Somewhere on Earth

A police officer suddenly found himself pinned against a desk, wincing in pain, he tried to break free but suddenly froze when he felt his attacker place a gun to the side of his head. Looking up he saw his assailant a swarthy man with long black hair and sunglasses sending him a sinister smile.

"No please don't I beg," BANG! The officer never finished his statement as a bullet tore through his skull splattering his desk and surrounding floor with blood and brains. Letting go of the corpse he watched with a smile as it fell to the floor, looking to his left Dante saw his coworkers finishing off the rest. Reaching into his pocket Moxxie pulled out a piece of paper, unfolding it Moxxie pulled out a pen.

"All right All right corrupt cops check," he said crossing out some names on the list.

"All right gang let's move on to the next target," Blitz said scraping some brains off his boot.

Somewhere else on Earth

Blitz and Moxxie stood by and watched as Millie and Dante brutally beat a man in an oversized fur coat, Dante used his fists while Millie used a gold-capped cane. The two continued to beat away at the man until he stopped struggling and even more after that Blitz and Moxxie pulled them off. Dante broke free and went back to beat the now-dead man more, Blitz and Moxxie grabbed him and tried to pry him off, but he wouldn't budge until Millie grabbed his arm and sent him a warm look. Shaking his head Dante stood up and wiped the blood off his hands.

"Alright abusive Pimp, check," Moxxie said crossing out another name.

Another place on Earth

In the basement of a run-down home, a man was chained to a wall struggling to break free, hearing a diesel engine he turned and saw a small, red-skinned female holding up a chainsaw. He didn't have time to scream, as the chainsaw came right down on his head, the woman laughing maniacally as she carved him up splattering herself and everyone else with blood.

"Alright serial killer check," Moxxie said wiping some blood off his face and using it to cross out another name.

"Well, that's everyone so let's head home," Blitz said as he pulled out his phone and called Loona, a few seconds later a portal opened and the four demons began walking through, as they did Millie noticed her husband staring at the list of targets.

"What's the matter, hun?" Millie asked Moxxie looked up from the list and faced his wife.

"Have you noticed that lately all of our targets have been awful people?" he asked Millie raised in confusion.

"What do you mean Mox?" she asked her husband not getting what he was trying to say.

"It's just that we usually get a mix of awful people who deserve to die and innocent people who while not the best honestly don't deserve death but lately all of them have just been horrible people," he explained not sure what the sudden change in targets is about.

"Well, this is Hell Moxxie," Millie said gesturing around them, "it's filled to the brim with horrible people and horrible people know horrible people, remember that Loopty guy?" she asked Moxxie shuttered at the memory of being crushed multiple times by the eccentric sinner.

"Yeah, your right it's probably nothing, but, weirdly, we haven't gotten at least one innocent person," he said more to himself than Millie who patted him on the back and led him out of the office to the van.

IMP office after hours

The building was dark the only light was the light from the city pouring in through the windows, the janitors have already left for the night after doing nothing during their shift except nap and get high. All was quiet until the door to the office suddenly opened slowly, once opened wide enough a figure in a black hoodie stepped through. Silently closing the door, the figure moved quickly over to Loona's desk and sat down, turning on the computer he saw it was password protected. Hands flying across the keypad the intruder typed in the first idea that came to his mind, and the computer unlocked.

"Moxxie is a dick, of course," the intruder said rolling his eyes, yanking down his hood the intruder had long wavy black hair and black and red eyes.

"All right let's get to it," Dante said as he took a minute to admire the screen saver on Loona's computer, it was a picture of him and Loona together at a bar, he had an arm wrapped around her waist while she kissed him on the cheek. Smiling Dante quickly moved to the file labeled, IMP clients.

Upon opening the file, Dante looked at the various subfiles labeled with the client's name. Opening every one Dante read through each one.

"Let's see, Shedder wants us to kill his wife whom he beat and cheated on, delete," Dante said deleting the file, before moving on to the next.

"Next Sandy, kill her kid to get back at her husband, delete," he said deleting this file as well.

"Joe wants us to kill his embezzling partner who killed him, I'll leave this one," he said closing the file and moving to the next.

"All right next one wants us to take out the gang that's terrorizing his neighborhood and killed him, that sound like fun keeping this,"

"All right kill witnesses who testified at his trial... Nah delete,"

"Dude who wants us to burn down an orphanage, delete,"

"Convicted murderer who wants us to kill the guard who took part in his execution, delete," Dante said as he went through and deleted file after file while taking the time to keep track of all their names for later.

"All right kill a guy named Anthony who killed him as he tried to rob him delete," he said deleting the file.

"Ohh look another for this Anthony guy, and another, and another, and another, and ohh look another," he said exacerbated and annoyed as he saw there were at least twenty demons all asking for the same guy's head.

Getting to the last one Dante saw that it was from a gang banger who wanted revenge on the rival banger who killed him some guy named Michael. Deciding that this was an alright target he left it alone, closing the file Dante threw his hood back up left the office, and locked the door.

The next day

The crew of IMP sat in the conference room as Blitz elaborated on the target they were going to kill today.

"Alright everyone this fucker shot this other fucker and now the dead fucker wants revenge so we gotta go up and kill him," he said Dante and Moxxie rolled their eyes once again Blitz was ignoring any attention to detail or explaining just how they were gonna kill the guy.

God dammit looks like we'll be improvising once again, Dante thought with frustration.

"So where is this asshole anyway?" Dante asked, his annoyance clear in his voice. Pretending not to notice Blitz flipping through the file and eventually finding the location.

"Seattle the fucker lives in Seattle," he said with a smile, Dante pinched the bridge of his nose, that didn't narrow it down, but it was a start.

"Is this the only target we got today sir?" Millie asked raising her hand, Blitz flipped through some papers until he found what he was looking for.

"No, we got two more after this some dude whose embezzlement partner double-crossed him, and some guy who wants a gang wiped out," Blitz explained looking closer at his notes.

"Huh that's weird," he said examining the papers more thoroughly.

"What sir?" Moxxie asked.

"I could've sworn we had more clients," he said flipping through his papers wondering if he missed something, Dante suddenly looked nervous.

"Maybe you just forgot to print the rest," Millie said Blitz just shook his head.

"No, no Loonie always prints them out, the files are all on her computer and she always does a great job with it," he said proudly his eyes filled with sparkles as he looked at Loona who just seemed to realize what was goin on.

"Huh, uh oh yeah sure," she said going back to her phone, Dante let out a silent sigh of relief, then suddenly Loona displayed a confused expression.

"No, wait I thought there were," she stopped when she suddenly felt a hand on her thigh, looking to her left she saw Dante flicking his eyes to his left subtly hinting to the door, Loona knew that was code for 'let's fuck'. Face turning bright red Loona quickly got up from her seat and headed for the door.

"No three is right, excuse me I forgot something," she said as she bolted out the door. Twenty seconds passed before Dante's phone dinged, checking it Dante smiled before getting up and heading out of the conference room.

"Where the fuck are you going?" Blitz asked in confusion.

"Gotta piss," he said leaving, Blitz just shrugged, Millie and Moxxie looked at the door in disgust realizing what was going on.

Somewhere in Seattle

The members of IMP moved through the streets of the dreary cloudy city, the member of IMP were all wearing crappy flimsy disguises that did nothing to hide the fact they were demons, all except Dante who unlike the others had a human disguise. Lucky for them everyone was either too stupid or too stoned to notice, as they moved through the city the four demons stopped as they came upon a small apartment building.

"So, this the place?" Millie asked looking at the somewhat rundown building.

"Yep, this is his address, from what I've gathered he lives in apartment 324," Dante said looking down at his phone which showed a picture of the target and his address.

"Alright, let's get in there and kill this shit stain!" Blitz said with a maniacal grin, pulling out his pistol he charged straight for the front door only to slam right into the glass, and slowly slide to the ground. Dante groaned and Moxxie rolled his eyes at his boss's stupidity.

"Sir, how about we snipe him from that building?" Moxxie said pointing to the building across the street.

"Great idea Moxx," Blitz who was still on the ground groaned lifting his hand to give a thumbs up.

Positioned on top of the building Dante positioned his sniper rifle at the window of the target's apartment. Seeing inside Dante saw that it was a small apartment the paint was peeling, and he noticed some cracks in the drywall. As Dante continued to watch he saw a blonde-haired woman holding a baby walk into the room and set the baby down in a highchair by a table.

Dante felt a pang of remorse seeing this woman and her child who were the family of the target, he didn't like the idea of leaving this kid without a father.

Hey, I'm not here to kill them, just him this guy is a murderer why should he get a happily ever after for his crimes, stealing his resolve Dante once again put his eye to the periscope and readied himself to shoot. The target suddenly came into view, steadying his aim Dante was about to pull the trigger when suddenly his wife got in the way. Quickly taking his finger off the trigger Dante let out a sigh of relief glad he didn't turn the kid into an orphan.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Blitz asked as he looked up from the binoculars that he was using to observe the target.

"The guy's wife is in the way," Dante stated Blitz just gave him a confused look.

"Why the fuck does that matter just waste them both and let's be done with it," Blitz said not sure what the problem was, Dante, on the other hand, looked at him horrified.

"The fuck NO! I'm not gonna kill this woman she's not the target," Dante explained, the other looked at him confused, not sure why that would be a problem.

"So, you've killed plenty of people who weren't the target, so why should this skank matter?" Blitz asked not getting why this is suddenly an issue.

"Because what we're doing is technically illegal so I feel that we should avoid any unnecessary killing as I believe if we have too many innocents caught in the crossfire someone might take notice," he emphasized 'someone' and gestured to the sky. Blitz rolled his eyes, took the rifle away from Dante, and took aim.

Suddenly Dante reached toward Blitz and attempted to wrestle the rifle from his hands. The two demons struggle for the gun until suddenly the gun went off, the bullet ricocheted off the building, then a lamp post, then a car before flying towards the demons on the roof, grazing Dante's left cheek.

"Cazzo!' he shouted touching his cheek and seeing his fingers stained with blood. Blitz laughed at Dante's injury until he noticed movement out of the corner of his eye. Looking down at the street they saw Michael walk out of his apartment get into a car and drive off.

"Great he's leaving thanks a lot Dante," Blitz said sarcastically glaring at his employee. Blitz quickly got up and moved down to the road to follow the target followed by Millie and Moxxie. Dante watched them before getting up and waving a hand over his cheek, the wound suddenly disappearing as if it was never there.

A few minutes later

The crew of IMP was all seated in a car that was following a few feet away from the target, Dante was in the driver's seat while Moxxie sat in the passenger seat. Blitz was not happy about it, but Dante demanded that he drive as in his words Blitz drove like a 'blind braindead chimp with no arms' Blitz tried to get shotgun but Dante also demanded that Moxxie sit there as he felt he was a better shot. As the target merged into the next lane Dante followed putting their car right behind his, seeing a perfect opportunity Moxxie quickly lifted his rifle and took aim at the back of Michael's head. Just when he was about to shoot someone suddenly rammed into the back of their car which in turn caused them to ram right into the targets, it was at this moment that Moxxie fired the bullet tore through the windshield and bounced off the targets car then grazed Dante's face his right cheek this time.

"Mary, Jesus, Joseph, and all the fucking Saints!" he said touching the new wound. Stepping out of his car, Dante stepped out of their car and walked over to the vehicle that hit them and followed suit by the others.

"Hey bitch what the fuck is your problem?" Dante demanded, the door of the offending car opened, and a skimpy-dressed blonde woman stumbled out with a bottle of tequila in hand.

"Hey this isn't my fault, it's yours," she mumbled incoherently barely able to stand upright.

"Hey what the fuck is going on?" a new voice said turning around the members of IMP saw the target standing by his car glaring at them. Moving quickly Blitz pulled out his pistol and took aim, the target raised his hands in a placating gesture, but before he could fire the drunk woman suddenly tackled him to the ground.

"You fucked up my car you stupid shit," she said as she tried to hit him.

"Get off me you dumb skank!" Blitz shouted, seeing them distracted the target took off down the road trying to escape his assassins, noticing this the others took off down the road after him.

Millie, Moxxie, and Dante chased after the target as he moved through the Seattle streets veering away from other pedestrians and pushing them out of the way, when necessary, the crew of IMP did the same thing they moved quickly but he always seemed to stay ahead of them. Running through a crosswalk just as the light turned green the target was nearly run over but was able to make it to the other side and keep moving. Dante swiftly dodged the coming cars and even slid over the hood of one as it abruptly stopped to avoid hitting him, Millie and Moxxie, on the other hand, were not so lucky both getting hit multiple times, albeit not doing any severe damage. The three assassins continued to follow the target through the city but as they chased the target Moxxie stopped upon hearing a very familiar sound, turning his head he saw a teenager sitting on a bench playing a guitar, poorly.

"Umm excuse me young man but you're doing it wrong," he said gently, the teenager turned to Moxxie and glared not pleased with the comment.

"Excuse me who are you?" he asked not happy with this weird little, short guy telling him he wasn't playing right.

"I'm a guy who knows a thing or two about the guitar, may I just," he said snatching the guitar from the kid, he was about to take it back but stopped when Moxxie began playing a beautiful melody.

"Can you teach me to do that?" he asked in awe of Moxxie's skills.

Back to Millie and Dante

Millie was just behind Dante as they followed the target, she was wondering why Dante wasn't shooting, she turned to her left to ask Moxxie if he could get a shot off but stopped in her tracks when she noticed that Moxxie wasn't there.

Millie looked around but couldn't see Moxxie anywhere, she called out for him but got no response whatsoever.

"Dammit! Dante, have you seen," she stopped when she realized that Dante and the target were gone as well. Not sure what to do she saw a man leaning against a store smoking a cigarette.

"Excuse me, sir, you wouldn't have seen a guy with black hair, sunglasses, and a trench coat around here, would you?" she asked, but the man just shook his head.

"Sorry lady but no," he said Millie scowled and stomped her foot in frustration as she did the man noticed something sticking out of her pants.

"Woah nice Knife you got there, can I see it?" he asked, Millie turned around in surprise and pulled out her knife, the man took hold of it and spent a moment admiring the blade.

"This is a nice knife but it's starting to look a little dull if you don't mind me saying," he explained, Millie took the blade back and inspected it and saw that there was some mild chipping around the edge of the blade.

"Yeah, this blade has seen a lot of action, and could use a good sharpening," she muttered, tucking the blade away.

"How about something better?" the man asked, Millie, looked at him in confusion.

"I own a weapons shop, we mostly sell guns, but we got a good selection of knives too if you want to take a look?" he explained gesturing to the store he was leaning against.

The word weapons was all Millie needed to hear as she gleefully rushed into the shop like a kid going to buy a toy.

In an alley

Michael stopped, huffing trying desperately to catch his breath as he looked at the brick wall before him.

"Dead end buddy," someone chimed, turning around Michael saw the man who had been chasing him for the past twenty minutes, he was sure he lost him so how the fuck did he catch up to him so quickly?

"Listen buddy I don't know what you want or why you're trying to kill me but come on we can work something out," he said nervously, his body trembling as he slowly backed away towards the wall bumping into a trash can as he did knocking off the lid and revealing a bottle sticking out of the trash.

"Sorry pal no deal I took this contract in good faith, and I plan on holding up my end of the bargain," Dante said moving closer, reaching into his coat, and pulling out a gun. Michael's mind was distracted by the word "contract" someone took a contract on him, looking back he wondered who it could have been.

My old gang, they were pretty pissed off when I left… no that's not their style if they wanted me dead, they'd have done it themselves, was it Christina's dad the old bastard was never happy with his daughter ending up with some lowlife thug maybe he did it? He thought to himself as he subtly moved closer to the trash can.

"So how about you give up so I can make this quick and pain-" he was interrupted when suddenly Michael through a wine bottle at him.

Seeing the bottle Dante quickly moved to the side, the bottle just centimeters from his face, he could feel the wind it generated against his cheek. Once the bottle passed Dante turned to back to face the target only to see a fist heading straight for him. Not having time to dodge this attack the fist collided right with his face, the force sending Dante to the ground causing him to drop his pistol. Sitting up Dante wiped some blood from his nose with his thumb, Dante looked at the blood and smirked.

"I see you got some fight in you, good most of my targets just roll over and die," he said standing to his feet a sadistic smile on his face.

"Let's go," inviting the target to try again.

Noticing the pistol on the ground Michael dived for it, he almost had it but he was suddenly tackled by Dante. Michael fell to the ground wheezing as all the air was knocked out of him looking up, he saw Dante on top of him and raise a fist, which he then brought down immediately on his face. This hit was followed by another then another, then another, this barrage continued until his face was slick with blood. Realizing that if he didn't do something quick this guy would beat him to death, breaking one arm free Michael felt around until he found a steel pipe, Dante raised his fist for another blow when Michael swung the pipe.

THUNK! The sound echoed through the alley as Dante was knocked off Michael, getting up Michael looked down at his assailant whose face was beginning to swell from the blow.

"I'm giving you one more chance leave me alone I don't want to kill you, but I will if you leave me no choice," Michael said pointing at him with the pipe, Dante got to his feet and smiled.

"Funny I was gonna say the same thing to you, the only difference is I want nothing more than to kill you," Michael scowled and charged forward swinging the pipe at Dante and trying to smash his skull in, now while he might have gotten lucky the first time Dante was more prepared this go around and quickly dodged every strike.

Michael swung one more time, but his arm was caught by Dante, smiling Dante slammed his fist into his arm breaking the bone. Michael screamed in agony as the bone tore through flesh with the point of the shattered bone sticking out of his arm in full view, but before he could have time to react Dante kneed him in the gut knocking the air out of him, and then threw him headfirst into the side of a dumpster. Shakily sitting up Michael reached for the pipe only for someone to kick it away, looking up through bleary eyes he saw his assailant standing over him with the pistol from before in his hand. Michael sat silently in utter terror but was taken out of it when he felt a raindrop hit his head, suddenly it started pouring quickly drenching them both from head to toe.

"Look bro before you pop me can you at least tell me who asked you to kill me?" Michael managed to choke out, shivering in both fear and cold.

"Ehh sure, why not, your gonna die so I might as well," Dante said with a shrug.

"This is about the guy you killed," Michael went pale, Dante's words echoing through his head.

"Wha-what?" he asked, confused, unsure what he was talking about.

"Did you think you could escape justice for your crimes that you could just kill someone and not have to face consequences for your actions? That someone wouldn't seek revenge?" Dante asked Michael just shook his head.

"I went to prison for that, I did my time, I've turned a new leaf and I'm trying to start over!" He yelled sitting up straighter to get a better look at Dante.

Why should you get to live a happy life when those you killed didn't so how about you stop struggling and just accept your fate?" Dante asked raising his gun and taking aim, but to Dante's surprise Michael just slumped forward; he didn't try to escape or fight off Dante; he looked like he was just accepting his face.

Holy shit I didn't think he'd actually do it! He thought to himself confused but was taken out of his thoughts when the target started crying.

"Go ahead then kill me I deserve it," Michael choked out, Dante did a double take upon hearing that and even though it was raining Dante swore he saw tears streaming down the guy's face.

"Uh, what?" Dante asked dumbfounded.

"What I did I'll never forgive myself; I still see his face whenever I close my eyes, his cold soulless eyes staring back at me," he muttered, still looking down at the ground. Dante felt a pang of sympathy in his heart for this guy which he quickly pushed away.

"I didn't mean to kill him but that was a part of the initiation you had to do something to prove your loyalty I was just gonna wound him but," he stopped and clutched his head with his good hand and started sobbing.

"After I got out I sought to do good I went straight I got a job started a family, hell I even council troubled youths trying to stop them from making my mistakes, but your right why the hell should I have a happy ending when the guy I killed never got one so go ahead and kill me just leave my family alone please," he finished closing his eyes and preparing himself for the end.

Dante raised his gun to the target's head but found himself unable to fire, seeing the sight before him, a sad broken man trying to atone for his actions. It struck something in Dante. Dante had done terrible things in his life, things that to this day haunt him, it's part of the reason why he drinks, it's why he refuses to sleep as he still sees their faces at night, he remembers them with perfect clarity.

I remember Rose's face as the light faded from her eyes. I remember how Amelia looked when they pulled her out of the river, Dante shuddered at the memory. It was painful and he could see the pain on this man's face. Sighing, Dante lowered his gun.

"Get out of here," he said, Michael looked up in surprise not sure he heard him correctly.

"W-what?" he asked very confusedly.

"You heard me get out of here go," Dante replied gesturing to the entrance to the alleyway with his gun. Slowly getting to his feet Michael limped towards the exit not sure if he was serious or if this was all just a ploy but as he kept moving towards the exit, he realized that Dante was serious.

"Why are you letting me live when you were so adamant about killing me?" Michael asked turning around to face Dante.

"Because unlike all the others I've murdered you actually feel remorse for your actions and who am I to punish someone who is looking to turn his life around and atone for his sins, who am I to leave a kid without his dad, so yeah go fuck off, and try to make up for your actions or I'll find you and finish the job," Dante explained, Michael stared at him for a moment before quickly turning around and running out of the alley.

Making sure he was gone Dante quickly pulled out his phone and texted the others that the target escaped and that he was injured. Putting his phone away Dante whipped out his gun and held it to his shoulder, pulling the trigger he felt the bullet tear through his flesh and imbed itself in his bone. Falling to his knees Dante held his wounded shoulder, blood pouring through his fingertips, and waited for the others to get back.

Moxxie

Moxxie sat on the couch watching as a young man played guitar, Moxxie smiled as the kid had clearly listened to his instructions.

"Yeah, good job, just like that," Moxxie said proudly, impressed with his new protege's progress. Hearing his phone go off he pulled it out of his pocket and read the text.

"Oh crumbs," he said as he headed for the door.

"Hey where are you going?" the kid shouted after Moxxie.

"Sorry but something urgent came up and I got to go, remember what I told you and keep practicing and you'll do fine," he said before heading out the door.

Millie

Millie looked over a very large knife with a wide smile on her face, the blade was fine and sharp, sharp enough that just lightly grazing it drew blood, the hilt was made of very fine leather and fit perfectly in her hand, and the blade had notches on the end the bottom to collect blood and keep the hilt from getting slippery.

"So, what do you think?" the owner asked her though he was pretty sure he knew the answer.

"I fucking love it!" she shouted sounding like a child on Christmas, suddenly her phone dinged pulling it out, and the smile on her face quickly dropped to a concerned frown.

"Everything all right?" he asked noticing her sudden shift in attitude. Suddenly Millie bolted out the door leaving the guy stunned until he realized something important.

"Hey, you didn't pay for that knife!" he shouted after Millie.

Blitz

Inside a parked car with serious damage to the front a series of grunts and moans were echoing out as the car rocked back and forth. Suddenly a muffled ding was heard from inside followed by an 'Oh Shit', at that moment one of the doors flew open and a Blitz jumped out clothes in hand and ran down the road. As he was running a drunk half-naked woman stuck her head out of the door.

"Call me," she said in a slurred voice before passing out.

Back at the alley

Dante sat in the alley waiting for the others, the rain was still coming down hard, and Dante's clothes were soaked through completely, he shivered from the cold sensation. The others finally arrived their clothes like Dante's were soaked through, seeing his sitting on the ground blood oozing from his shoulder the three Imps rushed towards Dante, and if he didn't know any better he could have sworn he saw a lipstick mark on Blitz's neck.

"Ohh shit Dante are you alright baby?" Millie asked her voice taking on the kind maternal tone Dante had grown accustomed to hearing whenever she talked to him. Moving closer Millie began inspecting the wound.

"Dante, did you see where the target went?" Blitz asked not seeming to show any concern for his employees well being whatsoever.

"No sorry boss I'm not sure where he went," Dante said trying to get up but falling back down wincing in pain.

"Dante, how the hell did this happen?" Moxxie asked confused at how someone as skilled as Dante was taken down but what seemed like your typical joe shmoe.

"We were fighting I dropped my gun, and he was able to get a hold of it," Dante said Moxxie found this hard to believe though.

Dante is one of our best assassins there's no fucking way he would make such a clumsy mistake and get himself shot… now now I'm probably being too harsh we all mess up from time to time, Moxxie thought to himself but while Moxxie was willing to let this blunder slide Blitz was not.

"Great job Dante losing the target like that, now I got to call Loona to track him down," he scolded pulling out his phone and dialing his adopted daughter.

"No, go, Blitz, the way this rain is coming down there's no way she'll be able to track him," Dante explained forcing himself to his feet. Blitz was gonna argue but he realized that Dante was right.

Damn, I hate it when he's right, he thought to himself.

"Nevermind Loonie, just open a portal back to the office," Blitz said annoyed.

"Thanks for losing the target, Dante, it's not like we're trying to run a business here," Blitz said sarcastically, Dante just rolled his eyes.

The portal finally opened, and the members of IMP walked through as the portal began to close Dante looked back at the alleyway and smiled.

Epilogue

Dante laid in bed shoulder wrapped in bandages, Loona right next to him snoring away. Dante stared up at the ceiling, due to his injury Blitz sent him home early but not before giving him a 20-minute scolding on messing up and how by losing the target IMP's credibility was going to go down and that they were gonna have to refund the guy for failing which means a loss of income. Of course, Dante wasn't listening but he pretended to be sad and remorseful just so Blitz could feel like he was actually in charge, he was still the boss even if Dante found him to be an incompetent idiot not capable of running the team.

As Dante continued to stare at his ceiling, he thought back to the man he spared, he wondered if he really had the right to let the man live after all he had taken a life in cold blood, and yes while he did regret his actions was that enough to let him live? Honestly, Dante didn't know all he knew was that he felt bad for the guy, that the guy seemed genuinely remorseful and wanted to atone for his actions, who was Dante to decide if his crimes were worth death, God knows he's definitely done worse things. As he contemplated this he thought back to Rose, how when he was just a kid, he had told Rose of the dark deeds he had done while living on the streets, the muggings, the assaults the murders, he explained how most of those acts were done in self-defense done to protect himself and keep himself alive although he honestly doubted most would have accepted that justification. Rose did Rose didn't care about his past Rose saw the good in him she helped him fight off his darkness and find peace and happiness, she saw that deep down he was a good person and helped bring that part of himself out while most just saw him as nothing but a thug.

I guess I was just following the example she left, he thought to himself smiling, turning onto his side he closed his eyes and when he did an image of Princess Charlie flashed through his mind.

They have a lot in common, he thought to himself with a smile.

END

Another chapter down wow I did not expect this story to go on as long as it did, but I got to say I'm impressed with my dedication. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and tell me what you think, thanks for reading! ;)