Chapter: 14. Where is My Fish?
“Tsk… you crazy person… what are you doing all of a sudden?!”
Timani leaped into the air, enveloping herself in a shield of flames, and turned around to loudly question without receiving any response, only facing the overwhelming madness of battle intent.
And…
A pair of scarlet eyes rapidly expanded in her vision.
“So fast…!”
—Boom!
Another roar echoed in the air, it’s hard to imagine this sound came from a fist making contact with a flame curtain.
Xue Fei was on the ground, her face dark with lines, unsure if those lines were highlighted by the fiery smoke or born from her heart’s agitation.
“Oh no… the Fire Lizard seems to have inexplicably taken a hit. Livra, wait here, I’ll go mediate!”
“Huh?! But Miss Shaya, have you been standing there for so long just to watch Miss Timani get beaten?!”
“How can you be so indiscreet?!”
It was clear that the lively scene was ruined.
In just the blink of an eye from Livra, Xue Fei had vanished from her spot.
【High-Level Space Movement】
Xue Fei reappeared in the space between the flames and the wind of fists.
Different air pressures approached her from both sides, and it seemed that another collision was about to occur.
Using her dynamic vision to observe rapidly, she naturally saw the surprise evident on their faces upon her appearance.
Stop being surprised already! You stopping now is the greatest respect you can show me!
“Stop! Give me some face, peace is valuable, don’t fight yet!”
“!”
Timani was a bit closer to Xue Fei.
The flames surrounding her had already extinguished rapidly upon seeing Xue Fei appear.
And upon hearing Xue Fei’s words, she used her dragon wings to halt abruptly in mid-air, floating and stopping her forward momentum.
Phew… Alright, Timani, you understand. If you’d charged at me, with those marshmallows on your chest, you’d have knocked me for a loop.
So this situation should be resolved, right?
If even Timani has stopped, then my blood-related aunt should grant me even more favor…
“Ahhh, Xue Fei, get out of the way…! I can’t—stop—!”
“Eh?! Woah…!”
In the moment she turned, a fist the size of a sandbag slammed into Xue Fei’s unprepared cheek.
From the fact that Ailer could still talk, dragging out her words, she probably wasn’t unable to stop, but rather had some personal grudge and did it on purpose.
As the inertia hit Xue Fei’s thick skin, she flew backward; her expression was likely quite enraged.
A silver meteor streaked through the smoke-filled sky above the Demon King’s Castle, piercing straight into the large lake, creating huge waves.
The residents of Canbino were too far away to know what happened.
But they merely stopped to exclaim a few times—then resumed whatever they were doing.
It could only be said that it was a common occurrence.
The First Princess always caused some commotion every now and then, which wasn’t anything surprising; rather, it was the recent months of silence in Demon King’s Castle that made the residents feel unusual and anxious.
Now, it had erupted again.
With this explosion, everyone’s spirits lifted.
Indeed, as rumored, the Princess had returned home~
How delightful!
…………………………….
The Wind Demon Dragon Fish that had eluded capture was finally caught.
The three-meter-large magical fish, gasping for breath on the shore, was nearly crushed and brought up when Xue Fei fell into the lake.
Despite being a monstrous creature of considerable size with an alarming appearance, there was a significant confusion in its fierce eyes.
Hey, I was sleeping at the bottom of the lake, and suddenly got knocked out!
Xue Fei angrily lifted the magical fish onto the shore, with no time to celebrate her bounty.
She hurried over to Ailer, stomping her feet in a flustered manner!
“Are you crazy?! Huh? Are you crazy?! Every day it’s just fight, fight, fight! You know to fight without any reason, right?! At least you should have a bit of humanity?! Look, that fist came smashing toward my face, just look for yourself! It’s still red!”
“Wow, Xue Fei, how can you still say that! Didn’t you use Healing Magic to fix it? My face is the one that’s tragic; you almost knocked me out with one punch!”
“I’m the victim, and you asked for it!”
The gentle glow of Healing Magic still emanated from Xue Fei’s hand; her reddened face quickly regained its color with the impact, and she hadn’t sustained any real injury.
In contrast, Ailer looked quite swollen on her contorted face.
After all, Xue Fei’s explosive temper wouldn’t let her take a loss silently. The first thing she did after jumping out of the lake was secure the large fish, and the second was to retaliate with an equally powerful punch aimed back at Ailer.
The second meteor of noon flashed, and the lake sent waves no less than the first explosion.
There seemed to be no need for Healing Magic; with her strong physical constitution, Ailer’s facial swelling naturally diminished, and by the time Xue Fei had finished scolding her, she had basically returned to normal.
Livra crouched behind a rock, cautiously throwing small stones at the Wind Demon Dragon Fish, checking if it would still eat people.
As for Timani, she had finally descended to the ground after circling in the sky for a while.
—She couldn’t be sure this madwoman wouldn’t suddenly start fighting again, so she needed to observe.
Once they were both in position.
Innocently punched by Xue Fei, she had to clarify how she ended up getting punched.
“So what? How did you two end up fighting? And you’re both in pajamas?! Don’t you need breakfast? You wake up and just start fighting?!”
“Dear niece, your focus is still so strange.”
“I need to have breakfast,” Timani replied promptly.
“Don’t mind me, answer the question.”
Naturally, this question wouldn’t wait for Ailer to start reporting first.
Timani’s wings turned into flames and dissipated.
She flipped her long skirt and pointed directly at Ailer, accusing her.
“Preposterous! Absolutely incomprehensible! I just got up and wanted to find something to eat, and who knew when I stepped out of my room I ran into her. She smiled at me, and I thought she was going to tell me where to find food, but after smiling, she threw a punch at me! I mean, did I provoke you or something? Are all you demons freaks?!”
“Hey, hey, hey… just scold her if you want, don’t misfire, okay?” Xue Fei corrected, believing she wasn’t a freak.
One could see that Timani was genuinely upset; the Fire Lizard rarely spoke with flames sprouting from her head.
As the party being accused, Ailer scratched her blood-red hair at the back of her head and waved her hand casually in response.
“Well, this can’t be blamed on me, can it? I stepped outside after waking up and saw some Fire Dragon Clan person here. This is the Demon King’s Castle; I thought it was an enemy invasion! I’m not looking for trouble; I’m protecting my home, hmm, protecting my home!”
Look at you, repeating yourself and still unsatisfied, strengthening your tone when you say it again!
For a moment, Timani was actually taken in by her.
But she quickly realized the inconsistency.
“Wait, haven’t we met before? I’ve been with this guy Xue Fei lately; did you still consider me an invading enemy?”
“I don’t have that good of a memory.”
“We clearly met the day before yesterday! Do I need a good memory for that?!”
Xue Fei tiptoed and patted Timani’s shoulder, signaling her not to get worked up.
No need.
Ailer, my aunt, is just naturally fond of fighting; she’d punch any big ant she came across, let alone a Fire Lizard that isn’t weak.
Aunt said that all of this is just looking for excuses to fight. If you truly argue with her, then you lose.
Amid the commotion, Xiya and Belis weren’t awakened.
Not because they slept well, but because their spirits had been tempered and became strong.
When Xue Fei blew up the lake in Demon King’s Castle, or when she exploded the lake in the kingdom villa, the explosions were nothing to fear.
Xue Fei had this little habit of scratching the back of her head when she was annoyed, which she likely learned from Ailer.
“Hey… I say, Aunt, when are you leaving?”
“Is that how you speak to your elders…? Well, probably this afternoon, I need to go check on the Third Legion first.”
“The Third Legion stationed at Lide Qidu? Then you should go see them; I just came from there. If you don’t go check, I feel like they’ll claim the land for themselves.”
“Hahaha! If that happened, they’d have some guts! Uh… by the way, who is this little girl? Hey, kid, what are you looking at?”
“……”
Livra’s presence was weak, and she might even have hidden potential.
She blinked her big eyes, standing by wanting to speak but repeatedly interrupted.
“The Third Princess of Aulus Kingdom,” Xue Fei casually introduced, closing her left eye, “She’s here to tour the Demon King’s Castle. Recently, the Demon Race and Aulus are supposed to be working together, so I brought her along.”
“……”
Ailer’s expression froze.
Upon hearing “cooperation” and the word “princess”…
She suddenly felt something was wrong.
“No way… just turning around and encountering such bad luck?! A human princess…? What a ghostly coincidence! Did what I just say ruin the cooperation?! Little girl, listen carefully, I didn’t mean to call you ‘little girl’, don’t report me! Oh no… if the royal brother and sister-in-law find out… Xue Fei, Aunt will set out immediately, the remaining mess… cough, the remaining matters, will be left to you!”
“Trying to slip away, huh?!”
“Um… everyone, can I say something first?”
Livra timidly raised her hand.
Her tone also seemed somewhat anxious.
As everyone’s gaze turned towards her, they saw Livra nervously point to the place where the Wind Demon Dragon Fish had been placed.
“Um… I just tried to use the Word Spirit Technique on the Wind Demon Dragon Fish like Miss Shaya said. But… the state of the Wind Demon Dragon Fish seems a bit strange?”
“Oh, you’ve actually started practicing, that’s quite proactive! But… where’s my fish?!”
Livra pointed in that direction.
How could such a big fish just be gone?
Uh, and where’s Timani? How did Timani suddenly disappear too?
Livra shrank her neck and pointed her finger up at the sky.
At the same time, a shadow like dark clouds enveloped the land.
Xue Fei and Ailer looked up at the sky, and during noon did not see the glaring sunlight.
Before their vision could stabilize, they heard Timani’s shout from above.
“Hey! Xue Fei! Can your demon’s fish fly?! This guy is flying towards the town; should we stop it?”
“Huh? Fly? Where, where… um…”
Everyone knows that the Wind Demon Dragon Fish, with “wind” in its name, doesn’t mean it can fly.
It’s just a bit larger ordinary fish species magical beast in the lake; its name was given by Xue Fei herself and somehow spread to become a legendary beast.
But at this moment, that originally normal magical fish, over three meters long…
It has actually turned into a gigantic magical beast overshadowing the sky, roughly estimating, it stretched dozens of meters in length and width.
It flapped its dorsal fin, causing a whirlwind, roaring and swimming through the sky, clearly heading towards the town.
Ailer was no longer in a hurry to leave.
She clasped her hands behind her head, clicking her tongue in amazement.
“Haha, it’s been years since I’ve been back, our Demon Territory has developed; Xue Fei, look, the fish can even fly now!”
“Yes, it’s so big; it looks delicious.”
No way.
This is clearly not normal, right?!
Timani, set the fire to help roast it a bit… cough, stop it.
I need to know what word spirit technique Livra used on that big fish to turn it into that monstrous sight!
