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Chapter 195 The Dutiful Son

Although the Demonic Aura arc begins with the demon dragon traveling back in time with future Jade, demonic energy has indeed appeared. However, given how the story is unfolding, there's no way the demon dragon will survive; it will be instantly killed the moment it shows its face.

The demon dragon's initial arrival was not to seek demonic energy, but to resurrect his father. In the future timeline, he sent numerous dragon minions to invade and occupy District 13, attempting to use dragon teeth to resurrect his father, Shendu, who had been turned into a statue, thus creating the "Dragon Age" world.

The demon dragon learns of Jade's time-travel plan from the future and, determined to prevent her from altering history, vows to protect the magical dragon tooth with his life. The story ends with the demon dragon accidentally destroying the magical dragon tooth, thus thwarting his own plan.

Afterwards, Jade returned to the future, while the Demon Dragon was imprisoned in Section 13. Being imprisoned in the safest area, Section 13, inevitably led to trouble. Taking advantage of a celestial event triggering demonic energy, the Demon Dragon escaped Section 13 and began searching for demonic energy.

In the future, Xiaoyu also exchanged information with her current father about the intelligence they both possessed.

"It seems that the future you are in is a future from another timeline, completely different from ours," Joseph said after a moment's thought.

In the future, Jade understood Joseph's meaning: "You mean I've arrived in the past of a parallel world. Oh, that's terrible. Does that mean my future father and Uncle Dragon won't get my help, and they might die at the hands of the devil?"

After learning the truth, Xiaoyu lost all interest in investigating the identities of Cheng Yiyi, Song Shuhang, and others, and was in a very bad mood.

“That’s not necessarily true.” Cheng Yiyi said, immediately drawing the attention of Future Xiaoyu. Cheng Yiyi paused for a moment, then continued, “Since you’ve come to this timeline, the Demon Dragon that went back to the past with you must also be in our current timeline. As long as you take down the Demon Dragon, you can easily deal with those freaks and crooks in the future, right?”

“You’re right. If we kill the Demon Dragon here, even if the future Holy Lord is resurrected, we can defeat him again.” Future Jade wasn’t one to give up easily, but she hadn’t known what to do for a moment. Now that she knew what to do, she instantly shook off her frustration and prepared to deal with the Demon Dragon.

"Dad, can we help my future self deal with that evil little dragon?" Xiaoyu didn't want to see her future self facing difficulties alone, so she looked at her father expectantly and asked.

“But your father is facing much bigger trouble, Jade,” Father said, patting Jade’s head. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to help, but compared to the threat of the demon dragon, Shadow Morty, who was constantly expanding his territory across the world, was the ultimate boss right now.

“I don’t think we necessarily need to separate our goals.” Ai Haibara’s words drew everyone’s attention.

Ai Haibara continued, mimicking Conan's reasoning style, "Between resurrecting his father and seeking to absorb the demonic energy of the eight great demons to change the world, which outcome do you think this Demon Dragon wants more?"

“As a filial son, it should be the latter,” Cheng Yiyi replied. The Demon Dragon’s choice to resurrect the Holy Lord wasn’t because of the depth of his bond with his father, but simply because he lacked the Holy Lord’s power to change the world.

If he had that kind of power, he wouldn't be thinking of resurrecting that old man, Shendu. If he had the chance to rule the world, why would he resurrect someone he didn't get along with? Of course, he would do it himself.

"You mean the little demon dragon might give up guarding the dragon's tooth and instead collect demonic energy?" Future Jade asked rhetorically.

“That’s possible. After all, judging from the plot, the little demon dragon is capable of sensing the demonic energy of his uncles and elders, so it’s hard to guarantee that he won’t be tempted,” Ai Haibara nodded and said.

"How about this, Da Yu and Xiao Yu go to the Holy Lord's Palace to look for the Dragon Fang. Maybe the Dragon Fang in this world can also have an effect, after all, Da Yu and Xiao Yu couldn't have traveled to our time and space for no reason," Cheng Yiyi suggested.

"Yay!" Xiaoyu immediately jumped to the side of her future self. Fighting alongside her future self was too cool, and Xiaoyu couldn't refuse.

"Bring Xiaoyu along? But she's just a child now." Future Xiaoyu couldn't help but feel surprised. It was only because her Uncle Long wasn't here; if he were, he would definitely start lecturing her. But why didn't her father refuse the suggestion?

"Oh dear~ Xiaoyu, you finally realize that you're just a child now, but you're still so naughty." Dad pushed up his round glasses and teased the future Xiaoyu. "When I grow up, I'll be almost like Uncle Long. I really don't want to grow up," Xiaoyu added from the side.

"Then it's settled. We'll split up. Speaking of which, if the Demon Dragon has designs on demonic energy, we probably won't even need to lift a finger; Morty will eliminate this competitor first." Joseph thought to himself, the Demon Dragon wants demonic energy, and Morty is also collecting it. If the two of them were to fight, he would definitely side with Morty.

A fully equipped Shadow Kingdom lineup versus the initial version of the Demon Dragon.

Given this power comparison, who would think the Demon Dragon has a chance of winning? Moreover, Shadow Morty is currently the core leader of the Dark Qi faction. Unless he is defeated by Old Man and his group, there's no way the Demon Dragon will be able to compete with Morty for demonic energy.

"Motty?" Future Jade only vaguely knew that her father and the others in this timeline had already dealt with the Holy Lord and the Blade Dragon, and were now facing an even more troublesome being. She didn't have time to find out the specifics.

"The taxi's here, let's hurry!" Xiaoyu waved to her future self from beside a taxi. The future Xiaoyu got in with Xiaoyu; she could ask her future self any questions she might have in the car.

"What?! People from other worlds?" Future Xiaoyu exclaimed in surprise after learning about Cheng Yiyi and the others' origins from Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu retorted lightly, "You said you'd be different from Uncle Long when you grow up, but your reactions to this are almost the same."

However, Xiaoyu, now grown up, was much more receptive than Chen Long. She quickly calmed down and said, "If I can travel to your time and space, it's not impossible for people from other worlds to appear."

Chen Long and his father met at the military airport in District 13. The group boarded a plane and flew towards Australia, the headquarters of Shadow Morty.

"This world is filled with such heavy black energy... Wait, is this the demonic energy of those uncles and elders...?" The demon dragon, who was searching for the future Xiaoyu, sensed the situation of this world through meditation, and a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

The demon dragon is neither the offspring of Shendu and any demon, nor did it conceive a child with what it perceived as "bread" like Dio. If things go as expected, it is highly likely a life form derived from Shendu's flesh and blood.

During the Zodiac Animals arc, Dao Long once said that Shendu was the last dragon in the Adventure World, which is why the power of the burning dragon talisman had never had a host.

Although the little dragon does look like the biological child, its color is different from the green Western lizard dragon. It is bronze blue like Shendu, and it also inherited some of the burning power, and even made the three villains turn into dragons.

There are only two possibilities: one is that Shendu directly used some secret method to create the demon dragon, which then inherited a portion of his power. The other is an accident caused by external forces, such as a wizard attempting to divide Shendu's power with magic, resulting in the creation of a demon dragon.

The latter probability is not high. If the demon dragon was born due to external manipulation, it would be impossible for Shendu to recognize him as his son, and he might not even have a chance to survive.

During the reign of the Holy Lord in the annals of history, there were many dragon-shaped demons in his kingdom. The little demon dragon may have been a product of the Holy Lord's research on the magic related to the advanced forms of these dragon-shaped demons. Since the Holy Lord used his own flesh and blood as a basis for the experiment, the two were naturally father and son.

The father and son had a bad relationship since childhood. The demon dragon also complained that Shendu was always either researching magic or fighting with wizards and never cared about him.

The idea of ​​the little devil is quite perplexing. Come on, you're a devil, and both you and your son are devils! As a devil, you wouldn't want to grow up in a harmonious family environment, would you?

Don't say that Shendu only paid little attention to you, leaving you without fatherly love, and that he didn't abuse Little Dragon; that's already one of the few instances of Shendu showing emotion as a demon.

(End of this chapter)