Vol 4. Chapter 83: The Tutoring Begins

Hell~

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“Mother, have a safe journey. Also, goodbye, little Yuan’er.”

“Mm-hmm, goodbye, Big Sister Karina!”

“Little Na, I’ll leave looking after the house to you.”

“Leave it to me, Mother. I’ll keep the Great Winter Forest perfectly organized.”

“Mm.”

......

......

After exchanging a few farewells, Miss Yumo took the well-behaved and adorable Yuan’er by the hand and slowly climbed into the carriage driven by Saiboke-Baniya.

Then, under the reluctant gazes of her daughters, the convoy began moving. Escorted by several powerful Seventh-Tier Abyss Demons, it slowly drove out through the barrier......

After watching the Black Rose convoy disappear from sight, the charming smile on Karina’s face gradually faded, and her expression slowly returned to its usual indifference.

“Hopefully everything goes smoothly......”

Karina murmured softly.

Her arrangements should clearly have been flawless. Mother’s trip to the Crimson Leaf Empire this time should have gone perfectly smoothly.

But for some unknown reason, ever since she watched the convoy leave, Karina’s right eyelid had been twitching nonstop.

She didn’t know why, but Karina kept feeling that something was wrong.

Yet she couldn’t say what exactly it was.

Strange......

......

After puzzling over it for a while without reaching any conclusion, Karina had no choice but to stop dwelling on these inexplicable premonitions.

Slowly shaking her head and casting the distracting thoughts from her mind, the red-haired woman turned around and looked toward the black-haired man leaning against a dragon statue not far away.

“Xiao, Mother has already left. What about you?”

“It’s about time for me to return to the Sadik Empire as well. I’ve stayed here long enough......”

As he spoke, Xiao gazed at the surrounding scenery with mixed emotions.

Although cold winds swept through this area, and wherever one looked there was nothing but a vast expanse of white, lifeless and devoid of any scenery worth admiring, Xiao still revealed a genuinely sweet smile as he looked over the land where he had grown up.

Xiao had been born in the Sadik Empire, but to him, this place was his true hometown.

Returning to his hometown after several decades naturally filled the Duke of the Black Rose Family with countless emotions.

However,

once everything was settled, he could stay in his hometown for as long as he wanted.

For now, important matters came first......

After learning from Shuoyue about the Asumos Church’s previous operation, Xiao now had a mountain of work piled up before him.

He had to return to Sabelius as quickly as possible to deal with it.

“Since I’ve stayed long enough, and Lady Yumo has also left, it’s time for me to return to the Sadik Empire.”

With both hands in his pockets, Xiao slowly walked toward the sisters.

“Lady Limo, we should set off as well.”

“Wuwuwu...... Oh...... I know.”

Realizing that she could no longer continue staying beside Mother, Limo stopped insisting on remaining in the Great Winter Forest.

Instead, she listened to Big Sister Karina’s advice and decided to leave together with Xiao to thoroughly spread the power of the Abyss Demons......

Enmmm?

Spread it where again?

Limo tilted her head in confusion.

She couldn’t quite remember what Big Sister Karina had told her before......

Whatever.

She would just do whatever they told her to do.

Once again giving up on thinking, Limo listlessly responded to Xiao, then slowly stood up and reluctantly hugged her little sister Liyu.

Afterward,

the wolf girl followed Xiao dejectedly toward another Black Rose Family convoy not far away.

“Big Sister Limo......”

Seeing her normally silly older sister displaying such an unusually lonely expression, Liyu couldn’t help feeling worried.

In Liyu’s opinion, her older sister really did need some proper education.

It was also necessary for her to leave the Great Winter Forest and see the outside world.

Even so, seeing Limo looking so pitiful still made Liyu feel reluctant to let her go.

Besides,

the two of them had always been practically inseparable, so naturally Liyu herself was also filled with reluctance.

And so,

Liyu slowly walked over to Karina and tugged at the hem of her third older sister’s skirt.

“Um, Big Sister Karina, if it’s just looking after the house, you and Shuoyue should be enough, right? Can I go to the Sadik Empire together with Big Sister Limo?”

“No......”

However, faced with her adorable little sister’s request, Karina firmly shook her head.

“Limo relies on you too much. If you stay by her side, whenever Limo encounters a problem, she’ll immediately seek your help. She won’t be able to grow like that. I’m sure you understand that very well too, Liyu.”

“That...... I know......”

Of course Liyu understood the reasoning, but the gray-haired girl still couldn’t stop worrying about her foolish older sister.

“But, but......”

“Liyu, for Limo’s growth, you need to learn to let go a little.”

“......Yes......”

“Besides......”

As she spoke, Karina narrowed her eyes slightly and thoughtfully glanced at Liyu, then at Shuoyue standing nearby.

“Besides, you don’t have any free time to take care of your sister right now either.”

?!?

“Huh? Big Sister Karina, what do you mean by that?”

Hearing Karina’s somewhat indifferent words, Liyu immediately trembled from head to toe as an ominous premonition suddenly surged into her heart.

And in the next instant, Liyu’s ominous premonition was confirmed.

The red-haired woman smiled slightly and meaningfully raised a hand to pat Liyu on the shoulder.

“Liyu, it’s been such a long time since we last met. Why has your strength still barely changed? You’re still only Mid Eighth-Tier. Just what have you been doing all this time? And you...... Shuoyue, the same goes for you. How long have you been stuck at Mid Eighth-Tier?”

The moment those words fell,

not only did Liyu tremble all over, but Shuoyue, who had been standing nearby looking half-asleep, instantly woke up and shuddered violently.

For a moment, both sisters looked anxiously at Karina.

At this very moment,

the two girls suddenly remembered the cultivation assignments Big Sister Karina had given them many years ago, before leaving the forest......

Because they had spent all this time busy sleeping and cuddling with Mother, the two girls had undoubtedly neglected the matter of cultivation.

As a result, during this entire period, saying their strength had remained completely stagnant would almost have been generous.

They had made absolutely no progress whatsoever.

At this moment, Liyu and Shuoyue were like students whose summer vacation had just ended, standing in front of their homeroom teacher while handing over completely blank summer homework.

They were panicking like hell.

“Ah, this...... Well......”

“Uh, about cultivation......”

The two speechless girls awkwardly looked at each other, then simultaneously lowered their heads with guilty expressions and fell into an eerie silence.

“As expected, you two forgot about it again, didn’t you?”

Karina helplessly sighed, her orange-red eyes filled with an expression that said she had expected exactly this.

Looking at her two younger sisters, who had already prepared themselves to be scolded, Karina shook her head.

There was a reason why her younger sisters were far weaker than both herself and Big Brother Piere.

The main reason was that when Mother created them, the concentration of Origin Shadow of Silence Power she used had been relatively low.

When Mother first began creating Demon King-class beings, she could be said to have failed over and over again.

Ordinary creatures simply could not withstand Mother’s power.

They either exploded and died,

or transformed into completely uncontrollable monsters.

During that period, after receiving Mother’s Origin Power, the ones fortunate enough to successfully become Demon King-class existences were herself and Big Brother Piere.

Although this method carried enormous risks and had an extremely high failure rate, once Karina and Piere successfully became Demon King-class existences, they possessed terrifying strength from the very beginning.

After Karina had existed for some time, when Mother began creating her younger sisters, she reduced the concentration of Origin Power she used in order to slightly improve the success rate.

The facts proved that this approach was indeed effective.

Limo, Liyu, Shuoyue, and now Yuan’er joined this large family one after another.

However,

because the concentration of power invested in them was lower, the younger sisters were correspondingly weaker when they were first born.

On top of that,

most of the powerful enemies who entered the Great Winter Forest were dealt with by Karina and Piere.

Under the excessive protection of herself and Big Brother Piere, their younger sisters seemed to gradually stop paying attention to cultivation.

And so, even now, they were awkwardly stuck at Mid Eighth-Tier......

Even killing a Heavenly Apostle or some Holy Tower Venerable or something would take them a bit of effort......

And they couldn’t even properly control their Released State.

“Sigh......”

After briefly recalling all those past events, Karina couldn’t help sighing once again.

“If you’ve both forgotten about cultivation, then there’s nothing else to be done.”

After sighing for a moment, Karina revealed a resolute and faintly cold expression, instantly making both Liyu and Shuoyue shudder.

Now,

Big Brother Piere had disappeared off to who-knew-where to fool around.

Karina herself was also extremely busy and couldn’t possibly spend every waking moment solving problems for her younger sisters or protecting them.

Recently, the various powers across the continent had begun stirring restlessly.

In order to give her younger sisters a greater ability to protect themselves, and so that they could have better “friendly exchanges” with their enemies in the future,

Karina believed

that improving her younger sisters’ strength was now an urgent priority.

Besides,

they couldn’t keep living forever under the protection of herself and Mother, could they?

Enmm......

Though Mother would probably be perfectly happy with that......

But no matter what,

while she had some free time, she absolutely had to properly educate her younger sisters.

Thinking this, Karina gradually revealed a meaningful smile.

“Um...... Big Sister Karina?”

After noticing the change in the red-haired woman’s expression, Liyu took a deep breath and asked nervously,

“S-Sorry, Big Sister Karina, but can I leave first? I...... I still...... still have...... something to do later......”

“Um...... Big Sister Karina, I-I do too. There are a lot of things happening in the central region...... So, I-I’ll get going first too, okay?”

Sensing that the atmosphere around them was gradually changing, Shuoyue and Liyu immediately realized something was wrong.

They hurriedly turned around and frantically prepared to flee.

As memories of the terrifying demonic tutoring sessions from the past resurfaced in their minds, only one thought remained in the two girls’ heads:

Run!

Unfortunately,

how could the intentions of these two little girls possibly escape Karina’s eyes?

Just as the two girls prepared to mobilize their Shadow of Silence Power and rapidly flee the scene, Karina struck with lightning-fast speed.

She directly grabbed both girls by the backs of their necks, seizing them by the scruffs of fate.

“Don’t be in such a hurry, little ones...... It’s rare for Big Sister to come back, so of course I have to give my adorable little sisters some simple tutoring~ But you don’t need to worry so much. For the next week, we only need to have class for twenty-three hours every day~ It’ll be very easy~ There’s no time to waste, so let’s begin~”

Karina’s voice was exceptionally sweet.

Yet it instantly caused expressions of utter terror to appear on Liyu and Shuoyue’s faces.

“Nooooo!!! Big Sister Karina, I don’t want to go to class!!!! I don’t want tutoringgggggggggggggggggggggg!!! Mo(Ma)ther(ma), save us!!!”

In the next moment,

accompanied by Liyu and Shuoyue’s funeral-like wails, Karina transformed into a strict female teacher.

Completely impartial and unmoved by the two girls’ crying and screaming, she simply carried one younger sister in each hand and walked step by step toward the depths of the forest......

It was almost as though a strange BGM began echoing throughout the forest at that very moment~