Author's Notes

(Edit Warning) So I took out the Rias/Akeno Lemon, just so you know in case it feel weird that isn't discussed in this chapter. Becuase it hasn't happened yet.

Dante slowly opened his eyes to the dimmed light that tried to peek its way through the curtain of his banister bed. He honestly thought Rias had gone a little overboard with the bed but looking up and seeing himself and seeing six women sprawled out made him think she was thinking long-term. It was great to be sleeping in his own bed with the women he loved, but he knew that if the growth rate remained steady then he was going need to ramp up his training if he was going to head off a problem he saw on the horizon.

He looked down and saw Akeno sleeping on his chest while Rias was next to him, her head resting on his shoulder like a pillow. Koneko was laying on his stomach, Dante chuckled a bit seeing her face buried in the bedding. Then he had to fight down the reaction to seeing Yubelluna holding onto his arm while Li and Ni both slept on his future Queen's ample chest. He was actually a little jealous of them.

"Why am I always the pillow?" Dante frowned but quickly rolled his eyes dismissing the non-issue. He was just happy that Yubelluna had joined them in bed, it was a big step forward for her. Dante then looked toward the open windows noting that the maids were still active and doing their jobs. He would be telling them that they would be traded soon enough, that should make them happy, it felt like a sad victory knowing that it would be the one time he could make them feel such emotion. "It's not normal for me to be the first one up… might make breakfast for everyone." With minimal effort he swapped places with one his Ice Clones, who rather pleased with himself for taking on the burden of being snuggled by some of most beautiful women Dante had ever seen.

Dante made his way out of his room and down the hall toward the living room, as he passed by he suddenly stopped and looked at the walls. His time back in his family home had given him a short reminder that even if he hated the place it still was his family home. When compared to his home here in Japan it had a warmth to it that this place lacked, mainly in that it all still felt too new. The only pictures on the walls were either stock photos or artwork that Rias' family picked out. It all looked nice but at the end of the day it didn't feel like home.

"I completely agree you know." Dante didn't even react to the feeling of Akeno lazily draping her arms around his neck and rest her head between his neck and shoulders. "But don't worry, soon enough we'll make it all ours." She had seen the pensive look that Dante had been giving the hallway and she had felt much the same when she looked at herself.

"No… as much as I appreciate what Rias' family did making this place but it's not the place I want to start a family." He said as he reached up and took his first Life-Mate's hand in his own. He could feel the warm smile that spread across her still sleepy features at the mention of their future family. It was something he was well aware of that she wanted above all else. "I was actually thinking…"

"That we do so in New York? In you're father's place?" She too tried to really put in the surprise and near rejection of the idea into her words.

"He bought out the neighbors and expanded the place greatly but that building has been in the Alighieri family for five generations. It's not solely my father's place." Akeno did calm down a bit hearing that, but she was still a little apprehensive about living in a place that had such a bad history for her love. "It's where Eloisa lived… and died. But letting the place die because of my father feel just like another win for him." There was a small silent moment between the two before Akeno gave a sudden yelp as Dante turned around and picked her up bridal style. "But enough about that, I'm back and it's a summer of love." He said before leaning down and giving Akeno a passionate kiss which she happily returned.

"Agreed, and as much as morning sex normally sounds delightful… coffee and breakfast sounds even better right about now." She sighed as they parted and Dante nodded in agreement. He however did not let her down and carried her the whole way to the living room.

"Boo! Commercials!" The sound of a beer bottle being thrown followed the yell of anger and then the smashing of said bottle on wall came after. Dante and Akeno both looked stunned at sight of a angry black man laying back on their couch throwing beer bottles surrounded by a nest of junk food and alcohol.

"Kriminel! How'd you get in here?" Dante demanded as he let Akeno get to her feet. The Rook took notice that Kriminel was in a new prison jumpsuit from the last one he saw him in. This one however was the classic orange and the top portion was currently tired up around his waist while the rest sagged over his lean lower half, no shoes as normal and only a dirty white tank top covered his body.

"Boy ya gotta ask dat?" Kriminel asked before stuffing his face full of Cheetos. Dante sighed as he remembered that Kriminel was a Loa of Death but also was the patron of criminals and so he could break into places no matter how tightly locked up they were. He was like a shady Radegast in that way. Kriminel then took a moment to look over to Dante and his eyes then stuck to Akeno… or more specifically her chest. "Damn… ya's woman got damn fine pair on her." Kriminel hooted in appreciation and was not in the slightest bothered by both Dante and Akeno glaring at him for his comment.

"Kriminel what are you doing here?" Dante said as he stepped between the Loa and his Life-Mate blocking the latter's view of her. She had, to her grateful foresight, worn a morning robe over her body but she still didn't like to have other men ogling her. The only man that was allowed to enjoy her body was the man she loved.

"It finally happened." That was all it took for Dante's mood to take a total one-eighty.

"It finally happened?!"

"It finally happened."

"Really?"

"Really."

"You're fuckin' with me."

"I'm not fuckin with ya."

"What are you two going on about?" Akeno said feeling that they could keep this up for far too long than was acceptable. Both men seemed slightly downtrodden by the interruption of their gag but recovered quickly.

"Lakwa and Brige finally are fucking. Samedi is gone and out of da hemisphere… so dey thought ta finally gettin' on with what we all knew was between dem." Kriminel said with a happy look on his face before scowling. Oh how he never knew how much he didn't want this to happen until it finally did. "And so dey fucked… and den fucked more… and fucked again. Over… and over again until it's driving everyone motherfuckin' nuts!"

"Lots of pent-up feelings huh." Dante laughed as he and Akeno moved over to the kitchen area of the main living space. The floor was mostly dark as Kriminel had scared away the maids when they tried to open the windows. The fact that they never warned Dante about the Loa spoke about how the treated their servitude to him. But Dante quickly opened some of the kitchen's windows and bathed the place in light, earning a small hiss from the slightly buzzed Loa. But Dante ignored him and instantly focused on the small vase of flowers made of ice that was sitting on the kitchen island.

"Yeah… that's one way of puttin' it." Kriminel grumbled as he stood up from the couch and held a hand up to keep the sun out of his eyes. "So for da…"

"How fucking long have these been here?" Dante said stopping Kriminel's announcement that he would be mooching off Dante and Rias for the next few months. Dante didn't need to hear it out loud what the Loa wanted and why he was here. He was far more interested in the flowers that he most certainly did not make himself.

"Oh... those… uh… before I got here." Kriminel said after looking over the edge of the couch to see what Dante was talking about. He then returned back to watching trashy TV. "But da important thing here is dat I'd be staying-"

"Nah-nah-nah… we're talking about this." Dante said stopping Kriminel from trying to turn the conversation away back toward his now long-term stay with the Devils. "Why the fuck are these here? It's not my birthday or one of the other two days they show up. You show up with them and every time I ask Lakwa about them he shuts me down. So unless you want me throw you out where you'll end up in the Japanese Prison system, how long until the Shinto Gods notice a black guy who talks like you do in jail on their lands hmm, you're going to start talking." Dante said and Akeno just watched with a curious eye.

She looked over the to vase of ice flowers, they looked harmless enough but if Dante didn't make them and from what he said had been appearing in his life on specific days then that begged the question who was sending them. Being made of ice the only person she could think was Serafall, but that didn't fit given that she only found out who Dante was IRL recently. The fact that they came on his birthday suggest someone close to him, at least close enough to know that. The other day days must have some meaning to the person but it appeared Dante wasn't aware of that meaning otherwise he would have an idea of who it was already.

"I don't know anythin' about dem… Lakwa never told me anythin' about what went on in Austin. Nigga didn't tell me you twos was going to that fuck forsaken city in the first place… would have loved to gone with 'ch." Kriminel waved off knowing that Dante would be satisfied with that answer as it was the truth. "You want ta know, call up Lakwa." Kriminel smirked as eh the answer to that taunt.

"Yeah… I'm not doing that." Dante dragged out not feeling in the mood to listen to the background noise of Lakwa having wild and crazy sex. He then looked to the vase of flowers and couldn't help but feel somewhat sad… and lonely. It was the same as when he got them before, they first started showing up three years ago out of nowhere. They would appear in his life and he would get nothing but feelings of sadness and longing for something he couldn't quite place. Then he get mad because he knew that it was because Lakwa had taken out the memory of why he was so sad and lonely in the first place. Wouldn't have been the first time he took out Dante memory but this was the only instance where Dante actually wanted Lakwa to give it back.

"Something you need to talk about?" Dante felt the calming and reassuring presence of Akeno gently hug him from behind and lay her head in the crook of his neck. She had felt his blue feelings through their link and didn't think twice about easing him through them. "You never did tell me what happened in Austin." She smiled as she knew it was one of the many fantastical stories that Dante had from his time with the Baron family. He wasn't hiding those stories it just they never got around to them.

"Bullet points; arrived with Lakwa through a portal, ate food and drank booze… slept with a few girls too. Then he showed me some of the more… supernatural spots. Ending in one of the worst decisions of my life. Drinking Blood Mead." At that Kriminel burst out laughing falling to the floor in his howls. Akeno meanwhile went wide-eyed at the news Dante had drank one of the most potent drinks in all of the Supernatural World. Blood Mead was a drink given to the warriors of Valhalla to induce a state of superhuman strength and power, turning them into powerhouses that could go toe to toe with some of the most brutal of monsters and spiritual beings. For a mortal human however, it would have a number of outcomes all of them unpleasant and almost always ending in death. "You know I fought Mad Sweeney… how do think I did that as a fifteen-year-old mortal Grim." Dante asked pointedly toward the source of the laughter.

"I had ideas but dat! Dat is some fucked up shit!"

"And this has to do with these flowers because?" Akeno asked as she slipped around Dante and reached for one of the flower stems, though the second she touched the stem it Akeno recoiled back as her fingertips were covered in magical frostbite. "Ow… I assume that never happened to you?" She asked with a frown as she healed herself from the very minor pain in her fingers.

"No… that's a new feature." Dante said both shocked and now worried about what the sender of these flowers might do to Akeno or any other woman in his life if they ever met one of them. "But to answer your question, these always come on the last day I was in Austin. Then the other day is about four weeks later and then on birthday."

"What did you do on the last day? That was the day you drank the Blood Mead wasn't it?" Akeno asked but she already guessed the answer.

"Yes… I don't remember what I did other than beat the shit out of Mad Sweeney." Dante then shifted his weight a bit and looked off to the side. "Then the next three months I have zero memory of"

"What?!" Akeno shouted feeling that this was a major problem. Having a whole three months missing from your life was a big deal. There could be any number of things he could have done that could be coming back to haunt him.

"Lakwa is the one that took those memories and he says that nothing happened during them that he hasn't already handled." Dante said trying to clam his Life-Mate down but from the look on Akeno face Dante could tell he failed spectacularly at doing that. "I've already asked him several times to give me that time back and he won't." Akeno sighed knowing that Dante won't try that hard to get his memories back given he stole them. And if she was honest with herself, given what she knew about Lakwa and Dante's relationship… the Loa must have a decent enough reason for all of this.

"What is with all the noise?" Both Dante and Akeno looked to see Rias standing in the hallway door rubbing her eyes. The redhead blinked a few times to adjust to the sunlight coming in from the window and then looked over the trash pit that was their living room with a jailbird Loa in the very center. There was then an explosion after Kriminel began reaching for his phone to take a picture of a very naked Rias.

One Hour Later

"He will not be staying with us." Rias declared, her face still flushed with embarrassment. The Loa had retreated away down to the basements of their home but Rias currently wanted him gone completely. Everyone was up and sitting around the dining table finishing their breakfast made by Dante, delicious as ever. And unlike in previous mornings they were not all naked, given that there was a male in the building that they were not comfortable with him seeing their bodies. They had finished being told the events of the morning by Dante and Akeno, everything from finding the Loa to the Ice Flowers and the meaning behind them.

"If you want to tell him to leave by all means go ahead." Dante said before taking the last bite of his breakfast. He understood where all the hate was coming from, the fact Kriminel was a jackass that was an unabashed pervert that wouldn't think twice about getting handsy with a woman he liked. Dante doubted that the Loa would do so with any of the women that Dante knew given that Kriminel respected some boundaries when it came to family. "Because there's no way I can get him to leave, not with how much blackmail he has on me." Dante grumbled that last part to himself.

"Rias, he's a Loa… on the same level as a God." Akeno reminded and Rias sighed in defeat by the facts of the matter.

"While I can't get him to leave I can control him to a degree." Dante offered as the maids began to take everyone's dirty plates. "I can stuff him in a room with a TV and so long as he's supplied with food, booze, and drugs, we won't hear a peep from him." Dante decided to leave out the fact Kriminel would occasionally leave to satisfy his hunger for sex but Dante knew that would involve him returning to New Orleans to meet up with Marinette.

"See, problem solved." Akeno chirped knowing that Rias wasn't exactly satisfied but more or less placated. Akeno hoped to move the conversation to something lighter but others at the table saw this as their chance and they took it. There was a sudden gust of wind as both Li and Ni dashed from their seats and to the open sides of Dante chair. They pulled out all the stops and looked up at him with big bright eyes and trying to look as catlike as they could.

"Master?" They both mewled cutely overpowering their future master in a radiating aura of adorableness. All the women at the table glared at the twins at the fact they now clearly had Dante in the palm of their hands. "You're going to keep your promise right?" They both asked as they rubbed their bodies against his sides while giving a light purr. It looked like they had succeeded in their seductive attempt as Dante petted both of their head.

"We each get a wish right?" Li asked as she leaned into the head petting, loving the feeling of his hand running through her hair and scratching behind her ears.

"And you would grant it." Ni was in heaven, but she knew that she would be getting a even better experience soon enough. She shivered in excitement of the future.

"If you worked as hard on your studying as you did on this, then sure." Dante smirked and Ni smile grew even wider as she knew that her grades would get her the wish she wanted. Meanwhile Li quickly frowned and glared at her super smart sister.

"I ranked number twelve in the whole school." Ni proudly said and there was a few raised eyebrows in surprise at the table. Rias and Akeno knew that the top ten spots were always held by Sona's peerage and the best of the human students and to come close to that was an achievement. Kuoh Academy had some of the best and brightest after all.

"That's certainly worth something." Dante chuckled before looking over to Li who slumped down a bit and begun fidgeting. "Li?" The cat-girl mumbled something, but no one had heard her. "I'm sorry what was that?" Dante smirked knowing that it was nowhere near as good as her sister but that didn't matter. Dante knew that Li did in fact try her hardest, that was all he really wanted her to do.

"I got the fifty-first spot in second year." Li admitted flinched at how she nearly made it into the top fifty but barely missed it. She knew that when compared to how her sister was in the top twenty in the whole school while she barely scraped by when it just came to the second years.

"Also impressive… wish waiting to be granted." Dante smirked seeing the dumbfounded look on Li's face. "Considering that what your grades had been the last time you went to school, this is a great improvement. And that should be rewarded."

"Best master Ever!" Li shouted as she jumped up and landed in Dante's lap. It was at that point that Koneko jumped at the intruding cat-girl over her self-proclaimed spot and the two began fighting on the floor nearby. Everyone watched blankly for a moment before returning back to themselves.

"So Ni, what do you want?" Dante raised a eyebrow at the normally reserved twin's face go supernova before it was hid behind by her hands. Dante and the other women at the table watched as Ni fought to build up the courage to speak her desire. Eventually she leaned up and whispered her wish into Dante ear. His face was completely passive as he listened, not showing any sign to what she was saying.

"You done telling him to-" Li began from her spot under Koneko but she was quickly shut up by the white-haired cat-girl who didn't feel that Ni's wish should be spoken aloud if Ni wanted it to be between her and Dante. Once she was done, Ni pulled away from Dante and vanished, having run off to her room to recover from what she just did. "Great! Now that sis is done it's my turn!" Li shouted as she flipped Koneko off her back and returned to her spot on Dante's lap. "You know what I want, I want a date and afterward a night that I won't ever forget." Li began sweetly but finished with a sultry and hungry gleam in her eye as she looked Dante over.

"Hey!" Koneko shouted before pushing Li off Dante's lap and taking her place. She wrapped her arms around Dante neck and pressed herself into his chest, taking advantage of the fact her breasts were now just as big as the twins'. Her body had begun to explode as the restriction on her Ki had vanished and her soul begun to return to its natural state. Following suit her body began to grow to her age. "Me first, Dante promise a date with me way before you got him." Koneko and Li began growling at each other as sparks shot between their eyes. Dante meanwhile just allowed it all to happen as he enjoyed a cup of morning coffee.

"By the way Dante, where's Minos?" Rias asked as the two cat-girls continued to fight around Dante over the privilege of sitting on his lap. None of the Devils had seen the Jinn since he vanished at the start of the whole mess with Dante's father. Rias, Akeno, and Yubelluna all looked to the fireplace mantle where Dante pointed out his answer. There was a brass lamp sitting innocently.

"Don't know one touch that, first one to rub it becomes Minos' new master." Dante joked with a light chuckle knowing full well that it didn't work like that. "I've giving him a early vacation. Grandfather told me that Minos is put in a lamp every few years or so, it's the only time jinn are able to sleep. They normally have their own personal lamp hidden away and when they getting tired of running around in the desert enjoying their freedom and pranking the shit out of travelers they return home and sleep for a few years. Minos isn't a normal Jinn so he doesn't like being trapped in lamp… says that it's wasted time that he could be doing work."

"He really isn't like normal Jinn isn't he?" Yubelluna mused as the women all stared at the lamp and the uptight butler that it held inside of it.

"No, I don't know how he came to serve my great grandfather but I do know that he wasn't a typical jinn to agree to his current agreement to begin with. Grandfather says that he's always been like that." Jinn were famous around the Supernatural World as free-spirited drifters that didn't care to listen to any rules but their own and the rules of God… or Allah in this case, same deity different name. None of them ever made contact with humans and stayed far away from the modern world, preferring to roam the Middle East's many desserts and occasionally ruin someone's day for shits and giggles. Minos was about as polar opposite as you could get.

"If he doesn't like it then why leave him in there?" Rias asked wondering why Dante would make a friend suffer like that. But she recalled how it wasn't really suffering given that Minos was essentially asleep.

"He'll get cranky if he doesn't get his beauty rest doesn't he?" Dante nodded to Akeno's figuring it out.

"He's a workaholic and we need to make sure he doesn't over do it…"

"Ow! That hurt you little bitch!" Li shouted after Koneko had pulled the other Nekomata's tail.

"… or else Minos is going to…" Dante tried to keep talking but the fight over him was beginning to get a little out of hand.

"Serves you right." Koneko only pulled Li's tail after Li had bit her.

"Okay you two are starting to bug me." Dante lightly admonished as he looked down to see Koneko and Li stop mid catfight. "Koneko I have a date for you planned all of next weekend, three whole days of just you and me. Li, your Date will happen when I get back with Koneko, we have two whole months of summer to enjoy just be a little patient." Dante said making both of the girls look down slightly ashamed of themselves but at the same time hopeful and excited for their time with Dante. "Now both of you say you're sorry." The two glanced at each other and grumbled something no one could hear. "Louder."

"I'm sorry." They both said at the same time but neither looked happy to say it. But then Li had grew a smile that Dante recognized as the one that she had whenever she was going to out pervert Issei.

"Want us to kiss and make up now?" Li asked as she grabbed ahold of Koneko's head and pulled her in close to her own face, smushing their checks together playfully but so close to turning it much more dirty. Koneko however pushed Li aside but the blush that now covered her face hinted that she wasn't totally opposed to the idea. Dante had heard that Nekomata tended to develop Love/Rivalry relationships with their Mate's other partners if they weren't exclusive.

"Seems like that's one more point to what Clio tells me is the truth… it's still kinda lopsided toward lies though." Dante sighed internally before refocusing back to the girls. "No, I don't. But what I do want is to talk to Akeno privately for a bit." Dante said as he stood up. Rias looked somewhat surprised that Dante wanted to suddenly speak to only Akeno as since they began to share him he always spoke to both of them when in private. And as she watched Akeno follow him back to the bedroom she couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"You handled those two rather well." Akeno smiled as Dante closed the door behind them. She knew this wasn't an invitation for a little adult fun, Dante would have been far more blunt in his desires if that had been the case. "He's not too concerned with decorum when surrounded by women that love him."

"Thanks, that's actually what I wanted to talk to you about." Dante said as he leaned back on one of the dressers in the room. He then grew a knowing grin as he looked at his first Life-Mate. "Well… a few things really. Firstly I wanted to say that I don't recognize you anymore." Dante began and Akeno didn't have a single moment of fright at his words. "Whatever happened to the Akeno that wanted me all to herself and no one else? And yet you've been very encouraging to some of the girls from Riser's peerage as well as Koneko when it comes to being in a relationship to me. It almost feels like instead of vetting girls like you said you would you're inviting them in."

"Oh no… I've been caught." Akeno didn't even try to sound like she was distressed like her words suggested. It was true that she had warmed up to the idea of Dante's having a harem. Her talks with Venelana had helped her with this, and after all this time to help solidify her feelings she now was particularly interested in the concept the more the merrier. So long as said more exclusively included women that were there for love rather than anything shallow. That was still her standard, that they have to truly love Dante as she did. The fact the Eternal Link was a built-in test of love was just convenient. "Can it be so hard to understand that I've evolved on the subject?" She asked while playfully putting a finger to her lip trying to look innocent.

"Not at all… it is you after all. One of the things I love most about you is that dirty mind of yours." Dante shrugged but then he blinked and the second he opened his eyes Akeno was in front of him wrapping her arms around his neck. Lips pressed to each other and the pair enjoyed a loving intimate kiss.

"Ditto, and don't try to hide it." She whispered as she broke the kiss and rested her body in his arms. "But I can't be all that you wanted to talk about." She said knowing that while she could enjoy the alone time with the man she loved there would come a point when Rias would begin trying to drop in on them. While her best friend and her no longer felt jealous in the sense of having Dante to themselves, being jealous of the other hogging him was still in play. Akeno could recall back to how Dante's Grandfather and his Life-Mates acted. There was certainly some competition for his attention going on.

"Yes, your earlier point about how I handled Koneko and Li." Dante said as they held a loose embrace with each other. Akeno shifted around and laid back into his chest while his arms wrapped around her waist, his hands interlocking with her own. She particularly like this hold given that she felt so safe like this and it would only take a small movement on his part to move lower and begin making her moan like a bitch in heat.

"Mmm~ is that how it's going be? I've been thinking about when a few more girls show up and relationships are a bit more definite." Akeno said as she glanced up to the ceiling thinking about all the ties Dante had at the moment. "Right now only me, Rias, and Koneko have official relationships with you. Serafall is… what? A fuck buddy?" At this Dante had a mildly pained look on his face.

"Kinda… I know she wants more and she says that she's in love with me…" Dante said thinking back to Parent's Day and the time he had with Serafall. The sex was great if a bit quick given the time constraint. And he knew from what she shared there was a foundation for love and the desire for it.

"But?" Akeno raised an eyebrow at this.

"You would think with all that you know about our relationship she'd be ready to have the same tattoos you do." He said as he rubbed along the black lines that were at the base of her fingers. "But if that was the case she'd be reacting the same way Rias was whenever we have sex. That feedback of sensation is the Link hitting you upside the head telling you to get hitched." Dante chuckled and Akeno thought on the meaning behind what Dante said.

"So… she's not in love with you?"

"She wants to be, but I have a feeling that there's something that holding that back." Dante said Akeno supposed that made sense, it certainly made her feel more comfortable with the idea of Serafall in general. The idea that she so quickly fell in love on the internet for someone as smart as her, even if she hid behind a bubbly mask, felt off to Akeno. But this at least felt more possible.

"Then there's the offer to Yubelluna is there but she seems a bit hesitant to take it." Akeno said returning to her listing off the women in Dante life. "I think she still needs some time to prove to herself that she can actually chose you for herself." Dante nodded his agreement and Akeno saw fit to continue. "Li and Ni both are on board but…"

"They're tethering, their feelings a genuine." Dante confirmed for Akeno and she suspected as much.

"What exactly did Ni ask for?" At this Dante perversely giggled making Akeno looked at him with a unexpected but interested look.

"That was the last thing I wanted to talk to you about, she asked if you I could take her into your playroom and… I'll let you finish from there." Akeno's eyes slowly widened at hearing this. She had no idea that Ni was into that sort of thing given how shy she tended to be around the topic of sex. Akeno knew that the girl was interested in having sex with Dante but this was more than anything she had in mind.

"She asked for me?" Akeno felt flattered and excited by that, her interest grew with Dante again nodding to confirm. "Top or bottom?"

"Bottom."

"That sets off some warning bells." Akeno narrowed her eyes thinking just how this could hurt Ni. Given everything that she and her sister had gone through with Riser this felt a little too close to skirting dangerous territory. Both of them weren't even remotely in the same camp as Yubelluna, Karlamine, or the maids but they lacked the gritty resolve of Isabela to be able to shrug off what they went through. "Are you sure that this is a good idea?"

"Good idea… no. But we're going to do it because she asked for it. She's not a human, she has more animal instinct in her than a human does. Me dominating her and marking her as mine will help those instincts along to banish those two years with Riser. Or something to that effect…"

"You did some research on this didn't you?" Akeno smiled as it was the kind of thing that he would do in his spare time given that it was in the effort to help Li and Ni.

"Maybe~" Dante hummed as he thought back to the various e-mails that Serafall sent him over the topic of Yōkai and their behavioral patterns when it came to mating. "If I'm not mistaken that's everyone."

"Yes but that's not going to be the end of it. Not if you continue to be you." She said softly as she turned around in his arms and as she did when she approached him gave him a heartfelt kiss. She did love everything about him, even the flaws and his habit of drawing in other women to him. "And if there's going to be more then I'm going to have to step up as best girl in your harem. But I do have to ask before it really starts being a harem… what's your role beyond the central pillar of the relationship?" She asked and she was being completely serious at this. It was very important to her going forward how Dante would involve himself in the dynamic of the shared relationship. Dante looked up thoughtfully thinking on it, he hadn't really given the idea much thought.

"Driving test instructor in the backseat. I'd really it if I had a better analogy than that but that's what I got." Dante sighed at how stupid it sounded out loud. "Supposed to be in charge but won't actually do anything until something bad happens but always watching." Dante tried to explain his reasoning to a giggling Akeno, but he just felt like he was making himself look more stupid.

"No darling I understand, if anyone starts making trouble you'll step in but beyond that you want all of us to build up relationships organically. Whether or not those relationship include a sexual component is up to us, but we just need to get along with one another." Akeno explained and Dante sighed in relief that she was able to understand what was in his head even if he couldn't say it in a way that made sense. "We can do that… so long as they all understand that I'm at the top." She said sweetly but there was an undertone of possessive certainty. While she couldn't have Dante to herself she would make damn sure that all his girls knew who was his first love.

"You might have to fight Rias for that." Dante half-joked half warned but Akeno just smiled as she already had some idea of how to win that battle. "Speaking of who… I'm pretty sure she's pacing outside the door worrying herself silly with what we're talking about without her."

"That does sound like her." Akeno sighed as she reluctantly stepped away from Dante relaxing embrace.

Mid-Evening

Kuoh, Dante's Living room.

It had been a whole week of summer and things had been proceeding well for the Devils that called this town home. Contract work had not ended with the break from school, and currently Rias was holding her first Household meeting of the summer to go over these contracts. As Kuoh Academy was closed down, they were having it in Dante's living room because a number of the Gremory Devils already lived there and Dante could cater.

"You sure that you want deep-fried peanut butter pickles with a side of grape jelly covered in hot sauce?" Dante asked as he took requests from his friends in Rias' peerage. Everyone looked at Asia as her normal sweet smile turned into an innocent face of confusion.

"Yes? I don't know why but I've been wanting that all day." Dante narrowed his eyes as he felt something nagging at the back of his head. He looked between Issei and Asia several times and then gave a hard-scrutinizing look to Asia. She bristled under his hard-inquisitive glare but breathed a sigh of relief when he stopped. Rias watched Dante mutter a few incoherent things as he began his way toward the kitchen to make the requested dishes. Rias began listing off the number of contracts made by her precious servants, everyone but Issei making good numbers as always. Her sole pawn hung his head in defeat at this fact but was promptly comforted by his girlfriend.

"Don't worry Issei, all the feedback from your contracts are very positive. You just need to get them to actually pay for the time." Rias tried to sound encouraging but just found that her words sunk Issei further down. He really hated the idea of disappointing Rias, she was the one that saved him and gave him the chance to be a better person. "In any case I'm proud of all of you. But even with our recent successes there are still going to be tough fights ahead of us." At this there was a sudden thud behind the sitting Devils, they all looked behind and saw that Otto had placed down a massive crate.

"Lady Gremory here has ordered all sorts of new toys for me to train you all with." The German mercenary gave a low chuckle that made Issei, Asia, and even Kiba all feel a shiver run down their spine.

"We will all be training hard this summer, the last two weeks we will be spending in Hell and during that time I will be expected to participate in at least one Ratings Game now that I have proven myself capable. And so I want to make sure that we are all ready for it." Rias wanted to show every Devil in Hell just how strong and powerful her servants were. Kiba and Akeno had already made a small name for themselves before the start of the year. And now Dante and Issei were rapidly become fan favorites, ironically thanks to Riser.

"Do we know who we're going to be facing off or not?" Koneko asked being fully used to Otto's sense of humor, the two already trained regularly. She was sure that she was close to getting him to step back from one of her punches.

"Voledro has offered…" There was a small crash that came from the kitchen, Rias just sipped her tea as Dante recovered.

"NO! Don't take it!" Dante yelled before recollecting everything that had fallen.

"… as has Sona…" There was another crash.

"Take Gambit's offer!" Dante once again voiced his opinion.

"I'm inclined toward the former as we have a numerical advantage. While Voledro is known as the third most powerful Devil of our generation currently, that is him. His peerage however is small and untested. He hasn't participated in a Ratings Game without the assistance of some of his father's servants." It wasn't unheard of parents lending their children their pieces to help them through their first few Ratings Games. The only reason why Rias was without this little advantage was because of the circumstances surrounding her first Ratings Game, it would have been seen as cheating the importance of the game. "I also I'm quite sure of my own tactical ability over Voledro." Rias said a little smugly but she knew for a fact that there was a much better chance at beating Voledro at a battle of tactics than it was to beat Sona.

"Exactly what does that guy have?" Issei grumbled, he still didn't like Voledro much over what happened with Clio. He was being petty and he knew but that didn't change the fact he had stolen a girl Issei liked and thought had liked him.

"He has two pawns, one of which has a Sacred Gear. A Bishop with a Sacred Gear as well. A Knight Yōkai and a Demi-God Knight. His Queen slot as far as I know is empty, his father recalled the man that had been holding it for some time." Rias had heard that happened on Parents' Day, punishment for Voledro sassing off to his father in front of Sirzechs.

"Wait… you said that we had the numbers." Dante said as he walked out o the kitchen with the maids following behind him with everyone's food. "But by my math that advantage is one." Dante sat down next to Akeno as everyone was severed their food. He made a small glance toward Asia as she happily began eating her strange request.

"Yes but that could be the deciding factor, along with the fact he lacks a Queen, one of the most important pieces in the game." Rias before she began with Dante's miso soup. "I have my full confidence that… Asia is something wrong?" Rias said as she notice her Bishop crying, her attention now all on Asia Rias didn't notice the gears turning Dante's head.

"I'm sorry… (sob)… I'm just a little worried that we're going to lose and disappoint you." Asia cried and Issei quickly went to his girlfriend to try and comfort her. All while this was happening, Dante was doing some math.

"IsseiAsiaSexIssei's ability to screw up(Asia's weird cravingsAsia's mood swingsAsia's getting sick a lot)=… Oh Shit." There was a whooshing sound in the room and everyone blinked and both Dante and Issei were gone from their spots. "YOU COLOSSAL DUMBASS!" Dante raged as he shook Issei back and forth like a ragdoll several feet away from the couch dining table that everyone had been sitting at. "I TOLD YOU! BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN DID YOU?!"

"Dante! What is the meaning of this?" Rias demanded as she stood up and tried to wrap her head around this sudden change in behavior from him.

"Issei got Asia pregnant!" Dante announced as he continued to shake the Pawn violently trying to knock out some of the stupid that was trapped in him. Everyone gasped and looked to the former nun and slowly began to try to put together the same pieces Dante had. Asia was just shell-shocked at the prospect of actually having Issei's child, it both made her happier than anything ever had and filled her with a sense of worry but to a much lesser extent.

"Come on, I got a new box of tests the other day." Akeno said as she took Asia hand and led her to the bathroom. Dante slightly grunted at hearing that given it was just another verbal example of how invested Akeno was in getting pregnant. He wanted kids… just not now.

"Dante, I thought you said that you taught Issei that spell." Rias asked with mild disdain for the topic at hand, she like Akeno wanted to have Dante's child as soon as possible. While maybe not as actively as Akeno was she was at least in spirit on the same page as her fellow Life-Mate.

"Yeah, I did… wait…" Dante thought back to when Issei and Asia first had sex. And the events that surrounded it. How Issei was under the impression that he was going to have sex with Clio in two days but then on the day before Asia showed up. Meaning that he didn't think to perform the spell until the next day. But that would suggest… "YOU GOT HER KNOCKED UP ON YOUR FIRST TIME!" The odds of a Devil doing that were astronomical. Given their low conception rates it took years for even one pregnancy to be successful. And that was with a very high sexual appetite.

"I-I-I… wha?" Issei was so dizzy, he didn't know what was going on but people were being loud. "Are we under attack?" Issei felt the room begin to stop spinning and blinked a few times. Over him Dante was glaring hard while Rias was nearby with a friendly and somewhat strained smile. Koneko was clearly trying to set him on fire just by staring at him. And Kiba looked supportive and uncomfortable all at the same time. "Where's Asia?"

"LI!" Dante shouted and soon enough the Cat-girl came bounding up the stairs edger to help her master in whatever he may need. "Issei got Asia pregnant, throw fireballs at him until he figures out how not to be stupid." Li grinned from ear to ear before her whole body lit on fire and began chasing her fellow Pawn around the building throwing blue Ki fireballs at him. "How? How does that fucking dumbass do that?"

"Dante, are you sure that she's really pregnant?" Rias asked as while the circumstantial evidence was strong Dante was acting like he got a sure thing.

"I looked at Asia's soul… it's starting to make room for tagalong." Dante snorted feeling incredibly irritated by this. If this had happened after they had graduated then he would be fine, but that was his rule on this. Get through high school without getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant. Once you're in the clear and have the diploma in hand go nuts and have as many as you want. "I hope that-"

"It's a plus!" Akeno happily announced as she and Asia returned back, the blond now crying tears of joy. "Why is Issei on fire?"

Early Morning

Kuoh, Dante's Living room

"Ya sure dat ya don't want ta tell me why I'ma suppose do dis for ya?" Kriminel asked as he stood in the middle of Dante's living room. For the past week he had been treated like a outcast, a well-fed and well-supplied outcast. No one ever came to talk to him and all he did was sit around and watch anime. "Not bad… should stop makin' fun of da kid for watchin' so much of it."

"Because I'm letting you stay here rent free and not telling the Shinto Gods that you are here in their lands without their permission." Dante argued back knowing that the fact he was in Devil territory was semantics. He was in Japan and that was Shinto lands. Not a place that a Voodoo Loa should be without good reason.

"Why do I gotta do dis? Ya got a damn Jinn motherfucker to zap you around da world." Kriminel said as he scratched his growing stubble. In front of him was Dante and Koneko, both decked out in heavy parkas and extreme camping gear. For the whole weekend they would be spending their time together in the frozen forests of northern Sweden. A far change of pace from their normal habits of spending time together binge-watching TV shows. Koneko was excited to have Dante all to herself, she also wanted to show off her new body to him. This wasn't exactly what she had in mind but Rias and Akeno both said she looked super cute in her parka.

"He's in his lamp and we have you, all we need is for you to power up a Devil Teleportation Spell so that instead of two hours it's like two seconds." Dante deadpanned as they were already a bit late, not that there was much of a schedule. But he wanted to get out of here as fast as possible. Both Akeno and Rias were like damn vultures since they all figured out Asia was pregnant. Any plea he had about waiting until after high school fell on deaf ears. He hoped that maybe after a few days away from him that they would cool off. Hopefully.

"Fine." Kriminel grumbled, Koneko formed the spell on the ground and locked toward the location that Dante had given her. Kriminel snapped his fingers and the red magic circle turned dead black. And in that moment both Dante and Koneko were gone from Japan and transported to the other side of the world.

Early Moring

Remote Location in Sweden

Both Dante and Koneko landed to the snow-covered ground, both were shaky on their legs. It had not been a seamless trip, they knew that long-range teleportation wasn't as clean as short range but that felt particularly unpleasant.

"D-did we really need him to do that?" Koneko asked as she regained her footing. It took a few moments but eventually she was able stand on her legs normally and take in the view before her. The sun was just raising above the horizon and bathing the valley below them in light. The sight was breathtaking, snowy mountains lined a forested valley, a flock of birds flew across the sky as the winds bristled the trees. "Wow." It was all she could say as she couldn't pull her eyes away from it all.

"Damn… Lakwa told me it would be great but… seeing it is something else." Dante muttered as he also looked out from the ridgeline of the small cliff that they stood atop. His father figure had given him this spot years ago as possible date sight for when he met a woman worthy of it. And to Dante Koneko was certainly fit that bill. "As much as I would like to stay here and watch the sunrise some more, we do need to get moving." Dante nudged Koneko and she looked back at him and nodded.

The two of them then began their way through the snow and trees, marveling at what nature had for them. For miles around was lands barely touched by man, given that this was lands Supernaturally Protected by the Norse Gods it wasn't hard to understand how they were kept so pristine. And to the Devils benefit, the Norse weren't that picky when it came to travelers. Dante knew that he would need to give a offering to Meili, the Aesir God of Travel, but that could be done later.

"You have any idea where we're going?" Koneko asked as they walked through deepening snow, now hitting their knees. She wasn't really complaining as any time she spent with Dante she enjoyed. Thanks to Dante and her clothes the biting cold of the air didn't affect her and her Rook strength allowed her to trudge through the snow with ease. Just walking with him in comfortable silence was nice, she didn't need too much pomp and grand excitement to have a good time.

"Yes, there should be… there!" Dante shouted as he pointed to a cabin with several adjacent huts. "We'll get some supplies here and get directions to a good campsite. Plus sauna." That… gave Koneko ideas. The two of them walked up to the cabin and entered in, a small bell ringed as they entered. "Hello? We need…" Dante stopped the second he saw the man already at the counter of the small shop that existed inside the cabin. It was a tall yet thin tattooed man with ginger hair tied back in braid, a haggard yet handsome face looked back toward the two devils. His entire attire consisted of dark pants with a wrapping of a bear pelt around then held in place by a red belt and two black sashes. The rest of his body was covered in runic tattoos.

"Well what do we have here?" His voice was low, almost gravely but at the same time had a rustic elegance to it. "Two Devils… you're a long way from home aren't ya?" The stranger fully turned around and took a predatory step toward them. Both Dante and Koneko could fell the light in the room bend and warp to take a sinister tone that amplified the intimidation factor that the man had.

"We uh…" Dante was barely able to speak as the spiritual power felt like an avalanche burying him.

"Were planning on offering something nice to my brother, right?" The man asked but Dante had a feeling like he wanted to steer this in a direction that would only end in conflict. "Or maybe you were thinking of finding something cheap and easy? Take advantage of the Alfather's generosity?" But all of the tension in the air vanished at the sound of a small tapping sound and the man looked back to the counter to see that the store owner had brought out a caged jade raven. The raven looked right at the man almost threateningly. "Hurry up and give me an answer old man, my father wants one before the end of summer." The half-naked man grumbled angrily before storming out of the cabin, rudely bumping into Dante's shoulder as he walked out.

"That… was Baldur… how are we still breathing?" Dante asked as he felt the ability to breathe again return to him. While the whole of the Norse Pantheon and mythology was known for being insular and isolated but at the same time fairly laid back when it came to foreign affairs. But Baldur was something else, it wasn't that he had want to declare war on other pantheons but he certainly was one of the more vocal isolationists.

"Hello~." Thankfully both of the Devils were snapped back to reality with the sound of the man running the store addressing them. He was a, seemingly, short man sitting behind a counter wearing somewhat dated traditional Swedish attire. He had a friendly and welcoming smile that was completely removed to the tenseness that the air had prior. "Welcome travelers, what brings you to our cozy corner of the world? Enjoying the sights? Thrill-seeking? Romantic getaway?" He added that last one with a humor-filled wiggle of the eyebrows.

"All of the above." Dante chuckled feeling his nerves relax just with this man's jovial attitude alone. Koneko lightly blushed from both their words, even if she was on her date with Dante at that moment it was still somewhat surreal. She had only recently begun to think of dating itself as something she would do. Having spoken of so plainly was a tad embarrassing to her. "We need directions to a good campsite and a offering to Meili." Dante said as he and Koneko approached the store counter. Dante dropped a small bag of Hacksilver that Rias had gotten for the date on the counter and after eyeing the bag for a moment the store owner took it. He lifted the small bag and jiggled the contents to check the payment, after hearing the ringing of the metal coins he smiled brightly and whisked the money away.

"Yha… that will be no trouble at all." He said before pulling out from a nearby lockbox a small map of the surrounding area. He laid it out on the counter and pointed the Devils to a small clearing that would suit their purpose. "As for the offering, you're going to need to hunt down that. If you be wishing to do any further hunting beyond an offering to Meili, you'll be needing to purchase a license for your time here." Dante grumbled a bit at that and dropped another small bag of Hacksilver, the same process as before played out again and the store owner smiled and handed Dante a small beaded neckless with a bear claw, wolf claw, fishbone, and owl talon strung on to it. "Thank you for yur time today, please feel free to try out the sauna. First time is on the house."

"Thanks, we be sure to keep that in mind." Dante said as he took one last look at the map and then headed out with Koneko behind him. "Baldur and Starkaðr… I was only expecting to meet one of them today." Dante cracked his neck as he tried to let out some of the last bit of tension in his body.

"I only ever heard of Baldur, he's the Norse God of Light right?" Koneko asked as they began trudging their way through the snow once again, intent on finding their camping spot.

"Yeah… and he's exactly what Lakwa warned me he'd be like. Confrontational and scary as fuck. And a bit nuts after living for so long in a sensory deprivation hell thanks to his mother's curse." Dante said as they began following up a small trail that cut through the forest. Every now and then they would spot on the trees a sequence of Nordic Runes painted on the bark, neither could really tell what they meant but Koneko could tell that they were connected to the forest ambient nature energy. Dante meanwhile could feel that while they didn't have minds of their own… they fucking hated his guts. Likely due to him being a being of Death and they were anchors of Life.

"And that nice shopkeeper was Starkaðr? Who's that?" Koneko asked as the trail began winding up, making it slightly harder to keep moving. But this was part of the fun, seeing nature and toughing it out in the wilderness.

"A Jötnar, one of the Giants. And that's with a capital G, we're talking God level beings on par with the Aesir and Vanir, not the giants that are just really big humans." Dante chuckled as he recalled the lessons that Lakwa and the other Barons gave him on the various Supernatural Beings and the various naming overlap that tended to occur. "Starkaðr in particular is considered to be the strongest in terms of raw fighting power and skill."

"Really… he didn't look like he could hurt anyone." Koneko said as she found it difficult to picture that jolly store owner as a warrior of any kind.

"That's because it's be like over a thousand years since he's touched a sword. After Christianity took over Europe, a lot of the old feuds died off. The three-way war between Aesir, Vanir, and Jötnar was ended with all three sides calling a truce. The Aesir and Vanir pretty much banded together to form the current government of the Norse Pantheon while the Jötnar either returned back to Jötunheim or kinda just roam around Midgard, which comprises much of Scandinavia, doing as they want and staying out of the business of anyone that could kill them." Dante finished explaining as they reached a small open clearing, the snow was thankfully lighter here so setting up camp would be much easier.

"Still feels strange thinking of that guy like that." Koneko mumbled to herself before the two began the task of setting up their camp. Removing the snow and digging a firepit was the first things they did, when it came time to find firewood they made she to stay away from the marked trees that dotted the forest. Koneko couldn't help but laugh as Dante, who had proved he was a capable outdoorsmen in everything so far, struggled to set up their tent. Eventually she did after Dante claimed that it was defective. He then spent a good ten minutes grumbling after she effortlessly followed the instructions and put it together. They then spent the rest of the day hunting down both their offering to Meili and their dinner, a star and a boar respectively. "Are you sure it's not ready." A small bit of drool hung from Koneko's mouth as she stared at the rotating boar. It smelled fantastic as it cooked above their roaring fire.

"Give it a little longer." Dante called back from his spot at the edge of their campsite. He had dragged their offering over to a stone slab and had finished marking it with the runic symbols needed to make the offering. He then lifted the dead stag onto the rock, making sure to have the whole thing on the smooth surface of the stone. "I freely give this kill to the Aesir Meili, I give thanks to his blessing of our walks and travels in the land of the Alfather." And with that the stag glowed and in a whoosh of air vanished. "Done with that."

"Now can we eat?" Koneko asked as she reached out toward the cooked flesh of their kill. She had greatly enjoyed her time silently hunting for both their offering and their dinner. It spoke to a primal side of her to do with Dante. She suspected that was one of the reasons why he chose this as their date. However she frowned as her hand was slapped away as Dante took a spot next to her.

"Bad kitty. Don't make me get the spray bottle." Dante jokingly admonished as Koneko glared at him. "It will be ready when it's ready." He said as he shifted his weight to better find a comfortable position on the ground. Despite his words and his denial of her meal, Koneko still took her normal spot in his lap. Her growth spurt however made this action slightly more daring as her body now fit into his own like a glove. Her new curves melding with his strong muscles. But with the cold and the layers of clothes they both had on, it wasn't the time to make a move toward anything more intimate than their current position.

"How are you doing by the way?" Koneko asked feeling like this was the best time to bring up a subject her, Rias, and Akeno all knew Dante wouldn't talk about in normal circumstances. But here Dante was vulnerable, he had nowhere to run off to and nothing to excuse himself.

"Pretty good, warm fire and the smell of cooking meat in the air." He said before grinning and tightening the grip he around Koneko's waist. "And in very good company."

"I meant about your dad?" That caused Dante to stiffen but he didn't make a move to leave. She knew he was captive by his morals concerning women and how he should act around them when in a situation like this. It was underhanded to use his own gentlemanly tendencies against him like this but Rias, Akeno, and Koneko all agreed that he needed to talk about what happened. Bottling it up never worked out in any instance, Koneko knew that better than anyone. "It's fine to be happy he's gone but you can't just brush it off."

"It's not like I actually killed him myself." Dante said trying to sound like it would have been a bigger problem if that had been the case. But Koneko knew Dante better than that and could tell from his tone that he desperately wanted that to be the fact rather than a alternative.

"But you wanted to, you still want to but can't." She said and her head was so close to his chest she could hear his heart beat faster at the thought of killing his father. She could feel in Dante Ki shift, it was normally this dry cold presence that only every stirred when with one of the women in his life. It always felt brighter and more lively when Dante was happy with them. But just talking about his father changed it, down to its core. It was still dark and cold, that was in its nature as it was based on entropy rather than life. But now it had a slimy balefulness that like dripping toxic hate.

"It should have been me… I deserved it." Dante growled mostly to himself as he remembered seeing Bino kill his father so quickly. Isabela had just told him how he could have done it, he finally had the chance to kill his father. And it was taken from him not two seconds later. Dante however was brought of twisting thoughts by a tug on his sleeve.

"You're a lover, not someone that focuses on hate." The sudden image of cruel smile from someone that was supposed to be family passed through her mind. She however shook that from her mind and returned back to Dante. "Don't hate, stay just like how you always are. If you became something you're not… I'd be sad." It was a unconsciousness move on her part, but saying that she looked up with big pleading eyes, her cat ears drooping down in ix fear and sadness. To say that it was the most heartrendingly adorable things that Dante had seen in his life would be a massive understatement.

"You're too cute for your own good you know that." Dante sighed as he stared into the fire that was cooking their meal. "Trying to turn me from the Dark Side by guilting me." He weakly chuckled as he felt his mood and soul lighten. It just didn't feel worth it to keep holding onto his petty nitpick when it had to potential to make Koneko look so sad. "Keep doing that by the way… it works."

"Okay." Koneko said simply with a smile, happy to being able to help Dante with this. But that smile faded a bit as the subject of fathers made her mind wander. "Not all fathers are bad you know." Koneko said feeling that Dante deserved some truth from her. She trusted him and felt that being as isolated as they were that this was a good time to tell him a few things.

"Hm… personal experience to share to prove my own beliefs as wrong?" Dante said before he reached out and with a extended arm of ice lifted the spit the boar was on and moved it away from the fire. "Not yet, it needs to rest first." Dante said as Koneko began moving toward the delicious smelling meat. Dante pulled her back close to himself and she decided she enjoyed her spot too much and wanted to stay in it more than eat. "You were saying?"

"Well… you know how I'm a Yōkai?" Dante nodded. "Well… I'm actually a rare species called Nekoshou. In terms of ranking, we're right under the royal bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Kitsune." Koneko explained, she hadn't told anyone this. Not even Rias or anyone else in the peerage. She knew that Dante would likely tell Rias and Akeno but that was fine, she trusted both of them but she wanted to tell Dante herself this. "And my father was considered a leader among the Yōkai. He was so powerful he was considered to be at the same level as the Satans."

"Damn… I have so many questions." Dante said blankly staring forward as he tried to wrap his head around that. "So you and Kuroka are like royalty or something… then why would she want to become a Devil in the first place?" Dante asked as it simply didn't add up to him.

"That's because she's not, we're actually half-sisters. My father and her father were brothers." Koneko said thinking back to some of her earliest memories. Only a few flashes of her parents and her uncle came to her. The rest was just information told to her by her sister. "They didn't get along, and when I was young my uncle killed my father. I think it was right after my mother died from being sick or something… I don't remember. That was when Kuroka took me and became a Devil."

"Sounds like she was trying to keep you safe from her father." Dante said and it made sense as that was exactly the kind of thing that he would expect out of Kuroka. He had only met her once but he knew from that one meeting she loved Koneko deeply. "But you're point was that not all father's are bad? You're somewhat disproving that point with Kuroka's sounding like a real jackass."

"But mine wasn't, he loved both of us as his own. Kuroka even told me that she didn't even know that he wasn't her father until uncle ambushed her and told her the truth." Koneko said and she could hear Dante mumbling Cat Vader under his breath. "Can you not tell anyone about this? It's-"

"All you need to do is ask." Dante stopped her not needing any other reason than that one. He then pulled out his scythe and chopped off a leg of the cooked boar. "You snooze you lose, I got first piece."

"Cheater."

Author's Notes

A lot happened here, a lot. Kriminel showing up and his news, hints toward future women, Dante and Akeno talking about things, Issei… oh I love that, and Koneko and Dante's date.

Second, I removed the Lemon between Rias and Akeno because a review correctly pointed out how it wasn't something that should be happening at that current time. It will show up again however, but at more appropriate point in the story.

Third, I've been… having a hard time. Last week I was sick and that threw me off the rhythm that had going and not only did I get thrown off it but now I'm having doubts. I still love this story and have so many plans but doubts gnaw at me. I feel like I've made so many mistakes with this story that can't be fixed. I feel a bit better since getting this chapter done but I'm not a 100%.

Reviews

LucasVAMP – Thank you, I know about Dante's dad but it was just they way I wanted to handle. Not everyone is going to like it. I don't think Seekvaira will be, mostly on the grounds that I'm not sure how to play with her character in a way that would mesh well. Thanks again.

Rmarcano321 – he has a flying horse. That's a impossible question.

Tohka123 – thank you

Spartan of Rome – I was going for Dark Elves.

AJR3333 – I'm not going to go over everything you've posted other than thank you for providing real criticism and comments. They have made me think about this story and how I will be going forward. The main points I would have to say is that some things I'm doing for future plans and plot points and other things I just part of character personalities. I really do thank you for the reviews and you were dead on with the Rias/Akeno lemon, I removed it and will be putting somewhere better. I hope you are able to enjoy this story.