Movie Marathon
It was a late-night Friday, and Camille was sitting in her office, located on the highest floor of a skyscraper.
She was rewatching the footage that was taken from Megan's hidden camera the night that Dante arrived in their world, replaying the scene where he made a chunk of the street implode along with the thugs that were shooting at him.
Rina and Rona, Camille's two most trusted servants, interrupted her session to bring her some refreshments, making the handler ask about their opinions on the footage.
The middle-aged women didn't express their disbelief with their faces, but their eyes widened slightly enough for Camille to understand that they were surprised.
Camille had told them about the events that led her to meet Dante, but that was the first time they witnessed him casting a spell—and a very powerful one, at that.
The servants couldn't believe that the sweet and polite young man that they helped clean up was the same one from the video, expressing their concern for Camille's safety.
"Young man, huh?" Camille muttered.
The platinum-haired woman was the only one who listened to Dante's story about his former "ageless blessing," so she was aware that the warlock had lived much longer than a mere 25 years.
Nonetheless, she thought it would be rude to her new friend if she divulged his real age, deciding to keep it a secret.
"I think Dante might be the only one who can truly put an end to this. I wonder if this is all a coincidence…" Camille muttered, switching her attention back to her laptop.
"Did you get any news from the hacker?" she continued.
The servants shook their heads in unison. "He hasn't replied. Should we send a notice?"
"Nah, let's give him a few more days. I'll pay Dante a visit tomorrow to see how his time with Sophie went—also, I need to know if he has seen anything strange around there," the handler replied.
Before the servants left the high-rise office, Camille asked them to get another pile of books to bring to the warlock the next day, suspecting that he had probably read through most of them by that point.
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Early in the afternoon of Saturday, Sophia and Megan arrived at Dante's place, carrying a bag with snacks, soda, and a pile of DVDs.
Sophia was excited to see Dante's reaction to his first movie, and while Megan didn't visibly share that enthusiasm, she was secretly intrigued by the same thing.
When they entered, they noticed the warlock was reading a book about fantasy, but his expression showed a sign of indignation as he scrolled through the pages.
"Why does this book say that elves live in the forest?" he asked the two girls, who lowered their heads laterally in confusion at the same time.
"Ummm, that's a fantasy book…" Megan replied, explaining that everything that was written in there wasn't meant to be real in their world.
"Wait, so there aren't any dragons on Earth either?" Dante asked.
"No. Did you have elves and dragons in Terra?"
"Of course!" Dante replied, halting his words for a second and gazing back at the book.
"One of my best friends was an elf…" he continued, his words laced with a somber tone.
At that moment, the two girls felt some of the pain that the warlock had been hiding inside of him.
'How did I never think that he had loved ones in his other world?' Sophia thought, slightly frowning.
It was the first time that he mentioned another person from his world to them, and while Sophia would have loved to know more about the real elves, she thought it was a topic the warlock wouldn't enjoy.
*Ahem* "Well, good news. We brought movies with elves and dragons in them, so you can tell us more about the real ones while we watch them," Megan said with an indifferent expression.
Still, it was her best try at cheering up the warlock—and it worked, as Dante let out a chuckle, saying it sounded amusing.
The interaction between the two left Sophia puzzled, knowing that Megan wasn't the type of girl to joke around or cheer people up.
Megan was a cold woman who had quite an intimidating appeal stemming from both her beauty and demeanor. However, there was a small group of people that Megan treated much nicer than others—with Sophia and Camille being among them.
Surprisingly, she could tell that Dante was now part of that small group, warming her heart and making her even more excited for the marathon.
As the trio spread the movies on the table like a deck of cards, they gave Dante a quick synopsis of each of the options, but they were interrupted by Camille, who had arrived without notice to visit the warlock.
"Oh, I wasn't expecting you girls to be here," said the platinum-haired woman as she entered the apartment.
She was glad to see that Dante was learning more about their world, and she thought that a movie marathon was a great idea to teach him about pop culture.
"You wouldn't mind if I joined you, right?" the woman asked the trio, who had no qualms with having her there.
Rina and Rona followed their mistress inside the apartment, with one of them holding a documents folder and handing it to their boss, who focused her attention on the warlock.
"Here you go, Dante. You are going to need this if you want to live here peacefully…" said Camille as she slid the folder to the warlock.
"It's a Novaria passport, an ID card, and a birth certificate," she continued.
"Did you talk to Forger?" Megan interjected with a question for Camille.
"Yeah. I had to pay double to get it done this quickly," the woman replied.
Noticing that Dante was a little confused, they gave him a quick run-down of the use of each of the forged documents, explaining that it would be troublesome if the police requested them while he had nothing to show them.
Once the warlock stowed away his new personal documents, he remembered he had something to give to Camille, rushing to the other side of the living room to pick up his jacket.
"I forgot to give you this. It's not much, but I recharged it to make it last a bit longer…" said Dante as he pulled out an obsidian stone with green sparkles from his jacket's pocket.
Camille recognized the rock as the one Dante used to fully heal himself from the wound after getting shot, which he summoned in front of her while they were in the abandoned warehouse.
"If you or anyone close to you is hurt, just squeeze the stone tightly…" the warlock explained.
The healthstone only worked on physical injuries, so they wouldn't be able to use it to heal illnesses. Still, Dante expressed that if she ever got sick, he could still help her out.
When they were done catching up, the group had their list of movies ready for the evening.
While the warlock enjoyed an entire night of cinema, the three girls fell asleep after the first few films, with Camille leaning on Dante's shoulder and Sophia hugging Megan like a pillow.