Malevolent – Chapter 39 – Malice Closing In

Hein-Anloxi.

This ordinary-looking man with short blue hair was the second son of the Anloxi family, one of the Westivian Covenant’s largest families, a business genius who dominated the Covenant’s shipping systems, a high-position Divine Martial Realm expert… and Lianna-Anloxi’s elder brother.

Upon learning that Lianna had appeared in Cinder Haven, Hein had come to this remote town with attendants from the Anloxi family and entered the restaurant where Lianna had been sighted.

Glancing around, after taking in the messy scene of the restaurant, a hint of disgust and disdain flashed imperceptibly in Hein’s water-blue eyes.

As a top figure in the Covenant, if not for obtaining information about Lianna, Hein would obviously have disdained to set foot in an area where commoners dined.

However,

Disdain aside,

When he walked to one of the messiest dining tables, Hein stopped, silently gazing at the scene of devastation on the table.

Then,

Hein, who had always maintained an elegant demeanor, unhesitatingly reached for the food remnants on the table, picking up a half-eaten crab leg.

“Huh?! Lord Hein?!”

Next,

Under the dumbfounded gaze of his attendant behind him, Hein nonchalantly picked up that half-eaten crab leg, brought it to his lips, and slowly extended his tongue to lick it.

“Hmm, this taste…”

Hein closed his eyes, seemingly concentrating on remembering, or perhaps sensing something. While sensing, he continued licking.

“Lord Hein, what are you doing?”

Watching this scene, the attendant’s eyes were full of astonishment, seemingly unable to believe what she was seeing. She couldn’t understand why the always elegant Lord Hein would lick something that someone else had eaten—how disgusting!

However, the next moment, this attendant no longer needed to ponder this question.

Because with a fluctuation of spiritual energy, a huge water bubble appeared without warning, directly enveloping the attendant’s head. Soon, the suffocating attendant painfully collapsed to the ground, continuously moaning…

Regarding this, Hein remained oblivious, just silently closing his eyes, feeling the slight trace of energy remaining on the food.

After several seconds, Hein slowly opened his eyes, and what remained in his water-blue eyes was a strange sense of satisfaction.

“This taste, this spiritual energy residue, hehe… it is indeed Lianna’s, such a nostalgic flavor~”

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When he initially heard eyewitnesses say that Lianna had been wolfing down food in this garbage heap, he had been somewhat doubtful.

Doubting whether Lianna had created a body double to attract attention.

After all,

That girl had always been full of tricks from a young age.

But now it seemed he had overthought it.

Eyes could be deceived, but the spiritual energy remaining on food and Lianna’s taste couldn’t lie.

“Indeed, I knew you wouldn’t die so easily.”

Speaking, Hein opened his eyes and tossed the crab leg back onto the dining table.

Carefully scanning the messy food on the table, Hein uncontrollably revealed a look of disgust.

Lianna,

It seems that without our discipline these years, you’ve fallen quite low.

Actually lowering yourself to dine in a place where commoners eat, and even wolfing down food in such a messy manner?

Tsk tsk,

Ah, it seems you really need some proper discipline.

While feeling disgusted, Hein continued to lick his lips with his tongue.

However,

You’ve actually started eating food?

It should be known that after reaching the level of a Divine Departure Realm expert, the body structure undergoes a tremendous change. Not only does one’s power take a leap, but their bodies also no longer need food, sleep, or excretion like ordinary people.

According to Hein’s understanding, after his sister Lianna reached the Divine Departure Realm, apart from occasionally eating pastries at tea parties or symbolically drinking a glass of wine at banquets, she hadn’t eaten anything else.

And now?

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She came to a restaurant to eat? And ate so much at once?

“Heh, hehehe…”

Hein couldn’t help but let out a series of eerie laughs. Everything was telling Hein one fact.

After Ailiya’s birth, Lianna’s power had been weakening, and after the twins were born, this weakening had been accelerating madly. Now Lianna’s strength had likely already fallen below the Divine Departure Realm.

And judging from the amount of spiritual energy residue on the food, Lianna hadn’t even maintained the power of the Divine Martial Realm.

The current Lianna was no longer that powerful and terrifying Divine-Graced Maiden from ten years ago, but just a powerless waste.

Heh, hehehe,

Like this?

Yet still trying to run away with the Sacred Stone and Ailiya and the others?

I must say,

Lianna, you are truly naive, so naive it makes me want to laugh.

Even at your peak you couldn’t escape, and now? What makes you think you can get away?

Honestly hand over the Sacred Stone, bring Ailiya and the others back, and you can still enjoy a comfortable latter half of your life. But if you want to escape…

“Hehehe…”

With a cold laugh, a chillingly indifferent smile gradually appeared on Hein’s lips.

Then,

Slowly turning around, kicking aside the attendant’s corpse, Hein walked to the window and looked toward Xestila, who was waiting for his response not far away, and the group of puppet-like young women behind Xestila.

“Lady Xestila, lend me the Valkyrie Battalion. I have a way to find my rebellious sister.”

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Meanwhile,

At the center of the Veiled Domain, in the Forsaken Metropolis Visas.

“Da la da la da la, da la la la la~”

While humming a tune, Bai Lianyue leisurely strode along the broken, desolate streets, advancing toward the small house she had just selected. Now, Bai Lianyue was pulling a huge package with one hand and carrying some strange machinery that still emitted rolling heat with the other.

The young woman’s exquisite face wore a joyful, radiant smile.

Without a doubt, Bai Lianyue was in quite a good mood.

After all, on her first outing in over sixty years… she had not only enjoyed delicious food again but also acquired a brand new ‘heater’ and a large quantity of fresh vegetables and fruits, which could be considered quite a harvest.

Well, although she had also gained some embarrassing memories… but those were trivial matters~

“Got so many nutritious vegetables and fruits, tonight I must properly nourish those little girls~, hehe~”

Being able to see fresh, delicious food in a place as desolate as the Veiled Domain, those little girls would surely be surprised and happy, right?

Bai Lianyue presumed.

After briefly imagining Ailiya and the others’ smiles, Bai Lianyue instinctively smiled herself.

But soon, Bai Lianyue stopped her silly smile and revealed a serious look.

Bai Lianyue oddly turned her head to look at the big bag of food. At this moment, she suddenly realized a very serious problem.

Hmm,

It’s nice that the ingredients are fresh…

But,

She wasn’t very good at cooking, was she?

Although Bai Lianyue always believed that the food she cooked tasted decent, after recalling Xing Wu’s warning, she abandoned the idea of cooking.

—”Dad… promise me, from now on I’ll do the cooking, and you, taste-blind as you are, please stay out of the kitchen, thank you!”—

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Hmm,

If she couldn’t do it herself?

Then find someone else to do it?

Who would that be?

Bai Lianyue began to think. However, considering that the Corrupted Beasts in the Veiled Domain might not be very skilled at cooking, after thinking for a moment, only one option remained in Bai Lianyue’s mind.

“I’ll ask Serveiling.”

That girl was a princess of a country before becoming her vassal, so perhaps she had received some bride training?

Thinking of this, Bai Lianyue prepared to set off to find Serveiling.

However,

Just as she took a step, Bai Lianyue stopped. Then, the Terran Malevolence hesitantly looked down at her clothing, which was covered with food residue, some fresh blood, slightly scorched, and not looking very elegant…

Considering Serveiling’s current unusual obsession with her appearance, Bai Lianyue reconsidered her idea.

And after recalling the process of being forcibly changed by Serveiling earlier, Bai Lianyue couldn’t help but shudder.

“Forget it, maybe I should take a bath first, then go find Serveiling.”

Scratching her head, Bai Lianyue pouted and muttered to herself.

However,

Just at this moment, as if sensing something, the Terran Malevolence trembled all over, her eyes suddenly contracting.

The next instant,

A voice without any emotion, faint and ghostly, drifted into Bai Lianyue’s ears.

—”Big Sis, do you want to take a bath? I can serve you while you bathe~ I promise, I can wash you… completely… clean!”—

Bai Lianyue: Oh no…