When Dante and Zac walked back to their apartnt after having completed their contract, the redhead kept looking at his body as if he was expecting sothing to happen.
"Strange. I don't feel any different…" the redhead muttered.
"That's a good sign. I once absorbed the soul of a demon that paralyzed for a week—it was quite painful, too," said Dante with a casual tone.
"So, you are just telling about this risk now!?" Zac nervously asked.
"Don't worry. I only applied a little power to it to make sure it was safe…" the warlock replied.
As he elaborated, he went into detail about the process of making the orb and how he used a small piece of a demon's soul in the mix, which would improve Zac's physical abilities.
However, hearing that he had eaten a piece of a demon's soul left the redhead in shock, wondering if it was truly safe for him.
"I processed the soul with my magic. There is almost no malice in it, so you won't have the nightmare side effects…" Dante continued, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk montarily.
"By the way, do you see anything different?" the warlock asked his friend.
"Hmm, everything does look a little blurry—Wait, don't tell I'll have a side effect that makes blind!" Zac exclaid, nervously taking off his glasses.
"Huh? Everything looks clear…" the redhead muttered, realizing that his vision had improved.
Dante nodded in approval, saying that his vision also counted as physical abilities, so Zac wouldn't need to wear glasses anymore.
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The following morning, the pair woke up in their living room a few minutes before Sophia arrived with breakfast for them.
As the redhead helped Sophie set up the table, she inquired why he wasn't wearing his glasses, and Zac wasn't sure how to respond.
"We made a contract yesterday. His vision will probably be slightly better than the average person's…" Dante interjected, answering the question for him.
"Umm, what?" Sophia asked, wholly confused.
The warlock explained to her everything they were doing the previous night, and she looked sowhat concerned, but Dante kept reassuring her that it was safe.
Even when the blonde wasn't aware of all the different risks that ca from absorbing a demon's soul or ingesting their blood, she knew that it wasn't sothing that ordinary people could do.
Zac chid in to say that he felt perfectly fine, alleviating Sophia's worries before they made their way to the campus.
After Dante waited in the courtyard with his BeamDeck for his friends to finish their lessons, he t up with Victoria and Sophia to go to the cafeteria.
"Have you guys noticed that Turner hasn't shown up on campus for days? It feels so peaceful…" Victoria comnted, sounding relieved.
"Why did he keep bothering you?" Dante asked, saying that he knew that Turner liked to go after pretty girls, but he seed especially attached to Victoria.
"We went on a date in high school. Once…" she replied.
"Honestly, I only said yes because I was scared of him back then," Victoria continued.
She told the warlock that, during her ti in high school, the bully was even more aggressive toward people and would lash out whenever things didn't go his way.
Any ti that another man approached Victoria, Turner would end up beating them up, and it happened so many tis that Victoria ended up isolated from the rest of her classmates out of fear.
"He got a bit more ta when we started attending college, but he kept threatening people around …" Victoria explained.
'Yeah, I rember that…' The warlock thought.
At that mont, they were interrupted by Zac, who arrived full of vigor and instantly noticed Victoria's apprehensive deanor.
"What happened?" The redhead asked, seemingly worried for the girl.
When Victoria turned to see Zac, she chuckled, saying that everything was fine and extruding a vast amount of positive energy.
'Hmmm, it seems she likes Zac even more now…' The warlock thought.
"Did you change your glasses to contacts?" Victoria innocently asked the redhead.
"Uhh, yeah!" he replied, hiding the truth from her since she wasn't aware of Dante's true identity.
"Looks good…" Victoria muttered, turning her gaze away while blushing.
"Th-thanks!" said the redhead, his face showing the sa color as his hair.
After an awkward silence ensued, Victoria broke the ice by talking about her job and how they were having another event on the weekend, inviting them to attend.
The warlock seed interested since the only ti he went to a nightclub in the modern world was to kill a shadow demon, and he wanted to know what the authentic experience of a nightclub was like.
Camille hadn't planned anything for Dante on Saturday, so he saw no problem in accepting her invitation, to which Zac and Sophia joined.
Later that day, after Dante and Zac returned to their apartnt, gan knocked on their door, wearing her cropped tank top and leggings, asking Dante if he wanted to go to the gym.
"Yes. I was actually going to ask you," Dante replied, turning his gaze at the redhead.
"You are coming too, Zac," the warlock continued, but gan's beauty had briefly hypnotized the redhead.
"Oh, you are talking to ?" he asked, slightly shaking his head.
"Yup. Co on, we've gotta test your skills," Dante replied, beckoning him with his hand.
gan, who wasn't aware of the contract between the two friends, inquired about Dante's insistence for Zac to accompany them, so the warlock explained everything to her.
However, the brunette didn't seem shocked or worried about the redhead—she was more interested in what he could do now.
"It should only increase his physical abilities. It was my first ti doing it, but I think I did a pretty good job," Dante explained.
"Oh, I thought you would make him capable of casting spells…" gan said, sowhat indifferent.
"Well, not exactly. Zac has no umbra control, so if I gave him an ability that needed it to activate, it would be pretty useless…"
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