Natalie used Telekinesis to open the door as soon as she heard the knock.
When the door opened, Emily scrambled up from the floor.
Letting Xilina see her sprawled on the ground like that would be way too embarrassing.
As soon as the door was open, Xilina stepped into the room, fear written all over her face.
Before Emily could react, Xilina had already wrapped her arms around her waist.
Xilina was genuinely terrified by those thugs who had appeared out of nowhere.
The psychological shadow of narrowly escaping death from those thugs had once again enveloped her heart.
The fact that she managed to hold it together until she reached Emily showed just how hard she was trying.
“Um… what’s wrong, Xilina?”
Faced with Xilina suddenly clinging to her, Emily had no idea what to do.
If it had been a human loli hugging her, she would probably have stroked her hair to calm her down.
But because of that Petty God’s Divine Punishment warning, Emily really didn’t dare make such a caring gesture toward Xilina.
After a while, Xilina calmed down a bit and told them about the thugs kicking down the door and bursting into the mansion.
She also explained that those thugs were her enemies.
“I see…”
After hearing the explanation, Emily felt both confused and angry.
Confused because she couldn’t understand why those thugs had suddenly shown up, and angry on Xilina’s behalf.
Of course, if it were just her and Xilina alone, Emily would have panicked in this situation.
But with Natalie the Demon King present, Emily wasn’t that flustered.
Even though Natalie sexually harassed her every day and drove her crazy, on the flip side, having the protection of the Demon King gave her a sense of security no one else could provide.
Emily turned her gaze to Natalie, wondering how she would react.
After all, the thugs were now demanding that Natalie come downstairs to meet them.
“…Emily, you’re coming downstairs with me to face those guys.”
“I’m coming too?”
Natalie’s sudden statement caught Emily off guard.
She had assumed she would just stay in the room and wait for Natalie to solve the problem.
She never expected to be dragged along.
Emily really didn’t want to get involved with those dangerous thugs.
“Of course? I’m not letting you leave my side.”
“I understand… and what about Xilina?”
Seeing how scared Xilina was of those thugs, Emily couldn’t bear to let her suffer more fright from them.
“She… comes too. You’ll be fine, right?”
Natalie wasn’t taking Xilina along out of disregard for her feelings.
In Natalie’s eyes, Xilina was already her servant.
Thus, Xilina’s enemies were Natalie’s enemies.
She brought her along because she worried about leaving her alone in the room, vulnerable to an attack by the thugs.
After all, the mansion was completely surrounded by dozens of thugs.
Besides, after hearing Xilina’s story, Natalie knew these thugs weren’t Elodie’s subordinates.
In Natalie’s mind, those thugs were already dead men.
Since they were Xilina’s enemies, Natalie wanted Xilina to see with her own eyes how the people who killed her parents would die at her hands!
Whether killing someone in front of a little girl like Xilina would leave a psychological scar never crossed Natalie’s mind.
From her perspective, watching one’s enemies die gruesomely was a thrilling experience.
How could it possibly cause trauma?
“…I’m fine!”
Xilina hesitated for a few seconds before replying with courage.
She was still scared, but she understood that Natalie was far stronger than those thugs.
Her safety was guaranteed.
And she didn’t want to live under this shadow forever.
Thus, Natalie led Emily and Xilina downstairs to confront the thugs.
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“What’s taking that brat so long to call someone?”
The Thug Leader lounged on the sofa with his feet on the table, growing impatient.
Just as he was about to order his men to storm upstairs and drag the Town Chief down, the three of them descended the stairs and appeared before him.
The moment he saw them, the Thug Leader’s eyes locked onto Emily in her Wedding Dress.
He had built up some expectations after his underlings told him Emily was the most beautiful woman they had ever seen.
But he never imagined she could be this stunning.
It wasn’t just the leader—all the thugs were captivated.
Some even gulped unconsciously.
The thought of the saintly Emily in her Wedding Dress soon becoming their “toy” excited them immensely.
But because Emily was so overwhelmingly beautiful, the Thug Leader decided he wouldn’t share her with his men.
He only wanted to keep her for himself and make her his Bandit Chief’s Wife.
As for why Emily was wearing a Wedding Dress, the Thug Leader had already figured it out: the Town Chief knew Emily was in big trouble, so he made her come down dressed as a bride, offering her to him.
While all the thugs were mesmerized by Emily’s beauty, Natalie walked over to the Thug Leader and sat down on the sofa.
She patted the seat next to her, signaling Emily to sit beside her.
Even though Natalie made those thugs insignificant, timid Emily felt nervous facing so many fierce-looking men.
But after seeing Natalie’s gesture, she quietly sat down next to her.
Xilina, meanwhile, stood behind the sofa, using it to hide and lower her profile, hoping the thugs wouldn’t notice her.
She had resolved to overcome her psychological trauma, but facing the murderers of her parents still frightened her.
Yet alongside the fear, revenge burned in her heart.
If not for these thugs, Xilina would still be living a normal life with her parents.
She wouldn’t have ended up on the streets, forced to go hungry every day.
“Where’s the Town Chief?”
Seeing Natalie’s actions, the Thug Leader snapped back to reality and asked.
He didn’t know Natalie, but seeing how confidently she treated the mansion as her own, he assumed she must be some relative of the Town Chief.