Chapter 72 – Queen wants Refund

Chapter 72 – Queen wants Refund

Aiko arrived at their abode and changed into human form. She could sustain this form for more than half of a day. This meant that she didn't need to meditate so much.

Aiko arrived behind her mean Fox, she was making Pills so Aiko didn't disturb her and watched from the side.

The Queen was smoothly operating the Pill Cauldron and it made a nice humming sound.

Aiko was very sensitive to sounds and felt very nice whenever she was listening to the mean Fox's Pill Refining. Soon she fell asleep on the mean Fox's tails.

The Queen knew about her halfway through and was happy that she knew the basic etiquette when it came to not disturbing alchemists when they were Refining Pills.

The Queen finished another batch and sighed. She made more of those Pill Candies, they were cheap when it came to the materials, but so difficult when it came to Refining.

At first, she didn't want to create those Pills, but the more practised she realized that her roots lost their touch. Instead of making 4-5th Grade Pills, she returned to 1-2nd Grade and realized it was much harder.

'I have become rusty...' She thought.

She mostly refined Pills above Grade 6 when she was up there, but now that she realized how much she still had to learn her head hurt a little bit.

In this way, she was grateful towards her little sweetie. She needed to polish her basic Refining Skills and had a good excuse for it.

She caressed her sweetie's hair and smiled and her lips curved into a small smile.

Aiko woke up due to the gentle strokes.

She blinked, "Stinky Fox." and yawned.

The Queen stiffened and she pinched her cheeks.

"What do you mean by stinky? I will have you know that I bathe ever so often." The Queen was displeased.

"Mean Fox." Aiko felt wronged so she spat another thing.

"How am I mean?! Don't I give you plenty of yummy things?" Now the Queen felt wronged.

Aiko paused and opened her mouth. The Queen's brows twitched, but she still gave her Pill Candy.

"Yummy." Aiko smiled hugging the Queen.

The Queen sighed. "Call me Mei when we are alone alright?"

"Mei... Mei... okay." Aiko repeated Mei's name a few times and nodded.

The Queen felt strange, very strange. A tear rolled down her cheek and she hugged her little sweetie.

"Aiko." Aiko said faintly since she was burrowed in Mei's bosom.

"Aiko..." The Queen smiled cuddling Aiko.

"Haha." Aiko laughed since it tickled.

She hugged Aiko for a few dozen minutes before letting her go.

"I want to create a massage chair!" Aiko said while staring at Mei.

"Again with the chair." Mei pinched her cheeks.

"It's nice!" Aiko protested.

"Okay, Okay, but we only have a few days before we arrive there so let's create blueprints first.

Aiko nodded, she didn't know how to process things or what materials to use, so she was fine with just blueprints.

She would be able to create it later from those blueprints or have someone create it and she would just do the finishing touches.

Mei glanced at Aiko's tail. "Your tail is stiff."

Mei smoothed her tail but was startled. 'No way, surely not...'

She gently used a paralysing Pill on Aiko's tail and they separated.

The Queen's eyes shook. 'T-two tails?!'

One had to know that to achieve additional tails they had to sacrifice part of their Souls. Sure their Souls were boosted by their Bloodlines, but those parts couldn't be sacrificed since it would remove their Bloodline.

She also felt that Aiko had not consumed any Souls as it would leave an imprint on her Soul.

The Queen frowned. "Let's postpone the blueprints." She needed to fix this problem as soon as possible.

'I still don't understand.' Aiko said, but for some reason she felt safe.

[You are my 'child', I would never hurt you.] There was some sadness in her voice and it affected Aiko's Soul.

[Blessing of ####]

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[Blessing of Nüwa]

[Sage's Blessing]

[1st Effect: Child of this World]

[2nd Effect: Karma Companion will never betray you]

[Take care, little one, we will be watching...]

Aiko felt the system's tired voice and snapped out of it. Mei was staring at her strangely.

"If you bind Karma with me I will tell you!" Aiko said firmly.

Mei was shocked that this little rascal knew about karma and felt threatened.

"####, ####, ####?" Mei asked in a strange language.

Aiko tilted her head. "What kind of rubbish is that? It hurts my ears." She clutched her ears, those words were grating her sensitive ears.

"Golden Palace?" Mei asked one more thing.

"Never mind." Aiko shook her head. "I don't want to be with a gold digger that wants to build Golden Palace."

Mei narrowed her eyes at the first words but almost slapped Aiko for the rest.

"W-what do you mean gold digger?!" Mei's body shook.

"Don't think I have not noticed that I'm missing 2 Rings!" Aiko said righteously.

Mei stared at her blankly, she now knew that she had no relationship with them, but still felt annoyed that she would associate her with gold diggers.

Mei pinched her nose bridge. "You have consumed them during your Evolution."

Aiko was shocked and her mouth formed a triangle.

"And before you say anything that includes that fancy Moon Stone." Mei smirked staring at the wobbly rascal.

Aiko almost fainted at those news and glared at Mei, trying to find a lie in her words. 'N-no way."

She collapsed weakly. 'No way I have burned so many resources...'

Mei liked this kind of victory, but she still pushed forward. "Just so you know below you was also a Spirit Mine, you have also consume-W-wait your Soul! Your Soul is leaving your body!" Mei panicked and tried to soothe Aiko.

"It's over I can see the light!" Aiko said weakly staring forward.

Mei panicked but then had an idea. She pinched Aiko's cheeks. "I still have a special Pill Candie that you have not tasted yet."

*Slurp*

The leaving Soul immediately returned and Aiko beamed at her.

Mei felt powerless and sighed. 'No way that she is from their faction, she would eat all of their treasures. It's not bad if she binds my Karma, I could use some improvement...' Mei thought staring at Aiko who was salivating.

Mei fed Aiko the Pill Candy and said. "Fine, but you have to tell me everything!"

Aiko nodded and made a sweeping motion.

[Karma Bound]

[Opponent agreed to bind her Karma, do you wish to use this?]

'Yes.' Aiko nodded and Mei tilted her head.

Soon in between them appeared parchment that was glowing with faint light, but Mei's Soul shook.

'D-D-Divine Dao Scroll?!' Mei almost fainted.

Two Soul imprints appeared on the Scroll and she snapped back.

"W-wait! This is-" She felt something restrict her Soul.

'D-divine Dao Chains...' She was in complete and utter shock.

'I thought it would be some simple Karma Binding Divine Ability, but this...' Her body shook looking at Aiko as if she was looking at a monster.

One has to know that the Divine Dao Scroll is the highest possible Parchment one could obtain. It was blessed by the Dao itself and thus anything written on it was the Law.

This was not a simple Karma binding spell that would fade over time, but an extremely powerful Law that bound their Souls with Divine Dao Chains. These Chains were the only ones that would survive the destruction of Dao, which meant that they were now bound for all eternity even if they didn't like it.

Aiko smiled happily as now she was protected, but Mei was staring at a Monster with a cute appearance. She couldn't fathom where she found something like the Divine Dao Scroll.

"I-I need some rest." Mei was too shaken and Aiko stared at her in worry.