“No, who are you? What are you to her?”
The loli boss felt a bit of humiliated rage after being exposed.
However, when she saw Su Ling’s face, she immediately let out a rogue whistle.
“What a beautiful little sister. Hehe, want to come play with your big sister?”
Being hit on by a little loli who stood less than 1.5 meters tall and had a greasy expression gave Su Ling an indescribable sense of weirdness.
She was still mostly thinking like an Earthling, so she hadn’t quite processed the situation.
In Witch society, the status of lolis was actually quite worrying.
Although Witches generally had high beauty standards, it was still a society that judged based on looks.
While Su Ling’s appearance was top-tier in the Lower City, it was still somewhat lacking in the context of the vast Witch Empire.
There were plenty of people online who were far more beautiful than Su Ling.
This was also why Su Ling hadn’t tried to make a living as an online beggar by showing a little skin.
Witch networks had no censorship, and all sorts of prohibited videos could be uploaded.
Playing it safe with “suggestive” content?
Please.
Everyone else was doing the real thing; how could you attract anyone by just being suggestive?
Because of this, you could download any ordinary app, and the moment you opened it, you would see mature sisters dancing in the nude.
The mainstream preferences of Witches were still for the mature types.
After all, while Witches were oviparous, they were still considered mammalian creatures.
Being large meant you had good living conditions, proper nutrition, good genes, and a solid family background.
Naturally, that was the preferred aesthetic for Witches.
Petite lolis with meager curves weren’t liked by many.
In the Upper City, most Witches had the figures of young girls like Su Ling but were curvy in all the right places, or they were simply fully developed women.
Lolis were rarely seen. In the Lower City, however, the situation was reversed.
An official survey once found that 50% of the population in the Lower City were lolis. Because of this, many Witches from the Upper City mockingly referred to the Lower City as “Loli Town.”
The wretched-looking little loli in front of her seemed younger than Su Ling, but Su Ling knew that once a Witch reached adulthood, her appearance stopped aging.
This woman was clearly over 50 years old.
There was really no difference between her and a 50-year-old man from Earth.
“What could you even do to me besides get spit all over me? 416. Not a single cent less.”
“Bah! You say 416, so it’s 416? Take these 300 or leave it. If you don’t want it, I won’t give you anything at all.”
The loli boss actually began to act like a shameless rogue.
“20 cents per half-kilogram… you have about 1,040 kilograms here…”
Suddenly, the loli boss heard her own voice.
Su Ling had actually recorded what she had just said.
“You!”
“Humph, this is what you call outsmarting someone, baby.”
Su Ling rubbed the loli’s small head. To be honest, even though this loli was a perverted rogue, she was actually quite cute.
‘This is the difference in mindset,’ she thought.
Witches didn’t have a preference for lolis, so they wouldn’t spare them a second glance.
But Su Ling was different; she still had the mindset of an Earthling shut-in.
This little loli was tiny and quite adorable.
“Don’t touch me! I’m 58 years old! Show some respect to your elders!”
He foul-mouthed loli shouted while jumping in frustration.
She pulled out another banknote.
“Take it, take it! Consider it my bad luck today.”
“Then I wish you a prosperous business!”
Clutching the four banknotes like a victorious Empress, Su Ling led the admiring K423 away from the shop.
“Oh, oh, oh… Emp… Emp…”
K423’s eyes were filled with little stars, but she was stuck.
She wanted to say “The Empress is amazing,” but then she remembered that K424 had warned her not to reveal their identity in front of her.
Her code glitched under the conflict, and she nearly crashed.
“Emp what? My name is Su Ling. You can just call me by my name.”
“B-but…”
K423 panicked.
How could she dare call the Empress by her name?
‘Ugh, if only K424 were here. She’s so smart; she would definitely know what to do.’
Seeing K423 on the verge of crying from anxiety, Su Ling felt helpless.
“You can just say it.”
“Is… is that a command?”
K423 looked at her with hope.
Su Ling scratched her head.
“Huh? A command? I just mean you shouldn’t feel pressured — “
“Mhm! Okay, Lady Su Ling, I understand!”
K423 said excitedly.
She was now like a little green puppy, constantly circling Su Ling, making her feel a bit embarrassed.
‘What a pure child,’ Su Ling thought.
Su Ling brought K423 to the front of the restaurant.
Dalian, who was yawning in her seat, immediately began to hiss upon seeing K423.
‘Original above! Why is she here!’
Dalian still remembered last night.
She had been on the verge of escaping, only to be caught by the person in front of her and “disciplined” severely.
“Hey, Lady Su Ling is still with this little one.”
“I’m taking her to buy cat food today.”
Su Ling didn’t bother correcting the way K423 addressed her anymore.
She tapped Dalian’s head.
“Why is Hajimi hissing? Bad girl!”
Dalian covered her little head, looking aggrieved. How could she not hiss?
Su Ling held Dalian in her arms and handed the four banknotes, along with the ones K423 had given her this morning, back to K423.
“Even though I don’t understand what you’re trying to do, I’m really grateful to you. But I think you need these more than I do, right?”
Su Ling looked K423 over.
Her clothes were tattered, looking like they had been salvaged from a trash heap, and she smelled like cheap perfume that gave Su Ling a headache.
“No, no, no! These were all earned for Lady Su Ling!”
K423 panicked and waved her hands frantically.
Su Ling grew anxious as well.
“You child, I don’t lack money for now. Just take it back.”
“Waaaaah! Lady Su Ling, do you think it’s too little?”
K423 lowered her head.
The two long cowlicks on her forehead drooped down, making her look exactly like a miserable green puppy.
For some reason, Su Ling’s heart softened. she couldn’t stand seeing the child look so dejected.
“No, no. I just thought you needed it more.”
A ton of scrap… how long must it have taken to collect that?
She had to admit, the child’s strength was incredible.
But then she remembered this was Witch society and couldn’t be judged by Earth’s standards, so she let it go.
“Waaaaah!”
Seeing Su Ling persist, K423 actually started crying.
Su Ling was completely stunned.
As the other customers began to stare, Su Ling panicked.
‘Don’t cry! Please don’t cry!’
She had been like this since she was young; she couldn’t handle it when a girl started crying.
“Fine, fine, fine! I’ll take it. I’ll take it, okay?”
Su Ling helped the child into a seat.
Miraculously, she stopped crying instantly.
However, her dark green eyes were fixed intently on the bowl of noodles Su Ling had just bought.
*Grumble — *
“Sigh, if you’re hungry, just eat.”
Su Ling felt helpless.
But seeing K423 hesitate, Su Ling remembered the child’s earlier comment about “commands” and had a sudden flash of inspiration.
“This is a command.”
“Yes!”
As if a line of core code had been triggered, K423 stood up straight with a very serious expression.
This startled the people around them. Su Ling wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
She finally realized this girl was clearly suffering from “eighth-grader syndrome.”
Using a code name as a name and following commands as her standard of operation — she looked exactly like a rebellious middle-schooler who had run away from home.
“C-can I take it back to eat, Lady Su Ling?” K423 asked expectantly.
Su Ling was a sucker for that look.
“Of course you can. But why do you want to take it back?”
Su Ling was curious. K423 broke into a brilliant smile.
“Hehe, I want to bring it back for K424 to eat.”
“K424?”
“Mhm. She hatched a few seconds after I did, so she’s my younger sister.”
Speaking of this, K423 looked a bit annoyed.
“Hmph, she’s such a bratty sister. She calls me a dummy all day long. I’m not a dummy at all! When I get back, I’m going to make her call me ‘big sister’ before I let her eat.”