Chapter 253

2. It’s harming me!

   Let me see what’s going on here?!

For now, she didn’t care how this troublesome little sister had found her—what mattered was getting out of the blanket bundle first, putting on some clothes, and making herself look presentable!

“Xia, stall for a bit. I need a new set of clothes that haven’t been soaked…!”

——Boom!!

Dust scattered everywhere, sand and debris flying.

Belith had always been someone who did exactly what she said.

If she said she would smash the door, then she absolutely wouldn’t just say it—she would definitely act on it.

By the time Sheffy hurriedly wrapped herself back up in the blanket and blinked her wide, terrified eyes toward the doorway…

Belith stood there with a grim and gloomy expression, dressed in a black skirt, five wings spread behind her.

Black aura coiled around her like roaming dragons, her killing intent surging, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes.

“Royal Sister, so you really are here, and… tsk.”

There was a kind of disdain—one that couldn’t even be bothered to say her name.

Faced with that disdainful gaze, Xia wasn’t shaken at all. She calmly continued putting on her clean sleep pants, detached from worldly concerns. ^

She wasn’t shaken because she had her back to Belith—she didn’t quite dare to turn around.

Even now, Sheffy remained blankly blinking, her entire petite body frozen in place, unable to move. .

It wasn’t because she was afraid.

It was because her heart ached!

“Ahhh, this is bad—Belith! Look at what you’ve done!”

“What have I done? Royal Sister, I just wanted to bring you back from that bad woman.” _

“No, no, just now! You personally smashed a door that had been passed down for two hundred years—said to be made from ultra-rare crystal ore, with value comparable to a cultural relic—the Demon Clan Princess’s bedroom door! It was handmade!”

“So?” ^

“You might not understand what I mean—I’m saying it’s worth a full two hundred magic gold coins.”

“I’ll compensate Royal Sister with three hundred. So now, aside from that, is there anything else you want to say?” ‘

“You’re really generous… how did I suddenly run out of things to say?”

Topic-shifting strategy—complete failure. ^

But earning three hundred magic gold coins was still a huge profit, so the loss didn’t hurt.

…………………………

The atmosphere in the room had been fairly normal, but to describe it with something from a past life—the room now felt like it had been thrown into a super high-pressure cooker.

Xia sat on one side of the bed, twirling her hair with her fingers, silent, staring at the ceiling and pretending to be dead.

Belith sat on the other side, legs crossed, equally silent.

They both had their own places to sit—but Sheffy didn’t.

The silver-haired girl remained wrapped in the blanket, only her head exposed, looking left and right.

Not because she wanted to observe anything, but because there was simply nothing else she could do right now.

It wasn’t until Belith stopped swinging her foot, glanced at the messy clothes scattered all over the room, and let out a heavy murmur that the stalemate was finally broken.

“Royal Sister.”

“Hm? Are you going to pay me now?”

“No. I want to ask—why aren’t you coming out of the blanket?”

“Because I’m not wearing any clo—cough! Because it’s a bit cold outside, I caught a cold.”

“Because you’re not wearing clothes, right.”

“!”

Seeing the chaotic state of the room, Belith could already guess everything.

The Second Demon Princess also had a bit of a mischievous side—she deliberately picked up Sheffy’s spare clothes, moved them farther away, stood on tiptoe, and placed them on a high platform atop the storage cabinet.

Of course, before putting them up, she held the clothes in front of her face and took a deep inhale, replenishing her energy and easing the anger she had built up from searching for Sheffy all morning.

Watching her clothes being treated like this, Sheffy burned with anger—but she didn’t dare say anything.

If the clothes could take her place in death, that wouldn’t be so bad.

Sheffy could only extend her small, snow-white arm out from the blanket and poke Xia’s back, quietly asking for help.

“Xia… Xia…! Help me grab my clothes, Belith is angry!”

“I… I’ll try?”

“Alright, give it a try—don’t push yourself!”

Xia stopped pretending to be dead, deliberately humming an unknown hometown tune as she walked in small steps toward the high platform and reached out to grab the clothes.

—But the terrifying gaze of a ferocious beast hunting prey flared beside her. Even someone as resilient as a Hero couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.

Xia had a premonition.

If she reached out, she would probably need to cast every defensive spell on her arm just to avoid losing it.

But when she turned to look at Belith, she was still smiling gently.

“What’s wrong? Go on, take it.”

“……”

“You didn’t even say a word, and you went and slept with someone else’s Royal Sister. Felt nice, didn’t it?”

“Uh… don’t put it so bluntly. I know you’re angry, but I think we can talk this out.”

“Talk about what?”

“Well… Sheffy really does smell nice, I have to admit that. How about… I explain it to you?”

“You deserve to die!!! And I already know! I don’t need you to tell me!”

Come back, Xia!

My fault—I shouldn’t have asked you to get the clothes!

Wrapped in the blanket, Sheffy rolled over toward them with all her strength. The sudden appearance of the little cutie was enough to interrupt the tension between them.

After all, the moment Belith lowered her head and saw that silver-haired bundle, she was instantly healed.

Those watery eyes blinked desperately, as lively as a little hamster struggling for food.

“Mm… Royal Sister, so cute…”

“Cute, right? I’ve already sacrificed my completely non-lewd yet somehow lewd appearance, so shouldn’t you at least explain what exactly you’re angry about? You can’t keep pressuring me every day, can you? I’m not some polar camel—I can’t handle that kind of pressure. And it’s not like I didn’t compensate you last night… you were asleep when Xia and I came over to sleep here, but didn’t I leave you a surprise? You can’t deny that.”

“Royal Sister, by ‘surprise,’ do you mean stuffing another fish into my blanket?!”

“!”

Xia’s eyes widened in shock, finally realizing why Belith had been so aggressive!

Sheffy, what have you done this time?!

As she spoke, Belith pulled out a half-dead little fish from her Storage Magic. Xia recognized it at a glance—it was the one she and Sheffy had caught last night.

“I’m not angry about anything else. Since that golden-haired fox is someone Royal Sister likes, even if you two did some dirty… dirty things, I wouldn’t make a fuss about it. But Royal Sister, you can’t let another woman take you to bed without telling me! I feel extremely sad. I strongly demand the right to know about Royal Sister’s private life!”

“You do realize that’s my ‘private’ life?! And it’s not like I didn’t tell you!”

“You told me…?”

“Didn’t I put the fish in your blanket… you were asleep, I couldn’t say it out loud, so I left you a signal. If you didn’t understand it, what could I do!”

“Ah?!”

Stop saying “ah.”

Sheffy truly felt wronged—everything she said just now had been sincere.

“I haven’t caught a big fish in so long… finally caught one and gave it to you as compensation, and in the end, it wasn’t appreciated. Sigh… I’m tired, I’m tired. Maybe I shouldn’t explain anymore. Anyway, you’re just going to think I’m wrong again.”

Wrapped in her blanket, Sheffy rolled back into the corner and “shut herself off,” though in reality she was secretly laughing.

Belith held the little fish by its tail, her expression conflicted.

Look—she was starting to waver.

“R-Royal Sister? Actually, I didn’t mean…”

“Stop talking. I’m guilty, it’s my fault. I don’t deserve to wear clothes—I should just stay wrapped up here. Go on, put those clothes somewhere even higher. Don’t let me find them.”

“I… ugh, Royal Sister, don’t be angry anymore… Belith will cook braised fish for you at noon, okay?”

“With what fish?”

“The one in my hand?”

“That one’s too small.”

“Then I’ll go catch a bigger one!”

“Alright, alright! I’ll go with you later!”

Wah… how shameless.

Xia was dumbfounded.

She had once thought that little sister Belith was Sheffy’s natural enemy, but from recent observation… that didn’t seem to be the case?

But…

A smile wouldn’t lie.

At this moment, Belith was crouched beside the bedding while Sheffy stroked her head. Even if some of what she said carried a slightly shameless tone to excuse herself, Sheffy truly was trying, in her own way, to make up for the displeasure in Belith’s heart.

Perhaps this, too, was a uniquely warm way for sisters to interact.

“Thank you, Royal Sister… mm, so come to my room tonight, okay? Saying anything else won’t work.”

“Mm-hm! The two of us, when we talk, absolutely shouldn’t involve any dirty wo—ha, what did you just say?”

Belith once again stood on tiptoe, took the clothes down from the high platform, and placed them back beside Sheffy. Her gentle expression made it seem as though she had temporarily forgiven everything.

But it also felt like all the “punishment” had only just begun.

“Hm? Royal Sister is pretending to be confused again. You said to treat everyone equally—today you had your fun here with this golden-haired fox, so shouldn’t it be my turn tonight?”

“But mentally, I already…”

“The mind is one thing, the body is another.”

“Tch.”

Well then—Xia still had to admit, one thing suppresses another; that unchanging law still held true.

But… wait, didn’t you two sisters forget a key issue?

Xia looked at the hollow, shattered doorway. As the tense atmosphere faded, she finally voiced the question.

“How did little sister Belith find this place…? Isn’t this supposed to be a room that constantly changes location?”

“Oh?” When Belith looked at Xia, her coldness was completely different from the gentleness she showed Sheffy—it was a lightning-fast change of expression. “You actually know that? That should be a secret of the Demon Royal Family. Did Royal Sister tell you?”

“Yes, Sheffy said you’d never be able to find this place.”

“Oh ho… Royal Sister said something like that too…?”

“I did say that, but… what about it?”

Sheffy, who was quietly pulling white stockings onto her calves and hurrying to get dressed, forced a bitter smile as she looked at Belith’s meaningful glance.

Wuwu, Xia…

You’re really setting me up!

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