Volume 4, Chapter 27 – Is This a Family Comedy?

『Wait… Samael… what just happened?』

What was happening in front of her eyes was far too surreal.

Just a moment ago, the Black Dragon King who had pressed Tianyin so hard that she had no way to fight back had his huge forelimb casually severed by Heavenly Father right then and there.

The massive severed limb crashed to the ground, and the Black Dragon King’s scalding hot blood kept pouring from the wound along the broken stump.

It was really hard to accept… hard to believe.

「Xiaoyin… Heavenly Father is an extremely troublesome existence.」

Samael, who had also watched the whole process head on, spoke in a voice that had grown very heavy.

『What was that… just now, what exactly happened?』

「I don’t know either… sorry…」

Indeed, Samael had once pulled off the feat of charging alone into the Sanctuary’s main base in the Main World.

However, she had never actually fought Heavenly Father.

So regarding that bizarre method Heavenly Father had used just now to directly sever the Black Dragon King’s forelimb, she could not see through what it was at all.

「But… this feeling is giving me a really bad premonition, Xiaoyin. If Heavenly Father wanted to deal with us, I feel like he would only need to say a single sentence… it feels… just like whatever he says would become reality… too bizarre…」

Bizarre?

What he says would become reality?

Samael’s words made Tianyin involuntarily recall what Heavenly Father had said when he first descended.

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“I am where the Sanctuary is.”

In the same way, the thick Abyssal power that had been filling this stretch of heaven and earth had completely vanished with Heavenly Father’s words.

Words become law??!

Thinking of this, four astonishing words finally rose in Tianyin’s heart.

Of course, all of this was only Tianyin’s own guess.

“Ahhhhhhhh… Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, you damned bastard! Our dragon race, we dragons will return! Your Sanctuary will be razed to the ground one by one by the kings of our dragon race!”

“Is that so?”

Watching the Black Dragon King, battered and miserable, spouting harsh words, Heavenly Father lowered his lids slightly, the expression on his face somewhere between a smile and not.

“Still immersed in your past glory? You really are pathetic… only knowing how to blindly cling to your old feats and accomplishments. Do you really think you can pose a threat to me in the future?”

“Pitiful, pathetic, lamentable…”

Speaking in this completely unconcerned tone, Heavenly Father’s attitude toward the Black Dragon King was as if he were dealing with a completely insignificant small fry.

“Leave. I don’t want to kill you. I have no interest in you at all.”

“Hmph… Heavenly Father, one day, I will definitely come back for revenge!”

The Black Dragon King was not the type to be suicidally stubborn. After losing an arm in pain, he only tossed out a threat, then slunk back to his lair with his tail between his legs.

The other black dragons also sensed that things were bad and scattered like frightened beasts.

In the blink of an eye, only Tianyin, the Fallen Angels, Heavenly Father and the Angel Legion that had descended remained on the field.

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“Heavenly Father—”

After the entire Black Dragon clan had departed, the Fallen Angels, led by Mihiel, all respectfully bowed to Heavenly Father.

Of course, aside from Tianyin, Lucifa, who was watching Heavenly Father with a nervous face, also did not bow.

“You don’t need to be that respectful. You are no longer angels under my command. As Fallen Angels, the only one you serve now is the Lord of Pride, Lucifa.”

Heavenly Father waved a hand dismissively at the Fallen Angels’ respectful attitude.

Then his gaze turned to Mihiel.

“You did very well. The Black Dragon King Xingousa is a very crafty one. To lure him out, and even successfully stall for time until I could descend, you handled this plan very nicely.”

Mihiel smiled and bowed.

“All I did was for my liege.”

“Good. With Lucifa’s safety in your care, I can be at ease.”

Heavenly Father gave a small nod, and his gaze shifted over to Tianyin.

“Human who helped Lucifa… I don’t understand why you have the aura of the Undead Grand Duke on you, but since you helped my daughter, as thanks, I can pretend I didn’t notice your power, and I will not pursue the matter of where that power of yours, which seems to belong to the Undead Grand Duke, came from.”

Heavenly Father’s words sounded extremely ordinary, yet they made Tianyin feel like her mood had been strapped into a roller coaster, plunging up and down.

Heavenly Father really had sensed Tianyin’s power. Not only that, he had also sensed that within Tianyin’s power there was strength mixed in from the Undead Grand Duke Sargus.

However, what made Tianyin feel a bit relieved was that Heavenly Father seemed to be someone with very firm principles. Toward someone who had helped his daughter, he could choose to act as if he had never noticed this power.

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Hm… wait… daughter?

Tianyin, who had already taken back control of her body, froze in place with a dazed, shocked expression as she reacted.

“Y-Y-Y-Your daughter? Wait, wait, wait… you mean… Lucifa, she’s your daughter?”

“My daughter is indeed Lucifa.”

Heavenly Father smiled and nodded in acknowledgment, then turned his gaze toward Lucifa, who was hiding behind Mihiel and sneaking glances in this direction.

“What is it, you see me and don’t even know how to address me?”

Noticing Heavenly Father’s gaze, Lucifa puffed up her tiny cheeks, then buried her small face against Mihiel.

However…

This scene gave Tianyin a very wrong sort of feeling…

Wait…

Lucifa is Heavenly Father’s daughter?

Inferno’s very first Fallen Angel, the Lord of Pride Lucifa, is Heavenly Father’s daughter?

No wonder, no wonder…

No wonder Mihiel and the other Fallen Angels were still so respectful toward Heavenly Father.

No wonder Heavenly Father would personally descend into the Abyss and handle the Black Dragon King for Lucifa’s sake.

No wonder, no wonder.

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So in the end… Lucifa and Heavenly Father were actually one family?!

So these two were actually a father and daughter pair?!

Wait… if they are father and daughter, then why did Lucifa run off to Inferno to become a Fallen Angel?

Tianyin felt a bit puzzled, but remembering how Lucifa had just now seemed unwilling to pay Heavenly Father any mind, she felt as if she understood something…

Wait… could it be that back then, it was never the Abyssal Lord who took the initiative to abduct Lucifa to Inferno… but rather… Lucifa and Heavenly Father, this father and daughter pair, had a falling out, and then Lucifa stormed off from home in a fit of pique?

And then, after running away from home, Lucifa kept going and going and somehow ended up in Inferno?

And because Heavenly Father was worried about his daughter, he sent some angels down to fall into Inferno and look after Lucifa?

Although she had no idea whether her guess was accurate or not… in Tianyin’s mind, a family comedy spanning hundreds of thousands of years, about a daughter running away from home for over a hundred thousand years and still refusing to come back… was already unfolding like this…

“T-This… what even is this supposed to be?”

Thinking this far, Tianyin felt like her entire worldview had just been refreshed.

So the reason Lucifa fell into Inferno was that the daughter Lucifa and the father Heavenly Father had a falling out, and she ran away from home?

Translator Note

Well, well, I didn’t expect this kind of plot twist~ xD