Chapter 11: Messy Things
The following night that makes Dante's sleeping, well somehow disturbed. One is the last message from Yukari's father regarding the Shadow incident and two: Yukari, who is wash up on that moment, went out of the house and Minato is there comforting her.
Of these two things happen in one night, he wouldn't feel bad to her since he has a complete wreck in his childhood time. His dad long and gone and he see him in his childhood age, but his mother is different story since she was killed by the demons during his childhood days after his dad's mysterious leave.
Dante turns around hoping to get some comfortable position in his sleeping. Then again, he's reminding himself one thing.
I'm not alone when it comes to broken family. As he thoughts it, he soon falls asleep.
The Next Day
The boy's team is at the shore while the girl's team is at the forest perhaps and not to mention in the girl's team, the air is pretty heavy with silence between Yukari and Mitsuru. Fuuka tries to lighten up the mood and their case that Shuji informs them a weapon went loose and tells them to find it.
Junpei in the all-boys' team suggests they can go flirting with girls. With Dante in tow with them, Akihiko can chuckle that Dante can get the girls because of his looks and Minato bets on it. Dante on the other hand doesn't mind about this until now and then he tells Junpei this.
"Fair warning Junpei, I'm bad with girls. It's not Akihiko who's being a-dork-able, but me dealing the girls? You should have seen me handling Mitsuru. Different subject man," Junpei laughs it off.
"Aw come on Dante! You've got the looks that will make all the girls fall for you." Junpei presses it and Dante smirks.
"Heh, I bet I'll get their attention first before you say the words 'Hello there ladies.'" Dante replies with his cocky personality.
Okay, let the games begin.
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The results:
Junpei fails at making introductions. Akihiko tries to sound smart while Minato is in the dark. Dante on the other hand is just an eye-catcher to most girls.
The first girls are from college. They turn them down for seeing them only high-school students. The girls however say that they make an 'exception' to Dante since they haven't seen a 'foreigner with white hair' in their life. Dante in the other hand had this opportunity to pick them up, but rather turn them down saying he's been taken by someone else.
The second lady is what scares the four boys except Dante who sees it coming, but didn't bother to tell them about it. That lady has some distinctions that she is old. She's that old that gives the four boys running away quickly.
The third lady is smart to understand their flaws about women. She soon gives a remark about their skills dealing with women starting with Junpei who has flaw pretty predictable then there's Akihiko whose flaw is his smartness that could make him a smart-ass and there's Minato who is left unsure since she notices him pretty different. Dante on the other hand didn't seem unfazed about it and the lady since she notices his ignorant attitude.
Okay, their mission is a failure. Junpei and Akihiko are arguing whose fault is the reason of their failure. Before they can raise a voice, Junpei catches a different girl.
A girl who has short blonde hair and wears a blue dress stands alone on the bridge looking either the sky or the ocean. Junpei calls this the real deal. To settle the order they play the rock paper scissors and Dante in the other hand is consider as a 'special weapon' for them in case the three (Junpei, Akihiko and Minato) fails. They all hide in a rock and Junpei walks out. Sadly he is shot down no less than a second. Akihiko goes down and begins to talk with the girl about exercise. Sadly, the girl answers him with different thing. Akihiko still smirks stating he stays longer than him.
Minato is the last frontline person. Dante gives him thumbs up to do it well. As Minato walks down and talks to the girl on the bridge, the girl soon run. Minato, in state of dumbfound or something else is being yelled by Junpei to apologize her and they all run to one spot.
Meeting somewhere, Minato is in the spot and getting caught by a hug from the girl he is trying to apologize can be something else. Dante runs up and sees him. He soon whistles his position.
"Lucky move Minato." He claps his hands. Minato tries to say something until the girls comes into the picture and at the awkward time too. The girl is hugging him and he still couldn't utter any words. By those things went out well.
Shuji introduces the 'weapon', Aigis, which went out of her container. To make a definite idea about Aigis, she is an anti-Shadow weapon created to deal all cases with Shadow and to top it off, she has her own built-in Persona.
After some brief talking about Aigis, Dante mentions something about her.
"Hey pops, can you check her insides or something? She's acting up whenever I'm around like I'm a Shadow or something."
"Ah, I see then we'll need some recalibration on her. It'll take some time and for the meantime Aigis, why don't you just let it slide for now? Dante's a good guy here." Aigis nods robotically from the command from Shuji.
All the water fun they have in the beach, save the fact Junpei is getting overwhelmed by two things: One is Aigis' definition of water cannon (or gun) taken to literal sense she's pulling it and two, he's being overpowered by the other SEES group including Dante in the group.
The entire fun lasts long in the beach. That was the last remainder of their vacation in Yakushima and they'll be back to the school with exam results.
And for Dante, he neither cares about the school nor exams but rather facing his brother for another time.
Break Time:
Apparently Aigis isn't giving a second thought about not trusting Dante because he has a different reading. Likewise, she's a stalker on Minato and an over-protective guardian to him. Minato has to tell Aigis to stand down because she is acting crazy whenever Dante is around in Minato's proximity. Dante can only say "There can be a loose bolt of nuts or whatever that is on her head and she needs a heavy maintenance, badly."
