Volume 5, Chapter 49 – Got Used To It

“Holy King of Knights? You want me to be the Holy King of Knights?”

Tianyin’s first reaction to Xingyu Muxi’s words was disbelief.

However, after remembering that Xingyu Muxi would not use something like this to lie to her, Tianyin still felt that what Xingyu Muxi said was very likely true.

But… true was true. Letting her be the Holy King of Knights or something was just way too ridiculous…

After all, you know best what you really are. At the end of the day, Tianyin was not a paladin. Even if her class worked in a very similar way, she just was not a paladin to begin with…

“H-how is that possible, Sister Xiaomu, I absolutely cannot be the Holy King of Knights. I am not even a paladin…”

As she said this, Tianyin’s small mouth pouted slightly, and her eyes were full of helpless confusion.

Seeing Tianyin looking this unusually cute, Xingyu Muxi raised a hand to her own lips, her eyes curving as she let out a soft laugh.

The sudden light laugh from the elf girl made Tianyin’s already pouting lips puff out even more, and her slender brows almost scrunched together.

“Wuu… Sister Xiaomu, what are you laughing at! Do you think what I said does not make sense?”

“Fufufu. Not at all, I am definitely not laughing at what you said, Xiaoyin. I just could not help laughing because Xiaoyin suddenly became so sensible.”

Xingyu Muxi spoke in a soft, gentle tone, and at the same time her dreamy eyes rested tenderly on Tianyin, who was pouting and glaring adorably up at her.

“Well, I already thought about this. Even though this problem looks like a fatal one, it actually is not a problem at all.”

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“Eh, it is not a problem?”

“The reasoning is very easy, Xiaoyin. You just need to add a definition of ‘temporary’ to the Holy King of Knights title.”

“Um… you can do that?”

Tianyin tilted her small head, her waterfall-like silver-white hair sliding down to frame her face with the tilt, drifting lightly in the air.

Seeing the doubtful look in Tianyin’s eyes, the elf girl lowered her lashes, lifting the corners of her mouth in a smile as warm and dazzling as sunlight.

“Yes. As long as you add the meaning of ‘acting’ there, it is fine. When there is a suitable candidate in the future, Xiaoyin can hand the Holy King of Knights title over to that suitable person~”

Looking at the naturally warm smile on the elf girl’s face, Tianyin’s heart, for some reason, felt like it skipped half a beat.

So she could not help shifting her gaze away from the elf girl she had been staring at.

“Um… then… then let us do that… I will listen to Sister Xiaomu…”

And just like that, Tianyin’s identity as Holy King of Knights was decided in an incredibly short conversation.

This was probably something Yunchou had never anticipated…

He had pulled every trick he could think of to seize the Throne power of the Holy King of Knights. But even though he had accomplished something that would look like a miracle in anyone else’s eyes, what Yunchou obtained was still an imperfect King of Knights inheritance.

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He gained the Kingdom, but could not gain the paladins’ loyalty.

Or maybe… from the moment Yunchou decided to kill the King of Knights and seize the Throne power, things had already been decided?

Of course, all of this was only speculation.

……

Time moved forward to the third day after Tianyin returned to Eden.

Over these first three days, after getting plenty of rest, the fatigue from her long journey had completely faded.

With the unexplainable exhaustion gone, Tianyin’s overall condition had also improved.

Of course, after coming back, Tianyin also made time every day to visit the catgirl who was still sleeping. For now, although the condition of the catgirl Yeluo was still deteriorating, the overall trend was at least relatively stable.

During this time, Tianyin also tried to use the newly acquired power of Sloth to heal the catgirl, and the result left her half glad, half worried.

What made Tianyin happy was that the power of Sloth really had an effect. After Tianyin used the power of Sloth on Yeluo, her condition, which had been constantly worsening, actually stopped getting worse.

Yes, in the most literal sense.

What made Tianyin sad was that even though the power of Sloth stopped Yeluo’s continuously worsening, near-death state and pulled her back from the brink, it still could not completely save her.

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The reality was that Yeluo still had to keep on sleeping.

Until Tianyin could use that other one of the Seven Deadly Sins, Pride, the power residing in Lucifa.

Of course, when she realized Sloth could stop Yeluo’s deterioration, Tianyin immediately thought of going to Lucifa and taking the Pride power from her.

In the end, this idea was stopped by Samael.

According to Samael, Yeluo’s near-death condition had been far too much of a coincidence.

Strictly speaking, stripping away a Deadly Sin was something that should be lethal. Even though Yeluo did not die on the spot after Sloth was stripped from her, and instead fell into a near-death state, that did not mean Lucifa would also only fall into a near-death state instead of dying outright after Pride was stripped from her.

With things so uncertain, Samael did not recommend Tianyin go through with it.

So, under Samael’s persuasion, while Tianyin broke out in a cold sweat, her reason gradually returned.

“Master, Master, you are spacing out again, so what have you been thinking about this whole time!?”

A soft voice, tinged with emotion, sounded by her ear.

Tianyin came back to herself and saw the black-haired girl in front of her, eyes wide, one hand tugging at the hem of her clothes.

Because the girl was very close, Tianyin could almost catch the faint, delicate fragrance from her body…

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“It is nothing, Xiaomengyao. Your Master was just thinking about whether I should eat strawberry cake or vanilla cake later.”

“You still need to think about that? Of course it should be strawberry cake~”

At these words, Xiaomengyao wrinkled her delicate little nose and spoke in a perfectly justified tone as she helped Tianyin decide.

“Muu… then… um…”

Hearing Xiaomengyao, Lucifa, who had seemed too shy to make a sound at all on the side, nervously pinched the hem of her dress with one hand while slowly raising the other in a tiny motion.

“Big Sis… Big Sis, I think… I think the vanilla cake is… is better… awu…”

Just as she was about to finish her sentence, Lucifa suddenly let out a small cry, then immediately clapped a hand over her mouth and crouched down, eyes brimming with tears.

“Ah, Master, Lucifa bit her tongue again!”

Watching Lucifa holding back tears after biting her tongue, looking so weak and pitiful, Tianyin let out a slightly helpless sigh.

“You need to be more careful, Lucifa.”

“Muu, I already, got… got used to it…”