Chapter: Chapter 177
“Sister, it’s best if you stay at home honestly.” After finishing her conversation with her sister, Kira held back Leticia, who wanted to go to the Demon King’s palace with her to continue rummaging through things. “To reduce the workload of those maids, can you just wait here for news?”
“I am preparing for the upcoming great war how can you say that!” Leticia felt wronged. What did she mean by reducing the workload of those maids?
It wasn’t like she wasn’t paying them. Although the maids’ monthly salaries weren’t particularly high, in the maid profession, they were considered just a little bit below the ceiling, right?
When she was digging through things in the warehouse, they were only busy for a few days. Was there anything wrong with that?
“Hmm, the most useful thing you dug out yesterday was that sword you’re going to give to Xiaoya, wasn’t it?” Kira tilted her head, her cold words hurting Leticia’s fragile heart.
“Wuwuwu, Kira, you big bad guy, I’m going to break off our sisterly relationship!”
“Sister, stop fooling around.”
While the two sisters over there started a new round of fooling around, the two sisters over here were discussing the sword.
“Sister, sister Qianqian said she’s going to give me a sword?” Bai Ya asked excitedly.
Wow, a sword! Xiaoya had loved reading novels since she was little, and she greatly admired the great heroes in novels who could kill ten people in ten steps and leave no trace in a thousand li.
And swords were the standard equipment for great heroes, just like magic wands were for magical girls.
It was a pity that Xiaoya didn’t meet the prerequisites for being a magical girl, nor did she have any superpowers. All she had was a decent-looking face.
“Yes, I’ve actually accepted the sword for you, Xiaoya, but I can’t give it to you yet.” Bai Ling nodded. “If you want it, I’ll sign you up for a swordsmanship training class when we get back. I’ll give you the sword when you’ve graduated.”
“Eh?!” Xiaoya’s eyes widened. When would she graduate from training? She had very few athletic cells.
Swordsmanship, just hearing it sounded difficult to learn. It would take a long, long time for her to make a name for herself.
“I want to play right now!”
“No, it’s too dangerous, you’ll hurt yourself, Xiaoya.” Bai Ling firmly refused.
“It is indeed a bit too dangerous for Xiaoya. Although that sword doesn’t have any special enchantments, it’s still quite sharp.” Leticia, having finished her argument with her sister, sheepishly came to Bai Ling’s side. “It can probably cut a chair in half with ease.”
“Can’t ordinary swords do that too?” Bai Ling glanced at Leticia. If it couldn’t even cut a chair, what right did it have to be called a sword?
Hereby, Leticia’s demonic sword is to be specifically criticized.
When Leticia didn’t inject magic into it, it might not have been able to go head-to-head with a chair. It was simply a disgrace among swords.
Although it was essentially a slightly thicker and larger magic staff, who was to blame if Leticia insisted it was a sword?
“But since I’m bored anyway, why don’t we go to the backyard so Xiaoya can touch the sword?” Leticia suggested. “I’ll cast a few protective spells on Xiaoya, and ordinary swords won’t be able to harm her.”
“Okay!” Bai Ya happily brandished her little fists.
However, Bai Ling was still a little worried. She pulled Leticia aside and asked in a low voice, “But won’t Xiaoya’s anti-magic ability render your magic ineffective?”
“She’s awake now, she doesn’t have the anti-magic ability.”
“But what if she suddenly bursts out with this ability? For example, if the sword slips from her hand, she panics and triggers that ability, causing your protective magic to fail.” Bai Ling was a little worried, this was her sister.
If her sister got hurt, she would be heartbroken.
Moreover, the sword Leticia gave was so sharp, and if anything went wrong, it would lead to bloodshed. The risk was too great.
“Then what do you suggest? The main thing is, I’m bored. I need to find something to do, so I don’t want the passion that just surged within me to become cold again.” Leticia actually didn’t care much about the sword. She mainly wanted to find something to do to prevent the passion that had just surged within her from turning cold again.
However, Bai Ling seemed to have a different interpretation of the word “fun”: “If you want fun, come to my room…”
Before she could finish, she was interrupted by an angry punch from Leticia.
“Get lost!” Leticia said as she hit Bai Ling’s head with her fist. “What time is it now, and you’re still thinking about these things? Get lost, get lost!”
“You were the one who said you wanted some fun first!” Bai Ling shouted in defense, hugging her head. She just made a suggestion, why did she have to be beaten?
“Is the fun I’m talking about the same kind of fun as your perverted fun?” Leticia stopped and took a few breaths.
Bai Ling took this opportunity to quickly run behind her sister and use Xiaoya as a shield.
“Hey, sister, don’t drag me into this!”
“As a good sister, you should help your sister at this time, right?” Bai Ling said jokingly.
Her personality was indeed much more active than it was six months ago. Six months ago, she wouldn’t have done something like hiding behind her sister.
Of course, she wouldn’t do it under normal circumstances now, but when facing Leticia, it wasn’t a normal situation.
Leticia would certainly not hurt Xiaoya, so there shouldn’t be any problem hiding behind her sister, right?
After all, Leticia was like family.
“Wow, you’re too shameless, hiding behind your sister. Are you even human?” Leticia was furious and interrogated Bai Ling sternly.
Bai Ling indicated that she had learned this from Leticia. The day before yesterday, after Xiaoya got drunk, didn’t Leticia directly sell out Kira and let Kira stall Xiaoya?
When it came to selling out one’s sister, she was just a beginner who had just started, while Leticia was a master in the art of selling sisters.
Normally, they would bicker with each other, but in times of crisis, she would unhesitatingly sell her sister. This was exactly what the utterly despicable Leticia would do.
“You have no right to say that.”
“If you have the guts, come out. Let’s have a fair fight. Don’t make me look down on you!”
“I’ve already won before. If you look down on me, you’re looking down on yourself.” Bai Ling said she wouldn’t fight, she wanted to maintain her 100% win rate against Leticia.
“I feel like before the enemy even comes to attack me, I’ll be angered to death by you.”
“I think your stress tolerance is very good. Believe in yourself.”
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“Cough, cough, although Xiaoya can’t use a real sword, a wooden sword is also a sword, right?” Leticia, wearing a loose tracksuit, stood in the open space in the backyard with her demonic sword on her back, and said to Xiaoya, who was holding a crudely made wooden sword.
Bai Ya looked at the stick in her hand that could barely be called a sword, and then at the very powerful looking stick behind Leticia, she felt that the gap between her and sister Qianqian’s weapons seemed to be quite large.
The wooden sword in her hand, if it were in a game, would be the beginner item that the starting character came with, which didn’t add any attributes.
Its existence was only to prevent her from going into battle empty-handed.
And Leticia’s wooden stick looked like a super weapon that could only be obtained in the late stages of the game. Its attribute bonus would definitely be very high.
“Sister Qianqian, I feel like you’re bullying me,” Xiaoya pouted and whispered.
With this kind of sword, how could she fight sister Qianqian?
“The appearance of the weapon doesn’t matter. My demonic sword just looks a bit nicer, but in actual use, it might not be as good as the wooden sword in your hand, Xiaoya.” Leticia defended with a straight face. “If you’re talking about aesthetics, your sister’s sword is what you call beautiful.”
Although she didn’t like Bai Ling much, Leticia admitted that Bai Ling’s sword was definitely on point in terms of appearance.
On a bench not far away, Bai Ling and Mo Zili sat side by side. Hearing Leticia’s words, Bai Ling scratched her head. “It’s not impossible to lend you the one you want to use.”
Her sword was a projection of the power within her body, not a physical object. Even if it were broken, she wouldn’t feel heartache.
“That’s great.” Leticia immediately threw her demonic sword aside and trotted to Bai Ling. “Quick, quick, let me play with it.”
Bai Ling looked at Leticia with a hint of helplessness. How could she feel that this girl was so childish?
With her hands clasped in front of her chest, Bai Ling materialized her sword.
Since it wasn’t used for killing enemies this time, Bai Ling’s sword was not sharpened. It would only leave a red mark on someone.
Taking Bai Ling’s sword, Leticia clearly felt a sense of reluctance emanating from the sword.
This sword, like Leticia’s demonic sword, had some vague sentience. It seemed unwilling to be used by its former enemy, but it was just a sword and couldn’t resist in any other way.
“It’s beautiful, and it feels good too.” Leticia caressed the Starfall Longsword in her hand like a pervert, causing the longsword in her hand to tremble more and more intensely. “It’s also a shy little sword.”
Bai Ling couldn’t help but frown. Why did she feel that Leticia’s behavior was so perverted?
“Hold my sword for me, I’m going to go play with Xiaoya first.” Leticia threw her demonic sword to Bai Ling and happily ran towards Xiaoya with the sword in hand.
This left a bewildered Bai Ling holding the black stick that Leticia had thrown into her arms, unsure of what to do.
Bai Ling had long heard of the demonic sword. The first time she met Leticia, she had broken this sword once, but Leticia had repaired it later.
Clearly, this sword had a very serious psychological trauma from being broken that time. As soon as it fell into Bai Ling’s hands, it began to tremble wildly.
Even Bai Ling could clearly feel the fear emanating from the demonic sword.
This sword had developed sentience.
“Actually, you don’t look ugly, you just don’t seem very lethal.” Bai Ling gently stroked the demonic sword, a faint curve forming at the corner of her mouth. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t break you again today.”
Hearing Bai Ling’s words, the demonic sword’s trembling slightly lessened, but it was still trembling.
It seemed that this psychological trauma would be difficult to overcome.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Leticia was excitedly holding Bai Ling’s Star Sword, teaching Xiaoya round after round.
*Clang!* The wooden sword and the Star Sword collided, making a crisp clanging sound.
“Yes, that’s right. Look at my sword, and use your sword to hit my sword.” Leticia gave Xiaoya a thumbs-up.
The Star Sword in her hand felt a bit displeased with Leticia’s words. What did she mean by ‘my sword’? It was clearly Bai Ling’s sword.
Moreover, it was a super powerful weapon, so why was it doing things like children’s make-believe?
“Oh, oh!” Although she knew Leticia was going easy on her, Xiaoya still quite liked this kind of game where they bumped swords.
Watching the two girls bumping their swords together with seemingly foolish movements, Bai Ling couldn’t help but laugh.
Looking at them like this was quite interesting.
After bumping swords like this for more than half an hour, Xiaoya was sweating from exhaustion. After blocking Leticia’s chop for the last time, she voluntarily took a step back.
“I’m so tired, Sister Qianqian, let’s rest for a bit.”
“Okay.” Leticia naturally wouldn’t refuse Xiaoya’s suggestion.
After she agreed to the suggestion, the Star Sword, which had long been tired of such boring games, directly broke free from Leticia’s hand and returned to Bai Ling’s side.
At the same time, the demonic sword, which had been trembling on Bai Ling’s lap, quickly flew back to Leticia’s side. It didn’t want to stay with that bane anymore.
“Look at you, you’re so embarrassing compared to little Star here.” Leticia poked her demonic sword with her finger, feeling a sense of disappointment that she couldn’t be helped by iron. “Perk up a bit, you’re no worse than it.”
Although it was grateful for Leticia’s trust in it, the demonic sword really lacked confidence.
The last time, it was precisely broken by Bai Ling holding the Star Sword. As a sword, being broken was almost equivalent to death.
If it weren’t for Leticia’s miraculous healing, it would have probably really died.
Just then, Bai Ling walked over, holding the Star Sword. “Let’s spar.”
Leticia was startled and instinctively took a step back. “Are you serious?”
Bai Ling felt a little hurt by Leticia’s slightly excessive reaction. It seemed that the psychological trauma left behind years ago wasn’t just for the demonic sword; its owner had also been left with psychological trauma.
“It’s just a normal spar, we won’t use our abilities.” Bai Ling explained. “It’s pretty much like what you were playing with Xiaoya just now.”
I see, Leticia calmed her slightly frantic mood. “Okay, I’m bored anyway.”
However, although she had agreed, her actions still indicated one thing: she was undeniably a little cowardly.
