i just hope that Dante isn’t already dead:(

I hope so too but I wouldn't get my hopes up, tbh. Even if he's alive now who knows what they are feeding him... My guess is he either becomes a vessel that needs to be destroyed, he becomes a monster that asks to be killed because he's suffering bad doesn't wanna hurt anyone, or he's already dead and what it's hurting him is some kind of curse that makes his spirit stay in his body so when he is saved his soul will disappear because of the curse.
Anyway, I won't be getting too attached to him ╥﹏╥