Chapter: Chapter 488
“This little guy’s current style is leaning towards the mutated species. I think she needs some proper tutoring.”
Inside the divine artifact’s space, in the grand villa of Inferna, a small banquet was being held. Lethicia, dressed in a long black dress, held a wine glass, her legs encased in black stockings casually crossed, looking exceptionally alluring.
Bai Ling, while stuffing delicious food into her mouth, stared intently at Lethicia’s seductive posture, her eyes gleaming with a beast-like light.
As the host, Inferna looked at the Zun, who was completely out of sync with the atmosphere of the banquet, with a helpless expression, strongly agreeing with Lethicia’s thoughts.
Having absolutely no idea how to use knives and forks, Zun could only grab food with her hands. Bread was fine, but the dishes at this banquet were not limited to that.
Seeing Zun reach out her sinful little hands towards the bowl of milky white fish soup, Inferna couldn’t hold back any longer.
A few golden chains bound Zun’s hands. Inferna waved her right hand, and the utterly clueless Zun was brought aside by the golden chains.
“I feel like it would be better for you to create an infant-like body for her, Lethicia,” Inferna said, holding a tissue that appeared out of nowhere to wipe the dirty little paws of Zun, before turning to Lethicia.
A baby wouldn’t be so troublesome, right?
And wouldn’t Zun’s current chaotic state be more fitting for a baby’s appearance?
“I want to leave our mark on her. A small infant can’t do that,” Lethicia said with an innocent expression. “Besides, infants drink milk, and none of us here seem to be able to do that.”
Inferna and Lethicia were unaware, but Lethicia was certain that Bai Ling could not.
As for why she knew… well, let’s change the subject.
“Ahem, it’s quite good like this,” Miss Bai said, her face slightly flushed, also agreeing with Lethicia’s statement.
“Alas, it’s a long and arduous journey to make her understand common sense,” Inferna sighed, dragging the Zun, who was bound like a dumpling with chains, towards the bathroom. “I’ll go wash her up. She ran around outside all day without a proper bath.”
After Inferna left, Lethicia quietly said to Bai Ling, “Old Ancestor feels so motherly. She’s so good at taking care of children.”
“Indeed, if Old Ancestor were a mother, she’d be a very competent one, wouldn’t she?” Bai Ling strongly agreed with Lethicia’s statement. After Zun appeared, Inferna seemed to turn into a different person.
Completely unlike her previous cold demeanor, Inferna was truly like a good mother when interacting with Zun. Although she complained that Zun couldn’t do anything and liked to roll on the ground and dirty her clothes, Inferna personally cleaned Zun every time. Even though a simple cleaning spell could solve the problem, Inferna insisted on wasting time.
In her own words, it was a sense of ritual.
“If we want to leave our mark on her, we should put our hearts into it,” Inferna said to Lethicia.
Even though Lethicia was the one who proposed the plan, Inferna was the most enthusiastic about implementing it.
“Speaking of which, Old Ancestor must have been a mother before, right? She’s my Old Ancestor!”
*Slap!*
As soon as this was said, Inferna’s golden chains appeared above Lethicia’s head and gave the disrespectful girl a hard smack.
“You haven’t learned your lesson!”
“Hehe.” Lethicia held her head and chuckled twice. This reaction showed that she was indeed correct.
The relationship between her Old Ancestor and the First Demon King, hehe.
“Can our children be taken care of by Old Ancestor in the future?” Miss Bai wiped her mouth with a napkin and said calmly.
“Let’s not talk about why children are being brought up again. Shouldn’t our children be raised by us? And aren’t your parents not confirmed dead yet?”
“If we raise them ourselves, won’t we corrupt the children? My mom and dad… alas.” Speaking of her parents, Bai Ling sighed again. So much time had passed that she could almost forget the times she spent with her parents.
That memory was so vague that Bai Ling almost doubted if she remembered it correctly. Did she really have a father and mother?
But Xiao Ya was real, and Xiao Ya also had impressions of her mom and dad. Perhaps her memory was just not very good.
“If you have children in the future, I don’t mind taking care of them. I’m quite idle anyway,” Inferna’s voice sounded again, but this time, the Old Ancestor’s voice clearly carried a hint of happiness.
It seemed she really liked taking care of children.
Of course, it would be even better if the children were obedient and well-behaved.
Controlling Zun, who didn’t particularly like bathing, with one hand, Inferna looked helplessly at her black and white dress that was wet with water splashes. This little girl was still a bird reincarnated, wasn’t she? Disliking water was in her nature?
“Mmm…” Zun, with teary eyes, let out a small cry as Inferna held her in the large bathtub filled with hot water.
She didn’t really like being in the water, probably due to her nature. However, being surrounded by warmth was something she liked.
So, she was conflicted about whether she should hate the current situation. If it were cold water, she would definitely struggle more violently to express her dissatisfaction, but with hot water, her resolve to resist was not so firm.
This warm feeling was quite nice.
With her red eyes slightly narrowed, Zun’s body gradually relaxed, enjoying the feeling of being enveloped in hot water.
It seemed water wasn’t that bad after all, she thought.
Inferna watched as Zun gradually calmed down. She reached out and gently stroked the little girl’s golden hair. She did like children, and a child as pure as a blank slate like Zun made her almost unbearable.
She had raised a child herself before, but unfortunately, that child didn’t like her much and became rebellious after growing up.
The current Zun was her second attempt. Perhaps she was too strict last time. This time, she would definitely be a good mother… Huh?
Why did it feel strange?
Why was she trying to be a good mother? Inferna scratched her face, feeling that her thoughts were a bit off, but then she reconsidered and felt that it wasn’t a big problem.
Wanting to raise a cute child and make them sensible was a normal hobby, wasn’t it? She had been confined for so long, and they wouldn’t even let her develop some hobbies?
After letting Zun soak for a while, Inferna lifted her out of the water, wiped her dry, and even sprayed some perfume to cover the scent of blood.
Putting a plain white nightgown on Zun, Inferna brought the little guy back to the living room.
By then, Lethicia and Bai Ling had cleaned up the dishes and were sitting on the sofa, affectionately interacting. Inferna saw this scene, held her mouth with her left hand, and let out a soft cough.
“Old Ancestor, are you done?” Lethicia raised her head from Bai Ling’s embrace. “We were discussing what to teach Zun first!”
The basic actions had been taught a few days ago, and now it was time to teach her something more complex, such as language.
“I hope you are truly discussing this,” Inferna said with a knowing smile, her eyes narrowed. Given how Lethicia and Bai Ling were just acting, it was likely they would have escalated things here if she hadn’t come.
Lethicia’s outfit tonight was quite alluring. Looking at Bai Ling, her hands were already on Lethicia’s forbidden zone, and it seemed she had thoughts of reaching further up.
If she had come out any later, they would have gone back to their room to “interact.”
“We are really discussing this,” Lethicia said righteously. “But this one refuses to discuss it properly!”
What could Lethicia do when Bai Ling was being so hands-on with her? She couldn’t forcefully refuse, could she?
If she did, she wouldn’t get a good night’s sleep that night.
“Who told you to dress like that? Shameless,” Bai Ling said, blushing as she lowered her hand, quietly suggesting that it was all Lethicia’s fault.
Looking at Bai Ling’s outfit, she was dressed very properly, with a snow-white shirt adorned with star patterns, paired with a skirt, and white stockings and light-colored boots on her feet. She seemed to have no allure at all… or did she?
Ah, the allure of white stockings on calves was probably quite significant.
But compared to Lethicia’s revealing long dress, Bai Ling’s outfit was indeed considered conservative.
“Can’t I try it?” Lethicia puffed out her chest and retorted.
Inferna looked at the conspicuously ample chest of Lethicia and twitched her lips. Lethicia must have put in quite an effort to fill out that dress.
Otherwise, with Lethicia’s flat figure, the fabric around her chest would have been pathetically limp.
“But this style doesn’t really suit you. This little devil style of clothing should be more suitable for Xiao Ya or Qi La?” Bai Ling poked the false amplitude of Lethicia’s chest, “So hard…”
“Xiao Ya or Qi La wearing something like this… Hiss, it does seem to have some logic. Speaking of which, this outfit was given to us by Qi La before. What is this girl thinking?”
“Have you two forgotten something? What are we teaching Zun today? Hurry up and say it!” Seeing that the topic was straying further away, Inferna quickly interrupted, bringing the conversation back on track.
What else could they teach her? Teach her to speak. Lethicia said she had children’s textbooks for humans and demons, which could be modified for Zun.
“Let’s teach her our names first!” Lethicia suggested.
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“Sister… Mother… Grandma…”
After several hours of rote learning, Zun successfully mastered the pronunciation of a few terms of address.
This child’s talent was actually not low, after all, she had the foundation of a deity. Learning would not be slow no matter what.
Moreover, what Lethicia and Inferna were teaching her now was quite simple. After a few repetitions, Zun could already repeat these short syllables.
However, her confused expression indicated that she couldn’t understand the meaning of these words yet.
For a little one who hadn’t even reached the age of hatching, brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers seemed to be non-existent.
“For ‘sister,’ Zun, you can call any pretty and cute girl sister!” Lethicia was quite easygoing. Calling everyone sister wouldn’t be a problem.
Strictly speaking, Zun’s age was still negative, so calling everyone sister was not an issue at all.
“Hmm?” Zun sent a question using her mental power. What is a girl?
This child had not yet formed a clear gender identity.
This was easy to explain. It was enough to give Zun a general understanding. Lethicia thought for a moment and gestured to explain to Zun: “Generally speaking, a humanoid creature that wears a skirt, has long hair, and is pleasing to the eye is a girl.”
While speaking, Lethicia pointed at the skirt Inferna was wearing to give Zun a stronger impression. “See, girls’ figures are usually more slender, and their chests usually bulge.”
“Oh!” Zun’s big eyes lit up, and she began to nod vigorously. So this was the meaning of a girl.
“Girl, sister?” Perhaps because Lethicia had said the word “girl” many times, Zun repeated Lethicia’s words in a very rusty pronunciation.
So, Zun was indeed quite smart. Teaching her to speak was not difficult at all.
“That’s right, girls are sisters.” Lethicia nodded.
Who would dislike a cute little girl who called every girl she saw “sister”? Zun’s current appearance was absolutely close to a perfect ten on the loli scale.
“Mother? Grandma?” Zun asked about the meaning of the other two words.
“This is a bit harder to explain. Strictly speaking, Zun, you shouldn’t have a mother,” Lethicia thought for a moment and then told Zun the cruel truth. “A mother is a girl who gives birth to you, then takes care of you and raises you.”
And Zun, you are a poor child born and raised without a mother!
But this explanation did not make Zun dejected; instead, it made the little girl’s eyes shine brighter.
“Mmm!” What does ‘give birth’ mean?
“It means to give you a body, allowing you to interact with this world.”
“Mmm-hmm?” Then isn’t sister also a mother?
“Huh?”
“Hahaha!” Inferna turned her head away, covering her mouth with her hand to stifle her laughter.
Lethicia created her body, taught her knowledge, and always protected her, so in Zun’s mind, Lethicia was the mother. She felt there was nothing wrong with her reasoning.
“Little one, I am your sister, not your mother. You don’t have a mother, you know?” Lethicia grabbed Zun’s shoulders, her expression exceptionally serious. She didn’t want to gain a cheap daughter for doing nothing!
However, with Zun’s current thought process, she really couldn’t understand why Lethicia couldn’t be her mother. But looking at Lethicia’s big face, she could only nod weakly.
