Bai Ya’s lips curved into an excited smile—she had been preparing this punch for a long time.
Enduring pain is worse than suffering it directly; let alone she had to play dead and stay perfectly still. Several times, she nearly screamed out loud, but in the end, her willpower overcame the passing time.
Honestly, if the little girl didn’t come any closer, she would immediately get up and run away. Staying still and pretending to be dead any longer would just be torture!
However, her efforts paid off. The unseen enemy had been lured out. Although this plan only had a 30% chance of success, the enemy’s appearance as a girl no older than eight years old really helped. This raised the odds to 80%.
Girls that young are so easy to fool, Bai Ya thought to herself, feeling that her lolicon tendencies were completely cured.
There was a very high possibility that the little girl was a slave girl. Regardless, it was absolutely certain she wanted to kill Bai Ya.
Are all these 【SLAVE】 girls so terrifying? Slave girls are truly troublesome creatures.
Aside from developing a psychological shadow over lolis, this was a complete victory for her.
Because of her experience subduing the Shadow Spider slave girl, Bai Ya made a small yet fatal mistake.
She greatly underestimated the threat posed by the slave girl. A slave girl was equivalent to a national humanoid killing weapon. This was no exaggeration—in fact, it was rather conservative and humble.
Bai Ya was arrogant and careless, perhaps because she was new to this world, or because the memories of the original Bai Ya hadn’t fully merged, leaving her lacking some common sense. One undeniable fact was that these national humanoid killing weapons were not as fragile as she had imagined, even if this weapon was still in an unformed state.
Even if it looked like a girl no older than eight.
The slave girl 【Cursed Doll】—Bai Ya’s sudden attack meant the nightmare she’d long tried to avoid had come true at this moment. Fear instantly gripped her heart.
She was so scared she didn’t know what to do. She screamed in terror, then instinctively shut her eyes tight and unleashed every skill she had to protect herself.
Her racial talent, called “Soul Shatter Catastrophe,” had one developed ability named ‘Flame Demon Soul Restraint.’ The tool born from this ability was cradled in her arms—it looked like a doll.
She raised the doll, holding it in front of her. Bai Ya’s fist crashed into the doll’s face, deforming what had been a beautiful face beyond recognition.
Bai Ya knew she was a useless weakling with a combat power of only 5, but she was confident that this punch would topple both the doll and the little girl together. No matter what, her body was fourteen years old; she wouldn’t be unable to subdue a girl younger than herself.
That was the so-called advantage of being an adult.
At that moment, just as Bai Ya thought she had the upper hand, the doll’s single eye, twisted and grotesque, quickly rotated under her fist. Its cold gaze, devoid of any emotion, met Bai Ya’s.
“Sorry…” Bai Ya saw this eerie scene and immediately felt something was terribly wrong.
A chill crawled up her body like a bone-attached maggot she couldn’t shake off. Bai Ya had already decided to flee, but her fist couldn’t be pulled back!
No matter how hard she tried, retracting a punch right after throwing it was far too difficult. Her reflexes simply weren’t that fast yet.
Since she couldn’t pull it back, there was only one path: death.
“Get away from me, ugh!!” The little girl let out a miserable wail. Her voice seemed like a signal.
The doll’s mouth, sewn shut with thread, slowly cracked open and revealed a twisted smile.
“Hehehehehehehehehe!”
The lifeless thing suddenly let out an unbearably terrifying laugh. Even in the scorching heat, it sent a bone-chilling cold deep into the marrow.
The doll exploded amid its evil laughter, but beneath the cloth strips was not cotton, but a mass of blazing flames. Scorching waves of fire surged forward—this was the last thing Bai Ya was aware of.
She was going to die…
*****
After the ball ended, the youth in splendid attire clapped his hands, signaling all the nobles to leave the hall. He removed his white fur coat and slowly approached the throne, sitting down.
His hands rested on the armrests as he raised his head. Before his eyes knelt two slave girls.
Slave girl 【Shadow Spider】 and slave girl 【Cursed Doll】—all the slave girls who had accompanied him on this trip were here.
“So, in the end, I got nothing.” The youth in splendid clothes, Arthur Amidall, second prince of Amidal, coldly stared at the trembling Shadow Spider and the little girl.
“That’s right. The things I wanted, you didn’t bring me. I’m very disappointed—” Arthur deliberately prolonged his voice. His gaze slowly roamed over Shadow Spider and the little girl, and he couldn’t help but sneer when recalling his latest information.
The runaway slave, former imperial princess Bai Ya Ifiel Krolom, had escaped prison and caused a massive uproar. More than thirty-eight nobles and over forty-six guards were killed, all by his slave girl Shadow Spider.
In the end, his foster daughter, another slave girl, burned down the entire treasure market and killed Bai Ya, ending the riot.
Why were they so incompetent?
In other words, he wanted to send someone to capture Bai Ya, but his slave girls went on a spree killing nobles, then ended up killing Bai Ya themselves. In the end, he got nothing and might even face impeachment from some powerful nobles upon his return!
His slave girls really were capable.
“Take off your clothes.” Arthur raised a single hand and coldly commanded Shadow Spider.
Whether a disobedient slave or a useless one, strict training was always the answer.
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