Chapter: Chapter 78
“What’s wrong, your expression is a little strange.” As they walked out of the movie theater, Bai Ling’s expression was a little dazed. Leticia followed beside her, saying with a hint of mockery.
The reason for Bai Ling’s expression was the movie they had just watched. She couldn’t have imagined that the plot of the movie would turn out like this.
“I feel like those directors simply don’t understand the seriousness of the war between humans and demons,” Bai Ling said闷闷地.
Leticia’s lips curled up slightly. Bai Ling’s statement was slapping herself in the face. “Heh, Miss Bai Ling, who shamelessly clings to me, the Demon King, actually has the nerve to say such a thing. You truly surprise me.”
“No, that’s not what I meant.” Bai Ling quickly explained. She was just unhappy that the war had been distorted into such a mess.
However, she still couldn’t muster much hatred for Leticia.
“I don’t care what you mean, and I don’t want to hear your explanation.” Leticia snorted coldly, effectively stifling Bai Ling’s words. “I’d rather you think more about that war, about how many people died in the hands of demons, and how many demons died in your hands.”
Yes, the war was unprecedentedly brutal. Countless cities were destroyed by enemy armies, and prosperous human civilization was brutally cut short.
Even after decades of recovery, humanity had only regained some of its vigor.
“This is not your fault.”
“Are you trying to make excuses for me? Miss Bai, ask your conscience honestly. Am I, the Demon King, the greatest sinner?” Leticia pointed her finger and tapped Bai Ling’s forehead hard. “Although I didn’t initiate the war, I still continued it.”
“Of course, I don’t think I was wrong. We demons needed better land, so we attacked.”
“No, it’s not like that.” But Bai Ling firmly shook her head. “I’ve been to your world. Although the environment there can’t compare to the human world, it is indeed the most suitable place for demons to live.”
As she spoke, she paused and pointed to a milk tea shop by the roadside, “Let’s talk there.”
“Hmm? Okay,” Leticia nodded.
She also wanted to hear Bai Ling’s views on that racial melee. As the Demon King, Leticia actually didn’t know much.
She had simply taken over the baton of war from her mother and continued running on the track.
Why the war was started, why their worlds were connected – Leticia didn’t know the answers to these questions, nor did she want to.
She only knew that as the Demon King, she should do this.
To lead the demons to win this war – these were her mother’s last words. Although she disliked her cheap mother, Leticia admitted that she was her successor.
So she continued fighting.
And then, Bai Ling suddenly appeared and beheaded the leaders of the alien races one by one. Except for Leticia, the rulers of the alien races were basically wiped out by Bai Ling.
The war ended, and it ended faster than anyone expected.
All the alien races shamefully returned to their homelands. Since then, large-scale combat had ceased, with only sporadic conflicts occurring at the world’s borders.
“Do you know why the demons attacked the human world?” Bai Ling asked, sitting in a chair with a cup of warm sweet milk in her hands.
Leticia shook her head. “I wasn’t even born when the war started. My mother was still a child. How would I know what my grandmother, whom I’ve never met, was thinking?”
It was strange, really. The demons were the first to attack the human world, but the Demon King who initiated the war was also the first to die.
Less than ten years after the war began, that Demon King, who was Leticia’s grandmother, suddenly died.
After Leticia’s mother succeeded to the throne, she continued fighting with humans. However, due to her lack of ability, she gradually lost control of the major demons’ nobles.
At that time, those great nobles had almost completely sidelined the Demon King.
Fortunately, Leticia descended like a savior and suppressed those ambitious nobles. Otherwise, her and her sister’s current situation would have been extremely dire.
They would have lived, of course, but how they would have lived was another question.
The Demon King’s bloodline was something those nobles had coveted for a long time.
“In fact, no one knows why the war started.” Leticia’s answer did not surprise Bai Ling. She had long known that Leticia was completely clueless about this matter.
Because, among those still alive, truly no one knew the truth of that year.
“Senior Sang was just a little girl back then, but she is the one among our human race who understands that war the most deeply.” Bai Ling took a sip of milk. “She said she didn’t know why the war started.”
“My grandmother’s attendants died one by one very early on. My mother didn’t know why they were fighting until she died. She only knew that she had to continue fighting.” Leticia nodded, indicating that her situation was similar.
“The elves and beastmen are in the same situation. There isn’t a single one who knows the truth of that year.” Bai Ling relayed what Senior Sang had told her to Leticia.
Ending the war was just one of Bai Ling’s goals. She had many more.
Watching her sister grow up, uncovering the truth behind the war, finding her parents – these were all Bai Ling’s goals.
The first goal was almost complete. Although her sister had grown up a little crooked, she had at least grown up healthy.
But the latter two goals, she had gradually forgotten.
After being ordered to rest by Senior Sang, Bai Ling slowly broke free from her obsessive state, and at this moment, she finally remembered her goals.
“What do you want to say?”
“Don’t you want to know why that war started? Why these completely different worlds and completely different races of ours ended up fighting over something unknown?” Bai Ling clenched her fist, her gaze piercing as she looked at Leticia.
“Yes, I do. But even if I want to, I won’t cooperate with you.” Leticia snorted twice. Bai Ling’s words had indeed piqued her curiosity. “I will find the answer myself.”
She hadn’t thought about this question before. Why did her grandmother start the war? Was it really because she needed the human world’s land?
Leticia’s intuition told her that it was absolutely not the case.
Behind that war, there must have been extremely deep darkness.
“The truth, it is indeed intriguing.”
