novelraw Chapter 283
Chapter 283
Volume 5: One Damn Thing After Another
283~ Ancient Texts and the Missing Xiao Bai~
"Mmm meow...... Haven't you touched enough?"
She knew her tail had great texture and felt very comfortable to touch, but the one who felt comfortable was the person touching it! Not her!
"Not yet......"
"Xiyan, let go!"
"Just a little more! Princess Mo, just let me touch it one more time!"
"No!"
If she kept petting it, the fur would get rubbed bald!
Snatching her tail back, she pouted and hugged her tail in her arms, refusing to let the little loli maid Xiyan pet it anymore no matter what.
"Princess Mo......"
"No means no. You little maid, hurry up and go do your own things!"
"But my job is to take care of Princess Mo properly, isn't it?"
Uh...... Good point?
But soon, she just randomly made up an excuse to send the little loli maid Xiyan away. She sat alone in the garden, her tail completely drooping onto the stone bench, occasionally lifting the tip of her tail, then letting it fall again.
She was trying hard to think, trying hard to think about whether she'd forgotten something.
She kept feeling like she'd forgotten something very important, and it was something the Empress had deliberately concealed from her. It happened before she went to sleep, but she had no evidence.
As for the people in the Imperial Palace, even if they knew something, they couldn't possibly tell her. And she didn't want to ask the Empress, so she simply tried to figure it out herself.
Judging from the Empress's and her own condition, the Empress must have done something indescribable to her last night, and had even cast some kind of memory-erasing magic on her!
"Saint Maiden~"
"Don't bother me, can't you see I'm thinking about...... Elysia?"
"Yes, Saint Maiden."
"What are you doing here?"
"Saint Maiden, I never left."
She'd been staying in Scarlet City all these days. Although she couldn't enter the Imperial Palace grounds, she could still wander around Scarlet City freely.
And right now, the garden where the Little Princess was located was within the range of Scarlet City. She'd just happened to run into Mo while randomly strolling around.
"You didn't return to the Midias Empire?"
"No?"
How would she dare act on her own now? She was under soft confinement by the Empress. But the treatment was different from when the Little Princess was under soft confinement. Back then, it was because the Empress was interested in Mo, whereas Elysia was to be used by the Empress as a chess piece......
"So these past days have been alright?"
"Not bad. At least the food in the Scarlet Phoenix Nation suits my taste fairly well."
The food in the Eastern Region and Western Region wasn't too different. If you had to nitpick, it was just that the flavors were somewhat different.
"I see......"
It seemed she was overthinking things?
After several rounds of subtle questioning, she hadn't discovered any problems. All the answers were very normal. It seemed there were no issues.
With Elysia's intelligence, she didn't believe Elysia hadn't understood the subtext, which was asking whether the Empress had recently been abusing her......
Well, actually, on the surface, you couldn't tell she'd experienced abuse. Instead, she looked like she'd been living quite comfortably. Mo was just asking out of simple curiosity.
"So did you come looking for me for something?"
"No, I just wanted to greet you, Saint Maiden. I also came to check on your physical condition. I heard earlier that something unusual happened to your body, Saint Maiden, which made me very worried."
Though now it seemed it wasn't a major problem.
Looking at the cat ears on top of the Little Princess's head and the cat tail at the base of her spine, both brimming with powerful Divine Power, she knew the Little Princess had become like this because of Divine Power.
However, this was also enough to explain why her Deity of Abundance would be interested in the Little Princess......
Although she didn't know why the Little Princess's portrait would appear in ancient Abundance texts from who knows how many years ago, none of that mattered. As long as the great Deity of Abundance was happy, that was fine.
"Saint Maiden, may I observe?"
"No!"
Why did everyone want to touch her tail? Had none of them ever petted a cat before!?
In fact...... Elysia really had never petted a cat. At most, there was one time she'd casually fed some leftover food she couldn't finish.
......
"Saint Maiden's tail feels very nice~"
In the end, Elysia still got to touch the tail.
"So, have you touched enough?"
"A little more. I haven't seen you in so long, Saint Maiden. I definitely need to pet you properly~"
While speaking, she'd already placed her other hand on top of the Little Princess's head, continuously squeezing the Little Princess's cat ears, then gently blowing on them.
"Saint Maiden, actually that Deity of Abundance doesn't have excessive designs on you...... The so-called engagement...... we misunderstood the meaning, because ancient script and currently circulated script have differences."
"What's really recorded in that ancient text is that you, Saint Maiden, already knew the Deity of Abundance thousands of years ago......"
"Huh? Thousands of years ago?"
Thousands of years ago, even her earliest ancestor probably hadn't been born yet!?
"Yes, thousands of years ago. Perhaps the current Saint Maiden is someone who survived from thousands of years ago until now?"
"Uh......"
As everyone knew, Glaze Nation's First Princess was the seventh daughter born to the King of Glaze Nation, born eighteen years and eight months ago. She was a native-born Glaze person through and through......
Of course, that was on the premise of ignoring her transmigrator identity.
"Then how would Saint Maiden explain the portrait in the ancient text?"
Regarding this, the first thing she thought of was Xuan sleeping inside her body. Only Xuan could possibly have been alive thousands of years ago. After all, Xuan was a deity! It wasn't excessive for a deity to live a few thousand years, right? And she looked exactly the same as Mo!
Although she didn't know why she and Xuan would have identical appearances, and didn't know why she would be Xuan's younger sister......
How could she possibly have an older sister who'd lived for thousands of years!?
However, at least Xuan's existence hadn't brought any adverse effects on her.
Speaking of which...... it seemed she hadn't seen any sign of Xiao Bai these past days? She didn't know where Xiao Bai had run off to......
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Meanwhile, elsewhere......
"Awooo~"
In the Misty Great Forest, a white giant wolf was howling toward the sky, declaring its strength. This made many Magic Beasts not dare approach.
"All of you come out! Anyone who dares disobey, I'll slaughter you all!!! (Beast language)"
"Awooo......"
A pack of wolf-type Magic Beasts prostrated themselves before the white wolf, lowering their heads and waiting for the white wolf's orders.
"Search for me, search for Stargrass! And also...... (blah blah blah a whole bunch of materials......)"
After issuing all her demands, the pack of wolf-type Magic Beasts, who looked like little wolf pups in front of the white wolf, quickly scattered in all directions, beginning to search for the materials the white wolf required.
In the world of Magic Beasts, the strong were always revered. And the white wolf's power had completely shattered their understanding. With just one roar, she'd frightened the Wolf King into immobility......
That was truly terrifying!
After the white wolf finished ordering around the pack of wolf pups below, she transformed into human form and sat on a tree trunk.
She could only hope Master Mo wouldn't cause any trouble during her absence. Otherwise, Mo really wouldn't be able to change back, and would truly become a little kitty in the end.