The Greatest Warrior of All Time Returns-Chapter 418

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Chapter 418

It was a situation that felt like déjà vu.

The difference from before, however, was that last time I had suddenly burst out laughing in the middle of the night and woken everyone up.

This time, I was shouting “Emergency!!” and drawing the aggro of everyone in the mansion.

Melissa was the first to react, slamming my bedroom door open with a bang.

“Hey you bastard! What the hell are you doing again in the middle of the ni—”

But the moment she saw Luna clutching her stomach and groaning in pain, her shout was completely buried.

“What the hell happened?!”

“I’ll explain later—midwife! Get the midwife first!”

“Uh… uh! Everyone move!! Hurry!”

The servants and maids who joined late all wore puzzled expressions, but at Melissa’s shout they quickly came to their senses and began rushing about.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand their flustered emotions.

After all, for a normal life-form, it wasn’t exactly common to suddenly become full-term overnight and start trying to come into the world.

At a glance it was grotesque enough to feel eerie, but Luna was a great archangel who originally shouldn’t even have been capable of bearing a child.

Since they didn’t know angel ecology, their reaction was only natural.

Though an uproar broke out in the dead of night, preparations steadily fell into place.

Luna lay on the bed, groaning in pain, and I silently wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief.

“Le… Leon. I… it hurts….”

“It’s okay. It’ll all be okay.”

I wanted to suppress her pain if I could, but for some reason pain suppression simply didn’t work on her right now.

Maybe because of that—

When Luna, startled by a fierce wave of labor pain, reflexively grabbed at something and ended up clutching my hair…

I thought I saw stars.

Her strength was beyond imagination.

“Here. You, get out.”

“Get out? Why would I get out? I should stay by her side.”

“Just get out, damn it!”

Melissa forcibly shoved my back.

After that, she even slammed the door shut with a bang and locked it so I couldn’t come back in.

“Hmm….”

I paced silently in front of the door before opening my mouth.

“Lucifer.”

—What.

“There’s no problem, right?”

—Do I really have to spell that out for you?

“What happened to our deal?”

Lucifer didn’t answer.

So that’s how you’re going to play it.

Thinking that inwardly, I felt a strange sensation settle over me.

“Father. Is Mother hurting?”

“No. Your little sibling is trying to come out into the world.”

“Sibling!!”

Grivy’s eyes sparkled instantly.

“Sur! Serqet! Did you hear?! A sibling is being born!”

At her shout, Sur and Serqet let out short cries in response.

“I’m going to see!”

Then she instantly turned into light and slipped right through the door.

“Brother. Congratulations. But… what happened?”

Next, Arsha carefully asked, reading the room.

As far as Arsha knew, children didn’t just get born this suddenly, so she asked cautiously—and worried.

“It’s fine. Luna’s a great archangel. She’s just a bit different from humans.”

“Ahh… that’s a relief.”

Only then did Arsha smile brightly in relief.

That was when it happened.

—This isn’t really the time to be smiling, you know?

“What?”

When I frowned and shot back coldly, Arsha flinched and looked up at me.

“Huh?”

“Oh. No, Arsha. That wasn’t to you. Just a moment. Brother’s going to get some air.”

“I’ll stay here and guard things. Please go.”

After lightly ruffling her smiling head, I turned away.

Then, with a cold expression, I spoke.

“Spit it out.”

—You seem pretty irritated.

“A deal’s a deal. You said you’d tell me the truth and then suddenly you clam up?”

—Hey, calm down. I’m not certain either, so I need to confirm it myself.

Lucifer’s voice carried a hint of laughter, as if telling me to relax.

—First, I’ll answer you. You asked if there’s a problem? There is. The problem is that it’s too healthy. Its growth speed is faster than you think.

“What exactly is going to happen?”

—If we’re only guessing, it probably won’t turn into a huge issue. But there may be periods where it grows rapidly at regular intervals.

I didn’t know whether that was truth or lie, but I didn’t press further.

Because what he’d just said bothered me more.

“More importantly, what was that just now?”

—The child of the Star Dragon Kos. If my guess is right, the curse of a twisted young progenitor dragon is spreading.

“…….”

—A very young progenitor dragon twisted and shattered in pain, sorrow, and despair. It means that its resentment is turning toward a similar child. It didn’t affect mere humans, but your child right now isn’t an ordinary child.

He whispered like a serpent’s tongue.

—Wasn’t this a deal anyway?

Right now, the best thing was to stay by Luna’s side.

But the strange unease I felt was also real.

“You’re not lying, right?”

—I promise. This time, there are no lies.

I immediately used teleportation magic and rose above R’lyeh.

Then I entered the space of the progenitor dragon.

“So. What am I supposed to do here?”

—It’s coming.

At the same time as those words, a chilly wind wrapped around the surroundings.

In the progenitor dragon’s space, there had originally been only the box containing the Book of Genesis and the progenitor dragon’s power guarding it.

But now, that power was nowhere to be seen, and instead a bleak, unknowable force vibrated through the area.

“What is this? What happened here?”

—It died horribly, and now a child blessed with immense fortune is about to be born. It’s jealousy. Think of it like the tantrum of a child.

In other words, because the child in Luna’s womb was no ordinary child, the hatchling of the Star Dragon affected by that power had begun to move.

“So the progenitor dragons aren’t extinct?”

—What you’re about to face can’t really even be called a progenitor dragon. You can consider the progenitor dragons extinct.

Whatever it was, if it could negatively affect the child about to be born, it was right to deal with it quickly.

I released all the power inside my body and wrapped it around the surroundings.

At the same time—

From far away, a grotesque darkness began to spread, and from within it, something horribly twisted started to leap out.

—Tch….

At the same moment Lucifer clicked his tongue, its grotesque eyes flickered and it charged at me at terrifying speed.

It resembled a gigantic dragon, but its body was rotted in places, its original form lost, twisted grotesquely, and limbs that should not exist clung to it.

A grotesque mouth.

Unidentifiable eyes.

On its tail hung several screaming heads.

If someone with a weak stomach saw it, they would faint from the horrific sight.

Reflexively, I stomped hard and drove my fist into the massive body.

KOOONG!!!

An enormous boom erupted, and the water beneath the feet of the grotesque monster and me formed a huge circular shockwave.

An unimaginable weight. A bizarre sensation emanating from within it—but I pushed through and knocked its massive body away.

Physically, it wasn’t that strong.

But the disgust it evoked was even greater.

—KIIIIIIIAAAAAAA!!!

The gigantic grotesque mass of a creature began letting out a scream too horrific to listen to.

“What in the world do you have to go through to end up like that?”

—The end of a young dragon that went outside the world.

“What?”

—To put it your way, it fell into an outer dimension, twisted and broken. Among the progenitor dragons it was called a heretic that must be put down, but in the end, killing one’s own child isn’t easy.

I held the demonic sword in one hand.

—Its martial power isn’t strong. It’s already a life-form that’s fallen apart. It would be best if you laid it to rest with your own hands.

A strange reluctance to even touch it welled up first.

The thing rushed at me like a beast driven purely by instinct.

“…I really don’t feel like it.”

My mutter echoed briefly.

Thud!!! Thud!!

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It simply attacked with whatever parts of its body it could move.

There was no particular combat sense or technique.

Just like a newborn beast relying only on physical specs.

So no matter how fast or strong its attacks were, its wounds only continued to grow under the sharp edge of the demonic sword.

Perhaps this space was one Kos, the Star Dragon, had created to isolate its twisted child—hoping that even if it couldn’t die, it might at least survive hidden here.

That thought crossed my mind.

—End its breathing. Do not prolong the suffering of that young and foolish one any further.

Honestly, I couldn’t trust him easily.

I couldn’t tell whether there was really no ulterior motive behind how urgently he was pushing me to kill it.

But that thought was soon erased.

When the monster’s voice, which had been letting out grotesque screams as its wounds increased, suddenly slowed in tempo—

I realized its cries weren’t just roars.

—Mama… Mama….

For some reason, even though it was a language I’d never heard before, I could understand it.

Perhaps because the unique power of the progenitor dragons hadn’t completely disappeared.

Even as a monster, the hatchling dragon crying desperately for its mother made my grip tighten on its own.

—The dragon you’re facing right now is, in human terms, no more than a two-year-old infant. Do not continue its suffering any further.

“…….”

I slowly took in the monster that kept regenerating and rising in pain.

On the very day I was becoming a father, seeing a child meet such a pitiful end was not a good feeling at all.

“This feels really… damn awful.”

—KIIIIEEEEEKK!!!

Whether I liked it or not, the monster rushed toward me, toward the world, spewing screams, hatred, and curses.

[Nameless Sword]

[Orbit]

SLAASH!!!

With ordinary attacks, I couldn’t stop its continuous regeneration.

But I knew a way to end the breath of this small, pitiable dragon.

Shrrrrk….

The outer-dimensional power infused into the blade tangled with the aura blade, giving off a chilling sensation—

And in a fleeting instant, I cleanly severed the body of the twisted progenitor dragon hatchling that had been charging at me as if to tear me apart.

—Ma… ma…. Ma.

Its tempo slowed again, and the grotesque scream turned into the desperate sobbing of a child seeking its mother.

From where its eyes once were, a transparent liquid flowed down.

Forgetting even the disgust I had felt from it, I slowly walked closer.

And gently wiped away the transparent liquid that flowed down.

“You must have been in a lot of pain all this time. Rest now.”

I didn’t know anything about this hatchling dragon, so those were the only words I could offer.

The voice that had been calling for its mother gradually faded, then fell silent, as if finally falling asleep.

Though unintentional, taking the life of the twisted progenitor dragon hatchling left me with strangely complicated feelings.

“Is that it?”

—Probably. It’s a miracle it endured this long in the first place.

“Yeah. Let’s go back.”

Suppressing my fatigue, I turned around.

That was when it happened.

When I felt something unknown brush against me and turned my head—

For a very brief instant, an illusion flashed before my eyes.

A tiny hatchling dragon, cradled in the embrace of a gigantic dragon, crumbling away.

At the same time, the power of the progenitor dragon that had been guarding the Book of Genesis also disappeared.

However, part of it entered my body and seeped in.

—What’s wrong?

“No. It’s nothing. Probably just my imagination.”

I didn’t bother digging into what it was.

I immediately turned around and returned to the mansion.

Arsha, who had been pacing in front of the door waiting, grabbed my hand tightly and scolded me for coming back so late.

From inside the room came the sound of Luna screaming as she suppressed her pain.

It had been a long time since I’d felt my blood run this dry.

At that forgotten sensation, I too grew tense, cold sweat running down my back.

And so, without even realizing how much time had passed, I stood guard in front of the door for quite a while.

Then, from inside the room, the loud cry of a child burst forth.

“Ah….”

The moment I heard it, it felt as though a gigantic bell rang inside my head.

Luna’s and my child.

A precious result that, originally, should never have been able to exist.

Had finally come face to face with the world.

“Brother! I think the baby’s been born! Congratulations!”

“Uh… uh.”

“Geez! What are you doing?! Hurry and go in!”

The moment Arsha shoved my back, the locked door opened, and Luna—drenched in sweat—and the tiny, unbelievably adorable small life in her arms came into my sight.

A minuscule life squirming without even being able to properly open its eyes.

So small I wondered if a person could even be that tiny, yet it looked more beautiful than anything else in the world.

At the sight of the newborn child, Grivy’s eyes sparkled with immense interest.

It wasn’t just Grivy—Sur, and even Serqet, whose thoughts were always hard to read, were the same.

After crying for a long while and then gradually stopping, the child wrapped in swaddling cloth was placed into my arms, and the first emotion I felt was—

‘It’s really light.’

But separate from how light the child was, my entire body felt heavy with the responsibility toward this child.

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

It was good, yet strangely difficult to describe.

“Luna. You did well.”

“I… I think I’m dying…. The baby?”

When I placed the child into the arms of Luna, who was completely exhausted yet searching for the baby first, tears fell from her eyes and she smiled happily.

“Welcome, my baby.”

A great archangel who once had no emotions gained emotions, fell in love for the first time, got married, and finally obtained a child like a miracle.

It was hard to even guess what kind of emotions she must be feeling now.

“Congratulations. She’s a very pretty princess.”

Melissa lightly tapped my back from the side.

“Yeah.”

“Do you have a name in mind?”

At her question, I shook my head.

It was true that I hadn’t thought of one, but the moment I saw the child, even the names I had prepared all vanished from my mind.

On this day,

I became the father of a child.

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