“What is all this nonsense?”
Vylian’s head was spinning, her brows furrowed as she fell into deep self-reflection.
‘Why didn’t she notice it earlier?’
‘Was it because she had spent too much time with this Hero that even her basic sense of danger had degraded?’
‘No, actually, Vylian didn’t have any sense of danger to begin with.’
She had only been in this world for about a week.
Perhaps because her innate strength was too overwhelming, she never developed any real sense of danger.
At most, she could detect energy fluctuations as faint as mosquitoes, like the two Bishops yesterday.
That level of trash just now was automatically filtered out.
And now, it had turned into a major disaster.
Calling it a disaster, it was really just that Vylian didn’t know how conscious Anlis was in her current state. That idiot earlier had revealed way too much information, even almost saying the words “Demon King” right in front of Anlis. It was really irritating.
Her gaze fell back on Anlis. The girl was sitting obediently like a duck on the floor, motionless, as if slightly drunk.
Vylian had specifically used magic to bind her; otherwise, given her nature, she would have pounced on her the next second.
It was this dazed expression combined with the activated curse that made Vylian uncertain. Every time the curse triggered, Anlis acted like a schizophrenic.
But at this moment, Anlis was actually…
Completely lucid.
She had been in a daze earlier, but the sudden loud noise, the vibrations from the wall collapsing, and Vylian’s unintentional outburst of Demon King’s Pressure in anger had hit her like a bucket of ice water. It was hard for her not to wake up.
‘What was that just now?’
Anlis took only 0.2 seconds to think of the reason.
‘A trap!’
‘This was a trap!’
‘This was a trap set by Vylian to test her!’
‘A Corrupted Disaster suddenly appeared right when she was disoriented, and then Vylian, the Corrupt Monarch, easily repelled it. Wasn’t that strange?’
‘Clearly, this was a trap.’
‘If she dared to show any expression like “So you’re the Demon King” or act nonchalant, she would definitely be judged as knowing the Demon King’s disguised identity and be eliminated!’
She had long anticipated that after yesterday’s probing, Vylian wouldn’t be completely reassured and would definitely find another chance to test her.
‘But wasn’t this going a bit too far?’
‘If she had been even slightly lucid, this would have been equivalent to the Demon King revealing herself!’
‘But perhaps it was precisely because she was under the curse’s effect that the other dared to go this far.’
Although there were still minor logical loopholes, the crisis was imminent. Anlis had no time to examine those irrelevant details. She just needed to know that all of this was a trap set by Vylian to test her.
All she could do now was continue pretending to be in a curse-addled, disoriented state.
Fortunately, Anlis was only mentally clear; the curse hadn’t been fully resolved and was still active, so her expression remained flushed and enticing.
On the other side, after thinking for a long time without reaching a conclusion, Vylian finally gave up.
“Well, I actually…”
Wait!
Anlis’s heart instantly jumped into her throat!
‘What did that opening mean?’
‘No?’
‘Why did it sound like a confession?’
‘What did it mean?’
‘After that whole scene, shouldn’t she be indirectly interrogating the dazed me?’
The extreme urgency sent Anlis’s brain into overdrive. She had never felt her thoughts move so fast, almost to the point of exploding.
‘Could it be!’
‘There was only that move left!’
“…a”
Anlis slowly opened her mouth and let out a vague syllable.
Vylian frowned slightly, pausing her words.
What she had actually wanted to say was: her own strength was terrifyingly powerful, and that monster just now had been repelled by her the moment it appeared, so Anlis shouldn’t overthink it.
The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she realized that excuse was too stupid, even she found it forced.
But what else could she say? The situation had been too sudden; she couldn’t come up with a perfect explanation. If even the dazed Anlis didn’t believe it, then what could Vylian do? Of course, flip the table.
Sigh, she suddenly felt she really wasn’t suited for these mind games of scheming, especially after acquiring this max-level power.
“Mom…”
“Huh?”
Vylian was startled, as if she had heard some strange word, wondering if she misheard.
“You’re a Loli Mama.”
No, that really was something bizarrely extreme!
Vylian’s face twitched. She looked at the girl she had bound with disbelief. “What did you say? Who’s a Loli Mama?”
“Boo hoo… Mom, don’t you love me anymore? I want a hug! I want cuddles!”
Anlis felt like she could dig a three-bedroom apartment in the bed with her toes! The embarrassment was unprecedented! Even when she shouted it in the hall in front of everyone earlier, it wasn’t this embarrassing.
Back then, her mind was muddled, and she had no normal sense of shame.
But now, she was saying these things while fully lucid, so embarrassed she wished she could find a tree and crash into it to die.
The flush on Anlis’s face might have been from the curse or from shame.
Either way, Vylian’s red face was certainly because of Anlis’s shameless words!
“I… you!”
She stammered, unable to form a coherent sentence.
At least Vylian could confirm that Anlis was indeed not in a clear state right now.
If Anlis were lucid, could she really say something like that? Vylian thought it was enough to make someone want to die by crashing into a tree.
“If you want to find a mom, I’ll go call her, but don’t go misidentifying people, okay?”
“Mmm~ I want Loli Mama! I want Loli Mama!”
“Hiss~”
Vylian’s head started to ache.
Seeing Vylian’s reaction, Anlis’s hanging heart finally dropped.
But her condition wasn’t good either. The curse’s intensity was continuously increasing. She could barely stay lucid earlier, but as time passed, her body grew hotter and hotter, as if countless ants were crawling all over her. She restlessly rubbed her legs together, but it was just a drop in the bucket, unable to relieve that unbearable sensation.
No, her mind… her mind was really about to give out!
“Ha~ Mom, I feel so uncomfortable, I really feel so uncomfortable. Can you… help me? Help me solve it?”
Anlis’s eyes were watery, her voice incredibly soft and sweet.
Impossible, no matter what, Vylian would never agree. She wasn’t some kind of solution tool. This was absolutely not allowed.
Hey, didn’t she say earlier that she wanted to see the Hero suffer under the curse? Wasn’t this the perfect chance? Ah, she felt so bad.
Just as Vylian prepared to enjoy the sight of the Hero in agony, she noticed something off.
At that moment, Anlis’s body was faintly glowing with a subtle radiance, exuding an indescribable eeriness.
Vylian quickly leaned in, using her keen magical perception to catch a unusual change.
Anlis’s magical power was rising!
It wasn’t a rampage, but an increase in actual strength!
She wasn’t a Hero, so she couldn’t see the exact level, but it was an undeniable fact that the other’s level was skyrocketing!
“What the heck is going on?”
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