"Hey, you surnamed Bai, give me your manga site account." Dialing Bai Ling's phone, although she was requesting Miss Bai's help, Leticia's tone wasn't particularly good.
This made Bai Ling on the other end of the phone develop a slight desire to tease this little girl. "What do you want to use my account for?"
"To read manga, what else?" Leticia answered very naturally.
"Which one?"
"The one you've read." Having said it so clearly, Leticia felt Bai Ling couldn't possibly not guess which manga she was talking about.
Bai Ling thought for a while but couldn't figure out which one Leticia meant. After all, she'd read quite a few manga—couldn't say few, could say many.
"Which one specifically? I've read quite a few manga, and I use several sites."
"That 'Lilies Blooming on Campus.'" Leticia's eyes flickered. She really didn't have much impression of the other few—perhaps because this one's title left too deep an impression on her?
Only this one put "lilies" directly in the title. Leticia, being a girl with quite rich knowledge, naturally knew what this meant.
As for the others, their titles were vague and mysterious—who knew what stories they were trying to tell?
They were completely unattractive compared to the one she'd just read.
The name Leticia mentioned made Bai Ling let out a soft "Ah"—so it was this manga.
"This one? I did buy the whole thing."
"Mm mm, hurry and give me the account, give it to me, give it to me."
"But why should I give it to you?" Bai Ling asked with a mischievous smile. "We're enemies, remember? You said so—you're not going back on your word, are you?"
You have the nerve to say that! Leticia was absolutely furious. Yesterday she was holding her in her arms saying how much she liked her, and today she was turning her back on her like this.
Too much of a scumbag.
This Bai Ling was definitely a scumbag.
"You held me and slept for a whole night yesterday, and I haven't even asked you for payment yet!" Leticia immediately brought up last night's events as leverage.
This counted as helping Bai Ling with two favors, yet now when she asked this person for help, she was being evasive. Too infuriating.
When Leticia brought this up, Bai Ling indeed surrendered. "One manga gets you to sleep with me for one night?"
"No, it's exchanged for your account." Leticia snorted. She wasn't that cheap. "Besides, if I had money, I wouldn't let you off so easily."
The Demon King didn't have any small change at all.
Bending over for a few grains of rice was truly embarrassing for her.
"I know, I know. Miss Leticia is a girl of noble character. I'm just voluntarily lending Miss Leticia my account." Bai Ling's mood sounded quite good. "Send me the QR code and I'll scan it for you. Then you can log in."
"I feel like you were just mocking me." Leticia said glumly.
"That's your imagination." Bai Ling propped her chin, looking at the rapidly passing scenery outside the car window, the corners of her mouth slightly raised. "Hurry up, I won't have time later."
"Oh, wait a moment, I'll send it to you." What was Bai Ling doing? Leticia didn't care much. A Sword Saint's affairs weren't few, but they definitely weren't many either.
Although retired, after learning about divine matters a few days ago, it was quite normal for Bai Ling to be busy these days.
She could be said to be humanity's biggest trump card. Without her, humans would be like dough in front of gods—kneaded however they wanted.
With her around, they could at least resist a little.
Hanging up the phone, she sent the login QR code to Bai Ling. After more than ten seconds, Leticia saw a successful login notification appear on screen.
What surprised Leticia was that Bai Ling hadn't just bought all the manga chapters—she'd also tipped the author.
And the tip amount wasn't small either.
She even ranked quite high on the tipping leaderboard. Although for Miss Bai, this money was probably just pocket change.
But looking at these numbers, Leticia, a wealthy pauper, still felt a wave of jealousy. Why could others spend money freely while she had to have her wallet controlled?
She wanted to rise up in rebellion and overthrow Qila's tyrannical rule!
Of course, she only dared say this when Qila wasn't around. Her fear of her sister was much more serious than her fear of Bai Ling.
"Sigh, might as well read manga."
The manga was very, very long. By the time Qila returned home with a dark expression, Leticia had only read about three-quarters of the content.
"Sister, are you playing games again?" Opening the door and seeing her sister sitting in front of the computer again, Qila asked somewhat unhappily.
Leticia immediately began defending herself. "I wasn't playing games, I was just reading manga!"
Reading manga and playing games were completely incomparable!
"Really just reading manga?" Qila was somewhat skeptical. She really had no confidence in her sister's self-control.
After all, this was someone who dared abandon the entire demon race and her own sister to directly flee to the human world—human scum. It was normal for Qila not to trust her.
"Really!" Leticia quickly vacated her seat, letting Qila come see whether she'd been soaking here reading manga these past few hours.
Seeing her sister being so forthright, Qila believed ninety percent of Leticia's words. If sister had done something wrong, she definitely wouldn't be so calm.
She'd absolutely be evasive and not let her see the computer.
"This is Sister Bai's account?" Qila knew Leticia currently had no money to read manga, and this manga clearly needed to be purchased.
So was sister using Bai Ling's account? Or had she asked Bai Ling to pay for her?
Paying was probably impossible. Sister was thin-skinned and wouldn't directly ask Bai Ling to pay for her, but borrowing an account was a relatively normal request that sister could swallow her pride to make.
"Why would it be hers? Couldn't it be someone else's?" Leticia protested. Why did what she borrowed have to be Bai Ling's account? "Maybe it's Guild Leader's?"
"Because among the girls sister has good relationships with in the human world, there's only Miss Xia and Sister Bai Ling. My intuition tells me that when sister has something, the first person she'd think of is definitely Sister Bai."
Indeed, when Leticia had the idea to borrow an account to read manga, the first person that popped into her mind was Bai Ling. Guild Leader only occurred to her after she'd borrowed the account.
In the end, Leticia's explanation gained her sister's approval. After leaving the words "don't read too long even if it's manga," Qila left Leticia's room to do her own things.
Our princess wasn't as idle as Leticia. She had to process urgent documents sent from the Demon Realm every day, and when she encountered matters she couldn't decide on, she even had to ask Leticia to make decisions.
Today, Qila encountered just such a troublesome matter.
After leaving for only about ten minutes, the little girl with furrowed brows returned to Leticia's room. "Sister, something seems to have happened on the elven side."
"Compared to what you've done, other matters don't really count as matters, do they?" Regarding this good sister who had thrown Flame Moths into the forest, Leticia felt that no matter how big other events were, they were still small matters.
You've practically demolished the other side's home—what could be bigger than that?
The empress died suddenly?
That was also a small matter. With the current mascot empress, if she died, she died. Three-legged toads were hard to find, but two-legged Elves were easy to find. Wasn't her sister a very good candidate?
"The specific situation is unknown, but the guard troops near the elven Tree of Life are moving frequently, and other armies also show unusual activity. They might be planning something." Qila decisively ignored her sister's teasing. She was talking about serious business.
"They have to move around sometimes, or those guys would grow mushrooms." Leticia indicated the problem wasn't serious. She sometimes liked to have those long-idle armies move around too.
The Elves hadn't fought wars for so many years. Having their armies move was very normal—nothing incomprehensible about it.
Besides, how miserable were the current Elves? Internal troubles were so serious. If external troubles came too, they'd be in danger of extinction. At this time, mobilizing troops to give those restless people some deterrence—wasn't that quite ordinary?
"I don't think we need to overthink it. Even if their brains were broken, they wouldn't attack us first." Leticia hugged her non-existent chest and said confidently. "Just have those few guys at the border make some preparations, just in case."
The Elves were a step behind the demons in hard power. Their actively attacking the demons would be like throwing eggs at rocks.
So this wave of elven activity probably wasn't aimed at the demons. Leticia believed this.
"Should we tell Sister Bai about this?"
"Her? Tell her for what?" Leticia immediately indicated this was intelligence collected by their demon race—why give it to Bai Ling, this human, for free?
Even brothers had to settle accounts clearly, let alone them from different factions.
Even for god-related matters, Leticia wouldn't necessarily share intelligence with Bai Ling. For example, she hadn't mentioned Flora's matter to Bai Ling.
And for current small frictions between races, on this matter Leticia and Bai Ling were opponents. How could opponents share intelligence?
"Mm, I understand." Sister's stubbornness didn't surprise Qila. She knew her sister had always been such an uncompromising girl.
"Nothing else?"
"Nothing... when are we going back to the Demon Realm?" Qila was about to leave but asked on a whim.
Bai Ya's enthusiasm these past two days had been somewhat hard for her to accept. Running around outside all day—Qila was mentally exhausted.
"Couple's half-price bubble tea, free couple photos, couple sets—is Bai Ya really that short on money?" Qila said with confusion.
As Bai Ling's sister, why did she like taking advantage of merchants' deals so much?
These past two days, Bai Ya had practically dragged Qila to exploit every store with couple discounts. Who knew where this little girl learned about so many stores running promotions?
"Oh? Couples? Has my Little Qila finally found someone she likes?" Leticia looked curious. If Bai Ya became her brother-in-law... wait, should it be called brother-in-law?
What should her sister's wife be called?
Leticia's somewhat meager knowledge couldn't find an appropriate term, but she definitely supported her sister liking girls like herself.
What about the Demon King bloodline?
Magic could sometimes accomplish very miraculous things, like letting two girls in love bear offspring.
At such times, please shout "Long live magic!"
"I'm not like sister. If I were to find a lover, I'd only look within the demon race." Qila's opinion of Bai Ya was still about the same as before—an annoying but somewhat cute little girl. "I think she just wants to take advantage of small bargains."
After all, the only friend Bai Ya could drag around seemed to be Qila.
Leticia? Bai Ya felt she couldn't put a green hat on her own sister.
Lin Qingyu? This girl was still recovering and very resistant to going out.
Looking at it this way, wasn't Qila the only one left on Bai Ya's backup list?
"Hard to say. Maybe one day Qila, you'll be moved."
"Before that, I think sister will be conquered by our beautiful Sister Bai first." Qila squinted back.
She could still be considered iron-hearted now, but sister's attitude toward Bai Ling had obviously softened considerably. Didn't she see that yesterday sister slept with Bai Ling, and today she was nonchalantly using Bai Ling's account to read manga?
If one day Leticia thought things through and decided to stop being tsundere, then Qila believed the emotional progress between Bai Ling and sister would definitely be rapid.
Honestly, in Qila's eyes, Leticia's resistance to beautiful girls was really quite low. Using humans for comparison, a completely unleashed Leticia would definitely be a tyrant on the level of King Zhou or King You of Zhou.
Fortunately, the current Leticia hadn't let go—she was still being tsundere.
"Impossible! How could I be with her!" Leticia immediately pounded the table to express her irreconcilable stance with Bai Ling. "She's just a bit prettier—what else about her is worth my liking?"
"That brain full of yellow thoughts? Or her explosively ridiculous personality? I'd rather find a cat to spend my life with than find her."
"Speaking of cats..." Bai Ling's calm voice came from outside the door, making Leticia's passionate speech come to an abrupt halt. "I brought you new headphones."
The white-haired girl held a small box, standing quietly at the doorway like an otherworldly fairy.
"Ah, hah?"
"Specially commissioned. You should like them."
As mentioned before, Leticia's headphones were cat-ear style. Perhaps Bai Ling's understanding was a bit off—this young lady thought Leticia was particularly fond of such things.
However, in reality, those headphones were only bought because Leticia happened to get an exclusive discount when choosing headphones, which led her to buy these headphones that looked better than they performed.
"The quality matches the money I paid. The appearance was a bit of a bonus—buying at full price would definitely be a blood loss." This was Leticia's evaluation of those headphones.
But the headphones in Bai Ling's hands were different. These headphones definitely far surpassed the ones Leticia was using in quality.
And not just quality—even the appearance was completely superior.
"Wow, not cheap, right?" Under Bai Ling's pleading gaze, Leticia somewhat uncomfortably opened the packaging box.
She'd originally wanted to refuse directly, but Bai Ling's gaze made her heart soften for a moment. When she came to her senses, the white packaging box was already in her hands.
Since she'd already accepted it, might as well open it and take a look.
Upon opening, Leticia immediately knew these headphones were definitely valuable. The feel of this material, this level of beauty—absolutely perfect.
The headphones were black and red, mainly black with some red accents on the cat ears, looking quite cute.
"Try putting them on." Bai Ling said to Leticia.
"First tell me how much you spent. If they're too expensive, I won't accept them." Leticia demanded that Bai Ling tell her the value of these headphones.
She naturally liked them, but she wouldn't just accept Bai Ling's gift like this.
Their relationship hadn't reached the point where she could accept the other's gifts without reservations.
At least Leticia thought so.
"Didn't cost money." Bai Ling poked her fingers and said quietly. "I mentioned your cat-ear headphones to someone, and they gave me these headphones today. I wanted to pay, but they wouldn't take it."
"Hah?" Leticia carefully examined the packaging box and headphones up and down, indeed finding no trademarks.
No trademarks, but there was a Hero Association mark.
This thing was a Hero Association product? Did the Association have this kind of technology?
However, this did add some credibility to Bai Ling's words. The Hero Association probably wouldn't take Bai Ling's money—this Sword Saint miss was the Association's pillar (though retired). Taking money would be too formal.
"Oh right, these headphones connect wirelessly. Let me set them up for you." Seeing Leticia trying to find a way to plug the headphones into the computer, Bai Ling quickly said.
Then, under Qila's increasingly strange gaze, Bai Ling very naturally pressed close to Leticia and connected the headphones to the computer for her.
"Oh oh oh, the sound quality improved greatly, and they're much more comfortable to wear!" Leticia said excitedly.
But she didn't notice that when her emotions became excited, her cat ears also gradually turned a bright red.
This change caught Qila's attention. She reached out to touch her sister's cat ears and asked curiously, "What's the principle behind this?"
"I don't really understand either. The manual probably explains it." Bai Ling shook her head, indicating she didn't know either.
Leticia blinked, not understanding what riddle her sister and Bai Ling were playing.
Such a Leticia looked exactly like a confused little kitten, very much making one want to pet her.
After Qila's explanation, Leticia learned that her cat ears' color would change. She opened the manual and found the explanation for this color change on the last few pages.
"Can detect the wearer's emotions?" Leticia stroked her chin, finding this thing quite interesting.
So she took off the headphones and put them on Bai Ling's head.
Let her see what mood Bai Ling was in now.
This action made Leticia discover another strange aspect of these headphones—their color could change according to the wearer's hair color.
When worn on Bai Ling's head, the headphones turned white, and the cat ears' light also changed to a fantastical light blue.
This color also gave a feeling of happiness, meaning Bai Ling was quite happy now.
"Very impressive, but this way I can't casually accept this gift." Leticia said to Bai Ling. "Take it back and use it yourself."
The blue light on the cat ears immediately dimmed, seemingly telling everyone that Bai Ling's mood was somewhat low.
"Why?" the girl asked.
"Too valuable. If these headphones were sold, they'd cost at least five figures. I don't have the face to accept them." Leticia explained seriously. "I know you want to hit on me, but I don't want you to hit on me, so I can't accept your things for nothing."
There would be no gift-giving between her and Bai Ling. Their current interactions were basically all transactions.
Leticia helped Bai Ling beat people up, Bai Ling paid for Leticia's games; Leticia helped Bai Ling counsel Lin Qingyu, Bai Ling lent Leticia her manga account.
In Leticia's view, these counted as equivalent exchanges with no personal feelings mixed in.
Although these headphones were really nice, Leticia didn't know what she should trade for them.
"Can't be for nothing?" Bai Ling thought about how to make it not for nothing, and soon she thought of a method.
"Tomorrow I was supposed to go to the Hero Association to check on the juniors' training. Now, I want to invite you to go together."
"Sister Bai, sister isn't suitable for going out yet, right?" Hearing Bai Ling's words, Qila quickly reminded.
"I've recovered quite well. Besides, I can have Xue'er accompany me." Leticia stared at the headphones on Bai Ling's head, a bit conflicted.
She really liked these headphones. If it was just accompanying Bai Ling to the Hero Association once, it seemed acceptable.
As for whether Bai Ling was luring her into a trap?
Leticia didn't believe Bai Ling would do such a thing. If she really didn't trust Bai Ling, she wouldn't have come back when her body hadn't fully recovered.
The current her had absolutely no combat ability. Coming back represented her full trust in Bai Ling.
She believed Bai Ling wouldn't harm her.
"I can help sister buy the headphones." Qila said again.
Leticia had no money, but Qila had quite a bit.
Anyway, she wouldn't let her sister, whose body hadn't recovered, go out casually.