"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.
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.