Chapter: Chapter 3
The key **keyhole, turned a circle and a half gently. With a crisp sound, the familiar yet strange room met the maiden’s eyes.
She put away the key, bent down, and found a pair of rabbit slippers labeled ‘Idiot Sister’ from the shoe cabinet.
Seeing the label, a helpless expression appeared on the maiden’s face. Her sister was still the same as before, not giving her, the elder sister, any face at all.
The room was very neat and clean, with everything placed orderly in its proper place, almost exactly the same as when the maiden had left years ago.
Her sister was still in school, and as for her, the elder sister, she didn’t even know which school her sister was attending. The maiden sighed and walked towards her own room.
Reaching out and opening the door, the room didn’t look like it hadn’t been lived in for years at all. Instead… it was full of life?
The bedding on the bed was neatly folded, and the clothes in the wardrobe had hardly moved from their positions.
“I’m back.” The maiden’s cherry lips parted slightly, and an inaudible voice drifted from her mouth.
“You should rest. If you continue like this, I fear your spirit will break before your body does.” The old friend’s earnest advice still echoed in the maiden’s ears.
Rest?
The maiden’s crimson eyes were filled with confusion. Did she truly have the right to rest?
The foreign races were still lurking at the edges of the world, restless. The human world now didn’t have the capital to confront those foreign race powerhouses.
Even though she had made most of the foreign race monarchs at that time into ‘former monarchs’ years ago, the most dangerous monarch had escaped her grasp.
The Demon King, Letycia Infino.
This had always been the maiden’s knot. When she found time to go and deliver that final blow to that girl to make her a former Demon King, she found that she couldn’t locate the Demon King.
Not just her, but even the demon race itself didn’t know where the Demon King had gone.
“Hoo…” The maiden lay down on the soft bed, letting her snow-white long hair spread out. “Xiaoya should be home from school by now.”
She didn’t know what expression her sister would have when she saw her, whether it would be joy or anger?
The maiden didn’t know, but having lost half of her life’s meaning, the remaining half of her meaning was to watch her sister grow up safely.
Time ticked by, and the blood-red sunlight gradually dyed the maiden’s room.
Why hasn’t she come back yet?
She should have been home from school long ago. Her sister wasn’t that kind of bad kid; she wouldn’t hang out outside… So, what happened?
“I need to go look for her.”
Rising from the bed like a martial arts master from a TV drama, the maiden took out her almost unused phone.
She dialed a number, and just as it rang once, the call was connected. “Grandma, ran into trouble?”
“Help me check where my sister is right now.” The maiden got straight to the point, without any pleasantries.
The woman on the other end of the line was stunned. “Your sister?”
“Yes, my sister.”
“Isn’t your sister back home?”
“How do you know?” The maiden frowned.
“Your sister is one of our key protected individuals. There are at least ten people secretly protecting her on her way to and from school every day. You tell me how I would know?” The woman snorted. “Although your identity is top secret, one must always prepare for the worst.”
The maiden had been fighting day and night on the front lines for humanity. How could they, who sat back and enjoyed the fruits of her labor from the rear, not even protect her family?
“Don’t worry, your sister should be in the place downstairs from your home. There are only two households in this building, and your sister often goes to play with the little girl in the place downstairs.”
“Is that so?” The maiden walked out of the room. Since it was her sister’s friend, as the elder sister, she naturally had to meet them.
“Why would I lie to you? I have something to do, so I’ll hang up now.”
The call was hung up. The maiden put her phone back into her pocket and walked downstairs step by step.
*Knock knock knock,* she reached out and tapped a few times on the bronze door, completely unaware of the white doorbell beside her. The maiden was currently thinking about what expression to use when facing her sister’s friend.
She couldn’t be too serious, nor too flippant. She should show a smile… but the maiden couldn’t smile. She had even forgotten how to smile.
To put it plainly, she was expressionless.
*Click…* The door opened a crack, and a beautiful girl in a maid outfit revealed a pair of vigilant eyes from behind the door.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Xiaoya’s sister.” The maiden pointed upstairs and explained earnestly, “I’ve been away on business trips, so I haven’t been able to be with Xiaoya.”
Xue’er blinked her eyes. So Miss Xiaoya had an older sister? Why had she never mentioned it before?
As for whether the maiden was lying? Xue’er didn’t doubt it at all. This girl looked like the type who couldn’t lie.
Look at how expressionless she is, could a liar be like this?
“Yes, please come in. Miss Xiaoya is a very cute girl.” Although not as cute as His Majesty.
“Xiaoya… is indeed very cute.” The two of them reached a consensus at a strangely aligned angle.
