Two days passed in a flash. Bai Ling's prediction wasn't far off—Leticia's reply did indeed arrive in her hands today.
However, it wasn't during the day, but in the evening when Bai Ling was eating dinner that Emily delivered it to Bai Ling's house.
"Miss Bai, this is my young lady's reply." Emily, wearing spring clothes, handed Leticia's reply to Bai Ya, who had come to open the door. "I still have some things to do, so I'll take my leave."
"Eh, are you in such a hurry?" Bai Ya took the letter and asked with some curiosity.
She had seen Emily quite often these days and had become somewhat familiar with this girl.
It wasn't that Bai Ling often asked Emily to do things, but after Leticia moved away, Emily often came to check on the room's condition and would clean when she found it dirty.
Through these interactions, Bai Ya had come to know this girl who claimed to be a servant of the Su family.
"This is adult life. Miss Bai, please go back. No need to see me off." Emily smiled somewhat reluctantly and turned toward the stairs.
She had been truly exhausted these days. Qila had transferred many of the operatives originally stationed in Central City elsewhere, causing Emily's burden to suddenly become much heavier.
Adding various other matters, Emily felt she should ask Princess Highness for leave.
If she continued like this, she might die.
"Emily, come in and sit for a while." Bai Ling also appeared at the door and said to Emily. "There might be some things I'll need your help with later."
Like explaining Leticia's identity and such.
"Ah? Ah, I see." Emily's face immediately fell. She could refuse Bai Ya's request, but even with ten times the courage, she wouldn't dare refuse Bai Ling's.
Entering the room, Emily sat somewhat stiffly on an empty chair. In front of her on the dining table were several plates of exquisite dishes, apparently Bai Ya's handiwork.
Bai Ling's seat had a bowl of half-eaten rice in front of it. It seemed Emily had knocked when these sisters were having dinner.
"Sister Emily, have some water first." Bai Ya had already finished dinner. She brought out a glass of warm water from the kitchen and placed it in front of Emily.
Then she looked at her sister, who had set the letter aside and continued eating. "Sister, aren't you going to read the letter first?"
Bai Ling swallowed what was in her mouth. "Little Ya, open it and read it yourself. I pretty much know what's written inside."
She wouldn't refuse her proposal, would she?
Bai Ya blinked. She couldn't quite understand where her sister's confidence came from, but since her sister said so, she had no reason to refuse.
Taking the letter envelope from her sister's side, Bai Ya was attracted by the exquisite wax seal on the envelope. "What a beautiful stamp."
The red wax bore a flourished 'L' in a very attractive style.
However, Bai Ya didn't think much of it. She simply thought this was a symbol of Sister Qianqian's distinguished status.
After all, in this era, very few people used such old-fashioned things anymore. Those who did were basically people who claimed to be inheritors of ancient noble traditions.
Although their arrogance was annoying, Central City and beyond really did respect this approach.
Opening the envelope, Bai Ya pulled out two thin sheets of letter paper and began reading.
Leticia's handwriting wasn't great, but it could still be called neat. At least it didn't torture the eyes to read.
After quickly reading through the letter, Bai Ya said happily to her sister, "Sister, Qianqian said she welcomes me to visit her home!"
This wasn't beyond Bai Ling's expectations. There was no way Leticia would refuse Bai Ya.
However, "Sister Qianqian said to have sister figure out a way to send me and Sister Emily over."
"Ah?" Emily looked up with some confusion. How did this involve her?
"It looks like Emily can go back and rest properly for a while." Bai Ling smiled at Emily.
Having Emily and Bai Ya go to the Demon Realm together wasn't just another way of saying to recall Emily to the Demon Realm?
It was probably Qila being considerate of her subordinate and planning to let her return to the Demon Realm to rest for a while.
"That would be wonderful." Emily let out a long sigh of relief. Thank you, Princess Highness, for not forgetting this poor corporate slave.
"But why would Sister Qianqian say to have sister figure out a way to send me over? If Sister Emily is with me, couldn't we just take a plane?" Bai Ya asked.
"Planes can't reach where your Sister Qianqian lives." Bai Ling chuckled. "Or rather, there's no normal way to get into her place."
"Eh?"
"There's something I should tell Little Ya." Bai Ling put down her now-empty bowl and said seriously to Bai Ya. "Your Sister Qianqian isn't actually human."
"Eh... eh?!"
"Qianqian is actually a demon." Bai Ling paused, then continued.
Bai Ya was stunned.
Her cute Sister Qianqian, that gentle and tsundere Sister Qianqian, that Sister Qianqian who liked staying home and not going out—she was actually a demon?!
A demon who delighted in war and was irredeemably evil?
This had to be a lie. How could Sister Qianqian be a demon? How could demons be like Sister Qianqian?
And if Sister Qianqian was a demon, then wouldn't Little Qi also be a demon? Following this logic, wouldn't Sister Emily also be a demon?
But they were completely different from the demons described in books.
"I know this might be hard to accept, but this is indeed a fact. Qianqian used to love fighting like other demons..."
"Um, let me interrupt. We demons don't really like fighting that much." Emily raised her hand to interrupt Bai Ling's explanation. "What's written in your books is completely slandering us."
Most demons, while not opposed to war, didn't particularly like war either.
They just followed in the Demon King's footsteps, wanting to let all beings know of the demon race's strength.
"Anyway, Qianqian is different, but I can't guarantee whether other demons are hospitable..."
"I can guarantee they'll definitely be hospitable." Emily interrupted again.
This was Her Majesty's guest—who would dare not be hospitable?
Not being hospitable would mean not giving Leticia face, not giving the Demon King face, and then don't blame the Demon King for not giving face in return.
"Emily, don't interrupt me." Bai Ling pressed her temples somewhat helplessly.
She was explaining Leticia's situation to her sister, and Emily was being too oblivious to the atmosphere.
"I... alright, please continue."
After rambling on for a while, Bai Ling finally explained clearly that Leticia was a demon, and she used relatively simple language to describe the scene when she first met Leticia.
"At that time, she was quite motivated. We met on the battlefield, I defeated her, her mentality collapsed, and she ran here."
"So sister and Sister Qianqian used to have that kind of relationship?" Bai Ya stared with her big eyes. She had thought her sister was just joking, but it turned out sister and Sister Qianqian had truly been mortal enemies.
Former mortal enemies who had now become good friends—this was too romantic!
"Mm, after all, she's changed for the better now. Actually, when I first came back, I was still thinking about killing her, but Little Ya, you really liked her, so I didn't dare make a move."
"Sister Qianqian is definitely a good person! Sister, you're not allowed to make a move in the future either!"
"Alright, alright." Bai Ling smiled in response.
After half a year of practice, she could now smile normally. Truly cause for celebration.
After ending this topic, it was time to discuss how to get to the Demon Realm.
Emily spoke first: "The method I use wouldn't work for Little Ya."
She basically just found any spatial passage and jumped in to get back to the Demon Realm. Even if the spatial passage wasn't very stable, it could still send her to the Demon Realm.
But for Bai Ya, it was better to take those larger passages.
Those passages were more stable and would provide a much better experience.
"I'll figure out a way for this." Bai Ling said calmly. Since she had agreed to let her sister visit the Demon Realm, she had naturally made the necessary preparations.
Sending her sister into the Demon Realm was very simple.
"I have no problems here. What about your side?" Bai Ling asked Emily.
Large stable passages would definitely have demon armies guarding the entrances and exits. If Bai Ya landed and was immediately attacked by overly reactive demon forces, wouldn't that be embarrassing?
Regarding this point, Emily felt there was no need to worry. "Since they've agreed to let Miss Little Ya visit the demon race, my young lady will definitely make the arrangements. Just tell our young lady which passage Miss Little Ya will use."
"From this place—you should be quite familiar with it." Bai Ling took out her phone, opened the electronic map, and marked coordinates on the khaki-colored unknown territory.
This place's spatial passage could be considered the largest and most stable spatial passage between humans and demons. Going to the Demon Realm from here wouldn't even give one the feeling of leaving one world for another.
Precisely because of this, both the demon race and human race had stationed large numbers of troops at this passage to prevent the other side from launching surprise attacks.
"Here?!" Emily's eyes widened. Wasn't this a bit too reckless?
"I have a way to get you through. Don't worry, I wouldn't put Little Ya at risk." Bai Ling said.
......
"Good grief, this guy wants to send Little Ya from this place." After receiving Bai Ling's reply, Leticia was also shocked.
That spatial passage was defended with unprecedented strictness by both sides. Even a mosquito couldn't cross the line.
Bai Ling planned to have Little Ya come from there—was she joking?
Could this guy have some other method?
Impossible, right? With her brain, what method could she think of?
"Tell the guards at Passage Zero that when they see Little Ya, they should be more friendly. If they give Little Ya any bad impression of us... they can find a crooked tree and hang themselves." Since Bai Ling had decided on this, what could Leticia say?
She couldn't write another letter to Bai Ling saying, "I don't trust your brain to get Little Ya here from this place. How about you think again and choose another location?"
Speaking of which, although Emily would be the guide, it would be better to send someone else to welcome Little Ya.
"Xue'er, go find Elsa and ask if she's free these days. If she is, have her come see me."
Free? Of course she was free. Even if she wasn't, Elsa could lie through her teeth.
This was one of Her Majesty's rare active summons. Thinking about the last time Her Majesty actively called her to the palace—it had been almost six years.
After receiving Xue'er's message, Elsa quickly got dressed and hurried to Leticia's side.
"Your Majesty, you summoned me?"
"Mm." Leticia nodded. "Actually, you don't need to dress so formally. What's our relationship anyway?"
Unlike Leticia's casual home clothes, Elsa wore a super beautiful long dress with various ribbon decorations that made Leticia's eyes dazzle.
Elsa helplessly covered her face. "This is respect for Your Majesty."
Compared to her, Leticia was dressed quite inappropriately.
Who knew how this girl managed to appear before Elsa wearing only a top? If the hem of the top wasn't long enough, Elsa felt she might even see Leticia's private parts.
But since they were meeting in Her Majesty's bedchamber, Her Majesty dressing like this was... probably understandable.
"Cough cough, let's not talk about that. I called Elsa here because I have something to ask of you." Leticia took out Bai Ya's photo and handed it to Elsa. "This is a friend I made in the Human World. She's coming to visit the demon race. Could you go welcome her for me?"
Her Majesty's friend?
"It would be my honor." After glancing at Bai Ya's photo, Elsa nodded. What reason did she have to refuse a task Her Majesty gave her?
Besides, it was just picking up a girl and bringing her to Demon King City. This task was basically having Elsa take a little trip to the border.
"Mm, set out as soon as possible. I estimate her side won't delay long." Leticia said. If Elsa went late and caused some misunderstanding, that would be embarrassing.
"Understood. I'll depart immediately."
"Good."
Watching Elsa leave, Leticia stretched. Let her think about what fun things there were in the Demon Realm.
Things suitable for a girl like Bai Ya to enjoy seemed to be dances and such, right?
Watching performances, dancing on stage—she certainly couldn't take Little Ya to the colosseum to watch those somewhat bloody scenes.
If Bai Ya really developed psychological trauma, Bai Ling would probably come over demanding an explanation.
"Xue'er, go ahead and arrange Little Ya's itinerary." However, Leticia felt it was better to leave these matters to the professional Xue'er.
As the Demon King, she just needed to make the final decisions.
......
"I keep feeling like we're doing something shady." Hiding behind a wall corner, Bai Ya watched fully armed soldiers walking past and whispered.
"More than just shady—if we're exposed, we'll be treated as spies directly." Emily added.
She had never expected that Bai Ling's so-called method would actually be sneaking in.
"It's fine. They can't see us." Bai Ling showed no reaction. She was very confident in her abilities—these ordinary soldiers definitely couldn't detect their presence.
This was Bai Ling's further development of her abilities over the past six months. She could now bring several people along to suppress their presence, achieving an effect close to invisibility.
Using this method, she could easily reach anywhere in the world without anyone knowing of her arrival.
As for bringing two girls through the spatial passage between the demon race and humans, it was a completely effortless small matter.
"Hold my hands. Let's go." Bai Ling stepped forward and walked right past the patrolling soldiers.
And those soldiers, just as she said, completely failed to notice the existence of these three girls.
Just like that, Bai Ling led Bai Ya and Emily unimpeded to the spatial passage.
This spatial passage was different from the giant black hole most people imagined. It was very large—so large that ordinary people looking at it couldn't even think this was the legendary spatial passage.
Standing where Bai Ling was now, one could clearly see the pitch-black demon army on the other side. The distance between humans and demons had never been closer.
But actually, those armies were just phantoms. If you charged straight at them, you would never reach the other world.
Reaching that spot, Bai Ling released Emily's hand and drew her sword for a light swing.
The scene before them showed a moment of distortion. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Bai Ling pulled the two girls and stepped across.
As if passing through a thin barrier, Bai Ya looked in amazement at the green grassland beneath her feet. Just moments ago it had been wasteland, and now it had suddenly become grassland—this was truly hard to imagine.
Looking back, she saw the human army on the other side. Those soldiers were still patrolling, not even noticing that three girls had crossed the spatial passage and smuggled from the Human World into the Demon Realm.
"Let's go farther away before looking for the person Qianqian sent to meet us." Bai Ling said.
Directly removing the invisibility here might cause some unnecessary disturbance. Better to go somewhere the human soldiers couldn't see before removing the invisibility.
And what she meant by "going farther away" was actually walking directly into the demon army's main camp.
Indeed, here the human soldiers definitely couldn't see them anymore.
But wouldn't this scare the black-haired girl still sitting here to death?
"Oh, it's actually Lord Elsa. Why is she here?" Emily naturally recognized this great noble, but she remembered this Grand Duke should normally be stationed in Demon King City.
Appearing at the border—perhaps she came to welcome them?
"How about we go out first, and then I'll come back in to ask Lord Elsa."
"No need for such trouble." Bai Ling indicated there was no need to go around in circles. Wouldn't it be better to just explain clearly?
She released the two girls' hands and revealed her presence again.
The girl sitting in the chair with her chin propped up looked up in surprise. "Who's there... ah, so it's you."
She saw the girl from the photograph, and also saw another girl that Qila had secretly shown her before leaving.
According to Qila, these were sisters, but Elsa couldn't see any similarities between them.
One had black hair and black eyes, the other had white hair and red eyes. Calling them sisters could only be explained by genetic mutation or adultery.
"I didn't expect you would appear before me in this way. You nearly scared me to death." Elsa stood up and walked before Bai Ling. "I'm Elsa, and I'm... um, Qianqian's friend."
"Mm, I'm entrusting Little Ya to you." Bai Ling nodded and pushed her sister forward slightly. "I promised her I wouldn't go deep into the Demon Realm unless necessary."
"Mm mm, don't worry. Qianqian has been carefully arranging Little Ya's itinerary these past few days." Elsa smiled at Bai Ling.
Then she turned to Emily. "As for Emily, Little Qi said to let you go home and rest for a while. She'll contact you if anything comes up."
Elsa knew that Qila had a special unit under her command, but she wasn't interested in learning about it. As the head of the great nobles under Leticia, she clearly knew what she should and shouldn't know.
Qila's affairs weren't something she could interfere with.
Emily's eyes lit up. She could finally rest for a while. Princess Highness really hadn't forgotten her. This was truly moving.
Watching Emily leave happily, Elsa turned her attention back to Bai Ling. According to Qila, this white-haired girl seemed to have special feelings for Her Majesty.
The kind of feelings identical to her own feelings for Her Majesty.
"Miss Bai, how do you feel about Qianqian?"
Bai Ling, who was about to leave, was stopped by Elsa's question. She looked at Elsa with some confusion, not quite understanding why Elsa would ask such a question.
But after seeing Elsa's look of viewing a love rival, Bai Ling understood. It seemed Leticia's romantic luck was quite good.
This Miss Elsa seemed to have some strange thoughts about Leticia?
But looking at her current performance, she obviously hadn't won Leticia's heart yet.
This made Bai Ling very happy. Leticia wasn't as promiscuous as she claimed to be. Even with a beauty like Elsa having feelings for her, Leticia hadn't been moved.
This was wonderful news.
"She's a very cute girl. I really 'like' her." Bai Ling deliberately emphasized the word 'like.'
The meaning was self-evident.
Elsa narrowed her eyes. Just as Princess Highness had said, this white-haired woman had ulterior motives toward her majesty.
Hmph, but Elsa wasn't worried at all that Bai Ling would pose any real threat to her. Leticia wouldn't even accept her, so how could she possibly accept a human?
She believed in her majesty, who would make the right choice.
"Is that so? But I'm afraid Qianqian doesn't like you that much."
"Tch." Bai Ling clicked her tongue in displeasure.