Volume 4, Chapter 16 – Hugging My Little Darlings

After settling Lian and the sisters, Miss Ailiya, dressed in her military officer uniform, quickly returned to the hidden room where Bai Lianyue had previously been placed.

As soon as she arrived, Ailiya saw that familiar gray silhouette.

“Sister Cat, did you find anything?”

The silver-haired girl asked with a serious and grave expression.

In Ailiya’s eyes, the Lingyuan family’s defense system had been perfected through years of management. Even evil gods shouldn’t be able to easily infiltrate it.

And yet now?

An intruder had rescued Zao Li right under their noses, and had even reached Bai Lianyue’s room, which was protected by multiple barriers?

Ailiya found this somewhat intolerable.

Facing Ailiya’s inquiry, Serveiling slowly raised her hand, opening her five fingers to reveal a torn piece of red fabric lying in her palm.

“This, this is?”

“People from Paradise Manor.”

“So those bastards really did infiltrate? But how did they manage it? We clearly raised the defense level so high.”

“It should be that guy among the Executioners, right?”

While examining the damaged barrier, Serveiling shared her judgment.

“According to the intelligence previously provided by the Kingdom of Qingyun, there’s an Executioner called Akrovan whose combat ability is average, but his infiltration skills are terrifyingly effective. It seems he was the one who infiltrated the Vassals of Sky territory years ago to negotiate with Ulutiel.”

“That kind of guy suddenly came to our place?”

“It’s normal.”

Serveiling glanced at Ailiya meaningfully:

“You’ve become quite famous, so Paradise Manor’s attention would naturally fall on you. This guy probably came to investigate your background this time, and just happened to end up in Big Sister’s room.”

“If it’s an Executioner, isn’t he a high-ranking member of Paradise Manor? If we could capture him, we should be able to get quite a bit of intelligence…”

However, before she could say much more, Ailiya frowned.

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After carefully sensing, the girl could feel some special residual energy fluctuations in the room.

This power was the kind that Bai Lianyue would release when feeding…

Connecting this to the fact that they still hadn’t found any trace of the intruder, Ailiya seemed to guess what had happened.

“Ah, no way, they were all eaten by Lian, weren’t they?”

“Sigh.”

Facing Ailiya’s guess, Serveiling sighed and then nodded in confirmation.

“That’s probably it. Even at Peak Divine Departure Realm, once Big Sister enters feeding mode, there’s no way to escape. I really don’t understand how those two managed to provoke Big Sister… Oh, I can probably guess what happened… Divine-Graced Maiden.”

Although Big Sister had been in a comatose state these past days, her strong hostility toward ordinary Divine-Graced Maidens hadn’t faded because of it.

So when she sensed Zao Li’s aura, she probably… got hungry.

“We finally had a chance to capture a high-level member of Paradise Manor, and it’s just gone like that? Big Sister, at least leave us a head! Don’t you remove the head when eating?!”

Serveiling complained somewhat gloomily.

Watching Serveiling hugging her head and cursing like this, Ailiya also awkwardly scratched her cheek with her finger.

“……”

While feeling awkward, the silver-haired girl also narrowed her eyes slightly, thoughtfully examining everything around them.

So Bai Lianyue woke up because of the stimulation from the Divine-Graced Maiden, that Zao Li?

Thinking of this, Ailiya’s pretty face couldn’t help but be filled with gloom.

Initially, they had kept Zao Li mainly to extract Divine-Graced power from her to stabilize Bai Lianyue’s body and prevent her from collapsing due to rampaging curse power while unconscious.

However, if they had known earlier that feeding Zao Li to Bai Lianyue could stimulate her awakening?

They would have done so long ago…

Sigh, there was no point in regret. Besides, Bai Lianyue’s awakening might not necessarily be for this reason…

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In any case, it was good that she woke up.

After sighing twice, Ailiya stopped dwelling on this issue and joined Sister Cat in cleaning up the traces at the scene…

Time flew by quickly, and soon dawn’s light descended upon the earth, dispelling the night.

When the morning sunlight shone through the gauze curtains onto a certain blue-haired girl’s face, the girl lazily turned over.

“Mmm… mmm… smack smack…”

Smacking her lips twice, Bai Lianyue’s brow furrowed slightly.

Ennm, in her mouth, there was a strange taste… it seemed like she had eaten something weird… a rotten taste…

Had Ai’er and the others secretly fed her something bad while she was sleeping?

While muttering curiously in her heart, Bai Lianyue’s drowsiness was also dispelled by that strange taste, and she slowly opened her eyes.

??

“Hm?!”

Upon opening her eyes, what met Bai Lianyue’s gaze wasn’t some unfamiliar ceiling, but two delicate faces carved like pink jade, as exquisite as dolls.

These two little ones were naturally the children Miya and Weiya.

Wanting their mama to see them the moment she opened her eyes, the twins had been staying by Bai Lianyue’s side from last night until now. After sensing signs that the evil god miss was about to awaken, the two girls had moved even closer to Bai Lianyue, silently watching their mama and waiting expectantly for her awakening.

The moment they saw mama open her eyes, the twins’ eyes immediately burst with brilliant light.

“Mama!!”

“Mama finally woke up~”

“Miya? Weiya??”

There was a trace of bewilderment in the evil god miss’s voice.

The next moment, before Bai Lianyue could react, the twins eagerly pounced on her, nuzzling her face from left and right.

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“Mama, mama, mama really woke up~”

“Mama’s scent… hehe, I love it~, a mama who moves~ is even better, hehe~”

Although the twins had nuzzled the evil god miss plenty over these two years, the feeling of nuzzling while she was asleep was obviously different from nuzzling while she was awake.

“Hey, you two, stop, stop, stop for a moment!! If you’re going to nuzzle, then nuzzle!! But why are you biting while nuzzling?! Mama isn’t cotton candy!!”

Bai Lianyue called out in confusion.

Her calls even reached outside the room, spreading throughout the main residence.

But the Lingyuan family servants had no intention of going to stop them; instead, they very tacitly cast relieved gazes toward the room where the mother and daughters were…

Several minutes later, after thoroughly cuddling with mama, the twins reluctantly climbed off Bai Lianyue. Only then could the freed evil god miss sit up from the bed.

With the evil god miss’s power, she could of course easily break free from the twins.

But out of indulgence toward the children, Bai Lianyue still obediently let the children enjoy themselves peacefully.

There was no helping it—toward her own daughters, Bai Lianyue could never bring herself to be harsh.

After rubbing her face that was covered in saliva, Bai Lianyue blinked and curiously examined the twins who were kneeling on the bed.

“Hmm?”

Puzzled emotions quietly overflowed from her emerald pupils.

“Miya, Weiya, you two are now…”

After calming down, Bai Lianyue discovered that while the twins’ auras were exactly the same as before, their appearances had grown considerably. Originally just two little lolis, they now looked like eleven or twelve-year-old girls.

They had grown much taller, and the childishness in their faces had faded somewhat.

For a moment, Bai Lianyue gripped the blanket tightly as an ominous premonition quietly arose in her heart. So the girl carefully asked:

“Girls, how old are you now?”

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“…”

Facing mama’s question, the twins didn’t answer directly. After looking at each other, the twins unanimously turned their gazes toward Bai Lianyue.

However, at this moment, the seriousness and excitement from earlier had faded from the twins’ eyes, replaced by a trace of solemnity—solemnity that even carried a hint of coldness and reproach, making Bai Lianyue suddenly tremble.

“Twelve years old.”

Miya answered flatly, glancing at Bai Lianyue with eyes that held reproach.

“Twelve years old?? Then, then didn’t I sleep for two years?”

Realizing this, the evil god miss raised her hand to her forehead with complex emotions.

Bai Lianyue could also sense that she had slept for quite a long time.

But at most, she thought she had slept for two months?

She never expected it to be two years?!

After swallowing so much Augury Force earlier and absorbing the Tower of Heavenly Resonance’s power to fight against Ulutiel… she had thought that even if her power was depleted, she would sleep for a few months at most… but it turned out to be two years?

Heavens.

So in the end—”Was my assessment of my body’s condition too optimistic?”

Bai Lianyue muttered self-reproachfully in her heart.

At the same time, the evil god miss also looked at her two daughters with considerable guilt. After all, Miya and Weiya had always been very dependent on her.

For her to have slept for two years like this, she wondered how these two children had gotten by…

“Sorry, Miya, Weiya, for making you worry.”

Seeing the girls’ slightly reddened eyes, Bai Lianyue heartachedly reached out to rub the children’s heads and proactively pulled the twins into her embrace.

The twins also actively buried their heads in Bai Lianyue’s chest and hugged their mother’s waist.

For a moment, under the illumination of the morning light, the mother and daughters embraced tightly together.