"You are also quite confident, aren't you, yet in the end you still can't help me."
Thinking this inwardly, Aiden swung up the scythe with one hand, then leveled it horizontally forward, pointing toward Balder.
"Your nonsense is too much. We don't have the time to listen to you talk about these things. Let's fight first. If you win, then we will be the audience."
"Then you should be prepared for this." Balder's gaze tightened, and the decorations behind him, like peacock feathers, all stood upright, while from his body radiated golden light so dazzling that no one could look directly at it.
At this moment, he was just like the angels of human imagination.
Seeing this scene, Bayonetta and Jeanne immediately pulled the triggers, at the same time casting magic, their magic-infused hair transforming into two giant beasts of hell, pouncing fiercely toward Balder.
However, although Aiden was the one who first declared the battle, he did not move together with them, because he was still holding Cereza in his arms.
"Luka, can you help me look after her for a bit?"
"I don't want to."
The one refusing was not Luka, but Cereza. Because as soon as the fight began it had entered white-hot intensity, the enormous conference hall was instantly blasted apart by light and darkness magic, the roof shattered, and even the aftershocks of the battle blew Luka who-knows-where.
And after refusing, Cereza said again, "Do you intend to let another man hold your future wife?"
Does a child really need to be this clever? She even understands this?
Aiden stared dumbfounded at the little girl in his arms, was this still the same loli who previously had been crying for her father and mother?
But then he also felt that what Cereza said had some truth. Only, carrying her around really made it inconvenient to fight.
["My lord, you may personally look after her. The battle can be entrusted to me. However, I request my lord to use Original Sin Release, otherwise my incarnations cannot respond to your summons to come."]
Just as Aiden was troubled, at his ear rang out a voice he had never heard before, but it was filled with enchanting power. And merely from hearing the voice, the desires in his heart began to stir restlessly.
But what he was curious about now was, 'Original Sin Release can even do summoning? Isn't that the first awakening transformation of the Tempter?'
Yet after being stunned for a moment, Aiden, forcefully suppressing his body's discomfort, still activated his first awakening.
Then…
A gorgeous magic array appeared, and before his eyes emerged a succubus, with an explosively good figure.
"By my lord's command, incarnation of Original Sin, Lust, answers the summons."
Looking at the succubus before him, Aiden, besides being surprised, was secretly delighted, good thing, it wasn't himself transforming into a succubus.
When the succubus appeared, she directly half-kneeled before Aiden, with sweet pink gas diffusing around her body.
Just smelling it made his heart restless and uneasy. Not to mention, that pink gas did not block his sight, so he could very clearly see her exposed faintly-pink body, engraved with gorgeous runes, even across the deep cleavage carved into her snow-white chest…
Alright, Aiden quickly shook his head. Now was not the time to think about such things. He immediately gave the succubus the command, "Go help them."
"Yes!"
Different from the voice he heard in his mind, hearing the succubus face-to-face, even just a single simple word made Aiden feel as if he had fallen into a honey jar, incomparably sweet.
Then he saw the succubus stand up.
And then he was astonished to find that not only was her figure good, her height was also astonishingly tall. Even barefoot, by visual estimate, she was half a head taller than Bayonetta and Jeanne who were both wearing high heels.
'Hiss… my head could probably be buried completely inside, right?'
Suddenly, Aiden's thoughts strayed again.
The Cereza he was holding directly covered her eyes with her hands. This scene was simply too overwhelming for her.
"Heehee, if my lord wants to see, later when you have time you can summon me again." The succubus' violet eyes glowed with a tempting light, but then a cold snort followed, scaring her into a shiver.
"If you prattle on again, I'll switch, let Nyarly come."
"No, no, Lilith will go now…"
The succubus, calling herself Lilith, pouted, then turned and leapt out through a large hole.
"You're so stingy!"
Watching the silhouette disappear into the night, Aiden complained inwardly. He hadn't gotten his fill of looking yet.
Shrugging, Aiden carried Cereza, who was peeking through her fingers to sneak a look, over to the big hole Lilith had jumped through, craning his neck to look down.
Because the skyscraper reached into the clouds, the wind outside the hole was especially strong.
Squinting, Aiden watched for a while and saw that the two witches and Lilith had already fought Balder down from the sky to the ground.
The aftershocks of the battle had nearly destroyed all the surrounding buildings.
Fortunately it was deep night, and those buildings were all office towers, so there was no need to worry about a mass of casualties.
At the same time, he also saw Luka, blown away by the shockwave. But that guy's life was tough, and his skills not bad, he was actually climbing back up carefully using a homemade grappling hook.
"Can you give a hand? Pull a brother up!"
Luka also saw Aiden and shouted loudly for help.
Now Luka had no qualifications at all to be his rival in love. After thinking it over, Aiden still decided to lend a hand.
Jumping down, he grabbed Luka by the collar and hauled him back up, then tossed him onto the ground, before continuing to lean over and watch the battle.
But the black-haired witch's power was not weaker than Balder's to begin with, not to mention this was a righteous three-against-one. In just a few minutes, Balder was already in absolute disadvantage.
At this moment, Cereza suddenly clutched Aiden's neck and cried, "Can't you let them not kill Daddy?"
Cereza had been with Balder for a long time, and having grown up lacking a father's love, her feelings for Balder were naturally unusual. She was also the person most unwilling to see this scene.
"Of course not." Aiden smilingly patted her head, thinking inwardly, possessing the power of the Right Eye, Balder was difficult to kill.
Even in the original story, he "died" to a plot kill, finally because the Right Eye fused with the Creator Jubileus, he was punched into the sun by the god summoned by Bayonetta and Jeanne. His life or death then became ambiguous.
So, killing him now was actually a good thing. As long as his body was preserved, he could be revived later.
But naturally he wouldn't explain all that to Cereza. Instead, Aiden continued, "Right now your father is possessed by a Malicious Thought Entity."
"But I have a way to resolve the Malicious Thought Entity inside him. Only, it might require sealing him for a period of time… Just like your future self, sealed for hundreds of years. By then, I will return to you a normal father. How about it?"
Cereza thought for a long time, then heavily nodded. "You must keep your word."
"How could your future husband ever lie to you?" Aiden patted her head.
But Cereza suddenly said, "But I heard from the witch sisters in the clan that men like best to lie to women."
Aiden froze. Just as he was about to explain that he was not that kind of man, and that she wasn't yet a woman but just a little loli, Cereza suddenly hugged his neck and planted a hard kiss on his cheek.
"But I know you are not that kind of man… Only I am still small, so I can only kiss your face. Mm, this is Cereza's reward for you."
'You witches are really amazing, one after another are good at flirting. And even though you're still this little…'
Expressionless, Aiden thought this, when suddenly he noticed the battlefield below had gone quiet. Realizing the fight was over, he directly leapt down from the hole, carrying Cereza.
Using several protruding parts of the building, Aiden landed lightly on the ground, then walked toward the battlefield not far away.
At this moment, the black and white witches stood shoulder to shoulder, looking at Balder who had fallen before them, while the succubus named Lilith stood on the other side, idly swinging her heart-shaped tail back and forth.
Seeing Aiden approaching, Lilith quickly released her tail and stood straight, well-behaved.
"My lord, how did Lilith do?"
"Mm, very good." Aiden perfunctorily responded, since as soon as he arrived, the gazes of the black and white witches had landed on him.
"Daddy!"
At this moment, seeing Balder lying on the ground, barely breathing, Cereza screamed in fright. If Aiden hadn't held her tightly, she would probably have struggled free.
Finding she couldn't break away, Cereza turned and clutched Aiden's neck, crying, "You said, you said you wouldn't kill my daddy…"
"He's not dead yet. Don't you see he's still breathing?" Aiden quickly comforted her, while signaling with his eyes to Lilith.
The succubus already knew what he intended, and immediately cast a sealing spell, sealing up Balder who was in fact already brain-dead.
And the black-and-white witches, after hearing Aiden and Cereza's conversation, also understood his meaning. Thus, they did not obstruct that succubus, who they both simultaneously disliked, from sealing Balder's corpse, before throwing it into the waters outside Isla del Sol.
When Balder's body was completely submerged, Aiden continued to say to Cereza, "Be good, Cereza, you are a strong girl. Don't cry anymore. And when you grow up, you will still see your father again."
Only then did Cereza wipe her tears and nod heavily.
Balder was sealed, and the Right Eye of Light was also extracted in advance by the succubus during the sealing. The revival of the Creator God was now almost impossible.
Taking a look at the tall statue of the Creator God, Aiden put away the Right Eye of Light that the succubus gave him. Although he really wanted to entrust this Right Eye to Jeanne for safekeeping, one witch, one World's Eye, very fair.
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