Watching in stunned amazement as Leticia took several drops of Mo Zili's blood, Carol poked Aileen beside her. "Hit me. I feel like I might be dreaming right now."
This progression was way too fast. Just from playing hero once, how could she already hand over her blood?
Aileen didn't think that much about it. After hearing Carol's words, she unceremoniously raised her hand and gave Carol's back a hard slap.
"Cough cough, you really don't hold back." Carol staggered from being hit so hard, nearly choking to death on the spot from not being able to catch her breath.
To this, Aileen immediately indicated that she was just following Carol's instructions and bore absolutely no responsibility.
Really, trust her—she definitely wasn't settling personal scores.
"Such trust..." Teresa murmured.
The three girls' reactions puzzled Bai Ya. It was just taking a little blood—why were their reactions like Mo Zili had directly accepted Sister Qianqian's confession?
"Um, Sister Teresa, why are you and Sister Carol so surprised?"
Teresa blinked. She hadn't expected Bai Ya to ask such a question either. "Didn't your sister tell you?"
In Teresa's eyes, Leticia and Bai Ya's relationship should be sisters, or at least like sisters.
For nobles like them, they should have known about such things when they first started school.
Though somewhat puzzled, Teresa still briefly explained the importance of blood to demons.
Giving one's blood to another person was basically equivalent to putting one's life in someone else's hands—this was a complete display of trust.
Even those couples who claimed to be deeply in love would hesitate about such matters, yet Mo Zili had so simply handed over her blood to Leticia.
This made it hard not to overthink things.
At least Bai Ya was overthinking.
"Sister Qianqian, what are you going to do with that blood?" After watching Leticia show off some ice magic and preserve the collected blood in a crystal-clear ice crystal, Bai Ya immediately asked this question non-stop.
She couldn't be planning to use it as a love token, could she? Please no.
"This is adult business. Little kids shouldn't ask too many questions." Leticia also put on a profound smile, refusing to speak no matter how much Little Ya acted cute. "Alright, alright, we still have lots of things to do."
Lots of things meant wandering around the academy all day, with half the day spent in the dance club watching those long-legged big sisters dance.
On the way home, Leticia even praised those well-proportioned, beautiful girls, making Bai Ya feel like Sister Qianqian was actually such a perverted person.
This version of Sister Qianqian was like those annoying sleazy uncles on TV, but also a bit better than those people.
After all, a perverted beautiful girl could also count as a special trait.
"Sigh, after a whole day, is this the biggest harvest?" While waiting for Xue'er to prepare dinner, Leticia once again took out the blood she had collected in the morning and placed it on the table for careful observation.
Ice blocks created by magic wouldn't melt at room temperature. Bai Ya couldn't help but be curious and wanted to reach out and touch this transparent cube that looked like a work of art.
"So cold." After lightly touching it, Bai Ya quickly pulled her hand back. "So what exactly are you going to use this thing for, Sister Qianqian?"
After calming down, she felt that Sister Qianqian was probably in a bragging phase right now. There was no way someone would fall for another girl after just meeting a few times.
Sister was an exception—Mo Zili wasn't as beautiful as sister.
So Sister Qianqian must be joking with her, but taking that girl's blood definitely wasn't without purpose.
"To help her find relatives." Leticia smiled as she spoke. "After finding them, I'll send her to reunite with her parents."
For some reason, upon hearing this sentence, Bai Ya couldn't help but shiver. She felt like Sister Qianqian's tone just now was so sinister.
As if Sister Qianqian had just said: "Send her underground to reunite with her parents."
It must be her imagination. How could such a gentle and cute Sister Qianqian be that kind of person?
"Speaking of which, Little Ya, have you figured out my name? Your vacation doesn't have many days left." Leticia brought up another matter.
The reward for guessing her name was having the great Demon King fulfill one wish—whether money or anything else, as long as Leticia could do it, she would make this wish come true for Little Ya.
It's just that Little Ya's guessing progress had completely stagnated. She had found a chance to ask Carol, but Carol's reaction was truly puzzling to Bai Ya.
"A great noble hated by many nobles? Her sister is called Qila?!" Carol's expression at that time was like she'd seen a ghost. "Don't know her, I don't know anything."
But looking at her reaction, she definitely knew, but due to fear or some other emotion, she didn't dare say that name.
This made Bai Ya even more curious. Just how amazing was Sister Qianqian to make a young lady like Carol-nee show that kind of expression?
When Leticia had taken her to the library a few days ago, she had also flipped through some books there, but unfortunately, the script used by demons was very different from humans', and Little Ya couldn't understand a single book there.
Little Ya, who had originally wanted to use this opportunity to learn about how many great nobles there were among demons, returned in complete defeat. She was illiterate—even if Leticia wrote her name on paper, she wouldn't recognize it.
"Can't guess it. Others won't tell me." Little Ya pouted.
"Then Little Ya can change her approach. You can ask who are the people those nobles don't even dare mention." Leticia smiled and rubbed Little Ya's head, messing up the little girl's hair until it was as chaotic as a bird's nest.
That sounded reasonable. Little Ya's eyes lit up.
"And Little Ya, you asked Carol. She's a noble who knows many things, but there are also many things she doesn't dare say. At times like this, you should shift targets and ask those people who traded intelligence for action."
"Sister Aileen!" Bai Ya blurted out a name.
Then Leticia lightly tapped Bai Ya. "It's not nice to call others stupid."
But it was clearly Sister Qianqian who guided me to think in that direction! Little Ya felt this tap was completely unreasonable.
When Sister Qianqian said that, although she didn't name names, everyone knew who she was talking about.
She just said that person's name out loud. Was that wrong too?
......
Clang!
A gleaming short sword pierced into the wall.
The white-haired girl in black robes looked coldly at the black-haired girl in front of her who was so scared she could barely stand, her eyes revealing extremely complex emotions.
"Why are you here again?" Mo Zili almost wanted to cry. She didn't know what she had done to provoke this person. A few days ago, this person had warned her, and now today she came again. What was going on?
"You can understand it as me being jealous." The white-haired girl let out a light breath. "Hah, but it looks like she's probably trying to provoke me."
It was possible that her emotional fluctuations at certain times had been too large, causing some errors in her disguise and letting that sensitive girl notice something was wrong.
And what she did today was probably intended to force her out from the shadows so she could mock her properly.
Bai Ling had completely seen through Leticia's thoughts. That girl was too easy to read—she didn't have a single extra scheming thought.
This kind of pure mischief—she didn't know whether to call her innocent or bad.
"Are you talking about Miss Qianqian?" Mo Zili thought about it and realized that this person seemed to appear every time after she had met those two girls.
Could it be that this person was actually a bodyguard for those two girls?
But she also said she was jealous. Could this be one of those scenarios where a servant falls in love with their young mistress?
"Mm, it's her. What's your relationship with her?" Bai Ling's expression was calm. She didn't pull out the short sword embedded in the wall, but directly turned around and sat in the chair behind her.
Mo Zili's eye twitched as she regained her freedom. She had absolutely no relationship with that Miss Qianqian.
"She said she was willing to help me find my parents."
"For free? She didn't ask you to pay any price?" Bai Ling pressed.
In her impression, Leticia was never someone who liked to work for free. To get her help, some benefit was absolutely necessary.
Of course, just a little benefit would do.
Most of the time, her appetite was surprisingly small.
"No, she said she also wanted to know which two talented people gave birth to me." Mo Zili carefully moved to another chair to avoid embarrassing herself in front of this white-haired person due to weak legs caused by fear.
This answer made Bai Ling's eyes narrow slightly. It sounded normal, but it didn't quite fit Leticia's personality.
Providing help out of curiosity—others might do this, but when it came to Leticia, it seemed rather puzzling.
"She definitely has other intentions." Bai Ling said softly.
Whether Leticia had other intentions wasn't important to Mo Zili. What was important was when this uninvited guest would leave her room.
"Um, breaking into a strange girl's bedroom late at night should be illegal among demons too, right?"
Bai Ling looked up at Mo Zili. "But I'm human, so I don't have to follow demon laws."
Ah, human?
Human?!
"You're human?!" Mo Zili's voice suddenly rose, causing Bai Ling to frown involuntarily.
What was so surprising about this? Bai Ling looked at Mo Zili puzzledly. Oh right, this was the Demon Realm. Here among demons, humans should be like floods and savage beasts.
Sigh, she was still a bit careless. She shouldn't have revealed her identity so quickly.
But Mo Zili's reaction was beyond Bai Ling's expectations. She actually grabbed Bai Ling's hand like she had met a relative, excitedly starting to ask all sorts of questions.
"Where are you from? How old are you? Did you come to the Demon Realm to cause destruction?"
The series of questions left Bai Ling somewhat bewildered. She felt like her guess might have been somewhat wrong.
This demon girl actually wasn't afraid of humans, but instead had a strange fondness for humans?
How strange. Could it be that in the Demon Realm, humans were actually quite popular?
"Actually, I grew up in the Human World and only recently returned to the Demon Realm. For some unknown reason, my parents left me in the Human World. I came back this time to find them." Mo Zili noticed Bai Ling's confusion and quickly explained.
Ah, a demon abandoned in the Human World?
Raised by a human woman, with no one discovering anything unusual during her growth. If the person who raised her didn't say anything, perhaps she would never doubt the correctness of her human identity for her entire life.
Demons and humans were like siblings—they were so similar.
If you excluded magic and superpowers, a demon and a human standing together would make it nearly impossible for anyone to distinguish which was human and which was demon.
"I'm just accompanying my sister here." Bai Ling could sense that the black-haired girl in front of her wasn't lying, and facing such a demon girl with such high identification with humans, she naturally told her own purpose. "And also, to watch her."
"Your sister?"
"The black-haired girl who's always been by Qianqian's side. She's my sister—biological."
"Eh? I thought she was a demon." Mo Zili said somewhat surprisingly. "So humans and demons can be friends too?"
She had thought humans and demons were really like the human books said—sworn enemies. But now it seemed there were some exceptions.
The relationship between Miss Qianqian and Miss Little Ya looked very good, and this mysterious white-haired lady also had some relationship beyond friendship with Miss Qianqian.
Judging from what she just said, it seemed like she liked Miss Qianqian?
A love between a human and a demon? That sounded so romantic.
"The relationship between her and me is a bit hard to explain." Bai Ling also showed a troubled expression. "I really like her, but I did things to hurt her before, so she's never been willing to accept me."
"Moreover, I'm human and she's a demon young lady. She can't abandon her responsibilities to be with me, and I can't abandon my responsibilities to follow her."
"But those are things to consider later!" Mo Zili said loudly. She didn't think as far ahead as Bai Ling and Leticia. "Since you like her, don't be wishy-washy!"
Uh, Bai Ling had been impulsive before, but what she got was a heavy slap. Leticia was much stronger than she appeared.
Trying to win her over using methods for ordinary girls was like a fool's dream.
"She's different."
"How do you know if you don't try? Listen to me—although I've never been in love, I've watched plenty of people fall in love."