Volume 4, Chapter 72 – The Reason

For a girl, what she wants most is a warm embrace that lets her sleep with peace of mind.

When her mother was still around, the warmest place was her mother’s arms.

Back then, she would act spoiled and call out “Mom, Mom” then, carefree and without worries, burrow into her mother’s warm embrace.

But…

All of that was just memories of the past.

There were no longer those gentle eyes watching over her, no longer those hands that would lightly stroke her long hair, and no longer that soft, gentle voice calling her “my cute little Lucifa”.

She lost them all on that day. To the girl, she herself had nothing, nothing left at all.

Her heart was empty. Whether she felt upset or sad, there was no one who would hold her and comfort her anymore.

“Little Lucifa is a strong child~”

Back then, her mother had always praised her like this.

“But I’m sorry, Mom. After all these years, your little Lucifa is still that child who will start crying at the drop of a hat, who gets nervous at the drop of a hat, whose courage is so tiny…”

Tears slid silently down from the corners of her eyes, and at this moment her consciousness slowly returned.

When she opened her eyes, what entered her sight was an exquisitely decorated ceiling.

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“I… where am I…”

Memories from before began floating up in her mind, and as those memories surged forth, the girl, that is to say Lucifa, fell into confusion.

Because in those memories, she should have activated the power of Pride in order to save Sister Xiaoyin.

Although she had blocked the Black Dragon King’s Dragon Breath for Sister Xiaoyin at the first moment, in the process of resisting that Dragon Breath she had been captured by the Black Dragon King.

After that, she had inexplicably fallen into slumber.

“Muu… I… wasn’t I captured?”

Having just woken up, with Lucifa’s way of thinking, it was hard for her to understand what kind of state she was in right now.

But after she struggled to sit up, Lucifa realized that the room she had been sleeping in was, in her memory, the room Sister Xiaoyin had arranged for her.

Mm, although she had never actually slept in this room, its image still existed in her memories.

Feeling a bit puzzled, for a moment Lucifa even suspected that she might be dreaming.

But after carefully thinking it over for a short while, Lucifa felt that she was not dreaming.

“Muu… but if I’m not dreaming, then was being captured by the Black Dragon King the dream?”

In the end, talking to herself, Lucifa reached that kind of conclusion.

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“Hoo… so everything before was just me dreaming? That really scared me, but it’s fine if it was just a dream. Even if I were captured by the Black Dragon King for Sister Xiaoyin’s sake, I’d be willing… but if I can be together with Sister Xiaoyin, that would be the best thing of all~”

Speaking up to this point, a happy smile appeared on Lucifa’s face.

“Alright, time to get up and go find Sister Xiaoyin. Lucifa totally isn’t someone who likes to sleep in!”

Of course, although she said that out loud, there was still a vague sense of unease in Lucifa’s heart.

She did not know where this uneasiness came from, but Lucifa believed that as long as she found Sister Xiaoyin, she surely would not feel uneasy anymore.

Slowly crawling out from the warm blankets, after checking that her clothes were all in order, Lucifa pushed open the door and walked out of her room.

As for Sister Xiaoyin’s Lord’s Manor, although it occupied a large area in Eden, in reality very few people actually lived inside.

Apart from the half-beast maidservants needed to clean the Lord’s Manor, there weren’t many people at all these past few days.

So when Lucifa pushed open the door and stepped out of the room, there was not a single person in the corridor outside.

“Muu… no one? Forget it, I’ll go check Sister Xiaoyin’s room first~”

Once she had made up her mind, recalling the location of Tianyin’s room in her mind, Lucifa walked off in the direction where Tianyin’s room was.

A few minutes later, this corridor once again fell into silence.

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However, just after Lucifa had left, at the other end of the corridor, a petite and cute girl walked over toward Lucifa’s room.

But the instant she pushed open the door to Lucifa’s room, the girl stood there in a daze…

“N… no good… Lucifa, Lucifa is gone!”

……

Time went back to one day earlier.

After returning to Eden, Ysera, whose main personality had already come back, said goodbye to Tianyin and went straight to find Fischerna, who was stationed outside the city.

After watching Ysera leave with a sense of loss, Tianyin and Mihiel settled the unconscious Heavenly Father and the likewise unconscious Lucifa in the Lord’s Manor.

After they finished arranging Heavenly Father and Lucifa, Mihiel took her leave of Tianyin and then explained that she needed to go and report the news that Heavenly Father’s life was hanging by a thread to her elder brother Michael, who was currently serving as Chief Archangel in the Sanctuary.

After Mihiel left, under the curious gazes of Sister Xiaomu and Xiaomengyao, Tianyin recounted the process of defeating the Black Dragon King and rescuing Lucifa.

“That’s how everything happened… in the end Heavenly Father arrived just in time. But Sister Xiaomu, I really can’t figure it out, how did someone as strong as Heavenly Father become like this now?”

In the end, Tianyin, very much at a loss, asked Sister Xiaomu about the thing she had never been able to understand.

“Well~”

The elf girl pondered for a short moment, then spoke with a smile.

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“It’s not strange that Xiaoyin can’t figure it out. If it’s according to my guess, the first reason Heavenly Father became like this is that he forcibly used his power to kill the Black Dragon King when he was already incomparably weak.”

“Although Xiaoyin, when you saw Heavenly Father kill the Black Dragon King it looked very easy, as the one actually doing it, Heavenly Father surely had to pay a certain price for forcing himself to use his power?”

“Wuu… I get it, Sister Xiaomu, you mean Heavenly Father killed the Black Dragon King by forcing himself.”

Tianyin understood this part.

“But then, what was it that made Heavenly Father become that weak in the first place?”

“That should be the work of the Abyssal Lord.”

As for Tianyin’s second question, Xingyu Muxi answered without a second thought.

“During the fight, didn’t the Black Dragon King say that Heavenly Father should have been blocked by the Abyssal Lord? But Heavenly Father still showed up. So I speculate that on his way to save his daughter, Heavenly Father really was blocked by the Abyssal Lord.”

“But afraid that something might happen to his daughter… Heavenly Father did not want to be tangled up with the Abyssal Lord for too long. So, with his heart set only on saving his daughter, he took being severely wounded by the Abyssal Lord as the price and managed to shake free of the Abyssal Lord.”

“So… so that’s how it is?”

After hearing Sister Xiaomu’s line of reasoning, Tianyin could not help feeling admiration for Heavenly Father’s resolve, that resolve to be willing to sacrifice himself for his daughter.