Vol 4. Chapter 15: The Visitor

“Hmm? You’re saying Mengxi...... Ah, no, you’re saying the Child of Destiny wants to see me?”

“Yes, Lady Yumo. The Child of Destiny said that she has an urgent matter and wishes to see you.”

Upon hearing the young knight’s words, Lady Yumo’s delicate brows furrowed slightly.

Then,

the black-haired girl expressionlessly looked in the direction the young knight had come from. With neither joy nor anger visible on her face, Yumo fell into a brief silence.

“Mama?”

“Mother?”

Seeing Yumo remain silent for a moment, Liyu and Yuan’er asked in confusion. Yuan’er even couldn’t resist stepping forward and tugging on Yumo’s slender, soft little hand. Behind them, the snow-white giant wolf that had been sleeping soundly for so long seemed to regain a little awareness the moment she heard the words ‘Child of Destiny.’ She blankly climbed to her feet and came up behind Lady Yumo.

“Awooo?” (What happened? What’s going on?)

Faced with her daughters’ calls, Yumo smiled helplessly.

Then she turned around, looked at her adorable daughters, and revealed an apologetic expression.

“Sorry, I need to leave for a little while. I won’t be able to have breakfast with you today.”

“Mother, are you going to meet that Child of Destiny?”

A trace of concern appeared in Liyu’s eyes.

In response, Yumo raised her hand and rubbed the little girl’s head, reassuring her:

“Mm, there are some things I should talk to her about. Besides, the Child of Destiny is ultimately an important figure in the Asumos Church. Right now, I’m representing the Black Rose Family, so it wouldn’t really be appropriate to turn her away at the door. But don’t worry, Little Yu. I’ll be back soon. For now, you and Limo should have breakfast with Yuan’er. After breakfast, take your little sister somewhere nearby to play. Remember to exercise some restraint. Don’t recklessly release your Shadow of Silence Power.”

Hearing this,

although Liyu felt a tiny bit dissatisfied inside, in order to maintain her image as a considerate and obedient child, she forcibly suppressed her displeasure toward the Child of Destiny and slowly nodded, revealing a confident and reliable smile.

“Don’t worry, Mother. I’ll take good care of Big Sister Limo and Little Sister.”

The girl patted her rather flat chest as she gave Lady Yumo her assurance.

“Mm.”

Yumo nodded in satisfaction, then looked toward the pink-haired little girl holding her hand.

“Yuan’er, make sure you listen obediently to your big sister later, okay?”

“Mm, I understand, Mama.”

Seeing Yuan’er being so sensible as well, Yumo couldn’t help feeling gratified. Then, with a complicated look in her eyes, she gazed toward the direction where she could sense Mengxi’s presence. After giving Saiboke a few final instructions, the black-haired girl was suddenly surrounded by a swarm of Blood Butterflies before transforming into a streak of crimson light and vanishing without a trace......

......

Seeing this, Yuan’er immediately revealed an astonished expression, marveling at just how powerful her mother was. Despite moving at such tremendous speed, she had barely caused any energy fluctuations at all.

‘Mama is so amazing.’

Yuan’er couldn’t help thinking.

To tell the truth,

Yuan’er really was a little unhappy that Mama had suddenly left and couldn’t eat breakfast with them. However, after recalling how Big Sister Youlan had previously told her that Mama liked obedient children, Yuan’er suppressed those little emotions in her heart. In front of Mama and her older brothers and sisters, she didn’t want to be as willful as she had been before.

Although Big Sister Youlan had told her that there was nothing wrong with children being a little willful.

But,

she still wanted to become a good child, a child who wouldn’t cause trouble for her family. Back when she was still with the Duke Family, her willfulness had caused Grandpa and Grandma plenty of trouble. Now that she had already been reborn, she didn’t want to repeat those mistakes......

Forget it,

no point thinking about it.

Since Mama told us to eat breakfast first! Then let’s eat first!

“Then, Big Sister Liyu, let’s go have breakfast first!...... ??! Big Sister Liyu?”

However,

halfway through her words, Yuan’er suddenly froze. A trace of astonishment appeared within her heterochromatic red-and-blue eyes.

“Big Sister Liyu?”

At this moment, reflected within Yuan’er’s mismatched eyes, the obedient, sensible, sweet, and charming smile that had previously adorned the gray-haired girl’s face was nowhere to be seen. In its place was an intense murderous air. Yuan’er could even vaguely see terrifying black energy drifting around Liyu.

The little girl couldn’t help feeling slightly uneasy.

Meanwhile, staring in the direction from which the Black Rose knight had arrived earlier, Liyu couldn’t help biting her lip.

That damn Child of Destiny!

She’s clearly the chosen one and Mother’s enemy, so why does she keep coming to find Mother?!

Mother is already using her new identity as the Young Lady of the Black Rose Family, so why did that woman come clinging to her again?!

Damn it,

she ruined our perfectly good breakfast again!

Didn’t Mother say that when she killed Xue Tianao, that woman happened to get knocked unconscious by the aura of Mother’s Shadow of Silence Power?

After being shocked unconscious by Mother’s power, she can already move around normally again this quickly?!

What a ridiculously tough woman...

Liyu couldn’t stop complaining inwardly. Her displeasure toward the Child of Destiny seemed to transform into tangible black energy.

Even Limo, who had ‘accidentally’ stuffed the entire breakfast cart into her mouth, couldn’t help trembling as she stared uneasily at her little sister.

“Big Sister Liyu, a-are you okay?”

However,

as Yuan’er’s voice repeatedly sounded beside her ears, Liyu suddenly jolted and finally returned to her senses.

She hurriedly restrained the murderous aura on her face, terrified that she might frighten her new little sister.

Then she once again revealed her usual sweet smile.

“N-No, it’s nothing. Don’t worry.”

“...”

Once Liyu returned to normal, Yuan’er and the wolf cub both breathed long sighs of relief. After all, the atmosphere just now had truly been far too oppressive...

After breathing a sigh of relief, Yuan’er curiously looked toward the location of the encampment’s main entrance.

“Um, Big Sister Liyu, were you angry just now?”

“Hmm, I guess I was, a little.”

“Huh? Just a little? Why did you suddenly get angry?”

“Of course it’s because of that bad woman!”

“Bad...... bad woman?”

Like an inquisitive little baby, Yuan’er blinked repeatedly as she stared at Liyu.

Seeing this, Liyu froze slightly before a sudden gleam flashed through the girl’s emerald-green gemstone eyes.

“Yuan’er, do you love Mama?”

“Of course I do!”

Satisfied with this answer, Liyu nodded slightly. Then she solemnly raised a hand and patted the pink-haired little girl on the shoulder.

“Then do you know?! That bad woman could bring harm to our Mother!”

?!

“Eh?!”

Little Yuan’er’s eyes abruptly contracted. She immediately stared dumbfoundedly at the gray-haired girl before her with an expression of complete disbelief.

The gray-haired girl, meanwhile, secretly bent down and leaned close to Yuan’er’s ear.

“Mm, that’s right! Listen, I’m telling you! That woman is the Chosen...... blah blah blah blah blah blah......”

...

——

Meanwhile, elsewhere, outside the main tent of the Black Rose Family’s encampment,

a beautiful girl who could practically be called the masterpiece of the Creator was quietly standing outside the tent.

Dressed in the white-and-gold high-ranking nun’s robes of the Asumos Church, the slender and graceful girl possessed an enviable head of dazzling silver-white hair, radiant and pure as snow. Her violet gemstone eyes constantly radiated a captivating softness and an incomparable aura of holiness.

Soft, full red lips, a delicate and petite nose, smooth and graceful cheeks, and tender pink skin that seemed as though it could break at the slightest touch all came together to form the face of an unrivaled beauty. Even the members of the Black Rose Knights, who were accustomed to killing without hesitation and living on the edge of a blade, couldn’t help revealing stunned expressions the first moment they saw the silver-haired girl.

But,

the moment they realized that this beautiful girl was the only existence in the world currently capable of threatening Lady Yumo,

the expressions of these Black Rose knights instantly changed as dramatically as faces in a Sichuan opera. They immediately began glaring viciously at her as though they wished they could swallow her alive. A murderous atmosphere and visibly intense hostility instantly surrounded the Black Rose knights. For a time, the atmosphere in this open space became extraordinarily oppressive.

If looks could kill,

these Black Rose knights probably wouldn’t have shown the slightest tenderness toward a beautiful woman and would have directly chopped Lady Mengxi, the Child of Destiny, into eight pieces.

However,

Mengxi appeared completely unconcerned by the hostility that the people of the Black Rose Family were attempting to conceal but could never fully suppress. After all, back when she had first been brought from that dilapidated little village to the Asumos Church’s headquarters, the hostility she had encountered had been no less abundant than the welcome she received.

Compared with the hostility hidden beneath smiling faces back then, the relatively straightforward hostility of the Black Rose Family actually made Mengxi feel considerably more comfortable.

More importantly,

Mengxi’s attention wasn’t on the surrounding members of the Black Rose Family at all.

Right now, °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° only a single existence occupied the silver-haired girl’s mind......

And at that moment,

under Mengxi’s somewhat complicated gaze, the tightly shut double doors of the tent finally slowly opened, and a beautiful dragon-horned girl gradually walked out. The moment the girl emerged, the hostility on the faces of the surrounding Black Rose knights immediately vanished.

In an instant, they transformed into expressionless statues.

After casting several warning glances toward the ten nearby members of the Black Rose Knights, silently ordering them not to act without permission, the dragon-horned girl—Zhong Xizhi—fixed her gaze upon the silver-haired girl not far away.

A trace of displeasure and disgust flashed through Zhong Xizhi’s eyes.

Gritting her teeth, the dragon-horned girl slowly spoke in a cold, emotionless voice:

“Apologies for making you wait, Lady Mengxi. Our Young Lady...... invites you inside.”

“......”

Hearing this, Mengxi nodded slightly.

Then she took a deep breath and looked somewhat nervously toward the tent ahead.

“Alright, I understand.”