Volume 9 Chapter 4 (1/2)
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Father
“Child, why must you resist me?” The Dragon Emperor looked deeply at Liola, saying irresistible words. “You are my child, the most talented child. Once I conquer the world, the next Dragon Emperor is you, and you will become the Emperor of the world.”
He did not expect the Dragon Emperor to say something like it. Still, Liola replied indifferently, “I don’t want to be Emperor.”
Hearing this answer, instead of being angry, the Dragon Emperor faintly smiled, “That’s right, each and every one of my children is very humble.”
“Really?” Full of suspicions, Kaiser who is used to retorting raised his tone, “Latter or whatever wasn’t like that.”
As if he heard something unforgivable, the Dragon Emperor’s expression darkened, and his voice became frighteningly ice-cold. “He is not my child.”
“Eh?” Kaiser’s face became puzzled. “If he’s not your child then whose is he? Don’t tell me your wife cheated…” Kaiser didn’t even finish his last word. As soon as the Dragon Emperor’s eyes turned cold, a beam of purple light shot out from his finger and flew towards Kaiser.
Seeing the light, Kaiser snorted and raised his hand, firing a 3 times-compressed Divine Fireball to blow the light beam away.
The Dragon Emperor was, at first, surprised to see Kaiser easily knocking away the light beam, then full of interest, he sized up Kaiser and Daylight. The improvement in these two would so much truly impress anyone.
“What are you so angry for, your wife’s cheating is none of my G.o.dd.a.m.n business.” Kaiser said this unhappily, but suddenly he began to smile. “No wonder you want to kill Latte, turns out to be not your son.”
The Dragon Emperor’s face fell a little, but he didn’t attack Kaiser again, and he didn’t pay any attention to him. He turned to Liola and his tone remained warm, “Child, come with me. Father doesn’t care about the prophecy anymore, you are my best child, as long as you succeed me, even if you killed me, it wouldn’t matter.”
Hearing this, Liola suddenly raised his head, and attempted to find traces of lying on the Dragon Emperor’s face. However, seeing those pair of purple yet clear eyes, it was hard to make out any trace of lies. Liola somewhat half-believed, but if the Dragon Emperor was speaking the truth, then maybe following him back was a good chance to a.s.sa.s.sinate him. Liola thought about this hesitantly.
“Liola?” Kaiser saw Liola wasn’t saying anything, and thought maybe he was really considering leaving with the Dragon Emperor, so he couldn’t help but ask with a dim tone.
Liola slowly turned back and glanced at Kaiser, thinking if he should leave with the Dragon Emperor, since under the current situation, it would be difficult for 3 people to escape. But if he leaves with the Dragon Emperor willingly, then the Dragon Emperor will probably promise to free Daylight and Kaiser. As for Liola’s own safety, he is not worried, not because he’s bragging, but if he is by himself, Liola dare say no one can stop him from escaping.
“If I go with you, can you guarantee to let both of them go?” Liola looked at the Dragon Emperor.
The Dragon Emperor raised his eyebrow, “Of course, you thought I mind these two? Child, they have improved, but it’s still too early for them to be a threat to me.”
Hearing Liola’s answer, Kaiser and Daylight cried out startlingly, “Liola!”
“Let them go first.” Liola calmly said, not understanding his two companion’s worried look.
The Dragon Emperor nodded gracefully, his long slender hand indicating permission.
Daylight and Kaiser didn’t move from their spot, the determined look on both faces said they will absolutely not leave. Liola can only tell them via Baolilong talking to Flames, and Flames telling Daylight of his plan. At the same time, he promised he will definitely escape.
Hearing the message from Flames, Daylight hesitated. Under normal circ.u.mstances, Daylight will never abandon his companion to escape, but considering if he and Kaiser stayed behind, they might become Liola’s burden.
“Can you promise you can definitely escape?” Daylight let Flames convey.
“I promise.” Liola also respond this way.
Daylight hesitated a bit and let out a sigh. He went and grab Kaiser with the intention to leave, but as soon as he pulled Kaiser, the magic spell dispersed and Miluo can finally move. He roared loudly towards the sky, blood-red eyes glaring at Kaiser. Yet as a purple light from the Dragon Emperor shot at Miluo’s forehead, Miluo became tame as a domesticated horse, quietly lying down.
Kaiser used his strength to break away from Daylight’s grasp and yelled towards Liola. “Don’t go with him, I don’t care about whatever ideas you have, do you think the Dragon Emperor hasn’t thought of them?”
Liola heard this and he turned and looked suspiciously at the Dragon Emperor, who paid no attention but instead calmly said, “It seems your companions have a deep misunderstanding towards me. Child, I have said I don’t mind the prophecy and came only take you back. Even if you don’t believe father’s words, do you also not believe the promise of an Emperor?”
Liola became quiet for a while, then said to Kaiser, “You guys leave.”
Kaiser practically exploded with rage, other than being angry at Liola, in truth he is angrier at himself. Given he had indeed became stronger, yet was there wasn’t anything that can be done except to turn tail and run?
“Let’s go, Kaiser.” Daylight once again pulled Kaiser and simply dragged him regardless of the latter’s utmost struggling,
“Liola, you have to come back.” Daylight pa.s.sed the message through Flames but at the same time firmly looked at Liola. “If you don’t come back, you will find four people who will risk everything to go save you.”
Hearing this, Liola’s body shook strongly, and he carefully nodded.
Receiving Liola’s promise, Daylight finally able to let go of some of his worries, bringing Kaiser along with him, and flew far away. But Kaiser was still anxious and struggled fiercely to throw off Daylight until Daylight shouted, “Kaiser! What are you thinking about? Us staying would do nothing but obstruct Liola’s escape.”
Hearing this, Kaiser was like a balloon losing its air. In a short while, he sat on Flame’s back and looked at the distant Liola’s figure becoming smaller and smaller. When he finally became out of sight, he clenched his fist. “I know, I know leaving was the best option, since staying behind would only hinder Liola…”
“But Daylight, I have an uneasy feeling.” Kaiser’s voice echoed of worry.
“Did you believe the Dragon Emperor still wants to kill Liola?” Daylight asked.
“No.” Kaiser immediately denied this notion, paused for a long time only then continued, “I feel the Dragon Emperor is telling the truth.”
Daylight was baffled. “If the Dragon Emperor spoke the truth, then isn’t it even better? He won’t kill Liola.”
‘Won’t kill Liola…?’ Kaiser felt restless from these words. Why did the Dragon Emperor change his mind? Was he really not worried Liola would kill him? If he really isn’t worried… then what is it? From what basis does he have such certainty?
The mult.i.tude of ideas swam in Kaiser’s mind, but no matter what he came up with, he was unable to guess the Dragon Emperor’s thoughts. Kaiser only has an intuition the Dragon Emperor’s ideas are extremely terrifying, and moreover the consequences are what they will not be happy to see.
Yet the crucial point among these is something that Kaiser can never imagine, because Liola is an expert at treating all important and unimportant things as unimportant as well as forgetting them. Indeed he forgot to tell Kaiser about the rumors of the Dragon Emperor’s ambitions. If the Kaiser at this time knew of his ambitions, even if he used his knees to think, he would figure out the reason why the Dragon Emperor took Liola away.
Daylight saw Kaiser’s serious expression, and he comforted him, “Believe in Liola, he’s not the same as before, he won’t easily give up life and will surely do his best to escape.”
Kaiser nodded.
“Only…” Daylight sighed, “when can we stop running away?”
Kaiser’s eyes became tense. “We won’t always run away. Not long in the future, surely, we’ll stop.”
The two flew until they could almost see Freesia, and they heard someone calling them from behind. Daylight had also sensed someone was quickly closing in on them, but he didn’t dare to ask Flames stop because he feared they were pursued by people sent by the Dragon Emperor.
As he was turning his head to see who it was, Kaiser had already patted Daylight as he yelled, “Stop, stop, it’s Gladiolus.”
Daylight made an emergency U-turn and Gladiolus caught up to them. Gladiolus looked at the two, and frowned as he asked, “Where’s the other person?”
“Dragon Emperor is holding him.” Kaiser answered unhappily. Without waiting Gladiolus to explain, he began to blame him, “Where the h.e.l.l did you and Mizerui go? I won’t believe you didn’t notice the Dragon Emperor was here. Why didn’t you come save us?”
Gladiolus remained silent for a while, then said, “Unless we have the power to defeat Dragon Emperor, we cannot afford to expose Mizerui’s ident.i.ty. I am also using all of the Dark Street’s resources to help Qiusi, so I can’t afford being captured.”
Due to Liola only being released by Gle short while ago, then getting captured by Dragon Emperor, Kaiser was in a terrible mood. Even though he knew Gladiolus and Mizerui were both here with the danger of being caught, and they’re doing all that they could so he couldn’t really ask for more… Nevertheless, he was still angry.
Unable to bear it, Kaiser ridiculed, “Hmph! They were only a few people, 2 people plus a dragon and a horse. But we are 5 people plus two dragons plus a bird! Given this they still dare not fight, hmph! Cowards!”
“Kaiser!” Daylight wrinkled his eyebrows, reprimanding lightly that he should not say these kinds of hurtful words.
“Cowards? Perhaps so.” Gladiolus said calmly. “When one has a lot of responsibilities, their life is not only their own and their courage becomes smaller and smaller.”
Hearing Gladiolus’ response, no matter how thick-skinned Kaiser was, he can’t help but be a little embarra.s.sed, his expression immediately became uncomfortable. Even Daylight quickly apologized to Gladiolus. “I’m really sorry, Gladiolus, Kaiser is only too worried about Liola and he didn’t mean it.”
Gladiolus had not minded it, only nodding and instead warned with good intention. “You must not put the Dragon Emperor as a common X-cla.s.s individual. His power is already not something an ordinary person can imagine. Probably… only the Devil King Gle has the means to fight him alone.”