Chapter: Chapter 154
Because she didn’t want to interfere with the actions of the young ladies at the detective agency, Leticia planned to take Bai Ya to visit other places first today. Once she obtained the academy’s uniform, she would act with the three from the detective agency.
As for today, they would follow Miss Luo’s suggestion and spend some time at the afternoon tea club.
The young ladies at the afternoon tea club showed great enthusiasm in welcoming the two adorable young guests.
Steaming hot black tea was poured into delicate teacups, and small, beautiful pastries were arranged on pretty tiered platters. Leticia found the afternoon tea club to her liking.
“Gyaah, this cake is so delicious!” Clearly, our little Ya had been completely conquered by the sugar-coated artillery.
Watching Bai Ya being surrounded by the lovely girls, Leticia picked up her teacup and took a small sip.
The taste was good, with a little less sugar, otherwise, there were no other flaws.
As for the cake, it tasted very good. If it was made by the girls here, then they might become very good housewives in the future.
“Haha, the afternoon tea club, it’s really nice,” Leticia leaned back in her chair with a lazy expression and said softly.
Her words resonated with all the girls present. These girls simply didn’t want to get involved in anything troublesome, which was why they formed this club that seemed useless and, in reality, was indeed useless.
The detective agency occasionally accepted commissions from students, helping them find lost homework books, for example.
However, the afternoon tea club was basically for self-entertainment, and no one asked them for help. Speaking of which, their club didn’t seem like the type that could offer help.
Did they help others make black tea and pastries?
“By the way, I saw a very beautiful black-haired girl in the academy yesterday. She doesn’t seem to be a student of our academy…” While drinking afternoon tea, the girls’ mouths didn’t stay idle.
Chatting about everything and nothing was a great way to pass the time.
And the topic they were discussing this time was a mysterious girl who had recently appeared in the academy.
She was not a student of the academy, and there was not a trace of magic in her. She was very beautiful and popular with both boys and girls.
Clearly, these girls were discussing the girl that Leticia had seen at the detective agency before, Mo Zili.
Leticia pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the girls’ conversation. Among this jumbled mass of information, intelligent people could filter out the information they needed.
Leticia was naturally an intelligent person.
From the girls’ idle chatter, she obtained quite a lot of information.
For example, Mo Zili’s route of movement was relatively fixed. She walked on fixed paths every day. She seemed to live in the school, but no one knew exactly where she lived.
Although the students were curious about her existence, the teachers seemed to turn a blind eye to this girl’s presence, which seemed to indicate that her existence was known to the academy.
This seemed like stating the obvious.
If she had sneaked in without permission, and had been able to stay in the academy for so long, either she was exceptionally capable, or the person in charge of the academy had a brain hemorrhage.
Obviously, the possibility of both these guesses was close to zero.
“Speaking of which, I think I heard the teachers mention this girl. They said she has strong talent, but she’s unwilling to learn magic,” one girl whispered.
This was very strange. A demon who didn’t want to learn magic was almost as outrageous as a human saying they didn’t want to go to school. If their parents heard about it, they would be severely spanked.
“Could she have some unspeakable difficulty?” Bai Ya raised her hand and asked.
This little girl had actually blended into the discussion of the afternoon tea club girls so easily. Should I say, as expected of Little Ya?
And these girls were welcoming of Bai Ya’s participation, “Perhaps her parents don’t want her to learn magic?”
“No way, are there still such old-fashioned people now?”
“I also think it’s impossible. Such old-fashioned people were dealt with by Her Majesty the Empress long ago.”
“Yes, yes.”
In the minds of the young girls, Leticia was a remarkably wise and heroic empress, although she was indeed wise and heroic.
Before her, there were actually many old-fashioned demons who felt that girls only needed to know how to do housework and assist their husbands in managing the family. Magic was not suitable for women.
Coincidentally, such old-fashioned people were generally more inclined to oppose Leticia.
Leticia was not someone who could be easily dealt with. Stubborn? Then go be stubborn in hell!
Her Majesty the Empress was that ruthless.
“Cough, cough, I think we should prepare some more tea snacks,” as the girls were chattering excitedly, Leticia coughed twice. “We have new guests.”
The girls stopped their discussion and looked at Leticia in confusion, not understanding what she was saying.
After a few breaths, the closed wooden door was gently knocked. “Um, excuse me, is this the afternoon tea club?”
The girl closest to the door quickly ran to open it, and a beautiful black-haired girl appeared before everyone.
It was the girl with exceptional talent who was unwilling to learn magic that everyone had been talking about just now, Mo Zili.
“Good afternoon, Miss Mo,” Leticia greeted Mo Zili with a smile.
Today, Mo Zili was wearing the magic academy’s student robe, with a white badge shaped like a hexagram pinned to her chest.
This, it seemed, indicated that she was now a student of the magic academy?
“Good afternoon…” Mo Zili wanted to respond, but she wracked her brain and couldn’t remember this girl’s name. They had only talked a few sentences last time they met, and she didn’t know this girl’s name.
“Qianqian, just call me Qianqian,” Leticia noticed Mo Zili’s awkwardness and spoke up.
Mo Zili suddenly felt a cold gaze from behind her. She turned her head like a startled little rabbit, but she didn’t find anything strange.
Hmm, those three girls squatting in the bushes shouldn’t be anything strange, right?
Following Mo Zili’s gaze, Leticia and the other girls also saw the three girls from the detective agency.
“It’s them, what are they up to again?” An elegant-looking blonde girl stood up, walked to the main entrance, and shouted at the three squatting girls, “Carole, do you want to come over to sister’s place for a cup of tea!”
“Scram!” Little Luo refused with a fierce gesture.
Although her words were tough, under the temptation of small cakes, the three detective agency girls still entered the room exuding a sweet aroma.
After working so hard, having a cup of afternoon tea wouldn’t hurt, right?
“Phew, eating these things every day, aren’t you afraid of turning into a ball?” Little Luo fiercely ate a small cake, as if treating the cake as the blonde girl who had just invited her.
After explanations from the other girls, Leticia learned about the history between Little Luo and this blonde girl.
These two were born into two rival families and had been compared by their parents since childhood.
Compared to the cheerful blonde girl, Little Luo appeared rather gloomy and unsociable. The things she liked were considered meaningless by her parents and other peers.
This led Little Luo to have a bad impression of the blonde girl since childhood.
Who wouldn’t have a good impression of the “child from someone else’s family” that their parents always talked about?
“I am a magician, you know,” the blonde girl said with a light chuckle. “Everyone here won’t be troubled by this problem.”
If they really gained weight, they would go to the training grounds and burn off all their magic. If they did this a few times, they would quickly lose weight.
While two noble girls were bickering, Leticia struck up a conversation with Mo Zili.
According to Mo Zili’s own introduction, her teacher had a personal relationship with a teacher from the academy. She was currently living at that teacher’s home, and her student status was also handled by that teacher.
“My teacher told me to listen to Teacher Moline and study magic properly,” Mo Zili said softly, lowering her head. “But I don’t really want to learn magic.”
“But you are a demon, and you have such powerful magical talent,” Leticia said, holding her teacup, her eyes narrowed slightly, with a lazy expression.
This made her appear approachable, subconsciously drawing her closer to others.
Mo Zili naturally fell for it. These few days, she couldn’t find her teacher, and she was surrounded by demon boys looking at her with aggressive gazes. Seeing a girl she was somewhat familiar with, she couldn’t help but want to confide in her anxieties.
“I’d rather live with my teacher in the small town, where no one knows I’m a demon. If my teacher hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have known I’m not human,” the girl said softly, her voice trembling slightly. One could hear the anxiety originating from her heart. “It would have been fine if it stayed like that, why… why bring me here?”
Leticia also wanted to ask this question. Why?
“Perhaps your teacher wants you to return to your parents’ side,” Leticia guessed irresponsibly. This was the reason for this master and disciple’s visit to the demon realm, so she would guess this way.
Although it was strange that they chose to come at this particular time, perhaps they had only just decided to help their disciple find her parents.
They had been hesitating before, and now that they had made up their minds, they brought their disciple here.
“But it’s been over a month, and they still haven’t been found,” Mo Zili lowered her head, her eyes looking at the wooden floor. “Are they really still here? Will they really accept me?”
Leticia found it difficult to answer the first question, but regarding the second, she could guarantee that as long as Mo Zili’s parents weren’t seriously ill, Mo Zili would definitely be accepted.
Don’t underestimate this girl’s magical talent!
If this girl trained diligently, her future magical achievements would be limitless. Only a fool would refuse such a genius returning to the family.
“Study magic diligently. If your parents are still alive, or if your relatives are still alive, they won’t refuse you,” Leticia said, reaching out and patting Mo Zili on the shoulder. “Whether it’s out of kinship or for their own benefit, they have no reason to refuse you.”
“Benefit… huh?”
“Forget it, let’s not talk about these bothersome things. Since you’re here, let’s happily have afternoon tea together,” Leticia took a pink mini-cake from a nearby platter. “Here, open your mouth.”
Mo Zili subconsciously opened her mouth, and then Leticia popped the cake into it.
So sweet! The black-haired girl’s eyes widened. This cake had too much sugar in it.
At the same time, she felt a sharp, sword-like gaze from behind her. This gaze fell on her back, causing her a slight stinging sensation.
Who was looking at her? And with hostility.
Those three girls who were tracking her were now tied up by the other members of the afternoon tea club, so who did this gaze belong to?
“Hmm? What’s wrong?” Leticia noticed Mo Zili’s expression change. She thought there was something wrong with the cake she gave Mo Zili, but after tasting one herself, she concluded it wasn’t the cake’s fault.
“It’s nothing, the cake was just a bit too sweet,” Mo Zili lowered her eyes, not telling Leticia about the gaze behind her.
Her comment also led the other girls to nod in agreement.
It seemed the cakes today were a bit too sweet.
Only sweet-toothed girls like Leticia would find the sweetness just right.
“I only put a little bit of sugar!” The girl who made these pastries today stated that she had put very little sugar. “It’s super delicious!”
Clearly, tastes varied.
The girls started chattering about the cakes again, and Leticia joined in to offer her opinion.
For a moment, Mo Zili was left sitting alone.
She held a cup of now-cold black tea, feeling lost.
“Miss Mo, aren’t you going to chat with everyone?” Bai Ya, noticing this, actively withdrew from the discussion and came to Mo Zili’s side. “Everyone here is a very warm and kind person.”
“I just don’t really know how to get along with everyone,” Mo Zili said to Bai Ya with a confused expression. She had been like this since she was young, shy and timid, soft as a ball of dough.
“But if you don’t try, you’ll never make friends,” Bai Ya reached out to take Mo Zili’s hand, but the moment their hands touched, a jolt caused both Bai Ya and Mo Zili to flinch.
Was it static electricity?
Bai Ya looked at her hand. The jolt seemed to be an illusion, but judging by the black-haired girl’s reaction, it didn’t seem to be.
“Um, shall we try again?” Bai Ya reached out again.
Mo Zili looked at the smiling girl in front of her, unable to generate any suspicion. She felt that this girl would definitely not play such a prank.
So, she reached out and gently grasped that fair little hand.
This time, they succeeded.
…
The first day in the demon realm, surrounded by girls and the sweet aroma of pastries, came to an end. As night fell, Leticia asked Bai Ya about her feelings that day, and the little girl showed a big smile.
“Everyone in the demon realm is very kind, very different from what’s written in books!”
Indeed. Even Leticia herself didn’t know that there were such lively and adorable girls among the demons.
She had thought that those under her command were either schemers who liked to cause trouble or brainless berserkers.
These magic academy students truly showed her a new possibility.
“So, why can’t demons and humans coexist peacefully? We’re all good people, we can completely sit down and talk,” Bai Ya asked a question that Leticia couldn’t answer.
Why?
Because the first contact between the two sides decades ago was an invasion war initiated by the demons. Leticia didn’t know why her grandmother made that decision back then, but by the time she inherited the position of Demon King, the war was unstoppable.
After fighting for so long, even if Leticia wanted to stop, she was powerless.
Moreover, at that time, she still felt that she had a high chance of winning. Since she could win, why should she stop?
She wasn’t a good person. She was a demon in this life, and the Demon King at that. For herself, and for her sister, her duty was to obtain more benefits for the demon race.
As for her being human in her previous life? Wow, Leticia didn’t think that humans in her previous life had anything in common with humans in this life, other than their names.
The people here had superpowers, and the people in her previous life didn’t.
As for appearance, demons were also humanoid. They could completely call themselves humans.
Leticia’s thinking was very flexible. She almost without hesitation stood on the side of the demon race when thinking about the problem.
The benefits of continuing the fight were greater, she concluded. Therefore, she took over the baton and continued the war, which seemed to have a glimmer of victory.
Then, as everyone knows, what happened next.
The dawn of victory did arrive, but unfortunately, the humans won.
That unreasonable Sword Saint had beheaded the leaders of almost all races, and only Leticia, on the verge of death, escaped.
This result plunged all races into silence. After the silence, they all withdrew their troops from human territory.
They couldn’t fight, too monstrous.
“After fighting for so many years, our trust in each other has completely vanished. The superficial peace that is maintained now is only because of the existence of the Sword Saint,” Leticia sighed. The peace of the world depending on one person was itself an incomprehensible matter.
“Sword Saint… If the Sword Saint wasn’t here, would Qianqian sister go to the battlefield?”
“Me? No longer,” Leticia shook her head. In the past, she still had the ambition to conquer the world, but now, she preferred to nest in her warm little home and enjoy life. “What’s the use of conquering so many places? Human territory is simply not suitable for demons to live in.”
Demons need magic to live healthily. In the demon realm, there are many free-floating magic elements in the air. But in the human world, although there are also free-floating magic elements, their numbers are very small.
Ordinary demons would feel unwell after staying in the human world for a period of time. What’s more unacceptable to demons is that their magic recovery speed would be greatly slowed down in the human world, and their strength could hardly be improved.
What use is it to conquer such land?
“I knew Qianqian sister was a good person,” Bai Ya hugged Leticia and rubbed against the Demon King’s chest, whispering, “I think sister also thinks the same way, right?”
“Her?” Leticia’s eyes flickered for a moment. Bai Ling’s personality was indeed not the type to actively attack others.
The only time she took the initiative was that one time. After displaying her strength, she had been passively running around in various places as a firefighter.
Although she occasionally thought about going to eliminate some troublemakers, she ultimately didn’t do it, right?
“World peace is good for everyone,” Leticia gently stroked Bai Ya’s little head. “When there’s peace for a long time, it will probably be difficult to start fighting again.”
When the current generation becomes the backbone of the demon race, perhaps the demon race can finally explore the path of peace.
“Sister, Little Ya, what are you two hugging for?” Qila, returning from work after a long day, asked in confusion.
Why is Little Ya hugging Sister? Could it be that Sister is planning something daring, like collecting all the sisters?
No way, right? She’d be beaten to death by Sister Bai, wouldn’t she?
“It’s nothing, it’s just Little Ya acting cute,” Leticia quickly let go of Bai Ya and replied with a serious expression. “Qila, do you have anything important to tell me?”
“Nothing, rather, it would be strange if there was something.” Qila took off her coat and hung it on the coat rack by the door. “Did you have fun today? I heard that the students from the magic academy have a bad reputation among the nobles.”
“Surprisingly good. I think they are the future pillars of the demon race,” Leticia said with a smile.
Perhaps some old-fashioned people considered these students to be rather rebellious, but in Leticia’s opinion, these young people were the true future.
With them around, a peaceful future would not be just a wishful thought.
“Tomorrow, let’s go to the botanical garden. There are quite a few places to have fun around the Demon King’s Castle.”
…
“You, who are you?”
“You don’t need to know who I am. You only need to know that I am very unhappy today.”
The black-haired girl was pressed tightly against the wall. The black-clothed person who suddenly appeared in the room made her heart want to jump out of her chest.
Appearing silently like a ghost, and with a very unfriendly tone.
Had she done something to make her unhappy?
“You are quite beautiful, but… *sigh*, she probably isn’t that superficial,” the black-clothed person reached out. Her fingers were slender and fair, carrying a reassuring warmth.
Mo Zili was surprised to find that she was slowly calming down. She took a few deep breaths and mustered the courage to ask, “Did I offend you in some way?”
“For you, no,” the black-clothed person shook her head. “So I’m just here to remind you not to get too close to those two. If I find out you have any ill intentions, don’t blame me for being merciless.”
