Volume 3, Chapter 6 – The Crying Shuoyue

After an extremely guilt-ridden conversation, Miss Yumo finally left Mengxi’s room.

Yumo let out a long sigh of relief once she was outside the small building and felt sincerely grateful to the nurse who had arrived right on time to change the dressings.

‘It seems I successfully fooled her…’

‘Sigh…’

‘Luckily, I was quick-witted enough to brush it off with a suitable reason.’

‘That girl shouldn’t suspect anything now…’

‘However, why did Mengxi suddenly care so much about my relationship with the Blackrose Family? She had never even mentioned it before. Moreover, although those dishes exist in the outside world…’

‘Was it just a coincidence? Or was that girl hinting at something…’

‘But her expression didn’t look like it.’

‘Hmm, strange…’

…

‘Sigh, I’ll observe her a bit more.’

‘Now that I’ve promised to make lunch for Mengxi, I need to prepare the ingredients. Other ingredients are easy to find, but Camel Dragon meat~’

‘It is hard to say if the Blackrose Family has any. I might as well head back to the Deepwinter Forest and catch one myself.’

‘Because Afnora woke up today, most of the servants have gone to her residence to help or receive new tasks. In short, people won’t be staring at me for the time being, which makes this a great opportunity to sneak home. Besides, there are some things I want to handle in the Deepwinter Forest.’

With this thought, Yumo made her decision.

Taking advantage of the absence of people, Yumo slipped into a pile of ruins that had not yet been cleared. Subsequently, with a slight surge of crimson Shadow Essence, Yumo transformed into countless red points of light and slowly dissipated into the atmosphere…

Sometime later, in the eastern part of the Deepwinter Forest, where Yumo’s ‘small cabin’ was located.

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On the snowy ground.

Countless crimson points of light suddenly emerged.

Accompanied by a slight surge of Shadow Essence, these points of light gathered rapidly toward a central point as if receiving a summons and condensed into the figure of a young girl.

The next instant.

As the power stabilized, a beautiful black-haired girl dressed in a black gauze dress with bare feet stepped onto the snow.

As if sensing their master’s return.

The surrounding Abyssal Demons let out excited roars and ran toward the black-haired girl, wagging their tails and sticking out their tongues in an unbelievable Abyssal Demon version of acting cute.

Looking at the cute little fellow in front of her who stood five meters tall, had four heads, five large mouths, and was covered in ghastly white bones, Yumo revealed a sweet smile.

Yumo was quite fond of these seventh tier Abyssal Demons that possessed a small amount of intelligence.

Thus.

The girl slowly raised her hand and patted the small head covered in thick corrosive liquid while looking at the excited pack of Abyssal Demons around her.

“Alright, alright, be good and stop being so noisy~”

As the boss spoke, the Abyssal Demons who were roaring excitedly stopped their cries immediately.

Seeing how well-behaved everyone was, Yumo nodded slightly in satisfaction.

Then she turned her head toward the back.

Specifically toward where the small cabin was located.

However, the moment Yumo turned her head, the black-haired girl’s face darkened instantly.

The place where a cozy little cabin once stood was now gone. In its place was a massive crater with a radius of about twenty meters and a depth of about thirty meters…

The lovely cabin where she, the three little ones, and Mengxi once lived. The cabin she had spent so much time carefully decorating and considered her first home in this other world had long since vanished. The only thing left was perhaps the wood scraps near the crater that had luckily not been burned to ashes.

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Admittedly, after seeing Yuan’er enter ‘brat mode’ back then, Yumo had anticipated the tragic fate of her small cabin.

But honestly, Yumo originally thought that after Yuan’er came out, she would have just knocked the cabin into pieces, leaving some hope for salvage. However, she never expected that her cabin would now be reduced to mere dust…

“F*ck!! My cabin!!”

Holding her head, Miss Yumo roared with tears in her eyes.

The surrounding air grew increasingly cold as Yumo’s mood took a sharp turn for the worse. A terrifying wave of Shadow Essence began to flicker around the black-haired girl, causing the nearby Abyssal Demons to tremble uncontrollably.

But while crying out, Yumo frowned and slowly knelt down to pick up some clothing remnants from the ground.

“This is a robe from the Ashurmos Church…”

Moreover, although it was faint, there was indeed a residual aura of holy power at the scene…

To have remained until now without dissipating, this holy power must have been quite dense, and its owner’s strength should be above the seventh tier. Wait? There are two different signatures of holy power? A saint tier from the Ashurmos Church and an Earth Apostle.

Could it be?!

‘The two Heroes and their team who were supposed to be in Windward City actually came to my house?!’

Blinking her eyes, Miss Yumo could not help but show an expression of disbelief.

Are these Heroes out of their minds?

One just died recently, and yet they came here to throw their lives away again?!

But how did they get here?

Countless question marks instantly appeared over Yumo’s head.

Additionally, after looking around and sensing carefully for a moment, Yumo revealed a disappointed expression.

‘It seems Yuan’er didn’t come back here either.’

That makes sense. Since she retained her human mindset and received that kind of education from a young age, she should be extremely repelled by Abyssal Demons now. Even if she knows I am a demon king tier existence, she probably wouldn’t run back to the Deepwinter Forest.

However, Just as Yumo was lost in thought. A familiar and excited girl’s voice suddenly drifted into Yumo’s ears from above.

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“Mommy! You’re back!!”

“Hmm? Yeah, I’m back.”

Looking up at the sky, Yumo revealed a gentle and somewhat doting smile.

Under Yumo’s gaze, the previously empty sky suddenly underwent a strange distortion! Amidst a cluster of blue-gold Shadow Essence, ripples like those on water spread through the air.

The next instant, a beautiful and cute blue-haired girl wearing a water-blue dress abruptly appeared in mid-air. Then, the blue-haired girl showed a sweet, innocent, and extremely excited expression as she flew down from the sky, throwing her arms around Yumo’s neck and hanging half-floated against her.

“Mommy! Shuoyue missed you so much while you were away! Since you’re back this time, will you stay for a longer period?”

Facing her daughter’s question, Yumo helplessly patted the girl’s small head.

“I’m sorry, I’m just here for a bit and then I have to leave. There are still things to do over there.”

“Wuwu, I see…”

Upon hearing this answer, the excitement on Shuoyue’s small face faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, instantly transforming her from a sunny and lively image into a listless, soulless girl.

Nonetheless, Shuoyue quickly restrained her emotions and looked at her mother with curious eyes.

“Mommy, then since you suddenly came back today, is it… is something wrong?”

“That? What do you think?”

As she spoke, Yumo’s gaze gradually shifted toward the massive crater nearby.

“Shuoyue, shouldn’t you explain to me first what happened to our home?”

“?!!”

The moment she heard those words, Shuoyue’s heart skipped a beat, and a drop of cold sweat unconsciously rolled down her forehead.

“Uh, well…”

“It’s not just the cabin. Why is there the aura of Heroes here? Why did your younger sister suddenly awaken early? And where are your two older sisters? Why can’t I sense their presence at all?”

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As each sentence left her mouth and each question entered Shuoyue’s ears, Yumo’s gaze became increasingly ‘kind’.

Shuoyue’s delicate body could not help but tremble slightly.

As expected… What must come, will eventually come.

‘In that case, I’m sorry, Big Sister Li Mo!’

‘It is time to show the results of my training!’

Without hesitation, Shuoyue brought out the full results of her training with Saibok.

In Yumo’s blind spot, Shuoyue secretly pulled back her small hand and extended her index finger and thumb. Then, the blue-haired girl gritted her teeth, steeled her heart, and gave her own thigh a hard pinch! In a flash, a wave of sharp pain surged into Shuoyue’s mind.

Under Yumo’s somewhat startled gaze, Shuoyue’s lovely eyes turned slightly red and filled with ripples of tears. The next moment, Shuoyue immediately burst into tears with a voice full of guilt and grievance.

“Wuwuwu! Mother, I was wrong! It’s all because I didn’t pay attention and remind Big Sister Li Mo. The person from the Ashurmos Church she ate had a tracker researched by the Chosen Son on them, and that’s how the Heroes found their way here, wuwu! And I… I… my control over the barrier wasn’t proficient enough, which is why I accidentally let them find a loophole to break in, wuwuwu. If I had been more careful, the cabin wouldn’t have been destroyed, and my sister wouldn’t have been attacked, wuwuwu…”

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At the same time.

A certain little white wolf tens of thousands of miles away suddenly poked her head up and looked around uneasily.

“Meow-woo?”

‘I keep feeling like there is a bad premonition…’

‘Hmm…’

‘Whatever, never mind, back to eating~’

Thinking this, the airheaded little white wolf lowered her head again and began fiercely devouring the chicken leg feast prepared by Fengling…