In the eastern part of the Great Winter Forest, inside a small wooden house~
At this very moment,
Li Yu, accompanied by her sister who had transformed into a husky, hurried into their mother’s room. After all, the scream from Yu Mo just now had left them quite uneasy...
Then,
As expected, when Li Yu and her sister saw the scene inside the room, they were dumbfounded, frozen in place.
What the,
What is going on?!
Li Yu couldn’t help but roar inside her heart!
At this moment, Yu Mo was kneeling on a fur rug, while a silver-haired girl with a bright smile was happily lying on their mother’s lap, affectionately rubbing against her mother’s fair thigh...
How envious, I want to...
Wait?!
This is not the time for envy!
What’s up with this woman?!
After witnessing the current scene, Li Yu was dumbstruck, to say the least,
As for Li Mo beside her, she was the same...
Wait, no, she was always like this...
(Li Mo: go away from Mother or I will bite you human!!)
Li Yu’s brows couldn’t help but twitch uncontrollably,
What is this girl up to?!
Just a few hours ago, she was confronting Mother with hostility! Why is she now hugging Mother so affectionately?!
And,
What happened to the coma? Don’t keep doing sit-ups, alright?! Screw it, I’m mad!
The gray-haired little girl’s heart couldn’t help but let out a hysterical roar, even touching on vulgar language she would rather not use. Her little hand, holding back the impulsive Li Mo, couldn’t help but exert a bit of force...
Suddenly, the little white wolf let out a pitiful cry, looking innocently at her younger sister.
"Awu wu! Awo awo awo!" (Why are you pinching me? It hurts!)
Unfortunately,
Li Yu simply had no time to care about her silly sister’s protest. Her jade-green eyes were locked onto the silver-haired girl.
Watching the girl’s affectionate actions with their mother, a jealous fire suddenly ignited within Li Yu’s heart.
As the saying goes,
Anger arises from the heart, and evil emerges from the gallbladder!
Under her displeasure, Li Yu’s power of Shadow started to stir involuntarily.
However, luckily,
Among the demon kings, Li Yu’s self-control was relatively strong. After a moment of inner struggle, she managed to calm herself down. After all, their mother was still watching, and it wouldn’t be wise to act impulsively...
She had to hold it in...
Suppressing the urge to scream in her heart, Li Yu’s expression returned to its usual calm, and a smile of understanding and obedience appeared on her lovely face.
"Um, Mother, what’s... what’s going on? Why is she suddenly so close to you?"
"Awu wu wu!"
The little white wolf chimed in from the side.
Although she had already turned into a silly mode, upon seeing someone getting affectionate with her mother, Li Mo couldn’t help but instinctively grind her teeth and let out a threatening growl.
Seeing Li Yu’s puzzled expression and the little white wolf’s bared teeth, Yu Mo sighed helplessly.
To be honest,
She wasn’t quite sure herself.
Although she had asked Sebastian again, she still felt that it wasn’t very reliable...
"Sigh, I’m not quite sure either. According to little Seb, this is something called Heraclitean Trance Phenomenon."
"Huh? What, what the heck is that?"
"It’s... apparently a term in soul studies. It means that, um... well, basically, people whose soul power is depleted might wake up during their recovery and, for some reason, regress to an infantile state. It’s an extremely low-probability event..."
"So, this girl is now mentally like a child?"
Li Yu looked at Meng Xi with a somewhat strange expression.
In response,
Yu Mo sighed again.
"Yeah, there’s no difference between her and a child now."
As she spoke, Yu Mo gently lifted Meng Xi’s silver hair and tenderly stroked her soft, fair cheeks~
Upon feeling Yu Mo’s caress,
Meng Xi, who was lying on Yu Mo’s lap enjoying the knee pillow, slowly opened her eyes. She blinked curiously at Yu Mo, her eyes filled with innocence and kindness, like a clear mirror that involuntarily aroused affection.
"What’s the matter, Sister Yu Mo?"
Meng Xi looked up and asked in an adorable, melodious voice like a babbling brook.
The moment she heard these words, Yu Mo couldn’t help but feel her heart melting.
"No, nothing, it’s just... my thigh might not be comfortable. Why don’t you sleep on the bed, Meng Xi? It’s more comfortable there."
Upon hearing this,
Meng Xi immediately pouted, visibly unhappy, and shook her head vehemently, "No! No! Sister Yu Mo’s thigh is more comfortable!"
With that,
She stubbornly lay on Yu Mo’s lap like a child.
"See? Just like a child now..."
Yu Mo gestured helplessly and looked at Li Yu with an innocent face.
As for Li Yu,
She could no longer hold back her grinding teeth, and her forehead was marked with visible veins!
Ever since she entered her mother’s room,
Li Yu felt her blood pressure rising constantly! Now it was almost at the breaking point! Her brows twitched madly! She hadn’t been this frustrated in hundreds of years!
You, brat!
What the hell?!
calling mother "sister"?! Who is your sister?! Don’t mix up relationships! And, if you call my mother "sister," doesn’t that somehow make you a generation higher than us?!
That can’t be right!
Unacceptable! I can’t approve of it!
In her anger, Li Yu once again couldn’t help but tighten her grip on Li Mo’s hand, making Li Mo cry out in pain for the second time. The little white wolf immediately looked at her sister with a terrified expression and instinctively shrank back into the corner.
Seeing this, Yu Mo was suddenly filled with question marks.
"Li Mo, what’s wrong?"
"No! Mother, don’t worry about that now!"
Li Yu directly stepped in front of Yu Mo and asked solemnly:
"Mother, even if this woman has regressed to a childlike state, you can’t let her call you ’sister’!
"Well, if not ’sister’, then what?"
"Of course, she should call you ’Lady Yu Mo’! And this child’s power is very dangerous! Mother, don’t let her get so close to you!"
"Um..."
This,
This child is serious...
Looking into her daughter’s serious emerald eyes and listening to Li Yu’s slightly agitated words, Yu Mo was at a loss for words. After struggling for a while, she slowly raised her hand, patted her daughter’s head, and gently reassured her:
"It’s alright. This child now has no trace of divine power in her. She can’t hurt me."
Well,
Even if she did have divine power,
With my current strength, it’s impossible for her to hurt me...
Yu Mo silently complained in her heart,
"Besides, let’s forget about ’Lady Yu Mo.’ Just call me ’sister.’ It’s fine."
"But, but!"
"Alright, Li Yu, be good~"
"Wuwuwu~"
"Sigh,"
After a round of head-patting to calm her down, Li Yu finally returned to her quiet state, lowering her head in silence, no longer making a fuss.
Seeing this,
Yu Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
Actually,
Being called "sister" by the protagonist was a bit awkward, but it was better than the other alternative, right?
Thinking back to when Meng Xi kept hugging her and calling her "Mommy" and wanting milk, Yu Mo shuddered involuntarily, her heart extremely complicated. Since Meng Xi was finally calmed down, just calling her "sister" was fine. It was just a title, no big deal...
The key issue was,
What should she do now? How should she deal with this regressed protagonist?
As she looked out the window at the gradually darkening forest, Yu Mo’s heart was filled with uncertainty...
Across from her, Li Yu was in a similar state,
The silver-haired girl stared thoughtfully at the floor,
The room briefly fell into complete silence, even the usually lively little white wolf curled up in the corner, not understanding what was going on, quietly watching its mother and sister.
"Meow (｡•́︿•̀｡) "
...
...
As Yu Mo and the others pondered their situation,
No one noticed,
The silver-haired girl lying on Yu Mo’s lap,
The corners of her mouth were already imperceptibly turning up into a faint smile...