returns home in his human form and goes to school. When a student is murdered, Ryo suspects it was a demon's deed and wonders if the culprit is himself. But at night he sees a demon attacking a human and kills it by transforming himself into a half-demon, half-human figure. During the same night, a Medusa-like demon appears in the city. At school, another student, , says he fights demons and that he wants Ryo to be his partner. As Sosuke shows a demon to Ryo and tortures it, Ryo feels compassion for the demon. Unsettled, Ryo leaves the place and meets , who takes him to time travel. Medusa reveals Ryo that God is an energy-based monster who once destroyed the high-tech Sodom where they lived as lovers. God wanted Earth inhabitants' bodies but as Dante denied to comply with it God attacked the city. Dante, Medusa, and some others turned into demons by absorbing God's power. When Dante pilots a powerful jet fighter in an attempt to buy time for his friends to escape, he is grabbed by a Pteranodon. Careening into a nearby Tyrannosaurus rex, Dante was left open to be consumed in God's fires, causing him to be fused with his jet and the two prehistoric reptiles to create his current form. Later in a confrontation with God at the Himalayas, Dante was sealed in ice. God also attacked Gomorrah and its survivors, the last actual humans in existence, became the Satanists. After this, God divided himself into pieces and took residence in apes that evolved into the current "human" race. Defeated by God and sealed in the Himalayas, Dante transferred his human body and soul to Judas Iscariot and Ryo Utsugi respectively to be reborn two thousand years later. The story ends as Dante reassembles his demon army and is prepared to destroy humankind. 2002–2004 reboot 19-year old scientist prodigy works as a physicist and weapons engineer under the supervision of Medusa and lives with his sister and his parents in Sodom. One day, the nation is attacked by energy-based, psychic creatures from outer space that call themselves "gods". To fight back, Dante, Medusa, , , , and use super-weapons called "demons" that magnify its user mental energy. The demons' users are weaker than the gods, but when they are closer to death they become actual demons as they merge themselves with their weapons as