Nosius held the egg to his ear and listened for a while. After confirming that there was still a heartbeat inside, a large group of angels came to the gate of the demon race.
The leader whose door was visited twice in three months by angels: ...
This time, the angels were even more impatient, storming into the city and kicking open the chief's door.
The demon leader, Vino, was startled. Before he could even transform back into human form, his large, furry wolf face loomed close to Nosius: "What's wrong? What happened?"
"We apologize for trespassing on the demon territory, but this egg has not yet hatched, and we would like to know why."
At this moment, Vino disregarded Nosius's seemingly polite but actually threatening words, and moved his face even closer, the wolf's nose touching the round eggshell.
"Oh...oh...poor little thing."
Nosius resisted the urge to take the egg back; he disliked the wolf's scent and didn't want his egg to be tainted with Vino's smell.
Fortunately, Vino only glanced at it before stepping away. He transformed into human form, wearing only smart trousers on his lower body, his strong chest casually exposed. Nosius wanted to use a powerful move to wipe Vino out of the scene.
Vino didn't notice Nosius's gaze. He said seriously, "The baby... seems unwilling to come out of the egg."
"He didn't want to be born into this world, didn't want to exist... so he was unwilling to hatch."
"To be honest, this is the first time I've ever seen a cub that has lost even the will to live. I don't know what it went through in its past life to be so disappointed in itself."
Upon hearing this, Nosius gripped the eggshell tightly.
For some reason, when he heard Vino say that, he felt a dull pain in his heart.
It was as if his very soul was aching.
"So how do we get him to be willing to be born?"
“This…” Vino was a little troubled. “You should talk to the little one more. Also, you can tempt him with some of his favorite toys or snacks.”
The demon race is such a pragmatic race; survival and reproduction are desires ingrained in their instincts. Therefore, Vino had no good solution when faced with such a cub.
Nosius knew that Vino couldn't say anything, so he took the egg home. On the way, he stayed in the city for the first time and asked some angels to exchange it for some things that the cub liked.
After they returned, Nosius stared into deep thought at the little wooden horse, fairy fruit, and gorgeous court dress that the angels had brought out.
How can babies that haven't hatched yet use these things?
The angels also fell silent; after all, it was their first time raising a cub, so it was normal for them to be unfamiliar with it.
In the end, all Nosius could do was hold the egg to his lips and call out to it day and night.
The cub, which had been letting itself sleep soundly, finally heard the call of the angels.
Ah...so gentle, so warm.
Who is calling him?
Stop calling him. If he appears, he will surely bring misfortune to others.
Qianyuan was tired; he didn't want to experience separation, so he chose to give up on meeting again.
But the person who called out to him persisted and refused to give up.
Qianyuan could only stretch out her body, her tiny palm touching Nosius's hand through the eggshell:
"ah!"
The cub seems to be saying, "Abandon me, discard me."
But Nosius was struck in the heart by the cub's indistinct, soft heartbeat.
A soft, sorrowful cub.
Nosius did not understand why his heart, which had been sealed for thousands of years, had become active, or why he felt a pang of sadness, but he was absolutely determined to awaken the cub.
Nosius joined his hands together as a knife and plunged it into his own heart. His white divine robes were gradually stained with blood, but Nosius did not care.
Nosius took out his heart's blood, drop by drop, and let it melt into Qianyuan's egg.
Nourished by the heart's blood, the egg emitted bursts of light, and Qianyuan felt her body become stronger. At the same time, the eggshell, gradually stained red with blood, looked as if strands of red threads were being drawn out and fused into the hearts of Qianyuan and Noxus.
This is the most powerful and binding contract and bond among angels. From now on, Qianyuan will become the other half of an angel, the other half of Nosius's soul. Nosius can find him and stay with him no matter where he is.
But Qianyuan was not happy; instead, she paced anxiously inside the eggshell.
No...no more getting hurt for him, no more bleeding.
With the contract complete, Nosius was finally able to sense Chien's feelings, and he once again used the contract to summon Chien.
"Come out, don't be afraid, I'm right here with you, there's no danger."
"I will always be with you."
The urgent yet gentle call to the cub finally moved Qianyuan, and the cub finally stopped his fear and anxiety.
Hesitantly, he broke free of the eggshell.
Nosius watched him intently the whole time, gently guiding him: "That's it, open it and meet me."
"My soul, my blood, my half."
"Crackling—"
The eggshell cracked open in the middle.
A pair of small, white hands rested on the edge of the eggshell, and were pricked by the sharp edge of the shell.
The little hands shrank back, then reached out again, gripping the smooth eggshell, and poked the head out.
A tiny, exquisitely crafted figure with white hair and blue eyes.
Qianyuan's eyes immediately fell on Nosius, followed by the other angels who craned their necks to look at him.
The cub was surrounded by onlookers with his bare bottom exposed, but he seemed dazed. It took him a while to realize that he should be afraid. He quickly crawled up Nosius's hand to the other's chest, curled up into a small ball, and if you looked closely, you would see that the cub was still trembling slightly.
I don't know how scared I was.
He seemed to have an extreme lack of security.
Nosius didn't force the cub to lift its head. He touched the cub's back and looked at the tiny wings on its back that hadn't yet unfolded.
"The little one has wings too! Is he an angel too?"
Nosius did not answer. He looked at the snow-white bone wings and guessed that there might be something wrong with the cub's origin.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
This cub belongs to him; that is an undeniable fact.
Qianyuan sensed that everyone was talking about him, but the little guy didn't look up at everyone with a smile as usual. Instead, he clung to Nosius's arms, looking sickly and melancholy, his hands tightly gripping Nosius's clothes.
The system notification sounded in his ear, the mechanical voice unusually tinged with a hint of mockery:
"Because the host failed to complete the task of collecting emotional points in the previous world, the punishment has now been doubled, and a special disease buff has been added: Skin hunger, separation anxiety, and mild autism. Initiating."
"However, since the host has saved the previous world and allowed the timeline to function normally, according to the reward and punishment system, you are given a reward: the ability to be liked by all living beings."
"May you have a pleasant time in this world~"
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