However, Aiden did not care either, and immediately raised his head to look toward the sky. Bayonetta and that angel's battle had blown that church up into the air.
In the sky, from time to time there were stones falling down, but they were all slapped away by those two pitch-black giant hands, so he was not affected in the slightest.
"Daddy, you're amazing!"
Seeing this scene, Cereza's attention shifted from "Mommy" to him. Her cute voice made Aiden feel incomparably comfortable.
"Daddy can do even more amazing things. Last time when I was killing angels in that graveyard, I easily took out a whole group…"
But before Aiden had even finished speaking, a cold snort from Him sounded in her ear.
Afterwards, he saw the two big hands that were protecting him turn into two pitch-black spikes, and with a swoosh they shot toward the sky.
Whoosh!
Just like a hot knife cutting through butter, the two pitch-black spikes directly pierced through two of that angel's heads.
Moreover, in midair they folded back at an extremely tricky angle, seemingly intending to deliver a one-hit kill to the remaining head that occupied most of the angel's body.
But right at this moment, seeing that the situation was bad, the angel directly tore open space and escaped.
"Hmph, want to escape? Not so easy."
The cold voice sounded again, and those two pitch-black spikes also tore open space and chased after.
However, on the ground, Aiden was somewhat tired and held his head. After all, this power was unleashed using his body as the medium, and he still hadn't gotten used to it yet.
In the air, the angel's escape made Bayonetta, who had been fighting very enjoyably, pause for a moment.
Immediately she lowered her head and looked toward Aiden with dissatisfaction, because she still hadn't vented enough.
Cereza's appearance had inexplicably made her become "Mommy," leaving her with a bellyful of pent-up anger.
Moreover, while fighting with this angel, the angel had also revealed quite a lot of information, even vaguely mentioning that all of them were merely chess pieces in a conspiracy, only for the sake of resurrecting some powerful existence.
Unfortunately, just as the angel was about to say the name of that existence, Aiden had cut in, and judging by the looks of it, that angel definitely would not survive.
Returning from Purgatory Space to the human world, Bayonetta landed in front of Aiden. Looking at Aiden holding his head, with a face full of fatigue, the words of complaint reached her lips but no matter what she couldn't say them.
"Mommy, Daddy seems to not be feeling well." Seeing Bayonetta return, Cereza said unclearly with a lollipop in her mouth, while at the same time opening her arms toward her, wanting her to hug her.
But speaking of it, now calling Daddy seemed to be getting more and more smooth for her.
Bayonetta ignored Cereza's show of affection and only walked up to Aiden, lowering her voice to ask, "Are you okay?"
"Still okay, just had a lot of mental strength drained away by Him." Aiden covered his head and said slowly.
Bayonetta did not ask who He was, thinking in her heart that it should be the demon Aiden had signed a contract with. She then took out a lollipop and held it to his mouth.
"It can help you quickly recover your strength," Bayonetta said.
Aiden nodded. When he saw Bayonetta also take out a lollipop and put it in her mouth, he smiled and said, "We're becoming more and more like a family of three."
Now all three of them had lollipops in their mouths, and they all had black hair. Apart from the different eye colors, everything else looked very much alike.
But Bayonetta still held a grudge about Cereza's existence. In her view, in Aiden's arms should be a biological daughter born with her, not some child casually picked up from the roadside.
Yet seeing Aiden like Cereza so much, she could only sigh. Still, she scared Cereza with one sentence, "When you grow up, I'll tell you that we picked you up from a garbage bin."
"I'm not, I was born from Mommy and Daddy," Cereza immediately refuted.
Bayonetta instantly lost her momentum, slumping her shoulders and waving her hand dispiritedly, "I hate smart children. I hope after you grow up you can become a little more stupid."
Looking at Bayonetta cursing herself, Aiden smiled and shook his head, then said, "Where are we going now? Take her away from Vigrid, or continue exploring this city?"
"But no matter which we choose, we'd better leave here right now, the battle here will surely have attracted the attention of the city's residents."
Bayonetta's gaze landed on Cereza's face. After hesitating for a few seconds, she said, "Let's go walk around other parts of the city."
"Oh right, just now that angel seemed to mention that Vigrid has a place called Sun Island, and that there seemed to be some resurrection ceremony held there. I'm not too comfortable with that, so I want to go take a look."
Cereza heard the key words and shouted loudly, "Sun Island… Mommy, my home is there, and Daddy also lives there."
"Is that so? Looks like we have one more reason to go," Bayonetta said after hearing Cereza mention her father.
Her eyes flickered, and she raised Scarborough Fair, saying coldly, "I really want to see what your father looks like. Of course, I more want to give him a good beating and ask him how he acts as a father."
'A truly filial daughter…'
Aiden shook his head, feeling a little emotional. Was he about to see a scene of a loving father and filial daughter?
Thinking this in his heart, the three began to search for a way to go to Sun Island.
Since it was called an island, it was surely in the middle of water, so the first transportation they needed to find was a boat.
Of course, if they could find a plane, that would be even better, as it would be much more convenient.
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When the three left the church that had been reduced to ruins, they encountered many guards rushing over after hearing the news along the way.
But since they had passes, and also looked like a family of three, no one stopped them. Aiden even took the initiative to stop a guard and ask about the location of the airport in the city.
However, the guard told them that Vigrid's airport was controlled by the Ithavoll Group that governed the city, was company private property, and not open to the public. Even if they went, they would not be able to take a plane from there.
But that was already enough for them, since they weren't intending to be ordinary ticket-buying passengers anyway.
On the way to the airport, Bayonetta suddenly thought of a question.
"Hijacking a plane is absolutely no problem for us, but… do you know how to fly a plane?"
"I can even pilot a nuclear submarine," Aiden said with full confidence.
Hearing this, Bayonetta raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Looks like I don't understand you deeply enough!"
"Actually, I don't understand you deeply enough either."
"Then do you want to understand me more deeply?" Bayonetta said with meaning.
Aiden did not immediately answer. Instead, he first had Cereza cover her ears, and then said, "Of course I do."
"Then wait until this matter is over," Bayonetta licked her lips charmingly and said, "I'm already eager to experience the process of having a baby."
However, just as Aiden was about to say "I want to as well," the Cereza in his arms suddenly took her hands off her ears and asked curiously, "Mommy, are you planning to give me a little sister or little brother?"
"You little brat, don't butt in, what do you know?" Bayonetta glared at Cereza, but didn't dare continue "driving the car," knowing she had a loose mouth and afraid of teaching bad things to a child.
But Cereza still said, "If Mommy gave me a little sister, that would be great. Then I could be an older sister… mm, Cereza could even give her the Cheshire Cat plushie I like the most."
Saying this, Cereza raised the Cheshire Cat she was holding and waved it in front of Bayonetta.
Seeing the Cheshire Cat in Cereza's hand, Bayonetta felt it was somewhat familiar. In the beginning, she hadn't liked this crybaby little girl… well, actually she still didn't like her much now, so she had never looked closely at the doll she was holding.
But now that she looked, she vaguely remembered some memory fragments, it seemed that in her own childhood, she too had a Cheshire Cat exactly the same as this one.
However, right now she could not possibly imagine that Cereza was herself from five hundred years ago, since she had never considered the possibility that someone could travel across five hundred years of time to the present.
Her past self traveling five hundred years to appear before her, who would dare believe that if it were told?
While digesting the information in those memory fragments, Bayonetta kept walking forward, but very quickly she stopped, because she saw someone not far away.
"What a lingering, haunting fellow."
Aiden took out his handgun, chambering a round with arm strength. But upon seeing the Cereza in his arms, he thought for a moment and put the gun away again.
The child was still small, he couldn't let her see blood. After all, she couldn't see angels, but she could see humans.
When Luka saw Aiden pull out a gun, cold sweat had already broken out from fright. Luckily, upon noticing Aiden immediately put it away again, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, only then daring to take a few steps forward.
"What are you here for again?"
Right now, Bayonetta had no good face for this haunting tag-along. If it weren't for being unable to strike ordinary people and the leftover issues from when she awoke, she probably would have smashed him with a gunstock long ago.
"Uh… I heard you're going to Paradise Island, I'd like to hitch a ride," Luka said in a small voice.
"Where did you hear that from?" Bayonetta frowned, but instantly thought of a certain woman in her heart.
"Damn, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you? And you call her a sister, isn't this just adding trouble for us?"
Bayonetta grumbled about Jeanne in her heart.
At this time Luka had already spoken, "A very beautiful lady told me, her figure's about the same as yours, hair is silver. She told me to wait for you here."
"As expected, it's her." Bayonetta's expression sank, she roughly understood what Jeanne was scheming.
"Sorry, there's no seat for you in this ride," Bayonetta said. "So please leave right now and don't disturb us… our family of three."
When Bayonetta paused, she glanced back and still included Cereza.
"Family of three?" Luka only now noticed that Aiden was holding a little girl in his arms.
"You… even have a child?" Luka was extremely shocked.
He had been investigating everything related to witches for a long time, and even held quite a bit of information on Bayonetta's background.
But after investigating for so long, he had never known that Bayonetta had a daughter.
Bayonetta couldn't be bothered to explain to him, only saying, "Alright, our family of three is going to Sun Island for a pleasant trip. So, little reporter friend, please go back to where you came from."
Finishing, she impatiently waved her hand toward Luka, as if shooing away a fly.
But Luka's feet did not move. He even pulled out a lipstick from his pocket.
"This lipstick, plus part of your background, in exchange for you bringing me to Sun Island," Luka said.
"You know my background?" Bayonetta frowned. She recognized that lipstick as her mother's keepsake. Although she didn't know why it had fallen into Luka's hands, she was indeed somewhat moved.
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