Volume 4, Chapter 64 – Out of Nowhere

“Were you trying to find me… little one…”

It sounded like nothing more than a casual tone, but the instant that voice rang out, all of Samael’s hair stood on end.

“Black Dragon King…”

The voice behind them was all too familiar to both Tianyin and Samael. As Tianyin slowly uttered the name of the owner of that voice, Samael swung the knight’s sword in her hand backward in an instant.

With a sharp clang.

Just like striking the hardest stone, the knight’s sword in her hand had indeed hit the Black Dragon King. Yet what Tianyin found unbelievable was that the sword was being gripped tight in a huge hand covered in pitch-black scales.

“Quite a surprise, isn’t it, little one?”

The Black Dragon King clamped down hard on the knight’s sword, his vertical pupils full of amusement.

“Black Dragon King… as a dignified Throne, you’d actually pull a sneak attack like that?”

“How funny. Just because I’m a Throne I can’t launch a sneak attack, who decided that? But anyway, little one, you actually ran over here to look for me without waiting for me. Could it be you just couldn’t wait to deliver that Original Sin power to me?”

As he spoke, the Black Dragon King let out a low chuckle.

“Hmph… let Lucifa out!”

Tianyin’s voice was a little cold.

“Let her out? Have you taken a good look at the situation right now?”

In response to Tianyin’s words, the Black Dragon King’s tone was full of disdain.

“After unleashing that move just now, you’re already far too weak. Do you really think you can still be my opponent in this state?”

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Although a sneak attack was indeed rather shameless, for the Black Dragon King, as long as he could seize Tianyin, who possessed the Original Sin power, at the earliest chance, it was worth it.

Just as the Black Dragon King was about to end the conversation and make his move on Tianyin, he suddenly noticed the temperature around them turning icy cold.

Sensing something was off, the Black Dragon King’s gaze involuntarily shifted to the front.

“Frost Power. I didn’t expect you to actually be that Frost Dragon from the Graveyard.”

The Black Dragon King, who had been wary because of the anomaly, relaxed bit by bit the moment he saw Xiaobingxue.

“So what, you betray Undead Grand Duke Sargus before his bones have even gone cold? Tsk, tsk, this is my first time seeing such an ungrateful dragon.”

As the Black Dragon King said this, Tianyin felt a bad premonition in her heart.

『Samael, stop him, quick!』

「Got it!」

Upon hearing Tianyin’s anxious voice in her mind and vaguely understanding something, Samael loosened her grip on the knight’s sword without a second thought.

At the same time, she swung her other hand toward the Black Dragon King in a fierce strike.

It could be said that Samael’s reaction was already extremely fast.

Yet although Samael reacted quickly, the Black Dragon King reacted even faster.

The instant Tianyin moved, the Black Dragon King clamped his other hand tightly around the arm Samael had attacked with.

“Little one, without a sword how could you possibly be my match? When it comes to close combat, there isn’t anyone I, the Black Dragon King, have ever feared.”

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“You…”

Just as Samael was wondering how to break free of the Black Dragon King’s grasp, not far away, the expression on Xiaobingxue’s face, which had always been blank, slowly began to twist into something strange.

“You… what did you say…”

Xiaobingxue’s voice grew disjointed, and more than that, it carried a rare note of panicked confusion.

“Hm? You didn’t know?”

Keeping his tight grip on Samael, the Black Dragon King wore a so called curious expression.

“Undead Grand Duke Sargus is dead. You really didn’t know?”

“Sar… Sargus… wh-who is he… I don’t know… I don’t know…”

Slowly, under Tianyin’s worried gaze and the Black Dragon King’s amused one, tears began sliding uncontrollably from Xiaobingxue’s eyes.

“I… I… why… why does it hurt so much…”

Like a child who had no idea what to do, Xiaobingxue looked helplessly at Tianyin.

“Xiao… Xiaoyin… Sa… Sargus is who?”

“I…”

Tianyin had never thought Xiaobingxue’s emotions would collapse at a time like this.

She had imagined all kinds of scenarios, but Tianyin had never imagined that Sargus’s death would be brought up in the middle of a battle and from an enemy’s mouth at that.

All this time Tianyin had thought she could hide the truth that Xiaobingxue did not want to remember.

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That the sorrowful past would slowly fade as time went by. That maybe, on some sunny day in the future, Tianyin would tell Xiaobingxue that truth.

But…

Sometimes things just happened far too suddenly.

“I know, as the Frost Dragon of the Graveyard, Ysera, you actually forgot Undead Grand Duke Sargus? He used to be the leader of the Graveyard.”

“Ysera… Undead Grand Duke… Sargus…”

On hearing the Black Dragon King’s words, the pain in Xiaobingxue’s eyes only deepened.

“Ysera, who is Ysera?”

“Xiaobingxue, don’t listen!”

Tianyin knew that if this kept going it would only get worse, but with both hands pinned by the Black Dragon King at close range, even though she wanted to stop him, she was helpless and could only watch.

“Ysera is you. Frost Dragon, the world might not know your name, but I do, and not only that, I know your past as well.”

“As one of the new-blood Thrones of the Graveyard, you were once a hatchling abandoned by your parents. When you were on the verge of death, Undead Grand Duke Sargus took you away, and to you, Undead Grand Duke Sargus, who rescued you and raised you, was just like your father.”

“Father… Father…”

As the Black Dragon King spoke up to this point, tears were still streaming down Xiaobingxue’s face, yet those ice-blue eyes were growing emptier and emptier.

“Black Dragon King… aren’t you after the Original Sin power? Why are you telling Xiaobingxue all this?!”

“And why shouldn’t I?”

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The Black Dragon King shot Tianyin a disdainful look.

“As one of my dragon clan, and as a Dragon King who commands Frost Power, I have no intention of letting her stray down the wrong path.”

While the Black Dragon King and Tianyin were trading words, Xiaobingxue in the distance finally fell silent.

After that brief silence, an aura that felt both familiar and unfamiliar to Tianyin rose up at that moment.

“Father… Father really… is he really gone already?”

It was no longer that emotionless voice. This time what sounded out was full of sorrow, yet also carefully restrained.

Tracks of tears streaked the petite girl’s face, and her ice-blue eyes were filled with pain and grief.

“The whole world knows Undead Grand Duke Sargus exhausted his strength and died in the final battle.”

When speaking of the Undead Grand Duke’s final battle, even the Black Dragon King’s tone was full of respect.

“Really… has Father really already gone?”

“Yes… but Ysera… as fellow dragons, I can help you.”

“Help me?”

The Black Dragon King’s words made a bad feeling rise in Tianyin’s heart.

“The Seven Original Sins can bring the dead back to life. Work with me, and I can bring the Undead Grand Duke back!”