Volume 7, Chapter 11 – Tianyin’s Wish

‘Wait… Could it be that Samael can’t see the Golden Exclamation Mark I’m holding in my hand? No, no. Logically speaking, there were times before when I let my subordinates use this item, so why is it that Samael can’t see it now?’

Strange…

Just as Tianyin was racking her brain and still couldn’t figure it out, Samael in her head continued asking.

But this time, what she was asking wasn’t about why Tianyin was staring blankly at “an empty patch of ground”.

「Xiaoyin… it feels like you’ve had something going on lately, right? What happened exactly?」

Even though Samael had been “shutting herself away” during this period, even if she was doing that, she wouldn’t completely lose all perception of the outside world. Even though she didn’t know what Tianyin had been doing lately, Samael still more or less sensed that something seemed about to happen.

『Oh… actually it’s nothing too big, Samael. I’m just planning to hold a big tournament in Dawn.』

「A tournament?」

With her memories from the real world, Tianyin wasn’t unfamiliar with a word like “tournament”.

But for Samael, a true native born and raised here, it was a hard word to understand.

And compared to some timid loli who was muddleheaded, understood nothing, and didn’t want to understand anything, when it came to something she didn’t quite get, Samael still wanted to ask until it was clear.

『Um… it basically means a competition. How do I put it… probably, probably it’s like a bunch of people fighting, and then you decide who’s stronger.』

「Got it.」

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Samael answered, saying she more or less understood what a competition meant.

「Xiaoyin. I roughly get what a competition is, but why are you suddenly holding one?」

『Um… about that…』

After thinking for a moment, Tianyin also explained, in full detail, the reason she was holding the tournament.

And the general meaning was that because of Lust, Tianyin needed to expand the crowd affected by Lust.

And after considering things from all angles, Tianyin decided to hold a competition to expand her influence.

Of course… Tianyin herself wouldn’t participate in the competition. Even so, at the very end, at the point when the tournament reached its highest climax, Tianyin would still appear.

And that would be the best moment for Tianyin to expand the range of Lust’s influence.

After listening to Tianyin’s series of reasons for holding the tournament, Samael in her head was silent for a long time.

After quite a while, Samael finally spoke slowly.

「So holding the competition is really just to expand Lust’s influence? Xiaoyin. You’re really playing a huge game here.」

『Um… not really. Doesn’t the competition also expand the influence of our Dawn? This is actually a win-win method too.』

Tianyin answered a little modestly. But the curve at the corner of her mouth betrayed her current happy mood.

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『Hehe~ Once Lust, this Original Sin, is successfully brought under control, then the final step is Pride on Lucifa. Samael, I have a feeling that once I control Lust, I’ll be able to get Pride from Lucifa very easily.』

「Very easily? Will it be like what happened with Yeluo?」

Compared to Tianyin’s thoughts, Samael considered the worst-case scenario instead.

『It won’t, Samael, you have to believe me. I can guarantee it. When the time comes, not only will Lucifa be fine, even Sister Yeluo can wake up too.』

「Is that so? If that’s the case, then that’s good.」

When it came to Tianyin, Samael still chose to believe her.

Because compared to power, Tianyin cared more about the people she cared about. And if the price of obtaining Pride meant harming Lucifa, then Tianyin would rather not have the power of Pride at all.

『Well, actually I also know what you’re worried about in your heart. But Samael… in the future, I can’t predict what will happen either, and right now the only thing I can do is keep making myself stronger and stronger.』

『Until I’m strong enough to protect everyone around me… only when it gets to that point… can I truly, forever, be together with everyone, together with you too, Samael.』

Tianyin’s wish really was very, very simple.

To be together with the people she cared about.

With Mengyao, Lucifa, Sister Xiaomu, and the others by her side, this kind of life was the life Tianyin longed for the most.

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Even though her current life was already the same as that. But in Tianyin’s eyes, there were still many dangers lurking in the future.

For example, the End that had been mentioned again and again before by the Black Dragon King and the Abyssal Lord.

The End.

What exactly was the End?

The Black Dragon King had said that the End was the end of time, the ending of all things. But an existence like that, as a concept, was just far too vague.

And Tianyin also had an inexplicable intuition that the true End wasn’t a weapon or an item.

The true End would be an existence with its own independent consciousness, yet as evil as the Abyssal Lord.

Or could it be… that the Abyssal Lord was the End?

Thinking of this, Tianyin felt an unexplained jolt in her heart. Because when she thought of the Abyssal Lord, she felt invisible malice spreading in from all directions.

And a painfully uncomfortable sense of being watched also surged up in her heart.

「What’s wrong, Xiaoyin? Why does it feel like you’re not doing so well? Are you sick?」

Samael noticed Tianyin’s bodily abnormality right away. But because Samael wasn’t Tianyin herself, that kind of invisible malice Tianyin felt was something only Tianyin could feel.

『Um, I’m fine. I just suddenly remembered there are some things I haven’t done. I almost forgot while chatting with you just now, Samael.』

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「Pfft… fine, fine…」

Samael could actually already tell that Tianyin seemed to be hiding something. But because Tianyin seemed unwilling to say it, Samael didn’t press further.

That feeling of being watched by invisible malice really was pretty uncomfortable for Tianyin. But Tianyin didn’t know where that malice was coming from.

But…

Even though she couldn’t confirm it, Tianyin already had some guesses in her heart.

Could it be that Abyssal Lord guy?

Tianyin couldn’t confirm whether this was because of the Abyssal Lord.

However, in some unknown corner deep within the Abyss, a crazed-looking girl actually proved Tianyin’s guess was correct.

“I saw it, I already saw it. Hahahahahahahaha, the aura of Original Sin power. The aura of the Seven Original Sins!”

“I want to get you, I want to get Original Sin! Because no one is more suitable for Original Sin power than me. Hahahahahahahaha… If the timing weren’t still not mature, how could I possibly let you, a mere vessel, just sit there and talk to yourself like this, letting it go unchecked?”

As the girl muttered to herself, countless bizarre, twisted existences slowly came into being within the aura she was releasing.