Volume 4, Chapter 21 – Lord of Pride Lucifer

Looking at the timid little girl in front of her, still crying, completely lacking the ruler’s majesty her title should have carried when she spoke…

The resolve Mihiel had finally managed to harden softened in an instant.

“Alright, alright… just this once, next time you absolutely can’t do this, you know that?”

“Muu… muu… I knowww, I knowww, my tongue hurts so much…”

The little girl on the throne nodded very seriously, her face still streaked with the tears she had shed just now from biting her tongue.

“Everyone…”

Letting out a helpless sigh, Mihiel stepped out from the ranks, then turned to face the Fallen Angels behind her.

“Yesterday… the Dragon King of the Black Dragon race awakened, so everyone, our war with the Black Dragon clan… has now become unavoidable.”

“The Black Dragon King?”

“Didn’t think it would be this fast…”

Hearing Mihiel’s words, the Fallen Angels below all showed equally grave expressions.

“The Black Dragon King’s target is our Lord of Pride, Lucifer… so this time, I hope we Fallen Angels can unite as one.”

Looking at the Fallen Angels in front of her, faces all unusually stern, Mihiel’s expression was just as serious.

At this moment, the little girl on the throne timidly raised her small hand.

“My lord… do you have any orders?”

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Seeing that the little girl seemed to have something to say, Mihiel turned around and bowed respectfully to her.

“Um… it’s… it’s like, that Black Dragon King over there is targeting me, right?… I was thinking, if I went out there myself… maybe, um… this battle could be resolved?”

The little girl asked cautiously, her behavior giving off the feeling of a well-behaved child sounding out her parents about some toy she wanted.

“No way!”

Hearing the little girl’s words, not only Mihiel, the Fallen Angels below were like a pot suddenly brought to a boil, all rejecting her suggestion one after another.

“Hand over Lady Lucifer? No way. Even if we die in battle, Lady Lucifer will only ever be our lady. All those Black Dragons can go die!”

“Kill every single one of those Black Dragons, especially that Black Dragon King. How dare it lay its claws on Lady Lucifer, that sin is unforgivable!”

“Lady Lucifer just needs to stay here in the castle properly. We’ll go behead that Black Dragon King who spends all day thinking about you!”

Seeing the Fallen Angels below reacting as if something had set them off, the little girl shrank her neck, panic written all over her face.

“Lady Lucifer, you absolutely, absolutely must never bring up that kind of suggestion again, it will make us really sad…”

Looking at the little girl on the throne, Mihiel sighed helplessly.

“Muu… I, I knowww, next time, next time I definitely won’t say things like that again… so… so you, you all don’t be mad anymore, okay… Muu…”

The dignified Lord of Pride not only apologized to her own Fallen Angels for saying something wrong, in the end, while apologizing, she could not help it and started to cry…

Watching the little girl on the throne start to sob, the Fallen Angels below all looked conflicted.

“What do we do… it feels like we scared Lady Lucifer into crying again…”

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“There’s no way it was me who scared her. It was definitely because you lot were talking too viciously that Lady Lucifer got frightened!”

“Wait, what? I clearly didn’t say anything, and the one who said the harshest stuff was you, wasn’t it?”

“Don’t you dare smear me. What, you wanna fight?”

“Try me, why wouldn’t I dare, come on!”

For some reason, after their initial bewilderment, the Fallen Angels below fell into an abnormally chaotic and strange scene.

“Everyone shut up. Do you think Lady Lucifer isn’t crying hard enough yet?”

In the end, Mihiel’s roar, loud enough to almost shake the entire castle, put a stop to the Fallen Angels’ endless bickering.

In an instant, the whole castle fell silent.

Not only did the Fallen Angels below close their mouths, even the little girl on the throne was so frightened by that shout that she hurriedly covered her small mouth, looking at black-lined Mihiel with eyes like a startled little animal.

“What kind of spectacle is this? With a powerful enemy before us, instead of discussing countermeasures, you start quarreling among yourselves. And you still have the face to say you will protect Lady Lucifer?”

“This is laughable. At this rate, you might as well roll back to the Sanctuary.”

The Fallen Angels lowered their heads in shame.

Seeing that they seemed to have realized their mistake, Mihiel nodded in faint satisfaction.

“Alright, since you were only worried about Lady Lucifer’s safety, I can forgive you just this once. Next time, don’t blame me for expelling you from the Fallen Angels directly.”

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“Yes!”

Satisfied, Mihiel nodded again, her face returning to a calm smile.

“Um… ummm…”

At this moment, the little girl on the throne once more raised her small hand weakly.

“Lady Lucifer, do you have another question?”

Mihiel smiled as she looked at the little girl, her eyes narrowing slightly.

“Ee, eeek… I, I don’t have anything to say!”

The little girl shook her head in a panic, very conscientiously clapping her hands over her mouth.

“Honestly… after all these years, can’t you please fix that personality of yours, Lady Lucifer? To be honest, even if this state is good for the unity of us Fallen Angels, you still have to learn how to be a qualified ruler, you know?”

Looking at the little girl like this, Mihiel could not help a frustrated sigh, like hating iron for not becoming steel.

And at this time… outside this palace, a Fallen Angel hurried in.

“Reporting, an unknown powerful enemy has appeared outside!”

“Hmm? A powerful enemy?”

Hearing this Fallen Angel’s report, Mihiel looked confused.

“Unknown origins? Is it a demon?”

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The Fallen Angel in charge of reporting recalled the appearance of that “powerful enemy” and a strange expression appeared on her face.

“Reporting… it isn’t.”

“Hmm? Then is it a devil?”

“Reporting… it isn’t either.”

“Neither? Then what is it, some new kind of unknown demon species?”

“Reporting… it is actually a human little girl.”

“Human? Little girl? Are you sure?”

Hearing the Fallen Angel’s answer, Mihiel’s face went black.

“Stand down, go back and wash your eyes properly. How could a mere human possibly just stroll this deep into the Abyss? You do realize how thick the power of the Abyss is here. Even a Throne-tier human would have their strength heavily suppressed, how would any human run all the way here. Do you take me for someone whose brain has a problem?”

“But…”

Seeing Mihiel looking so troubled, the reporting Fallen Angel’s face was full of awkwardness.

“That girl really is human… and she also said she wants to see Lady Lucifer…”

“Hmm… wait, you just said she wants to see our lord… looks like I’ll have to go meet that human myself and see just what kind of person she is.”