This episode’s pretty sappy, and may alienate action fans. Dante steps between a demon and his prey, an entire city. However, he must deal first with the city’s mayor and the job that he is given.
Dante’s such a slacker, but he never seems to lose his touch. I envy him.
A woman is shown running down the steps in the sunset, and trips. She sprains her ankle, and is in a mess. A kind man appears to help her, summoning a bit of green light to heal the woman’s ankle. He puts on the woman’s shoe for her, and walks off. The woman tells him to stop, and asks him if they could meet again. The fact that both of them wear glasses makes their pairing doubly cute. Awwww.
Happy times come by, until Angelina (the woman’s name) is chastised by her father to stop meeting Brad (the man’s name, sense a pattern?). Angelina objects, and attest to Brad’s goodness, but her father is adamant. He locks her inside her room until she decides to give up.
Patty complains about the TV broken, and how she can’t watch the ending of her favorite show. She orders Dante to buy a new one, but Dante says he doesn’t have money. Patty wonders how Dante could lose money so fast, and Dante answers that it’s because of a demonic female debt collector, and a bossy pig-headed agent. Said bossy pig-headed agent pops in and offers another job for Dante. Dante eagerly takes up the offer, happy to be free from Patty for a while. Morrison drives Dante to the client, leaving a very annoyed Patty.
The boyish outfit is so moe~
In the mansion, Angelina holds a bouquet of flowers from Brad. She has lost appetite, and is depressed. Dante and Morrison are shown downstairs, waiting for the client, who is Angelina’s father, the mayor of Capulet City. Angelina’s father shows Dante a picture of Brad, and asks him to kill the man. He explains that Brad is a complete stranger, suspecting evil intentions within him. Also, around the same time Brad appeared, a killer started roaming around, killing scores of people. Still, Dante refuses, of course. Meanwhile, Angelina goes to the washroom and overhears his father’s conversation with Dante en route. Learning that her father has hired someone to kill Brad, she rushes off to warn him.
Angelina meets Brad, and pleads with him to run away together. Brad says that they can’t do that, and that Angelina mustn’t be involved. He tells her that he’ll be fine, and asks her to return home. Brad then walks around the city during the night, trailed by Dante and Morrison. He drops by a bar, and Dante follows, sitting beside him. Dante orders a beer and a pizza, unsurprisingly.
Back in the mansion, Angelina’s father is angry at the loss of her daughter. Just in time, however, Angelina appears at the front door, and the mayor greets her with a slap. He tightens the security around her, making her worry even more about Brad. In the bar, Dante and Brad talk about romance, until Dante’s giant beer mug arrives. They toast, and Dante asks Brad where he came from. Brad excuses himself and leaves, as Dante’s pizza arrives. He’s annoyed by the presence of olives, since he’d specifically ordered a pizza without it. Oh lol.
Brad is shown walking along a dark alley, and is greeted by a demon coming out of the wall. The demon says that they can’t stay here any longer, and Brad remarks that the demon’s the phantom killer after all. Then Dante appears, remarking that eating a large pizza in 5 minutes is a new personal record. The demon is pissed off and attacks Dante, ramming him against the wall with a long arm. Dante nonchalantly blasts the arm to pieces with his gun. Firing more rounds at the demon, Dante manages to scare him away. He approaches Brad, who acknowledges his strength and reputation as a demon hunter who is half-human, half-demon. This convinces Dante that Brad is no human. Brad asks Dante if his parents truly loved each other, and Dante believes so. This gives Brad hope, and Dante pulls the trigger…
Brad opens his eyes, and sees that Dante fired upwards. Moments later, blood trickles into the ground, and the body of the demon earlier crashes down in a heap. They leave the alley, going to a place overlooking a large body of water. As Brad looks on, Dante says that he thought Brad would make a sneak attack on him. Brad tells him that he’s no match for Dante, but he says that his duty is over, making preparations for summoning his master into this world. Brad’s master is a greedy demon, who will probably devour everything in the city, including Angelina. Brad says that he doesn’t want to lose Angelina, who treated her kindly even if he was trash in the demon world. He doesn’t even have the strength to fight his master. Dante says that Brad may be worthless as a demon, but if he truly loves Angelina, then he could live his life as a human. This gives Brad hope, and Dante tells him to show him the place the links the demon world in the city.
The butler did it!
In the mansion, Angelina hears her father’s scream from the safety of the room. Desperately, she breaks open the door keeping her inside and rushes to her father. The mayor is lying on top of a magic circle, blood gushing out of his body from a knife wound. Angelina rushes to her father’s side, but the butler arrives, carrying a knife. He tries to kill Angelina, but a bullet from nowhere disarms him. Dante breaks open the locked door and arrives at the scene, confronting the butler. The butler says that he’s too late, and Brad breaks in from a window, retrieving the mayor and taking him away from the scene. The butler gloats about his accomplishment, and Dante kicks him away, prepared to face the demon going to appear. As the demon emerges from the magic circle, Dante immediately puts the hurt in him, blasting and cutting him away.
Angelina attends to her wounded father, who regains consciousness. Brad heals the wound, even though the mayor refuses to see him as a good man. Dante tells the mayor that although Brad is a demon, he is capable of love, and resolves not to harm him in any way. He leaves the mansion.
Back in Devil May Cry, Morrison is fixing the TV, watched by a very tense Patty. Morrison tells Dante that even though all is happy between Brad and Angelina, he didn’t take the mayor’s job and didn’t receive any pay. Because of this, Morrison’s stuck fixing the TV, which is another addition to Dante’s gigantic debt. As the TV is fixed and Patty is happy, Morrison leaves, saying that no matter how good a job he brings to Dante, Dante will always be in debt.
Patty looks at Dante, musing that he looks happy even though he’s always complaining about his lack of money. Dante says that there are some days like this, and resumes his nap.
Ooh… Brangelina…
A touching episode for me, since it brings out the human side in Dante. Demons are capable of kindness after all; Dante is a living testament of that, spawn of his noble father, Sparda. However, the action part was weak and almost uncalled for; it was as if they just threw in the action scenes without much regard to their relevance to the plot. Even the demon summoning thing was lame — how the hell was Brad able to prepare for his master’s arrival, anyway? Next up, an episode with Lady and Trish!
