as Lady nodded.

"Well, he said something about needing all the help we can get for this case. I guess it caved in on him that this case is more serious than we thought." Lady said.

"We should already be heading over to where he is. It's at that girl's school where the ones he was looking after are, correct?" Nero asked as Morrison nodded.

"That's right, but he told us we shouldn't be in a hurry since most of the classes are busy at this time. So we're going for a little sightseeing first and scope out the place." Morrison said as she showed them a wagon which they will be travelling in. "Hop on in and let's get on the road already."

"Nothing classy, but it'll get us around to wherever we're supposed to go in this part of the country." Lady said as she, Trish and Nero got their equipment and suitcases into the wagon's trunk and the vehicle drove off from the airport unto the freeway.

"So, how come Dante couldn't come with you to greet us personally?" Trish asked as Morrison grinned to her question.

"Oh, he's probably getting his teacher duties ready and in particular, today's a kind of day he's set into motion something for his little friends at school." Morrison said, making Nero curious on what Dante does as a teacher in a all girl's Japanese school.

"Whatever the case, I hope he doesn't do anything too extravagant." Nero said, looking around the streets and the tall buildings that greeted him and the group into Japan.


Meanwhile, at the Sakuragaoka school grounds, the Hokago Tea Time individually met at the front entrance where they put on their school shoes to make sure each one of them arrived safely after the events of last night. Ritsu and Mio were the first to meet as they soon were greeted by their fellow bandmate, the most energetic of the bunch.

"Mio-chan! Ricchan!" Yui Hirasawa's voice called in the busy hallway as the two childhood friends saw their fellow band-mate and walked over to her. "Ohaiyo! It's great to see you guys made it to school today."

"Same here, Yui…I was kind of worried about the demons, but we had to show up in any case to let Dante-san fill us in on what we need to do about them." Mio said. "What about Mugi and Azusa?"

"I saw them got here earlier together, so I'm guessing they're probably on their way to look for Dante-sensei before class starts." Yui replied. "Let's say we go look for them too, shall we?"

"Yeah, that's a good idea, Yui-chan." Ritsu replied with a firm nod as the trio got into their school shoes and started to make their way towards the classroom area among the group of other schoolgirls from different varying classes and grades walking past them.

"Huh, and you'd think we were almost attacked by a pack of monsters here last night, everything here seems like it never happened." Ritsu whispered to Mio as they walked. "I'm kind of glad Vergil-san showed up when he did or else we'd never be here for classes this morning with everyone else."

"Ugh, Ritsu, I'd rather not remember that this early morning!" Mio replied quickly with a sigh. Soon after, they saw their other two fellow HTT band members, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Azusa Nakano standing together near the entrance of the teachers's lounge. "Hey, you two managed to get here safely as well, good morning."

"Hello, senpais." Azusa said with a warm smile to the incoming trio as Yui smiled back at her junior and the pianist. "So, everyone made it to school without running into…you know…?"

"Yeah, we had to hold our end of our flirty half demon teacher's promise if we ever want to know what is it we're really dealing with , but it's like you said, we haven't seen those demons again yet, at least for this time of the day." Mio replied with a slight grin as she kindly referred to Dante. "Speaking of whom, you guys saw him got here before, right?"

"Yes, he said he had something to arrange with the teachers and principal about some of his colleagues that are coming over to join him soon." Mugi replied. "He's been in there quite while now, but I'm sure he's just smoothing things over with them."

"Wait, so does that mean Dante-san would be bringing more of his friends over to help us?" Yui asked brightly as she recalled a few of them when he spoke of them the night before. "That'd be really nice if he did and we'd get to meet all of them really soon."

"I'm not sure I'm ready to handle meeting more of Dante's associates in his business aside from Vergil-san just yet." Mio muttered as Ritsu jumped a bit.

"Come on, Mio-chan, think about it! Not all of them can be that bad, I'm sure those demon hunters he told us about are really cool too! If they can kick as much ass in getting rid of the demons just like Dante-san and his bro can, that just means less for us to worry about when the time comes." Ritsu exclaimed as she saw the door to the lounge opened. "Hey, there he is!"

Ritsu pointed at the hallway and the girls saw Dante step out of the teacher's lounge adjusting his red teacher's suit, his thin scruffy stubble chin still there as it was before for several days now since everyone in the school has gotten to his look. "Yo, Dante-sensei!"

"Yeah, only one voice I know in this school can be particularly that loud." The demon hunter smiled as he turned his head at the incoming group that was walking towards him with Azusa following in tow. She herself was glad to see Dante back to his old teacher self for a brief period of time after the little time they had together the previous evening and was looking forward to seeing what he can do to help her and her friends.

"Good morning, girls…I take it from all of you showing up today without any noticeable wounds meant that you had no trouble getting to your homes safely last night?" Dante said as Yui nodded to him.

"That's right, although none of the bad demons showed up again, we were a-okay with those copies of you and Vergil-onii-san watching us till we got home." Yui said as Ritsu cut in.

"Yeah, but as soon as I was the last one to get home, your doppelganger disappeared!" Ritsu said. "So you can only use those copies of yourselves for a period of time, huh?"

"Well, it's almost the same time limit as our Devil Triggers, but at least it filled its duty for the time being." Dante said as he placed his arms on his hips. "In any case, you girls try to act casual today until club activities later, there's some stuff I'd got to discuss with you in terms of prepping you for the enemy. I'll explain everything in the clubroom then, and with your homeroom teacher, Sawako as well."

"Did you and Vergil-san find out any more details on what you're facing?" Mio asked as Dante nodded.

"Quite a bit, we managed to reaffirm some stuff we didn't know before." Dante leaned towards the brunette. "If I were you, you'd want to prepare yourself for some sordid details you may not want to hear, kid. I'll just save the details till we meet at the clubroom to save you the stress."

"Ugh….I'm already having a bad feeling about this…" Mio muttered, not wanting to deal with scary stories while at school, but she will have to put up with Dante's presence for now since he's sharing what he knows with her and her friends. It was then they heard the first bell for the schoolgirls to gather at the hall for the morning assembly. "Everyone, let's hurry and get to assembly then. I'm not ready to recall those monsters we ran into first thing before we start dealing with handing in our homework."

"I get you, Mio-chan. I had a hard time focusing on that all because of what happened last night, I just hope Sawa-chan doesn't skewer us on the account of we couldn't concentrate properly." Ritsu said as she sighed loudly.

"Don't worry about if you girls will get any hard time today, I already explained everything what happened to her after you guys left." Dante said with his arms folded. "Knowing Sawako, I'm sure she'll cut you girls some slack for today, but I'm also sure she has a few things to explain about what's going on from her end."

"I bet, now we'll see what part of Sawa-chan is being in all of this." Ritsu said in a stern voice.

"Hey, don't be so hard on your teacher, kid. She's just looking out for you guys in her own special way as she entrusted you to me and Vergil until the rest of the crew gets here and we get things sorted out." Dante said as he patted Ritsu's shoulder before he lightly shook the drummer. "You girls should have a little more faith in your elders."

Ritsu smiled lightly as Azusa followed suit to his comment and nodded her head. "Well, if Dante-sensei we should trust him and Sawa-sensei, I guess we can't argue with that."

"Speaking of elders, where is Vergil-onii-san?" Yui asked drawing a curious look, wondering where the strict elder Sparda brother is currently. "What he usually does while you're here at school?"

"Sometimes, he's out gathering intelligence on the target, as well as refining his sword skills, just his normal routine to maintain his current strength." Dante said. "Which reminds me…you girls are in for a couple of surprises later before we meet up a club room later, but I'm sure all of you girls will be the first to see for yourselves at the assembly and notably, one of them is for the little kitten."

"Eh? There's a surprise for me, Dante-sensei?" Azusa asked, now being familiar and comfortable with the little nickname Dante refers to her as nowadays after she had changed her mind about him from knowing who he really was.

"Now now, you all know me by already that I don't give away spoilers just before the main event, you just get your pretty little heads to the hall before you're late." Dante said with a grin as he patted Azusa's head and started to walk in the opposite direction down the hallway. "I'll be seeing you guys in the hall, okay?"

"It sounds like Dante-san's planning something not just for us, but the school itself." Mugi calmly said with a smile. "Now I can't help but wonder what it is in store for us even more."

"You and me both, Mugi-chan. I knew it was a good idea to have Dante-san as our sub advisor, he's thinking about helping everyone." Yui said.

"Yeah, but don't forget, he's here for a real reason, Yui-senpai. As much I appreciate him helping the club, he's also hunting the demons that live here." Azusa said. "We should be more considerate in that he's risking himself for our safety and everyone else here in the town."

"Well, that's a surprise. I'd thought you really didn't care much for Dante-san up until last night, now you're just as concerned what he's going to do for us." Ritsu said with her arms folded as Asuza flustered slightly.

"It's…it's just that I didn't know he was a really nice and reliable person until what happened yesterday!" Azusa replied quickly. "And despite his sometimes lazy and carefree attitude, he is really strong, not to mention, he looks after Patty really well! I just thought he was going to steal the spotlight of the club with his skills as a guitar player!"

"Hey, no one can blame you for that, Azusa." Mio said with a mellow tone. "At least it's nice to know you trust him more, even though he still is a big flirt at times."

"Yeah, and it sounds like you have as well, Mio-chan." Ritsu nudged her best friend slightly as Mio huffed at Ritsu's remark.

"Anyway, we should be on the way to the hall already, so let us get going." Mio said as the group of club members nodded to each other and made their way to the assembly hall some minutes later where the remainder of the school had gathered. Among the row of teachers on the stage, Dante sat among them with his legs crossed, looking down at the rows of schoolgirls whose eyes were fixated on him. As the principal finished making her speech for the morning session, she turned to Dante and signaled him to come and take over as the well dressed, silver haired man accepted the microphone from her.

"Ah, Dante-sensei's going to say something!" One of the girls whispered to her friend as some others followed, all of them eager to hear him speak in fluent Japanese in his suave tone of voice.

"Good morning, students and fellow teaching staff." Dante spoke with a light smile as he continued. "First off, if you haven't known who I am by now, I'm the substitute English teacher that's going through a course in teaching foreigners my fluent and native language, Tony Redgrave. But then again, after seeing the accepting smiles of the students here, I take it that I've become quite the popular guy in school and I thank you so far for the hospitality you've given."

The girls in the assembly rows felt themselves blush a little as Dante complimented them and went on.

"I know you got classes to go to soon, so I'm going to make this quick." Dante said. "Due to the program I'm under being a success so far with an increase of the student's understanding of the English language from yours truly, I'm extending my stay here in the school for about another two months. Some of you are readying yourselves for the big final exams soon, and I'm going to see to it that I prepare you girls for what's to come. I hope you'll put your trust in me for that time."

Some of the girls assembly murmured as Dante continued on, some of them delighted actually that they will be seeing more of Dante for a while longer.

"With that said, I've considered including someone close to assist me in making sure you girls are ready for what's to come." Dante said as he extended his arm to the side of the stage. "Some of you have met him some days ago, but he is here to clearly present himself to you as my dear older twin brother. Come on in, Vergil, and introduce yourself to the school."

The Hokago Tea Time and some of the girls of 2-A looked at each other as Himeko Tachibana was one of them with a bit of a surprised look on her face. Yui smiled brightly at the mention of her new older mentor as the school saw a tall white male of American decent walked in, with slicked back white hair that was slightly spiked up, his face calm, cold and focused yet slightly welcoming towards the audience. His clothing consisted of a rather dashing blue jacket with yellow linings running down across the edges, white engravings on both ends of the chest area of jacket that was tucked into his long black pants.

Himeko gawked at his appearance while some of the other girls nearly couldn't help but swoon at his appearance, especially as how he simply brushed back his hair to keep it back with a graceful swipe of his hand. Coming closer to Dante, he took the microphone from his brother's hand, but not before saying this without the assembly overhearing.

"I'm going to get you for this, Dante. You can bet on that." Vergil said simply, his cold stare surfacing as Dante nervously replied.

"Now, now, Vergil…just remember this wasn't my idea to begin with." Dante quickly said. "Just say hello to the hall of admiring schoolgirls and try to be nice, okay?"

"Hmph…fine then. I'll try it your way for once." Vergil groaned as he inhaled once before speaking unto the microphone in his monotone voice in his fluent Japanese. "Good morning, students of Sakuragoka High school. I am Vergil Redgrave, the elder twin brother of the man before you and from now on, I'll be assisting the teaching of both history and various sword techniques in the kendo classes. I welcome your hospitality and your attention in the coming future."

As Vergil finished said this, the whole assembly hall then let out a simultaneous cheer from most of the girls who already were fixated on his appearance.

"K-Kyaaah!" A trio of girls grouped together said in unison from within the assembly rows as well. "Vergil-sensei!"

Vergil looked away to glare at Dante slightly as he saw the almost wild reaction the assembly gave him. "You KNEW this was going to happen, didn't you?"

"Hey, I'm guilty as charged." Dante said with a grin. "But on the bright side, at least you've become more popular among humans faster than you thought, right?"

"This isn't going to bode so well for me here…." Vergil said as Dante wrapped an arm around his brother and took up the microphone to talk once more.

"So, there you have it, girls. You now got two capable brothers who will get you through the tougher processes of classes in the future." Dante said. "I now leave you to your principal for the remainder of the assembly just before class starts. We'll be seeing you girls later."

As both Dante and Vergil graciously bowed to the assembly and walked off to leave the assembly to murmur about what just transpired, somewhere in the row for the junior grades, Azusa was standing alongside near Yui's younger sister, Ui Hirasawa and their close friend, Jun Suzuki having observed what happened. She stood at the same height as the other two girls, while her brown colored hair was styled to form two large puffed up bun like ponytails for each side on the top of her head.

(Guess that's one of Dante-sensei's surprises that he was talking about earlier, huh?) Azusa thought with a sheepish smile. (Well, at least it will be nice that Vergil-san is going to help look over the school too like this, but what about this surprise for me Dante-sensei was talking about before?)

"Azusa?" Jun called out to her friend, who seemed to be in a deep train of thought. "Hey, Earth to Asuza? Are you there?"

"Oh, Jun-chan, gomen." Azusa realized that she was thinking too much on what was going on regarding the demons and played it off as she noticed Jun was waving to her. "I was just thinking about just how strict looking the new teacher was. I just hope that he goes easy on us."

"Yeah, something tells me not to get any questions wrong whenever he's in charge of a test." Jun shuddered. "Although, it looks like the school's been getting some cool new teachers, huh?"

"Yeah, you can say that." Ui responded in turn. "But if he's anything like onee-chan's sub advisor, he's probably a nice person too."

"I'm hoping so, it looks like most of the girls here are already head over heels for him." Jun joked slightly as Azusa noted how some of the girls reacted to Vergil's introduction. "Yeah, he is handsome like Tony-san, but fortunately for me, I'm not really into older guys."

"Of course you would say something like that, Jun." Azusa said sheepishly at her friend's comment. (Hmm, Dante-sensei said that one of the surprises he had in store was for me, I wonder that he's planning? Guess I better wait till we head to class soon.)


And soon after, assembly ended and the student body went off to their respective classes as Vergil went off to start teaching in the one he was assigned to. Several other of the female students sneaked from their rooms to catch a glimpse of him in teaching action as he sternly spoke to the class while reading aloud from what it appeared to be an ancient English book he picked up during his travels that had history relating to humans, social studies and history and technology. Already he had caught the attention of the students with his calm demeanor and broadened intelligence as some of them couldn't stop gazing dreamily into his face and tall stature.

Noticing the girls' entranced glance at him from the corner of his observant eye, he simply sighed as he ignored them and continued to gracefully write flawless Japanese kanji on the board as part of the lesson instructions. The one thing the class seemed to notice was how very quickly his hand was in producing the calligraphy on the board, almost as if he was simply moving his wrist in the blink of an eye. Finishing his writing, he turned around and began to speak to the girls in the room in his fluent Japanese.

"Now, while I'm present in this period of your daily section of lessons, I'll be responsible in giving you history assignments, as knowledge of the said subject will be vital in coming across today's unique situations." Vergil said sternly. "You may not think much of it, but valuable knowledge of the past is sometimes the best tool for certain situations in the present time. Whether you're up to the task of my teachings will be entirely up to you, as I will hold no quarter divulging information in the most straightforward way possible. Now, do you have any questions?"

Before Vergil could finish, almost the entire class had their arms in the air, each one wanting to ask about him quite badly. Sighing a bit, he made with a slightly amused grin as he contemplated to himself.

(Hmm, so this is what Dante finds enjoyable whenever he poses as their teacher each day here. Maybe this attention…isn't so bad after all once in a while.) The elder Sparda thought to himself as he readied himself to answer the possible swarm of incoming questions that from the schoolgirl filled room.


Meanwhile, in Azusa's class, things were just about to get crazy there as well. As she was seated in her chair and conversing with Ui and Jun, the talk was all about Vergil becoming part of the teaching board and how some of them were looking forward of going to his class if they got assigned to him.

As the homeroom teacher stepped in the classroom some time after, the class representative gave the stand and bow order as the teacher fixed her glasses and spoke to the class in an announcement like manner.

"Good morning, everyone. Before our class can start today, I have a special announcement to make as we have a new temporary transfer student joining our homeroom from today from the United States." The teacher said as he looked in the direction of the door he came in from. "She's already in the midst of high school level education, and had been raised by a teacher herself, one that you all may know by now. So there's no denying she's an accomplished student that will be recognized here."

The girls in the room start to murmur amongst themselves as Azusa wondered what could the new student really be since it's rare they usually get transfer students from another country.

"Anyway, let's not keep introductions waiting, why don't you come on in and greet yourself, Lowell-san?" The teacher said as Azusa picked up on the last name which she knew too well by now.

(Wait, did he just call out Patty's last name?) She thought to herself as she eagerly looked at the door, almost finding it hard to believe to know Patty was soon to be a member of her classroom. When the door opened, in stepped a very familiar face of a girl Azusa knew well by now. She had the matching official school uniform the rest of the class was wearing, but she kept her long and bouncy blonde hair tied to a long single ponytail and had a confident smile on her face as she stepped in front of the class to introduce herself.

"Ah…ohaiyo to everyone here. You may have met me before, but to those who properly don't know me, I'm Patty Lowell and I'll be joining your class from today." Patty said in a bit of a sheepish tone. "Please do take care of me."

The class began to murmur a bit loudly as Azusa couldn't help but smile to herself as she felt that Dante probably planned this with her in mind.

(So, this is what he meant by the other surprise, huh?) Azusa thought. (Well, I must say it's a pretty nice surprise considering how she and I are becoming fast friends, heh.)

"Lowell-san, your seat is located just above Nakano's seat, third row from where you are standing, so please make yourself comfortable as I begin today's lesson." The teacher said as Patty gave a bow before walking over to her seat where she quickly gave Azusa a wave.

"Hey there, Azusa." Patty said simply as she took her seat. "Looks like you and I are going to be classmates from today, so I'll be depending on you to help me with the lessons, okay…senpai?"

"Mouu, Patty-chan, you don't have to address me like that, although I'm the older one between us. Let's stick with our common terms for now, okay?" Azusa smiled a bit before Jun leaned across over Azusa and peeked in on their conversation.

"Hey, Azusa, introduce me to her." Jun said as she stretched her hand to Patty. "Jun Suzuki, at your service. Ui and I hang out with Azusa all the time. You're that transfer teacher's daughter from the other day on the field trip, aren't you?"

"That's surrogate daughter and yeah, I do seem to recall seeing you on that day, but it's nice to properly meet you today." Patty said as she shook Jun's hand.

"Well, what made you want to come to our school to study, Patty-chan?" Jun asked as Patty shrugged her shoulders.

"Well, my guardian insisted that I'd spend some time here instead of staying at home all day watching soaps, which is a bit of a drag since some of them I've grown to really like." Patty said causing Jun to chuckle a bit to her statement.

"Oh, you like soap operas too? There are really some good ones out there, huh?" Jun asked back as the teacher cleared his throat and Jun had to cut the conversation short. "Anyway, I'd talk more with you, but that can wait till after class, lunch time will be fine?"

"Sure, we can continue then." Patty said as Azusa leaned to her foreign friend one more time.

"You're getting along with them rather nicely." Azusa said as Patty smiled back.

"Aw, it's nothing, really. Jun seemed to be the more friendly type to get talking to with, that's all. I hope everyone else is the same, I've never been in a foreign class before." Patty leaned in to Azusa. "Anyway, aside from that, you're going to be in the club later, right? Dante says he has some things to share with you guys later, so do show up."

"Okay, I wouldn't miss it for the world. I'll be there." Azusa replied, almost more curious and anxious to meet up with Dante and hear what he has to say later after the school activities were over.


After the busy school day have passed without any major incident and most of the students have either gone home or stayed for their respective club activities or study sessions, the Hokago Tea Time girls were already in their club room chatting among themselves about what transpired during the day as Azusa was giving them the details of how Patty was introduced as a new classmate for her homeroom. Dante and Sawako were on the way to the club, so the girls helped themselves to some of Mugi's desserts that she brought in the meantime.

"Wow, so first Vergil-san and now Patty-chan are part of the school now, huh?" Ritsu asked as she gleefully bit on one of the snacks. "I wonder what is it that Dante-san would have them doing here of all places?"

"Maybe he's trying to cover all the bases in case something happens, probably." Mio said in a solemn tone. "Then again, it's hard to say what to expect since we're pretty much open targets by the demons."

"At least Azu-nyan will have more company with Patty-chan around in school from now on for awhile, the two of you have gotten real close as friends recently." Yui said as Azusa nodded slightly.

"Yeah, we really have, Yui-senpai, and not just that, your sister's and Jun's been nice to her too as well." Azusa smiled slightly. "Hopefully when things simmer down soon, I'm going to show her around the school so she can get familiar with it and the other girls in class."

Just then, the door to the room opened and entered Sawako and Dante holding a pair of large boxes, one of them medium sized flat pizza box while the other was a square shaped one with a fancy decoration wrapped around it.

"Ah, the man of the hour has arrived." Ritsu said with a grin as Dante placed the two boxed down on the table. "What were the two of you up to that took you long to get here?"

"Figured I had to hold my end of the bargain considering the mess you girls went through last night, so I stepped out for an afternoon snack and that cake I promised you." Dante grinned as he lifted the square box and placed it in the middle to present to the girls as Yui jumped a bit. "It's a nice strawberry sundae style cake made especially for you noisy brats. Feel free to dig in, but make sure to leave a slice for me."

"Yaaay! Arigatou, Dante-sensei!" Yui squealed a bit as she reached out to hug Dante around his waist, causing the HTT girls to smile at her gesture, not just to her reaction to receiving the cake, but just how friendly she was being towards her sub-club advisor.

"I bet you're just happy that you're getting cake today, huh, Yui?" Mio asked with a smile as she saw Sawako taking a seat across on a table with a teacup in hand and directed her glance at her direction. "But, aside from that, now that you're here, Sawa-sensei, maybe you can start answering some questions we have regarding Dante-sensei and his 'real' job, not to mention your apparent relationship with him."

"Hey, that's right! We were supposed to interrogate you about that! Sawa-chan…how come you never told us the truth about Dante-sensei and the whole demon thing going on?" Ritsu asked as the long haired brunette teacher simply placed a finger on her cheek, tilting her head slightly as she replied.

"Ara, so you guys finally came around to ask that, didn't you?" Sawako asked while Azusa replied as she was taking a slice of the cake Dante brought for them from Mugi who just finished cutting the slices for the club members and for her two teachers.

"Yes, we actually found out for ourselves that they exist from what we both saw with our own eyes and also from Dante-sensei and his brother as well. They even told us also about how the demons were living among us for over two thousand years since their late father's time, who we also learned was a powerful demon who turned against this own kind and became a hero and a guardian for humankind until he died." The twin tailed, small framed girl said. "You knew of those too, Sawa-sensei?"

"That's right, Azu-chan, I actually came across the legend a couple of times in my youth and really didn't believe it until I found out quite a bit of the truth about the demons and how Dante-san has dedicated his life in hunting them ever since his teenage days shortly after meeting him." Sawako said sternly as she sipped her tea. "At first, it really surprised me to learn that those things actually exist, but I gradually accepted it as Dante has come across some powerful demons that could have already taken over our world by now if it weren't for him stopping them. I promised to keep his existence a secret from anyone else who may know him in our town after we've acknowledged both our skills and became good friends shortly after our first meeting. And in turn, Dante trusted me with his secret ever since until I mentioned about you guys to him, which was quite recently when I mentioned the mysterious incidents occurring in our town to him."

"So, was intentionally letting us spend time with Dante-san in order so that we'll be comfortable knowing who he really was later part of your little plan too?" Mio asked as Sawako replied as Dante nodded silently as Yui had her arms latched around him.

"That's most certain, my dear Mio-chan. I know you guys are more used to hanging with the other girl students and I all the time, so introducing Dante into the club for you to see for yourselves that despite his appearance and personality, Dante-san here is a man of many skills and is quite powerful, but they already know that by now, don't they, Dante?" Sawako said, as she looked at Dante across the room to hear his answer.

"Well, only the kitten got a show of what it was like since she was with me, but they get the general idea after all the things me and Vergil told and showed them so far. That's to say they believe everything they've witnessed up to this point." Dante said as he took a slice of pizza out of the box he had brought earlier and bit into it. "Normally, I don't go about my hunts like this, but considering you are a part of Sawako's own classroom, I figured I'd make an exception in holding my end of the promise I made to her in helping her out one day if any signs of trouble shows up. That's just the kind of guy I am as long there are pretty ladies and pizza involved and I can get some fun out of it. And like I said before, you guys don't seem like a bad bunch to hang around with, other than just being noisy and energetic all the time."

"And you may have noticed by now, he's a man with a heart of gold, so asking him for a favor like this wasn't much of a problem either since I won't even have to dig deep into my pockets to pay for his services." Sawako said with a grin as Dante let out a small sigh as he finished his slice.

"I can be a generous guy sometimes, but I'd still like a nice compensation fee when all this is over, my skills don't come cheap, you know." Dante said simply as Yui let him go before she spoke.

"That's really unfair, Sawa-chan!" Yui said. "Even if you had to keep it a secret, we would have accepted Dante-sensei all the same! Now he's become like a really cool ouji-san to us!"

"True, you girls may have accepted Dante as a friend, but you were unprepared for the demons and needed a firsthand experience of meeting someone who has been dealing with them for a long time and he along with his brother, Vergil-san seem to have gotten that part done from what I can tell." Sawako said as she leaned back on her chair.

"How did you get in touch in Dante-san just in time before those ugly demons showed up?" Ritsu asked in a near demanding tone. "Surely, he didn't know about us before coming over to Japan, right?"

"The tomboy's right, I had no idea who you guys were close to Sawako till my partner filled me in on the reports she was getting that she suspected was occurring in your little town that had demons written all over." Dante said as he finished his slice with one more bite before moving on to the slice of cake Mugi offered earlier. "Apparently, my only lead to you girls was a picture she left me and a hunch they could be after you eventually since you were becoming so popular: Demons will always have an appetite for young and healthy human girls, thus making you an open target for them."

"Ughhh…I don't need that kind of mental image right now, Dante-san!" Ritsu said as Dante smirked at her slightly before continuing.

"It was then I recognized the uniforms and it reminded me of what your teacher wore when she was your age. Hoping it was a bit of coincidence, I made up my mind and came on over to check things out, but not before meeting Yui and a welcoming party of demons upon arrival." Dante said. "Then afterwards, I met up with your teacher at her place and told her about what's likely to happen, so she came up with the plan for me to be part of your club to see things over. The rest is history."

"I see, so we were being watched by the demons long before you met us, isn't it so, Dante-san?" Mugi asked solemnly as Dante nodded to her.

"Yeah, I'm afraid so, ojou-sama." Dante replied as he began to pace around the room a bit. "The good news is that for one, I crashed whatever initial plans they had when I first showed up on the scene, but the real fight has yet to get started. First, we need to know exactly what we're dealing with here before we make any hasty movements. That last thing I need is letting this nice little town get overrun by the enemy if I slip up. Demons tend to have the nasty habit of resorting to tearing the place up if things don't go as they planned, especially if they're given chance to run amok."

"Okay, so we know now that demons have been targeting us, any idea why?" Ritsu asked as Dante finished his pizza slice as he began to speak.

"Well, shortly after you girls left, Vergil and I went over all the data and intel we got gathered on the demon that is after you. What the end result was…can't say what we got is a pretty description for you ladies to listen to." Dante said as Mio placed a hand on the table, with a stern look on her face directed at her sub advisor.

"Look, we already gotten to this point and already we can tell they are really dangerous to have around, that we know as much. You have to tell us what we need to know, so we can at least be ready for what we'll be up against soon, Dante-sensei, even if we may not like it. As our sub advisor, you at least are responsible for letting us know what it is we'll be facing and have to share what you know with us." Mio said as Dante sighed as he spoke to the brunette teenage girl when she spoke up to him.

"Well, at least you're willing to know the ugly truth, I'll give you that. Alright, guess I better tell it to you straight like you asked, so brace yourselves." Dante said as he recalled from what he gathered the previous night with Vergil with the girls from all the data they gathered so far.


The night before, about half an hour the Hokago Tea Time left Dante's apartment, the Sparda twins were the only ones in the living room discussing what they revealed to their younger female friends and the information Vergil received from Magneto regarding their target. Patty was tired from the evening's activities, so Dante let her rest in one of the other bedrooms while he will use the couch to sleep on as he is accustomed to later. After they made their patrols for the night and reported any significant findings, they began to converse about their target's strengths.

"Well, this may be a new record: Patty sleeping really deep tonight, thanks to our guests from earlier. That kid would stay up to watch those soaps if this was a normal night." Dante said as he got out of his red coat and lay back on the couch with a cup of strawberry sundae in hand. "So, what did our old buddy, Mags, find out about our target?"

"Apparently, what he found was a little more than we've originally expected, Dante." Vergil said as placed his hands in a thinking posture as he looked over the laptop he was using. "It seems our new demonic foe has the ability to travel between dimensions for some time using HellGates, but apparently, his soul was bound to this Earth when the ancient priests from over two centuries ago managed to seal him and weaken his power at that time. It also states that he originally laid low in that alternate Earth's Hell previously as well to gather his strength when he was banished by the Savior."

"So, that means if he were to plan an escape, he'd have to be at full power to do so, huh?" Dante asked. "He's pretty much stuck wherever he is."

"Yes, but that's not to say he is without any form of power of force to enforce his commands while he recovers his strength." Vergil said, looking over at Dante's direction. "Putting together what Nero gathered in Fortuna about him now, we may be going up against a very worthy high level demon which could almost be as dangerous as either Mundus or Abigail."

"Oh, really? Here I was under the impression we were going up against some mid level demon at best, but then again, judging from those HellGates we saw a couple of days ago, the demons of this country really know their stuff." Dante took a spoon of the ice-cream and ate it before speaking. "I know already from what Nero told me that this demon is capable of, are you saying there's more to it than we know?"

"Well, assuming this was something that was able to live since Sparda's time with that much power in him and being able to even hide from our bloodline over the years, then yes." Vergil said seriously. "Think about it, Dante…what other reason all those sacrifices were made just to sate his hunger for human flesh when there was no one alive strong enough to even defeat him at the time? It was because this was an actual demon with real power at his disposal and had to split his power over the course of time while he recovers."

"So, you're saying that Urobuchi was a spawn of sorts from his power?" Dante asked, remembering the hybrid he fought earlier that evening as he protected Azusa. "That fat slob and his three punk followers actually had to make me use my Dreadnaught tonight, are you saying this Master has that kind of power?"

"Well, given Urobuchi's level of magic before he was disposed of and how he was able to share his power among three humans, it could be the case. It was fortunate that I was carrying the Masamune with me at the time to permanently take him out of the picture, we couldn't afford to have a demon with such power returning for future fights to cause us more hassle than we could waste our resources on." Vergil replied. "You said before when you came to Japan you were greeted by a group of hybrids, correct?"

"Yeah, didn't get to see who they were because they were in darkness though, so other than Urobuchi, I don't know what the other demons his level is capable of." Dante replied.

"Then it is as I expected. This Master has that kind of power to spare to lower level demons and still make them just as dangerous as some of their counterparts." Vergil said sternly. "If Urobuchi was simply a preview of what these demons in this side of Japan are capable of, then we should approach this Master from all possible scenarios, as he is truly a worthy opponent. And will probably stop at nothing to see those five girls you've become so fond of become his next sacrifices to ensure his return to the human world with his full power."

"Aw, man…so much for wishing it was going to be an easy job." Dante said simply as he and Vergil heard the door open and Patty stepped out yawning while she was wearing her casual pajamas of a white shirt and pants pajamas.

"Huh, you guys are still up?" Patty yawned as Dante noticed the tired youngster.

"We're just going over the battle plans, kid. Apparently, Vergil assumed the worst regarding our target." Dante said as looked at the blond girl who was struggling to stay up. "What are you doing back up?"

"Don't mind me, I was just going over to the bathroom for a bit." Patty said as Dante went back to finishing his sundae. "Still, you think the idea I shared with you earlier will work?"

"Still sounds crazy to me that it could work." Dante said simply as he stood up from the couch. "Sending you and Vergil as lookouts at Yui and company's school may give us a heads up on any extra demons we would face later."

"I'm still wondering on why do I have to go along with this idea?" Vergil asked sternly. "As far as I know, my position in this doesn't require me to be exactly close to the school other than seeing if the Hokago Tea Time will be secure from the enemy."

"Well, that may be so, but you're a hell of a lot quicker than I am when it comes to getting to places in a flash, you'd be pretty helpful in a busy school like Sakuragoaka, not to mention, become pretty popular with the students since they are all girls." Dante joked as Vergil rolled his eyes at his brother's comment.

"And who will deal about the gathering of information of our enemies in my stead?" Vergil asked as Dante put his hands up.

"I'll leave that up to Nero and Lady when they get here, they will have more access to places here where I haven't gotten the opportunity to check yet, Nero's influence as a member of the Order should get him around. And just to be safe, I'm going to call in Trish too so an extra little muscle from her wouldn't hurt. She also has to know something about this Master as well since she was under Mundus's rule for a while and may have heard of him or something along the line." Dante said as Patty yawned.

"Well, you certainly thought things through, Dante. I'm impressed you planned this far ahead." Patty said, as Dante put up a warning like finger to her.

"That's just the tip of the iceberg, kid. And I haven't forgotten about our little musician friends who wants to fend for themselves as they stated earlier either." Dante said with a small grin. "They may not be able to use magic or Devil Arms, but making them be able to throw a strong punch or two with some tweaking to their strengths from some training should be in order."

"I really hope you're know what you're doing, Dante." Patty said in a bit of a warning tone. "For those girls to become a little strong would mean some Spartan training would be planned for them."

"Don't worry, I won't tire out those girls too much, but they have to give it their all just as much as they are dedicated to their music if they want to stand a chance taking care of the lesser demons." Dante said. "Still…it bugs me to no end about this Master and his tastes…there's nothing special about those girls except that they are just cute, average, Japanese schoolgirls with an exceptional talent…no signs of spiritual or demonic power in them…so why go after those girls?"

"Yes, that is something we need to look upon as it not could only involved the Hokago Tea Time, but anyone associated with them that will be in danger soon." Vergil said as Patty stretched her arms.

"Well, whatever you two got planned, don't forget Dante has to be the first to leave tomorrow to arrange for me and Uncle Vergil at their school." Patty said as she walked off to one of the other rooms where the bathroom was as Dante waved her off.

"I haven't forgotten, I still have some calls to make before the night is over though requesting our special guest's assistance in this case anyway." Dante said as he looked at Vergil. "I do hope you have a decent suit to wear tomorrow, Vergil, because everyone's going to be looking at you when it's assembly time."

Vergil simply sighed in silence as Patty chuckled to Dante's comment as he closed the laptop. "You better make this worth my time, Dante…I didn't agree to the idea to become a spectacle for an entire female school body."

"It's a little too late for that." Dante cut in. "You are already famous thanks to showing up at that little gathering the other day, so you have to do your new little fanbase a favor and show up and watch out for them, got it?"

"Hmph. Whatever, I'll do as you say as long those girls don't get too attached to me, though I'll only give the older Hirasawa girl an exception." was Vergil's simple reply as he got up from the table and walked off as Dante cleaned his sundae cup of the ice cream and placed it in the sink where he then dug into his red coat and got out his cellphone.

"Hopefully, I should have enough credit to make those calls, even if they are overseas…now who should I call first while we wait?" Dante asked himself as he started to look through his contacts on his phone.


Back to the current time in the Hokago Tea Time's music room…

"So, in short, this Master is planning to retake this part of the country with his forces, with a very strong chance of a lot of innocent people being killed, and he intends to use you girls for his final rites to return to his fill power, so it seems." Dante said, as he concluded giving the girls the facts what he found. Yui and the others looked at each other in silence as Ritsu laughed a nervous chuckle.

"The demons are…really out to get us, huh?" She said, her body shaking a bit as Mio clenched her sides. "I never thought that monsters would actually be on the prowl for people like us, huh?"

"I'm scared, Yui-senpai." Azusa said as Yui patted her young kouhai.

"It's okay, Azu-nyan…I'm just as scared too." Yui said as she looked at Dante. "Dante-sensei…just how powerful is this Master that want to…you know…do terrible things to us?"

"As far as Vergil and I know, he's probably an A class level demon, but considering how much he is able to harness his power and manipulate an army of his own after all this time…yeah, he could be as bad as Mundus if what the data said is correct." Dante said with his arms folded as Sawako spoke.

"Dante, if all what you said is true, then that means the entire town, no…the country itself, could be in danger if he is truly resurrected." Sawako said seriously. "Surely you're going to stop him before that happens?"

"As long as nothing happens to the girls, it's pretty much safe, but we're still not out of the woods yet. There's still the case of likely lower level demons that can still terrorize the town if we're not looking. I'm having Vergil look into any leads where the demons could be in hiding and having a few friends come over to help us out." Dante said. "Originally, I was going to handle this solo, but after finding out what we're dealing with, I decided to call in the big guns, better to be safe than sorry. After seeing what a nice little town this is, there's no way I could let it be a center of disaster when the demons make their move."

"I…I think we should be ready for the worst case scenario, you guys." Mio stuttered. "What if…what if those things are actually more powerful than Dante-san and his brother could handle?"

"Mio-chan, how can you say that? Have you forgotten all what Dante-san and Vergil-onii-san told and showed us last night?" Yui stood up with a determined look in her eyes. "Those two are like super strong and know how to fight very well! If they can fight demons that are much powerful than them and still win, they can certainly look over this town and protect it to the best they can!"

"Yes, it's just like Patty-chan said. We can't afford to get afraid of the demons; we have to be strong and fearless in front of them, starting now." Azusa said, nodding in agreement to Yui's words. "I know Dante-san and his friends will be ready to help us and everyone else we care about when the time comes."

"That's right, no matter how tough and nasty those demons are, Dante-san here is going to make sure to help us through this, aren't you?" Ritsu asked as Dante nodded at her.

"Sure, no way I'll let you fend for yourselves without the proper preparations." Dante said as he turned to Sawako with a grin. "Well, it's kind of rare to see your students this pumped about something that is out of their league, isn't it?"

"Yes, to see them this fired up just for real life monsters is quite something." Sawako said with a small smile as Mugi spoke.

"Dante-san, if there's anything you need for help, I can always ask my father about the gathering for information of inconspicuous locations for your honorable brother to look into." Mugi said.

"That will be really helpful, ojou-sama." Dante said with a grin as Yui lifted her arm. "While I already got all the bases covered for the time being, I think some extra intel wouldn't hurt."

"And what can the rest of us do, Dante-sensei?" Yui asked as Dante placed a hand on his chin before he replied.

"Well, until the rest of my crew and my buddies get here, you can start making some changes to your schedules in terms of squeezing some training regiments I got planned for you girls." Dante said. "With Vergil already busy aside from teaching any capable students in the form of self defense while he's here in school in the coming future, you girls have to be ready to take some form of body shaping exercises if you want to at least stand a chance against the demons while my buddies and I go after the big fish. So, let your parents and siblings know that you're going to get some extra P. E lessons in between your club activities soon and may be a little late in getting home in the evenings for about a month at best."

"Alright, guess I better let Satoshi know I won't be able to walk home together with him from school for awhile, huh?" Ritsu suggested as Mio spoke after.

"At least from then, we'll be able to at least be flexible enough to handle whatever the demons throw at us, right, Dante-san?" Mio asked.

"It's not just making your bodies combat ready is the issue, but your minds as well. You may even have to wield weapons at some point and that too is going to use some mental capacity to a point in order to properly wield them without too much trouble or losing control of their power." Dante replied. "I know this for sure since the key to mastering some of the basic Devil Arms require more than just dexterity, your mind must be at full concentration on the objective to accomplish unlocking its true potential to go along with your heightened abilities as a devil hunter."

"That sounds like it's going to be a lot of work…but it sounds like fun too!" Yui said as if she was expecting a challenge. "I know I can get stronger if I just put my mind to it just like trying to improve my grades. You'll help out with that too, right, Dante-sensei?"

"Don't worry, I got all your backs. Just as long as you hold your end of the bargain and train really hard from now on to be able to come close to actual combat capability. As a bonus, it will do wonders for your physique and anyone watching their diet at your age all the while getting prepped for whatever the demons got in store, such as this gluttonous lead guitarist for example here!" Dante said as he was close enough to playfully poke Yui's left cheek and around her stomach once more.

"Hee-hee, Dante-sensei, there you go again, always teasing me because of how much I eat! That tickles!" Yui giggled loudly in turn as Azusa looked at the two having fun and felt a bit left out as she started to speak.

"Mouuu, that's not fair, Yui-senpai. I know you're his apprentice and everything, but you seem to be getting all of our sub-advisor's attention lately." Azusa said with a slight pout at her senpai and sub-advisor as she turned her head slightly to the side to mutter to herself in a way everyone still heard her. "I…I want to be praised by Dante-sensei too, you know."

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Dante asked, using one of his old lines as he heard Azusa's comment as he ceased tickling Yui who had to calm down for a bit because she was enjoying herself. Dante grinned at the twin tailed girl as he walked over to her position. "Has the kitten finally come to accept just how much of a fun and reliable guy I can be?"

"Yeah, there's that too, but it was also learning just how much of a nice person you can be despite being a half demon that made me changed my mind about you. I really didn't know the situation to judge you properly and I feel I should apologize for my behavior towards you from yesterday." Asuza stood upright and did a quick and humble bow of her head as her towards her sub advisor in an act of forgiveness. "So, Dante-sensei, I'm really, really, sorry if I was being mean to you, now that we know about you're going out of your way for everyone here."

"Heh, no need for an apology, kitten. You had your reasons for doubting me, and it's not the first time humans I met felt that way towards me, I've gotten used to it. But, it's all under the bridge now, so it's cool that you'll accept me as your friend from now on. Besides, I have to make sure to treat all my current students with the just right amount of attention, there's no way I could ever leave you out after the little bonding time we had yesterday. " Dante said as he gently patted on top of Azusa's head and rubbed it slightly as the twin ponytailed youngster giggled softly at Dante's gesture and nuzzled at his palm, as she liked being petted and praised by other people. "Just promise me you won't pull anymore of that drama queen stuff like you did if something's bothering you again, or else it will be your turn to have to treat me to pizza, got it?"

"Hai, I understand, Dante-sensei, you won't get any more trouble from me." Azusa replied as she was feeling comfortable under Dante's watch as his palm made her feel somewhat safe and more trusting towards the devil hunter. (I guess having Dante-sensei around the club was really a good idea. Thanks to him, I think I'll be able to cope when it's time for everyone else to leave the club, not to mention, he seems to enjoy making everyone happy and safe.)

As the remaining party of the HTT group was all feeling happy for Azusa as they observed the tender moment between her and Dante, Sawako observed the two for a moment as she then snapped her fingers as she got up to walk over to the nearby closet where most of the club's costumes were stored.

"I don't think Dante-san has seen any of you girls in my outfits other than just through the photo albums the other day, but since we're here and Azusa has taken a liking to our new cub sub advisor...how about adding a little something to the lovely occasion." Sawako said with a smirk as she slipped on an unusual accessory on top of Azusa's head…a small hair band that had two furry artificial cat ears attached as Dante raised an eyebrow from the sight.

"Sawa-sensei, just what are you doing?" Azusa asked as Sawako leaned in to the small framed girl.

"Now, Azusa, if you really want to grab Dante-sensei's attention, you know what you have to do." Sawako said. "I'm certain despite all his coolness, it will be nice to know he has a weakness we all like to see somewhere hidden in that macho body of his."

"Up to your playful tricks again, Sawako?" Dante asked as Sawako smiled at Dante, stepping away from Azusa while the other girls chuckled amongst themselves as Azusa sighed and nodded at her teacher. "Seriously, this is what you really do with your closest students, dress them up in your little cosplay corner event of yours? Makes me wonder about what other hobbies you may have than just being a pro guitarist."

"Oh, hush and let me have fun with you for awhile, you'll love this, Dante." Sawako said as she finished adjusted the ear piece on Azusa. "Go on ahead, Azusa…do that thing we all know you do best when you first joined the club."

"Oh, fine, if you really want me to, then…um…Dante-sensei…" Azusa looked at Dante as she raised her fists and clenched them in a paw like manner as her eyes gave a soft and gentle glimmer. She then made a small clawing gesture at him as she simply made a small noise that was common with real life kittens. "U-ummm…please take good care of me from now on, onegai? N…Nyaahh."

Sawako and the remainder of the HTT girls looked at Dante in anticipation as he let his mind settled on what he just saw, before he fell back against the wall behind him, clutching his chest and taken by surprise by the level of Azusa's cuteness. Sawako couldn't help but let out a chuckle at Dante's reaction from seeing Azusa like that.

"Argh, what the hell was that?!" Dante shouted, trying to recover. "That never happened to me before, it's like she had some kind of power that even my demon senses weren't prepared for."

"I know, right, sensei?!" Yui spoke with a gleeful smile. "Now you know just how cute Azu-nyan can be whenever she's in her best mood."

"Now you tell me, guess I better be careful the next time I spoil her, huh?" Dante said with a grin as Ritsu spoke after seeing Dante's reaction.

"Ah, so even the powerful Son of Sparda can fall victim to Azu-nyan's mysterious moe power, it is as expected." Ritsu grinned wickedly with a finger under her chin as Yui giggled and Azusa blushed as Ritsu imitated a deep voiced narrator speaking a monologue for a movie. "Looks like you got quite the ways to go before showing us how tough you really are whenever you hang out with us, Dante-sensei."

"And all this happened because of your teacher and her ways of having fun with her students, I see…you just did that knowing I would fall for that and not Vergil, huh?" Dante smirked, as he fixed his clothing while gazing at Azusa with a smile. "Fine, you got me good this time. And she's got it pretty good too, if she got to me any longer than that, I swear I'd take her home to Patty later."

"Mouu, Dante-sensei…" Azusa replied, turning her head to the side as she blushed slightly. "But…I'm really glad you liked it, sensei. Now, we're even."

"Oh, you're right about that, kitten. At least till the next time I get to surprise you girls eventually with my moves you haven't seen yet." Dante said as he brushed his chin as he thought to himself. (I swear, for a moment, she put up a better imitation of a cat than even Felicia and Xiamou. Boy, are they going to be jealous if they ever meet.)

"Anyway, we still have to discuss what we're doing in regards of handling the demons in the area while shaping you ladies up for any rough situation, so until Morrison gets back with the rest of the team, we have some time to kill just chatting things up." Dante said as he got out of his train of thought and said to the group.

"You mean we're going to be meeting the rest of your team soon, Dante-sensei?" Yui asked as the demon hunter nodded.

"Yeah, a little sooner than expected due to plans changing a bit. I also arranged for some outside help to come on over to pitch in too, some guys I met during my hunts and other eventful cases to add." Dante said as he heard the door to the club room open and in stepped in two familiar faces who quickly became popular in school today. One was Patty in her own Sakuragoaka uniform and Vergil, still dressed sharply in his blue teacher's suit.

"Excuse me, I hope we're not interrupting anything." Patty said as she peeked in the doorway as Yui recognized her with Vergil standing over her.

"Hey, it's Patty-chan and Vergil-onii-san!" Yui waved to the newcomers in the room as Patty responded to Yui calling out to her with a friendly wave as Vergil sighed lightly as he stood behind her.

"There you go with that term again…you enjoy using it rather loosely around my presence, don't you, Hirasawa?" Vergil said solemnly as Yui giggled nervously.

"Oh, lighten up, Vergil. She's just probably happy to see you come over to the club for once, am I right, kid?" Dante asked as Yui nodded at him.

"Whatever, it's not like that's it's a bad thing, I'm sure I'll get accustomed to it in time to come." Vergil said as he followed Patty inside the room, as she went over to look at Azusa who was still wearing the cat ears accessory and sat next to her. Vergil walked over to where Sawako was seated and gave her a gentleman-like bow as he introduced himself. "I don't think we've been properly introduced before a couple days previously, Yamanaka-san, although I'm sure my brother has told you some vague stories about me, I assume?"

"Please, you can just call me Sawako, Vergil-san. And yes, Dante has told me about you before we can get to meet face to face like this, mostly about the times you two were close siblings before you became enemies years ago though." Sawako said in a solemn tone as Vergil gave a small nod.

"I will admit that the stories of that period of time surrounding me aren't the most positive, given my previous goals and the ultimate price I had to pay for them." Vergil said in his casual tone. "But that's in the distant past, Sawako-san, as I've been given an opportunity to walk amongst the living once more and reconcile matters with my brother, as well as overseeing the protection of the humans he associate himself with just like our late father did. You have no need to be concerned of where I'll stand in this matter as I'm offering my skills and intelligence to aid you and your beloved students as well just like Dante has so far."

"I see, you're truly the splitting image of your father, in both action and appearance, I must say. Then, I will gladly accept your assistance, Vergil-san, I do hope you'll enjoy working here at Sakuragoaka and get along with everyone." Sawako acknowledged his gesture and took note of his appearance as she looked at his face. (No wonder the whole student body went wild earlier at assembly, he certainly has his brother's handsome looks and is quite well mannered to boot.)

"I'll do my utmost to provide only the best of my abilities for the student's safety. As for my father, well, I do have to set an example and follow his heritage after all, unlike Dante here." Vergil replied as Dante sighed to his comment.

"Come on, Vergil. I will admit that persona of yours does win some of the ladies, but it won't get as far in popularity as I have." Dante said as Patty was the next to follow suit and introduce herself to Sawako by giving her a quick bow.

"Uh…It's nice to see you again, Sawako-sensei. I'm really enjoying school here and everyone's been nice and helpful to me so far." Patty said in Japanese as Sawako smiled at the pampered blonde.

"Why, thank you, Patty. Your Japanese is quite exceptional, although it can use just a bit of work still." Sawako said to her. "Maybe some classes and time with everyone here will help improve it."

"At least this will be much better than staying home all day watching Japanese soap dramas, although those are rather better than some of the ones back home so far." Patty smiled at Sawako who in turn looked at Dante.

"Dante, from the way you talked about Patty in the past, I thought she'd be more spoiled than this, but it seemed you raised her just fine." Sawako said as Dante sighed.

"Oh, please, the kid's still a brat anyway you look at it, she's totally different whenever she's home, nothing like her new friends here." Dante said with his arms folded as Patty pouted at him.

"Hmph, say what you will, Dante. Without me around, your shop will still probably be a filthy mess with all those pizza boxes you keep piling up every week!" Patty pointed out to him, as some of the girls chuckled and giving them an idea of how much pizza he eats, which was quite staggering as she turned to her new schoolmates. "Seriously, guys...do NOT let this guy do what he likes whenever it comes to pizza, because that's the only thing he ever eats and will almost never clean up after himself when he has it."

"Wow, I didn't think our Dante-sensei loved pizza THAT much, now we know how much exactly." Ritsu said, almost admiring his die hard liking for the food. "Don't you have any other favorite foods other than that and strawberry sundae?"

"Well, I've been keen to tomato juice since my rookie days, so yeah." Dante said simply as Ritsu turned to Vergil now.

"What about you, Vergil-sensei? Did you have any favorite foods in your pastime?" The tomboy asked as Vergil made a small scoff as he looked at Ritsu with a half grinning face. He didn't seem to mind sharing a few light hearted secrets about himself to the group of schoolgirls who now knew about his dark past and acknowledged him as an ally and mentor for the time being as he was seeking to revert to his younger brother's path of life.

"As a matter of fact, I do, Tainaka." Vergil said as he took a moment to reflect on what he was going to say before letting the Hokago Tea Time know. "Apparently, I have grown a taste for certain Japanese sweets, such as dangos and dumplings as well. And, adding to those recently, marshmallows."

"Ah, I love marshmallows too, Vergil-onii-san!" Yui said as she jumped up, rubbing her cheeks. "Don't you just love the way they're just soft and squishy?"

"Vergil-onii-san?" Sawako asked with a raised eyebrow and a smile when she heard the term. "Well, I didn't think Yui would think that highly of you in such a short time, but that's how she is, I guess, which is totally fine with me, by the way."

"It was Vergil onii-san who came to school and helped us from a pack of demons that came here yesterday while Dante-san protected Azu-nyan after she ran off, Sawa-chan!" Yui said as he ran across to Vergil's side and began to nuzzle him like she did before, making the serious elder Sparda sigh at her gesture, all the while grinning lightly at her.

"Yeah, that's something I really wish I could forget anytime soon." Mio said, recalling the moment she fainted out cold at the sight of them before Vergil came to their rescue. "Do all demons come to our world like that all the time?"

"Yes, they have all around access to affected areas where their energy is the strongest, Akiyama-san." Vergil spoke as he lightly patted Yui on her head. "Pretty much like you encountered yesterday, that portion of the school must have been probably swarming in dark magic that would cause them to appear."

"In other words, they're may be forces deliberately making the school and whatever other location around town act as HellGates for those things to appear. HellGates are the main passageway between our world and the demons and depending on the place, there could be more than just an average low figure." Dante said. "With our devil powers, we can go and sniff them out, but dealing with whoever is in charge is going to be another different matter."

"Meaning that there's usually a powerful gatekeeper keeping watch of those gates. And which is why you girls need to be a little watchful of any odd looking places where dark influences lurk." Vergil advised as Mugi raised an arm.

"How do we know what a HellGate looks like?" Mugi asked as Dante answered for her.

"Oh, there are these gloomy, huge as hell, slabs of concrete with markings down the sides. You can't miss it, ojou-sama." Dante replied as Mugi nodded at him.

"Okay, all this talk about demons is good information for you girls, but I really didn't come over to hear you talk business. Just what were you guys doing before we got here?" Patty asked, pointing at Azusa's accessory as the twin-tailed girl giggled in response.

"Oh, I was just having some fun with your carefree guardian. I envy you a bit that you have such a nice guy looking after you, but I'm happy for you as well, Patty." Azusa imitated a cat pawing at Dante which made him sigh and shake his head with a smile. Patty couldn't help but smile too and find Azusa cute herself when she was wearing the cat ears.

"Aw, thanks, Azusa. Dante may not look the father figure, but he does have a soft spot and knows how to spoil girls like me, so he's actually ideal for looking over me." Patty smile as Dante cleared his throat and spoke.

"Hey, Patty, is that the kind of image you want to give these girls about me after all the cool stuff I told them about me and Vergil?" Dante asked. "Besides, you don't look too shabby yourself wearing that uniform and looking like a real student attending this school. Now you don't have to be all alone all day from now on while I have to deal with these girls."

"He's right, Patty-chan, I must say the uniform really looks good on you too. You look like a natural student already, here." Mugi said as she offered Patty a slice of cake as Patty nodded.

"Thanks, Mugi. Actually, this was my idea so Vergil and I can look out for not just you, but the rest of the school if we can." Patty said as she took the saucer.

"Well, if that's the case, I have to say it's a pretty good one, considering how much girls were already eyeing Vergil-san here at the assembly." Ritsu said with a small grin as Vergil sighed hearing her comment.

"I didn't think Dante would have agreed to go along with it, but he did to try it since we both made our presences clear to all of you some days ago." Vergil said as he seated next to Sawako at the coffee table and was offered a cup of the tea she was drinking from her, which he accepted with a simple nod. "If this can increase our chances of keeping watch over you during this case while on premises, this is our first step in doing so."

"I see. Well, from the looks of things, it looks like the demons seem to have backed down since both of you are here for the moment." Mio spoke, still feeling on edge over having to discuss things that would normally scare her, but by now, she gradually has gotten used to.

"I wouldn't cut them out entirely of the picture, Mio-chan. Remember that demons are very sneaky and would use any means to get to you, using those close to you or your loved ones is a starters." Dante said as she looked at him with a concerned look.

"What do you mean, Dante-sensei?" Mio asked as Vergil answered.

"Remember when we explained to you last night, about humans allowing themselves to be corrupted enough by evil that they can become demons themselves?" Vergil asked sternly as Ritsu replied.

"Like with that Akuma guy you talked about, right?" Ritsu asked as he nodded.

"Yes, Tainaka. Although cases such as him are common, there are also extreme situations where the demons themselves are capable of taking over a victim's body and possessing it, becoming its new host. It's even easier if victims were killed by demons for easier possession access as well. They are able to mask themselves well among other humans and not one of you will be able to notice it until it's too late." Vergil said as Ritsu and Mio swallowed hard.

"If that's true, then…." Yui looked at Dante's direction thinking he may have had to deal with situations where humans were possessed by the demons and he had to eliminate them as part of his occupation. Dante then gave her a simple smile as he leaned back placing his arms over his head.

"Hey, don't worry about me, kiddo. Sure, I came across several of them in my work, but it comes with the territory." Dante said casually. "I just do my best to at least put them down peacefully if it has to come to that. Of course, in other times, I just make sure to separate the demon from the human host as long as their minds are able to fight back the demonic influence that took over them."

"You can seriously do that?!" Ritsu exclaimed, thinking to herself just how skilled her sub-advisor really is in his work.

"Yeah, but those times are like very rare. I hardly run into any demons brave enough to possess humans anymore, except for the recent exception of our dearly departed Urobuchi." Dante spoke as Azusa spoke.

"Now that you mention it, sensei…we did see Urobuchi wasn't quite himself for some weeks now." Azusa said, remembering what he looked like the night before in his demon form. "Sure, most of the girls avoided him, but at least he was more tolerable until the last fortnight."

"Well, kitten, that very much verifies what we're dealing with here now. Pretty much that fat slob and those three goons that were with him were originally hosts for demons." Dante said. "If this master has demons like that in his leagues, we better be more observant of your friends from now on. Not saying the demons could target them next, but there's always the possibility."

"Ugghhh…these demons really know how to mess up our normal routines, do they?" Ritsu asked, feeling bitterness towards them as an idea came in her head. "Had you ever have to deal with demons that were…you know, good? I mean, like in the sense of your old man who didn't want to hurt humans?"

"Well, it's a rarity, but I have run into some demons with the same goal as I have, some of them also half breeds like me and Vergil and just as strong too, you'll get to meet them soon. Also, there's my exception in the business, kid. I only hunt those who only want to hurt and cause trouble for you guys, but those who want to live peacefully, or fight against their own kind in the same lines of my work, I give them the slip." Dante said with a small smile. "Like this one time, I helped a rather weak demon who couldn't fight and his human girlfriend get together, also bagged me one hell of a target thanks to her old man who objected to their union when he summoned a demon from a HellGate."

"Another forbidden romance between a kind demon and a beautiful human. And in a sense, it is quite similar to the one your parents had, so I'm sure you must have had been pushed to help them, didn't you, Dante-sensei?" Mugi said as Patty chuckled to her gesture.

"Alright, you got me there, ojou-sama." Dante said with a grin. "Besides, it would be against my very nature to turn down a demon who only wants to live the rest of his life with his loved ones in peace anyway."

"You seem to like those a lot, don't you, Mugi?" Patty asked as the blond heiress blushed slightly.

"Well, I do enjoy romance stories just like the average teenage girl in this room." Mugi said as she nodded to Patty as she leaned to whisper to her foreign friend. "Although, personally, I do enjoy the close time I have with everyone here in the Hokago Tea Time as well."

"I hear you, you guys look like a very tight gang to have fun with." Patty said as she sat up to Azusa. "Hey, while Vergil and I are here, why don't you play something for us, pretty please?"

"Well, we did say we'd play something for Patty-chan the next time she's in the club and Vergil-oni-san is here as our guest as well, we might as well show them how good we can play thanks to Dante-sensei's teaching so far." Yui said, equipping Gitah right away.

"That's not a bad idea, Yui-senpai. Patty, you just sit tight, you're going to love this." Azusa smiled at Patty as she stood up to join her friends gather their instruments and fine tune them as they prepare a song to play for their honored guests.

As Dante looked on at the club members, he felt his pocket vibrate as his cell phone rang. Taking it up, he answered it briefly as he noted Morrison's name as the caller ID.

"Hey, old man…you already got them and on the way here?" Dante asked as if he was affirming something. "Nice, I'll be heading outside. I want to be there to welcome our new arrivals. See you in a few."

As Dante finished the call and put away the phone, Vergil took one more sip of his tea before placing the empty cup down. "Was that our entourage announcing their arrival?"

"Yeah, Morrison's just downstairs waiting for me to show everyone their way here, I'm going to go get them." Dante said as he looked at the group. "You girls go on and entertain Vergil and Patty, I'll be back soon with our buddies that we told you about."

"Okay, Dante-sensei!" Yui waved to her teacher as Dante left the room and Patty can show that she can barely contain her excitement as she was going to watch her new friends play for her, especially watching Azusa play once more since she was rather with her skills as a guitarist so far.


Dante had stopped by the entrance of the school where the students would change into their school shoes as he waited for the remainder of the Devil May Cry team to show up. Not long after he waited at the door, he saw Morrison's car stopped at the front gate and the occupants exited outside the wagon. Trish was still dressed in her black, tight corset top and black pants, but was wearing a small leather jacket to hide her revealing outfit. Lady was still wearing her casual combat outfit while Nero was wearing a purple coat, a black scarf around his neck and a special custom protective cast for his Devil Bringer to wear in public places other than Fortuna.

"Hmm, so this is where Dante's been working for awhile, huh?" Trish asked, surveying the outer area of the school grounds. "Didn't think he'd suit the teaching type considering he's sleeps around most of the time back home."

"Well, I know he probably wouldn't grow too bored since he has so many girl students here to look out for." Lady smiled as Morrison walked forward ahead of the group.

"He said he would meet us at the entrance, let's head over there and look for him." Morrison said as Trish and Lady nodded to the older man and followed him as Nero walked behind them, only to be looked at by some passerby students who were leaving the school yard stopped to see the new group of people visiting their school at this hour. He noted how they looked at him as if he was important and gave them a small nod as he greeted them.

"Uh, nice school you guys got here." Nero said in what little Japanese he recalled to use from the Japanese language book he read while he was in the plane. The group of girls replied with a small bow and smiled at him in return as they noted the smooth tone of voice and his manners as Trish noted this and called to him.

"Nero, what are you doing?" Trish asked, as Nero shrugged his shoulders.

"What, I was just saying to them how the school looked cool. I know, my Japanese needs a little work." Nero replied as Trish chuckled lightly as Lady replied.

"I think you did more than just that, it seems it is uncommon for these girls to have foreigners like us in their territory." Lady said, as she lightly bowed to the group of girls who were ogling Nero. "Especially if a guy like you is here, Nero, you're going to be the subject of some crushes here."

"Okay, seriously?" Nero asked with a sheepish grin. "I know some Japanese girls are like that, but you're telling me I'll have to go through this any time I'm here? Now, I'm beginning to wonder how Dante pulls trough every day with them."

"Ah, it's not so bad once you get used to all the attention they want from you, even I didn't have this much luck with girls during my teen days." Dante's voice rung out as the group saw the demon hunter dressed in his teacher's outfit standing at the doorway. Lady gave a soft laugh as she saw Dante looking the way he is as Nero gave a short scoff. "Glad to see you guys made it, and about time too. I was wondering how much longer I'd have to deal with these girls all by myself if things start to heat up."

"Wow, Dante, even for you, that's quite a look." Trish commented as Dante smiled at her. "From the looks of things, you seem to have the situation under control for the time being."

"Yeah, good to see you again too, Trish. Sorry to take you from that Fortuna business, but I really could use your help on this one." Dante replied simply as Trish walked up the demon hunter and shook her head as she slapped his shoulder.

"Hey, a short break from Fortuna couldn't come at a better time. Besides, I wanted to see for myself just how good your so called apprentice could play that you spoke so highly about." Trish said as Dante then eyed Lady and Nero.

"Well, aren't you two a sight for sore eyes as well, did you two enjoyed your trip over as well?" Dante said as Lady fixed her stare at him.

"You're lucky it didn't come out of your expenses and you had connections in Japan to pick me up, Dante. You already know my involvement in this mission is going to cost you a bit now that you asked for help." Lady said as Dante waved it off.

"Geez, not even a hello and already you're charging for the job?" Dante said with a sigh. "I should have seen that coming. Well, you're already here, so I'll see to it you're getting paid for your time."

"Well, whether you pay for it sooner or later, it will come eventually. I'll just have some fun while I'm here in the meantime since Japan is like a haven for tourists and shoppers alike. I can't wait to get some time off and hit those novelty shops before heading back to the States." Lady smiled at Dante as he turned to Nero now, who gave him a firm slap on his shoulder.

"Looks like you've been busy with things on your end as well, huh, kid?" Dante asked Nero. "I take it you got things under control before you left?"

"Pretty much, the demons are still making a mess all over, but I trust the Order to deal with them until I get back and Kyrie to help take care of things as well." Nero replied with a small smile. "Besides, I wanted to show you myself that I haven't been messing around with Yamato ever since you left it in my care."

"I'll take your word for it when I see it, kid. Just be careful whenever you use it around Vergil, he's still not cool that I gave it to you, but he's simmered down somewhat." Dante said as he faced the school entrance. "Anyway, it's time I introduce you to our clients, they're probably in the middle of their club activities about now entertaining our two other teammates, follow me."


Back inside the Hokago Tea Time's club room, the schoolgirl band were close to finishing playing one of their songs, 'Sweet Bitter Beauty Song' with Yui and Mio leading the vocals today. Patty seemed excited to see her friends play so well and couldn't stop moving her head to the song's energetic beat while Vergil would only nod his head time and again to the beat as well in his calm appearance with his arms folded. Just as the couple of verses came to conclude the song, Dante stepped into the room once more with his new guests, who quietly observed the Hokago Tea Time in action from the doorway.

"Aw, any sooner and you three would have gotten a nice welcome performance. Well, they still put down a mean end performance though." Dante said to Trish, Lady and Nero as they observed the singing group in action as Yui signaled to Mio by giving her a nod to turn up the notch a bit in their performance for their new arrivals.

"Hmm, so these are the girls you've been watching over from the demons, huh?" Trish asked as she gave a small wave to the people in the room and to Patty as well after seeing her in her uniform. "Okay, so they play alright enough."

"Come on, Trish, you got to give them a little more credit than that, they really got talent." Dante said he then saw Yui and Mio began to strum on their guitars gracefully, yet skillfully for their guests, which seemed to impress Trish now. "See what I mean?"

"Okay, I give them that, Dante. They are really gifted." Trish said with her arms shrugging. "Anyway, when are you going to introduce us to our clients?"

"Pretty soon, they're almost done with their song." Dante said as Yui played a few more notes along her Gitah as Ritsu's part on the drums came in sync when she finished her notes as she had hit bass drum on her set.

"Dante-sensei, did your friends like our performance?" Yui asked as she was curious about how well she and her friends did as they came in the room. "We don't mind doing an encore for them if you like."

"I think they liked it as far as I can tell, but that encore can wait till later, kid. For now, you guys need to know each other a bit by introducing yourselves first, I'm sure you all are eager to meet each of my partners from what I told you about them last night." Dante said. "Now, ladies, remember the English lessons I shared with you so far and be courteous. The sultry blonde standing with me is Trish, the other babe wearing shades is Lady and the brash looking kid with them is Nero, you guys say hi to them."

"Hi there, girls." Trish casually said with a simple bow to the group as Lady and Nero did the same in turn. "Thanks for having us over."

"Okay, we'll do our best then, sensei." Mio said to Dante as she and her friends bowed to Trish and the others with her as they stood by next to their respective instruments. "Um…I'm the bassist of the group, Mio Akiyama, and welcome to Japan."

"Yui Hirasawa, lead guitarist for the Hokago Tea Time and Dante-sensei's apprentice! Ohaiyo!" Yui cheered to the new guests as Lady and Trish chuckled to her statement.

"Well, isn't she a darling one to address you that way?" Lady said as Dante shrugged his shoulders simply with a somewhat proud grin.

"Eh, she's got her many ways of getting to you in a nice sort of way, so be prepared from now." Dante said simply, already being used to her antics.

"I'm Tsumugi Kotobuki, it's a pleasure to meet the fellow associates in Dante-sensei's company." Mugi bowed over her piano. "Oh, and you can just call me Mugi, if you wish."

"Okay, Mugi, I'm Trish, nice to meet you and your friends." Trish said as she bowed back. "Like your teacher said, the lady next to me goes by…well, Lady, so you best remember that."

"Greetings, Hokago Tea Time. I do hope you have been giving your 'sensei' a hard time for my sake." Lady said simply, as she took off her tinted sunglasses, revealing her heterochromia eyes of her right being blue and left red and the small scar across her nose bridge as Yui and the rest of the girls got a good look at Lady's face.

"Sugoi! You have very pretty eyes, Lady-san!" Yui inputted, observing Lady's face as she smiled a bit as she bent down a bit to look at Yui closer.

"I take it this is your first time seeing somebody with drop dead model looks?" Lady winked at Yui playfully who smiled in response.

"Well, I do admit you and Trish-san are very pretty, but why do you call yourself, Lady, Lady-san?" Yui asked as Lady put a hand on the younger girl's shoulder.

"That's a little private something a nice young girl like you really shouldn't pry into, trust me." Lady advised her. "Just know that we're here to help you and your friends out from today, got it?"

"Hmm, okay, if you say so, Lady-san." Yui said simply as nodded at her, feeling unsure why Lady would advise her about her current name. "And we're not giving Dante-sensei any trouble as he's been really nice and helpful to everyone, honestly!"

"Ha! Dante? You're sure you're saying it's the one we know, kid?" Trish asked as he leaned on her former partner. "The same Dante who does nothing but eat pizza and strawberry sundae, sleeps half of the time when he doesn't have a job…"

"And when he does get one, spends most of that money from the payment for even more pizza, running up the tab he owes me…" Lady inputted, making Dante sweat drop as Nero cut in afterward.

"And doesn't take everything seriously whenever we're sparring and loves to flirt around, even though he has bad luck with women…" Nero said as well as Dante cleared his throat.

"Hey, I'm still here, you guys. And I do get your point, sheesh. No need to summarize what I do back home in front of my precious students." Dante said simply as suddenly, Azusa moved from her position and stood next to Dante, grabbing unto his suit.

"So…so what if Dante-sensei is a big flirt and eats pizza all the time?" Azusa said as if she was defending her newfound admiration of him. "He can be a really caring and thoughtful person too sometimes, you know?"

"Well, at least one person in here can say the truth about that without hesitation, thanks for the backup, kid." Dante said as he noticed Asuza standing next to him as Lady and Trish leaned forward to look at Azusa's attire and greet her.

"Oh, and who's this awfully cute band member with the prop cat ears?" Lady asked playfully as Azusa bowed to her and Trish.

"I'm the junior member of the Hokago Tea Time and assisting guitarist, Azusa Nakano." The girl said as she smiled at Dante after. "Not to mention, Patty's closest friend while she is staying here in Japan."

"Well, we won't deny your sensei's got his good qualities sometimes, but to think you've all taken quite a liking to him like this, that's quite the accomplishment." Lady said simply as she patted Dante. "This may be the only place girls seem to really dig you, Dante, despite your character."

"Hey, at least I know I have some fans on this side of the world, so I'm not totally worried." Dante said as he patted Azusa once more who responded in kind by nuzzling his hand. "And it's all thanks to girls like this well behaved kitten who knows how to respect her elders nicely."

"'Kitten'? Okay, what kind of relationship do you really have with these girls, Dante?" Trish inquired simply in a serious tone as Dante put his arms up in a surrender posture.

"Hey, hey, it's all friendly, Trish, I swear it." Dante said as Ritsu was the next to have her introduction to the remainder of the Devil May Cry team.

"Hi there, I'm Ritsu Tainaka and drums are my specialty." The tomboy said as she pointed one of the sticks at the trio, apparently at Nero. "Hey, so if they are Lady and Trish-san, then you must be Nero-san, huh? Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, go ahead. I guess Dante told you girls something about me, huh?" Nero asked sheepishly, but was enjoying interacting with the tomboy so far since she seemed overly friendly so far.

"Some details, but yeah, he did. Is the whole thing about your right arm being part demon and you use it often to fight them true?" Ritsu asked with a curious tone as Dante nodded to Nero before he spoke.

"It's okay, kid, I think they are ready to see what kind of power you're packing since I already gave them the heads up about you." Dante said to Nero who sighed at first before looking back at Ritsu with a small grin.

"It can be a drag at times, but this thing has been really useful to me now that I know what to do with it these days and have gained full control of it." Nero said as he opened the cast he wore over his right arm and showed his exposed lower Devil Bringer arm to the people in the room. The ethereal claw that was part of the Bringer expanded out from Nero's position and formed itself in front of the Hokago Tea Time, causing Ritsu, Yui and Mio to gasp loudly.

"S-sugoi!" Ritsu jumped out of her seat to come closer to look at it. "It doesn't hurt whenever you use it?"

"Only when I got it at first after awhile, but I gradually got used to it until I was able to get my own Devil Trigger, thanks to this." Nero said as out of the Devil Bringer, a sheathed katana with a white hilt and a yellow thin tied rope was wrapped on the scabbard's base appeared from the claw's bright glow. It was Vergil's Devil Arm, the Yamato. The original owner, who was observing the occurrences in the room in silence, simply scoffed with his arms folded when Nero showed the sword.

"I see you've been taking care of it, as you promised." Vergil said simply, as Nero, Trish and Lady turned to see him in his teacher's suit. They didn't expect the clothing change in the elder Sparda twin, nor that he'd be in the company of several human schoolgirls and their homeroom teacher that this surprised them.

"Vergil, was that you sitting there all along?!" Trish exclaimed. "I swore you look like one of the teachers here!"

"Oh, please, was my appearance really that difficult to tell apart from Dante's, woman?" Vergil said as he stood up, addressing Trish in his casual way. "Much as your appearance of our deceased mother still slightly irritates me, you of all people should have at least detected me the moment you entered this room. You're not as sharp as I thought you'd be."

"Vergil, you're just one step away from us ruining that lovely suit of yours, I thought you two settled your differences the last time you saw each other." Lady said as Vergil fixed his slick back hair.

"Hmph, it's nice to see you as well, human hunter. I take it that you're also here to participate in the hunt as well after getting impatient with Dante?" Vergil said with a nonchalant tone as Lady sighed and replied.

"Well, it's better than sitting around at home while Dante gets the benefits of a foreign job and still owes me." Lady said as meanwhile at the coffee table, Sawako leaned closer to Patty as if to ask her something.

"Those two really don't sit well with your uncle, don't they?" Sawako asked as Patty sighed heavily as she took another sip of the tea Mugi served.

"Trust me, it was much worst months before this, with Trish resembling his dead mother and was once a fellow servant for Dante's greatest enemies, Mundus, so yeah, there must be some ironing out of things between them still." Patty said with a hand over her mouth while she spoke. "And as for Lady, she once thought Vergil was responsible for making her father evil and ended up fighting him, but in truth, was just being used by him along with Dante and Vergil for his plan. There isn't any exactly bad blood between them, but things still get awkward whenever they group up like this sometimes. That's why Vergil went ahead and came over here months ago to clear some space between them."

"Oh, yes, I recall Dante telling me about how that mess happened when he was younger while at that tower." Sawako nodded her head as she eyed Nero. "And the young man, what about him?"

"Vergil's kind of mad that his sword is in his possession now, even though the powers he had while he was under Mundus' control is now Nero's Devil Trigger. You can see he's trying to keep his emotion in check." Patty said as if she was monitoring the events in the room as Vergil glanced at the young female and the homeroom teacher.

"I can hear the both you quite well from here, trying to keep it secret while in my presence won't do any good." Vergil said simply as Patty raised her hands.

"Hey, you should try and unwind some times, uncle Vergil. All that tension you're causing isn't good right now." Patty said as Yui stepped forward next to Vergil with her arms pumping up.

"She's right, Vergil-onii-san! More of your friends have come to help out, why can't you try to be happy about that?" Yui asked as the way she addressed him caught Trish's, Lady's and Nero's attention while he sighed slightly.

"Here we go again…" Vergil said to himself as Trish giggled lightly to his reaction.

"Whoa there, since when Vergil here become someone else's big brother than Dante's?" Nero asked in an almost joking tone as the elder Sparda folded his arms. "I never pegged you as someone who is good with kids, Vergil."

"Oh, he may be new to this sort of thing, but he's getting the hang of it thanks to hanging out with these girls most of the time. You'd be quite surprised at how popular he is already in this school." Dante said as Vergil tried to defend himself verbally.

"You all misunderstand, that's just how she see addresses me as in a mutual form of respect and how she would to her future mentor." Vergil said in his defense as Yui, who once was holding unto Dante before, now shifted gears and held unto him instead, causing him to redden a bit. "Now what, Hirasawa?"

"Remember what I told you before, Vergil-onii-san: No fighting!" Yui said as she gave him a warning look in her eyes that made him shake his head as the newly arrived trio seemed to be getting some fun out of this.

"Mutual form of respect, right…" Lady said simply, getting an idea of what kind of character Yui is, which seemed the most innocent in the room, which could lead up to some interesting developments later.

"So, I was just curious, what do you three think of our playing so far?" Mio asked Trish who in response gave a thumbs up to the group.

"Well, we got a bit of a listen on the way here before you guys finished, I say you're exceptional musicians for your age, color me impressed." Lady said as Patty chimed in after.

"They sure did, you guys really have to listen to their full songs since they are all so catchy and upbeat!" Patty said as well, causing Yui and Azusa to smile at each other.

"I'm glad our performance made you coming here worth it, Patty-chan." Yui replied giving her a peace sign. "You just tell us if you want to hear us sing again, okay?"

"Sure thing. Anytime, Yui." Patty said as Nero got in his input as well about the group of girls he just met.

"From what I heard on the way here, you girls play pretty good, just like a real band should." Nero said with a grin. "Not to mention, you got some pretty great vocals, you're practically naturals at this sort of thing."

"Aww, thanks. We do our absolute best to please our audience." Ritsu said as she jumped in front of Nero, although he was taller than her when they stood at each other and started to observe him and the attire he was wearing. "Mio-chan has the best voice for the band ever since we formed, you have her to thank for that."

"Come on, Ritsu. No need to say all of that, he was just being honest, although we were just giving them a light performance." Mio said as Ritsu shook her head.

"Hey, you've gotten better around playing and singing recently around strangers thanks to Dante-sensei's extra lessons, didn't you?" Ritsu said, causing Mio to look on slightly surprised. "Hey, I noticed how differently you've been being confident these days and it's showing in your playing, in case you didn't notice?"

"Well, I felt like I have gotten more…headstrong…in performing recently…" Mio said as she heard Ritsu's words felt as if they compliment her a bit.

"You know, if Kyrie were here, she'd be glad to give you some tips on how you can improve your singing just a bit." Nero said with a small sigh of regret. "Man, I guess she really should have come along with me and Trish, huh?"

"Ohh, and just who is this Kyrie, huh?" Ritsu asked with a curious smile as she noticed the knight blushed slightly at her a bit at the mention of her name. "It sounds to me that she's someone special to you."

"If only you knew how special, kid. It's a bit of a long story, but we're more practically together than we were ever before, that's all you need to know for now." Nero said with a smile at the tomboy. "Where she is right now, she's pretty much revered because she's a songstress for the church in the city and a very good one at that too, all the townsfolk look up to her as a symbol of hope because of her singing and her good sense of character for those in trouble."

"Oh man, you got to hook us up with her if she's that good! Please say you'll do it!" Ritsu jumped at hearing Nero's testimony of what Kyrie can do. "Mio-chan, you want to hear from a professional as well, right?"

"I guess it's worth a try, but let's not hassle Nero-san about it when he just came from a long trip, okay?" Mio asked sheepishly, as she wondered for a moment just how close Nero and Kyrie are in terms of knowing each other. She already guessed their relationship must lie deeper than she think and almost blushed herself thinking more than she should.

"I'll be sure to hold you both to that, I got to call her and let her know I landed safely later anyway." Nero replied to the tomboy, who looked like she had more questions for him along with Mio.

"Does that mean you're both aren't living close by?" Mio asked first as he shook his head.

"Nah, I actually came by flight across the world from a place called Fortuna, a bit of a throwback country with a lot of 16th century buildings of old Eastern Europe. It would make for a nice tourist spot if the demons weren't all over the damn place." Nero said as he gritted his teeth as Mio pondered about the location Nero mentioned.

"So you came all the way from Eastern Europe, huh? That still sounds like a nice place to be at though, despite the demons living there like you said. Mugi here has been to places like Finland herself in the past, have you ever heard of Fortuna while you were there, Mugi-chan?" Mio asked as the blond pianist shook her head lightly.

"No, this is the first I've heard of it, actually, especially now that I know that demons are also in reside in that part of the world." Mugi replied as Ritsu cut in.

"Okay, so how do you exactly deal with the demons?!" Ritsu asked with an ecstatic look on her face as both Mio and Dante had to take her by the arms and pull her away from Nero. "Oi, what's the big idea, you two?"

"Now, now, I'm sure Nero and my other two partners had a long trip over and are pretty bushed, why not save the long list of questions you have for them for another other time, you overly energetic tomboy?" Dante said as Ritsu pouted at him, but soon understood his statement.

"Fine, I'll leave them alone for now. But he still has to let us talk to this Kryie-san soon so we can hear her voice he speaks so highly of." Ritsu mellowed as Mio sighed at her friend.

"Really, Ritsu, you need to calm yourself every time the subject about demons and how our teacher fights comes up." Mio mused as she bowed to Nero. "She's always like that, Nero-san, she's gets more and more excited whenever that sort of thing comes up."

"I don't really mind, it already tells me what kind of person your friend is. Not everyone is that optimistic when dealing with the demons like Dante here unless it's a good fight he's getting." Nero said as Dante shrugged his shoulders.

"When you've fought as long as I have, kid, naturally you're going to seek out bigger and better game to test yourself. Sooner or later, it's going to happen to you, so you best better be ready for it." Dante said simply as he turned to the side to introduce him, Lady and Trish to Sawako. "Anyway, lastly, this is the other only guitarist alive with just as mad skills as I do, the homeroom teacher for Yui, Mio, Mugi and Ritsu and the advisor for the club, Sawako Yamanaka."

"Greetings, Trish-san, Lady-san, and Nero-san and welcome to Japan and to Sakura High school." Sawako bowed to the trio who greeted her back with a return bow. "Dante's told me of all of your exploits as well, I take it that you're capable of handling the demons as efficient as your partner?"

"Well, we wouldn't be here to help him out in case things get hairy, but sure, we're more than capable and then some." Trish replied with a confident grin as Lady stepped forward to speak.

"You know, it takes a special someone who is able to meet the quirks Dante has to be a special friend enough to trust him with his secrets, 'Death Devil'. I only heard your name in the past, but to think that the famed guitarist and singer is this group's own homeroom teacher…you certainly surprised me now that you're connected in hiring us for help." Lady said with her arms folded. "In any case, I do hope you trust him enough to leave the safety of your students as well as the entire city to us for your sake, Sawako. This may no longer be a simple hunting job anymore."

"Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about that, I trust him entirely at this point." Sawako said with a small wink. "I just told the girls that despite his character, he'd been rather helpful in making the band perform better these days, imagine what can happen when things get serious and he starts instructing them how to handle themselves whenever demons could show up."

"And the best part, she doesn't have to pay much for the job while I hang out in this side of Japan with a bunch of cute girls, so that's pretty much a sweet deal right there." Dante said as Lady turned to his direction.

"Ah ha! I knew there was going to be a catch to this job just because she's an old friend of yours!" Lady shouted. "You're really cheap, you know that, Dante?"

"If it were up to me, handling Sawako as a partner would be far better than having you girls scrape almost every penny I get for all my jobs. Plus, she won't complain about all the pizza I can eat, unlike a certain someone in the room." Dante said with a shrug as Trish scoffed.

"Really, Dante, I told you about changing your diet because too much of those isn't good, even if you're the Legendary Son of Sparda." Trish said in a bit of a warning tone as Dante simply reached for another remaining slice of pizza that was in the box he brought and bit it in front of her.

"No matter how hard you try, you know you can't change my tune, even you indulge in a slice or two sometimes." Dante said simply as Yui giggled to seeing the interaction of the gathered Devil May Cry team.

"Heh-heh, do you guys always talk to each other like this back at your home?" Yui asked as Dante nodded at her as he chewed.

"Something like that, kid. It's been more like the norm since these three are a bit like family too to me." Dante said with a grin as Lady and Trish smiled at Dante's comment, while Azusa, still wearing the cat ears, did the same.

"That must be really nice, Dante-sensei, for you to think of them like that." Azusa said, nodding her head as she went over to the table where there was still tea and cake left. "Oh, we still have some refreshments from tea time left, would your friends like some, since they had a long trip and probably need the break."

"Hey, you three have to taste the ojou-sama's tea today, I'm sure you'll feel relaxed once you had it." Dante said as he let Lady, Trish and Nero sat down on the couch as Mugi and Azusa served them already filled teacups and cake.

"Well, why not? We can at least show our thanks for the hospitality you young ladies are showing for us so far, we'll take your invitation to your little tea party." Trish said jokingly as she took her tea from Mugi and took a sip. "Hmm, I regularly don't drink tea often, but this is quite delicious."

"I agree, this has quite the flavor." Lady agreed as at the side, Nero was enjoying himself on the slice of cake he was served by Yui earlier.

"In the meantime, how about hitting up that encore performance for them? Remember you girls are still basically in club practice." Dante asked Azusa as she nodded to her group who was ready to play another song as part of their practice routine once more for the new arrivals.

"I never figured you'd be spending most of the job's time just lazing away here and having tea with a group of Japanese schoolgirls, Dante. This better be worth all the trouble we've gone through to join you." Lady said.

"Oh, you guys will enjoy it, or else I will have Azusa do that thing she did earlier to me and show you her true power. Even if you're hot shot hunters, not one of you is ready for what she's got." Dante said with a grin as he winked at Azusa. "Am I right, kitten?"

Azusa only gave a silent yet bright smile since she can't help but recall the moment they had before that actually surprised Dante and she was feeling proud for that. Yui gave the twin tailed girl a pat on her shoulder to let her know she was ready and the band started playing the song, 'Our Magic'.

The new arrivals got a good show from how the girls played and sang for them, with their energetic and unique lyrics and each member skillfully using their instrument in synch. Nero, Lady and Trish couldn't help but be even more impressed with their talent as they thought were simply good before when they first arrived. They saw that Dante wasn't just fooling around with his time spent here as they saw the results of him influencing their talents.

As the tired group of schoolgirls managed to sing to the end of the song with much vigor to satisfy their new friends' tastes, they then heard some applauding from the trio and Patty who liked what they saw and heard.

"Alright, you girls! That was awesome as always!" Patty cheered on as Vergil managed to feel as if he enjoyed the performance by now.

"Heh, thanks, Patty-chan!" Yui said as she breathed heavily to her foreign friend then turned to Vergil. "Did you enjoy my playing as well, Vergil-onii-san?"

"It was quite substantial, at best, Hirasawa." Vergil said simply as he hid his stoic expression by sipping on the teacup he had as Dante and Nero both sighed simultaneously at the eldest Sparda.

"Come on, man. I just heard about these girls before I came over and already I think they're amazing." Nero inputted as he backed up Yui. "Hey, don't worry about how Vergil expresses himself, I can tell he liked how you play."

"Heh, thanks, Nero-san. But it's okay, I think I've gotten used to Vergil-onii-san's expressions, but that's also a good part of him I admire as well." Yui bowed to him as Trish replied.

"Well, today has been full of surprises. Not only did we get an entertaining rock welcome from a group of Japanese schoolgirls, but one of them has a great respect for the most unlikely person in the room." Trish said as Dante smirked.

"I told you, Yui's got that charm that will make it hard for you to say no to her." Dante said as Vergil scoffed silently. "In any case, I'm sure the girls are bushed from all the club activities and stuff that happened today, we should wrap things up for now."

"That's right, it's almost getting late." Sawako said as she looked at the trio that just arrived. "What will the three of you do in the meantime?"

"We already got ourselves a reservation at a decent hotel, not far from here, so we'll be heading there right after to drop our luggage and probably hit the town." Trish said. "I heard Tokyo's got quite the night life."

"Oh, you bet. I'm sure you'll enjoy yourselves here." Sawako said with a grin as Ritsu walked over to Nero once more and pointed at him with one of her drumsticks.

"Hey, don't forget about mentioning us whenever you get your chance to talk to your girlfriend later, okay?" Ritsu asked as Nero couldn't help but blush a bit at Ritsu's words as her childhood friend Mio had to scold the tomboy with a bop on her head. "Ouch! What was that for?"

"You didn't have to say it in a way to make the guy feel uncomfortable, Ritsu!" Mio said in a stern tone as Nero let out a small laugh.

"You're a pushy girl. But I won't forget, don't worry." Nero replied with a nod. "I'll let you know what she has to offer next time I get to see you guys, deal?"

"Deal!" Ritsu nodded back at the knight despite the growing bump on top of her head. "Hey, he seems alright with it, Mio, so there's no harm done."

"Geez, what am I going to do with you?" Mio rolled her eyes as the classroom filled of schoolgirls and demon hunters who were watching the tomboy's antics couldn't help but laugh a bit while Vergil gave a silent, yet amused look. Azusa at the side looked on at Dante who went over to scold Ritsu a bit for her crazy antics and smiled to herself as she thought that Dante once again had brought new life into the club and memories of it for her to remember and cherish thanks to the new friends she met through him and Vergil.

(So, this is what he was referring to yesterday.) The twin tailed girl thought solemnly. (Alright, my mind is made up…I will become stronger, not just for the club, but for everyone else too. I won't let you down, Yui-senpai and Dante-sensei.)

"Hey, kitten, why the serious face?" Dante called out to the youngster as she broke her thought. "Come on, everyone's packing up to head out, you're coming too, right?"

"H….hai! I'm coming, sensei!" Azusa caught herself as she hurriedly followed the other members in packing up their respective equipments as they conclude club activities for the day.


Fifteen minutes later, as the club members prepared to leave for their homes, but since it was the beginning of the weekend, they get to stay out a bit longer so they decided to hang around with Dante, Vergil and Patty on the way home yet again. Lady had booked some hotel rooms for herself, Trish and Nero while they will stay in Japan, so Morrison had the task of taking them to their hotel after they had their meetings with the Hokago Tea Time and a promise from Nero that he will let Mio and Ritsu talk to Kyrie soon the next time they meet. Sawako had the free evening as well and was able to tag along with the group to accompany them on the way back to Dante's apartment out of curiosity of what it looked like.

"Today was sooo much fun! We made some new friends and had lots of cake, he-he." Yui said with her arms outstretched. "Dante-sensei, you have some really nice partners to work with."

"As long as I stay on their good side, but yeah, I knew you girls will get along with them." Dante said in return with a grin as he realized something. "So, remind me why did you girls decide to hop along on my way home today yet again?"

"Well…it's because the demons are out looking for us like you said, aren't they?" Mio asked, being a bit nervous. "We may still be holding onto the Holy Waters you gave us, but just to be safe…we'd rather stick with your for the time being since you and Vergil-san knows how to handle any of them if they were to attack again."

"Okay, I get you, but you don't need to be too worried all the time if we're not around to watch your backs. Or you could be tagging along just for a different reason?" Dante asked as he heard Ritsu's voice.

"Come on, isn't it obvious, Dante-sensei?" Ritsu asked out loud from the side. "I want to hear more of those cool stories from yesterday! I know I can wait for Nero to introduce us to this Kyrie-san he's so fond of, but you still owe us a lot of explaining about the demons still and how we can fight! Also, I know you have some stories to share with from when you were in that other Earth that had those superheroes! Did you have to fight some of them or team up with them? And how many of them did you get to meet?!"

"I like your eagerness, kid, but don't burn yourself out just getting hyped about my skills and adventures." Dante said with a smirk. "Trust me, my stuff is in a totally different league than you girls can handle. Fortunately for you, I got some runarounds for that situation and hopefully they should be already here in the country by now."

"They? Does that mean Dante-sensei's has some more people other that can help us that we don't know about?" Azusa, still wearing the cat ears accessory from before, asked with a curious look in her eyes as Sawako fixed her coat as she walked alongside with Vergil and Patty.

"I do hope you don't mind me coming along, since I'm as concerned about my students just as Dante is. I personally like to see what his plans involve to begin with." Sawako spoke as Vergil shook his head slightly.

"You needn't worry about that, Sawako, since we're now basically after the common goal of overseeing these girls' safety in the coming future, as well as the home they reside in." Vergil replied simply. "Dante has taken great care in making sure the training the girls will soon partake of will suit their current abilities as humans since the ability to take down demons greatly relies on the strength and ability of the individual."

"I hope you're right, Vergil-san." Sawako said as the group can see the complex where Dante's apartment building was in the distance. "Oh, is that it, Dante? It looks like something you could afford considering your occupation."

"Well, it's nothing like the hotel Trish and the others got, but it has to do while I'm here." Dante said casually as he stopped his tracks as his eyes lowered, causing the group to look at him. Mugi was the first to speak in the sudden silence.

"Is something the matter, Dante-sensei?" The blond Japanese asked as Dante sighed and looked at Vergil.

"Hey, Vergil, you sense that?" Dante asked simply as the elder Sparda returned with a nod.

"Indeed, I do, Dante. It appears our current abode has uninvited guests." Vergil said simply as he reached for the Masamune katana. "I've counted…4 of them inside. Well, 4 women, to be more accurate."

"Ohh, could it be an ambush from the demons in disguise or is Dante-san having guests we shouldn't know about?!" Ritsu asked with an excited tone as Mio gave her friend a bump on her head, which made Patty chuckle at her antic.

"Ritsu, what did I tell you about getting excited for seeing a fight?" Mio asked in an annoyed tone as Dante chuckled a bit.

"If that's what inside, then I already have an idea who our guests are, it seems some of that help I asked for already got here." Dante said as he turned to the group. "It's okay, everyone, I don't think I would have to be wasting any bullets in my apartment today."

"You mean, you know who's inside right now, Dante-sensei?" Azusa asked being a bit fearful of whom she was going to encounter as Patty placed a hand on her friend's shoulder.

"I don't think there's any reason to be worried since Dante seems to have an idea of whose inside already. Come on, Azusa." Patty said as she took the twin tailed girl's hand and pulled her as the group looked on as they went ahead.

"You sure this is okay, Dante?" Sawako asked him as he nodded at her.

"Trust me, there's someone in there I know almost too well, I can smell that broad from here so I'm familiar with her scent. She's friendly for the most part, but don't blame me if she tries something funny with the girls." Dante said as he looked at Vergil. "Besides, I do hope by now you two had settled things in a business fashion for the most part the last time you two were together, Vergil."

"That depends on how she has delivered the items I requested from before." Vergil said simply. "In any case, I'm not too eager to see her again knowing her personality."

"I get you, that Morrigan has no bounds when it comes to having fun." Dante replied as Yui looked on curiously at her elder advisors as Dante noticed her look. "You kids have nothing to worry about for the time being, you'll see for yourselves what kind of people I have to come across with in my line of work very soon."

"Hmm, if you say so, Dante-sensei, I'll trust you." Yui replied as Azusa followed suit and nodded her head.

"I'll go along with Yui-senpai and believe her too, I'm sure whoever is in Dante-sensei's apartment are good people." Azusa said as Dante smiled at the young guitarists.

"Oh, trust me, you girls will have one hell of a time with them." Dante said simply which caused Mio to worry a bit as they proceeded to walk upstairs to where Dante's apartment was and had gathered in front of the door. The demon hunter simply took the door handle and turned it since it was already unlocked and opened it widely, as he and Vergil stepped in what looked like an almost different apartment due to the amount of people occupying it and the activities going on.

"Well, I can see my so called guests have made themselves home without having me to tell them? I didn't think you were bold like that, Morrigan." Dante noted as the first person to greet him was Morrigan, as she was already dressed back in her bewitching succubus attire of a one black one piece bikini like outfit that hugged her noticeable bust and slender frame with purple stockings with bat indents decorating her legs, a pair of bat wings poked out on both sides of her head area and notably behind her back as well.

"Ah, Dante, welcome back, how I missed your snarky remarks as well." Morrigan got up with a smile as she noticed the elder Sparda and walked up to him, tracing her index finger on his chin. "And Vergil…you're the one I missed the most as well, I do hope we can catch up on some business from the last time."

"I do assume you came for such affairs like you said, Aensland." Vergil said, as he turned slightly to show the Hokago Tea Time looking at Morrigan with their mouths open as they stared on at Morrigan's appearance. "That is because with our guests here tonight, we won't be able to transact our affairs as planned."

"Oh, are these the lovely children you had assigned yourselves to guarding during your stay here?" Morrigan asked as she leaned closer to Yui and Azusa. "My, you all look like such innocent girls, it'd be a waste to let you in on what your teacher does to get his hands dirty."

"Wh….who is that, Dante-san!?" Yui asked as she pointed at Morrigan when they heard another person come out from in the other room, as the Felicia, wearing nothing but a chef's apron stepped into the room, holding unto a pot with her large paws. "Ah, a large cat-lady person is in the room too!"

"Dante-sensei…why do you have a N…N…NAKED cat woman in your apartment!?" Mio exclaimed holding unto her, trying to block out her eyes as Felicia hurriedly put the pot down and huffed a bit as she addressed herself.

"Hmm, I thought my appearance would be a regular thing on this side of the world, I guess not." Felicia replied as she noticed Dante sighing at her. "Oh, hi, Dante and Vergil, nice having you back, and welcome, we just fixed things up here for tonight's guests, nyaah!" Felicia said which caused Azusa to notice how much she acted like a cat that made her giggle a bit.

"Hey, Felicia, I don't mind the naked chick welcome, but we got children here tonight, try to keep things decent around for the time being. Mio-chan here seems to freak out a lot whenever things that are too mature for her comes her way." Dante said simply as gave one of the catwoman's paws a high five greeting. "Anyway, good to see you're still as hyper as ever, I reckon it hasn't been that long since we saw each other. Not to mention, handling the dinner as I'm probably starving by now."

"After all that pizza earlier, you're still hungry?" Patty asked as Dante shrugged his shoulders.

"You know me by now, kid. But aside from that, we have to alleviate the fears our soon to be disciples here when meeting our friends here." Dante said as he let Morrigan and Felicia stand side by side as he introduced them. "These two are few of the NightStalkers I told you about, the one you met before is Morrigan and the perky one in her cat form is Felicia. Naturally, their monster types are succubus and catwoman, but you can relax, I worked with them in the past and they're pretty cool in my book. If there are any wild demons from their realm I should know about that stepped into our territory, they can provide me with the intel and sometimes, assistance to take them out. Just don't let Morrigan's whims get to you, although I wouldn't worry since you all are girls, her powers work best on men in their sleep."

"But aren't you and Vergil-san men like you said?" Mugi said as Dante chuckled to her comment.

"True, I do admit she got to us the first time, but I got used to her antics. She's basically one huge tease when you know her better." Dante said simply as Morrigan pouted at him.

"Well, Son of Sparda, you certainly don't hold back when you give credit, don't you?" Morrigan asked as she shook her head before eyeing the Hokago Tea Time once more. "However, I've been known to, as the humans say sometimes, swing both ways as well."

"I don't believe what I'm hearing…do you have any kind of decency?! Do you know what kind of things you're saying around children in your presence?" Mio asked sternly at the succubus as Morrigan giggled as she observed Mio's frame.

"My, aren't you well proportioned in the right places, yes, I can see you have quite an exquisite body for a teenager." Morrigan leaned closer to Mio. "How about being my plaything for one night? I can dress you up in my younger sister's favorite clothes and we'll have all sorts of fun, my dear. I promise I'll be gentle."

"Ritsu, Sawa-sensei, help me! I'm being hit on by a monster!" Mio cried out as Ritsu nervously laughed at the scene going on as she blushed and said something unexpected.

"Actually, I don't mind seeing you dress up for a bit and doing…things you won't like, but only if I get to join in." Ritsu said as Mio stepped back in shock and cried a bit as Sawako and Dante let out a laugh together.

"I also don't mind, dear, you're free to tease Mio-chan all you want as well." Sawako said as if to further torment Mio as she saw Morrigan smiled at Mio with a sly grin.

"Well, if your friends say it's okay then, I won't be holding back." Morrigan said before Dante cut in time.

"Well, if I knew that was the kind of party you're planning, I'd rent a private room for the three of you exclusively." Dante said as he pulled Mio and Ritsu to his position. "But these kids are still too young and innocent for the likes of you, Morrigan, so stop teasing them just for the hell of it. Just be nice to them for tonight only, okay?"

"At least you know the extent of my powers by now. Didn't you almost felt charmed by my appearance, Mio Akiyama?" Morrigan asked as Mio widened her eyes as she realized that she did felt like she was under the succubus's control for a while. "One of my abilities is drawing out your innate desires, and I can do it without you noticing since you're a human."

"We'd better be careful around her, Mio-chan! She sounds like she's serious about getting you in trouble." Yui said as Vergil was already standing near Morrigan with a cold stare.

"You'll do no such thing here, woman. We are gathered here for business matters, this isn't the time to fool around." Vergil said seriously as he Morrigan pouted at him. "I reckon you have the item I requested?"

Morrigan let out a sigh as she nodded to the elder Sparda and replied.

"Aw, you're no fun as always, but that's what I like about when it comes to teasing you sons of Sparda. But we need to talk privately regarding that matter, Vergil, since you'll need to hear some specific instructions I got from our other demon hunting accomplices that may help you and your team in your current mission, specifically from Alisa herself and her friends." Morrigan said as Dante noticed a familiar name.

(Huh, so the God Eater team must be around in Japan, huh?) Dante thought to himself as the Hokago Tea Time looked on at the devil hunter. (It will be sweet if we ran into either her, Soma and Lindow like the last time I worked with them…)

"Alright then, Morrigan." Vergil said as he turned to Dante and the group. "If you excuse us, everyone, we will be leaving for a bit to attend to some private business discussions."

"Ohhh, you're off to stir up some steamy scenes by yourselves, huh?" Ritsu asked as that earned a glare from Vergil that made her hide behind Dante. "Hey, take it easy! It's just a joke, just a joke!"

"Hmph, I'm afraid you're still too young to handle learning about how adults deal with private affairs, Tainaka." Vergil gave the tomboy a soft warning as he gently tapped her wide forehead with his index finger. "I wouldn't want a girl like you ruin her own conscience if you found out how I deal with women like Morrigan."

"Okay, now you only made me more curious about yourself when you say it like that!" Ritsu replied as Dante gave the tomboy a bop on her head.

"Oh, just leave Vergil alone and let him do his grown up thing, you girls have been with him all evening." Dante said as he urged Vergil and Morrigan to leave. "You two go on and have your fun, but don't do anything that will get you in trouble, unless you run into any demons that is."

"Yes, yes, we know. We'll try to refrain ourselves, the night is quite young." Morrigan said as she winked at the Hokago Tea Time. "I do hope we'll see each other again soon, girls, especially you, Mio dear."

Mio gave a simple shudder as she knows she got another new person to look out for, especially in her sleep later if what Morrigan said before was true.

"Take care, Vergil-onii-san!" Yui waved to Vergil as he and Morrigan left the apartment while Patty leaned in near Azusa.

"I wouldn't worry about her doing anything you wouldn't like, she may be like that with everybody, but she and Felicia are on our side, really. Besides, Morrigan pretty much was around with Dante when Vergil came back to the world of the living, so in a way, they all go a ways back." Patty said which caused the twin tailed girl to react nervously with a return grin.

"Oh, really? Well, that's a relief, I guess?" she said as the noticed Felicia leaning closer to her and noticed the cat ear accessories on her. "W…what is it?"

"I don't know, there's something about you that draws me to you since I'm a cat. Are you a cat lover by chance?" Felicia asked as Azusa nervously replied with a nod, which Felicia to smile broadly at the youngster and suddenly hugged her. "Yay! Now I know I'll be in good company with you, little one!"

"Ah, thanks, I think." Azusa simply said as the others looked on at her and couldn't help but smile at Felicia's overly friendly nature. "You're a weird person, very nice, but weird, Felicia-san."

"Well, call her all you want, kitten, but for your information, Felicia here is a world famous entertainer known from her world and the alternate one, so yeah, she's super popular." Dante said simply which caused the Hokago Tea Time to stare at him and the catwoman wide-eyed.

"You're kidding, Dante-sensei?!" Ritsu exclaimed as Felicia shook her head.

"No, he's not, I've been almost everywhere when it comes to singing and dancing related, my name is really well known all over, I'm surprised you guys never heard of me." Felicia said in response.

"That's probably because until today, we've never met an actual entertainer with a status like yours, Felicia-san." Yui said as she and Ritsu walked up to her and held her paws as if they were asking a request.

"Please, teach us how to be as good as you, Felicia-san!" Yui and Ritsu begged as the catwoman chuckled at the two girls.

"Well, if your teacher is alright with me giving some tips, aren't you, Dante?" Felicia asked as Dante shrugged his shoulders as the two girls cheered between each other.

"I don't see any problem, that's part of the reason you're here anyway, imparting what you know about the entertainment industry to these growing stars." Dante replied as the third DarkStalker woman, Hsien-ko, stepped into the room, causing the Hokago Tea Time to gasp at her appearance.

"Oh, hello there, everyone. And to you once again, Dante-san and Vergil-san, good to see you're doing well." Hsien-ko said as Dante nodded at her. "It seems Felicia has taken a liking to Yui and Azusa, that didn't take her long to get along with people who likes to have fun." Hsien-Ko said with a shrug as Dante chuckled at their interaction. "I take it that these are the children under your care for the time you're staying here?"

"Oh, she's pretty and nice for a blue-skinned person." Yui said simply as Mugi spoke to her from the side.

"I don't really think that's supposed to be a normal reaction, Yui!" Mio exclaimed to the ditzy guitarist as Dante replied.

"They sure are, a loud bunch, but they are fun to hang with." Dante nodded to the Chinese vampire. "By the way, I saw your partner, Frank a couple days ago, he seems to be doing fine for the time being."

"I offered him a hand for a job the last time we're together, but he's been busy with all that's been happening in the alternate Earth lately." Hsien-ko said. "But that's not why you called us here to talk about, isn't it, Dante?"

"Yeah, I was wondering if you and your fellow female friends of the creatures of the night can give a tutorial or two to these girls to prepare them for what's to come." Dante said simply. "Not to mention while hanging for a bit to assess the situation of the powerful demon that's supposed to be in dormancy here."

"Well, if this involves a demon we haven't encountered while we were in the Makai territory, we can certainly help. I'm just hoping you're not going to face something that is on Jedah's level." Hsien-ko said as Dante scratched his head.

"Actually, from what we read about him so far, he's probably on a level that could match Mundus." Dante replied as Hsien-ko sighed. "So, you're still up to it?"

"You know I can't say no to a hunt like that, Mei and I will accept the terms tied to the hunt then." Hsien-ko said as Felicia, who was busy getting acquainted with Azusa and Yui, heard everything and cut in.

"Hey, don't count me out, you guys! I've been on the road for weeks and my dancing troupe needs a break, so can we set up shop here and help you guys out in the mean time, right?" Felicia said as Yui couldn't help but ask the catwoman about what she just said.

"Wait, did you just say you had your own dancing troupe, is that true, Felicia-san?" Yui asked as the catwoman nodded.

"That's right, and they are all catgirls just like me, in case you're wondering." Felicia replied as Yui jumped at her in surprise.

"Oh, please, pretty please! You have to let me meet them soon, I bet they are all cute!" Yui said as that seemed to be the only thing that mattered, with her liking cute things and all.

"Oh, they really are, Yui. You'll get your chance to meet them soon, but first, settle down. You and your friends have a lot of things to know about when it comes to protecting yourselves from demons and fighting them and you'll get nothing but the best advice us DarkStalkers can provide." Felicia said as the Hokago Tea Time took their seats in the room to listen to the charming catwoman's instructions…


Shardclaw: So how was this chapter, pretty much worth the wait in terms of the remainder of the Devil May Cry team gathering and guest characters now showing up to give Dante and company a hand in the future, as well as the new developments of Patty and Vergil being part of the daily activities at Sakuragoaka which will ensure some entertaining situations to come. I know most of you are eager to see more combat action as well, and I will assure you it will come your way as the story gets into motion now that the Hokago Tea Time will be more involved in Dante's world than before pretty soon. I set this chapter up as a more character introduction and development one than rather an action filled one, so I hope it was just as enjoyable.

I pretty much already hinted part of the Avengers, DarkStalkers, God Eater and Project x Zone characters to join up in the story later from this chapter as well. Although I do have a couple more guest appearances to show up later, I'm seriously considering having a popular anti-hero who recently made a successful recent box office smash to appear in this story, you all must know what I'm referring to…I'm talking about the one and only Merc with the Mouth, DeadPool. If you think about it, he and Dante have been considered rivals and sometimes bosom buddies since MvC3, and the debate to which one can outdo the other since they are both immortal has even gone to 'Death Battle' style matches you can find on the internet and YouTube these days. Tell me what do you think and I'll do what I can to arrange an appearance of him as well since this story is technically part of the Marvel universe involved as well.

Anyway, time to start working on the next chapter already as Dante starts training the Hokago Tea Time the ways of devil hunting, the Tainaka siblings get a surprise visit from two of their admired heroes, Vergil's coping with his human companions and inner troubles, and the demons grow impatient as they learn of which the recent arrivals including another group of hunters. I'm sure you'll be seeing some action which I bet you're eager to look forward to, see you in the next update.

ShardclawKusanagi.