Cecilia was still pondering whether she could be angry and how she should go about it.
However, after that day, she really did as Lu Mo suggested.
“Help me, Miss Lu Mo — !”
Whenever those boys and girls appeared before her again to snatch her things away, she would cry out like that.
“Hmm…”
Immediately, a girl’s figure would leap over the wall and descend from the sky, her eyes flashing with a blood-colored killing intent.
“WAAAH!”
“Don’t come over here! Stay away from me!”
“It hurts… *waaaa*…”
In just a few minutes, the boys and girls were beaten back once again.
Cecilia hugged her doll and watched Lu Mo walk toward her, feeling her small heart skip a beat. The golden cowlick on top of her head swayed uncontrollably.
It was like a happy puppy wagging its little tail.
“Miss Lu Mo!” Cecilia jogged forward and stopped in front of her.
“See, isn’t it simple?” Lu Mo spoke.
Cecilia nodded and thanked her with a smile. “Thank you, Miss Lu Mo.”
It was hard for her to describe her current emotions. She only knew that this feeling seemed to overshadow many of the rules and regulations she had been taught.
It made her forget her prayers for a moment. For a moment, only Lu Mo remained in her eyes.
***
“Damn it… who on earth is that person who popped out from next door?”
“She actually dared to hit me in the face… She hit my face!”
“We all lost. This is a disgrace to the Helovit family!”
“But she’s so cute. Even if she beat me to death, I’d be willing…”
After receiving a beating, the children of the Helovit family naturally refused to let the matter rest. Soon, they brought over peers from the family who were relatively stronger.
“Big brother, is it really safe?”
“Don’t worry, there’s no way we’ll fail. Back then, your big brother awakened an intermediate-grade Holy Power talent during the Divine Gift Ceremony!”
But the reality was —
Those powerful peers in the Helovit family were all crushed as well.
Someone spat harsh words at Lu Mo, only for her to knock his teeth out. He fled the scene quickly, clutching his mouth.
Someone threatened to break Lu Mo’s legs, only to have her break theirs instead, forcing them to crawl away.
A self-proclaimed strongest among their peers stepped forward, showing off a powerful Holy Power talent. He coldly declared that he would split Lu Mo’s head open this time.
In the end, his Holy Power was snapped by Lu Mo with her bare hands. His upper body was driven into the ground by one of Lu Mo’s combat techniques.
At this point, most of the children no longer dared to provoke Lu Mo. However, there were still those who didn’t believe in the rumors and went to get their older brother.
According to that person, his brother was a powerful existence who could become a Holy Dragon Knight in the future. But when the brother arrived at the wall and saw Lu Mo, he fled as if he were flying.
“Brother, what’s wrong with you today? Do you know how embarrassing it was for me when you suddenly ran away?” Afterward, the boy found his brother and started complaining.
He wanted to say more words of blame, but in the next second, he was immediately slapped by his brother.
“You… you dare hit me? Even Dad has never hit me!” The boy covered his face, nearly bursting into tears.
“You useless trash!” His brother couldn’t hold back anymore and roared at him. “Do you even know who that girl is?”
“Who is she?”
“She’s a madwoman! She’s an existence that even the peers of the Kalis family don’t dare provoke!”
Some time ago, he had gone to the Kalis family to play with a friend. His friend had invited him to watch a duel.
“An arrogant girl appeared in the family. This time, Master Bolenin is taking action. He’s going to teach her a good lesson.”
“It’s Master Bolenin. This time, that arrogant girl is probably going to suffer a crushing defeat, hahaha…”
The two of them had gone to watch the battle with smiles on their faces. But a few minutes later, neither of them could laugh.
Bolenin, who was considered a genius, was currently lying on the ground, unconscious. The entire venue was silent. The girl’s cold, clear eyes swept across the crowd.
When his eyes met the girl’s, he felt a chill wash over his entire body. His very soul began to tremble. There was no doubt that if he faced that girl, he would lose! Moreover, he would lose even more miserably than Master Bolenin!
That chill stayed with him until he returned home. It was only after he lay down on the sofa that he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, that girl belonged to the Kalis family. He and Lu Mo probably wouldn’t cross paths again.
As a result, just now, he had encountered the girl once more. If he had been a few seconds later, he probably wouldn’t have been able to escape. He felt secretly lucky.
‘A madwoman? Someone no one dares provoke?’
Clutching his face, the boy repeatedly mumbled his brother’s words. His expression gradually became incredibly terrified and solemn.
***
The name Lu Mo soon spread throughout the Helovit family. In the Kalis family, she was a bad child. In the Helovit family, she became an even more terrifying madwoman. The peers from both families began to fear her more and more.
“Lu Mo beat you into this state, didn’t she?”
“Yes…”
“Good! Someone from the Kalis family actually dared to bully a member of our Helovit family!”
“Come on, we’re going there right now to demand an explanation!”
Initially, when the injured children of the Helovit family returned home, they made excuses like accidentally falling. They didn’t dare say it was because they were bullying Cecilia and had been served justice by Lu Mo.
However, as the number of injured children grew and the injuries became more severe, the parents realized something was wrong. They began to interrogate their children. some children couldn’t take it anymore and revealed part of the truth.
They erased the part about bullying Cecilia and claimed that Lu Mo had jumped over the fence, beat them up, and then fled at light speed.
Some parents were suspicious, while others were furious. They immediately went to the Kalis family. But soon, they were taught a lesson and ran back in disgrace.
“Lu Mo’s personality is indeed a bit rebellious right now, but she’s not a lunatic.”
“If your family’s children don’t take the initiative to provoke her, she won’t just hit people randomly.”
“Sigh, the people of the Helovit family really are getting worse with each generation. Are they actually unable to defeat a peer who hasn’t even awakened their Holy Power?”
The man’s three sentences immediately made those who had come to the door flee with their tails between their legs. Their children being defeated by Lu Mo, who hadn’t even awakened her Holy Power, was very embarrassing for them.
Some parents returned and continued to question their children. After learning that they had indeed provoked Lu Mo, they immediately gave them a beating. There were also parents who began to encourage their children to take the initiative and find trouble for Lu Mo, to find any way possible to defeat her.
‘Who would dare provoke that madwoman again!’ the children grumbled in their hearts.
If they really wanted to cause trouble for Lu Mo again, it would likely have to wait for several years — until they could utilize more Holy Power and suppress ordinary attributes.
In short, after this incident, the children of the Helovit family no longer dared to provoke Lu Mo, nor did they dare to find trouble for Cecilia.
***
Lu Mo’s life returned to a routine of moving between the library and the corner of the manor. Cecilia no longer shouted, “Help me, Miss Lu Mo.”
After no one was bullying Cecilia, what was her life like?
Sometimes, Lu Mo would be curious about this question. When she was tired from training and taking a break, she would leap up and stand on that low fence. And there, she could see Cecilia’s figure wandering alone nearby.
She saw Cecilia sitting under a tree, listening to the cicadas until the sun went down.
She saw Cecilia crouching by a flower bush, quietly observing a butterfly that had landed on a flower for a long time.
She saw Cecilia standing in the grass, gazing at the drifting clouds in the sky as if she would never get tired of looking.
Lu Mo was sometimes a bit speechless. Was Cecilia really that bored? But by sitting on the wall and watching a bored Cecilia, wasn’t she being even more bored?
Before long, Lu Mo realized another problem — the reason Cecilia had become like this was precisely because of the Helovit family. Cecilia had no friends in the family. She had been intentionally raised by the family to be a blank sheet of paper.
So, her world was very simple and very monotonous. In her previous life, she had lived like this. She never had a true self. She was lonely without even realizing it.
One day, Cecilia was spaced out again. She was staring blankly at a pigeon that had landed not far away.
“Hey — “
A girl’s voice suddenly rang out, scaring the pigeon into scurrying away. Cecilia was also startled by the voice. But soon, after realizing whose voice it was, she suddenly looked up. Her golden cowlick began to shake involuntarily again.
“Miss Lu Mo?”
She saw Lu Mo jump down from the low wall once more and walk toward her.
“If you’re always spaced out like this, you’ll get stupider and stupider, you dummy Cecilia,” Lu Mo said, vigorously rubbing Cecilia’s small head.
Cecilia didn’t resist this feeling. In fact… she felt a bit of nostalgia and anticipation for it. Once again, Lu Mo had broken into her world from the outside.
“Do you feel bored?” Lu Mo asked.
“What is ‘bored’?” The word “bored” didn’t exist in Cecilia’s vocabulary.
“It probably means… having no one to play with, so you can only space out by yourself to pass the time,” Lu Mo replied.
Cecilia thought hard for a while, then looked up at Lu Mo again and nodded seriously.
Lu Mo suddenly smiled and said, “If you’re bored, why don’t you call for me?”
“Because… they don’t dare take my things anymore. It seems I don’t need your help, Miss Lu Mo,” Cecilia said honestly.
“Just because of that?”
“Yes.”
“Then next time, if you feel bored, you can just call ‘Miss Lu Mo’ toward the wall.” After thinking for a bit, Lu Mo gave Cecilia another summoning phrase.
“Can I?” Cecilia looked at Lu Mo. Her cowlick swayed even more cheerfully, and her eyes held a brilliance that was different from usual.
“Why don’t you try it next time and see?” Lu Mo smiled and replied.
A short while later, Lu Mo said goodbye to Cecilia, and her figure leaped over the low fence once again. Cecilia stared blankly at the wall for a long, long time.
‘So, was my life before actually very boring?’ Cecilia thought.
The pigeon flew back at some point, but this time, she had no interest in observing it anymore. She could have endured the boredom — if she had never met Lu Mo.