Aria of the Devil Soul

Two Fair Ladies

"Excuse me, sir?" A voice from behind Dante asked him.

This young woman, it was clearly Niijima Makoto, codename Queen. She stood proud and confident in her torn black suit, her friend Okumura Haru, or Noire, behind her, her cute pink and white dress dirty from the tough time they seemed to have passed.

How practical and nice it was, to see them coming to him.

"Are you Dante Sparda? The devil hunter?" Makoto asked, cautious. She was hiding her friend, maybe girlfriend, behind her like she was protecting her.

"I'm he." Said Dante with confidence, his arms crossed on his chest to put emphasises on it. What? A guy can be proud of his man boobs. "What do you want, my ladies?" He wanted to know what they wanted from him before telling her he recognizes them from the information Lavenza gave him.

"My name is Jeanne." Said Niijima, confusing Dante. Why did she give her Persona's real name instead of her own. Was it because they fear someone would attack them? "And my wife, Charlotte." It was odder than before. Wasn't her Persona's name Milady or something? Did he missed something out while reading the files? "And we heard in town you can help us with our demons' problem."

"What kind of problems?" He decided to wait before revealing what he knew.

The knight lady sighed and explained. She, sometimes, translates in French what was said to her... wife. Weird way to say it. He maybe misread but he thought none of them crossed that bridge yet. Or maybe it was just a way they were together without people cutting them by asking out of place questions. Who will dare said anything to a married woman who looked like Niijima Makoto?

Anyways, "Jeanne" said they didn't know how they got into Capulet city since they were in a totally different country... let him guesses it, Japan? Yeah, but he... never mind. She gets where it came from.

"Jeanne, my dear, what's wrong? You seem so tense?"

"Everything is fine, my dear. Mister Dante just guess by our features that we are... Japanese."

Makoto had made a vague gesture toward her face before turning again to Dante to resume what she was saying to him.

They were a group of ten persons in a van when it happened. They barely had the time to understood what happened that demons attacked them on the spot, forcing them to split up to saves their lives. And if Jeanne was able to find one of her spouses, she was still looking for all the others.

And that was why she would need Dante's help.

She wouldn't be able to find everyone while protecting herself from a potential other attack. People in town told her Dante Sparda was the better devil hunter she would ever meet; he would help her with her demons' problems... if she was able to find him.

"So, what do you think? Would you help us?" That seemed fair.

"Well..." Dante sighed, unsure of what to say. "To be franc with you, the Devil May Cry already has a contract with Igor and Lavenza."

"What?!" Makoto seemed nervous, moving more in front of Haru in order to protect her with her own body.

"Jeanne, my dear, what did he say to scare you so much? Why did he mention Igor and Lavenza? Explain to me!"

And Makoto seemed to translate to Haru before asking harshly to Dante to explain himself.

He just sighed before doing what was asked.

He explained that, when the Velvet Room realized what happened to them, the very same night, they contacted the Devil May Cry. Why? To bring the Phantom Team home safe. Apparently, Dante's reputation was apparently so good even the Velvet Room guardians knew about him and his agency. That was why he, and the part of his team that were in town, were looking for them all around the town. Oh, and they weren't just in another town, but in another dimension.

Makoto seemed really thoughtful when hearing him before translating it to Haru. They seemed to argue, only in French for some odd reasons, for a bit before agreeing to believe him... but that didn't mean they wouldn't be cautious around him. That seemed fair.

Also, they have another problem to deal with. See, if they introduced themselves as Jeanne and Charlotte, it was not only because they wanted to be cautious around strangers... but because they were really Jeanne and Charlotte. Makoto and Haru were both unconscious in the back of their mind. Both ladies didn't know what to do to get their souls' partners back. But they would do anything they could to bring their loves back to them.

"Oh, I got it." Realised Dante, confusing the girls. "You are the Personae. Johanna... well, Jeanne d'Arc and Milady de Winter. I didn't know Charlotte was her name since I never read Alexandre Dumas." He didn't even know the guy's name until his brother told him, the very same morning. Same with George Bizet, Johnston McCulley, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Victor Hugo. Like his nephew, he was not a bookworm, like, at all.

He knew a bit about Maurice Leblanc... but only because Vitali and Credo were both reading the gentleman burglar's adventure the man wrote. Both in French and English. Meaning they have two copies of each book. But, either way, Dante would never have heard a single word about that mister Leblanc.

Anyway, Dante invited the two girls to follow him to his agency, where they would be able to rest before trying to find a way to free their humans' partners. That was the priority, just after finding the whole team. At the same time, he explained to them why they were brought here, in the first place. Because the girls still didn't know who wanted to cause them harm.

Were they mad when they learned the truth? Totally. Did they looked like they will kill for Ren, Arsène and Sathanaël? Of course.

Leading the girls, he knew it wouldn't that easy to find the others team members.

Two at the same time, lucky him. If only things were as easy when he was flirting with people, it would probably be in a stable relationship since a long time. The first one since Grue... but it never happened.