CH 356

Three engravings, Elena pinched two with her hands and interrupted the flow of energy, Lin Xiao thought that she wouldn’t be able to stop the last one, but who would have thought that she would have bit it…

Once, Elena just used a bit of her Demon King strength to shatter the magic detection crystal, now that she gathers all her strength in her teeth, wouldn’t she be able to easily destroy it?

Lin Xiao’s judgement was right, even if they didn’t know the composition of black magic, as long as they find the hidden engravings, and Elena uses her power to contain it, then they could get rid of it.

Be that as it may, Lin Xiao still couldn’t relax and continued to watch Adele. When he saw Elena bite her neck, he thought that she would cry out and struggle violently, but to his surprise, all of the black mist exploded when she was bitten!

Perhaps it was because the energy flow was completely interrupted so those engravings had no way of drawing power from Adele anymore, so they naturally couldn’t maintain themselves and exploded.

“Ah…”

Adele didn’t make any more noise and her gaze didn’t look crazy anymore. Her peaceful expression was filled with weariness, and it felt like she instantly aged a lot.

Seeing that, Lin Xiao realized that it was settled, so he removed the barrier and took a couple of steps back to make some room.

If Adele regained her mind, then what came next wasn’t something that involved him…

“Aunt!”

When Elena noticed that the black magic was gone, she quickly let go of her mouth and caught Adele as she fell forward and helped her sit down.

“Aunt, h-how are you feeling?”

“I-I… Elena?”

“Yes, it’s me!”

“But why are you… I… tsk!”

Adele opened her mouth and wanted to say something but an intense headache forced her to hold her head in pain. She leaned against Elena and struggled a bit before settling down.

“I-I actually said those things to you? And even did more unforgivable things, Elena, why would I…”

The scenes of what happened earlier flowed into Adele’s head, like someone forcibly cramming memories inside of her. Yet those memories were so realistic and she personally did everything that she didn’t even have the courage to exculpate herself.

“Elena, I, I…”

“You don’t have to say anything, it’s fine. As long as you’re okay.”

When Elena saw her aunt recover, she hugged her head and couldn’t help but cry, but she quickly took a couple of deep breaths and forced herself to put on a gentle smile.

“Hehe, Elena, you’re still the same as before, you just love putting on a tough front.”

Adele smiled and tried comforting her, but when she raised her lips, her weary smile just made her heart ache.

“How have you been lately…”

She slowly raised her arm and tried to wipe away Elena’s tears, but her arm suddenly lost strength and fell straight back down.

Adele was already weak to the point where she couldn’t even move her arms properly, even maintaining her breathing was difficult.

“I’ve been well, being his ma… uh, no, never mind.” Elena turned to look at Lin Xiao who was hiding and rolled her eyes and wanted to curse him, but she couldn’t do that in front of Adele and instead asked, “Aunt, why are you here? What happened?”

“Sigh…”

Adele sighed and endured her headache to remember what happened. Even if her voice became weaker, she still clenched her teeth and endured.

“One day I snuck out by myself and was caught by a strange person who was very strong, he called himself an apostle or something… I thought he was insane, but I accidentally fell into his trap. I don’t remember much after that, it just felt like I had a very long dream, and in that dream I killed a lot of people and almost hurt you, Elena, I…”

“That wasn’t your fault, you were affected by black magic and was being controlled!”

“Controlled? That person was indeed insane, why would he control me? He couldn’t have been lusting after my beauty, right…”

“Aunt…” Elena made an awkward expression.

“Why did you make that kind of face? Though I may be older, but I still have my charm. What was that called again… oh right, MILF. There’s a lot of humans who like my type.”

“Okay… so that guy was crazy for MILFs and surely did something strange to you?”

“That’s right… possibly!”

Adele instantly realized the problem and reached towards her lower body, who know where she was trying to touch… but with her strength, she couldn’t touch anything.

“Elena… come help your aunt take a look.”

“Okay, I was just kidding… who would do anything strange to an old auntie like you!”

According to Adele, her memories were hazy after being called, she only remembered that baddie who called themselves the apostle using a strange method to catch her and made her pass out. When she woke up, it was already the present.

Even though the information was limited, it could at least prove that Lin Xiao’s conjecture was correct. The enlightenment society specifically sent Adele here to block the way, that meant they were definitely involved with what was happening in Gotham Kingdom!

“Wait… but how did you get caught? Where were you at the time?”

“Inside the forest of the end.”

“Be more specific.”

“Outside your bull uncle’s tribe.”

“My bull uncle?”

“Oh, your dad’s good friend, the leader of the blood-hoofed bulls, Barton.”

“Uncle Barton? Why were you there?”

“We were all there.”

“Wait… ‘you all’? Elena became more and more confused and Adele realized that Elena didn’t know anything so she had to explain from the beginning.”

It started from when Elena went missing.

At the time, everyone could only panic and run against the lesser devil army who suddenly attacked the Demon King Palace. The previous Demon King had been missing for a while, and the new Demon King Elena was defeated by the rebels, her whereabouts unknown. The remaining red-eyed black cats could only escape and ask other tribes for help and it was their old friend Barton that took them in.

“The situation was still uncertain at the time and we could only temporarily hide with Barton… because I was bored I went out and accidentally fell asleep by the river. When I woke up, I realized that I was caught… sigh, I was really too careless.”

“Uh…”

The situation was laughable, falling asleep next to the river then being caught by a human. That’s too embarrassing, where was her manners as a high-level demon? It was like a dumb wild rabbit that knocked itself out by hitting a tree and then being picked up by a lazy hunter.

Of course, Elena who was caught to be Lin Xiao’s maid had no right no laugh at anyone else…

“But Elena, you’re amazing… how did you get rid of the black magic, did you study human magic?”

“No, I… It was him.” Elena pointed at the youth who was standing in the distance, “If it wasn’t for him, you probably would already be dead…”

“Hm? Who is he?”

“Lin Xiao.”

“Is he human?”

“Yeah.”

“He saved me?”

“Yeah.”

“Is he your boyfriend?”

“Yeah… hm? No!”

“Eh? Elena, you look strange. You blushed when he was mentioned… what kind of relationship do you have with him?”

“H-he… he’s my…”

When that was mentioned, Elena stammered and didn’t know how to respond.

When Adele wasn’t in the right state of mind, she could still think of a way to muddle by, but now that Adele’s recovered, everything she said would be remembered.

She definitely couldn’t let Adele know about her relationship with Lin Xiao, otherwise…

It was like he noticed Elena’s worries, so his voice came from afar and helped her out.

Or rather added to the fire…

“Thirteenth Aunt, I’m Elena’s master and she’s my maid right now… didn’t I tell you that before?”

Though he was standing far away, the cave was silent so he could still hear them even if he stood further away.

“… Maid? Oh, I remember.”

When she heard his reply, the two looked at each other in silence. Elena’s expression was filled with shame and indignation while Adele was more shocked.

Why would her haughty niece be a human’s maid? Who the hell was he?