Chapter 2: Dad Loves You Too~
This question is difficult to answer, but due to Luo Shuangyue’s more selfish thoughts, she is unwilling to admit that such a self is her true self.
“So where did the big butterfly go?”
“It’s over there. It seems that the previous rebellion directly triggered the defenses within your body, and now she can’t even move,” You Ji pointed in a direction and said, “The consciousness that was supposed to merge with you is currently accompanying her.”
“I’ll go take a look.” Upon hearing this information, Luo Shuangyue immediately got up and wanted to go to the place You Ji pointed to.
If she has the chance, she would take them down one by one, so she wouldn’t have to worry about encountering uncontrollable situations again in the future.
You Ji looked at Luo Shuangyue, whose face was full of killing intent, and wanted to say something, but the words hung on her lips and revealed a somewhat strange expression.
“Well, good luck.” In the end, she could only say that.
This peculiar reaction made Luo Shuangyue suspicious. Since You Ji knew where the big butterfly was now, she must have gone to see the big butterfly before Luo Shuangyue came in.
So what exactly happened to the big butterfly that would make You Ji show such an expression?
It’s very strange, but from You Ji’s demeanor, it was clear she didn’t want to tell her the truth.
Sigh, in the end, she still needed to go take a look herself.
You Lian saw Luo Shuangyue leaving and immediately wanted to follow, but just as she took off, she was caught by You Ji with one hand. “You little guy shouldn’t go over there; that little troublemaker doesn’t like you at all.”
Twisting her slender little body, You Lian conveyed a sense of grievance.
“Alright, alright, wait until you recover a bit before you go fight that little troublemaker. It’s better to behave for now.”
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After walking about ten steps into the dark jungle, the scene before Luo Shuangyue suddenly changed dramatically.
It was just a dark campfire and jungle, but as she stepped forward, it transformed into a sea of gray flowers.
A gray girl was kneeling in the center of the flower sea in an unnatural posture, with vines covered in white flowers crawling all over her body.
The girl was wearing a dark gray long dress, with a pair of butterfly wings on her back that looked very similar to those of Luo Shuangyue. The vines seemed like chains, forever locking this girl in place.
There was no hint of vitality, no trace of breath; everything seemed to remind Luo Shuangyue that the girl before her had completely died.
This should have been good news for Luo Shuangyue, as she had come here to kill the big butterfly.
But now, she immensely hoped that the transformed big butterfly would wake up and speak with her.
After all, this girl looked just like another family member from her memories.
“Dad?” Luo Shuangyue was completely stunned as she walked step by step to the side of the sleeping girl, carefully examining her appearance.
Although there were slight differences from her memory of her serious father, she was sure that the girl before her was her father.
However, the father from her memories wouldn’t wear a dress, wouldn’t have such long hair, and wouldn’t have butterfly wings…
Instinctively, Luo Shuangyue reached out her hand to touch the girl’s face.
But just as she was about to touch the girl’s face, a black-purple butterfly suddenly shot out from behind the girl and flapped its wings at Luo Shuangyue’s finger.
The sting made Luo Shuangyue retract her hand involuntarily; this suddenly appearing butterfly carried a familiar aura. It seemed to have the same aura as that consciousness that had been fighting her for control of her body.
So the thing that was competing with me for my body is this?
Luo Shuangyue carefully observed the little butterfly before her. For some reason, even though the being before her looked completely different from her, she felt as if she was looking in a mirror.
This butterfly is her; there is no doubt about it.
However, the little butterfly’s consciousness seemed very simplistic, like a newborn baby that understood nothing, driven only by instinct.
“Are you not going to come out while I’m here? Don’t you love to fight me for control of my body?” Luo Shuangyue tried to touch her butterfly-like self, but the little butterfly clearly didn’t welcome Luo Shuangyue. As Luo Shuangyue’s finger reached out, the little butterfly flapped its wings in response.
Hearing Luo Shuangyue’s question, the little butterfly flapped its wings even faster. Didn’t she want to go out? What kind of mess had Luo Shuangyue left outside that she didn’t have a clue about?
After Luo Shuangyue had proactively delved deep into her consciousness, the little butterfly had indeed gone out for a while. Then she had been tormented by the mass of magical power in her belly, prompting her to hurry back.
Embracing her woman felt wonderful, but her belly was bloated and painful; she couldn’t eat anything.
All her energy had been used to digest that magical power, and she didn’t even have the strength to bite that woman.
“Hahaha, you can’t hold out either,” Luo Shuangyue teased, smiling while pinching the wing that was flapping toward her.
She could now confirm that this little butterfly was only a nuisance and of no other use to her.
Zero battle experience, ridiculously weak mental power, it could only muster a little strength when trying to compete for her body.
In her grip, the little butterfly looked wronged and asked with a childish consciousness that made Luo Shuangyue speechless, “Why are you trying to take my body from me?”
Yes, the little butterfly believed Luo Shuangyue was the intruder, the one stealing her body.
“This is my body; what do you mean I’m stealing from you? You’re the one who came last!”
“You are a caterpillar; I am a butterfly. This body is mine now,” the little butterfly continued to struggle.
She called me a worm? Luo Shuangyue was initially angry but then found it strange. This little one shouldn’t have the intelligence to insult her, right?
So her calling her a worm should be a statement… I am the caterpillar; she is the butterfly…
Luo Shuangyue thought of the butterfly’s growth process. If using that process to understand, the stage she represented is indeed the caterpillar stage?
Transitioning to bloom… the black cocoon during the Demon Lord stage is what a caterpillar uses to transform into a butterfly. This little butterfly is the self after the transformation.
As a result of various reasons, the energy she used to transform into a butterfly was insufficient, and this consciousness post-transformation had not developed at all, nor had she merged with it.
In the end, it became two consciousnesses existing within the same body, and both were the masters of the body.
“I want to eat you!” The little butterfly bit down on Luo Shuangyue’s finger.
Then Luo Shuangyue heard a cry of pain tinged with tears. Clearly, this weak little creature could not even bite down on Luo Shuangyue’s finger.
Weak, other than stealing control of her body and causing her frustration, it had no use whatsoever.
So what exactly is the meaning of this little creature’s existence?
Staring at the little butterfly, Luo Shuangyue gently poked its antenna with her finger, eliciting even more feelings of shame and anger from this little one.
Hmm, so this little butterfly has some intelligence after all; at least not much more than that.
“You want to eat me? Then it’s fine for me to eat you too, right?”
After thinking it over, Luo Shuangyue believed that she couldn’t leave potential trouble behind; she had to quickly eat this little one before it matured.
Otherwise, if the little one became strong later, wouldn’t she be the one who got eaten?
With this thought, Luo Shuangyue, regardless of the little butterfly’s struggles and holding back her disgust, pushed the little butterfly toward her mouth.
“Eh? Tsk, tsk, tsk!”
In an instant, countless terrifying and primal desires emerged in Luo Shuangyue’s consciousness, scaring her enough to spit the little butterfly out of her mouth.
No, no, no, if she ate this little one, she would truly become someone else.
It’s complicated; right now, the little butterfly wants to eat her but doesn’t have the ability. She has the ability to eat the little butterfly but doesn’t want to and is afraid to do so.
The two of them were stuck in this awkward situation.
The little butterfly, having been eaten and spit out by Luo Shuangyue, was furious, flapping her wings and wanting to take revenge. But her soaked and crumpled wings couldn’t lift her off the ground; she could only sadly roll around on the grass.
“Little one, how about we make a deal? You don’t fight me for my body, and I’ll bring you more food?”
The little butterfly refused to give in; she still felt that the body should belong to her.
“But in our current state, we can’t go hunting,” Luo Shuangyue shrugged. If the little butterfly went hunting by herself, it was hard to say who the food would be.
Originally, she should have had the normal power of a Demon Lord, along with all of Luo Shuangyue’s memories and battle experience. As for what the little butterfly contributed… well, it was probably just a non-human conscious body.
The true consciousness of the Demon Lord is neither Luo Shuangyue nor the little butterfly.
She is a product of their fusion, but apparently, she died in the womb and failed to come out.
“Are you going to go bite those magical beasts that are easily ten or twenty meters tall with your body that is even weaker than an ordinary person? Furthermore, when magical beasts appear, magical girls will come quickly; we are now the Demon Lord, and being caught by magical girls won’t end well.”
This statement was to scare the little butterfly; Luo Shuangyue had no idea if there were magical girls in the place she was currently in.
But the first half of the statement was indeed true; the little butterfly’s completely nonexistent combat ability against powerful magical beasts would only lead to one outcome.
The little butterfly was feeling discontent; clearly, there was a delicious piece of meat next to them, so why should Luo Shuangyue stop her from eating that piece of meat?
“That’s my girlfriend! You can’t eat her!” As soon as this was mentioned, Luo Shuangyue became angry. Xia Mo was not something that could be eaten. Besides, what could be obtained from nipping Xia Mo?
Once Xia Mo recovered, couldn’t she just have Xia Mo send over some magical power for them to eat? Isn’t that better?
One big meal is better than continuous small meals; doesn’t this little one understand?
After being reprimanded by Luo Shuangyue, the little butterfly’s clearly insufficient intelligence began to wail for help. For her, long-term planning was way beyond her capability.
Yet her intuition told her that Luo Shuangyue didn’t seem wrong. Could her feeding method have been the problem?
With her little eyes looking at the big life form that looked very different from herself, the little butterfly hesitated.
In the end, she conveyed her thoughts: she could give up on fighting for control of Luo Shuangyue’s body, but Luo Shuangyue must hunt enough food every day, and she would take over for eating.
This request was quite easy for Luo Shuangyue to fulfill. It was better to let someone else handle the task of hunting magical beasts.
“Okay, it’s a deal. No backing down.”
The little butterfly had no reaction; she simply fluttered back onto the head of the sleeping big butterfly, looking just like the butterfly hairpin that Luo Shuangyue had when she transformed.
And Luo Shuangyue finally had the chance to observe the now humanoid big butterfly from a very close distance. She squatted down and reached out to touch the girl’s cheek.
Her fingertips felt a chill, and with a bit of force, Luo Shuangyue’s fingertip directly sank into the girl’s cheek.
This isn’t a physical entity, but rather a projection?
It seemed that Luo Shuangyue’s touch disturbed the sleeping big butterfly. The tightly closed eyes slightly parted, meeting the curious gaze of Luo Shuangyue.
Those were a pair of silver-white eyes, exactly the same as the pair of silver eyes of her father from her memories. However, there were no emotions within those silver eyes; their pupils were scattered, reflecting nothing.
This was merely a projection devoid of any feelings or thinking ability, just like the white figure that Luo Shuangyue had encountered not long ago…
She thought she could speak with her father in this way, but Luo Shuangyue sat down on the ground disappointingly, letting out a sigh of helplessness.
She suddenly realized that after living for so long, she still knew very little about her parents. Initially, she thought her dad was just a slightly effeminate good man, but now, seeing this, whether her dad was even really her dad seemed uncertain.
Luo Shuangyue felt that she might have two moms.
“Hey, little one, do you know who she is?” Luo Shuangyue pointed at the girl bound by the white flower vines.
The aura from the white flower vines also felt somewhat familiar to her. If she guessed correctly, this should be her mother’s power.
So the sudden rampage of the big butterfly before was actually part of her father’s plan, designed to let her truly become a Demon Lord?
Meanwhile, her mother had left many contingencies for when she had issues, immediately fetching Frost Star with magic and banishing her to this desolate world, while also binding the projection of her troublesome dad in her head.
Ugh… it’s so messy, it feels like my brain is not enough.
Luo Shuangyue’s question didn’t receive a clear answer from the little butterfly; the little butterfly merely expressed that she found this girl very kind, and the scent on her was delightful, so she was happy to stay on her head.
If it weren’t for the white flower vines hindering the girl’s contact with her, the little butterfly would have probably already been nibbling on the girl’s scalp.
In a sense, this little butterfly did inherit the characteristic of being parentless, able to feed on her own father is quite astonishing.
“She is your dad; take it easy on her.”
In response, the little butterfly just replied with one sentence: “What’s a dad? Can it be eaten?”
