Chapter 2377

2377 - The Return of the Beetle

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"Ah!!" Caesar pulled his hand back in shock and turned around as if his disc were a venomous snake, "Old man?!"

"...." Robin stepped toward Caesar with understanding expressions, nodding, then placed his hand on Caesar's shoulder gently: "You're nearly a thousand years old and still a virgin, I understand, but there are proper ways to do it... Perhaps you should take some advice from your younger brother Peon."

"..." Caesar's face began to redden intensely, unclear whether from embarrassment or anger, "Old man, if you don't wish to taste death again, I advise you to drop the subject."

"Fine, you're free." Robin raised his hands in surrender, "If you like her that much, you can wait until she recovers and then propose to her."

"Old man!!"

"Alright, alright." Robin laughed and took two steps to walk past him.

*Hoom* Glacion also emerged, and sensing the tense atmosphere, he remained standing, near the spot where the Gate had been closed, keeping his distance without saying a word.

"...?" Caesar furrowed his brows slightly, "You're Lord Glacion, I presume? From the Vast Ice Wing in Sector 99?"

"Marshal Caesar, first son of my Lord Robin." Glacion nodded with a smile, "You can drop the title, it's just formality."

"...?" Caesar furrowed his brows slightly.

A person with the strength of a Guardian should have a title and respect even if they receive orders, but what's stranger is that he called Robin "My Lord" and not just "Lord" or "the Lord"... What exactly is going on between them?

"Hmm, Helen Destra."

Caesar heard his father's voice from behind him and slowly turned around.

He found his father staring at Helen sleeping in the flat Crystal Coffin, speaking slowly, "Do you remember when..."

Then he stopped and began rubbing between his eyes calmly.

After that, he turned back, "You ungrateful wretch, I think I'm supposed to say some wisdom in this situation, something with gloating or arrogance and the like, but I can't think of anything. Do you have an idea?"

"Then say nothing!!" Caesar shouted at him.

"...." Robin turned back to look at Helen and nodded, "Alright, that will make things easier."

Then his eye began to glow with gold, examining her body quietly.

"Marshal," Glacion found an opportunity to step forward a few paces to stand beside Caesar, "Do you think he's able to think, or does he not care to think?"

"...?" Caesar turned to Glacion in surprise, "You even know that about him? How well do you two know each other exactly?"

"Reading my Lord's character was not easy, but neither was it difficult." Glacion spoke calmly, "In terms of wisdom, I saw him analyze cosmic truths that no one before him had reached and no one after him ever will. In terms of spite, I saw him laugh in the face of the Savage Behemoth. And in terms of arrogance, I saw him step on the face of Marlik the Butcher."

Then he showed a small smile, "So the word 'cannot' is far too great for him... It would be more fitting to say he simply did not want to bother himself for a few seconds to search for something to say in the situation, because it was not worth it, just as he did not want to bother himself with lengthy explanations for the Behemoth of Time and the Behemoth of Purity."

".........?!?!" Caesar's eyes opened wide, "That old man did what?!"

"Oooh~" Robin sighed at this moment, interrupting the conversation, "Just as I expected."

"What is wrong with her, My Lord?" Glacion asked.

"Her soul domain is abnormal, it was likely manipulated since childhood. There is an artificial affinity for the Path of Destruction in general and Ashification in particular." Robin spoke while looking toward her, his eye still flickering with radiant gold, "I had been puzzled when I heard that the Ashification Law protected her life, for I have not found any true awareness of the laws so far."

He continued, "But this might not be entirely untrue. That artificial affinity made the ordering of natural death steps more complicated than usual, or perhaps those living weapons were tampered with in a way that made their death harder... It could be said that the Ashification Law truly protected them, but against its will, not as a favor."

"What's happening here?" Caesar asked. "What brought you here?"

"I promised Hedrick I would treat Helen and Hydras for him. He's clinging to the past for some reason—perhaps it's his way of proving he's a real human with a family... and I have no reason to refuse him." Robin shrugged.

Then he continued, "I came today mainly to get a sense of the situation and think of solutions during my upcoming seclusion..." Then he showed a small smile, "But perhaps that won't matter much."

Then he took a few steps toward Hydras's coffin and stood before it for a few seconds as well, "...Almost the same situation here. The method of solution will differ from Helen's—I'll need to re-anchor His Primordial Soul within his Soul Domain, but it's not an unsolvable equation."

Then he shifted his gaze between Helen and Hydras, "Those things are truly hard to kill."

"...What do you mean by 'those things'?!" Caesar was greatly bewildered.

"Allow me to explain to you what has happened recently, young Lord Richard has seen most of what transpired anyway." Glacion intervened, approached Caesar, and began speaking near his ear, in a voice loud enough for Robin to realize what his son knew and stop him if he said something wrong, yet calm and low so as not to disturb him.

After nearly an hour—

"……" Caesar's face was extremely pale; the amount of information that had reached him was terrifying.

An hour?

Even a full day wouldn't suffice to detail every sentence he had heard so far!

"Alright." Robin clapped *ba* and then continued his speech with a smile, "I have completed making a copy of the soul domain of the two."

Then he turned to Caesar, "Do you need them to meditate on the Law of Death more? I can leave and return later as I had originally planned."

"So you knew what I was doing all along, you perverted old man!!" Caesar shouted and gritted his teeth, then looked down for a moment before shaking his head, "No, I have seen everything I could see, sitting beside her longer won't benefit me, and I won't have time from now on it seems, after you've sharpened Hedrick and Renara," then he furrowed his brows in reproach: "and your promise to the Savage and the Conqueror!!"

"Simple matters, simple matters." Robin waved twice, then went and stood directly in front of Helen. "Allow this beetle to scuttle around beside you for a bit, hehe, I'll be done quickly."

*Clap* Caesar slapped one palm against the other. "I knew he wouldn't stay quiet."

*Hmm...*