It was night.
The moonlight filtered through the bedroom window, casting cold, mottled patches across a corner of the floor.
Outside, the chirping of insects among the grass and trees was as rhythmic as a lullaby, inducing a sense of drowsiness.
At this moment, Valo, lying in the middle of the bed, was feeling the steady breathing of her two daughters from both her left and right. She experienced the wonderful sensation of her arms being cushioned by the soft “rabbits” on the girls’ chests…
Meanwhile, she couldn’t help but huff inwardly. ‘Damn, as someone at the peak of intellectual warfare, she was still too overpowered.’
Just moments ago, a dangerous situation had nearly developed where her two daughters were restless, their filial piety becoming distorted.
They had been on the verge of flanking their loli Demon King mother from both sides, taking turns until she wouldn’t even be able to get out of bed tomorrow!
However, she had managed to change her fate against the heavens with a single phrase: “Let’s sleep together.”
After a great battle, who wouldn’t want to sleep with their mother?
Thus, the daughters eventually withdrew the demonic claws they had extended toward their mother, grabbed their pillows, and lay down together.
Although the double bed in her bedroom was a bit cramped with the three of them, it was thanks to this that Valo didn’t have to worry about “night raids” happening tonight.
However, almost immediately, there was movement from Finney, who was sleeping on her left!
The Hero made a startling, outrageous statement!
“Mother, just give it to me once…”
After saying that, she kicked the blanket, turned onto her side, and went silent.
Valo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. ‘What? So Finney was just talking in her sleep.’
‘How ridiculous. I wasn’t scared at all.’
She was just about to calm her emotions and drift off to sleep, listening to her daughters’ breathing and the fragrant scent lingering on everyone.
The next moment!
Accompanied by irregular breathing and the rustling of clothes, her other daughter, Kaika, gave her a perfect lesson in what it meant to “pull a feint.”
It turned out Kaika had been pretending to sleep the whole time! Because Finney had just let go of her arm, this unfilial daughter couldn’t wait to flip over and mount her body!
Her purple pupils, saturated with Fel Magic, were even brighter than the moonlight in the night! At the moment their eyes met, the Elf girl gently covered Valo’s small mouth, which had instinctively opened to speak, and then made a gesture for silence.
“Shh—”
It turned out that Faker and Donk weren’t the only ones who put a finger to their lips; her daughter Kaika did it too.
Their breaths intermingled. For a moment, Valo was so nervous she could even hear her own heartbeat. ‘If I accidentally wake Finney up right now…’
‘Tomorrow, my legs will probably be trembling when I walk.’
Kaika, who was mounted on top of her, looked over with a half-smile as if she were enjoying Valo’s current nervous reaction.
Valo could only endure the girl’s gaze until she confirmed that Finney, beside them, had fallen deep into sleep. Only then did she move the girl’s hand away from her mouth.
With a hint of anger, she furrowed her brows and whispered, “Kaika? Stop messing around!”
‘Daughter, do you know you’re playing with fire?’
However, despite being the one who started it, this unfilial daughter performed a literal face-change the next second—putting on a pitiful, wronged expression and sighing.
“Sigh… Mother, you’ve misunderstood me.”
Whether it was because Kaika couldn’t see clearly or was doing it on purpose, the girl’s pouting lips were getting closer and closer to Valo’s in the darkness.
Then, she blew air into Valo’s ear, whispering words that left her confused.
“I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you quietly.”
“Thank me?”
“This morning, when I was with that menopausal old virgin…”
“Hmm!?”
“Cough, cough—this morning, when I was fighting the Sister Superior, didn’t you use a Holy Relic to save me after I manifested the third Flower of Fel Energy? I’m thanking you for that…”
Kaika spoke the words of a genius girl with complete nonchalance. “Actually, it was my first time crushing three roses. After all, that woman… was strong. So strong that I wasn’t confident I could win with only two roses.”
“I just didn’t expect the burden of the third Flower of Fel Energy on my body to be a bit heavy.”
Valo directly waved her hand and interrupted Kaika’s mumbling; she was completely speechless.
Kaika had pretended to sleep, endured it, and then raided her at night just for this little thing? This was beyond ridiculous.
“What are you agonizing over, Kaika? I’m your mother. How could I possibly watch you fall into a life-threatening situation because you couldn’t handle the third rose?”
These weren’t polite words. Severing ties was one thing, but a daughter was a daughter. Looking back, the moment Kaika crushed the third Flower of Fel Energy, what Valo would do was already predestined.
If it happened again, she would make the same choice.
“In fact, how dare you even bring it up? Crushing two was enough to make me nervous, yet you could crush the third without even blinking! Do you want to try crushing a fourth next time while using the buffs I give you?”
“That’s not called risking your life; it’s called being reckless, unplanned, and brainless!” ‘That’s called throwing! It’s even more absurd than being purely bad at it! The damage to the team can’t be expressed by cold statistics!’
Because Valo couldn’t speak loudly and was suppressing her voice, she was out of breath after a short while.
But when she looked again, she realized that the girl in front of her not only had no intention of listening, but was even blinking her slightly glowing eyes and staring at her in the middle of the night like a sleep paralysis demon!
It wasn’t until Valo stopped that Kaika, after a moment of silence, responded with a smile.
“I believe in Mother.”
This unfilial daughter’s smile was quite pretty, but this attitude was clearly a case of admitting fault but never changing!
‘Believe in your Old Feng! Don’t think Mother can walk a tightrope and save you every time like I did this morning!’
…Wait, wait, isn’t Kaika’s “Old Feng” just me? This daughter is impossible to even scold!
Just as she was about to try a different angle, the Elf girl in front of her yawned and glossed over the thanks she had just given.
Valo wasn’t surprised by this. The Kaika on this timeline already hated her; the thanks just now were likely because Kaika felt she couldn’t avoid it, so she held her nose, endured her annoyance, and put on an act to say a few words.
If anything, the fact that Kaika was willing to say thank you properly this time instead of being sarcastic like before was proof to Valo that her favorability with Kaika had taken a huge step forward.
Sure enough, as expected.
After giving her thanks, this unfilial daughter revealed a dark, creeping, mocking smile and began to bring up the one thing she shouldn’t have.
“Mother, the Female Hero has always foolishly thought you were forced to become a Saintess Candidate—can you tell me the truth now?”
“Your so-called ‘change of heart’ this morning was actually just you realizing you’d been tricked by the Saintess, but being too embarrassed to admit you were stupid, so you put on that act for others to see, right?”
What!?
How bold! How insolent!
It was one thing for Finney to think she was “threatened by the Saintess and forced to become a Saintess Candidate for the sake of her daughters’ safety,” which was a logical conclusion even if it was a wrong guess.
But this rebellious daughter, Kaika, actually dared to call the flawless plan she had made to enter the [Virtuous Corruption Ending] being “tricked”!?
‘Do I really look like a little loli who can be led away by a creepy uncle with a single treat?’
In an instant, Valo’s waist straightened in annoyance!
She was just about to strike back!
However, when her gaze swept over the [Nurturing Panel] and saw Kaika’s Blackening Value: 95%…
Her straightened waist slumped back down.
She couldn’t let Kaika’s Blackening Value stay that high. Right now, instead of asserting her maternal authority, she had to stroke this unfilial daughter’s fur the right way.
So, even though she was being treated as a stupid, dazed, useless mother by her daughter, Valo could only be “angry” for a split second.
She silently watched the Elf girl reveal a satisfied expression, wrapping her arms around Valo’s shoulders and “generously” tolerating her.
“Don’t worry, Mother. I won’t tell the Female Hero about this.”
“Fine, fine, fine.”
Valo sighed and chose to concede.
Sure enough, looking again, Kaika’s Blackening Value had dropped to 90%. At this moment, her unfilial daughter was likely satisfied with being able to lecture her mother and reclaim some ground. Kaika leaned down, turned her head, and accurately sucked on Valo’s pointed ear in the darkness, followed by a gentle lick and a nibble.
‘Hmph! I’ll let you be smug for a while. Once I have the chance to enter the Lady Magnet Ending, the first thing I’ll do is make a holy severance from you!’
‘Just wait! Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west—don’t look down on this mother for being poor!’
Once Valo caught her breath, she didn’t care about the wet, itchy sensation on her ear and neck. She hurriedly took advantage of Kaika’s current good mood to announce the arrangements she had been wanting to tell her two daughters.
“Kaika, I won’t be accompanying you and Finney to tomorrow’s parade on the second day of the Victory Day Celebration. Don’t go making a scene with Finney and refusing to let me go then.”
“Mother?”
The girl immediately stopped her movements. Perhaps drowsiness was finally catching up to her; after mumbling a weak question, she buried her cheek beside Valo’s neck.
However, the girl’s slippery legs were restless, slowly nudging aside Valo’s skirt, insisting on pressing her skin tightly against Valo’s thigh before she was satisfied. ‘Is she a child? What an embarrassing person.’
“I want to rest tomorrow. Also, I need to go around and thank—and apologize to—the various parties for your reckless actions today. Look at the trouble you’ve caused me!”
Zzz…
Kaika wasn’t listening at all. Thinking Valo was being long-winded, the girl had already fallen asleep.
But… it was good that she was asleep!
Because, more than apologizing and thanking everyone, after soothing her two daughters, Valo had a more important and urgent person to follow—Saintess Anqi!
Anqi’s Justice Value had begun to drop continuously. In the game, such a situation was proof that Anqi’s identity as the Saintess of the Hidden Sea Church was being shaken!
Valo couldn’t just sit back and watch. In the [Magneto Ending], Saintess Anqi’s support and favor for the main perspective was one of the necessary prerequisites to trigger the ending!
She had to properly stabilize the emotions and position of this Saintess daughter before Anqi’s Justice Value slid into an irrecoverable state!