Volume 4, Chapter 71 – Coma

『J-Just… just like that, he died?』

As someone who had watched this almost one sided battle from beginning to end, Tianyin herself found it hard to believe.

But the Black Dragon King’s death was already an established fact, and there was no doubting that.

『Incredible, the Black Dragon King was at least a Throne, and he got killed by Heavenly Father just like that?』

Thinking of how she and Frost Dragon Ysera had fought the Black Dragon King to the death before and still could not settle him, yet in Heavenly Father’s hands he had been killed in a nearly crushing way, Tianyin could not help feeling a deep sense of unreality and defeat in her heart.

「He should be dead, Xiaoyin. From what I can sense, the Black Dragon King’s aura is already gone.」

Although Tianyin did not want to accept this fact, Samael still used her own senses to confirm that the Black Dragon King was indeed dead.

And in Tianyin’s field of vision, the Black Dragon King, who had been directly shattered by Heavenly Father, his immense body had turned into countless fragments, and dragon blood was pouring down toward the earth like a rainstorm.

You could say that as a Throne, the Black Dragon King had not even left a whole corpse in the end.

『But he brought this on himself in the end.』

Thinking this, Tianyin finally still gave the Black Dragon King’s miserable end an evaluation of “reaping what he sowed”.

While Tianyin’s thoughts were wandering, the Heavenly Father, who had just killed the Black Dragon King, had already spread his wings and flown toward her.

However, as the Heavenly Father approached, Ysera beneath Tianyin could not help but release a surge of intense hostility.

“Hmm?”

Sensing Ysera’s hostility, Heavenly Father’s brow furrowed slightly.

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“The Frost Dragon of the Graveyard, interesting.”

He closed his hands slightly, and in the next moment, Ysera beneath Tianyin let out a painful wail without meaning to.

“Wait, wait… Heavenly Father, don’t hurt Ysera, she came to save Lucifa just like us, she is one of us!”

Seeing Heavenly Father attack Ysera, Tianyin, who had already withdrawn from the Seven Original Sins state, hurriedly stepped in to stop him.

“One of us?”

Heavenly Father nodded as if he understood, and after giving a further look at the suffering Ysera, he withdrew the power affecting her.

“In view of the fact that you also made a move to save my daughter, I will spare you this time.”

After saying this, Heavenly Father finally turned his gaze to Tianyin.

“The Black Dragon King is already dead, so from here on, everything is in your hands. Do not let me down.”

『In my hands?』

「Do not let you down?」

Heavenly Father’s words, as if he were entrusting his last wishes, left Tianyin utterly confused.

“What do you mean, in my hands?”

Yet just as Tianyin was about to keep asking the Heavenly Father what exactly he meant by giving everything to her, the Heavenly Father, who had still looked perfectly normal a moment ago, suddenly seemed to lose the ability to stay aloft and dropped straight toward the ground.

“Eh, eh?”

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Heavenly Father’s sudden change made Tianyin pause for a moment, but after that instant of daze she quickly reacted.

“Ysera, hurry and catch Heavenly Father!”

“Tch…”

Ysera was not very willing, but for Tianyin’s sake, she still flew down and then caught Heavenly Father, who had been plummeting vertically through the air.

“What is even going on anymore?”

After they brought Heavenly Father back up, Tianyin was finally able to approach him at close range.

And after she came before the unconscious Heavenly Father, Tianyin belatedly realized that Heavenly Father’s condition was exactly the same as Yeluo’s had been when she forcibly gave Tianyin Gluttony, one of the Seven Original Sins.

「Looks like Heavenly Father was already forcing himself back when he dealt with the Black Dragon King. No wonder the Black Dragon King kept saying Heavenly Father was extremely weak.」

In Tianyin’s mind, Samael slowly voiced her own guess.

『Wait… Why is Heavenly Father so weak in the first place?』

By rights, there should not be any existence in this world that could hurt Heavenly Father.

So Tianyin still held onto her doubts toward Samael’s speculation.

「Maybe it is some reason we don’t know. But judging from Heavenly Father’s condition right now, even as a Throne he will find it hard to pull through.」

After carefully feeling out Heavenly Father’s condition, Samael came to the conclusion that Heavenly Father did not have much time left.

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『How… how could this happen?』

「Xiaoyin, this is not something we can decide. To be honest, I also don’t really want to accept that Heavenly Father has become this weak, but facts are still facts.」

『Then… then what should we do next?』

Knowing that Heavenly Father’s weakened state was not an act, Tianyin, who suddenly did not know how to handle this, subconsciously asked Samael.

「What else can we do? Let us go find Mihiel and the others first. Since the Black Dragon King and those Demon Lords have all been wiped out, we just need to find Mihiel and the others next.」

『Got it.』

So, following Samael’s suggestion, Tianyin had a brief exchange with the Frost Dragon Ysera carrying her.

Then Ysera carried Tianyin and began searching the ruined territory below for any trace of Mihiel and the others.

After searching for a while, Mihiel, who was carrying the unconscious Lucifa, finally managed to meet up with Tianyin.

“Heavenly Father… What happened to Heavenly Father?”

Right after they regrouped, Mihiel immediately noticed Heavenly Father, who, just like Lucifa, was unconscious.

Although this father and daughter pair had both fallen into comas, the conditions of their unconsciousness were completely different.

Lucifa’s coma was like sleep, while Heavenly Father’s coma gave people the feeling that he might die at any moment.

“After killing the Black Dragon King, he became like this. Mihiel, you used to be an angel, do you know any way to save him?”

As Lucifa’s father and the one who had taken care of the Black Dragon King, Tianyin did not want to see Heavenly Father die like this.

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However, in response to Tianyin’s question, Mihiel could only shake her head with a regretful expression.

“Heavenly Father’s condition is far too weak. In this state he is already beyond what we angels alone can save.”

“S-So that is how it is?”

“Yes. We should hurry back for now. At the very least we have to settle Heavenly Father somewhere before my lady wakes up, to avoid my lady seeing Heavenly Father in this state.”

In the end, Mihiel gave her own opinion.

“That might be best too.”

Although she still hoped Heavenly Father could be saved, once Mihiel had answered, Tianyin accepted Mihiel’s suggestion.

After all, Lucifa had already lost her mother. Even if on the surface she did not get along with her father Heavenly Father, in the end Heavenly Father was still her father.

If she woke from her coma and saw her father in this kind of condition, Tianyin really could not imagine what state Lucifa would be in then.

“But something like this will be exposed sooner or later.”

“I know.”

Mihiel let out a soft sigh.

“We will hide it for as long as we can hide it.”