“Sword Spirit?! You still can’t get over me, can you?!”
“Hmph! You idiot, you needed this Sword Spirit to save you again. If you pull that again, I’ll cut off your tail and feed it to the crocodiles!”
The Sword Spirit made a fierce threat, but still rescued Zhu Qiu from beneath the blanket.
“Hehe~ Thanks, Sword Spirit.”
As she spoke, Zhu Qiu kissed the Sword Spirit’s little cheek.
The Sword Spirit froze in place again for several seconds, her body turning bright red once more.
But this time, Zhu Qiu was standing, so she immediately noticed the Sword Spirit’s strange state.
Looking at the Sword Spirit, who was completely different from before, Zhu Qiu’s hands started to itch.
“Hehe~”
That little red face was so tempting.
She really couldn’t resist wanting to touch it.
As she thought about it, Zhu Qiu’s hand reached out on its own.
But before long, the Sword Spirit ran away in embarrassment and vanished on the spot.
“Aw!”
Zhu Qiu wore a disappointed expression.
The Sword Spirit really was something.
She ran off after just one touch, instead of playing with her a little longer.
But that moment with the Sword Spirit reminded Zhu Qiu of how Zhu Xiaxia had treated her before.
Zhu Xiaxia had acted the same way, liking to touch her cheeks, especially when she teased Zhu Qiu until she got shy and her cheeks turned bright red.
So this was what it felt like?
Zhu Qiu smiled.
She hadn’t expected to experience this feeling herself one day.
She walked over to the window and gazed at the moonlight outside, then glanced at Zhu Xiaxia on the bed and suddenly realized it was still nighttime.
Huh? Nighttime?
Sleep, sleep.
Our Zhu Qiu was still a lazybones and slept until noon the next day.
Before long, the next day arrived.
Zhu Xiaxia got up early, while Zhu Qiu seemed to feel her brain needed a rest, so she simply lay back down and went to sleep again.
Nighttime was for sleeping.
Yep, that’s right, absolutely.
“Mmm~”
She rolled over in bed, pointing her tail toward the sun to bask in its warmth.
Before long, the sun woke her up.
Zhu Qiu raised her head in a daze.
All she wanted now was to get out of the room and find somewhere cool to sit for a while.
The sun was scorching today.
Since the curtains were open, it had heated the whole room.
Staying in the room felt like sitting inside a low-temperature oven, and it was incredibly uncomfortable.
Just then, Zhu Xiaxia came in through the doorway.
“Wake up, my precious daughter~ Huh? Looks like my precious daughter is already up.”
She excitedly came over and carried Zhu Qiu, whose brain hadn’t booted up yet, out of the room and to their usual dining area.
As soon as she sat down, Zhu Qiu voiced what she wanted most.
“Mother, I’m so hot. Do you have a fan?”
“You’re hot?”
Zhu Xiaxia had Magic Power in her body, which had long since given her the ability to regulate her own temperature.
When she felt hot, Ice Element Magic cooled her down; when she felt cold, Fire-element magic warmed her up.
She didn’t need to worry about it at all.
So the Dragon Race Imperial Palace usually didn’t have furniture specifically for regulating the temperature.
But Zhu Qiu was different.
She was still just a baby dragon, and the Magic Power inside her wasn’t that obedient.
Ilanka had taught her lots of fun magic, but this kind of magic didn’t count as fun, so Zhu Qiu hadn’t learned it yet.
In that case, Zhu Xiaxia, as her Mother, had to help her out.
“Mother, I’m so hot.”
Zhu Qiu saw that Zhu Xiaxia had been silent for a while, so she repeated herself, hoping she’d get a fan to cool herself off.
A Dragon Race Imperial Palace this big ought to have a fan, right?
“You’re hot, huh? Then Mother will cool you down.”
With that, she released a weak Freezing domain right where she stood.
As the Dragon King, she had reached the level where she could control the strength of her Domain.
So although this weak Freezing domain was called freezing, it was far too weak to do anything but cool the temperature.
But that was more than enough.
All she needed was to make Zhu Qiu comfortable.
“Ah, that’s so cool~”
As the temperature dropped, Zhu Qiu’s foggy brain cleared up at once.
Huh?
She was sitting right in front of the food.
Well, never mind.
The food was right there, so she might as well eat.
After finishing her meal, Zhu Qiu suddenly realized she had two very serious problems to deal with.
First, she had to deal with her younger brother, Sote.
Second, she hadn’t been home to see Father in a long time.
She should go back and let him know she was safe.
Which should she handle first?
There was no rush to deal with her younger brother, Sote, since Zhu Xiaxia had locked him up.
But things were different when it came to Father.
Every second she was late meant Father would worry for one more second.
After thinking it over for a few seconds, Zhu Qiu made her decision.
She’d go see Father first.
As for Sote…
She suddenly remembered something that had happened before.
When Demon King Xiaohei had been brought in by Zhu Xiaxia, Zhu Xiaxia had given Zhu Qiu the right to decide what to do with her.
So Zhu Qiu would return the favor and give Zhu Xiaxia the chance to decide what to do with Sote.
She could also see how Zhu Xiaxia handled this kind of situation.
“That’s decided!”
The Little Princess felt a weight lift from her heart and jumped happily.
At the same time, Zhu Xiaxia hurried over after hearing the commotion.
Seeing Zhu Qiu so happy, she couldn’t help asking, “Did you think of something, precious daughter? What are you so happy about?”
“Hehe, Mother, didn’t we bring a Human Race member back yesterday?”
“That’s right!” Zhu Xiaxia replied with a beaming smile.
Zhu Qiu was in a good mood, and that put her in a good mood too.
“Well, Mother, I have a very serious task for you.”
“A task? What kind of task could my precious daughter give Mother?”
“The task is to punish that Human Race member properly for me. Hehe!”
Zhu Qiu spoke as if she meant business, already turning her head to hide a laugh.
“Oh?! So it’s a punishment task?”
“All right! Mother promises to make my precious daughter happy.”
Zhu Xiaxia agreed without hesitation.
Punishing others was easy for her, and she had plenty of ways to do it.
It sounded like fun.
“Well… Mother, I’ll be going now. Oh, I think Father has already eaten all the food I sent last time. Could you bring him some more? Let’s do it at night again. We have to sneak around and make sure Father doesn’t find out, or he’ll think my girlfriend came to visit again. That’s what he thought last time, after all.”
“Your girlfriend?” Zhu Xiaxia’s eyes lit up at the word.
“Did your father really say that?”
Zhu Qiu: ???
Something felt off.
How strange.
“Oh, it’s nothing. You heard wrong.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhu Qiu pushed Zhu Xiaxia backward, then ran out as fast as she could.
She paused at the doorway and waved.
“Mother, I’ll be back soon, so don’t worry about me!”