CH 357

In her relative’s eyes, what kind of child was Elena?

To Adele, even though Elena was sensible, kindhearted, and cared for others, she wasn’t good at expressing it and lacked communication skills. Her haughty attitude was especially headache-inducing…

She looked down on useless good-for-nothings, so that’s why she always worked so hard, but that hard work made her more lone and proud.

She always treated people coldly and rejected them, let alone obediently serving someone else. She was so cute yet no one dared to get close, it was truly regrettable.

Speaking of Adele, as her elder, she never had an air of an aunt, especially after Elena became the Demon King, she was completely like a queen that no one even dared to breathe loudly in front of.

But now… such a cold person became a maid? And for a lowly human??

If Adele remembered correctly, her niece hated humans the most, especially young and perverted males. To her, they were just walking *** machines, breathing seeding machines!

“Tsk…”

“Hm!? Aunt, what are you doing… eh? Why did you bite your own tongue?” Elena was startled when she saw blood on the corner of her aunt’s mouth.

“I thought I was dreaming…” Adele vacantly blinked and couldn’t believe it was real.

Elena had a guilty conscience and quickly changed the topic and started telling her aunt about how they finally saved her after a full night. She originally intended for Adele to understand her hardships but didn’t expect Adele to find the gaps.

Compared to her aunt, Elena was still too young and was easily able to be made to speak of the truth after a couple of words.

“Does Lin Xiao know black magic?” Adele started slowly and began her ‘interrogation’.

“No he doesn’t, but he was able to find a way to break it.” Elena was slightly smiling while talking, and her tone was like she was introducing her own husband to someone else.

“Oh? But his way must have expended a lot of his magic power, right?”

“It’s fine, he has a lot, he can even use eighth-level magic.”

“Oh? … So your master was that amazing.”

“Yeah, he’s pretty strong.”

“It seems like he likes you a lot, actually willing to save an old auntie like me for you…”

“Hmph, he wasn’t in the beginning, but only because he was greedy for my ***… hm?”

While speaking Elena looked down and saw her aunt’s teasing smile and realized that she inadvertently talked about everything that she wanted to hide. She even naturally admitted that she was his maid, how embarrassing!

“No, aunt, it’s not like that! I was forced… forced! That damn pervert, he…”

“Hehe, I get it, I get it…”

Actually, the reason Adele wanted to ask wasn’t just because she was shocked that Elena was a maid, but she wanted to get a better understanding of Elena’s recent life.

Elena’s whereabouts had been the thing that their tribe was the most concerned about, especially Adele.

There was one thing she lied about to Elena.

The reason she left wasn’t that she was bored, but it was because she wanted to look for Elena! And the reason she fell into the enemy’s trap wasn’t that she fell asleep, but because she trusted people too easily and that ‘apostle’ said he knew where Elena was, and that was how she fell into the trap.

Of course, she didn’t mention any of that, she didn’t want Elena to know about her worries. Because as long as Elena was still alive and living well, then that was all that mattered.

In the past year, Adele had been worried whether Elena was killed, held captive, homeless, or maybe even… committed suicide?

After all, this young monarch endured a lot of pain she shouldn’t have had to endure.

Elena’s mother died when she was young and was brought up by her father and originally thought that being the Demon King’s daughter should be happy, but her father went missing not soon after and in order to find the truth, she bravely passed the cruel trials and took over the Demon King position. But not soon after, she encountered a rebellion and was driven away along with all the red-eyed black cats as they ran for their lives.

It should have been a rosy youth for her, but she had to shoulder so much hatred and resentment. Even if she was arrogant and strong, but she was still a girl, how could she endure all of that by herself?

If it was Adele who suffered that fate, even if she didn’t complain, she would probably be anxious and worried about the enemies and would hide somewhere and never come out.

After hearing everything Elena said, she realized all of her worries were unnecessary.

After a year, Elena was still living well. She didn’t become a paranoid scaredy-cat, rather, she grew.

She became gentler, braver, and matured to be even more beautiful. She had a faint smile with a fitting maid outfit, it was like a goddess descended.

The tragedy didn’t leave a scar, it allowed her to cocoon into a butterfly, to be a better king.

Though she did find a new part-time job… a part-time maid.

“Your master can actually cast eighth-level magic? … He’s indeed very strong.” Adele was overwhelmed with emotion as she looked at that youth’s figure.

She was very interested in Lin Xiao as well as why Elena was willing to be his maid, and even more curious as to why Elena would have a faint blush whenever he was mentioned…

But that could only wait for later because she didn’t have much time left.

“Aunt, I-I already said, I was forced to be his maid! … Well, he is indeed very strong.”

“Hehe, forced huh… well as long as you’re happy.”

Even though Elena reiterated that she was forced, Adele became more relieved.

To meet someone so strong and sincerely willing to protect her was hard, even if it was forced at the beginning, what did it matter?

The most important thing was that Elena was happy now.

For the year after, ever since the rebellion, Elena should have been his maid, right…

Initially, Elena was in despair and anger, but after a year, she didn’t have any of that left on her face. What replaced it was a bravery to press forward and a resolution, and also that little shyness and happiness as a woman.

Although Adele didn’t know anything about Lin Xiao or how they lived during the past year, she knew that it was definitely happy for Elena.

If Elena could smile from the bottom of her heart every day, then Adele would be content…

“Elena, don’t worry, your uncle Barton is taking care of our people really well, the nightwolf clan won’t dare to make a move for now…” Adele weakly smiled and had to stop every time she spoke a bit like she used up all of her energy.

“You said… for now?”

“The leader of the nightwolf clan, Thunderfang, he… he…” Adele’s voice became quieter and she couldn’t finish her sentence.

“Aunt, d-don’t speak anymore, just rest.” Even though Elena wanted to know what had happened, but she couldn’t bear to question her so she grasped Adele’s hand and told her to stop speaking.

Adele shook her head and wanted to finish.

Thunderfang, the new leader for the nightwolf clan, and as the nightwolf clan was among several large clans among the high-level demons, had always been at heads with Elena and her father since a long time ago. He also orchestrated this rebellion.

That was the information Elena knew, there was also some stuff she didn’t know…

“If Thunderfang takes over as the Demon King and obtains the primogenitor’s power, then even uncle Barton would have to obey him, at that time, our people will… will….”

“What?”

“Hehe, but you don’t have to worry… for the past year, he’s been challenging the trials and attempting to succeed as the Demon King, but he’s still far… Elena, you’re still not dead… cough.”

Since the current Demon King Elena wasn’t dead yet, even if she was chased out, she was still the rightful King, which meant he still can’t pass the trials and couldn’t obtain the primogenitor’s true power, and couldn’t command the leaders of the clans. Thus, for the past year, so the red-eyed black cats could struggle to survive under someone else’s protection.

They just didn’t know how long those days would last…

“Elena, don’t worry about us… you have to keep living on… remember, Gotham Kingdom, don’t go…” Adele closed her eyes and squeezed out a warning with her remaining energy.

“Aunt, what’s wrong?”