The End of His Tale

two

"Well, no one's worse for wear,"

Lady looks at Nico, who is leaning out of the window of her van, cigarette between her fingers.

Oriana, V and Trish walked through one of the corridors of the Qlipoth.

Upon seeing the trio's arrival, Dante nods in their direction.

Lady walks past Dante, telling him how she was going to double check something. Lady glances in Oriana's direction for a second, raising her eyebrow.

Trish and Dante exchange glances and V just ignores Dante to go sit down.

"Here, take this back,"

Dante handed her Cavaliere.

Oriana laughs.

"You can have it for now, I have a feeling it will be useful,"

She waves her hand in front of her face.

"Return it when this whole..."

She gestures to the walls of the Qlipoth.

"...Thing is over,"

"Aw, thanks sweetheart,"

"I go by Angel now,"

She grins at Dante.

"Whatever you say, sweetheart,"

"But more importantly,"

Dante hardened his expression from the smirk he had before and turned his attention to V, who was resting on the branches of the Qlipoth.

"Where did that garbage god go? What is Urizen after?"

Oriana frowned but then was reminded that he was talking about Urizen.

"He's at the top of the Qliphoth,"

V breathes out slowly, sucking in air in between words. Oriana stared at him, looking at his pale face and the particles of skin that were falling off him.

"It's the other way around, Dante. This is the lowest level of the Qliphoth's upper echelon. Human blood is the source of demons' power. The fruit born through the Qliphoth is even more dense than the blood that created it,"

Trish elaborated for Dante.

"Its power is unparalleled. The Prince of Darkness, Mundus, even used it to become king of the Underworld. V told us everything,"

Oriana waits for Trish to finish before speaking and moves to V's side.

"Yeah well, that's a lovely story and all, but... as long as we know where to find him,"

Nico shuffled in from the side to nervously talk to Dante.

"V, are you okay?"

"What do you think?"

"How much time?"

"Enough,"

She sighed and stood closer to V, gesturing for him to lean on her waist.

He begrudgingly did so. As soon as his head impacted her waist, she put her hand on his hair, stroking it softly.

Soft.

She watches as Nico stutters and presents Dante her gift for him. A cowboy hat adorned with red crystals.

Dante flips the hat onto his head and begins his dance sequence.

Oriana clapped with delight as Dante nails the moonwalk.

He ends the dance pointing in Nico's direction.