Chapter: Chapter 165
“Mmm, Qianqian-jie, you’ve been frowning all day today. Did something happen?” Bai Ya asked with concern at the dinner table, looking at the dejected Laeticia.
“It’s nothing, most of it is clear now, and these troublesome matters can be resolved soon.” Laeticia took a sip of her drink, indicating that everything was under control.
With so many people on her side and only one person on the opposite side, no matter how powerful that person was, could they be as powerful as Laeticia? Even if they were, Laeticia could still call for backup.
If all else failed, she could call Bai Ling over, and they could gang up on that guy together. Everyone knew the saying that two fists can’t beat four hands.
Laeticia couldn’t believe that this person was more powerful than the Mist God they had encountered before. The Mist God was a true deity, and even with both Laeticia and Bai Ling working together, they couldn’t defeat her in a short amount of time.
Now, facing a human who only had divine power, there was no way they could lose!
It was a two-on-one fight, and the two most powerful people in this generation were fighting two-on-one. Was there any possibility of losing?
If they could lose, Laeticia might as well marry Bai Ling and never bother with these things again.
“Why don’t you ask Sister Bai Ling for help, Qianqian-jie? Sister will definitely help you,” Xiao Ya suggested softly.
Help? It would be good if that person didn’t mess things up even more.
Laeticia felt a surge of anger just thinking about it. Everything was going well, but as soon as Bai Ling got involved, things immediately went wrong.
“I’m not asking her for help. If she wants to help, she can just scurry over here herself. Asking me to go find her? Impossible!” Laeticia declared righteously, banging on the table.
Kira immediately cast a murderous gaze at her. Had Sister completely forgotten that it was dinner time?
That gaze made Laeticia snap back to reality. She quickly pulled her hand back and sat properly in her chair: “Ahem, I got too excited, too excited. Let’s continue eating.”
Seeing Laeticia’s submissive “little wife” demeanor, Bai Ya couldn’t help but chuckle, “Hahahaha.”
“Ugh, even Xiao Ya is bullying me. I can’t live like this,” Laeticia said, shoveling food into her mouth. “Wuwuwu, I’m running away from home and never coming back.”
However, her performance was unconvincing. Even Kira, who was still scarred from a past experience, didn’t think Laeticia was serious this time.
If Laeticia really wanted to run away from home, she would have done it long ago. Would she have announced it so loudly to Kira that she was going to sneak away?
If Laeticia were truly so unreliable, Kira thought she would have to consider ordering a special cognitive behavioral therapy course for her dear sister.
Oh, you mean cutting ties?
Hmph, Kira would never cut ties with Laeticia. Sister is always sister, no matter how bad sister is, she’s still Kira’s favorite sister.
“Then, Sister, remember to pick a more hidden place to hide this time. Don’t get found by me a second time,” Kira said, half-jokingly. “If I catch you a second time, I’ll break your legs and lock you up at home so you can’t move a single step.”
Saying such terrifying things with such a cute expression and tone, from a certain perspective, Kira truly had the potential to blacken.
And once Kira blackens, she would definitely be a terrifying existence. Based on her current demeanor, her potential for blackening was top-tier.
“Huh?!” Laeticia was also startled by Kira’s words. It wasn’t that she was worried Kira would actually do these things, after all, with Kira’s strength, breaking Laeticia’s legs was practically impossible.
The only one who could break Laeticia’s legs was Bai Ling!
As for deities, they weren’t humans, thank you very much.
To put it bluntly, if Laeticia stood still and let Kira hit her for a whole year, Kira still wouldn’t be able to break her legs.
Laeticia was surprised simply because she didn’t expect her sister to have the potential to blacken.
“Xiao Qi, don’t say such things!” Bai Ya quickly interjected.
She didn’t know the complexities of the situation, but she felt that Kira’s idea was too dangerous.
How could a sister break her sister’s legs? If Kira broke Qianqian-jie’s legs, wouldn’t Bai Ya’s sister have to come to the Demon Realm to see Qianqian-jie in the future?
It wasn’t that Bai Ya was discriminating against the Demon Realm, but her sister was a human, and someone who had fought against demons on the battlefield before. It didn’t seem appropriate for her to visit the Demon Realm every ten days or half a month.
Therefore, it would be more suitable if her sister came to the Demon Realm once, and Qianqian-jie visited the human world once, alternating visits.
Well, it must be admitted that in some matters, the young girl indeed had a way of thinking that others couldn’t understand.
However, Laeticia didn’t know what Bai Ya was thinking. She only knew that Xiao Ya was on her side now, and she had an ally.
“Xiao Ya, you control Kira!”
“Sister, finding help is useless.” Kira chuckled, but didn’t make any further moves, as she was just making empty threats. Laeticia had been quite well-behaved these days, and Kira was generally satisfied with her sister’s performance.
“Although I feel like Xiao Qi is joking, it still sounds a bit scary,” Bai Ya said softly, scratching her face. “Speaking of which, does Xiao Qi have someone she likes?”
This question made Kira tilt her head. Someone she likes?
Does Sister count?
“Um, Sister.”
“I’m not talking about Qianqian-jie, I mean, the kind of liking between couples,” Bai Ya quickly clarified.
Oh, that kind of liking. No.
Kira was very busy, extremely busy, so busy that she had neither the time nor the energy to engage in romantic pursuits.
“No, if Sister could help me share some of the pressure, perhaps I would consider finding someone I like,” Kira replied. She wasn’t the type of girl who valued relationships highly. For her, a good partner was someone she found agreeable and whose interests aligned with hers.
As for gender… Kira did have a slight preference in this regard. Like her sister, she preferred soft and sweet girls.
Even if she found a human girl as a partner, she would never consider a man.
“Kira, you’re also at the age where you should be dating. Sister is your strongest supporter. Go for any girl you like, and if all else fails, you can resort to kidnapping a civilian girl,” Laeticia started giving bad advice.
“Sister, I don’t want a reputation for kidnapping civilians. Let’s have free love. You don’t need to worry about this,” Kira said, indicating that she could handle her own relationship matters and Laeticia didn’t need to overthink it.
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“Say, why are we hiding in this place?” Deep in the night, a squad of demon soldiers hid in the low grass, doing their best to conceal their presence.
Their camouflage was very good. If one didn’t observe carefully, they might mistake them for ordinary roadside weeds.
“This is an order from the Demon King. You should talk less,” one of the demon soldiers whispered. They didn’t need to know why Laeticia gave the order, only that it had to be carried out.
“I know it’s the King’s order, but I’m just curious.” The first one to speak defended himself softly.
He had joined this squad only in recent years, and he was quite different from the other veterans in the squad. The most important difference was that he didn’t have such blind trust in Laeticia.
For example, at this moment, he was contemplating why Laeticia would give such an order.
Whether this was a good thing was debatable, but it was clear that he was currently an anomaly within the squad, and his teammates couldn’t effectively change his mindset at this time.
“You don’t understand how great His Majesty is. Although she doesn’t often give us instructions, every action we take is crucial to the fate of the demon race. We are His Majesty’s weapons, and weapons don’t need to ask why.” A squad leader patted the soldier’s shoulder. “The fact that you were able to join this squad shows that your talent is excellent. Work hard, and you will definitely succeed in the future.”
“Oh.” The soldier nodded, then rubbed his eyes. “Captain, is that a silhouette over there?”
Upon hearing his words, the soldiers crouching in the grass immediately became alert.
They followed the soldier’s gaze and saw a middle-aged woman with slightly torn clothes walking towards them, limping.
In her hand, she held a pure black hand with a staff on which a disturbing black aura swirled.
Even in broad daylight, such a person would be considered a suspicious individual on the street, let alone appearing in such a place in the dead of night.
It was as if she had the words “I am very suspicious” written all over her.
“It’s her.” The squad leader almost instantly confirmed that she was their target for this operation. “Send someone to report. We’ll stall for time here!”
“Yes!”
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“Ahem, that guy, it’s a shame she still managed to escape.” The woman dragged her tired body and walked step by step towards the house in front of her.
It was the residence of one of her ‘friends’. They shared the same goal and had maintained close contact over the years.
Her trip to the Demon Realm this time was at the suggestion of that friend, and even the location of the church was told to her by that person.
However, that friend hadn’t informed her that she would encounter a divine emissary of the God Throne. If not for the help of the deity residing within this staff, she might have been killed by that emissary in the church.
Even after gaining the power of the deity and catching the divine emissary off guard, successfully reversing the situation, the woman still couldn’t prevent the divine emissary from escaping.
She won, but not completely. Although she obtained a crucial part of her plan, the escaped divine emissary was ultimately an uncertain factor.
If she revealed her objective to the demons, her situation would be extremely dangerous.
This was why she returned here under the cover of night. The second crucial part was located here. As long as she could get Mo Zili and the staff simultaneously, her plan would be more than half successful.
*Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock,* she knocked on the door with a rhythm. The woman waited anxiously for her friend to open the door for her.
This was their agreed-upon secret signal. Such a knocking pattern represented that the situation had reached a critical point.
Logically, upon hearing this knock, the person should have immediately come to open the door for the woman, but after waiting for a while, there was still no movement from inside the house.
What’s going on? Did something happen?
This was the woman’s first thought.
So she increased the force of her knocking, but there was still no response.
There wasn’t even any light inside the house, as if no one lived there anymore.
She couldn’t help herself any longer. She reached out and brushed against the doorknob. With a crisp click, the lock was broken without any resistance.
Pushing the door open and entering the house, she frowned almost instantly.
There were indeed no signs of anyone’s presence. No one was here at all.
*Whoosh…* A gust of wind blew.
The woman’s pupils constricted. She immediately rolled to the side. Just as she reacted, a pitch-black short dagger that was devoid of light emerged from the shadows, aiming directly at the woman’s throat.
A trap! This was a trap!
Having narrowly dodged the attack, the woman’s mood turned absolutely terrible. She knew that she had fallen into a trap specifically set for her.
She hadn’t expected the person from the God Throne to move so quickly, nor the demons to react so swiftly.
Did they really not suspect that the person from the God Throne was deceiving them?
Given her current physical condition, a direct confrontation with the demons was impossible. Even with the help of a deity, she could easily defeat another human with divine power, but when facing an army that was not weak and extremely numerous, her only option was to flee.
The assassin lurking in the shadows, seeing that her initial attack had failed, immediately pursued. In the pitch-black interior, she, dressed in night-vision attire with perfectly concealed breaths, was undoubtedly a very dangerous hunter.
“Stop!” But sometimes, having good skills didn’t guarantee victory.
For example, when facing divine power.
Her feet were entangled by black tentacles that suddenly emerged from the ground. The assassin struggled desperately, only to watch helplessly as the woman fled out the door.
These things were too troublesome; she couldn’t even cut them with her dagger in a short amount of time.
Unfortunately, she failed to keep her here to swallow this credit alone.
The assassin didn’t believe that the woman could escape. Outside the house, elite soldiers from the Demon King’s court had formed a net, and there was even a Heavenly King leading the guard.
Moreover, once this woman was discovered here, reinforcements would arrive quickly. It was possible that in the end, this woman would face a luxurious lineup of the Four Heavenly Kings and the Demon King.
If that were the case, then this woman could indeed sing a mournful song.
Fortunately, her time entering and exiting the house wasn’t long. Currently, there were still only a limited number of ambushing forces around the house, and even that Heavenly King was still on his way.
