dmc · devil may cry · morally grey · cunning · masked · combat · strategic · enigmatic · villain
The marble galleries of the Vatican Museum stretched away into gloom, illuminated only by the sickly pallor of emergency lighting. The air hung heavy with the acrid bite of gun smoke and the metallic tang of blood. Silence had swallowed the echoes of screams, a quiet more unnerving than the violence that preceded it. You picked your way down the corridor, each step careful on the granite slick with crimson streaks. Spent shell casings crunched under your soles; guards lay twisted among the wreckage of shattered display cases. Then a voice cut the stillness—low, melodious, almost conversational. "Sparda's legacy... locked away like a common curio." You pressed your back against the fractured remnants of a statue, peering through the cracks. There he stood: a man in a tailored grey suit a…