Chapter Twenty-Six: A Thought Becomes a Demon
Holding her bulging belly, Li Ai suddenly felt extremely frightened and uneasy in her heart, obviously she was pregnant with the child of the person she loved deeply, and when it was about to give birth, she had malicious intent.
At noon that day, a man in a crisp white robe came to the vault, and his identity was in stark contrast to the people who lived in poverty here.
The man quietly looked at the chaotic place in front of him with an indifferent attitude, and a trace of hatred flashed in his deep eyes. Lucifer sensed the arrival of an uninvited guest, and he calmed his wife and walked out of the house. Although life in the world is difficult, it makes this demon king who once made all things afraid no longer hard and ruthless, and the joys and sorrows experienced in the mortal world have taught him to face with a smile and let him learn how to protect his beloved from being harmed.
"Brother, isn't it time for you to go back to where you belong?" The man went straight to the point, ignoring the surprised gaze of others as if he were looking at a patient.
"Michael, what are you doing here?!" Lucifer raised his vigilance, and he slowly walked in the direction of the enemy.
"I'm just here to visit you, why is my brother so nervous?" Michael raised an eyebrow and smiled kindly.
"I don't need your concern, please leave immediately!" Lucifer suppressed the anger in his heart and reluctantly treated Michael kindly.
"Whoever comes is a guest, why don't you let me come and sit at your house?" The man had no intention of giving up, and continued to talk to his brother with kindness.
Before he could finish speaking, Lucifer landed on Michael with a lunge, kneeling on his brother's chest, and the man who attacked him did not care about the slightest affection between brothers.
"I just said... I, no, need, want, you! Lucifer didn't control his anger, and a pair of red horns loomed in front of Michael.
"Lucifer!" The appearance of Li Ai broke all the unusualness, and the group of humans around them who were fixed by divine power were also released from their restraints with a call, and their demeanor returned to the surprise they had when they first met Michael.
This time, seeing that Michael, who had a bulging belly in Li Ai, had to believe in the words of the gods, and he also had to obey the orders given to him by heaven, his emotions suddenly became lost, and he no longer had the heart to start the next friendly joke with his brother. Lucifer could never return to the beautiful home he had always dreamed of returning, and what he was doing now was like saying his final goodbye to heaven, and most of the mistakes he had committed were defined as increasingly heavy sins that the obedient Michael could not accept. Seeing the so-called truth, the young man who had never resisted and was dead on the ground easily shook off the burden on his body, got up from the ground and turned into a different look.
The warmth and coldness of the human world made the King of Hell's divine power much less powerful than before, and it was impossible for him to stop the conspiracy of the gods in his current state.
"You're Li Ai?" Michael slowly approached the poor woman with the monster in her arms, and said kindly, "I am Lucifer's brother, Michael. ”
"Welcome, welcome." Seeing the man who greeted her brother in a unique way appear in front of her, Li Ai subconsciously covered her stomach with her hands, and she could see how much her husband didn't want the man in front of her to appear. For the sake of safety, women have to be warm.
Tonight, Michael did nothing, he walked out of the house alone, and looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky with a sad face.
"Heaven is so far away for mankind, but it's so close at hand...", Michael was overjoyed when he realized his brother's presence.
"Leave her alone." Lucifer stared at the uninvited guest in front of him with hatred in his eyes, and he didn't dare to underestimate the other party's ability.
"Brother, we are all involuntarily." Michael bowed his head in decline, a hint of melancholy in his eyes.
The next day, Li Ai went to work in the restaurant where she worked as usual, not worrying that her Lucifer was secretly protecting her all the way.
Unexpectedly, Michael still appeared early in the restaurant where Li Ai worked, at this time he was enjoying a medium-rare steak alone, his eyes were looking straight at the woman who was walking towards here outside the door, his expression was calm and determined, and he didn't listen to Lucifer's persuasion last night in his mind, for the sake of his position in the Heaven family, the man insisted on completing the task as originally planned.
"I didn't expect to meet you here." Li Ai felt embarrassed when he saw Michael who had come to the restaurant early, but he had to smile at him out of the traditional courtesy of the service industry.
"Living in the last days, it's a luxury to have breakfast at a decent restaurant at home." Michael replied, his eyes never taking off his eyes from Li Ai.
"......" Li Ai stopped answering, she silently turned around and walked into the kitchen.
Since being with Lucifer, Li Ai's personality has softened a lot, she is no longer alone to resist everything as before, and she overcomes all kinds of difficulties alone to lead the survivors to live strongly, because of Lucifer's appearance, she slowly entrusts her heavy responsibility to the other half. Although every day in the last days was a hard day, she lived a very happy life. Michael's uninvited arrival made the woman immersed in happiness once again go to fear first, and after having a child, the mother's desire to protect herself and Lucifer's only child was born spontaneously, and she secretly made up her mind to protect herself and Lucifer's only child, no one could take him away!
"My dear child, please serve me a medium-rare steak." An old woman who faltered didn't know when she appeared in the restaurant, she grabbed Li Ai's arm, hindered the woman's progress, and ordered food with a kind face.
Li Ai looked at the strange-looking old man in front of him in surprise, and the woman had no familiar memory of the old man who suddenly appeared in front of her. Including the group of survivors, Li Ai has never seen her rickety figure, who is this old woman. Li Ai slowly turned her suspicious gaze to silently, observing herself for a long time, her expression was complicated, and her slightly trembling eyebrows also revealed a feeling of uneasiness from time to time, the strange restaurant suffocated her, Li Ai wanted to escape from this place of right and wrong early.
Michael on the side also felt the strange posture of the old woman, could it be that his brother Lucifer was prepared to stop him in advance and sent his demons out to fight against him? It's not like sacrificing his beloved woman, he came to persuade himself last night, and today he will turn against him?!
At this moment, the door of the restaurant was locked without warning, and the chaos caused an embarrassing situation where people inside couldn't get out and people outside couldn't get in. Unfortunately, it was no one else who turned away, it was Lucifer who came to protect his wife and children, he pulled the door locked by the spell back and forth, and looked at Li Ai who was helpless inside, he wanted to save her, but he couldn't do it.
This divine power is several times more powerful than Michael's divine power, a small glass door can be closed like an indestructible iron door, and the people trapped inside are like ants, crushing and shattering.
"Michael, please save her!" Lucifer's mind was full of images of Li Ai's murder, and he pounded the locked door in panic, pleading helplessly with his brother, and it was sad that Michael had turned from his own enemy into the only hope that could save Li Ai and his children.
Through the bright glass window, Michael could see that Lucifer's anxiety was not fake, and that he was genuinely worried about the pregnant lover in the house. So, who is she? Who sent this old woman who suddenly appeared, her evil appearance is really disgusting.
"Don't you do it yet, Michael?" The old woman made a distorted voice in a trembling voice, her eyes staring sharply at the distant god, and she looked determined without the slightest awe.
The tone of this command is less like that of a demon, but more like a messenger sent from heaven, imitating the voice of some Holy Spirit to convey his will. Michael felt uncomfortable at the command, and he still sat still, pretending to be calm.
On the one hand, his brother's heart-rending cry for help, on the other hand, the irresistible command of the Holy Spirit, Michael was caught in the middle and breathless, he hesitated to look at the poor woman held hostage in front of him and the child in her womb, is it all worth it?
The pain in her stomach became more and more intense, and Li Ai finally did not endure the cruel torture, and collapsed to the ground, one of her arms still held tightly by the old woman. Seeing his wife's sweaty and painful face, Lucifer stepped up his knock on the door of the restaurant, and he was like a beast trying to break free from its cage, trying to tear apart the monster that threatened his lover inside.
The sky was suddenly covered by dark clouds that gathered together, the bright sunlight was suddenly blocked, and the wind began to blow violently, and a tragedy was about to happen. This scene also happened to be the revelry of the arrival of the prince of hell.
"So, what are you waiting for!" The old woman stared sternly at Michael's every move.
“… Yes...... My stomach hurts... Lucifer... Save me......" Li Ai's face was pale from the torture of the child who was about to be born in her belly, she slowly raised her head with the pain, and looked longingly at the door at the anxious lover at this time, she trembled and stretched out her hand to touch him, but was restrained alive by the cruel old woman in this cold restaurant.
"Michael, please, save her, save our children!" Lucifer pleaded with his brother inside, his eyes overflowing with crystal clear liquid.
"What the hell are they doing wrong?" The man asked the essence of the matter, and looked earnestly at the instigator opposite, perhaps her answer would make up for Michael's pity for this mission.
"In order to save her, Lucifer did not hesitate to abolish most of his divine power reincarnation and salvation, why do we still take advantage of people's danger like this?" Michael looked at Li Ai, who was dying on the ground, and asked very sympathetically.
"If you don't dare to kill her, then I'll do it." The old woman stood up steadily, easily lifted the unconscious Li Ai to the ground, and stretched out another claw to her bulging belly.
"Away, her, away, point!" Lucifer, who was struggling at the door, saw that his lover's life was threatened with death, and desperately released as much divine power as possible sealed in his body, a pair of sharp horns grew from both sides of his forehead, and a hideous face with fangs appeared in front of the glass window.
With a "bang", the door of the restaurant was still slammed open by the powerful Lucifer, and he strode towards the old woman who hurt his lover, just as he stretched out his hand to hold the tender white arm that Li Ai pounded beside his body, Lucifer was unsuspectingly held down by a force stronger than his divine power, he and his lover were missed, and this irresistible force forced him to surrender to his legs and kneel.
"Lucifer, how long are you going to hide her identity?" The old woman went straight to the point, mercilessly revealing the title of the living king of hell of the man kneeling on the ground, and then she raised her eyes unhurriedly to look at Li Ai, who had fainted in pain.
"At that time, you followed her to the world to atone for your sins, but I didn't expect you to move your mind when you shouldn't." The old woman said.
"This time, I came to the earth to atone for my sins without harming any human beings. I even helped them rebuild their homes, isn't that enough to be forgiven?! Lucifer was forced to bow his head and explain, this time he let go of his pride, took back half of his divine power that had not been released from the seal for a short time, and gave up fighting against fate, as if he had become an ordinary person with seven emotions and six desires.
"Do you want to exchange your salvation for all the sins you have committed? Lucifer, you're so confident. The old woman taunted him in the tone of a Holy Spirit.
"You think everything is under your control, Lucifer is going to debunk this conspiracy in front of you today!" As soon as she finished speaking, the old woman pierced her claws through Li Ai's thin body, and the cruelty shocked everyone present, including Michael, who had always been indecisive and silent.
"Don't-" Lucifer shouted sadly, watching his beloved woman die in front of him again, his angry eyes glowing with flames, revenge was the only thing he could do for her, Lucifer began to use less than half of his divine power and the Holy Spirit that manipulated the puppet in front of him to fight against it, he struggled to get up from the ground with a thousand pounds of heavy objects.
“… Wow...... Wow......" Lucifer's child was like a poor ant in the old woman's hands, and it was heart-wrenching to cry when he had lost his mother as soon as he fell to the ground.
Just when the old woman wanted to deal with her born child as easily as she did with Li Ai, Michael couldn't help but intervene to stop her next horrific move.
The sudden divine power resisted the old woman's conspiracy, it carelessly relaxed its precautions, so that Lucifer, who was kneeling at his feet, had a chance, the man broke free from the restraints, jumped up from the ground, and pounced on the monster in front of him, and did not dare to hesitate for a moment to snatch the child in his hand back to his side.
"Michael, you dare to disobey orders!" The old woman was instantly furious, and the expression on her face became more terrifying than Lucifer's, and it rose from the ground to look down on the two rival gods with disdain.
"The child is innocent." Michael said.
"He is the original sin." As the old woman spoke, chaos began to erupt around the restaurant, pots and pans flying in the air with its divine power, and the storm outside the room and the sound of metal in the room collided indiscriminately, and the scene was once again out of control.
The noise and chaos of the sound made the newborn child feel terrified, and he could only vent it with the simplest cry when he could not express it in words. The old woman, hearing the child's loud cry, showed no mercy, and rushed straight towards the baby in Lucifer's arms, but was once again stopped by Michael.
Michael deliberately collided with the old woman rushing towards him, and then clamped his arms tightly around its emaciated body to prevent it from getting closer to Lucifer and the child in his arms, but what he didn't expect was that the woman who he thought he was in control suddenly turned into a black smoke and flew out of the window. Immediately afterward, Michael followed it outside without saying a word, and he immediately locked on to the black cloud in the sky, and a ball of lightning-like dazzling divine power was gathering in his hand.
The rain hits the man's body, and the wet appearance has a decadent charm. He didn't wait for the enemy to attack first, and threw the lightning that had been gathered in his hand towards the dark cloud in the sky, and a force as powerful as the explosion of the earth exploded, and Michael was severely injured by the shock wave generated by the impact on the hard stone ground. A mouthful of blood spurted from his throat, and the pain of breaking his bones made him cry out in tears.
At this time, Lucifer walked out of the house with his child in his arms, he carefully protected his flesh and bones, his eyes were full of doting love, and then he gradually raised his head to look up at the sky, his eyes were full of hatred, and a pair of white and flawless six-winged wings spread out to protect his body.
"You no longer deserve the pure name you once had, Lucifer, the Holy Spirit who died on the day of the Fall. And you are now the Lord Lucifer living in hell, and the Satan of mankind. A deep voice echoed through the sky, and his indifference made Michael very sad as he fell to the ground.
“……… How about we make a deal..."With Lucifer's current divine power, he has no ability to compete with Heaven at all. In order not to hurt the innocent and the lover around him, he decided to let go of his body.
"You don't deserve to make a deal with God!" The gods roared, and the sky thundered with awe-inspiring lightning.
The uncompromising god separated Lucifer from his own flesh and blood, and the newborn baby was lifted into the air by an invisible force.
"Don't—let him go—" Lucifer stretched out his hands and leaped from the ground, only to be struck by the flickering lightning around him and fall to the ground.
Having lost his lover, Lucifer could no longer lose their flesh and blood, so he gritted his teeth and got up from the ground with difficulty, endured the severe pain in his body, raised his head and jumped into the dark and empty sky, the gods ignored Lucifer's senseless struggle in the sky, and intensified the use of lightning to attack him who was fragile, and in the end, Lucifer's body could no longer withstand it, and he fell from the sky on the cold ground with his dying breath.
Immediately after, a detached arrow flashed through the dark clouds of lightning in the sky not far away, and it stabbed towards the baby hanging in the air. Desperate, Michael rose from the ground and held the child tightly in his arms, and in an instant, a sudden lightning bolt mercilessly passed through Michael's strong body and disappeared.
"Michael !!" Lucifer screamed heartbreakingly as he fell to his unconscious brother who had lost too much blood to the ground, and the despair of the child crying in his arms kept coming to his ears.
"I don't want anything. I beg you to spare all innocent people......" Lucifer got up from the ground with difficulty, knelt on the cold ground with a "bang", he lowered his head, and the tattered wings behind him slowly opened, "I am willing to be punished, tear off my pride, and take the child back to hell and never bring disaster to the world again." If I disobey, my lover will never be able to be with me! ”
"You have to remember your promise, Lucifer's name is too sacred, and you don't deserve it anymore. From now on, you will be called Lucifer, a name fit in hell! The god said angrily.
As soon as he finished speaking, Lucifer tore off his wings with a heart-rending cry, and he dragged his badly injured body to rescue the child in Michael's arms, and slowly closed his eyes and fell into the abyss of burning fire......