Although Asmodeus had mostly concluded that Glasya's intelligence was inherited across generations... from Bisozeya's father, the former King of Hell, whose stubbornness had gotten both himself and the King of the Abyss killed.
She was still his biological daughter, after all.
Asmodeus actually understood, more or less, why Glasya was nothing like him... newly born angels were originally blank slates.
Other than the highest-grade innate talent, everything else had to be learned afterward.
But Bisozeya was different. She had always been a pure Devil, so Glasya was bound to resemble this Hell Princess more, at most possessing far better talent than the Hell Royal Family.
Asmodeus had not failed to understand that back then, but Bisozeya had given him confidence.
That excessive pride was troublesome, but Asmodeus believed he could support such pride.
What he had not expected was that genetics could be so incredible... Glasya had somehow inherited every shortcoming of the former Hell Royal Family.
Even her recklessness surpassed that of her audacious maternal grandfather.
The reason Asmodeus did not care about Glasya associating with Mammon was that he did not care about heirs in the first place.
As the King of Combat Angels, he was quite confident that his existence would inevitably endure forever.
Heirs and the like were originally just for the Devils to see. They were not truly that important.
Otherwise, his Combat Angels would not always have ignored the existence of Glasya and Bisozeya.
There was no being Asmodeus dared not or could not use, and Glasya was not without her uses.
Unfortunately, everything suffered when compared.
It would have been fine if he had not seen it, yet it had played out right beneath his eyes.
Most importantly, the occasional laughter from those two beams of light made Asmodeus very aware... Lathander and