Chapter: 43. Result
“Hiss… Alright, could you please move off me? Look, the upper domain is about to collapse, can’t you see?”
“Hehe… Belis can only see Queen Sister… can’t see anything else, okay?”
Selective blindness, huh!
Princess Xue Feiya nimbly flipped over, using her flat physique to her advantage, she stretched her little arms straight up, extended her shins down, and with a forceful roll, she easily escaped Belis’s grip like a rolling pin.
Although Belis really wanted to stick closer… she had to learn to control herself.
She was no longer a child, she understood the important matters~
Belis stood up in sync with Xue Feiya, and the two sisters instinctively patted away nonexistent dust from their clothes.
Then they looked up at the dome of Zero.
The domain had reached its limit and was disintegrating inch by inch. It was estimated that in about two minutes, the dome would completely dissipate, and the space would lose its cloaking function.
So the magic preserved in the Reflective Crystal was inferior in quality. It hadn’t even lasted the half-hour Xue Feiya mentioned before, right?
But that’s okay.
After all… within this mere half hour, Belis had already found a happiness that might take thirty years to seek out!
“Queen Sister.”
“What is it?”
“I love you.”
“What is this again?!”
Casual confessions are the most lethal.
It made Xue Feiya so mad she stomped her foot, and she ordered Belis to stop saying such things!
Belis raised her tender palm to her mouth and giggled a couple of times, unsure if she agreed to that ban.
She laughed so easily, something that hadn’t happened in many years.
“Sometimes I can’t help but want to say some heartfelt words… um, actually, I want to ask while the domain is still here, when do you think Queen Sister might come home?”
Home?
Before you ask that question, you’d better tone down those soulful, watery eyes.
“Well… that’s hard to say. When I want to go home, I’ll just go back for a few days. When I don’t want to go back, I’ll stay in the kingdom. After all, I have the identity of a Peace Ambassador now, so it’s not strange for me to be anywhere~”
“Is it because of that golden-haired woman…?”
Belis’s tone changed, becoming cold enough that even Xue Feiya felt a bit uncomfortable.
“Uh… are you talking about Xiya? Th-there is indeed that reason… and it should… be a large part of the reason…?”
“Is it because her chest is big…?”
“What kind of question is that?! Are you a child or what?! Just a moment ago I praised you for growing up!”
“I have grown up!… Just a little bit… If you don’t believe me, Queen Sister, you can touch and see!”
“Are you talking about that kind of growing up?!”
Seeing this family, it might be better not to return!
Now was not the time for those discussions.
The pure white domain was becoming increasingly transparent, and its ability to obscure sight wouldn’t last much longer.
Xue Feiya needed to quickly prepare the area.
With a wave of her small hand, the ground, still holding the domain, was bombarded, creating several massive pits, as if it had experienced a fierce battle.
Xue Feiya herself thought she had done something insignificant.
But Belis was left speechless.
Queen Sister… you just tore apart the domain with your bare hands, you know?
The magic power you casually threw shattered what was said to be “absolutely impenetrable from the inside,” right?
That was just for show.
The focus was still on Xue Feiya’s next words.
“Belis, lie down.”
“Lie down…? Hey! Are you trying to…! Let’s talk about this when we get home… Belis wants to give her first time in a calm, undisturbed environment. This domain won’t hold up much longer, so we can’t…”
“Stop talking nonsense. There’s no time to explain, just lie down!”
“!”
Why is Queen Sister being so forceful and anxious?
Is… it because she really saw that Belis had grown a little?
Xue Feiya’s words were absolute, and Belis would never resist.
This was a deep-rooted obedience of a younger sister to her elder sister, an instinctive gift of being a younger sister.
Alright then.
Belis clasped her hands together in front of her, closed her eyes, and lay flat.
Her mood was very excited; she believed Queen Sister would definitely have other ways to supplement the domain, and then…
Then…
Belis’s “resigned” eyes suddenly opened wide!
“Ah! Indeed we can’t do this here! Queen Sister! I still think we should go back to the castle room instead…!”
“Belis Halder, come to terms with it; you’ve lost.”
“Ah?”
Belis looked up.
She didn’t see the barrier being repaired.
Rather, the barrier was gradually dissipating, and the sounds from outside the Gladiatorial Arena were returning.
And Queen Sister wasn’t coming over in a flirty state like in the countless dreams Belis had.
Instead, she stood tall and straight.
Her expression was so cool.
Her pose was so iconic, holding a dagger of magic power pointed at Belis.
“Queen Sister…? What are you doing…”
“Playing dead.”
“…?”
“Belis, you’re a clever child; you should understand.”
“!”
Belis was certainly smart enough.
But she had been focusing all her attention entirely on Xue Feiya, causing her mind to momentarily stop functioning.
Under Xue Feiya’s reminder, she had a flash of inspiration, her head shook.
She propped herself halfway up, then let herself fall back down on the ground without any movement!
Meanwhile, Xue Feiya swiftly flicked her sword, elegantly sheathing it.
She looked like a war goddess.
By the way, didn’t Xue Feiya play dead earlier when facing Xiya on the battlefield?
If we’re talking about playing dead, both sisters were acting incredibly realistically.
After only waiting a few seconds, the silence of the Gladiatorial Arena was broken.
In fact, a few seconds was already a sufficiently long time in the Gladiatorial Arena’s rulings.
Because the host needed a few seconds to sort out their own thoughts and clarify the current state of battle.
And now, the outcome was already very clear.
——The voice announcing the result from the host resounded simultaneously with the audience’s cheers!
【The… result is out! Standing is… the victor! It’s Her Highness, Princess Xue Feiya Halder!】
The audience’s cheers weren’t for celebrating the winner—rather, it was a different kind of intense discussion.
When the outcome of the match was still unclear, both the demon and human audience believed that the match would surely end without results, that there was nothing to be resolved.
After all, this was just an internal performance by the demon race; what was there to fight about between the sisters? Whether one loses or wins, it wouldn’t look good on the demon royal family.
But unexpectedly… a victor truly emerged.
It was known that Xue Feiya participated in this match as a Peace Ambassador.
She had participated in two rounds of matches in total.
In the first round, she defeated a platinum-level adventurer from the human race.
In the second round, she personally overcame her own sister, the second princess of the demon race.
Such an impartial victory, did it not indicate a stance?
Perhaps some may doubt this was just a show.
But from the outcome, they had to expect that kind of “possibility.”
If Princess Xue Feiya truly intended to maintain neutrality and insisted on being this Peace Ambassador… and then won the championship…
Then the significance of this match would be completely different!
I see…
Some even speculated that the simultaneous presence of the kingdom, the church state, and the demon race’s upper management was to facilitate this matter!
With the demon race’s fighting spirit unquenched and the human race’s hatred unchanged, this was a problem spanning a millennium.
But if the three heads of state personally set an example like this, plus a sufficiently strong Peace Ambassador with a neutral stance who could be simultaneously trusted by all three nations… such a thing had never happened in history!
So some had already started cheering, highly approving of their reasoning skills.
However…
Xue Feiya hadn’t thought that much, right?
King of Olus, Pope of the Church State, they also had no reason to trust her, huh?
The reason Xue Feiya just now had “sacrificed her kin” was quite simple.
——Because the champion receives money.
Hey, hey, hey, having come this far, it can’t just end empty-handed, right?
Belis doesn’t lack pocket money, but I, wandering outside, is it easy for me to get some money!
“Q-Queen Sister? Can I get up now?” Belis, pretending to be unconscious, secretly opened one eye and whispered a question.
“Wait until they’re done cheering. Tsk, I don’t know what they’re so excited about; weren’t they just cursing me?”
“That must be because Queen Sister’s charm is too great.”
“I like hearing that; you can say more.”
Now that the match had a result, there was no need to keep pretending to be dead.
Xue Feiya cast Healing Magic to restore Belis’s depleted magic and stamina, then, like an extraordinarily good elder sister, gently reached down to help her up from the ground.
Thank you, Belis, for your quick reaction, helping me make money. Truly worthy of being my good sister.
Suddenly…
In the atmosphere where hostility in the audience faded, Xue Feiya’s peripheral vision caught the changes occurring in the high platform.
On the originally empty high platforms of the church state and demon territory.
The Pope, the Demon King, and the Queen had all returned to their respective seats and sat down once more.
The Demon King was all smiles, seeming to be on the verge of laughing out loud.
The Pope had a long face, the originally magnificent crown on his head had disappeared, and he replaced it with an ordinary hat.
It seems…
The results of their battle were also quite clear, huh?
