Chapter 43: Sterilization

This isn’t just about pursuing strength and victory.

It’s more like the obsession with a toy you couldn’t get as a child.

She gently pushed away her sticky mother and stood in front of her father.

Father was very tall.

After curving his lips slightly, he gently bent down to match her height.

“Please…”

His attitude had become much gentler than before!

It seemed to be because she had become a girl!

His graceful posture was exactly the same as when he comforted Mom!

Like treating a little princess… happy…

“You and your mother are both my strongest wings…”

“Come, take it, my proud son.”

Ye Lu pouted and stared at him.

“Call me that again, and I’ll completely ignore you.”

“?”

“Lovely daughter?”

“Don’t call me that either!”

“Mn… daughter.”

“…”

“And… your mom apologized, so of course Dad has to apologize too.

We really didn’t care about Ye Lu enough before.”

“It’s all our fault, but now, we’ve changed.”

“Does Ye Lu still want to believe us?”

“After all… a few days ago, Mom was sobbing in my arms…”

“Hey!”

Dad’s tone had always been very gentle, and he was better at coaxing people, at least much better than the Prince.

The contrast was that, as her father, his face was even more youthful and delicate than the Prince’s.

‘I wonder how old Dad was when Mom brought him home?’

“Mn, I won’t hate it anymore.”

Ye Lu nodded, and her tone unconsciously softened.

She didn’t even notice it herself.

Maybe that’s just the nature of girls?

Her gaze returned to the holy sword in his hand.

‘Wow… it’s so beautiful~!

From now on… it’ll be mine, right!’

The blade was forged from high-quality magic iron, the surface seemed coated with a layer of magic power, gleaming with golden light.

If placed in a jewelry store, it could pass as an excellent ornament.

‘Mn… good.

My parents are good to me.’

Tears almost welled up at the corners of her eyes.

Excited heart, trembling hands.

Slowly, she approached.

When her palm grasped the gilded hilt, a heavy, solid feeling quickly transmitted.

Ye Lu didn’t even need to lift it to imagine how badly she could have crushed the Young Master if she had been holding this sword during their duel.

‘Cut in two?

No… cut off his descendants!’

‘Heh heh…’

Just like that, Father let go of the hand supporting the blade.

‘Heh heh…’

‘Heh…’

“Clang——”

“…”

“Oww!… That hurts!”

The sword slipped from her hand and crashed onto the floor, but luckily it only grazed the skin of her hand.

She looked down.

The sword was completely undamaged, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

But the floor had cracked into several seams…

Her happy mood plummeted again.

That sword had landed solidly on the ground, and the strength with which she had gripped the hilt felt like nothing.

No muscles, no strength.

She simply couldn’t wield this sword.

“Ha… Ye Lu, are you okay?!”

“…”

Her hand was caught…

“Oww… it doesn’t hurt.

Ye Lu, Mom’s saliva is very useful.

When Dad is injured, Mom often licks him like this.”

“…”

A moment later.

“How is it?

Does it still hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt anymore…”

Dinner time.

Dad had made a table full of delicious food.

This time, it was much more lavish than most times she was at home.

Rabbit meat, chicken stew with mushrooms, jackal meat… almost all were tasty game.

Ye Lu sat at a corner of the table, watching Mom laugh as she kept putting food into Dad’s bowl, and finally feeding it into his mouth herself.

“Mn… you must be tired, dear.

Replenish yourself.”

After feeding Dad, Mom herself took a big mouthful of rice, her cheeks puffed up as she chewed contentedly.

Ye Lu watched her satisfied expression.

She looked down at her own bowl, which Mom had already piled into a small mountain of meat.

It was steaming hot, generously sprinkled with cumin and chili powder.

But when it came to her eyes, she had no appetite at all.

“Mmm… why aren’t you eating, Ye Lu?”

“It has no taste.”

She didn’t mince words.

“Mom, for a woman’s body, do you have to have sex with a man to make food taste good…”

“Mn… that’s about right…”

After she said this, the family became very quiet.

It wasn’t a solution to just watch them eat.

Ye Lu was terribly hungry, so she had to grit her teeth and bear it, taking a couple of bites just to go through the motions, then left the table early.

Outside the window, night had fallen.

She couldn’t see anything anymore.

Occasionally she could hear a wolf howl.

She looked at the clock; it was already 8:00, which marked the time for bathing and sleeping.

As usual, Ye Lu didn’t have the habit of staying up late, so she said goodbye to them and went to take a bath.

After bathing, she came to the living room and found the clock’s hands pointing to 9:00.

Her face reddened.

‘Speaking of which, had I been too indulgent?

I spent a whole hour thinking about the Prince.’

But hearing the faint gasping sounds coming from upstairs, she felt relieved.

As a female succubus, relying on no man, just on herself, she could already be listed as a pure maiden among her tribe.

‘Yes, it’s quite normal.

No need to mind.’

As usual, she deceived herself, turned off the living room lights, walked into her room, and in one go, closed the door, turned off the light, took off her shoes, and lay on the bed.

She smelled the lavender scent of the quilt, which Mom had washed.

In her arms… she held the sheathed holy sword.

Very hard… and she liked it.

But hugging it for a sense of security wasn’t really suitable.

Yet since she had bought it back and couldn’t even lift it normally, it would be a waste not to use it.

No choice, she had to make do and let it serve its only practical purpose.

Thus, she slowly closed her eyes, counting sheep in her heart… one sheep, two sheep, three sheep… three hundred and fifty-one sheep…

In the middle of the night.

Ye Lu pursed her trembling lips slightly, suddenly threw off the covers and sat up, tears squeezing at the corners of her eyes.

“Boo hoo… I’m so hungry…”

She wiped her tears, talking to herself.

Saliva didn’t fill her stomach at all.

Eating dinner had been no different from eating tree bark.

She didn’t know how many times her stomach had growled.

She was too hungry to sleep.

She touched her lower abdomen; it was still flat.

She pondered life for a while.

Dried her tears, and with dark circles under her eyes, lay back down.

Five minutes later, the bed was a mess, and her hair too.

“Mmm~~ ooh… Pr… Prince~~”

After that, completely drained.

Finally, a hint of drowsiness came.

The next morning.

When she threw off the covers.

As expected, completely exhausted.

Just getting out of bed and lifting her legs left her almost completely spent.

She looked in the mirror.

The girl in the mirror was hunched, with a weathered expression, no vitality at all.

Naturally… she wasn’t so cute anymore.

…Disappointed.

She casually put on clothes and pushed open the door, then saw her father not too far off in the living room.

He looked very much like the girl in the mirror.

He was lying on the sofa with an expression like he was about to die.

But the reason for his exhaustion was completely opposite.

The difference was insatiable desire versus overwork.

And… her own mother?

Ye Lu slowly turned her head.

On the other side of the living room.

Mother was in much higher spirits.

She was wearing a doll-style nightgown, like an obedient little wife, though…

She hummed a tune, filled a bottle of hot water from the dispenser, then threw in half a bag of goji berries.

Her movements were extremely smooth.

After doing all that, she walked over to her husband, and without further ado, brought the cup of goji berry water to his lips.

“Mmph!”

“Drink it!”

Ye Lu was stunned watching from the side.

‘Dad… is so pitiful.’

‘Mom… seems, so happy?’

‘How come I feel a little envious of Mom?’

But feeling her extremely hungry stomach, she quickly denied it and couldn’t help asking, “Um… Mom.”

“If I get sterilized, will my body return to normal without relying on men?”