Vol 4. Chapter 149: A Complete Mess

Boohoo, how... how embarrassing!!

Boohoo, QwQ...

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At this moment, inside the bathroom, where steam filled the air and everything appeared hazy and indistinct, Mengxi had already tied up her hair and submerged herself in the warm bathwater until only her eyes and the top of her head remained above the surface.

She continued blowing bubbles in frustration...

Although Sister Yumo hadn't joined her in the bath for the intimate encounter she had been hoping for, the blush on Mengxi's pretty face showed absolutely no signs of fading.

After all,

Just moments ago, she had actually thought Sister Yumo was about to make a move on her.

She had even cooperated by putting on an expression that practically invited Yumo to do whatever she wanted...

But in the end,

Sister Yumo had only wanted her to take a bath?!

And that pitch-black room was actually the changing room outside the bathroom?! Are you kidding me?!

Aaaaaah!

As if failing to realize that wasn't bad enough, I even started taking off my underwear right in front of Sister Yumo!

"Aaaaaaaaah!!!"

Recalling that unbearably awkward scene, Mengxi couldn't help letting out a furious scream of embarrassment inside her head.

She clutched her little head with both hands and plunged straight beneath the water.

Immediately afterward, her arms and legs burst out of the water as she began thrashing wildly, sending countless splashes flying everywhere. She looked exactly like a child throwing a tantrum in the bath.

If any other members of the Asumos Church had been present and witnessed their sacred, elegant Saintess behaving like a mischievous child in the water, their jaws would probably have dropped to the floor, and they might even have begun questioning their faith.

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After a bout of kicking and splashing, Mengxi gradually calmed down under the soothing warmth of the bathwater and slowly raised her head above the surface.

Then, the silver-haired girl leaned against the edge of the bathtub, her pale-purple eyes recovering their usual composure.

At the same time, a mixture of helplessness and disappointment gradually emerged in her heart.

I practically made it clear that I was willing to let Sister take the dominant role...

And Sister still didn't react at all?!

Seriously!

As expected, Sister Yumo is simply destined to be the one underneath...

Hmph!

One day, I'll definitely make up for today's humiliation by thoroughly cuddling and teasing Sister Yumo!

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Just as Mengxi was continuously contemplating how to "get revenge" on Sister Yumo, she suddenly seemed to realize something.

Or perhaps some strange influence had simply worn off.

Her delicate body abruptly trembled, and her consciousness returned to its usual state of calm.

"No, no, no! What on earth am I thinking?!"

Shaking her head frantically, Mengxi hurriedly tried to drive the countless indescribable scenes she had imagined out of her mind.

Most of those fantasies involved intimate encounters between herself and Sister Yumo, or scenarios in which she would "discipline" Sister Yumo as a form of revenge.

No...

I can't keep thinking about these... lewd things...

It'll leave... a bad impression on Sister Yumo.

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Mengxi helplessly raised a hand to her forehead.

At this moment, the silver-haired girl's heart was gradually becoming filled with confusion and frustration.

Mengxi didn't consider herself a lustful girl.

At most, she simply harbored "some" desires toward Sister Yumo.

Before meeting Sister Yumo, she had never even seriously thought about such things. She had actually planned to remain single for her entire life...

Admittedly, ever since she fell in love with Sister Yumo and started reading the novels Sister Bai had given her, all sorts of strange thoughts had begun appearing in her head.

But...

At first, when she was spending time with Sister Yumo in her "Xiaomo" disguise, those desires hadn't been particularly strong.

Although she occasionally indulged in wild fantasies, she never behaved too outrageously.

But now?

Ever since she and Sister Yumo had revealed their true identities to each other, and Sister Yumo had begun interacting with her in her "true form," Mengxi had noticed that the desires within her heart seemed to be growing increasingly intense...

Mengxi even began wondering whether reading too many of Sister Bai's novels had genuinely transformed her into a bad girl whose mind was constantly filled with lewd thoughts, someone who only wanted to push Sister Yumo down.

...A fallen Saintess??

However,

"How strange..."

The silver-haired girl couldn't help murmuring.

Whenever she was alone in her dormitory, she was still relatively normal, except during those periods when she experienced "withdrawal symptoms" and her mind became filled with censored images.

But whenever she encountered Sister Yumo disguised as Teacher Yu, the restless feelings within her heart seemed to grow considerably stronger...

And after entering the apartment and seeing Sister Yumo without any disguise, those desires appeared to intensify even further.

It almost felt as though some sort of aura was subtly stimulating the desires buried deep within her heart...

Hmm...

Thinking this, Mengxi rolled onto her back and floated faceup in the bathtub, quietly gazing at the exquisite murals decorating the ceiling.

A certain suspicion surfaced in the silver-haired girl's mind.

"Could it be... that I'm being influenced by Sister Yumo?"

Could Sister Yumo's aura, or her Shadow of Silence Power, possess such an effect?

The aura of a Demon King-class Abyss Demon could cause people to feel oppressed and terrified, even directly driving those with insufficient willpower into mental collapse...

But she had never heard of it influencing someone's personality or temperament.

To awaken the desires hidden within another person's heart...

That...

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Gazing at the ceiling, the silver-haired girl's eyes narrowed slightly.

"That... In the legends... I think only the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons possesses such an ability..."

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Meanwhile, elsewhere, Yumo was walking through the apartment with her little lips pursed in displeasure.

Recalling Mengxi's previous behavior and words, Yumo couldn't help frowning and muttering a complaint under her breath.

"She's supposed to be a Saintess... Yet all she thinks about all day is lewd stuff instead of doing what she's supposed to... How is she ever going to kill me at this rate... Boohoo..."

However,

Complaints were one thing.

What actually seemed to bother Yumo was that Mengxi had been spending every day seeking her out lately instead of "properly" cultivating.

As for the fact that Mengxi's head was constantly filled with lewd thoughts, Yumo didn't seem particularly displeased about that.

Apparently, as long as the target of those thoughts was herself, there wasn't much of a problem...

Of course,

Yumo, who was currently busy complaining, didn't seem to have realized this herself.

What she was thinking about now was how to make that "irresponsible" little girl cultivate seriously and wholeheartedly instead of spending every waking moment thinking about lewd things...

As she pondered this problem, a sudden flash of inspiration struck Yumo.

The girl happily snapped her fingers.

"Hmm... That's right~"

Since that girl wants to do those things with me so badly~

What if I promise her that, from now on, whenever she breaks through to a new stage of strength, I'll give her a kiss? Or... let her kiss me?

Would that motivate her to cultivate harder?

If it works, I suppose sacrificing a little of my beauty wouldn't be such a bad thing...

Yumo raised a hand to her chin and fell into deep thought, carefully considering the feasibility of this idea.

While pondering, Yumo arrived at the guest room on the third floor.

In any case,

The most important thing right now was to arrange a room for Mengxi so that the girl could get some proper rest.

After all, she would have to wake up early for classes tomorrow...

Oh, no, she would have to wake up early for morning training.

Since Saiboke and the maids were all absent from the apartment, Yumo had no choice but to tidy up the room herself.

"Well, come to think of it... Are the blankets and everything in the wardrobe?"

Muttering to herself, Yumo slowly pushed open the door to the third-floor room.

However,

The moment she saw what was inside, Yumo froze on the spot, her crimson eyes filled with astonishment.

"Wh... What... What happened here?!!"

The girl couldn't help letting out a startled cry.

At this moment,

The room, which had originally been elegant, beautiful, and filled with an artistic atmosphere, had been reduced to a shattered, chaotic wreck.

Not a single piece of furniture in the spacious room remained intact...

The bed had been dismantled into four pieces, the table was embedded in the wall, and the chandelier had crashed into the center of the room, shattering into countless fragments...

Countless pieces of fabric and clothing had also been torn to shreds, scattered across the floor like snowflakes.

The entire room looked as though some vicious wild beast had gone on a rampage through it.

It was an utterly miserable sight...

Th... Was this Limo's doing?!

The image of a certain wolf girl immediately surfaced in Yumo's mind.

However, she quickly shook her head and rejected that possibility.

No, impossible...

Limo went to the Sadik Empire with Xiao. She isn't here...

But...

If it wasn't that child, who else would do something as ridiculous as tearing the entire house apart?

Yumo was utterly confused.

However, she didn't have time to think too deeply about it right now.

She hurriedly closed the door and quickly headed downstairs, intending to check the vacant rooms on the second floor.

After all, her top priority was arranging somewhere for Mengxi to stay.

Once that girl was comfortably asleep and getting some proper rest, it wouldn't be too late to investigate the culprit responsible for this disaster.

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However,

To Yumo's astonishment, she discovered that the guest rooms on the second floor also looked as though they had been through a fierce battle.

The extent of the destruction was almost impossible to describe.

In fact, they were in even worse condition than the room on the third floor...

And it wasn't just the guest rooms.

Apart from Yumo's own bedroom, practically every room was in a similarly terrible state, including Saiboke's room and those belonging to the servants...

Everything was a complete mess, rendering the rooms utterly uninhabitable.

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Silently closing another door, Yumo's eyebrows began twitching uncontrollably.

An indescribable sadness appeared within her crimson eyes.

M-My... My house...

How... How could it end up like this...

"Wh... What on earth happened here?!!!"