Just as Garvin's party rode that somewhat outrageously massive heavy armored motorcycle, carrying the Cavens rat swarm led by Cavennis, into the portal leading to the Abyss, Li Wei's group at the Magic Research Institute watched them depart through the light-screen set into the wall.
Yet Aili, perched on the neck of the ancient Red Dragon Huenda, seemed to sense Li Wei's gaze. She suddenly turned around as if struck by a feeling, and the little demon—usually fearless, willful, and reckless—actually shrank back a little as she called out:
"Daddy."
Li Wei's heart tightened at the sight.
Even if she was only a demon egg he had picked up after opening a gate to the Abyss fifty-four years ago, after being called "Daddy" for half a century, he had to admit that he had developed some inexplicable feelings for her.
"Boss..."
Fischer could not help wanting to speak up and dissuade him, but when he saw Li Wei's expressionless face, his mouth opened and closed. In the end, he could not bring himself to say the words that would ask her to stay.
Because he knew this was a decision his Boss had considered for a long time. He had even discussed it privately with Fischer and Huozi before.
Princess Aili was, in the end, a demon from the Abyss. Using the rules of orderly civilization to continually suppress Aili's nature was itself a twisted sort of upbringing.
It was like keeping a creature that yearned for freedom, like a cat, caged up. Even if the intention was to protect her, it still went against her nature.
It was only because she had inherited dragons' habit of sleeping, along with Li Wei's method of "reasoning with demons," that Zelandia had not already been torn apart a hundred times over by