"What are you talking about? Terran boy!" the demon king was furious, but he held his own identity as the demon king, so naturally he would not shout and kill a child for a sentence, but he still couldn't help but do it with a bit of deterrence.

The young man did not flinch against the coercion of the demon king, and looked at his face full of anger: "You don't even know that she suffers from social phobia, do you dare to say that you know her?!"

"Social phobia, what's that?" the Demon King asked, stunned for a moment, looking at his daughter.

Ainia kept her head down and didn't speak.

"Haven't you noticed that Ainia doesn't talk to anyone and never walks out of the house by herself?!" There was a power surging in the young man's body, he couldn't tell whether it was the power that belonged to Ainia or the anger that came from the time when Lu saw the trouble, but this power supported him to say what he wanted to say out loud without flinching under the majesty of the demon king, "No, maybe you noticed, but you never cared, because you didn't know what it meant, maybe you were glad that she didn't cause trouble for you, right?"

The demon king was silent, the boy was right, he actually noticed this, but he never cared, he always thought that his daughter's lack of noise was a sign of being well-behaved and obedient and not causing trouble for adults, and not going out was just because she liked to study quietly alone. He never thought that all children were the same, they all looked like they had too much energy and liked to play around, no child would not want to play with their peers, this is the nature of children in itself, if anyone violates this nature, then there must be some hidden reason in it.

"It is precisely because of her fear of communicating with people that Ainia finally suffers from social phobia, and now she has finally taken the first step on her own, trying to communicate with people and trying to make friends, but now you want her to give up all the attempts and efforts she has made, and return to this turtle shell to hide?" The boy felt that he had overwhelmed the Demon King in terms of momentum, but in fact he was just simply louder and louder.

"Yes...... Really, Ellie?" the Demon King looked at Ania with a flickering eye.

Ainia nodded, her expression a little dazed, like all children in the world when facing their parents, she didn't want to tell them bad things to make them worry too much - although she was dissatisfied with her father, she could still sense that her father was not completely ruthless to her, and naturally it was impossible not to have any feelings for him.

"Why don't you go to the doctor?" The demons' attainments in magic are universally recognized, and they also have high achievements in psychic magic, and most psychic magicians will choose to engage in a profession such as a psychiatrist, and the demon king has a special personal doctor here.

"Because I'm scared. Ania lowered her head and whispered, her voice was so soft that the slightest other noise would make it difficult to hear, "I saw my mother being killed by the servants with whom I had been with me for several years, and I was really scared at that time, and I always felt that everyone around me would suddenly show their weapons at me like that killer and slash at me...... Even if I know that this kind of thinking is not normal, how dare I go to the doctor alone?"

Most of the time, patients with this phobia are aware of their own situation, and they clearly know that their nervousness, panic and anxiety are superfluous and unnecessary emotions, but there is no way to prevent these emotions from appearing, and Ania is like this. After the first few days of panic, Ainia realized that she was wrong, she knew that not everyone could be like that, but in any case, she was not even ten years old at that time, and she could not control her feelings at will.

Of course, the most important reason is insecurity, her mother, who has always served as the umbrella of her whole world, died in front of her, and from then on she had to face this cruel world by herself, and she was not prepared at all, she had no strength or enough wisdom, and no matter how talented Ainia was, she could not surpass the limits of her age and knowledge in any case.

"Then why don't you tell me and let me go with you?" asked the Demon King Crewe, who hated the child a little angrily.

"You ......" Ainia looked up at her father, shook her head and smiled disappointedly, "I really don't remember." ”

"W-"

"Of course I've looked for you, I want to ask you to go to the doctor with me, after all, you are my only family member after my mother was killed, even if you have always disliked me, I only have you to rely on, even if I am afraid that you don't like me at all, I can only choose to ask you for help." …… That night, after the servants had gone to sleep, I dared to go out of the room to look for you, and you had been very busy in those days, busy with your mother's funerals and all kinds of government affairs, so that every day you would not sleep until the second half of the night, and I searched alone in the empty palace for a long time before finally finding you busy in your office. ”

The Demon King Crewe listened in silence, trying to remember exactly when what Ania had said had happened.

"It was very windy that day, I was already shivering with cold when I found you, when I opened the door of your office, the wind ruffled the papers on your desk, you looked up at me, and before I could speak, you were very angry and asked me to go out, I stood at the door and stood stupidly for a while, you let me out again, no, I should say you let me get out, my mind went blank, stupidly walked out the door, and then stood there for a long time...... I still can't remember how I got back to my room, I just remember that the next day I had a high fever and lay in my room for three days, and I cried for three days, and finally I got better. ”

Ainia just told the story like a running account, but this kind of unadorned words were more shocking at this time than the language that had been modified by many words.

"Ania ......" The young man finally couldn't help it, and he held Aniah's hand in distress - in fact, he wanted to hug Ania directly, but the presence of Aniah's demon father finally made him have some scruples and lose his courage.

Ainia's words made the Demon King's body shake a few times, and he tried to move forward and get closer to his daughter, but his feet were actually backing down.

"Since then, I have never been able to communicate with anyone normally, everyone I see gives me the illusion that I will be hurt, I am afraid to leave the room, I am afraid to go to a crowded place, I can't even communicate with my last relatives normally, I can only do it at most to be by your side and not be afraid to run away, I don't even have the courage to speak...... But you've always thought I'm introverted and shy, haha......"

The more Ania talked about the Demon King, the more he felt that what she said had an impression of him, and the more he did it, the more uncomfortable he became, because it meant that the things he had done that had a profound impact on Ainia were just small things that were not worth mentioning to him, but such small things that he couldn't even remember made Ania finally become what she is now.

"My mother once said that the only place where a girl cries is her own bed and the arms of her parents. But I don't have the arms of my parents to rely on, I can only hide in my room every day, cry silently in the bed, I can only read books when I am tired of crying, read the books that my mother left her like and related to magic, immersed in a person's world, slowly I read more and more books, more and more extensive, and unconsciously learned a lot of things. When I think about it now, I was actually very happy during that time, and now I can talk to people normally thanks to the magic of controlling emotions that I learned at that time. ”

"Sorry, Ellie. "It's the first time that the Demon King, who has never been humble with humanity, said the words of apology, so that it was a little difficult to say it.

"It's okay, I'm fine, and although my social phobia is still there, at least it's much better than before. Aniah, who had said the words that had been buried in her heart, felt as if she had unloaded some burden, and smiled at the Demon King with a long sigh of relief.

“…… Ellie, it was me who was wrong before, you...... If you have any grievances in the future, you can come at any time......" The demon king who wanted to make up for his daughter's past encounters still chose to say something that would make him majestic in the presence of outsiders, but before he finished his words, Ainia spoke again.

"No, not anymore. Ainia's smile is different from the past, usually she laughs more like a laughing expression than because she is happy, her face seems to be through a layer of fog that makes people unable to see clearly, but now she is a sunny day after the rain and a bright smile, "I am no longer a child, I have passed the age of needing my parents to cry and complain about grievances, no one will always be a child hiding in the arms of my parents to hide from the wind and rain, I have grown up, and now I need more like-minded friends with me." ”

The past will never come back, and many things that have been missed can never be repeated.

The Demon King realized this again, and the great remorse tore at his heart like a beast, but he couldn't do anything, he shook his body and retreated out of the room, he took one last look at the boy, and understood that it was the "friend" that Ainia needed now, so he opened his mouth and let out a dry and hoarse voice: "Boy, be friends with Ellie, if I let me know that you betrayed him, even if it is the end of the world, I will not let you go." ”

"Ahh The young man was stunned, although he didn't understand why he said this, but he still subconsciously answered.

The Demon King closed the door and slowly disappeared into the darkness with heavy steps.