Volume 2, Chapter 95 – The Naughty Child

“Hmm??”

It looks like the Blood Butterflies can’t hold her back.

Well, that’s to be expected. Although the Blood Butterflies were incarnations of her own power, it seemed unrealistic for a Blood Butterfly possessing only a tiny fraction of that strength to deal with a newly awakened demon king tier existence.

‘Forget it, I originally just wanted to delay her for a bit so I could deal with this girl after settling Mengxi down.’

‘However, right now, this girl seems a bit irritable.’

Slightly narrowing her pupils, a look of helplessness gradually appeared in Yumo’s eyes.

At this moment, Yumo discovered that after forcibly blasting through the encirclement of Blood Butterflies with several shots of the Annihilation Cannon, Yuan’er’s heterochromatic eyes, filled with hatred and killing intent, were fixed firmly on the ‘unconscious’ silver-haired girl in her arms.

She had an aura that suggested she would never stop until she eliminated the other party!

As for Yumo, who was holding the silver-haired girl, she seemed to have been selectively ignored by her.

‘She’s actually ignoring me? This child…’

In the next instant, the black Shadow Essence erupted violently as fierce winds howled and the temperature in the air plummeted rapidly. Windward City was unsurprisingly shrouded in black light once again. As her power finished gathering, Yuan’er suddenly shot out like a cannonball, charging straight toward Yumo with an invincible and fierce knight-like momentum!

Black Shadow Essence gathered in the palm of her right hand while terrifying energy fluctuations rippled wildly within it.

Although its power could not be compared to the previous Annihilation Cannon, it was still enough to turn Mengxi into ashes.

Under the acceleration of the black light, Yuan’er’s speed increased frantically. The sky was filled with afterimages left behind by her high-speed movement.

However, to Yumo, this speed seemed somewhat insignificant. Every one of Yuan’er’s movements fell within Yumo’s field of vision and her sensory domain. Thus, when Yuan’er rushed in front of Yumo and prepared to launch an attack, Yumo lightly leapt into the air and dodged Yuan’er’s strike.

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At the same time, to avoid the shockwaves of her aura causing any harm to the weakened Mengxi, Yumo attached a layer of deep red Shadow Essence around Mengxi’s body.

“Hey, you brat, calm down!” Yumo scolded slightly.

However, faced with Yumo’s slightly angry words, Yuan’er showed no sign of being moved. Her pupils remained locked straight onto the silver-haired girl, and she even couldn’t help but let out bursts of hostile growls as if she were warning Yumo.

“…”

While dodging Yuan’er’s continuous attacks, Yumo sighed with a face full of helplessness and an expression that said ‘just as I expected.’

Really, do these children have to enter ‘bear child ¹ 熊孩子 (xióng hái zi), brat/naughty child, bear child is the literal meaning mode’ the moment they wake up?!

Yumo suddenly felt a sense of mental exhaustion.

‘Bear child’ mode could also be understood as a berserk state.

Demon king tier Abyssal Demons were different from other Abyssal Demons because they possessed high-level intelligence. However, when these demon king tier existences first awakened, they seemed no different from ordinary bloodthirsty Abyssal Demons. When they woke up, it was often only their bodies that awakened while their consciousness remained in a vague and hazy state.

Their actions relied not on reason but on instinct, specifically the most primitive destruction and slaughter instincts of an Abyssal Demon.

During this period, they wouldn’t even listen to Yumo’s words.

Whether it was Pierre and Karina in the early years or the younger ones like Li Mo, Li Yu, and Shuoyue, they all displayed this kind of bear child behavior after first obtaining Shadow Essence and awakening. Therefore, Yumo did not feel surprised when she saw Yuan’er going mad and constantly launching attacks at Mengxi.

This was because she was used to it.

It was truly a sad story.

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The only difference was that when children like Li Mo and Li Yu first awakened, they threw their tantrums inside the forest, which meant they just bullied other magical beasts and incidentally swatted a few passing Heroes to death without causing too much damage.

Yuan’er was different; this girl had actually run into Windward City.

Was it because of a subconscious desire to return home? Or was she guided here?

Forget it, why she came here was no longer important.

The important thing was that she couldn’t be allowed to keep making a scene. After all, this was Windward City, the girl’s hometown where her friends and relatives lived. If she returned to normal and found the entire city destroyed because of her and her cherished family dead because of her, she might just blacken on the spot.

Wait? Isn’t that the kind of experience a villain is supposed to have?

Yumo tilted her head and looked thoughtfully at the rampaging black light. Suddenly, Yumo’s brow furrowed sharply.

‘Wait!? This girl is berserk?! She’s entered bear child mode?!’

‘Then, my house is definitely beyond saving!’

Recalling the tragic scenes every time the children had just woken up in the past, an ominous premonition suddenly surfaced in Yumo’s heart. Her intuition told her that her house was gone.

It wasn’t just damaged; it was gone.

She had worked so hard on those decorations! (Saibok: Wait, didn’t I do most of the work?) She had also stored many precious ingredients, potions, and various other things there!

Especially the Elven Race’s Tears of Nature and the Dragon Race’s Dragon Horns.

It’s over, everything is gone after this girl’s rampage.

‘Oh well, those races are relatively friendly, so I’ll just ask the Blackrose family to go get some more in the future.’

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‘Forget it, I should focus on making this child return to normal first.’

While making the decision in her heart, Yumo slowly dodged backward, narrowly avoiding the Annihilation Cannon that Yuan’er suddenly released. The black light shot into the distance and directly exploded into soaring flames on the distant plains.

“Sigh, what a pain…”

After a sigh, Yumo’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Surrounded by blood-colored butterflies and bursts of crimson Shadow Essence, Mengxi slowly floated toward the ground. After all, holding Mengxi in her arms made it difficult for her to operate.

Upon seeing the silver-haired girl leave Yumo’s embrace, Yuan’er immediately shifted her target and surged with endless black Shadow Essence, howling as she rushed toward Mengxi on the ground!

However, in the next instant, accompanied by a flash of crimson light, Yumo teleported directly in front of Yuan’er and blocked her attack.

“You brat, calm down!”

After being repeatedly blocked by Yumo, a rare hint of anger also appeared in Yuan’er’s red and blue heterochromatic eyes. She seemed to realize that as long as Yumo was there, it would be impossible for her to kill her most important target. In the next moment, after letting out a series of growls, the black Shadow Essence surged again and wrapped around Yuan’er as she charged toward Yumo!

‘There’s no other way…’

Seeing that Yuan’er was actually attacking her, Yumo shook her head helplessly.

‘Bear child mode really is annoying.’

How could she liberate the children from ‘bear child’ mode? Based on past experience, Yumo felt that a beating was the most appropriate way to knock their consciousness awake. Otherwise, who knows when this child’s tantrum would end. Back then, it was because she let Pierre do as he pleased, wanting him to recover his sanity on his own, that a certain emperor who led a personal expedition met his end, which in turn led to the collapse of a certain empire and created the current mess of small countries in the central-west.

If they were still a whole, they would undoubtedly be a powerful force against the Abyssal Demons!

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Thinking of this, a serious look appeared in Yumo’s eyes.

Yumo snapped her fingers.

Accompanied by the rippling of crimson light, the red glow suddenly gathered and condensed in front of Yumo, transforming into a summoning array filled with overwhelming pressure.

As the array operated, a surge of majestic power burst out from its center, and a terrifying sense of oppression suddenly scattered in all directions. Yuan’er’s aggressive black aura was instantly shattered by the red light emanating from the array.

Faced with the crimson power head-on, Yuan’er instinctively showed an expression of fear.

Then, under Yuan’er’s stunned gaze, accompanied by the venting of energy, a legendary weapon slowly emerged from the array!

In the next moment, this legendary weapon named ‘feather duster’ was held firmly in Yumo’s hand as the “blade” pointed directly at Yuan’er’s little bottom.

‘Naughty children need to be educated~’

At the same time, Wilt, who had been heavily injured earlier, barely managed to suppress the loss of life from his wounds and struggled to crawl up from the snow. Then, this heavily injured Cult Leader of the Divine Punishment Holy Church thoughtfully looked up at the sky.

However, unlike the others, Wilt’s attention was not focused on the clashing black and red lights but was directed toward the silver figure floating back toward the ruins below, surrounded by blood butterflies.

In the next moment, a fierce light was revealed in Wilt’s eyes.

“It’s not over yet!”