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After a few minutes of hiking, both of the geniuses found themselves at the front of an enormous red and pink mansion—a mansion that also served as the private quarters of the Peak Leader, Xing Yi.
"Xing Yi, are you there?"
Azmodeus's nonchalant voice sounded out from the other side of two large pink doors.
After a moment of waiting, the doors creaked open as a woman with a figure to kill for came out with a slightly amused look on her face.
"You really are quite brazen using the name of your Peak Leader in broad daylight right outside my home," Xing Yi said.
"Is that so? Well, no matter. Will you let us in or not, 'Ms. Peak Leader'?" Azmodeus asked with an indifferent tone.
The Peak Leader blankly stared at the audacious young boy, who never seemed to show even the slightest ounce of respect for her authority.
"You know, if you keep on acting like this, then I might just have to throw you into a horde of Spiritual Beasts and see how far you go before you need my help," she remarked with a smug expression.
"You would really do that for me?? How magnanimous of you," Azmodues replied with shining eyes, clearly overjoyed about such a notion coming to pass.
Xing Yi looked at that monstrous freak like she was looking at something not of this world. However, she was suddenly taken away from her train of thought by the young Sect Goddess, who had an aggrieved look on her face:
"Can you stop talking to my Az, Az like that, you old witch! He's mine, not yours!" She exclaimed with a possessive gleam shining through her eyes.
"..." "..."
Both Xing Yi and Azmodeus looked at the delusional girl for a few seconds before they sighed in unison.
"Just come in already," the Peak Leader said.
*Humph!* Yang Hua let out a harrumph from her cute nostrils before following behind Az, Az as they walked through the large pink doors.
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Meanwhile, a few miles out from the Peak Leader's Residence, a young boy and girl were walking hand in hand. One unwilling and one willing...
Yang Hua was letting out all her grievances about Az, Az's flirty words. And from what he could tell from the way she was speaking, it was quite obvious that she just wanted the same treatment.
So from that day on, he started complimenting her at the most opportune of times, catching her off guard on a daily basis.
It was due to these actions of his that he finally obtained some respite from all that clinging she was doing.
He was also to obtain the promise of her leading him to Yang Fa's secret stash inside the ravished Yang Sect—a stash that would bring him many benefits.
But it wasn't like that was his true motive for catering to the girl... for sure, for sure...
On a side note, most of the time, Yang Hua was too embarrassed to get within two feet of him. This ultimately allowed him to be able to go out and do a variety of things that wouldn't normally be possible with the yandere breathing over his neck.
Azmodeus was a relatively perspicacious person because of all his traits. It was because of this personality quirk and the signs shown in clear view that he was able to understand that the young girl was most definitely in love with him...
He wasn't a dense rock... well, not all of the time...
But in the end, he wasn't interested in a relationship unless there were immense benefits involved. And even then, he would only be in the relationship for the benefits and not the relationship itself.
All in all, this was to say that he wasn't the least bit interested in a relationship like that at this point in time!
And that was where the next problem stemmed from. Namely, what would Azmodeus do about the girl that was all over him literally all the time...?
After brooding over the subject for a while, he eventually decided that he would give the girl some space and see if her flame naturally died out.
Surely this tactic would work out in his favor... Right...?
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