After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Extra 3.2

On Blue Star, he had never had such a lively birthday celebration. In the otherworld, his first birthday was in the Abyss. He remembered that he had forgotten it back then, but the children knew about his birthday from his memories, so they secretly organized it.

Because it was in the Abyss, there weren’t many good material conditions, but the children all had their own ways and always managed to find things he liked.

Today was his fourth birthday in the otherworld, and his friends had come too. It should be the liveliest one yet.

Xiu Si was moved and was about to express his gratitude.

Just then, Zepar took out an exquisite, shining gift box from the void, handed it to him and said, “Here, Father’s birthday gift!”

Xiu Si paused, “This is……”

Before he could open it, Zepar opened it first.

Inside was a seemingly simple but actually mechanically complex watch. It could accurately calculate universal time regardless of location and regularly adjusted for errors.

“Father often loses track of time, so you must wear this watch properly.”

Zepar grinned carelessly.

Xiu Si understood His thoughtfulness after looking at it. He indeed tended to ignore time.

He nodded and said, “Mm, I’ll pay attention to it.”

Then, the other children also came forward one after another to give their gifts.

Samikina gave precious historical books. Marbas gave a family statue made of pure gold! Vassago had already fallen asleep and hadn’t prepared anything, now scratching his head and pondering anxiously.

Valefor gave Her self-designed custom suit.

Amon gave a time cube and said Father should pay more attention to time.

Xiu Si could only nod. Having missed many years with the children due to his poor sense of time, he had already learned his lesson and reformed!

Barbatos gave a very magical mobile tool that could synchronize with Her authority and recorded the locations of all the demon siblings. As long as he wished, he could instantly arrive at Their side.

Paimon gave a “training scene,” which stunned Xiu Si when he received it.

He explained, “Father exercises too little, which isn’t good for your body. With this scene, Father can exercise and train scientifically at any time.”

Xiu Si understood the child’s good intentions and promised, “I will.”

Buer gave a mysterious gift, smiling and saying, “Father will know later.”

Xiu Si nodded again.

Later, They all gave a gift.

Botis leaned close to his ear and said He had given a time necklace.

Xiu Si counted and realized many of the children’s gifts were related to time. They were truly concerned about his sense of time.

Regarding this, he could only repeatedly promise that he wouldn’t forget again, no matter how important the things he was doing were, he wouldn’t forget again.

They didn’t know whether to feel reassured or not, but all smiled and said they understood.

However, Xiu Si calculated that if he wore all the time-related gifts from the children, his entire body would be covered in “time.”

Haha, how could he not wear them when they were all from his children’s love!

When the gift-giving was almost over, Baal slowly walked over.

He would give fruits every time when They were in the Abyss. Xiu Si remembered it clearly.

Well, Baal had Baal’s personality, and as a father, whatever gifts the children gave were love, he liked all gifts!

This time, He gave a slightly different gift.

—The Universe’s Best Fruit [Universe Fruit].

It was a rare fruit that only appeared once every million years, reportedly extremely delicious with supreme effects.

When He took it out, the other children were stunned.

Ayni opened Her eyes wide and said, “Why is it still fruit!”

Zepar nodded, “This is Big Brother’s unchanging style.”

Aelioge glared at Them, “Stop discussing Big Brother, that’s one of Big Brother’s treasures obtained from years of conquering the universe!”

The demons all said “Oh,” and realized that although Aeli liked to challenge Big Brother, Aeli also supported Big Brother the most.

What a tsundere demon! Everyone smiled.

Midway through the birthday party, They seemed still unaccustomed to human form and changed back into cats one by one, taking turns pouncing into Xiu Si’s arms.

At most, Xiu Si held five cats at once, with six hanging on his shoulders and back, drawing Wang Chang’er’s envious gaze.

Wang Chang’er couldn’t help but say, “Xiu, you’re truly deep in sin!”

Ye Qingyi glanced at him, completely speechless about Wang Chang’er’s fluffy obsession.

Xiu Si turned to look at Wang Chang’er, “They are all your nieces and nephews too.”

Under the demons’ stares, Wang Chang’er obediently said, “Indeed, They are the universe’s best cat-nieces and cat-nephews!”

Xiu Si was amused by him.

The demons retracted Their sharp gazes after seeing Father laugh.

Wang Chang’er felt bitter inside, just wanting to pet Their fur, why was it so difficult?

Ming Jie thought that you should control your gaze first, Brother Wang. At your age, staring at Brother Xiu’s furry kids like an obsessed fan, it’s normal that They don’t respond to you.

Anyway, three hours later, the birthday party successfully ended. Though there was some chaos in between, it still concluded perfectly!

The cake made jointly by Cele and Lelagin was delicious, receiving praise from everyone.

“As expected of you!”

Zepar got excited and rushed over to hug Them, but Lelagin dodged quickly, taking Cele along.

Zepar missed and rolled once on the ground.

“You, you both!”

He was in disbelief. But from this angle, Xiu Si couldn’t see.

Cele felt apologetic but was pulled back by Ayni.

Ayni pointed at His body and said, “He’s all wet, if you get close to Him, you’ll get wet too, so be careful!”

Zepar was stunned but was used to His demon siblings’ teasing.

He pouted and said, “I know, there’s a saying in Father’s memory that hitting is care and scolding is love, teasing is true love, you teasing me means you love me!”

Ayni was also stunned, “What a self-indulgent demon!”

Zepar giggled, “I know you love your elder brother.”

They made a fuss for quite a while. The older brothers and sisters just watched it like a comedy show.

This comedy wasn’t just Them – Botis and Sitri started arguing about whose gift Father liked more, staring at each other, neither backing down.

A lively atmosphere was what made it a birthday party.

In the evening, the party ended. Xiu Si took care of the children going back to their nests to sleep. They were obedient in going to bed, just occasionally making a fuss, clinging to him and not letting go.

Xiu Si found Their relationships had improved. Previously Aeli didn’t seem very close to Baal, but now……

He turned his head, his gaze falling on the big golden tiger and small black cat.

At this time, the big golden tiger was wearing a cat hood, showing cuteness amidst majesty.

Very adorable!

While the small black cat wore a tiger hood, with patterns exactly like Baal’s, just more cute-ified.

Don’t they look matching? They truly look like real brothers.

Xiu Si watched this scene contentedly, recalling Their shocked expressions when receiving the hoods earlier.

“Father knitted these himself? I want one, I want one!”

Whether in cat form being cute or human form being beautiful, his children were excellent in every way. Xiu Si smiled foolishly for a while until he noticed it was already eleven o’clock on his watch.

“Good night.”

He gazed at Them like looking at life’s most precious treasures.

A few minutes later.

He walked out of the bedroom, seeming a bit tired, wanting to look at the moon before resting.

Seconds later, a youth appeared beside him.

Without turning to look, he knew He was Agares.

“Father, the road back is ready.”

“Is that so.”

Xiu Si looked up at the bright moon and sighed, “I’ve stayed here for thousands of years, but still have to go back.”

Actually, to be more precise, this place was his original dwelling place.

This place was also called the Origin Star. This planet was also one of his children.

Coming here, he suddenly understood who had summoned him back.

“Was it you, child?”

Agares seemed to know what he was talking about and nodded, “Yes.”

It was this planet that had told the “information” to the Goddess of Harmony at that time.

The Goddess of Harmony interpreted it as a method of salvation and joined hands with the other six great gods to conduct the hero summoning.

The planet just wanted to summon him back, but the humans at that time misread the information, or maybe “deliberately” misread it, because seven heroes were better than one – if one failed, there were still six others.

This was… the reason why they were summoned here.

Xiu Si felt something, crouched down, stroked the ground and said, “Sorry, I only understand your feelings now.”

The planet seemed to hear his voice and responded with faint earth tremors.

Xiu Si lowered his eyes to listen to Its confession. A few minutes later, he promised, “It won’t happen now, I’ll pay attention to time, and even if I foolishly ignore it again, They will remind me.”

The planet seemed stunned for a moment, then answered.

—”You are the Creator, please don’t be constrained by us.”

Hearing this, Xiu Si smiled and replied, “How am I being constrained by you all?”

The planet was stunned, seemingly unable to understand these words, but It instinctively felt joy.

Afterwards, Xiu Si chatted with the planet for a while, mainly about the Gods Era.

After twelve o’clock, Xiu Si went to the planet’s core area.

The child had operated alone for so many years, inevitably having some damage that needed repair.

This was also his old profession.

“Tell me if there are any uncomfortable places.”

He walked to the core and saw the half-damaged nucleus, feeling heartache.

“I should have come back earlier.”

Xiu Si reflected and took action, not only perfectly restoring Its core but also upgrading it. It should be able to function at more than double the previous capacity.

The planet responded to him with sounds of joy from all Its beings.

****

When Xiu Si came out again, it was already dawn outside.

Agares was waiting for him at the entrance. Behind Him were the other children, as well as his six friends.

Wang Chang’er said, “Xiu, let’s go home.”

Xiu Si asked, “Ready?”

“Yes, just waiting for you.”

“Alright, let’s go back.”

The seven people exchanged glances, taking a final look at this “otherworld.”

Regardless of what reason brought them here, now they had to temporarily say goodbye.

Ye Qingyi said, “It’s just going away for a few days, we’ll come back.”

She meant coming back to this planet.

The six people turned to look at her.

Ming Jie smiled and said, “I’ll see how things go. What about you, Justin?”

Justin thought and said, “I have family lineage here, so I’ll come back.”

Luo Jie was silent for a few seconds, saying somewhat vaguely, “We’ll see which side needs me.”

Chen Lingxi said, “I’m not sure, depends on my mood! What about you, Brother Wang?”

Wang Chang’er pondered, “Can’t we live on both sides?”

“Haha, that’s so like you.”

Then, they all turned to look at Xiu Si.

“Brother Xiu, what about you?”

“I……”

Xiu Si looked at the children who had already moved back into his system compendium and smiled, “Either side is fine.”

“Haha, then let’s go.”