[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-first-demonic-dragon":3,"chapter-first-demonic-dragon-first-demonic-dragon-chapter-704":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","First Demonic Dragon",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1078224,1393,"Chapter 704: An Unlikely Bond","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-704",704,"\u003Cp>In a bleak and empty dark void, a lone baby floated in stasis among the nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no noise within this place, as almost all sound was eaten by the boundless domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Bashenga had designed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though there was the minor issue of him lacking the soothing noise of the screaming damned to really get him settled in to his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't learned how to work a smartphone yet, otherwise he'd know that he could quickly put on some kind of Halloween ASMR and really get that back home feeling he was missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for now, he was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is so cool!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of Bashenga's eyes flashed open and his ire was immediately telegraphed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing to his far right, he could see a door open and light pouring in from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two individuals were standing just inside of the doorway; one adult, and one child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your room is so big!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney swan dived into the boundless space with no fear of death and began floating around like a child from neverland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"YAHOOO! I'M FLYINGGG!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Abaddon saw what was going on, he would be heartbroken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always wanted to be the first to teach Courtney to fly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga righted himself as Courtney flew all around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…What are you doing he-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"YIPPEEEEE!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Bashenga watched his sister float around, the other visitor came towards him and it was one whom he least expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You seem to have grown used to your infantile new form. Was your earlier displeasure just brash bluster?\" Izanami asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga snorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hardly. Mother has seen fit to lock me inside of this state for a period of time that remains unknown to me at present.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That does in fact sound like her.\" Izanami nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An evil woman if ever I have seen one… and there are ten others just as bad as her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Bash shuddered at the mere memory. Earlier, a parade of women had come in to submerge him in cheek kisses and take photos of his embarrassing outfit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They called him childish names and sniffed him like a pack of wolves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…It was maddening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel as if I have known you already for quite a while.\" Izanami suddenly said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bash looked at her oddly for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bits and pieces of memory bubbled up into his mind and he looked at Izanami in a slightly different light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...The memories I have of you, and the ones that father has shared with me are egregiously different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No longer are you wailing tears of blood and cursing that ex-husband of yours for days on end as you kill humans by the thousands everyday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead you are the beloved 'Grandest-Great-Grandmother' of the Tathamet family and as harmless as a housefly.\" he mocked. \"How low you have sunken.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izanami didn't seem bothered by his words in the slightest and even shrugged in disinterest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What can I say..? The land in between is... transformative. I find little reasons to be vengeful here. I can focus on more than just the wrongdoings that were committed against me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You love him. Unbelievable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are new here, so you have yet to learn much. You won't find many women around him who do not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And yet he is unaware of this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Abaddon is sexuality. He is not love. It is quite easy for him to overlook the feelings of others as simple attraction, given that everyone finds him irresistible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh... All of this sentiment exhausts me horribly.\" Bash went back to his previous horizontal position and closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waived his hand dismissively at Izanami as he rolled over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take the little one with you and leave. You both are disturbing the rest that I so desperately need...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izanami had never rolled her eyes before, but she was beginning to feel the urge to do so now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Baby Bashy~ Baby Bashy~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga opened his eyes in annoyance and stared that the five year old floating above his face in wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So cuteee!\" Courtney cooed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Child, you will back away from me this instant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nuh-uh! You can't tell me what to do, I am your big sister!\" Courtney folded her arms and nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You most certainly are not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before the ball of gas had formed that rotates around your home planet full of miserable little homo sapiens, I was already awake and pondering the meaning of my own profound existence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Nuh-uh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vein bulged in Bashenga's forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am older than you can even begin to imagine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No you're not, you were just born yesterday!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is not even remotely true!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is not!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Is too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is not!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izanami cracked a very small, barely noticeable smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How adorable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"\"Thank you! \u002F I am not!\"\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney and Bashenga went from glancing at Izanami to staring at each other rather intensely all within the span of just a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"..\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...What are your super powers?\" Courtney finally asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Excuse me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney flexed one of her imaginary guns and developed a haughty air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm invincible! That means that nothing can hurt me at all and I'm basically the strongest in the whole entire house!\" Courtney gloated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga scoffed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such hubris never ceases to amuse. Once upon a time, I was filled with the wailing torment of those who were deemed so called invincible existences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I satiated myself on their misery and lulled myself to sleep with the sounds of their descent into perilous madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the heavens even remembered the existence of the abyss, I was the deepest, blackest darknesses they had ever known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am unequalled. 'Invincibility' is a childish phrase to someone such as me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…So you don't have any powers anymore is what I'm hearing.\" Courtney stared at her brother with a look full of pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga was being brought to such dangerous levels of irritation that his little baby body was likely to pop from the sudden influx of negative emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Heed my words well, child.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga started to float above Courtney's head as his body began to glow from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the dark canvas of his domain was wiped away and replaced with an entire solar system of planets teeming with life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With my new birth I have ascended. I am Armageddon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The planets created by Bashenga's demonstration were suddenly afflicted by the worst kinds of tragedies imaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meteors struck and demolished worlds to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seismic quakes and tremors destabilized civilizations and caused planetary collapses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viruses were born that decayed and ate away all sentient organic tissue until nothing but soulless shells were left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scientific 'accidents' occurred that resulted in unsurvivable amounts of radiation flooding an entire planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fires ravaged planets on such a devastatingly large scale that even those who were able to escape the heat suffocated when the oxygen burned out of the atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am the metaphysical embodiment of the grand conclusion of all universes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a whisp of my breath I end entire realities, galaxies, dimensions, and the boundaries between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am beyond your comprehension, child. I am the violent dismantling of all that you know and perceive, and even that which you cannot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every planet behind Bashenga exploded into fiery chunks of debris, and finally the darkness returned to the space he called his bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw how Courtney blinked slowly at the sight of his display and he raised his nose up haughtily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That's right, child. Understand now the gravity of my existence when compared to your own and tremble in awe.' He thought internally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My baby brother is so cool..!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bash nodded. \"That's right, I- Wait! I am not your baby brother!\" He corrected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney held out her hands. \"Can I hold you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"NO!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney grabbed him anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while Bashenga tried to worm his way out of her grip, Courtney nuzzled her face against his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I always wanted a little brother… I promise that I will always take care of you and give you all of the hugs and candy you could ask for. And we'll play lots and lots together too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bash stopped trying to be free of Courtney for a moment so that he could stare at her incredulously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is my vocabulary perhaps too advanced for you to understand the gravity of my words? I am beyond the need of your protection, I've no interest in confections of any kind, and I don't desire to play with you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney kissed Bash on his small jelly-like cheek and hugged him even tighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I love you, new brother. You're my third best friend in the whole universe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bash had actually been rendered fully speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to Izanami with his jaw slack open and pointed to Courtney behind her back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Is this one afflicted with a brain disability?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izanami showed tiny, infinitesimal signs of smiling once again. This was the most expressive she'd been in eons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No more than any other member of your family…. They are all unrelentingly kind, even to those who may have done nothing to deserve it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga was at a complete and utter loss for a response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izanami finally peeled Courtney away from her baby brother and gave him the freedom he was so desperately seeking earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come along now, Courtney. We need to let your brother get his rest now so that he'll have energy for tonight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, yea! Festival!\" Courtney's eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bashenga tilted his head to the side to show his lack of understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Festival..?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1591,"2026-06-03T10:36:56.721Z","2026-06-03T10:37:03.122Z",1,"novelbin.me","e582ab810e72c483a85955fffa7a85acb57a5f6faab3c10a539c7d6784127abd","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-705","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-703",1284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffirst-demonic-dragon-cover.jpg"]