Chapter 216: A life without regrets, Voralith's decision
Chapter 216: A life without regrets, Voralith's decision
"Sorry, I needed to recall some bad memories," she said calmly as she hugged Dante, who was actually a bit curious. Why such a sudden change? This woman at least used to let him touch her body, but now... He felt her whole body, even her heart beating strongly, and he could sense her completely.
"Are you okay?" He asked, for some reason... he was genuinely concerned, as if... something was off.
"Yes... I... just followed the legacy I had, I needed to understand some things, but it seems like it's been in front of me all this time," Voralith said as she pulled away from Dante. "How long was I gone? I'm sure just a few hours wouldn't make you look like this."
Whistle
Dante started whistling as he looked into nothingness... "Dante..." She murmured.
"Two hours," Voralith heard a feminine voice coming from the stairs, and when she turned, she saw Morgana and Valentina descending the stairs. "W-What?" She stammered and looked at Dante, incredulous.
"That's right, this idiot almost devastated the kingdom just to try to find you after disappearing for two hours," Valentina said, looking at Dante really angry. "S-Sorry, darlings," Dante stuttered, seeing he was in a complicated situation here.
For a moment, the three women looked at Dante really seriously, but... "Fufufufu!" Voralith started laughing, something that... none of them had ever seen before.
Morgana and Valentina exchanged surprised looks, unsure how to react to that unusual scene. "Voralith, are you... laughing?" Morgana asked, incredulous.
"Yes, I am," Voralith replied, still laughing. "Forgive me, but the idea of Dante devastating the kingdom for my sake is... hilarious." She wiped a tear from laughter. "He's really a fool, isn't he?" Dante didn't know how to react, as if... he'd been caught, he scratched his neck. "I just...
got worried, you know? I didn't know what had happened."
Valentina, although still angry, relaxed a bit. "You really need to learn to control your emotions, Dante. We can't have you losing your head every time something like this happens."
"The pot calling the kettle black, you would've done something much worse," Morgana said, looking at Valentina without showing any expression.
Valentina narrowed her eyes, but her tone softened. "Perhaps, but at least I know better how to hide the evidence," she said with a mischievous smile.
Voralith laughed again, feeling a wave of relief wash over her.
"Well, it seems like we all have a bit of impulsiveness, don't we?" she commented, this moment was really different, and Dante didn't even know how to react, he never expected the Three Milfs to start talking so calmly and get along so well, he already knew about the jabs Morgana and Voralith exchanged, but that was never really something bad, but this? It was really surreal.
Morgana shrugged. "I like to protect what's mine. But that's what makes us strong, even if we're obsessed with that man," she commented, looking at Dante with a dark gaze, "H-Hey, calm down!" He quickly said raising his hands in surrender.
"Tsk, cheap flirt," Valentina said turning around, "Hey, where are you going? I thought you were going to take care of Hellsing," Dante said quickly, "Talking to Vlad first, then I'll ask Kaalindra to talk to the Valkyries." Valentina said and disappeared into the flames.
"She... what's gotten into her?" Dante questioned, but only saw Morgana and Voralith shrugging at him. "So... what happened to you?" Dante turned to Voralith. "I needed to unlock a Legacy I had stored," Voralith said, and Dante raised an eyebrow.
"A legacy?" Dante questioned and she nodded, "Yes, but unlike Arthur who gave you a sword and his battle knowledge, I just had a conversation with the owner of the legacy." She commented, still remembering those words.
Morgana listened curiously, she wanted to understand more about the legacies, after all, her brother gave his legacy to her husband. So she really wanted to understand about the legacies, something that...
doesn't really make sense in this world, they seem like common magics that show things, but in Dante's case, he not only received a sword, but Arthur Pendragon's knowledge, and there's still Merlin who hasn't revealed anything to Dante yet, well, at least she knew only about this.
"And what happened?" Dante asked, but she held back and decided to keep some information to herself. "I saw the end of my Sector." She revealed, hiding all the last words of the Dragon Lord, after all... Dante may be his reincarnation, and Voralith doesn't want to risk revealing something that doesn't fit Dante now.
"Reliving memories that can cause me trouble is complicated, I thought I couldn't come back, but here I am." Voralith said, and Dante felt some things coming from Voralith... "That feeling." He thought again, this was something he had been bothering for a while.
Morgana was carefully watching what she was saying, but Voralith... wouldn't say anything more in front of this knowledge-crazy woman. "Sorry Morgana, but I'll take him away for a while," Voralith said and quickly grabbed Dante's hand and they disappeared...
"Submit to him already, you damned hag, I have to understand this damn legacy shit and I know damn well you know about it," she said to the wind. "Tsk, I haven't had my turn yet! Dragon-damned problems!" She shouted, referring to Eldrax and Voralith.
"Ah~ I hope I'm very well rewarded when my turn comes, he's already driving me crazy." Morgana said as she turned around and came face to face with Sylvia stepping out of a white portal...
"Master... we have a problem..." Sylvia said fearfully, after all... Morgana's face didn't look happy at all, at the same time... "Good, I needed something to do anyway, that damned man didn't give me anything to do while I wait," Morgana said and followed Sylvia... who was speechless, after all, she thought she was going to be turned into a toad or something like that.
While Morgana followed Sylvia to deal with these so-called problems, Dante found himself in a... curious place, to say the least.
"Where are we? I don't remember a place like this," Dante questioned, of course, it was very different from anything he had ever seen, they were in a kind of Courtyard.
The courtyard was a large circle with a small tea table in the center, with cushions on the floor to sit on, and the atmosphere... was very unique, with a huge orange sunset and the ground covered in red flower petals, and looking up he saw a huge tree with the same red petals covering the whole place.
It was something really mystical that he had never seen in his entire life, he could only admire it.
"It's my mental world or domain expansion, I guess that's what you call it...
but in my land, it was known as the 'Mystic World,' an imaginary and metaphysical world created by the concentration of your soul and strength, some even have entire dimensions within themselves, I, however, always preferred to have just a small dimension for private conversations or to keep things," she said softly as she placed a small cup in front of Dante, who was sitting near the table in a lotus position.
"It's one of the most beautiful I've ever seen," he said, holding some red petals falling in the wind. "Usually the ones I see involve a lot of blood and wars."
Voralith smiled, seeming pleased with his reaction. "It's a personal refuge, a place where I can connect with my essence and find inner peace," she explained, pouring tea into the small cup in front of Dante. "I hope you feel comfortable here."
Dante took the cup and took a sip of the tea, enjoying the smooth and comforting flavor. "It's delicious," he commented, looking at Voralith with a smile.
"But why are we here exactly? You seem different..." Dante commented, putting aside the fantasy of the place and getting straight to the point he wanted to understand; normally... this woman was too cold.
"Ah~ trying to change the subject," she murmured, putting aside the fantasy as he did. "I remembered many things, when you live for a long time your memories become incomplete, I think a lot of things make sense now," Voralith said, returning to her completely serious self.
"And does this have to do with me?" He questioned, it seemed like something wasn't adding up. "Let's just say... there was something that was holding me back from many things," Voralith said, and Dante raised an eyebrow.
"I don't think it's time for us to talk about what really happened, so I'll just give you a summary..." Voralith said and stood up, her clothes began to change, but her body remained the same.
She stood in front of Dante for a few seconds, her eyes closed. "My original name is Li Mei, I was a disciple of the Demon Dragon Lord Azi Dakaha, the Dragon Progenitor." Dante heard that and couldn't help but be curious. "Why are you telling me this?" Dante said, his analytical gaze beginning to see the woman as a whole.
"The Legacy my Master left me was something only I could understand. And I understood his words. A life without regrets, that's what I want to have," she said, her eyes slightly gleaming and her face seeming more... Happy.
Dante had never seen Voralith like this before; he found her a rather insensitive woman, unsentimental, and very serious, but... This woman... Seemed... so familiar and so incredible now.
"Voralith... I'm not exactly understanding where you're going with this," he said, however, the woman began to approach him, and he remained still.
"I'm following my desire, a world without my regrets, a world where I can live, one day after another, a world that..." She said.
What did Voralith decide after her conversation with her former master?
She no longer cares about her past regrets; she realized that from the beginning, he trusted her to lead him into the next eras, not only him, but all the others who died with him were probably part of the equation; she was too attached to her past, barely thinking about her present, she wanted to relive to try to make up for what was lost, but this...
no longer matters, of course, she still feels the feelings of that time, despite having lost some things over the thousands of years living.
Voralith... Wants to live again, not as a woman seeking something, but as a woman who lives one day after another, alongside whom she likes to spend her time.
"a world where I can live with you," she said, with a smile that Dante... couldn't say anything, and Voralith... leaned in on him.
Finally, after ten years of living together, they sealed a kiss.