Chapter 446: Rebirth

Yasaka could see Asahi's sincerity in convincing Lilith. Precisely the reason she couldn't stand Lilith's refusal and spoke out of bounds.

Asahi gave a smile to the kitsune yokai. "It's alright, Yasaka. I am used to rejection from this woman."

He wouldn't bother this much if Lilith's affection points weren't above 70 all this time. It was really high for someone he barely had interactions with. Well, they had the deepest interactions with their bodies.

Yasaka could only nod awkwardly at Asahi's words. "I shouldn't have jumped into your personal issue. I shouldn't be here at all."

"Yasaka, you are a good girl," Lilith said as she gazed into Yasaka's golden eyes. "However, you barely pass as a friend. So, you can stay."

Yasaka scratched her cheek. "I can't prioritize my friendship over the wellbeing of my people."

"I wouldn't comment on that," Lilith said and turned to Asahi. "Now that I think about it. I'm quite the honored person for having the Devil Emperor tend to my sickness. Another accomplishment to celebrate."

"..."

"Your Imperial Majesty, sorry for getting distracted from our talk. I should have made it clearer. Why I think it won't work out is due to God of Hell's keen interest in my body."

Asahi showed no surprise at her reveal. "You think I'm scared of Hades?"

Lilith shook her head and smiled. "You’ll be making an enemy out of the Greek faction for having me by your side. They are not like the Underworld. The Greek Pantheon is a juggernaut filled with world-level powers. Will you offend them for a woman you fucked once?"

A wicked smile emerged on Asahi's face. "It’s just Zeus and the gang. Nothing to be afraid of. In fact, you gave me the perfect excuse to slay more gods."

Asahi's grin terrified Yasaka, who used to look up to deities as mighty figures. He revealed his intention of killing them as if he was talking about killing low-class monsters.

"Bold words befitting a tyrant ruler." Lilith's lips curved up. "Your dynasty might fall early or it will be solidified for ages to come. Will you be an ambitious fool who couldn't see the greater power at play or a peerless god without restraints?" Lilith asked, curiosity written all over her face.

Asahi shrugged his shoulders. "I'll let my actions decide that."

Lilith made an equally if not more wicked smirk than Asahi. "I think I found something fun to do."

"What's that?"

"I won't tell," Lilith said with a bright laugh and sat down on Asahi's lap, wrapping her arms around him. "Your Majesty, I'll be honest with you. Even though I am a devil, I like the warmth of your body. It's so soothing. Makes me forget about everything."

"Oh, what else did you miss?"

Lilith coiled her arms around his neck and licked his neck. "My pussy missed you, Your Majesty."

"And?"

"Fuck me."

"Devil King-sama!" Yasaka shouted as she got up. "Please call me after you heal her. I would like to discuss something with you."

The two made her regretful about her single status. She didn't want any more of these sugar-inducing interactions.

Asahi stared at Yasaka, who had lost her composure in a heartbeat.

Lilith gave her a sympathetic look. "Your Majesty, should we include her too? The mother of all devils on one side and the holy shrine maiden youkai on the other. Does that make you hard, Your Majesty?"

"P-Please don't include me like that!" Yasaka almost shouted in embarrassment. "I'll see you later."

Yasaka bowed and fled the room like a fox escaping the sharp fangs of a wolf.

Lilith looked at Asahi with blank eyes. "Was that a bad idea?"

"Honestly, it was very tempting." Asahi nodded sagely. "But it won't come to fruition soon."

Asahi made Lilith lie with her face down on a pillow and touched her naked back. Her cold back shivered under his warm hand, her butt also responding similarly.

"Your Majesty."

"Be quiet."

Asahi closed his eyes and began the process. As a self-taught expert on the life element, rejuvenating her life force was a piece of cake for him. But he wanted to go further than that.

"Lilith, do you trust me?"

"Your Majesty… yes, I trust you."

She never thought she'd say these words to the man who sent her life spiraling through the seven realms of hell and heaven. For all his faults, he had done a better job treating her like a human being even though she had nothing to deserve it.

Asahi nodded, and with his absolute concentration, he reached out to the core that dictated the flow of life in her soul, her life vein. Lilith shuddered, chills entrapping her. Still, she remained in her place and entrusted herself to Asahi’s whims.

‘Your Majesty, don’t disappoint me.’

Asahi pulled out a black sphere from Lilith's back. The metallic black sphere had numerous small cracks around it. The ball was a replica of her life vein, and the cracks around it showed the damage that had been done to her soul.

'The black color reflects her darkness element.'

(Correct. My love, you can repair it or make her a new life vein.)

He may not be the greatest creator, but he sure could replicate an object to an identical degree. However, he wasn't going to go through the complicated process of recreating her life vein.

Asahi erected a barrier around himself and Lilith and started working on the repairs. He produced thin tendrils of darkness-element mana from his fingertips. From his other hand, he created the same tendrils but of pure life force. Life and darkness shouldn't coexist, yet they did in a harmony due to his element fusion skill.

‘I’ll call them Lina!’

(My love, you suck at naming.)

Asahi mixed and matched the prototype versions of Lina until it completely synced with the wavelength of Lilith’s life vein. The process took nearly an hour even with his extremely calculative mind.

Lilith had to lie quietly the entire time Asahi worked. She became bored to the point of humming some surprisingly pleasant tunes.

At last, Asahi conjured numerous versions of Lina and sent them through Lilith’s back. The combined force of Lina filled the cracks in her life vein.

Asahi wiped an imaginary bead of sweat from his brow. “That was hard…”

[—You can evolve your ‘Life Element’ skill into a Special-Rank skill.]

‘Special-rank? Shouldn’t it be an authority?’

(My love, you talk like authorities can be plucked from trees… the fact that you possess one at under level 100 is completely off my calculations.)

‘Uh… I mean, your system was probably made without considering my high human class.’

(Yeah… you didn’t have the karma to get ‘Amrita’ when I was designing the system.)

Lilith sat back up and tied her hair in a loose tail. “I feel so alive~.”

Lilith felt energetic like she was back to the days of her glory when she single-handedly fought numerous angel warriors from Heaven.

As she snapped her finger, numerous balls of demonic power appeared around the room. Lilith pointed her finger in Asahi's direction, and the balls of pure demonic power charged at Asahi, unsurprisingly vanishing before even touching him.

"I have better control over my demonic power, or I feel like it…"

"It's not just your demonic power that has changed," Asahi remarked with a grin and summoned a large mirror before Lilith. "Check it yourself."

Just one glance at her own reflection sent Lilith into a daze. "So… beautiful. What did you do?"

Asahi chuckled. "Well, I call this technique Rebirth."

Lilith was already a beautiful woman, but her current elegance could easily rival goddesses. Even with the devil's inherent trait of body manipulation, she couldn't get skin this soft and unblemished.

"Your Majesty is going all out on me," Lilith said with a soft sigh. "I wonder what ulterior motives you have."

"Don't you know. Guys only want one thing."

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