CH 358

Her aunt had been talking normally, but Elena realized that her breath was getting weaker and weaker until she didn’t even have the strength to keep her eyes open.

“W-what’s happening? Wasn’t the black magic already removed? Why is this still happening… aunt? Aunt?” Elena was afraid that was a nap she would never wake from, so she repeatedly called for her.

“Stop shouting…”

Adele bitterly smiled and could only lift a few fingers, Elena quickly grasped her hand and pressed it against her face, clinging to her aunt’s remaining body warmth.

Even though Adele didn’t know anything about black magic, but she knew her own body…

Despite these two helping her to get rid of the black magic, she was already too injured.

“Elena, listen to your aunt… don’t go to Gotham Kingdom… you have to live well.”

Unfortunately, Elena never liked to listen to others, since her aunt said that, it meant something big was going to happen soon. Perhaps even related to the rebellion, if Elena didn’t investigate it, how could she face her tribe who endured so much?

What the hell was the enlightenment society up to, and who the hell is the apostle?

How dare he make her beloved aunt suffer so much, Elena wouldn’t forgive him that easily, she had to tear him to shreds!

“What happened in Gotham Kingdom? Tell us clearly!”

“Don’t ask… and don’t go…”

As Adele spoke, she suddenly coughed. Elena looked down and saw splotches of fresh blood and was scared stupid.

“But aunt, I, I…”

“Just live your days out with your master… Elena, don’t worry about the demon stuff… remember… you’re not the Demon King… you’re just a maid now…”

“Aunt!?”

“Hehe, you have to officially introduce Lin Xiao to me if we have the chance… I’m also… very interested… heh.”

Adele smiled again and used her finger to gently wipe away Elena’s tears.

The instance the tear hit her finger, her arm also dropped powerlessly.

“Aunt! Aunt!”

No matter how much she screamed or pleaded, it was all futile.

Elena hugged her aunt while sobbing.

She finally met one of her tribe and worked hard to save her from the black magic but it still ended up like this, how could Elena accept that?

What was most scary wasn’t despair, but first giving you hope then crushing that hope to pieces right in front of you…

“How did this happen?”

How could mere black magic kill her aunt?

Elena couldn’t accept that kind of reality!

Red-eyed black cats were extremely resistant to magic, so even if she was affected by black magic, it shouldn’t be fatal, so how could her aunt just die like that?

Elena almost lost her calm when faced with the sudden change, but this time she thought of Lin Xiao. That damn pervert would always have a lazy attitude, but he could always successfully find the best way to get out of an impasse…

If Elena could learn from him, keep calm and rationally analyze the situation, then wouldn’t it be the same?

Thinking of that, Elena looked back and found that he was already fast asleep, so that completely dispelled any thoughts of asking for help.

Since her aunt was injured, then didn’t she just have to heal her?

Elena bit the top of her tongue and kissed her aunt’s lip and tried using her own blood to heal her aunt, and it was effective!

The festering wounds stopped bleeding, they weren’t fully healed but they weren’t a problem anymore. Adele also recovered her weak breaths.

But before Elena could be happy, she noticed something strange, Adele should wake up after her breathing returned. But regardless of what Elena did, her aunt wouldn’t wake up and was in a deep sleep like she was dead.

“Why… was it because her mind was damaged?”

Elena remembered that Lin Xiao said her aunt was affected by strong mental magic that would cause a significant amount of damage to her mind. Even though she was able to find the three engravings, the process wasn’t exactly gentle, and that’s possibly why her aunt was still comatose.

She was clearly alive, she was just comatose. In human terms, she would be called a vegetative person.

After Elena figured out what was going on, she didn’t know whether to be happy or sad.

The bad thing was that she didn’t know how to wake her aunt up, but the good thing was that she didn’t have to worry anymore.

She couldn’t heal Adele’s mental injuries, but the good thing was that mean she didn’t have to worry about her physical condition worsening, in that sense, Adele was safe.

So there was only one thing Elena needed to do…

“Time to go home.”

Elena sighed and wiped her tears and made the correct decision.

In order to save her aunt, she had to bring her aunt back to the city.

So, Elena carefully placed her aunt on the floor, tidied her clothes, and prepared to leave with Lin Xiao.

“Phew, Lin Xiao, let’s hurry… hm?”

Elena had wanted to kick him awake, but she noticed he was deep asleep and even drooling.

“Hmph, lazy.”

Elena smiled while raising her foot and was going to stomp on his stomach to wake him up, but before she did, she stopped.

Although his sleep face was embarrassing, Elena remembered who he stayed up all night for and who he expended all that magic power for.

She only focused on worrying about her aunt and forgot about him…

“Sigh, just die in your sleep you lazy slob.”

Elena cursed at him, even though she didn’t actually step on him, she still symbolically gently tapped his stomach with her foot to establish dominance. Lin Xiao grumbled something incoherent, flopped over and continued sleeping.

Elena couldn’t bear to wake him up, so she had to think of a way herself.

“Little tiger, are you still there.”

She still remembered that they encountered a large tiger when they entered the cave that was rendered immobile by her intimidation, so it was probably still there.

Arooo~

As expected, there was a low howl that came from the darkness as it heard Elena’s calls. After a while, that large flaming red tiger slowly walked over.

But to Elena, they were little babies no matter how large the tigers were.

“Red, come here, help me bring my aunt out.”

Awoo!

Red bared its sharp fangs and howled in protest.

If a human saw this they would think that it was angry, but Elena knew that it was just scared.

“Don’t worry, my aunt was just being controlled and won’t order you to do anything strange anymore… as long as you listen, I’ll let you go home.”

Elena gently touched the whiskers next to its mouth and completely treated this tiger like her pet.

Red listened to Elena and happily nodded its head. It walked closer and dropped its head as it carefully sniffed Adele. It seemed to have lingering fears, but after probing for a while and confirming that she couldn’t move, it safely lowered its head and let Elena ride on top with her aunt as it headed out of the cave.

“Oh right… there’s one more person. Bring that human as well!”

Aroo?

Red stopped and thought it mistook the Demon King’s orders and didn’t understand why she would care about a human, but it still walked over and picked him up with its mouth and threw him on top.

“S-soft… hehe.”

Lin Xiao revealed a blissful smile while he felt Red’s fluffy fur.

“Pervert, he must be dreaming about something obscene.”

Elena snorted and didn’t think about what beauty that damn pervert was dreaming about and quickly ordered Red to leave the cave.

“Is it already morning…”

It felt like a lifetime since she last saw the morning sky.

“But how should we get back, it’s not like Red can take us back…”

Elena suddenly remembered something.

She had to wait here for someone.

“A handmade lunchbox is it… hmph, how good can it taste.”

She followed what Lin Xiao had previously planned, and quietly ordered something to Red before chasing it away then she watched over Lin Xiao and her aunt, silently waiting for that person to arrive.