Chapter 2122 - 564: Hot Spring Peak Needs Hot Springs, Of Course_5

"Hehe, of course it's bathing! It doesn't have your name written here!"

"What—what do you mean... I mean, have you considered Prince Colin's feelings?" Erin stammered.

"What's the matter? Isn't it perfectly natural for a brother to scrub his sister's back?" Vivian lifted her chin, looking all justified.

"How is that perfectly natural!"

Erin felt her worldview was shaken. Although she knew Colin and Vivian had a good relationship, this seemed beyond merely good.

Vivian was utterly unashamed. Instead, she delighted in Erin's fluster, her words becoming increasingly unguarded.

"That's how it is on Gana Continent! We often bathed together when we were young!"

Erin's gaze instantly turned a bit dazed. She turned to look at Colin, her eyes carrying a hint of incredulous inquiry.

"Colin..."

"That's nonsense, she's fibbing. We didn't know each other as kids." Honestly, Luo Yan was in a somewhat passive stance now.

Not because Vivian had the exaggerated strength to drag a train, but because his arms were dangerously positioned no matter which direction he moved them now.

Upon hearing Colin's denial, Erin finally breathed a sigh of relief, her tense shoulders relaxing, and her emerald eyes ceasing to tremble.

Phew... it was all just bluffing.

Scaring herself.

However, just as she hadn't entirely relaxed, Vivian suddenly blew up nearby.

Her boasting had been exposed on the spot, and it was in front of "Beloved," filling Vivian with unprecedented emotional damage.

Her crimson eyes welled up with mist, eventually brewing an explosive emotion. She angrily splashed around in the water.

"Waaah... Damn it! I'm so mad! I'll kill Roxey Colin! Give me back my brother!"

Luo Yan: "Calm down..."

"Stop it, Vivian, he's your brother. You should get along well... I mean, in a healthy way." Kind Erin, after understanding the situation, no longer felt jealous but instead helped Colin comfort his sister.

"..." Even though Luo Yan felt Vivian probably wasn't trying to kill him, Roxey Colin was someone else, but he really didn't know where to start explaining, so he remained silent.

Massive splashes of water erupted from Vivian, turning the hot spring pool into a miniature tsunami scene. The white mist and scattered water droplets utterly obscured the view, leaving Taufu, who was laughing so hard she could hardly breathe, looking into the vortex's center with astonishment.

Just then, hurried footsteps echoed from afar.

"Your Highness! What's going on?!"

Theresa, who had been waiting outside, heard the commotion and screams from the hot spring, thinking something went wrong. She gripped her sword handle, her face tense as she rushed to the hot spring's edge.

However, when she saw the scene before her, she froze completely.

"Your Highness... um?"

Inside the hot spring pool, Princess Erin stood wrapped in a towel, her face red and flustered. On the other side, Vivian was floundering around like a child, not knowing her madness.

Theresa looked at the two in the hot spring in confusion.

"You both..."

What's going on?

Noticing Theresa standing at the hot spring's edge, Vivian, who was venting her emotions, abruptly stopped her actions, crossed her arms over her chest, and shouted, blushing.

"It's not what you think!"

"...?"

Theresa's eyes grew even more baffled.

She wasn't thinking anything either.

At this moment, Erin suddenly noticed someone missing from the hot spring, so she glanced around.

"Speaking of... where did Colin go?"

He was clearly sitting there just now. How did he disappear in the blink of an eye?

Vivian finally realized too, her little face "swishing" to one side, indeed not seeing her brother in the hot spring.

And not just her brother.

Even Taufu had vanished!

"Your Highness..." Theresa redirected her gaze from the crestfallen Vivian to look at Erin worriedly.

"I'm fine, Theresa... you can withdraw."

Erin gave Theresa a gentle smile, relieved that Theresa didn't come across that embarrassing scene, but a tiny bit of loss welled up inside her.

Letting that guy escape again...

…

Meanwhile, at another hot spring pool halfway up the mountain.

Though the atmosphere here wasn't as noisy as next door, the pressure enveloping the steamy mist was just as palpable.

On the mirror-like pool surface, two figures of different sizes faced each other from afar.

Sitting poised at the edge of the warm pool, Sarah watched the "Nightmare Demon General" opposite her with a blank expression, her amber slit pupils slightly narrowed.

Sitting opposite her, Qianqian did likewise, lazily crossing her stalk-like legs, her bat-like wings spread flat on the water.

"What are you doing here?" Qianqian raised an eyebrow, intertwining a strand of scarlet hair around her finger, a tinge of annoyance at being disturbed in her tone.

Sarah coldly stared at her colleague, not backing down despite the other's status.

"...I wanted to ask you the same thing."

"Ask me? Interesting. Of course I am waiting for the esteemed Your Majesty... but you, don't you feel a bit presumptuous?"

"Oh? Does the Demon King know about this?"

"He will."

"..." Sarah's lips curled slightly. This guy seemingly had no idea they'd gone astray, showing up at the wrong place.

However, Qianqian interpreted her gaze as a taunt, a flicker of anger flashing through her crimson eyes as she boldly glared back.

Their gazes crossed paths in the air, like a needle versus a mace, intangible sparks crackling on the water surface.

Unlike the harmonious Campbell Castle, the deceit among Demon Generals in Thunder County Maze is just everyday life.

It was this way during Dragon's era.

Nowadays, Luo Yan's era is still relatively peaceful.

Not far away, behind an inconspicuous rock, Mi Xi, "the Little Demon most famed for spreading messages in the Great Graveyard," curled up into a ball, hugging her knees, trembling.

"It's over, it's over... led him the wrong way."

Brilliant Mi Xi intended to create a beautiful encounter, yet unexpectedly, Lord Demon King went next door, while His Majesty's foolish cat appeared here.

Surely, it was Alak's doing!

Mi Xi muttered in her heart, intending to teach that clumsy spider a lesson, letting it know it's unwise to provoke the Little Demon from the Land of Nightmare!

However...

Listening to the arguments emanating from next door, Mi Xi's heart surged with relief after narrowly escaping disaster.

Luckily, they went to the wrong place.

Had Queen Cathy and Princess Aileen come face to face, a major event would likely unfold atop Hot Spring Peak tonight...