"What do you want? I'm sure I can give you anything," she questioned, quite serious. Dante just smiled mischievously; after all, he could ask for anything, right?
"Understand, anything, huh?" Dante said thoughtfully. Well, he was thinking of something he never thought they would mention. After all... Well, he was romantic, but at the same time, greedy, and if he could snag something... he would bite without letting it escape.
"I want both of you to be mine," Dante said, with a mischievous smile, leaving both Linnea and Fey a bit... confused?
"Ehhh??? I'm your teacher!" Linnea shouted quickly, not giving time to continue the conversation; she was internally freaking out just hearing that. "So what? You're my ex-teacher," Dante said with a mischievous smile while watching Linnea's hilarious reactions. She turned completely red and looked like she was going to explode.
After all, she was a single woman, and having a husband at her age would certainly be good, but she was the Avatar of the World Tree!
"I knew something bad was going to happen, I sensed something bad was going to happen, why did something so bad have to happen! Why! Why! Now I've become a bargaining chip! I'm not a coin! I'm Linnea!" She screamed internally, fighting a big battle with herself.
After all, "But he's young, knows how to take care of a woman, has the strongest women by his side... No! Definitely not! He's my student!!!"
Meanwhile, Fey... she seemed to be doing hundreds of thousands of calculations, and Dante knew what she would answer. After all, well, we are talking about Dante. Recently he has been collecting women like a Pokkecron hunter... Let's put it that way to avoid lawsuits, shall we?
Seeing how the woman, or rather, the tree, was really thinking, he decided to give her a little push to accept this. "If you become mine, I can protect this world with even more dedication. After all, you're part of this world, aren't you? If you become my wife, then this world is mine, and I take very good care of what is mine," Dante said with an extremely greedy smile.
After all, he had already claimed the very sin of greed for himself! Besides, his words made a lot of sense.
You see, the World Tree is the creator of this planet. It provides all the nutrients for the planet to develop, and in the grand scheme of things, it is fixed to the planet and cannot disconnect from it.
"Oh, by the way, sign this," Dante said, tossing a not-so-golden paper that differed from the contracts he had made with Valentina.
"What is this?" Linnea asked, "A contract, or did you think I would consider you mine without securing proper rights? Haha, I'm a businessman. Read and sign." Dante said. Fey looked him in the eyes, "Give me the other one. This one won't do." Her eyebrow arched, "Why won't it do?" He asked, genuinely puzzled.
"Give me the black contract," she commanded. Dante remained confused, "Black contract? I don't have one." He said, but then he heard a distorted voice inside his head, "Here." A red and black contract appeared. "Oh, this is new," Dante said. "But why do we need such a contract?" He asked. The woman sighed, "I forget you're not yet a progenitor.
A contract with a World Tree must be made this way, or you'll die." She said without much explanation. "Here, sign." She instructed after modifying the contract with natural energy. It turned a dark green, almost black, with golden and red lettering.
"Done..." Linnea said, handing the contract to Dante, who then signed his part of the contract with Fey. Once again, a calming energy surged through his body, filling him completely, and Dante felt something new. "Your location?" He asked, and she nodded. "You can now come to me anytime. I can't be with you all the time, nor can Linnea. She needs rest and work, or she will go insane.
Look," Fey pointed at Linnea, who was pacing back and forth in distress, biting her nails.
"I married my student," she murmured as she paced to the left. "But it was his choice, I had no choice, it's for the good of the world," she muttered, walking back to the right. "No, stop using that excuse, you accepted because you wanted to," she said, turning left again...
"Will she be alright?" Dante asked, now genuinely concerned about the health of his second-favorite elf, after Misty. "Probably. She's just denying the repressed desires of a single woman," Fey said authoritatively. "And what about you?" She asked Dante, who seemed ready to leave, concerned about Aaralyn's report and the recent absence of Vex.
"I'm heading back to Aldria to report all that happened here and to triple the security in the Empire. I killed many demons when I acquired the Sin of Greed, yet their influence hasn't waned... I need to stay alert and train more. After that, I'll talk to Lyrianna and then to Vlad about the problems with the Vampire Counts." He detailed his next steps, which made Fey feel... a strange sensation...
"Why are you telling me all this in such detail?" She asked, feeling an unusual sentiment seeing his honesty and thoroughness. After all, they had just met a few hours ago. Why was he being so... responsible?
"What do you mean, why? You are my wife now, get used to it." Dante said, smiling as he spread six black wings. "I'm going home. If you want to see me, I'll be there. See you later, my dears." He said, then took off at supersonic speed...
"I married... my student." Fey heard Linnea's lament and sighed, "Come on, child, we need to take care of our home." She said as she vanished like dandelion seeds blown by the wind...