After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 143.2

Everyone was shocked into silence, as if hearing the bell of a new era, their minds buzzing and hearts racing.

The elder spoke dazedly, “Humans, are they about to change?”

Lia nodded solemnly again, her eyes resolute as she said, “Yes, without doubt. We will carve out our own era with our own hands.” Whether that would be good or bad, happiness or disaster.

Upon hearing this, everyone present was stunned.

Except for Inpos.

Inpos silently watched them, lost in thought. A few minutes later, He left the alliance hall and stood alone atop a tall building.

“A new era……”

Seconds later, He seemed to have made some decision and lifted His head, privately calling Sitri.

Sitri answered quickly, “What is it?”

Inpos: “Creator God…… no, the Fake, can you relay a message to Him?”

Sitri asked directly, “What do you want Him to do?”

Inpos said seriously, “I want Him to remove humans’ upward restrictions.”

Sitri was silent for a while.

His silence made Inpos think He disagreed, making Him nervous.

But after a few seconds, Sitri said, “Inpos, you can just say such things directly.”

Inpos paused, “Really?”

“Yes.”

There was a barely detectable emotion in Sitri’s tone, as if He disliked formality between siblings.

Inpos vaguely sensed this and felt touched inside, nodding, “Alright.”

Sitri didn’t say more, and after closing the chat window, He turned to communicate with Botis.

Botis didn’t think much and directly agreed, saying, “That restriction shouldn’t have existed in the first place.”

Sitri seemed somewhat incredulous, “Oh? You care about humans too?”

Botis’s snake pupils contracted, “Hmph, I just don’t like that kind of thing.”

Sitri smiled, this younger brother had never been honest since childhood.

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Meanwhile. At the bookstore entrance.

Unable to wait any longer, Paimon and Zepar returned to the bookstore first.

Zepar hung His head dejectedly, sitting in a chair and saying, “Damn it, I wanted Father to see my outfit!”

Beside Him, Paimon gave Him a subtle look.

Zepar’s outfit was…… hard to describe.

At this time, the golden-shaded cat sitting at the counter turned His head, using His paw to rub His plump belly, and said, “By the way, why are you still in human form?”

Both demons were startled, then looked around.

Ah, they were all cats!

Right, They needed to think of cat forms too.

Paimon quickly thought of one. For Her, there was only that kitty that would suit Her!

Zepar was suffering from choice paralysis, muttering on the side dramatically, “How can I stand out among Them and get Father to notice me first?”

Half an hour later, He suddenly thought of it!

“Hehehe, this is it.”

****

Meanwhile. Thanks to the second cub’s space magic, Xiu Si successfully returned to the alley where his bookstore was located.

The moment he landed from the space magic, his emotions were indescribable with excitement.

Finally, he could see his children!

Xiu Si eagerly walked home, followed by the docile snow leopard.

Just as he walked into the bookstore, he immediately received the cubs’ unified gaze.

“Father’s back.”

Xiu Si cheerfully strode into the bookstore, and was greeted by—kitties flying at him like little missiles!

He instinctively reached out to try to steadily catch these fluffy cubs, but the human body was too limited, and he was still knocked down by Them.

He wasn’t hurt, because he had the all-capable snow leopard behind him.

The snow leopard supported him with just a thought.

He comfortably sat on the soft cushion formed by magic power, seeming to be submerged in balls of fluff. He slowly got up, blinking, with several playful kitties still hanging on him. They were like strings of adorable plush doll accessories, except They were warm, and felt really good to pet.

Xiu Si was delighted in his heart and gently patted each of Their heads. They comfortably meowed, the sounds attracting the attention of other cubs in the courtyard and second floor hall. They discovered Father had returned home and immediately rushed over like little trucks, rushing forward eagerly.

The moment They saw Xiu Si, They couldn’t wait to pounce.

“Father meow meow!”

The number of kitties on Xiu Si instantly multiplied, as if he was in an ocean of cats, his ears filled with rising and falling meows.

He smiled foolishly for a while, then suddenly noticed two unfamiliar ones.

Weren’t these…… Ninth Cub Paimon and Sixteenth Cub Zepar!

He was shocked, staring at Them dazedly.

Ninth Cub was a Torbie cat, and Sixteenth Cub was a Pallas cat?!

They seemed to notice his shock. The Torbie cat spoke first, “Long time no see, Father, I am Paimon.”

After She grew up, She gradually learned to keep Her emotions in check, always maintAyning a calm heart, but at this moment, She still couldn’t suppress Her inner excitement.

Because it had been a full eight thousand years since She had last seen her father.

The Torbie cat looked at her father before her, tears seemingly glistening in Her eyes.

And His father also looked at Her, saying gently, “Welcome home.”

She was stunned for a moment, tears almost falling, but was interrupted by the suddenly shouting Pallas cat next to Her.

The Pallas cat excitedly shouted, “Father! I’m back!”

After shouting, He charged towards Xiu Si, and it was a very heavyweight charge, the kind that a human body absolutely couldn’t block, even if blocked, broken bones would be unavoidable.

Xiu Si didn’t react in time, but instinctively wanted to catch Him.

The other cats were alert, Their eyes startled, thinking how could they let Zepar crash into Father?

The lynx quickly devised a plan, secretly extending His paw.

The Pallas cat was caught off guard and tripped, rolling in front of Xiu Si, just five centimeters away.

He was dumbfounded, not even having time to cry out in pain.

While Xiu Si paused for a moment, carefully picking up the Pallas cat in his hands, asking, “Are you alright?”

The Pallas cat was about to curse, but seeing Father before Him, immediately became teary-eyed.

Alright! How could anything be wrong!

He rushed into Xiu Si’s arms, paws scrambling, crying and sniffling.

Xiu Si looked down with a smile, his eyes full of tolerance.

However, the siamese cat and blue cat sent death rays at the Pallas cat.

Zepar, how dare you! Get off Father right now!

But this guy stuck on like a leech, refusing to get down.

“Zepar, get down.” Until the Maine Coon suddenly spoke, only then did Zepar suddenly shudder and obediently get down.

Please, when Fourth Brother speaks, who wouldn’t be scared?

And just as He got down, the short-legged cat ran over to offer tissues.

Xiu Si took them in hand, seeming not to mind, patted the short-legged cat’s head, then his heart slightly tightened, his expression gradually becoming serious as he looked at Them and solemnly said, “I need to explain something to you.”

“What is it meow?”

The ragdoll cat raised Her head.

Other kitties also looked over, showing curious or puzzled expressions.

Xiu Si felt nervous inside, took a deep breath, as if weighing his words, hesitated for a while before speaking.

“About why I disappeared back then.”

The “back then” he mentioned was of course not about when he was human, but when he was the Creator.

The black cat paused, seeming to recall that “abandonment theory,” couldn’t help but clench His cat paws, nervously watching Xiu Si.

They all had the same feeling. Except for the snow leopard behind Xiu Si. The snow leopard lowered His gaze, thoughts unknown.

While the black cat walked in front of Xiu Si, raising His head saying, “Can Father tell us meow?”

Xiu Si nodded, “Of course, you can all know about my matters.”

The black cat was slightly startled.

At the same time, the ragdoll cat by Xiu Si’s hand excitedly said, “Want to know meow!”

“At that time, it was like this……”

Xiu Si recalled while explAyning. The past matters were long to tell, so he could only make a long story short. Worried that some children still didn’t know his other identity, he explained that as well.

They raised Their heads listening, eyes unblinking, very obedient, like students attentively listening to a teacher’s lecture.

Xiu Si took roughly an hour to slowly finish explAyning.

During this time They had things They didn’t understand, but didn’t interrupt him, patiently listening to the end, slowly digesting it.

They mainly understood one thing, Father’s sense of time wasn’t very good, once he concentrated on doing something he easily forgot about time. In order to repair Them well, Father had walked all over the universe, even becoming human. But after going around in circles, he still returned to Their side.

Father was also somewhat of a silly meow. The ragdoll cat blinked.

So, the reason why Their silly demons were silly was because They were Father’s own children.

Thinking of this, the ragdoll cat smiled foolishly, nuzzling Her head against the person. Their slow-witted and somewhat silly Father needed Their good protection meow.

They each digested Xiu Si’s words, and all felt relieved.

The black cat was reassured, secretly cursing that Fake, saying Father had abandoned Them, hmph, nonsense.

Father loves us the most!!

The Devon Rex cat seemed to have thought of this already, slightly nodding.

The blue cat lowered His gaze to suppress His emotions, but His mouth was harder to suppress than an AK.

The siamese cat’s eyes lit up with joy, if it weren’t for a bunch of cats in the way, who knows what He would do.

The lynx and Maine Coon exchanged glances, then exchanged glances with the golden chinchilla and forest cat.

The big cats exchanged looks, all seeing each other’s relief.

The short-legged cat’s eyes were slightly red, using His paws to wipe away tears.

The cow cat was jubilant, almost smacking the nearby Pallas cat with a paw, but accidentally hit the red cat instead, inadvertently causing the Garfield cat beside the red cat to roll once.

The big orange cat smiled faintly. The silver-shaded cat quietly watched. The blue-white cat seemed to be taking photos, suddenly jumping onto the table.

“So, can you forgive Father?”

Xiu Si looked at Them, his voice somewhat uncertain, carrying a trace of easily noticeable nervousness.

Even Cele noticed it. He raised His head, light green eyes reflecting Xiu Si’s figure.

At this time, the cow cat jumped out first, “Won’t forgive meow!”

Everyone thought She was going to say forgive, how come there was a “won’t” in front?

Wait, what nonsense was Ayni saying! What do you mean won’t forgive, take it back quickly!

They immediately became nervous, anxiously looking at Xiu Si.

They saw Xiu Si lower his gaze, his expression slightly dark, saying softly, “Is that so……”

Ah! Ayni, look what nonsense you’ve spoken! Father is hurt!

They immediately became nervous, all wanting to explain right away.

But following that, the cow cat grabbed her father’s palm, eyes shining saying, “So we must punish Father to stay with us forever meow!”

Xiu Si paused, slowly realizing that little Ayni was being mischievous again.

His heart filled with joy, casually rubbing the cow cat’s head, smiling saying, “Alright, Father accepts the punishment.”

“Hehe!”

The cow cat was overjoyed, Her tail wagging leaving afterimages.

Hearing this, the others finally felt relieved. Really, little Ayni made Them so worried.

Speaking of which, were all family demons back?

They looked left and right, counted once, and found only 22 demons.

Who was missing?

Was it Inpos? Ah, He went to the human side and hadn’t returned yet.

Then who else?

They paused, suddenly realizing—Big Brother was missing!!

Such a big Big Brother, how could They forget?

Xiu Si also noticed and asked, “Is Baal still on the way?”

The blue-white cat nodded, extending His paw as if calculating the distance, answering, “Should be soon.”

After all, when Big Brother rushed back to beat Them last time, His speed wasn’t ordinary, He even had two explosive accelerations!

Xiu Si understood, holding several cats in his arms, smilingly saying, “When you’re all together, want to meet your uncles and aunts?”