58: Body Pillow
"What? You want me to put on another act with you Wednesday night?" Leticia blankly took off her headphones and gave the middle finger to Bai Ling, who had suddenly appeared in her room. "I have something to do Wednesday."
It was already past ten at night. Bai Ya, who had to get up early for school tomorrow, had already gone to sleep, but Leticia and Bai Ling, both unemployed vagrants, were still full of energy.
Today Leticia wasn't playing games. Her computer screen was currently showing a somewhat famous movie telling a rather clichéd story.
"Senior Sang suddenly called, so I didn't have much choice." Bai Ling was also somewhat embarrassed. She had just promised Leticia yesterday to go meet Guild Leader together, but today this happened. It was really quite shameful.
They were both on Wednesday—why did it have to be such bad timing?
"If you're going to do bad things, just go by yourself. I'll tell Guild Leader you have something to do." Leticia proposed what sounded like a pretty good solution.
Although this might result in her losing a golden skin, she would also shake off the burden that was Bai Ling. It was hard to say whether it was a loss or not.
"The timing should be staggered. Senior Sang said the time is around seven in the evening. We just need to change clothes and get to the designated location before seven." But Bai Ling proposed another plan.
"I just checked the map. The place we're going and the place I arranged to meet Guild Leader are quite close. At our speed, it wouldn't even take a minute."
"So what? Why should I work for you humans?" Leticia indicated that she had previously yielded because of money spent on the game, but now she had no desires.
No matter what Bai Ling said, she wouldn't agree.
"You could just find someone with a similar build to me to play my role. How convenient would that be?"
"But there might be some small conflicts, and I'm a bit worried about going with someone else." Bai Ling suddenly became coy.
Although nothing seemed amiss on the surface, the current Bai Ling indeed gave Leticia the feeling that she was being coy.
"You mean if you bring me, you don't have to worry about my safety?" Leticia slammed the table. Wasn't this bullying?
She, the dignified Demon King Your Majesty, was being thought of by Bai Ling for such a reason as "peace of mind."
If you said her strength was great, Leticia might give you a "good eye" evaluation, but now Bai Ling's "peace of mind" evaluation really couldn't make Leticia happy.
"Your strength is very strong." Bai Ling said quietly.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with her expression. It was precisely because Leticia's strength was strong that she didn't need to worry about Leticia getting hurt.
Compared to herself, who had put almost all her skill points into damage output, Leticia was undoubtedly more balanced.
In terms of ability to protect herself and others, Leticia far exceeded Bai Ling.
"That's your reason for choosing to have me go, but what I want to know now is, why should I listen to you?" Leticia crossed her arms and asked with a disgusted expression. "I'm the Demon King, understand?"
What right did a human have to make the Demon King help with their work? Bai Ling wasn't even Leticia's friend—on what basis?
"Whatever you want, I can give you." Bai Ling immediately answered. "Money for games, gifts—as long as I can do it, anything is possible."
But today's Leticia wasn't like last time. She didn't have any need to spend money on games recently, and she was temporarily immune to Bai Ling's monetary offensive.
"Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work on the current me." Leticia spread her hands, indicating she wasn't so easily bought.
"Then tell me what you want me to do." Bai Ling was going all out.
Hearing this, Leticia's mind immediately became active.
"Anything?"
"Mm."
Oh ho!
A bunch of ideas instantly popped into her head. Leticia was already thinking about what position she should use to step on Bai Ling.
All along, she had been thinking about getting revenge for that failed defeat, but she had considerable self-awareness about her own strength.
Being able to escape that time was already extremely fortunate. Wanting to counter-kill was almost impossible.
Her well-rounded development was at a complete disadvantage against this extremely specialized Bai Ling. She might never be able to defeat Bai Ling through normal methods in this lifetime.
This conclusion had been thoroughly confirmed by Leticia when they met again a few days ago.
Although she had gotten much stronger, Bai Ling had also become stronger. Leticia could still only do two things: one, she could run away; two, she could trade her life for Bai Ling's.
And the choice was on Bai Ling's side. As long as Bai Ling didn't want to be taken down with Leticia, then Leticia could only run away.
But today, Leticia had found a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
An opportunity to thoroughly vent her frustration!
"You, be my maid." Leticia pointed at Bai Ling, her words full of excitement.
She was already anticipating what would happen next.
"Maid?" Bai Ling tilted her head. "I probably can't do it well."
Her life skills were still being relearned. Having her be a maid—it would be fortunate if she didn't tear down Leticia's house.
"Not like Xue'er. I don't expect you to be able to do anything." Leticia indicated that Bai Ling had misunderstood. "What I mean is, you have to listen to me, can't argue back, and must obey my commands."
"Mm." Bai Ling lowered her head and began thinking.
After a long while, she raised her head. "From now until this time tomorrow night, I can satisfy three reasonable requests from you."
"Is this how you negotiate?" Leticia put her hands on her hips and snorted. She had originally wanted Bai Ling to follow her commands all the way until Wednesday, but Bai Ling was good—with one stroke she changed the time to one day and fixed the requests at three.
"Just tell me if you agree or not." Bai Ling also indicated this was her bottom line. She understood Leticia's temperament very well. When this girl got crazy, she really had no limits.
"Tch." Leticia pouted with considerable dissatisfaction. "Fine, I agree."
Whatever, these were three free requests anyway. She wasn't really at a loss.
"Then my first request is that tonight you be my body pillow and let me sleep holding you." Leticia made what she considered a quite vicious request. "You can't move, can't talk, just like a body pillow."
Bai Ling's expression became quite strange. She hadn't expected Leticia's first request to be this.
"Alright." But this request seemed quite acceptable to her. Wasn't it just being used as a body pillow by Leticia for one night?
Nothing unacceptable about that.