Volume 4, Chapter 56 – Big Sister Is Big Sister

The knight sword tightly gripped in her hand was swinging slower and slower, and the speed at which she shifted position was also getting slower and slower.

Not only that, the duration of the Stage of Wrath had already long passed, yet even so, the Black Dragon King’s fighting style remained exceedingly cautious, with no sign at all that it intended to attack Tianyin.

「No good… if this keeps up and he really won’t attack me… if it goes on like this, the time limit for the Seven Original Sins really will be up…」

Samael was inwardly crying that this was bad. It was not just Samael who was anxious, Tianyin was also feeling extremely anxious at this moment.

But being anxious was useless, and the result of panicking would only be that her originally clear rationality fell into chaos.

And once that rationality started to fall into chaos… it would mean unconsciously revealing a real opening.

So… in the instant when Samael blanked out a little.

The Black Dragon King suddenly launched an attack.

Its blood-reeking huge maw suddenly gaped wide, and while Tianyin was still not far from it, scorching dragon breath surged out from the Black Dragon King’s opened maw…

Rumble rumble…

『Samael… watch out!』

The Black Dragon King’s attack with no warning threw Tianyin into a panic for a moment, but Samael really was worthy of being the one who had once charged alone into the main temple established in the Main World. At this moment, facing the Black Dragon King’s dragon breath, she was still unusually calm.

However… against this kind of dragon breath whose range was far too wide, even if Samael wanted to resist, with the time she had there was no effective method at all…

“I… I won’t allow you to hurt my big sister!”

A soft little girl’s voice suddenly rang out at this moment.

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And in that instant, Lucifa’s figure abruptly appeared in front of Tianyin’s field of vision.

“Eh… Lucifa…”

Tianyin was slightly stunned, but when she realized it was Lucifa standing in front of her, she immediately thought of having Samael pull Lucifa back behind her.

However… Just as Tianyin was thinking this, Samael’s voice suddenly rang out.

「Wait, Xiaoyin… the dragon breath looks like it’s been blocked!」

『Mm? Blocked?』

Tianyin, whose heart was worried about Lucifa’s safety, also calmed down along with Samael’s words, and when she looked toward Lucifa again, she saw that in front of the girl, the Black Dragon King’s scorching dragon breath had been split directly into two by an invisible power and was rushing off to either side.

“This… this is Pride?”

Tianyin was momentarily stunned.

Samael calmly confirmed it.

「…It’s the power of Pride. Looks like Lucifa activated the power of Pride in order to protect you, Xiaoyin. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad, but in the battle to come, maybe we can fight together with Lucifa…」

However, before Samael could even say the words “join forces”, a huge dragon claw suddenly thrust out from within the Black Dragon King’s scorching breath.

「Not good!」

Samael reacted in an instant, her figure bursting forward as she tried to get to Lucifa, but the Black Dragon King’s move had just been far too sudden, and on top of that it struck straight through its own dragon breath, so no matter how fast Samael reacted, she was already too late…

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The Black Dragon King’s completely unexpected attack utterly terrified Lucifa, who had just been so serious about saying she would protect Tianyin.

And as Lucifa let out a panicked cry, the Black Dragon King’s dragon claw, scorched by its own dragon breath, closed tightly around Lucifa in its palm.

“Hahahahahahahahaha… as expected, as expected you couldn’t stop yourself from acting. Lucifa, I’ve been waiting, waiting all this time for you to be unable to resist saving that precious big sister of yours!”

After grabbing Lucifa, the Black Dragon King stopped its dragon breath and at the same time pulled away from Tianyin, finally stopping at the safest possible distance.

“Black Dragon King! You…”

Samael was utterly stunned.

Honestly, before this Samael had thought the Black Dragon King’s unprovoked defensive posture was just to drag things out, but now it seemed the Black Dragon King had long since anticipated that Lucifa would not be able to hold back from acting…

“Hahaha, how about it, this time it’s my win, little one!. Demons of the Abyss, the Lord of Pride has already been captured by me, it’s time to withdraw!”

“Hahahahahahahahaha, as expected of you, Black Dragon King, that was a real move!”

Hearing the Black Dragon King’s words, the Demon Lords who had been fighting Eden’s army and Xiaobingxue and the others all abandoned the ordinary demons they had summoned, broke away from the battlefield alone, and flew toward the Black Dragon King, laughing all the while.

“Xiaoyin…”

The Demon Lords’ retreat also let Xiaobingxue slip free of the battle, so at the first moment she could, this three-no girl who always worried about Tianyin flew over.

“I’m fine… it’s just…”

After soothing Xiaobingxue a little, Samael, who was controlling Tianyin’s body, looked complicatedly toward the Black Dragon King, which was gripping Lucifa tightly in its hand.

“Hahahahahahahahaha… little one, surprised, aren’t you? Actually, from the start my target wasn’t you at all, it was this naive and ignorant Lord of Pride in my hand!”

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Meeting Tianyin’s complicated gaze, the Black Dragon King laughed smugly.

“Even though you have the power of Original Sin on you, from my point of view, if I went after you directly something unexpected might happen, so Lucifa is the most suitable target for now… besides, this one is also the daughter of that Heavenly Father who cut off one of my arms.”

When it mentioned Heavenly Father, the Black Dragon King’s tone turned full of grinding teeth.

“Let Lucifa go. Using schemes and tricks, what kind of dragon are you supposed to be!”

At a loss for what to say, this was all Samael could say in the end to weakly express the anger in her heart.

“It’s really laughable. Back then the Dragon Race fell into a fate of life and death extinction exactly because they disdained using schemes and tricks. I, the Black Dragon King Xingousa, will never follow in those brutes’ footsteps!”

“The Dragon Race’s past glory is nothing at all in my eyes. As long as I can succeed, what does it matter if I use a few schemes and tricks?”

The Black Dragon King mocked them, and as the Demon Lords drew near, an enormous teleportation array also lit up at this moment.

“If you’ve got guts then don’t run, fight me again!”

“Hahaha, no need to rush, little one. Once I take Lucifa’s power of Pride and fuse that power of Pride, I will definitely come looking for you!”

Actually, by this point the time for the Seven Original Sins was already almost used up, so even though Tianyin really wanted to act at this moment, Samael, who controlled her body, was much more rational and promptly stopped Tianyin’s idea of making a move to block the Black Dragon King…

“Big sister, big sister…”

At this moment, Lucifa, who had been caught, looked at Tianyin with a face full of self blame.

“All of this happening so suddenly… Sis, I know this is my fault… but… but right now… I don’t regret suddenly stepping in to help Sis block the dragon breath…”

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“Lu-Lucifa… W-Why are you so silly…”

Tianyin opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but Lucifa instead showed a relieved expression.

“Mm-mhm… I know… but Sis, you know…”

“The feeling Sis gives me is just like Mama… and a very, very long time ago, I could only watch wide eyed as Mama left me right in front of my eyes…

“So… this time, no matter what… I don’t want to just stand there and watch Sis leave me again…”

Tianyin only felt a faint ache in her heart.

“But…”

“I’m not your Mama… is this really worth it for you?”

The teleportation array before her began to activate, and Tianyin’s Seven Original Sins also reached the very last second at this moment.

The powerful strength left Tianyin’s body of its own accord for the first time, but the emptiness of losing that power was far less than the sudden sadness rising in her heart.

“It is…”

In her sight, Lucifa’s figure gradually began to turn illusory.

“Because, Big Sister is… Big Sister…”