Volume 4, Chapter 21 – Contract About to Expire, Renewal Needed

“My power?”

Being told this by Ailiya, Bai Lianyue looked at her palm in disbelief.

Clenching her fist, a trace of solemnity flashed through Bai Lianyue’s eyes.

Pure golden light—that was the symbol of the holy attribute.

The holy attribute was the rarest and most powerful attribute among the twelve types of attribute powers, said to possess unprecedented purifying abilities against impurities.

Unfortunately, no one in human history had ever possessed this attribute… not even those so-called Divine-Graced Maidens who received The Lord’s blessings.

Precisely because of this, when she had earlier mistakenly thought Ailiya possessed holy attribute power, Bai Lian had been so excited.

It wasn’t Ai’er’s power, which was indeed somewhat regrettable… but saying this power belonged to her?

——”How is that possible?!”——

Bai Lianyue unhesitatingly denied it in her heart.

The attribute powers within her body were only three types: ice attribute, life attribute… and the disaster attribute unique to evil gods.

How could holy attribute power possibly appear within the body of an evil god like her?

It was impossible.

If she really had that power, she probably would have been able to suppress the curse power erosion long ago.

But Ai’er didn’t seem to be lying either?

Then… what exactly was that power about?

Just as Bai Lianyue was feeling extremely puzzled, her pupils suddenly contracted as some bold speculations seemed to emerge in her mind.

Hm?

Wait? Golden? Golden light? Holy attribute energy?

——”Sacred Stone??”——

Rubbing her stomach, Bai Lianyue’s expression immediately stiffened.

“Lianyue? Lianyue? What’s wrong? Your complexion suddenly looks terrible?”

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Shaking Bai Lianyue’s shoulders, Ailiya asked with concern.

“No, nothing’s wrong.”

The evil god miss hurriedly shook her head.

“Mommy’s fine, don’t worry.”

After confirming, I’ll tell Ai’er.

Bai Lianyue silently made this decision in her heart.

However, just as the evil god miss let out a long breath and adjusted her mental state, she suddenly frowned again and looked at her daughter with some puzzlement.

“What’s wrong, Lianyue?”

Faced with Bai Lianyue’s suddenly strange gaze, Ailiya blinked in confusion.

And this question made Bai Lian even more certain of her speculation.

Just now, she indeed hadn’t heard wrong.

Ai’er, this bad girl…

The next moment, under Ailiya’s innocent gaze, Bai Lianyue visibly slowly pouted and put on an ‘I’m angry’ expression.

“Lian?”

“Ailiya.”

Bai Lian spoke solemnly.

Not using a nickname, but calling Ailiya by her full name. This showed that the evil god miss had entered a quite serious state.

Taking a deep breath, the evil god miss crossed her arms in front of her chest and spoke menacingly:

“What did you call me?”

“Lianyue?”

Ailiya answered righteously, as if it were perfectly natural.

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Hearing this, a vein couldn’t help but bulge on Bai Lianyue’s forehead.

“How can you directly call mommy by her name?! Ailiya! You girl are way too disrespectful!”

That’s right, from waking up until now, Bai Lianyue had always felt something was off.

And at this moment, the clever evil god miss finally realized what exactly felt discordant! That’s right, it was the problem of how her daughter addressed her!!

Clearly being her daughter, yet not calling her ‘mommy’, but instead directly calling her ‘Lianyue’?

What kind of propriety was this!

Outrageous!

However, faced with the menacing Bai Lianyue, Ailiya still remained calm, even tilting her head and asking in confusion:

“Calling you ‘Lianyue’—is that not okay?”

“Of course it’s not okay! What daughter addresses her ‘mommy’ like that?!”

“But~”

Ailiya bit her lip.

After a brief hesitation, Ailiya said quietly:

“You’re not really my mommy…”

Although her voice was small, with her extraordinary senses, the evil god miss heard it crystal clear.

Upon realizing what Ailiya had said, Bai Lianyue immediately felt like a bolt from the blue, standing there stunned as if struck by lightning.

After being dazed for more than ten seconds, the ‘fierceness’ on Bai Lianyue’s face rapidly faded, replaced by feelings of grievance and unease. In the girl’s gem-like emerald eyes, waves of tears even began to ripple…

“Wuu wuu wuu… Ai’er, Ai’er is in her rebellious phase, doesn’t, doesn’t want mommy anymore wuu wuu wuu!! How can this be wuu wuu wuu…”

Upon realizing her daughter didn’t acknowledge her as mommy, Bai Lianyue instantly felt abandoned.

A strong emotion of sadness immediately surged in the evil god miss’s heart, suppressing her rationality and making her cry pitifully.

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“Eh?!! Wait!! Did I get it wrong?!”

Seeing this scene, Ailiya also frantically waved her hands.

Actually, Ailiya’s idea was simple—to first change how she addressed her, calling her ‘Lianyue’, to make the evil god miss realize… that she wasn’t actually her daughter. The other party didn’t need to truly treat her as a daughter.

After all, only this way could they reestablish a new relationship between them.

But what Ailiya didn’t realize was that her deliberately strong response actually made Lianyue cry directly??

Hey!

You’re an evil god! One of the Trinity of Malevolence!

How can you just cry like that so easily?

Have some dignity as an evil god!!

Who’s the child between us two?!

Ailiya couldn’t help but roar and complain inwardly.

“Mommy don’t cry, mommy be good, mommy is the most well-behaved. Don’t cry don’t cry~, Ai’er was just joking with mommy~, how could Ai’er not want mommy? Don’t cry don’t cry~”

Hurriedly hugging the sobbing Bai Lianyue, Ailiya gently patted her back.

Since the current Ailiya was already quite a bit taller than Bai Lianyue, this hugging motion wasn’t awkward at all.

Under Ailiya’s comforting, Bai Lianyue nervously asked again:

“Really, really?”

“Mm-hmm, how could Ai’er lie to mommy?”

Ailiya replied with a bitter smile.

Clearly, comforting Bai Lianyue and preventing curse power from being released due to emotional instability had become Ailiya’s most important task at the moment.

“Then, then that’s good…”

After receiving an affirmative answer, the evil god miss’s emotions gradually stabilized, and the ice-blue curse power that had faintly leaked out was also drawn back into her body.

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Seeing this, while patting the back of Lian’s head, Ailiya breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Phew~ Fortunately she calmed down.

Really, after Lianyue woke up this time, why does it feel like her emotions have become even more unstable?

Sigh.

After sighing inwardly, Ailiya gave up on continuing to provoke Lianyue and instead asked another question the girl was quite concerned about.

“Mommy… our contract is about to expire, isn’t it?”

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Upon hearing this, Bai Lianyue, who was being held in Ailiya’s arms, trembled, and a trace of unusual light overflowed from her emerald pupils.

“Ai’er? Do you, do you want to renew the contract with me?”

Bai Lian said with some surprise.

After all, in Bai Lianyue’s own view, signing a soul contract with an evil god… wasn’t exactly a good thing.

To this, Ailiya smiled sweetly:

“Of course~, according to the Salvation Game rules. If we don’t renew, won’t my soul be taken away?”

“Uh, actually, it’s, it’s not really like that…”

Taking souls and such was a game rule established by Yelena to better control those contractors with ulterior motives. But for Ailiya, there was no need for such measures…

However, before Bai Lianyue could explain much more, Ailiya brought her small face close to Bai Lianyue’s and asked sincerely:

“Is it not allowed?”

“It’s, it’s allowed…”

“Then~”

Gazing into Bai Lianyue’s eyes, Ailiya continued asking in a playful tone:

“After renewing the contract, can we change the contract contents? Like, change the wish or something~”