Waiting is always the most tormenting, Enzo felt as if his heart was stabbed by a knife, he, who believed in money above all, for the first time prayed inwardly, praying that the Lord God of the heavens could help him.
But he had no idea that the Lord God had already fallen into slumber, and that the revival ritual had been interrupted by Aiden and Bayonetta and the others.
But this world did not have only Jubileus as the one Lord God, or perhaps it was being tainted by some of Aiden's luck, just as Enzo was praying in his heart, his cellphone rang.
Hearing the ringtone, the few people sitting around the bar all stopped their actions, Jeanne even used magic to create a barrier, blocking out the outside sounds.
At this moment, Enzo had already quickly pulled out his phone, after glancing at the number he hurriedly answered, shouting urgently, "Are my children okay?"
"Don't worry, they are doing very well right now." On the other end of the line came a cold voice.
At the same time the people inside the barrier also heard children's laughter coming from the other end, this made Enzo let out a long breath.
"Looks like the kidnapper is not a vicious woman." Bayonetta said casually, "Perhaps she also likes your children."
"Maybe." Enzo did not dare to be careless, he continued speaking into the phone, "May I ask where you want to meet, I'll come right away, also, what exactly do you need, so I can make preparations."
"No need for you to prepare anything, I just need you to take me to find one person." The woman said, but her voice was somewhat muffled, as if she was chewing something in her mouth.
Enzo quickly asked, "Find who?"
"Dante!"
Hearing this name, Enzo fell silent, after a long while, he spoke with difficulty, "I can tell you the city he is in, but… I cannot take you there."
"Then don't even think about seeing your children again." The cold female voice said, "What if you give me a false address? So it's better to trouble you to personally take me there once."
In fact this was exactly what Enzo was planning, though he was a businessman, he still valued friendship and loyalty, Dante was his friend, also his client, he could not possibly betray his friend.
But seeing that he could not fool that woman, Enzo could only glance once at Aiden and the others.
The three of them nodded, so Enzo continued speaking into the phone, "Alright, I agree, so where shall we meet?"
"I'm already in your house!"
"What?" Hearing the woman say she was in his house, Enzo shot up to his feet, shouting into the phone, "Don't you hurt my wife…"
"Don't worry, I won't lay a hand on a human woman, oh, right, remember to come earlier, otherwise the cake your wife made will be eaten all by myself." After the woman finished speaking, she hung up the call.
Watching Enzo, who after putting away the phone ran straight out, Jeanne withdrew the barrier, at the same time saying, "Generally speaking, women who like to eat sweets usually don't have bad personalities!"
"I agree with that." Bayonetta nodded at the side, "I kind of want to see that woman quickly, perhaps we'll even have a common language!"
'You certainly do have a common language, if I remember correctly, that woman also loves shopping and dressing herself up, moreover, just like you two she is extremely conceited…'
Aiden glanced at them, shook his head, then followed them out of the bar.
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Worried for his family's safety, Enzo pushed his driving skills to the extreme, the drive that usually took over half an hour this time took less than ten minutes, and he had already arrived at his doorstep.
Just as the car stopped, Aiden stopped Enzo, who had jumped out and was about to rush into the house.
"Don't rush, let us first make some preparations."
What they were about to face was one of the heroines from another plot world, though he knew her personality, Aiden still decided to be cautious.
Then Aiden pulled out his handgun, giving Bayonetta and Jeanne each a look.
The two witches put away their careless expressions, they excelled at hunting angels, but this kind of job of rescuing hostages was their first time, not to mention the target person could also use demonic powers, they had to be cautious and not hurt Enzo's wife and children.
"Cereza, Jeanne, you two circle from both sides, but don't act first, let me and Enzo go in first, if negotiations break down, then you launch an assault… that is, attack."
The two witches nodded, one to the left and one to the right heading to the sides of the house, halfway they used magic to transform into cats, lightly leaping onto the roof of the second floor.
Seeing this, Enzo froze for a moment, briefly distracted.
"Aiden, don't you feel that the cat Bayonetta turned into looks a bit familiar?"
"You guessed right, that cat is Bayonetta transformed."
Enzo, "…"
After that, the two walked one behind the other to the doorway.
Enzo pulled out his key, carefully unlocked the door, and pushed it open to walk inside.
"Dear, you're back."
Seeing Enzo, his wife, wearing an apron standing beside the kettle as if waiting for the water to boil, exclaimed in surprise.
Enzo nodded to her, then his gaze fell on a blonde woman in a black trench coat sitting beside the dining table, and on both sides of the blonde woman sat his daughter and son, only from their expressions, they seemed very happy, not at all like children who had been kidnapped.
Behind him, Aiden was also sizing up the blonde woman, though he already knew her face was very beautiful, her figure also excellent, so his focus was more on the doughnut in her hand.
Seeing the blonde woman taking big bites of the doughnut, Aiden swallowed a mouthful of saliva, though not because he craved it, for he had eaten the doughnuts Enzo's wife made before, which were no different than directly eating sugar, so seeing the blonde woman calmly eating this kind of sugar-overloaded doughnut, he only felt his teeth ache.
While Aiden was looking at the blonde woman, the blonde woman also noticed him, seeing the gun in his hand, she didn't mind at all, only asked Enzo, "Is he the helper you invited?"
"Sort of!" Before Enzo could speak, Aiden answered himself.
After thinking, he simply walked out from behind Enzo, sat down opposite the blonde woman, placed the gun on the table, then introduced himself, "My name is Aiden, may I ask lady, what is your name?"
The blonde woman glanced at the gun on the table, it was just an ordinary Beretta 92F, so her gaze quickly returned to Aiden, her voice cold as she said, "Trish!"
"Trish, ah, that's a good name, very fitting for a beautiful lady like you." Aiden said with emotion, just a pity there was no tea in front of him, otherwise after saying that line if he could take a sip of tea, he would appear even more gentlemanly.
However, just as he thought this in his heart, a steaming cup of black tea was placed in front of him, Enzo's wife who served it even asked considerately, "Would you like some sugar?"
"Better ask Miss Trish, she should like her black tea sweet." Aiden gestured toward Trish.
At the same time, Trish also pushed her teacup forward a little, saying to Enzo's wife, "Much obliged!"
Seeing this, Enzo's wife unwillingly carried the teapot over, in her heart pondering whether to pour the freshly boiled water straight over her head, but recalling the admonition her husband had given when leaving in the morning, she could only endure.
Anyway Enzo had already called for help, hopefully that gun would scare this woman called Trish!
Thinking this in her heart, Enzo's wife filled Trish's cup with tea, then quickly ran to Enzo's side, looking at him with some worry.
Noticing his wife's gaze, Enzo reached out and held her, though his short and plump body looked mismatched next to his tall wife, it still gave her a sense of reassurance.
"Don't worry, dear, he can handle it." Enzo whispered.
The dining room was only that big, so Trish naturally heard his words, she looked at him somewhat puzzled.
After all, in her eyes, the man sitting across from her was merely an abnormally strong human male, even his weapon was only an ordinary human weapon.
"Humans, really such a particularly confident race, but compared to us, still far too weak." Trish thought conceitedly, then picked up the dish beside her cup holding sugar cubes, and dumped all the sugar cubes into her tea.
Seeing this, Aiden felt his teeth ache again, he remembered being taken to have a tooth pulled as a child after eating too much candy… alright, he was digressing, now was not the time to think of such things.
He lifted his cup and took a small sip, then looked at the blonde woman and asked, "Miss Trish really likes sweets? But, eating like this, I'm afraid your body won't be able to take it."
"My sense of taste has some issues, if the flavor is too light, I can't taste it." Trish expressionlessly stirred the tea with a spoon, when the sugar inside had mostly melted, she finally drank a big mouthful, her cold face showing a satisfied expression.
She hadn't been in the human world very long, but she had already been captivated by all the wonderful foods and clothes, so even while on a mission, she would not lower the quality of her life.
But soon, she looked oddly at Aiden, belatedly asking, "Were you just now concerned about me?"
"Uh…" Aiden froze, immediately realizing that his polite words had taken effect, hurriedly going along he said, "Sort of, after all, a beautiful lady like you, if you harmed your health, to the world it would also be a loss."
Trish was a demon created by the demon king Mundus, though from birth she had been filled with much knowledge not belonging to her, and in battle she would become cruel and merciless, her primary nature was still like a blank sheet of paper, hearing Aiden's veiled praise, she thought for a moment, then her cold expression instantly crumbled.
"I like your way of speaking, can you say a bit more?"
"Uh…" Aiden froze again, feeling that Trish was making things too hard for him, even he himself felt his previous line was somewhat corny, let alone…
Aiden stealthily glanced toward the second floor, where a pair of silver-gray vertical pupils were fixedly glaring at him, clearly, someone was displeased.
However, feeling the expectant gazes of Enzo and his wife, then looking at the children sitting beside Trish, Aiden could only brace himself to continue.
But, as the words reached his lips, he came up short.
"Why don't you go on?" Seeing Aiden open his mouth without speaking, Trish unhappily knocked on the table.
At this moment inspiration flashed in Aiden's mind, he said, "Because I can no longer describe your beauty with words."
"So that's it?" Trish nodded thoughtfully, but she did not notice that Aiden's forehead had already begun to sweat.
Even after spending so many days with Bayonetta and Jeanne, he had never used such blunt and corny words to praise them.
He was already wondering, once things were resolved, how he was going to explain himself to them.
And just as he was thinking, the Trish opposite had already finished that cup of over-sugared black tea.
Then she looked at Enzo and his wife standing to the side, her expression turning cold again, "Please bring me another cup of black tea, and also prepare some more sugar."
Though her words sounded polite, her tone was icy cold, making Enzo and his wife feel they were being treated differently.
And after Trish once again brewed herself a cup of tea that satisfied her, she glanced at the pensive Aiden.
The expression on her face turned back to the earlier semblance of a smile, only since she was used to a cold expression, her smile looked somewhat stiff, she asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Hearing her, Aiden drew back his thoughts, shook his head and said, "Nothing, just recalled a phrase I heard not long ago."
"Can you tell me?"
"Of course." Aiden nodded, saying, "I heard that women who like sweets usually don't have bad personalities."
"You mean, I'm a good woman?" Trish asked.
"More or less that's what it means." Aiden kept nodding.
But Trish shook her head, "Though what you said sounds pleasant to hear, I am not some good woman, and I also understand what you want to say… however, you cannot persuade me to let them go, unless Enzo agrees to take me to find Dante."
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