Vol 4. Chapter 166: An Unexpected Encounter

"Sister Youlan, huh..."

Recalling that familiar face he had finally seen again after a hundred years, Pipi couldn't help feeling a complicated mixture of emotions.

After letting out a sigh, the purple-haired maid thoughtfully rolled up his sleeve and looked at the hideous scars covering his arm.

Scars that had all been inflicted by his elder sister.

"Was agreeing to cooperate with her really the right decision?"

Conflicting emotions began spreading through Pipi's heart.

That woman was his elder sister, but she was also the person who had once tried to kill him, as well as a traitor who had abandoned the Great Winter Forest.

Although Pipi still harbored doubts about what had happened when his sister severely injured him all those years ago, it was an undeniable fact that she had utterly disappointed their mother and had even attempted to harm their younger sisters on several occasions.

Perhaps his mother was right.

Perhaps his sister really couldn't be trusted.

Had he been too reckless in accepting her proposal so readily?

...

...

While struggling with these thoughts, Pipi continued moving rapidly toward Lingluo's dormitory.

Even without using his Shadow of Silence Power, his terrifying physical abilities and extraordinary agility allowed him to weave through the various security installations as though they didn't exist.

He effortlessly crossed the dense forest and gardens, arriving at the outskirts of the Blue Rose Dormitory area, where Lingluo was staying.

With a single leap, Pipi landed on the roof of the dormitory building.

However, at that very moment, something soft and squishy suddenly collided with his back.

At the same time, a sweet and melodious cry of "Ouch!" reached his ears.

?!!

Hmm?

The unexpected collision and the startled cry of a little girl immediately dragged Pipi's thoughts back to reality.

"Hmm? Who's there?"

Although the other party's aura posed absolutely no threat, Pipi still turned his head warily.

An almost imperceptible trace of lightning power gathered in his palm.

However, the moment he turned around, the purple-haired maid couldn't help furrowing his brows.

Countless colorful, unidentified little objects suddenly rained down from above, scattering all around him.

These shiny, brightly colored things didn't seem dangerous in the slightest, but they did arouse Pipi's curiosity.

He immediately reached out and caught several of them.

"What are these??"

Looking down at the exquisitely wrapped objects in his palm, each consisting of a small round ball attached to a little stick, Pipi blinked in confusion.

"Are these... lollipops?"

While wondering about this,

Pipi unconsciously shifted his gaze toward the petite figure in front of him.

It was an adorable little girl with pink twin tails.

Her gently curved eyebrows resembled willow leaves, while her long eyelashes trembled slightly. Her flawless, snow-white skin carried a faint rosy blush, and her delicate lips were as tender and inviting as rose petals.

Her unique heterochromatic eyes, one red and the other blue, sparkled like precious gemstones. They were exceptionally clear and seemed filled with innocence.

At the moment, the little girl was wearing a black off-the-shoulder dress with delicate straps. The wide lace-trimmed straps elegantly outlined her delicate collarbones, while the simple neckline revealed a small patch of fair skin above her chest.

Beneath her long black skirt, her slender little feet, wrapped in white children's socks, appeared and disappeared as she moved.

Such an exquisitely beautiful little girl, dressed in equally adorable clothing, looked just like a tiny angel who had descended into the mortal world.

How could anyone possibly resist doting on her?

If this little girl were standing in a crowd, all she would need to do was act a little cute, and she would probably melt the hearts of countless people on the spot.

However,

This adorable little girl was currently sitting on the cold rooftop, rubbing her little head while making pitiful whimpering noises.

Clearly, this was the little fellow who had just collided with Pipi.

After crashing straight into the "solid wall" that was Pipi, the pink-haired girl had unsurprisingly fallen backward and landed on her bottom.

The countless candies she had been carrying were sent flying by the collision and scattered everywhere as she fell.

That was precisely why Pipi had been greeted by such a colorful rain of candy when he turned around.

Meanwhile,

The pink-haired little girl—none other than our little Yuan'er—was rubbing her poor little head in bewilderment.

Uuuu...

"W-What the heck... Why did someone suddenly jump out of nowhere?!"

Yuan'er muttered unhappily.

Originally, little Yuan'er had finally been preparing to put today's plan into action.

She intended to take advantage of the fact that there were no classes and blow up the teaching building in one fell swoop.

That way, Sister Mengxi would have more time to spend with her mother in the future.

Of course, since Sister Karina had suppressed her power, and because she was deliberately concealing her abilities, the current Yuan'er couldn't destroy the heavily guarded and extraordinarily sturdy teaching building by herself.

Besides, if she personally did something like that, her mother would definitely find out.

Therefore, this mission naturally fell to her good friend, little Meili.

However,

To Yuan'er's astonishment, little Meili, who had always obediently listened to her in the past, had suddenly become incredibly stubborn.

She absolutely refused to blow up the school, insisting that destroying it again would be going too far.

This left Yuan'er utterly dumbfounded.

Under normal circumstances, Yuan'er could have continued using her mother's terrifying reputation to intimidate the little dragon loli and force her into obedience.

But considering that little Meili was still her friend, constantly threatening her didn't seem particularly appropriate.

After all, Grandpa Saiboke was always saying that threats toward one's "friends" needed to be used in moderation.

Thus, after giving the matter some serious thought, Yuan'er had obtained a large quantity of delicious candies from Grandpa Saiboke.

She intended to use the sweets that little Meili loved so much to trick...

Ah, no!

To persuade little Meili to help her.

Unfortunately, something completely unexpected happened.

While Yuan'er was carrying her candies past this place, happily skipping and hopping across the rooftops toward the suburban park where little Meili was currently staying, a strange figure had suddenly landed directly in front of her?!

And because Yuan'er had been completely absorbed in figuring out how to bribe little Meili, carefully rehearsing the necessary lines in her head, she hadn't immediately noticed the abnormality ahead.

As a result, she'd accidentally crashed straight into that person...

But no matter how she thought about it,

This young lady was happily hopping around on the rooftops?! And I somehow managed to run into another person up here?!

How the hell can someone appear in a place like this?! What kind of ridiculous coincidence is that?!

Little Yuan'er couldn't resist complaining inwardly.

?!

Hmm?!

Wait! That's not the important part!

Before she'd even finished complaining, Yuan'er suddenly realized something extremely serious.

Where are this young lady's candies for luring that little dragon away?!

The instant this thought crossed her mind, Yuan'er frantically looked around.

And when the little fellow spotted the colorful candies scattered all over the ground, her red-and-blue eyes abruptly contracted.

An overwhelming sense of grievance and disappointment surged through her heart.

Yuan'er knew perfectly well that although the candies Grandpa Saiboke had given her were exquisite and delicious, they were also terribly fragile...

After falling like that, they must have been smashed to pieces...

Uuuu...

"My candies! Awoooo..."

Those were limited-edition candies that the big brothers and sisters from the Black Rose Family worked so hard to get! Uuuu...

Looking at the tragic "corpses" of her fallen candy comrades scattered across the ground, the little fellow suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to pound her chest and stomp her feet in despair.

Without the candies, wouldn't her entire plan to trick little Meili be ruined?!

After all, that dragon loli only seemed to lose her ability to think properly when candy was involved.

After wallowing in frustration for a while, Yuan'er immediately puffed out her cheeks and angrily raised her head toward the person in front of her.

In other words, the "culprit" who had suddenly descended from the sky.

Although this purple-haired big sister was quite beautiful, and her chest possessed a similarly flat horizon to her mother's, which inexplicably made Yuan'er feel a certain sense of fondness for her, the little girl couldn't suppress her anger when she remembered that this person's appearance had "killed" so many of her precious candy brothers.

With a forceful push of her legs, Yuan'er immediately sprang to her feet and marched aggressively toward the young maid.

Then,

The little girl bared her teeth and put on what she believed was an extremely fierce expression.

Like a tiny kitten brandishing its claws, she glared furiously at the purple-haired maid.

At the same time, she planted her left hand on her waist and unceremoniously pointed her right index finger straight at the maid's forehead.

"Who are you!! Why did you suddenly appear on the rooftop and make all this young lady's candies break!!"

"Huh?!"

"What do you mean, 'Huh'?! It's all your fault for suddenly appearing out of nowhere and knocking this young lady over! Now all my candies are broken! What are you going to do about it?! Hurry up and compensate this young lady for her candies!"

Although Yuan'er usually appeared obedient and adorable, back when she was still human, she had been a notoriously spoiled and unruly young lady in Wind Facing City.

Normally, because of Yumo's presence, she kept that part of her personality firmly suppressed deep within her heart.

But now that Yumo wasn't around, and considering how thoroughly upset the little girl already was, the shadow of that formerly overbearing young lady resurfaced once again.

"If you don't compensate me for my candies, I'll make you regret it?!"

Meanwhile,

Faced with the little girl's words, the purple-haired maid's eyebrows twitched slightly.

Pipi pressed his lips together in irritation.

Fuck.

Where the hell did this brat come from?!

How dare she speak to this great lord like that?!