After the sparring sessions were finished, Ira and Dante had satisfied smiles on their faces, prompting the Golden Fox to ask if Dante also wanted to spar with her.
"I don't think we have enough space in here…" Dante replied.
"Heh, you are right… Let's leave it for so other ti, then," Ira said, still amused by the recent events.
Ira invited the Jade Dragons to stay for dinner, to which they agreed as they still wanted to keep talking with them.
Camille and linda were taking care of their business concerns and transfers, passing docunts between each other and signing them.
gan and Sophia were talking to Lindsey, who was enthusiastically asking gan questions about her powers.
Zac and Curtis were laughing and having fun, with the redhead praising the fire spells while the blond praised his strength and resilience.
On the other side of the table, Dante and Ira sat across each other, and the fox woman suddenly turned serious, glaring at the warlock.
"So, now that you are here… What's your objective?" Ira asked, keeping a low volu.
"My objective?" Dante pondered, letting out a slight smile.
"I just want to live peacefully—My ageless blessing is gone, so I would like to spend the rest of my ti relaxing and having fun…" he confidently replied.
Ira smiled with satisfaction at his response, knowing that warlocks rarely lied. Moreover, she trusted Dante's words, as he was the pupil of her good friend, Xander.
When the warlock heard the na of his old teacher, his expression turned a bit sour, but that didn't stop Ira from asking about him.
"The last ti I saw him, I was fifteen years old…" Dante replied, his tone holding back his anger.
The fox woman widened her eyes in shock, reminiscing very old mories with Xander, where the man asked her to personally visit Shadowvale and teach Dante mana control.
Ira was taking care of an animal sanctuary in the world of Terra when it started getting attacked by demons who wanted the "core" of the forest.
They t during the demonic attack after Xander arrived and helped the Sacred Beast clear the sanctuary of all demons.
Xander was a lone adventurer without a party, and even though he was a warlock, Ira knew he could trust the man, so they beca friends who would call on each other for help occasionally.
Several years later, Xander ntioned that he had a pupil living in Shadowvale, and Ira scolded him for leaving the kid alone in such a place.
"That boy will be the most powerful warlock in the world… All he needs is to leave that forsaken place," Xander said with a hopeful smile.
When Xander asked Ira to teach Dante mana control, she was initially hesitant but then felt curious about the boy and decided she would do it.
A few months after Ira taught Dante the basics of mana control, she t Xander for the last ti in a small town near Shadowvale, so she believed that the man was on his way to visit his pupil.
"You were right. That boy has incredible potential… How did you even find him?" Ira asked Xander as they shared a few drinks.
Xander smiled. "A friend asked for a favor, so I complied…" he said.
"I'll tell him everything about his parents when he is old enough to leave Shadowvale—His only worry right now should be learning how to suppress that monstrous umbra of his…" Xander continued.
After that final eting with Xander, Ira had her encounter with the mage Wolfram, where she fell into the convergence and arrived on Earth.
When Ira blinked a few tis, she was brought back to reality and glared at the warlock in disbelief.
"Dante… Did he never tell you?" Ira asked, and the warlock knew she was serious as she addressed him by na.
"I don't know what you are talking about… So, I guess not," he replied.
Ira tried to rember any details that Xander had given her back then, but the man never revealed any of the secrets he had about Dante's family tree.
Moreover, Xander never even ntioned this information to Dante, so he was wholly unaware that his teacher needed to tell him sothing important.
"Dante…" Ira muttered with a somber tone.
"It's fine—It was a long ti ago… At this point, I don't think I'm interested in knowing what he had to say to ," Dante said.
Once the group had dinner, they organized another eting for another day and were driven back to the hotel.
In the car, Dante noticed Zac was trembling a bit from excitent, wondering why his friend looked so nervous after the eting.
"Don't you get it, dude? That was a real fox lady!" Zac exclaid.
"Huh?" Dante humd.
"Look, Dante… There are n in this world who have been searching for a catgirl all their lives," Zac explained.
"They have?" the warlock sarcastically asked.
"That's right—and not only catgirls but any pretty woman with animal features…" Zac continued.
Suddenly, the redhead widened his eyes as an idea appeared in his head.
"Dante… C-could it be that your world had bunny girls!?" he asked, his tone slightly desperate.
"Umm… no," Dante replied, shattering all of the redhead's expectations.
"Although, I do rember there was a Sacred Beast like Ira called the Moon Rabbit… I've never seen her, but I suppose she could have the features of a bunny," the warlock continued, placing a hand on his chin.
Still, while Zac was joking around, he still inquired why Curtis and Lindsey looked like ordinary humans if they were descendants of Ira.
"That's because a human can't create another Sacred Beast…" Dante replied.
When two Sacred Beasts had a child, it would co out as another Sacred Beast. However, if a human were added to the mix, then the children would be human.
"Hmm, it's a bit sad… Miss Ira has lived through her beloved, her children, and her grandchildren dying of old age," Sophia comnted with a sad frown.
"Well, to be fair, she knew what she was getting into when she married a human… But I do agree that it's quite sad," Dante said.
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