A/N:
For Zet4 and other thinking the same thing : we are seeing the world throught the eye of Dante, this story's MC, because of this, the story is in a form of unreliable narrator, for those who do not know what this means, it means that all of his thought may or may not be correct. It mainly means that the thoughts he have may be wrong. As for the Aegir, without spoiling anything, him thinking like that will both be explained and play a role later on.
As for my usage of '?', it is for showing a face full of question, one that you can directly see on the character's face without either writing a description and having our MC think about it, since it could indeed be a problem for some, I'll restrain myself and try to not use them as much.
For bahrithariq, Vergil is indeed going to be a character in this story, as for where and when ? I won't spoil too much, but it's shouldn't be soon.
Hope you like this chapter, they pop out fast but I have a ton of idea that come in my head during the day, thanks to that I can write a lot.
I'm starting my last year of school, so it's going to be impossible during some month to post anything so that I can take care of exams, other than that, expect at least a chapter per weeks, as long as I have the ideas.
Without futher ado, let's start this chapter !
My mother was well seemingly well known.
The problem was that it was difficult for me to see what was seen in the eyes of a kid who always thought 'My mom's the best !' and what the actual truth was.
There still is some stuff that was consistent for all of my memories.
My mother was a pretty weird person.
She was blond, totally contrasting my short black hair, her halo was bright, so bright she usually wore sunglasses, even indoor.
Although I still think that's just because she found them cool.
What's for sure is that my eyes were the same as mine.
While gray eyes usually mean blindness, both her and my eyes were a dull gray, but we could see just fine.
She, most likely, was the best textbook definition of a tomboy.
Outgoing, always in sports wear, even at home for that matter, she trained hard and had a chisled body.
She also was an expert at teasing someone, my father always was a blushing mess when she get a little serious.
They both were really happy, and took care of me, even with my fallen status, that I always had.
Overall really good parents. The kid I was before and the me now both think the same in that regard.
But if there was one thing that everyone saw and could critisize my mother for was most defently her recklesness.
It's one of the main reason why I, once I got my memory back, didn't think twice about her dying.
She always came back coverd in wounds and burn marks, but that wasn't the worst.
The worst is when she came back bloodied and went around making breakfast like if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
It's one of the main reason I think of her as an absolute badass.
I never understood how she died, nor did I evet get an explanation.
I might discover the full truth someday, but what I'm more worried is knowing how my father died.
He was cautious, sometimes too much, and always was the voice of reason for my mom.
He was also a very good spotter and could see things from stupidly large distance, so much so that I thought he had photographic memory and just remeberd the layout of the entire city just to tell me what shop was open even though it was more than 2 km away.
If he died with mom in the same mission, it wasn't because of my mother recklessness.
While she always pushed her limits to a dangerous degree, he was there to make sure she never went overboard, and the unconditinal trust she had of him made sure to save her ass a lot of the time.
The fact that other seems to have the opinion of my mother doesn't surprise me, but that they didn't know she was married was another.
"All of this to say that, since he's that mad women's kid, he will be fine no matter what."
"Yeah, for real, that girl was unkillable, I heard the only way they had to kill her off was shutting her of her team and just rush at her till she couldn't take it anymore."
"That's pretty much what happend, but it's not the full story, sadly that incident is classified, so I shall have to refrain from discussing it."
"Alright, alright."
"We shall now prepare for our mission, the delay is the rest of the day, we reconvine in 3 hours in front of the building, a vehicule will wait for us there."
"Alright, I'll go get a couple things and wait there ~."
And there goes one with a wave.
"I shall take my leave too. I have much to pack."
And the big guy follow.
"I'll do the same, I already packed my things so I'll join Faustina."
And the last one gone. Only Andoain, Cassius and me.
"Dante, I recommand you to do the same, you have much to take care of."
"Yeah, yeah, I got it. I'll take care of my things, Cassius."
And after all that, I'm going back to my room to get my things.
I'm neither dissapointed nor happy, no waifu here, since all of them are twice my age, maybe even thrice for some, so I'll have to just hold myself back from shooting the snake and if Tahlula is already with that asshole, I'll just warn her.
Best I can think of right now, I may get a better idea on the way.
I'll just think about it on the way to him, and if she isn't there well, it's fine.
It's just the fate of a mobile city, the world view of the infected, and the life of a lot of cute waifu.
Just a casual tuesday right ?
Let's just get ready...
After getting all of my stuff organised for at least a month, since this mission is going to get long and boring pretty fast, I'm arriving at the front of the building, still with my long coat to hide the horns.
Honnestly, my horns are annoying as hell.
They're pretty long from my point of view, I need to hide them so that I'm not just hated on by anyone that see me on the streets, more so when I'll be outside of Laterano, since while they can see my black halo, the moment they see horn and tail they'll think 'Sarkaz' and that's a can of worms I have no desire to consider.
Pro with the horns : they block out my hair so even when my hair gets long on the front it get stuck on them so my vision isn't obstructed in combat.
"Dante, we are going to start without you, so come now !"
"I'm not even late !"
"Everyone is ready, and the sooner we're there, the sooner we come back !"
I actually arrived 4 minutes in advance, why are all of them in the car already ?!
Can't I get a break for a second ?
Let's just get this started...
...
This voyage is boring as hell, like I thought.
We're just driving on rough terrains, thank god for modern technology, because my butt would not survive if it didn't had those system.
Well, all in all, could be worse.
We are making decent progress to Ursus, and that's a plus in my book. After that, to Lungmen we go.
Oh yeah, never really spoke about from where to where I was going.
At first I thought of it as weird for Kashey of all people to be going towards Lungmen, then I remebered what year it was.
1071 for those who forgot.
And well, something intersting is going to be happening in a few years, Kashey trying to invade Lungmen.
Now that I know what the hell is happening, I'm both a little worried and I understand better why all but Andoain survived this event.
Yeah, I'm convinced all of them are going to die.
Except Andoain and Cassius, but he's going to be killed afterwards.
Why ? Simple.
How is Kashey going to ennemy territory undected ?
By hiding under another contry's entry.
Also known as : US.
He's going to use the Laterano envoy as distraction so that he can infiltrate Lungmen easily.
Then do his evil plot or whatever to prepare his future invasion, which is going to get us into trouble.
The fight's going to be intense, we're going to be thought as the perpetrators of this and only Andoain and Cassius were supposed to live, only for Cassius to be executed to prevent a war againts Yen, so that they understand that it wasn't the 'will' of Laterano but of a few individual.
This also explain Andoain of the future, that shell of a men doing whatever he can to change Laterano, he saw some of the worst in the other contries, just like he saw the best in them.
Truly riveting stuff.
But then again, with what I know, this could be prevented.
By shifting this into being the will of Ursus fighting Yen.
If it's done right, Ursus may even sacrifice Kashey to prevent a war with Yen, since right now they defently aren't ready to face Yen, even in one on one.
The reason being that the contry is in huge political shit.
The Emperor may have a strong hold, but the nobility have a huge chunk too.
For the nobility that follow the Emperor ? It changes nothing.
For those opposing him ? It changes EVERYTHING.
So the Emperor is cleansing his territory of those guys.
Because of that, Ursus is the most vulnerable it has been in years.
An oppurtunity then, I could just get Kashey to mess up, the invasion in 1077 prevented, Tahlula not captured and all is well !
Just having to try not to be part of the reason a war is going to break out in 6 years.
Just going to be GREAT.
... Well it could be worse, so let's hope it doesn't come to that.
For the few month of time, it's probably not going to be traveling time, even though it will take a week from where we are to Kashey in Ursus.
He is deep in northen territory apperently, and is waiting for us to pick him up.
Annoying as hell, since it'll take another week to get to Lungmen, and we're dropping him of to Chernobog.
How reviting, let's just insert a 'I understood that reference' meme here.
Well then, it's more boring waiting time...
At least I'm not alone in boredom.
"Urgh, why couldn't that stupid snake be in Chernobog to BEGIN WITH ?"
"It would indeed be faster, but he is well known for being difficult to work with."
"How long do you think it'll take to get there again ?"
"Again ? It's been the fourth time the question has been asked, in 6 days."
Well, let's just take a nap...
Putting on blindfold... Now.
Hello again.
It's been a couple day since we got in Ursus's border.
We are now a couple hours away to our destination.
We are currently discussing on how best to deal with our seventh passenger.
Maybe eight ? Don't know.
We have no idea if we are supposed to also add his guards to the car of it they come in their own ..?
Well that's why we're discussing it in the first place. Nothing too crazy.
"In the end, I think it's better to get a second car, who is for it ?"
"I think all of us, having to sit with him is going to get annoying fast."
"Agreed, Nica."
Well, since it seems like it's decided, I guess I'll just relax for the rest of the way.
"Dante, what do you think ?"
"What ? About if Kashey should be in the car with us ? Defently don't want him to."
"Well, if even the new guy says so, let's do just that !"
Alright, this time, let's just kick back and relax...
"-nte, Dante !"
Oh, seems like we're here.
"I'm up, don't worry."
"It's the fact that I don't know which worried me, we are getting ready for the mission."
"Alright then, let's go."
Wow this is cold.
After exiting the vehicule, there really isn't any better way to describe this place.
And this is where I'll meet one of the most evil character in this game, the famous Kashey who is behind the entirity of the reunion arc, the most brutal of them.
Oh how happy I am, to meet such an esteem being !
Of course, that was irony.
"Ah, finnaly, envoy of Laterano always takes their time for everything don't they ?"
This day is going to be very long...