Volume 4, Chapter 74 – An Unexpected Incident

“Wait, Heavenly Father, actually… you really don’t have to make it sound so final… at least, at least you are still here right now, aren’t you?”

Hearing Heavenly Father talk like he was settling his last affairs, to be honest, Tianyin felt awful inside.

Although she also understood that Heavenly Father’s current condition really was not good, Tianyin still felt that as someone of Throne-tier, and as the leader of the Sanctuary, maybe Heavenly Father really did have some way to survive.

Thinking of this, Tianyin could not help recalling how Mihiel had told her before that she would pass on the news of Heavenly Father being in critical condition to the Sanctuary.

“Heavenly Father… you, you should hold on a bit longer. The angels of the Sanctuary should be learning about your situation soon. Your Sanctuary definitely has some way to save you!”

“So don’t just force a conclusion on yourself like this already!”

Even if she herself could not do anything about Heavenly Father’s current weakness, Tianyin instinctively believed that Heavenly Father should not just die like this.

Hearing Tianyin’s words, a faint smile appeared on Heavenly Father’s calm face.

“As expected… I did not misjudge you. Tianyin, as long as you are here, I believe you can take good care of my daughter.”

He did not answer Tianyin directly. On the contrary, Heavenly Father even praised her in a tone that was unusually relieved.

“You are a very gentle girl. Entrusting Lucifa to you, I can die without regrets.”

“Eh?”

Tianyin was slightly stunned.

Because Heavenly Father’s words did not answer her question.

Of course, although Heavenly Father did not respond head-on, he had also expressed his meaning from the side.

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Which was that he did not care about the fact that he was about to die.

“Alright.”

Seeing Tianyin at a loss for words for a moment, Heavenly Father’s gaze once again became incomparably calm.

“It is not that I am unwilling to hold on. It is because I know very well that my body cannot last much longer.”

Slowly stating this fact, at this moment Heavenly Father sounded like he was the one comforting Tianyin.

“There is already no one in this world who can save me. As for the Abyss and those kinds of unnecessary hopes, you should just let them go.”

“But… Heavenly Father, if you leave, can you really bear to let your daughter be alone in this world?”

“It would be a lie to say I can.”

Faced with Tianyin’s question, Heavenly Father answered very seriously.

“I have only this one daughter in my entire life. For me, in the first half of my life, the most important person was my late wife. In the second half, it has been this daughter who has always resented me…”

“In the later years of my life, just watching her from afar, quietly watching her smile happily… that, for me, was the most beautiful sight.”

“I never asked that she let go of her resentment toward me. I know that what I did back then is really not something she should forgive, so I know that I only need to quietly, carefully protect her from the shadows.”

In the eyes of outsiders, Heavenly Father was the strongest existence in the Sanctuary, the most mysterious and the most dignified.

In the eyes of the world, this Heavenly Father was perfect, was great, and was an existence mortals could not reach.

But…

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However…

Heavenly Father was actually just an ordinary “person”.

He loved his wife who had already passed away, and he also loved his daughter who refused to call him father.

He made mistakes, he suffered, he felt sorrow, and he carefully protected the family that was most important to him, even if the price was death.

A Heavenly Father like this was not perfect at all.

“So that is how it is…”

Understanding Heavenly Father’s resolve in her heart, Tianyin also knew that no matter what she said, she could not change the fact that Heavenly Father was going to die.

However, precisely because she understood Heavenly Father’s persistence, Tianyin’s heart could not help but be filled with sadness.

Once, not so long ago, the not-yet-dead Undead Grand Duke Sargus had also said something similar to her.

Wife, daughter.

In the end, they were all family.

Undead Grand Duke Sargus could stand alone against the Throne-tiers of the Seven Great Factions for the sake of his family.

And Heavenly Father could also stake his life in order to kill the Black Dragon King who wanted to harm his daughter.

Bang!

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Just as Tianyin was thinking this, the door was suddenly flung open.

Tianyin instinctively looked over, and once her gaze shifted, her expression turned blank.

Because the one who pushed open the door was none other than Lucifa, whom Tianyin had just said was “still asleep”!

“…”

The girl who pushed the door open remained frozen in the posture of pushing the door, then lowered her head and stood there in silent silence.

Her eyes were hidden in the shadow of her hair, and from Tianyin’s point of view, with the girl holding that posture, she could not guess what Lucifa was feeling at all.

The atmosphere instantly grew still.

“That is… that is too unfair…”

After the quiet lasted for quite a while, the girl, Lucifa, finally spoke.

Even though her head was still lowered, and the expression hidden in the shadows could not be seen, Lucifa’s voice sounded like she was suppressing something.

“Too unfair… and far too much…”

Speaking with a voice that sounded like it was holding something back, Lucifa slowly walked toward Heavenly Father’s side.

“Why… Why did you have to abandon Lucifa back then?”

Even though her words were full of complaints toward Heavenly Father, there were faint trails of tears slowly sliding down Lucifa’s face.

“Too much… it was really far too much… back then you chose to throw me away, to drive me off… and now, are you planning to abandon me again?”

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“It is not abandoning you. It is that my time really is running out…”

The expression that had always been so indifferent on Heavenly Father’s face began to change when Lucifa appeared, and after hearing her words, Heavenly Father could only let out a long, powerless sigh.

“Then… Then you are not even going to try to save yourself?”

“If I could save myself, I would have done it long ago…”

While being moved that he could see his daughter once more before leaving, Heavenly Father also worried in his heart over whether his daughter would be saddened by his death.

“I see…”

There was no tantrum like one might have imagined. After listening to Heavenly Father’s explanation, Lucifa quietly accepted this fact.

And after accepting Heavenly Father’s explanation, Lucifa’s voice became incomparably serious.

“I really… still hate you.”

As if needing to vent the resentment she had long held toward Heavenly Father as a father, Lucifa spoke this sentence slowly at a time.

However, after she finished saying it, her tone slowly softened.

“But… I also don’t want you to leave me like Mom did…”

“Dad…”