Volume 4, Chapter 23 – Conditions

After finally managing to get Lucifa to stop crying, the hostility that Mihiel and the other Fallen Angels had been harboring because of the so-called “original sin” vanished completely in the process.

“Alright… Tianyin, was it? Setting other things aside for now, just say directly why you came looking for my lord.”

Since they clearly weren’t going to be fighting, Mihiel naturally wasn’t going to do anything else that would upset Lucifa. Even though she was still very unwilling in her heart, she still followed along with Lucifa’s wishes and asked.

“Thank you so much for trying to understand me… Um, actually, the reason I came here is to bring your lord, Lucifa, out of the Abyss.”

Tianyin hadn’t even considered how to put her intentions in a roundabout way. Instead, she very straightforwardly stated her goal.

To kidnap… cough, cough, take away the Lord of Pride Lucifa.

“Mm? What did you just say?”

Hearing Tianyin’s words, Mihiel looked at her with a dark expression.

“You want our lord to go with you? What kind of joke is that?”

The Fallen Angels at her side also instantly exploded like a pot on the boil.

“You’ve got some nerve, huh? As expected of an ‘original sin’, you really do have bad intentions toward Lady Lucifa!”

“There’s no way we’ll hand Lady Lucifa over!”

“This is provocation! Looks like we’ll have to teach this human a lesson!”

From Tianyin’s point of view, the Fallen Angels’ reaction was completely within expectations.

After all, if one day someone said they wanted to take her away right in front of Xingyu Muxi and the others, their reaction would probably be even more intense…

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“Um… at least let me finish first.”

Putting herself in their shoes, she could very much understand what these Fallen Angels were thinking, but Tianyin still had to bring Lucifa back.

This was the one thing she absolutely could not back down on.

“I want to save someone, but in this world, there’s basically no one capable of saving her. However, by a strange twist of fate, I found out that your lord, Lucifa, has the power to save her… So, I want your lord to come back with me just this once…”

“Hah? So that’s why you came to the Abyss? To save someone?”

After listening to Tianyin, Mihiel’s face was full of black lines.

“You actually want our lord to go back with you just to save someone? What kind of joke is that? Leaving aside whether our lord even has the power to save people, when it comes to saving someone, you should be bringing the patient here, not coming here just to take our lord away!”

“Well… I did think of that too, but I’m really sorry, that person is just way too weak, I don’t dare bring her along the road into the Abyss…”

“I see… But I’m sorry, our lord doesn’t save people. You must have found the wrong person.”

Mihiel very decisively rejected Tianyin’s request.

After all, a dignified Lord of Pride leaving the Abyss just to save some completely unrelated stranger… no matter who heard about it, such an action would definitely be way too demeaning and would undermine the Lord of Pride’s majesty.

Not to mention, this human in front of them had absolutely no connection to the Lord of Pride. She came here and right off the bat unreasonably demanded that Lucifa save someone…

If it had been anyone else, they would naturally have chosen to refuse, right?

However… that was only what Mihiel believed.

While in reality…

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Up on the throne, Lucifa, who always looked weak, blinking her big innocent eyes, suddenly expressed her own opinion.

“Leave the Abyss? Mm… I-It’s okay, I don’t really mind going… As for having me save someone and so on… even though it feels a little inexplicable, I’ll do my best… ah, umumu…”

The little thing seemed to have bitten her tongue again…

Watching Lucifa clutch her small mouth in pain, Tianyin looked at her with heartfelt gratitude.

“Thank you. Since you’ve agreed, then we shouldn’t waste any time. We can leave right now.”

“Wait! I don’t agree!”

“Yeah, we don’t agree! There’s no way our lord is going with you!”

“Our lord agreeing doesn’t mean we’ve agreed!”

Just as Tianyin finally relaxed and thought this matter was completely resolved, the Fallen Angels all jumped out one after another.

“Eh… but, hasn’t your lord already agreed?”

“Our lord may have agreed, but we’re not going to just stand here and watch you walk off with her!”

Mihiel was the first to step forward, and behind this fallen angel stood a whole row of Fallen Angels.

“Alright then… what will it take for you to let me take your lord with me?”

Faced with the Fallen Angels’ opposition, Tianyin felt a bit disappointed, but when she remembered that the Lucifa spoken of in the rumors was a weak, timid lord with zero majesty, it wasn’t unreasonable that her subordinates would be this tough.

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“Hmph… don’t even think about taking our lord away!”

Mihiel glared at Tianyin with eyes full of hostility.

“But… I really, really need your lord… really…”

“No way! There’s no way the Lord of Pride would just casually leave the Abyss!”

“Is it really impossible?”

Tianyin asked with a tinge of regret.

“Of course it’s impossible!”

The reply was Mihiel’s firm, resolute voice.

“So there’s no room for discussion, huh?”

Tianyin made up her mind. If these Fallen Angels really intended to stop her, she didn’t mind using the power of the Seven Original Sins.

You could say that at this moment, Tianyin had already decided she was ready to just snatch Lucifa away by force.

“Um… umm… don’t fight…”

Just as the tension between both sides was about to explode, Lucifa finally recovered from the pain of biting her tongue, then spoke up in a voice overflowing with weakness.

“Sister Mihiel… Tianyin came here because she wants me to save someone… that must be someone really important to her… and as angels, we can’t just ignore someone in need…”

“But my lord… we’ve already fallen, we’re Fallen Angels now, remember?”

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“Fallen Angels… aren’t angels anymore? Muu… please don’t be mad… I just think that since she went through so much trouble to come all the way here… we have to save that person…”

Lucifa, for once, managed not to bite her tongue.

“Alright… I understand… but if you’re determined to leave the Abyss, then please allow us to accompany you out of the Abyss, my lord!”

“Ehh, ehh… um, that, that won’t be necessary… I can just go by myself…”

Lucifa flailed her hands in a panic.

“No. We may agree to let you leave the Abyss, my lord, but we can’t possibly feel at ease letting you leave the Abyss and head to the Main World alone! So we must stay by your side and serve you at all times!”

“Muu… I-I see… I-I understand…”

Since Mihiel was willing to compromise, Lucifa naturally wouldn’t reject the good intentions of her subordinates.

However, even though things seemed to have been more or less settled verbally for the moment, the way events actually unfolded wasn’t nearly as simple as Tianyin had imagined.

“Mm… while we can agree to let our lord leave the Abyss and go back with you, there are still some things… I hope you can understand.”

After soothing Lucifa, Mihiel once again turned to Tianyin.

“You seem to be someone with considerable power yourself. Since you want our lord to help you save someone, then you should also lend us a hand. That would make things fair, don’t you think?”

“Wuu… lend a hand? Mm, I have no objections to that condition.”