Chapter: 19. Siletra
Poor blue-haired loli, at least now she isn’t completely exposed, as she has a bed sheet that can wrap around her body.
She’s quite creative, tying the bed sheet in a bow at her chest like a cloak. Then, with a confident hum, she proudly faces Princess Xue Fei, hands on her hips, showing off!
“Does it look good, Princess Xue Fei! Ah…! Stop hitting me!”
“Hitting you is too lenient! Don’t just tie it at the top! Tie it at the bottom too, you pervert!! Ah, this isn’t good… My blood pressure is so high this early in the morning, I need to quickly drink some Iced Snow Peak Orroman Fruit Juice to calm down, otherwise…”
“…Xue Fei?”
“……”
This is called a thing overcoming another thing.
Princess Xue Fei can increase the blue-haired girl’s common sense through hitting her on the head.
Similarly, Xiya can use a teasing smile to stop Xue Fei from going to the iced magic stone cabinet right after she wakes up for some iced juice.
Drinking iced juice first thing in the morning isn’t a good habit… right?
Xiya is not in a good mood; Princess Xue Fei tiptoed, tasted a bit of the juice with her finger, and then ran back without daring to be too reckless.
So strange… it’s just a mysterious being that appeared, why is Xiya so angry?
Isn’t it because that girl wasn’t wearing clothes just now!!
Xiya is frustrated… Clearly, last night she mustered up the courage to only hug Xue Fei from behind to sleep. And then what happens? In the morning, she wakes up to see another girl completely naked hugging her Xue Fei!!
If she isn’t angry, do you think she’s a dormant volcano that’s been silent for years?!
Xiya stirs her magic to create a gentle wind.
Another bed sheet flies straight towards the blue-haired girl, completely covering her meager figure.
Holding two large bed sheets, the blue-haired girl shrinks into the corner of the bed, feeling wronged.
“You can’t blame me for not adjusting… I’ve been asleep for over a thousand years… and this is my first time coming out, it’s inevitable to feel a bit…”
““Say it—more—seriously.””
Princess Xue Fei and Xiya spoke in unison, showing a rare tacit understanding while coldly reminding her out of impatience.
At the same time, Princess Xue Fei smirked, rubbing her hands to show her friendliness.
Although she had retracted her wings, the blue-haired girl still couldn’t help but shiver, yet an unnatural blush inexplicably appeared on her face. Princess Xue Fei couldn’t help but show a look of disgust—this only excited the blue-haired girl more!
Before the iron fist of retribution fell again.
The blue-haired girl slowly raised a finger…
Pointing directly at the Holy Sword, Siletra, hanging on the wall.
……………………………….
After hearing the blue-haired girl’s explanation, Xiya, who was already confused, became even more bewildered.
“You said… your name is Siletra?”
“Strictly speaking, I don’t have a name, or I used to have one but have long forgotten it. People call the Holy Sword Siletra, so let’s just go with that, it doesn’t matter.”
“But… isn’t Siletra the name of the Hero’s Holy Sword?”
“I am the Holy Sword.”
“But the Holy Sword is hanging there…” Xiya looked at the sword on the wall and deduced, “So you can’t be the Holy Sword.”
“……”
The blue-haired girl, who called herself “Siletra,” looked at Xiya as if she were an idiot.
Then she glanced towards Princess Xue Fei, who was sitting next to Xiya, munching on a donut.
“Princess Xue Fei… I think this generation’s hero is a bit dumb, a bit foolish.”
“Who are you calling dumb…!”
Before Xiya could retort, Princess Xue Fei jumped in.
“Oh, that’s true, Xiya is a bit foolish.”
“Why does Xue Fei say that too?!”
Xue Fei wobbled her short legs and jumped down from the beautifully carved wooden chair, still holding onto the donut.
She stuffed the donut into her mouth in one go, licking the sesame seeds from her lips.
Princess Xue Fei paced back and forth like a little clever one, trying to analyze the blue-haired girl’s words from the perspective of an intelligent person.
“Maybe this is how it is—a Holy Sword of the human race is just a vessel, the magic core inside is actually this girl. In other words, she is the essence of the Holy Sword; without her magic, the Holy Sword is just an empty shell.”
“Right, right!! Princess Xue Fei is really smart! Amazing!!”
“Hahahaha!! I didn’t expect you, this pervert, to have such a sweet mouth!! Compliment more, and maybe I’ll share a bit of my donut with you!”
This is another lie.
That little brat Xue Fei just wants to hear compliments and never thought about sharing her beloved donut.
But Siletra also doesn’t want the donut and is still clapping her little hands, praising the noble Princess Xue Fei as if she were a devotee!
Looking at this hellish scene… Xiya can’t even manage to comment.
She walks over to the Holy Sword, gently placing her palm on the blade, squinting her eyes to feel the magic circuit inside.
It is indeed as Princess Xue Fei said; the once seemingly endless magic present in the Holy Sword has diminished to almost nothing, and the remaining magic is slowly dissipating; the current Holy Sword is clearly an empty shell.
After confirming this point.
Xiya sits back down in her chair.
She looks towards Princess Xue Fei, hesitating for a long time.
Finally, with a slight blush on her cheeks, she says something subtle and a bit sudden.
“Xue Fei, come… sit here.”
“Huh…? What’s going on? There’s another seat over there, right?”
“You… don’t mind, just come here for now. After we finish talking, you can run free again.”
“Oh… alright, you worry too much, I won’t cause any trouble.”
Xue Fei plops down onto Xiya’s soft lap.
Oh…! Xiya’s lap is indeed much more comfortable than the chair!
She thought Xiya was worried about her running around too rambunctiously, so she wanted to “seal” her in this way.
That wicked Xiya… this “seal” is truly effective!
Xiya looks fondly at the little one bobbing her head on her lap, unable to resist reaching back to stroke her silver hair.
Princess Xue Fei wouldn’t understand that Xiya’s current behavior is driven by a possessive desire unique to women.
——Primarily to show off to Siletra.
Who told that blue-haired girl to keep calling Princess Xue Fei… acting like she’s so close to our Xue Fei…
Siletra herself kneels on the bed, placing her finger on her mouth, casting an envious glance towards the chair.
In this state of communication, Xiya’s dignity and position are at stake!
“You say you are the essence of the Holy Sword, but I have never heard of the Holy Sword having an essence.”
“The current hero, Xiya Light, right?”
“Yes.”
“I was born over a thousand years ago. Things you haven’t heard about, ha… isn’t that quite a lot? How naive… um…! I’ll speak properly! I won’t be arrogant! I won’t be arrogant!”
The little fist raised by Princess Xue Fei has a strategically significant deterrent effect!
This time, Siletra finally properly explained the backstory.
Her eyes are very beautiful; the starry-eyed pupils blink as if a meteor passes by.
And they actually contain Siletra’s distant and ancient memories.
“A thousand years ago, the human kingdom was on the brink of extinction, the first Demon King launched a massive attack, and several of the human race’s strongest gathered in the Royal Palace’s quenching pool, intending to forge a Holy Sword with infinite magic to turn the tide.”
“Yes, this is recorded in historical books.” Xiya nodded in acknowledgment, “It is said that the first hero and the king summoned the top strongholds to sacrifice all of their magic power to create a Holy Sword that could sustain a thousand years of magic, and anyone who received the Holy Sword’s protection would be the chosen hero.”
“Nonsense!”
Siletra suddenly clenched the bed sheet and stood up.
Her originally cute little face was suddenly clouded with rage, teeth gritted in disgust, conflicts evident in her soft appearance as she bubbled with hatred.
“It was not they who sacrificed their magic… They threw me into the quenching pool! Used me as the magic core to supply the Holy Sword!”
“?!”
This declaration shook not only Xiya.
Although Princess Xue Fei remained unmoving, her eyebrows slightly raised for a moment.
Siletra’s little fists tightened increasingly, almost crushing the kingdom from a thousand years ago.
“I was also a human at first…”
“I was born with much more magic power than others… That day they came to find me, and told me… someone capable must sacrifice for the country. I could have run away… I had plenty of magic, and they couldn’t do anything to me. But they took my family… saying if I didn’t jump into the fire pool, they would throw them all in… Haha… I wore my favorite clothes that day and jumped into the pool with the rabbit puppet my mother gave me. And then, hundreds of years later, they said it was all their own merit…?”
As Siletra spoke, she buried her head in the bed sheet, no longer moving.
It was unclear whether it was silent sobbing.
Or unresolved hatred.
Princess Xue Fei didn’t have the energy to care about her emotions.
Because she could feel… the thigh she was sitting on was trembling slightly.
When she turned around, sure enough, she saw Xiya with her wide eyes in disbelief.
This is normal.
The hero guarding the kingdom heard about the dark side of the kingdom from a thousand years ago; she would surely be shaken.
But this is reality.
Every country has its unexplainable light and darkness; not everything recorded by time is true; illusions often coexist with glory.
“Xiya.”
“Xue… Xue Fei?”
“I’ll just say one thing.” Princess Xue Fei leaned her back against Xiya’s soft chest, looking up at Xiya’s eyes like a little adult, “No matter what you hear, don’t blame yourself. Remember, no matter what, it isn’t your fault.”
As the unease started to settle, warmth surged.
The Xue Fei sitting on Xiya’s lap is the foundation balancing Xiya’s inner self.
It has always been so.
A faint smile appeared on Xiya’s face.
“Yeah… I understand, Xue Fei, don’t worry.”
“Oh! That’s good, anyway, Xiya is so foolish, she won’t care about these things.”
“Not at all…! Well… Xue Fei, rather than me, I think we should talk to that child first?”
“Tsk… one by one, it’s really troublesome.”
Princess Xue Fei hopped down from Xiya’s lap.
She stepped forward and approached the Siletra, who had buried her head in the bed sheet and remained motionless.
According to the conversation earlier, Princess Xue Fei could roughly conclude that the so-called human race’s treasured Holy Sword, Siletra, with infinite magic, was probably due to the first hero and the kingdom’s strongest placing some sort of spell on the Holy Sword, compelling Siletra as the core essence to continuously supply magic to it.
There’s no such thing as infinity; it’s simply exploitation…!
Siletra has been forced to work for over a thousand years.
Princess Xue Fei isn’t good at comforting people.
But she thought, why not say a few comforting words…?
Just then.
She suddenly heard a strange sound.
Siletra was rubbing her cheek against the bed sheet.
The blue strands of hair rustled against the sheet, mingled with her low murmuring.
“Hehe… ehehe… it smells like Princess Xue Fei on the bed sheet… awesome… Hmm? Princess Xue Fei?!”
“Perverted brat…”
“We… we aren’t!”
“Die, you!!”
“Ah!”
