Vol 4. Chapter 22: The Crying Mengxi

In a thicket outside the Black Rose Family’s main command tent—

“Rustle, rustle~”

Under the complicated gazes of the nearby Black Rose Family members, the bushes shook for a moment before the heads of two little girls and one adorably dumb-looking white wolf poked out from within.

“Big Sister Liyu, that ‘bad woman’ you said would get Mother killed, or maybe steal Mother away, seems to be inside the tent with Mother right now. So, what should we do?”

Blinking her adorable red-and-blue heterochromatic eyes, Yuan’er curiously looked toward the gray-haired girl beside her.

“Hmm...”

Faced with her little sister’s question, the gray-haired girl—little Liyu—gave no reply. Instead, she stared fixedly at the command tent not far away.

‘Ughhh, that damned Child of Destiny! She actually gets to be alone in a tent with Mother!’

Little Liyu grumbled furiously to herself, her emerald-green eyes filled with displeasure.

And besides—

Why had Mother put up a barrier? Was it to keep them from noticing what was happening inside?

Why would she do that?

Could Mother be doing something shameful with that woman in there?!

...

After briefly imagining the Child of Destiny pressed up against her mother, Liyu immediately became furious.

As her imagination began running wild, wisps of strange black energy unconsciously emerged around Liyu. The wind-attributed Shadow of Silence Power within her also began surging out of control. Liyu even vaguely felt the urge to unleash her power, charge straight inside, and simply finish off the Child of Destiny.

Of course, restrained by reason, Liyu did no such thing. However, the gray-haired girl’s face had already become shrouded in gloom.

This made Yuan’er and Limo, who had transformed into her wolf form, instinctively shudder. They stared helplessly at Liyu, who was surrounded by black energy.

And just then—

Whether it was Liyu, Limo, Yuan’er, or even Xiao and the others farther away, everyone’s eyes abruptly contracted at the same instant as they stared toward the main command tent in astonishment.

The next moment, under Liyu and the others’ bewildered gazes, the barrier personally erected by Lady Yumo to seal off the main command tent was suddenly struck from within by an unknown and immensely powerful force!

Under the impact, one corner of the barrier abruptly shattered!

The terrifying aura of Shadow of Silence Power instantly surged out!

The moment she sensed that aura, Xiao, who was farther away, immediately stopped what she was doing and summoned her magic spear. In one go, she sealed the entire Black Rose encampment within an even larger barrier.

If she did not do this and outsiders detected the aura of Shadow of Silence Power, the Black Rose Family’s workload would increase considerably...

Naturally, the three little ones near the main command tent were equally stunned by the sudden eruption of that aura.

Little Liyu’s eyebrows immediately shot upward.

?!!

Huh? Mother? Why did she suddenly unleash her power? What happened inside?

Those questions instantly flooded Liyu’s mind.

However—

Before she could figure out what exactly was going on, a soul-shaking, shrill scream suddenly came through the gap in the barrier and entered the ears of Liyu and the others, making all the children instinctively tremble.

Liyu’s eyes abruptly contracted as she stared incredulously toward the main command tent.

?!

Th-This scream?!

It’s the Child of Destiny?! Why did she suddenly scream? What exactly is happening inside?...

Could it be?!

Did the Child of Destiny discover Mother’s identity?! Is Mother planning to silence her?! Is she going to eliminate the Child of Destiny?!

Oh my god!

If that’s really the case?! We can have a party today!!

At that moment, all the panic and confusion in Liyu’s eyes instantly collapsed, replaced by intense anticipation and joy.

And so, under Limo and Yuan’er’s utterly baffled gazes, an extraordinarily excited smile slowly spread across Liyu’s little face.

‘Hurry, hurry! Finish that woman off!’

Liyu shouted expectantly in her heart.

However—

Before she could shout that more than a few times, Liyu abruptly frowned. A conflicted expression appeared on her adorable little face.

‘Hmm? Something feels... a little wrong?’

As a Demon King-class Abyss Demon, Liyu had eliminated plenty of fools who attempted to enter the western region of the Great Winter Forest during her usual patrols.

She had heard hundreds, if not thousands, of their shrill screams before death. She was incomparably familiar with those final wails filled with despair and terror.

But after calming down and listening carefully to Mengxi’s screams, Liyu could not help frowning.

The screams were indeed filled with despair and fear, but they still seemed different from the death throes she knew so well.

Instead, they sounded remarkably similar to another kind of scream in her memories...

Hmm.

Come to think of it—

‘Why do these screams sound so much like the screams Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and little Shuoyue made when Mother spanked them?’

At that thought, Liyu frowned in confusion.

‘Mother is spanking the Child of Destiny?’

What the heck was going on?

For a moment, countless question marks seemed to float above little Liyu’s head...

--

Meanwhile, on the other side—

As the feather duster radiating a terrifying crimson glow struck Mengxi’s soft, fair little bottom and sank into it, an unprecedented wave of agony instantly spread from her buttocks throughout her entire body.

Mengxi’s mind nearly went blank from the pain, while her entire delicate body began convulsing violently.

The intense pain instantly shattered Mengxi’s endurance.

She had originally wanted to maintain her image as the ‘dominant one’ in front of Sister Yumo, but under the relentless assault of that overwhelming agony, Mengxi could no longer endure it and let out a piercing scream.

“Wuwuwu, waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! D-Don’t hit me! Stop hitting me! I was wrong, Sister Yumo! I really was wrong! I’ll never dare do it again!! Wuwuwuwu, waaaaaah!!!...”

Her miserable wails instantly swept through every corner of the tent.

As she screamed—

The silver-haired girl’s beautiful pale-purple eyes instantly reddened, and tears fell uncontrollably down her fair cheeks like pearls from a broken string.

The silvery-white Holy Mana surrounding her completely dispersed. It was as though all the strength in her entire body had been obliterated by that single strike of the feather duster.

Being gravely injured by the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church?

Backlash from divine power?

The pain from those things, which Mengxi had previously found unbearable, now seemed completely insignificant.

Because compared with the excruciating agony produced when the feather duster struck her bottom, those pains were simply trivial.

The feather duster had not merely split the skin of her bottom open. The suffering it inflicted was unprecedented, unbearable, bone-piercing, and utterly agonizing...

Had Mengxi not possessed an exceptionally strong will and mobilized all the Holy Mana within her body to maintain consciousness, that single blow might have caused her to faint from sheer pain.

Yet, vaguely, Mengxi even wished that she had passed out.

At least then she would not have to feel this heart-piercing agony.

After that single strike—

A deep, bloody welt appeared across Mengxi’s soft, fair bottom, while both of the girl’s hands tightly clutched one corner of the black cloak.

Uh—

Strictly speaking, it could no longer be called a cloak.

Because just moments ago, in order to remain conscious through the overwhelming pain, Mengxi had forcibly torn the cloak that Lady Yumo had personally draped over her into shreds.

The silver-haired girl herself continued trembling uncontrollably from the agony, lying limply across the sofa as though she had been completely broken.

At this moment, Mengxi no longer possessed even the slightest trace of her usual noble image as the Child of Destiny.

Not only tears and saliva, but even certain indescribable fluids had escaped her body uncontrollably when her mind momentarily ceased functioning.

However—

Mengxi no longer had the energy to care about how disgraceful she looked.

With her entire body drained of strength, simply enduring the scorching pain continuously radiating from her buttocks was already taking everything she had.

All she could do was keep crying and letting out pitiful, heart-wrenching whimpers.

It hurts.

It hurts so much, wuwuwu~

H-How... how can it hurt this much, wuwuwu~

My butt! I-If I’d known, I wouldn’t have said that just now, wuwuwuwu!

The moment Mengxi remembered that she herself had overestimated her limits and asked Sister Yumo to spank her, the regret in her heart rapidly soared!

And when she remembered that Sister Yumo seemed to intend to hit her twice, while she had only endured one strike so far, Mengxi’s face immediately turned deathly pale.

An indescribable sense of grievance surged into her heart.

Unable to endure the grievance and pain any longer, Mengxi burst into tears once again with a loud “Wah!”

“Waaaaah, wuwuwuwu! Sister Yumo, I was wrong! Wuwuwuwu!”

The pitiful girl cried until her beautiful face was drenched in tears. Using the very last bit of strength remaining in her body, she slowly turned her head and looked toward the black-haired girl behind her.

“Sister Yumo, d-don’t... don’t do it again. I can’t take it anymore, wuwuwu... If you do it again, I’m going to die, wuwuwuwu...”

“...”

Uh... this...

Looking at the breathtakingly beautiful girl before her, who was now sobbing uncontrollably, Lady Yumo could not help freezing in place, completely at a loss.

Clearly—

Mengxi crying this miserably had gone far beyond Lady Yumo’s expectations...

‘Hmm... Do I really still have to hit her again??’