After returning to the Underworld, Botis felt kinda guilty for leaving his mistress all alone at the surface, even after he pulled the dick move of asking Lucille to finish off the remaining witch hunters. However Ciara could summon him anytime she could, so there should be no problem there. She just needed to have her mana completely restored, hopefully those little twerps didn't misinterpreted what he said. He could be a little intimidating towards them.

There had been two silent days in the Venom Manor. Botis was just staring into the distance, occasionally playing with the fire in his hand. He stood up and walked through the corridors and went to the basement of his manor. Once downstairs he walked through a door which lead to the only room on that level. There was a plateau with a shiny sword laying on it. Botis walked up to it.

"Such a beautiful blade, it is a waste I cannot use it." he mumbled to himself.

"Oh, and why might that be?" he heard a voice saying from behind. Botis turned around and saw another demon standing behind him. Dressed in a lute suit with a messy beard and his signature weapon the Trumpet Rifle strapped on his back. It was Barbatos, Duke of the Underworld, ruling 30 legions of demons.

"Barbatos... what are you doing here?"

Connir ran into the room, although still with the monotonous look on his face.

"Sorry master, he barged right in." the canine servant reported.

"It's okay." Botis answered. Connir nodded and headed back upstairs.

"To come back to your question. I was just thinking about giving an old friend a visit." the lute answered.

"We aren't friends... not anymore." Botis looked at him quite frustrated, although Barbatos could only throw up a smirk.

"Oh, and though I've heard from a little bird that you and Dantalion have crossed paths several times lately." he grinned.

"All coincidental."

"Okay, next question. So why are you admiring the Venom Blade? What is the reason you can't use it?"

"Simply put, my mistress in contract doesn't have the amount of mana to summon the blade along with me. Hell, I even have to help her summon me... it can be such a drag with her."

"Yet you haven't killed her. That must mean something."

"Shut up. If you have nothing else to ask please leave my estate before I call my maidens." Botis said obviously pissed off at the remark of Barbatos.

"Oeh, we wouln't that. Well say hi to Dantalion next time you see it and expect to see me drop by another time. Cheers!"

And with that the demon was gone again. Barbatos was a real jester, even though he dresses like a regular lute. He wandered from who he get the info that he was having several encounters with Dantailion again. Weird things are happening in both the Underworld and Overworld. Botis took another glance at his Venom Blade before returning upstairs.

The next few days passed by rather quickly. He spend some time with his maidens, them mainly asking questions about their higher mistress, as they were quite interested in Ciara. It was only on the seventh day when he suddenly noticed a disturbance. As if someone was pouring alcohol on a fresh wound. It was a quick and instant feeling, yet seemed to last longer. Only after seven minutes of nothingness the pain started coming back again, this time luckily not as stringy as the first time.

Botis hesitated on grabbing his sword... he almost decided not to but in a quick change of mind took it along anyway. When he stepped outside he couldn't feel at all where the source of this pain was coming from. He did a small patrol around his manor but unfortunately couldn't find it. He sat down at his throne inside again when suddenly the sentences surfaced again from his conversation with Barbatos earlier. 

[i]"Yet you haven't killed her."[/i]