238 Weakest Demon

"You are Zeus' daughter," Lucifer asserted.

"Uhh… but I am a half-angel, not a half-demon. And even if you are telling the truth, does that mean I am in love with my father?"

"Are you saying that she is pregnant with her father's child?!" Faith exclaimed.

"Uhh… not exactly." Lucifer took a deep breath and said, "What I am trying to say is Emilia is not my daughter."

"Wait… I think I understand what you are trying to say," Emilia uttered. She placed her hand on her stomach and said, "I am pregnant with Nero's child right now. And maybe I am my own mother, and I am my own child?"

"... You clearly didn't understand anything!" Lucifer shouted after seeing Emilia's stupidity. He covered his face and said, "This is another proof. I am not stupid, so you are not my daughter."

"Excuse me!" Emilia frowned her face and said, "Listen. Even I don't want you to be my father. Nor do I want Faith to be my mother. But if I exist, then it's proof that you two or either of you two are going to betray Nero."

"Let me tell you a short story about the weakest demon…" Lucifer threw a haystack and asked Emilia to sit on it.

"50 years ago, I was at my lowest, and by lowest, I mean I was close to becoming a fallen angel."

After a brief pause, he continued, "I was strolling through the wasteland where once stood the most beautiful kingdom of this world."

Lucifer glanced at Faith and said, "It was the land between hell and this world."

"I was walking, slowly, slowly. I could fly, but I decided to walk. After walking for a while, I came across a demon. It was a kid, around five years old. It was injured, and it was about to die."

"When I stood before him, he looked at me with a glare in his eyes and said, 'I will kill every one of you.' Even though it was about to die in a few minutes, it still had the mentality of a demon."

"I glanced around, but I couldn't see anyone. I thought someone must be there if an injured demon was lying on the ground. So I asked him, 'Who did this to you?'. And he said, 'You damned angels. I curse you that you meet a painful end. 'I was angry when he said that. Because at that time, I had lost my Dunia just a few hours ago."

"She died of old age, by the way," he added.

"I wanted to kill that demon, so I conjured my sword and raised it to slash the demon's neck, but I stopped when I noticed tears in his eyes."

"I was baffled. I was 120000 years old, but I had never seen a demon cry. I was fascinated. So I asked him, 'Why are you crying?'. He didn't reply at first. But then he said, 'Angels killed my father and gave my mother to the humans so they could execute her'."

"Of course, that was nothing weird. That happened every day. So I said to him: 'Do you want revenge?'. And he said he would become the strongest demon and kill all the angels and burn down the heavens."

"For your information, that was the most common threat you would hear from a demon. I was used to that. I had heard it from the mouth of every demon I had killed. However, that kid demon… he seemed different. So, I got curious about him. But first, I used sealing magic to seal my divine magic so I could heal the demon. Then, I told him, 'I will come here after twenty years. I will wait for you. So come back here, and kill me. If you survive, that is."

'He said 50 years ago, right? But Nero is only 20 years old right now. So he is not talking about Nero, right?' Emilia asked herself.

"Twenty years later," Lucifer continued. "I went to the same place, but at that time, there was a war going on between demons and the no-lord monsters. And among those demons, there was one who single-handedly wiped out most of the opponent's army."

"I hovered in the sky and watched him defeat the entire army all by himself. Then, he looked at me and said, 'I have been waiting for this day.'. Not going to lie, I hadn't felt such chills in a long time."

"I was going to land on the ground so we could fight, but indeed, he grew wings and came to me. And without saying anything, he attacked me. He tried every technique he had learned and all the magic he had mastered."

"Our fight continued for three months straight. Neither of us had time even to heal our injuries. Then, the battle ended."

"Who won?" Faith asked with a curious look on her face.

"I won, obviously," Lucifer replied with a scoff.

"Why are you telling us this? And what does it have to do with anything? I don't understand…." Emilia murmured with a puzzled look on her face.

"You will understand when I finish this story," Lucifer responded. "After that fight, that demon and I met there every year, and we fought until none of us was on death's door. Yes, he managed to injure me. Both of us had a chance to kill either of us, but we spared each other and fought again and again."

"After five years, that demon had become one of the most feared entities in every world. Heaven planned to kill him before he became a threat to them. And as expected, they asked me to get rid of him."

"Funny thing was that the demon grew stronger every time I fought him, and he nearly killed me the last time. So I knew for sure that if I fought him once more, I might die. But I went to that place anyway, but much to my surprise, he wasn't there."

"I thought I mistook the date or something, so I waited and waited. A month passed by, and he never came. I assumed that he must have died, or maybe the heavens did something to him."

"Then, a few days later, when I was sent to give blessings to the mortal world, I felt like I was being watched. So I tracked the magic that was tracing me and got the location. It led me to a castle. Old, but still amazing. I went in, fully prepared to fight. But there…. I was greeted by that demon. He looked entirely different."

I asked him, 'Why did you bring me here? To kill me?'

And he said, 'I want you to thank you for saving my life and healing me when I was five years old. And countless other times when we fought.'

"I was baffled by his statement. He was like a totally different person. I don't mean he didn't look scary or he wasn't giving off a dark aura. He still looked the same. He had the same look in his eyes, and everything else was still the same. He looked different because there was a smile on his face; a smile that I had never seen before."

"Then, he invited me into the castle and took me to the dining room. There, he introduced me to someone. He had a vampire wife and a newborn kid, whose existence alone turned all the world upside down."

"Don't tell me…" Emilia stuttered with a pale face 

"That demon was Zagan. And that newborn was none other than Zeus."