Chapter: Chapter 521
Beastmen Tribe, Eastern Border.
A long, pitch-black fissure appeared on the vast grassland, and after a period of distortion and change, it stabilized.
Subsequently, the fissure gradually widened, becoming large enough to allow several people to pass through together.
A silvery cat head stretched out from the fissure, and after scanning the surroundings, she breathed a sigh of relief and retracted her head.
A few minutes later, she jumped out of the spatial rift with two little girls with black hair.
“The marker we left before is this place. Let’s ask around; Leticia and the others should be nearby,” Yin said, looking at the vast grassland in front of her, speaking to the two girls behind her.
“Mm, but my sister doesn’t seem to be nearby. If she were, I would sense it.” Kira spread her right hand, and an illusory compass appeared in her hand. The compass’s needle was spinning at an extremely fast speed, and it looked like it wouldn’t stop for the time being.
This meant that there was nothing nearby that could make this compass stop, which meant Leticia was not nearby.
“Perhaps she went on vacation with Bai Ling? They’ve been here for several months, and it’s unlikely they’d stay here the whole time, right?” Yin scratched her head, thinking that Leticia and the others hadn’t stayed here but had chosen to explore other parts of the grassland.
With the strength of those two, they should be able to traverse this grassland at will; there was no one who could stop them.
“The air here is so fresh!” Xiao Ya, who had come to a new world, didn’t think so much. She had never seen such grassland scenery before.
Hearing Xiao Ya’s exclamation, Kira’s expression slightly crumbled. Was this the time to think about these things? Shouldn’t they hurry to find her sister?
This little one is as natural as ever.
“Xiao Ya, we’re here to find my sister, not to go on a seven-day grassland tour!”
“But my sister and the others are so powerful, they won’t have any problems, right?” Xiao Ya tilted her head and retorted. Sister Qianqian is the Demon King, and the beastmen are so weak. Wouldn’t Sister and the others just walk all over the place here?
What is there to worry about?
That made sense, but… Kira blinked, realizing she couldn’t think of any objections. Sister and Sister Bai’s combat strength seemed capable of leveling this weak beastman tribe.
In terms of looking down on the beastmen, Leticia and Kira were surprisingly consistent, fully displaying their sisterly bond.
“But we still need to find them as soon as possible. I have a bad premonition, as if something is happening, and we must hurry.”
“Although you’ve been saying that something is happening for the past few days, what exactly is it?” Kira looked at Yin doubtfully, not quite understanding why this goddess was so anxious.
The Yin from before was different. The cat-girl Yin was as lazy as a kitten, basking in the sun and sleeping all day. When she ran out of money, she would go out and get some, unlike the little orange cat she raised.
That little orange cat was very diligent; it was almost becoming a professional maid now.
But a few days ago, after discovering that the world’s boundaries had become fragile again, Yin had changed. She had become very diligent, waking up before sunrise every day to study the changes in the world’s boundaries and to find a way to open spatial channels.
If she hadn’t been researching day and night for these past few days, they would have had to postpone their arrival in the beastman world by more than ten days.
This was not normal, and Yin did not hide her abnormality. From the very beginning, she had told Kira and Bai Ya that she had a bad premonition, a premonition that was even worse than the one she had before being sealed countless years ago.
She had already been sealed; what worse thing could there be?
It couldn’t be that this world was going to be destroyed, right?
Hahaha, just kidding, just kidding. It’s impossible to think that way… probably.
“I wish my premonition were just an illusion, but with these kinds of things, I can only say that my intuition has always been very accurate,” Yin sighed softly and said in a low voice.
Fine, she’s being mysterious again. Kira was a little displeased with Yin’s cryptic behavior, but there was nothing she could do. Even Yin didn’t know why she had this feeling, let alone what she had a premonition of.
“Hmm? Someone seems to be coming. Should we hide?” Yin turned her head in one direction. She sensed several unfamiliar presences rapidly approaching. Judging by the direction and speed, it was highly likely that these presences were targeting them.
Kira shook her head. It was a good thing someone was coming. If they had landed in a no-man’s-land, that would have been a bad thing. “No need, let’s just wait for them to come. Perhaps they’ve seen Sister and the others?”
“Mm-hmm, I think Kira is right!” Xiao Ya raised her hand to state her opinion, although no one would pay attention to her opinion.
Yin didn’t care. The approaching beastmen were not strong. Even if they harbored hostility, she was confident she could protect the two girls beside her. Besides, Kira was not a weakling. This demon tribe princess had considerable combat power.
As for Xiao Ya, although this little girl had many secrets, her combat power was indeed not high. She only had a unique talent in support.
Before long, several strong beastmen riding horses, surrounding a cat girl, appeared in the trio’s field of vision.
The cat girl, who was clearly the leader, swept her gaze over the three of them, and then her eyes landed on Kira. Her expression gradually became conflicted, as if she was thinking about something.
This girl looks so much like Miss Leti.
Comparing Leticia with the girl in front of her, Xiao Mi rubbed her chin, and a bold idea gradually emerged in her mind.
Could this young lady be Miss Leti’s elder sister!
See, this young lady is a tiny bit taller than Miss Leti, her figure is also a tiny bit better, and they look so alike. This must be sisters!
Then this more mature-looking young lady is definitely the elder sister!
“Miss, are you perhaps Miss Leticia’s elder sister?” Xiao Mi asked tentatively.
Upon hearing the cat girl’s question, Kira’s expression instantly became wonderful.
“Pfft.” Xiao Ya turned her head away, covered her mouth with her hand, and tried to stifle her laughter. “Mm… generally speaking, Kira, you do look a bit more mature than Sister Qianqian.”
She was the younger sister, yet her figure looked more mature than her older sister’s. Although the gap was only a little bit, there was still a gap.
Taking a deep breath, Kira put on a friendly expression and said to Xiao Mi in fluent common beastman language, “No, I am actually Leticia’s younger sister. My name is Kira.”
“Kira? I think I heard Miss Leticia mention that name before.” Xiao Mi looked thoughtful. After a while, she remembered that Leticia had indeed mentioned having a younger sister named Kira not long ago.
The name matched, and they looked so alike. Then this girl should be the sister mentioned by Leticia!
“Miss Leticia was visiting our tribe not long ago, but over a month ago, she went to the southern part of the grassland with our tribal chief and hasn’t returned yet,” Xiao Mi said to Kira. “If you don’t mind, you can come to our tribe to rest for a while.”
“It’s not impossible…”
“Cat-girl sister! Have you seen my sister? A white-haired girl who is so tall and looks so cold!” Before Kira could finish speaking, Xiao Ya rushed in front of Xiao Mi and asked anxiously.
This is… what language? I haven’t learned it, so why can I understand what she means? Xiao Mi’s eyes showed a hint of confusion, but she happened to know the answer to Xiao Ya’s question.
A tall girl with white hair who was also with Miss Leticia must be Miss Bai Ling!
“I’ve seen her, I’ve seen her, but Miss Bai left with Miss Leticia. I don’t know when she’ll be back.”
Speaking of which, this girl just said Miss Bai was her sister, but they didn’t look like they had any blood relation. One had black hair, the other white hair, and the difference in appearance was even greater than the difference between Leticia and Kira. If she hadn’t known their sisterly relationship from the beginning, it would have been difficult to associate the identities of the two with being sisters.
Upon hearing Xiao Mi’s answer, Xiao Ya, who should not have understood the common beastman language, nodded happily, clearly understanding the meaning of Xiao Mi’s reply. After getting news of her sister, she became even more relaxed.
Her sister had just left not long ago, which meant that nothing major had happened.
Afterward, Kira accepted Xiao Mi’s invitation and decided to go to the place where her sister had stayed to gather more information, and then set off for the southern part of the grassland to find her sister.
But Yin offered another plan: “You two go there as guests. Leave the task of finding Leticia and the others to me. I can move much faster alone than the three of us together. I’ll come back to get you after I find them.”
To transfer Kira and Xiao Ya with her, Yin not only needed to consider the physical tolerance of the two girls, but her own consumption would also increase. If she moved alone, Yin could search for Leticia and the others with the highest efficiency.
This speed would be at least three to four times faster than all three of them searching together.
And she was not interested in the beastmen here, so she didn’t care whether she went to visit or not.
Kira didn’t think much about it and nodded in agreement with Yin’s plan.
Of course, even if she shook her head, she couldn’t change Yin’s decision.
Thus, the three parted ways on the grassland. Yin directly used spatial magic to rush to the southern border to search for Leticia and the others, while Kira and Xiao Ya followed the cat girl, Xiao Mi, to visit the tribe where Leticia had stayed.
The two beastmen dismounted and wanted to offer their mounts to Kira and Bai Ya, but Kira, as a mage, also disdained these mounts. She rummaged in her pocket and pulled out a black and gold staff.
After chanting a few words softly, a pair of illusory wings appeared behind her. With a gentle flap, she flew up.
“Xiao Ya, I’ll carry you and fly!”
“Oh, okay, but I kind of want to ride a horse!” Looking at the brown horse that had been led to her not far away by the beastman warrior, Xiao Ya wanted to experience this different form of transportation.
In the central city, she couldn’t ride a horse. Now that she finally had such an opportunity, she couldn’t help but feel a surge of impulse.
But… she overlooked a small problem.
“Xiao Ya, you’ve never learned to ride a horse before, have you?” Kira said helplessly.
Riding a horse was also a skill. You couldn’t just get on a horse and ride it directly. Let alone Xiao Ya, even Kira wasn’t very good at riding horses.
After all, for Kira, the demon princess, ordinary travel was either flying or taking a car; she didn’t ride horses.
She couldn’t possibly let these beastmen take Xiao Ya for a horse ride, could she?
“That’s true. Cat-girl sister, can you teach me to ride a horse later?” Xiao Ya drooped down all of a sudden. She cast a pleading gaze at Xiao Mi, who was standing by the side as if she were air, and asked.
Hiss, is this lady really Miss Bai’s sister? Her demeanor is so different!
Xiao Mi’s eyes twitched slightly. If Kira and Leticia’s relationship was obvious at first glance, then Xiao Ya and Bai Ling had no common points at all!
Such a cold and aloof Miss Bai, her sister is actually so soft and cute, it’s truly unbelievable.
“Of course, no problem!” However, this request was not difficult to fulfill. The Bone Wing Tribe was developing very well recently, and there was nothing that Xiao Mi needed to worry about. She could teach Xiao Ya to ride a horse herself.
Teaching a little girl to ride a horse was no problem at all!
“Yay!” Xiao Ya cheered, then happily jumped into Kira’s arms.
Kira gave Xiao Ya a helpless look. This guy was sometimes so hopelessly innocent.
Oh well, it’s not a big problem. At worst, she’ll give the cat-girl lady who’s been troubled by her some compensation later.
After the small interlude, the group set off towards the Bone Wing Tribe. Along the way, Xiao Mi enthusiastically introduced the situation of the Bone Wing Tribe to Kira and Xiao Ya, and worshipfully stated that without the help of Miss Leticia and Miss Bai, their Bone Wing Tribe would not have achieved such great success.
After listening to the story of the border conflict, which hadn’t taken long, Kira’s expression became somewhat strange. She felt that her good sister was indeed capable. Had she planted her own spy in the beastman tribe?
These Bone Wing Tribe beastmen now undoubtedly trusted Leticia completely. When something happened in the future, they would be another force that could be mobilized at any time.
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By the way, this volume will be the last volume of the Demon King.
