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[funky rap-rock music playing]

Whoa.

[Enzo] Talk about a jungle room, huh?

Elvis ain't got nothin' on this.

Hey! Whoever's there…

Uh, in the forest… Uh, job's done.

My boy Dante's transported the goods. We're here for the dough!

Hello!

[deep voice] Come in.

[Enzo] You're Professor Lucan?

[Lucan] The same.

And that behind you is Rama.

- [Rama purrs affectionately] - [Dante, Enzo sputter]

Hey, I didn't mean to…

[Lucan] The white-haired tiger.

Solitary by nature.

Though one wonders if it is only because there are so few of his own kind

that he has given up hope of meeting another.

Ah, but is it the cat of whom I speak?

Hmm?

- [Lucan chuckles] - [Dante grouses]

Your payment is ready.

Follow me.

[mystical, entrancing music playing]

[Lucan] Tell me, Dante,

have you in your various employments

had much experience with what one might call…

sorcery?

Uh, you mean like magic?

Nah, never trusted magicians.

What do they need such long handkerchiefs for?

Oh, very good. [Lucan laughing]

But in a universe where all things are merely energy,

particles moving together in the same cosmic whirlwind,

the truly humorous notion is that the only way to touch is with our hands,

the only way to perceive is with our eyes.

So you're what?

Some kind of wizard or something?

No, the statues you see here,

they are from Makai, the Demon Realm.

The materials of that realm

possess an inherent potential to manipulate quantum energy.

"Magic" as you know it, does not exist.

[mystical music intensifying]

There have been a handful of humans who were granted such powers.

Or learned to wield them.

[mystical chanting]

[Lucan in English] Most sought to use them to dominate.

But the equation of demons with evil is only our ignorance.

[mystical chanting continues]

[in English] There is no innate cruelty in demonic power.

Just the opposite.

[sweeping, majestic music playing]

[Lucan] Their energy flows from the truth at the very heart of existence.

That we are all part of the same light as everything else.

Good girl, Mushi.

Neat trick with the monkey.

You do know we charge by the hour

and you're technically still on the clock, right? Hmm?

You have a gift within you, Dante.

But you use your abilities thoughtlessly,

blocked off from what you could become

by this false, cynical shell,

and by your hunger for revenge,

in the vain hope it might balance the scale of what you lost.

What do you know about what I lost?

You will realize your full strength when you walk the path of the light.

When you begin to live for more than just yourself.

I can show you this path.

If you'll allow me.

[Enzo] All right, Professor.

Ha. I know a scam when I hear one.

You're just trying to take advantage of the kid

so you can use his powers for yourself.

Shame on you.

Yeah, I'd rather know someone's using me,

and get paid.

[Lucan] Mmm.

If this is all you will accept from me…

[laughs]

Mmm, unless the monkey's for sale.

All right, nice doing business.

Thanks for the creepy light show.

Come on, kid.

[Lucan] The hard way then.

[chuckles]

Just as stubborn as your father.

[rowdy rock music playing]

[music halts]

[Lady gasps]

What the fuck was that?

Wha… You were the one who…

I know, it was an accident. I was just caught up in the victory.

Is that how all private military soldiers celebrate their victories?

Maybe… Maybe we can talk sometime. When the world isn't ending.

Yeah, sure. Whenever that is.

Oh, Vergil. I have to get back there.

There's nothing you can do.

The fight will be over before we're on the road.

Vergil can handle himself.

He's like you.

Except not a moron.

For all we know, he finished kicking Arius' ass already.

He kicked yours, didn't he?

Only because I mostly let him.

You're not abandoning your brother,

you're doing what he wanted.

We have to keep the Arcana as far away from Arius as possible.

The guy can make portals to anywhere. Far away isn't good enough.

We need to destroy it.

How? Vergil said even Mundus couldn't do that.

Unless you know someone more powerful than the King of Hell.

There's this professor I did a job for once.

Lou something.

He's got crazy powers.

I saw him mind-control a monkey in the jungle that grows inside his mansion.

What the hell are you talking about?

If there's anyone who can destroy this thing, it's the professor.

I don't know which of us this makes more delusional, but I trust you.

- Let's go. - [door opens]

[truck driver gasps]

Thank God y'all are all right.

I was worried that I…

Sorry about your truck.

Oh, don't you worry about that none. The company's got insurance.

Now, what-in-the-Sam-Hell are y'all doing out here anyway, huh?

Must be hitchhiking, huh?

Ah, I can tell by the outfits.

Two young punk rockers in love.

Yeah, something like that.

[Lady] Ugh.

Look now, if there's anything I can do for y'all--

Your company's insurance cover those too?

[dreamy pop music playing]

♪ I have secrets ♪

♪ They say I want to be lonely ♪

♪ But you waited for us ♪

♪ Can I lock it up? ♪

[song fades away]

[intriguing, mystical music playing]

Jesus.

There actually is a jungle.

[low growling]

[Lucan chuckling]

Oh, my apologies for Rama's rudeness.

It's not often we have a lady visit in the middle of the night.

Maybe because there's a fucking tiger loose in your house.

[Lucan chuckling]

It's good to see you again, son of Sparda.

You knew who I was the whole time,

and you couldn't have told me back then?

It would have saved a lot of trouble.

A lot.

I mean, really a lot.

I couldn't tell you what was not yet true.

There is a difference between learning who you are and becoming it.

Fuck this.

He can't help us.

He's just an asshole who talks in vague bullshit.

I understand your reluctance to trust.

Your own father wore two different faces.

Speaking of fathers,

my condolences on your friend Enzo's passing beyond this realm.

We came here to bring you this.

We were hoping you maybe knew how to…

The Arcana Medaglia. Where did you get this?

A secret base in a mountain somewhere.

We took it from some insane rich guy named Arius.

Arius?

Does that mean…

Yeah, he's got the rest of them.

If this is here, then Arius himself won't be far behind.

[mystical chanting]

What was that?

[Lucan] I cloaked the energy signature of the true Medaglia,

and scattered duplicates of it across the realm.

That death merchant piece of shit won't be able to track it here.

Our time is short.

If Arius has all four Arcana,

when tomorrow's hybrid eclipse begins, he will restore the God of Chaos.

Yeah, we heard.

And if Argosax comes back and kills Mundus,

then I won't get to do it myself.

A man driven by vengeance swings his sword in the dark

imagining all he hits is his desired enemy,

not seeing who it is he truly wounds.

It is not just Mundus who has reason to fear.

Argosax's resurrection will unleash a tidal wave of quantum energy

powerful enough to level a city.

Then he will begin to feed.

And by feed you mean…?

To attain his ultimate form,

Argosax requires fuel, the life force of other beings.

Millions will perish.

How do you know all this?

Because his birth consumed an entire civilization.

When our realm was still joined to Makai,

there stood vast ancient cities home to humans and demons alike.

It is said they had knowledge that in many regards surpassed our own.

Until the God of Chaos arose.

Argosax swallowed the ancient worlds whole

to reach the full zenith of his power.

If he were to return,

their fate would be ours.

Arius cannot be allowed to regain the complete Arcana

in time for the eclipse,

and the only way to ensure that

is if I remove this piece from existence before then.

I told you so.

[eldritch voices whispering]

So, you can destroy it?

Yes, but it will take all my skill to overcome the Arcana's power.

Here, I can draw enough energy to unmake the Medaglia…

with time.

How much time?

Given its complexity, eight hours at least.

I must begin right away.

Lady, it's our only choice.

[child] Grandpa, you didn't tell me we had guests!

I'm Matilda.

Call me Mattie.

Future famous actress, pop superstar, and fashion designer.

Uh, Dante.

Kind of between gigs right now.

I told you never to come in here.

And you are not going to be an actress.

For all the hatred and fear of demons,

actors have been a far worse scourge on this realm.

Ugh, you're so boring!

I never get to do anything.

Now there's finally cool people here, and I can't even play with them!

Play?

What we're doing is not play.

Millions of lives are at stake.

Go back to your bed this instant.

Oh, come on. This isn't even fair!

You must excuse my granddaughter.

She's walked a difficult path.

I am all the family she has left.

- Now, leave me to-- - Cool coin. How much is it worth?

[exasperated sigh]

[enigmatic music playing]

[mystical chanting]

You really trust this guy?

He paid in full.

That's more than I can say for most of my clients.

You must leave me to focus now.

Make sure I am not disturbed until it is complete.

[music trailing off]

So, what do we do for eight hours?

["Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne playing]

[rambunctious pop-punk music playing]

♪ He was a boy, she was a girl ♪

♪ Can I make it any more obvious? ♪

♪ He was a punk, she did ballet ♪

♪ What more can I say? ♪

♪ He wanted her, she'd never tell ♪

♪ Secretly, she wanted him as well ♪

♪ But all of her friends Stuck up their nose ♪

♪ They had a problem With his baggy clothes ♪

♪ He was a skater boy She said, "See you later, boy" ♪

♪ He wasn't good enough for her ♪

♪ She had a pretty face But her head was up in space ♪

♪ She needed to come back down to Earth ♪

[song trailing off]

[menacing music playing]

[chuckles]

[Lady] You're thinking about Vergil again.

Even if the White Rabbit was lying,

and it wasn't Mundus whose soldiers killed our mom,

he's a tyrant.

Keeps an entire realm enslaved.

How could Vergil…

Work for him?

It's easy not to see who it really is you're taking orders from.

When they've fucked with your head until it only turns where they want it to.

Still no excuse.

[Dante] Five more hours to go.

No sign of Snidely Whiplash or the cheer-demon squad.

I guess we just relax.

I don't think I've relaxed in, I don't know…

I don't even know what it would feel like.

Yeah, me either.

I've seen you be relaxed during a literal apocalypse.

I know you think I don't take anything seriously,

that I don't care.

No, I know you care.

Too much.

That's why you can't let yourself be serious,

because of what you might feel.

But I do feel it.

Believe me, I just…

I move on. I have to.

Isn't that what strength is?

Not for me.

You try to ignore the pain.

I learned a long time ago that's impossible.

I have to stay focused on it,

use it to fuel me.

The pain is what lets me keep fighting. Without that--

[Dante] That's it?

That's the only thing that stops you from giving up?

[dreamy, emotional pop song playing]

What else is there?

♪ I have secrets ♪

♪ They say I want to be lonely ♪

♪ But you waited for us ♪

♪ Can I lock it up? ♪

[Chi] The Medaglia is inside?

[Arius] Unquestionably.

Someone went to a very gratifying amount of trouble to hide it from me.

There are only a few men with that kind of ability,

and only one who's hired Dante before.

Heh.

Sheer arrogance.

That of an old man, unaware he has been made obsolete.

[demons growling]

[eerie, suspenseful music playing]

[Mushi yowling]

Hey, Mushi, what do you want?

Hey, time to go to work, Lady.

[mystical chanting]

[grunts blearily]

What's the big party out there, huh?

It's my house.

You guys aren't supposed to be having fun without…

Hmm.

[Mattie screams]

Mattie, run! Mattie!

Hey,

I have a really important job for you.

I need you to keep this safe for me. Okay?

Now go, hide!

If someone comes at you, bite 'em!

I guess Vergil didn't beat 'em.

Guard the stairs.

I'll pick them off below. No one gets past.

We have to give your professor another hour to finish.

[raucous electronic music playing]

Only an hour? Won't even get in my cardio!

Stop fighting.

I think it's time you made your entrance.

[menacing choral vocalizations]

Dante,

I don't believe my father told you how he created my sisters and I.

He spliced cells together,

demon and human.

We can do everything that you can.

You want to know the difference?

Uh, you can do it in heels?

No.

We can control it.

[haunting vocalizations intensify]

Fall back!

That bought a few seconds.

We stay between them and that door.

If you happen to feel like turning into a demon right now…

I would, but the bird lady was right,

I can't control it.

It's not something I can just do on command.

[glass shattering]

[sinister music playing]

This is exciting.

So exciting.

They're guarding the hall.

The Medaglia is behind that door.

Knee!

Gun!

[forceful drum and bass music pounding]

Lady!

[ominous vocalizations]

[somber notes playing]

[urgent, determined music building]

["Devil Trigger" playing]

[Dante bellows]

Oh, crap.

♪ Embrace the darkness that's within me ♪

♪ No hiding in the shadows anymore ♪

Target his vulnerability.

Damn. Next time you're going demon from the start.

[chuckles smugly]

No!

[harrowing vocalizations]

[groaning weakly]

Yet another person you weren't able to save.

[dark, distressing music playing]

No, Dante! Don't leave the building!

Still the bloodline of Sparda, I guess.

Go!

I will feel your heart beat in my hand and rip it from your chest!

[Chi] Your weakness, Dante?

All emotion,

no calculation.

[cackling]

Outplayed! Outmaneuvered!

Checkmate.

[Mattie shrieks]

A riveting show, young Sparda.

Mattie!

[Arius] But it's over.

Drop your weapon.

Unless you intend to watch the girl die too.

That goes for you as well, Professor.

Bring me the Medaglia.

In exchange for your granddaughter's life.

The great Professor Lucan.

At last we meet.

I'd say I wish it was under better circumstances,

but these are actually quite good ones for me.

Let her go.

First, the Medaglia.

[somber choral music playing]

[Arius] Now I see why despite all your wealth and power,

you have never made a mark in this world.

You can't even hold yourself together.

[Lucan gasps]

[delicate, wrenching music playing]

Grandpa!

Don't worry.

She's alive, just in a place where it may prove hard to stay that way.

I always keep my promises.

- [dark, brooding metal song playing] - [Arius laughing]

[Arius continues laughing]

[song trails off]