CH 437

“Who is it?”

Snow was puzzled and fell silent in thought, and Elona didn’t know what to say.

“Master, regardless of who she is or who sent her, it must be someone who’s worried about you, so what’s there to be worried about?”

“Someone worried about me?”

That’s right, they saved her yet hid their identity, which meant they weren’t from the church and didn’t save her because they were against the enlightened. It was simply someone worried about her that didn’t want her to die so they saved her.

Based on that logic, they must be a friend or relative of Snow!

“Sigh, but what friends and relatives do I have?”

“How could you not have any? Master, you must have parents, right? It might have been them!”

“Parents? They both died several years ago.”

“Oh… s-sorry.”

“Friends? I don’t have something like that.”

“T-that can’t be, right?”

“Why not? I’m eleven years, the kids my age are all good kids at home and I’m a Saintess, so I can’t make friends with the believers… furthermore, they all call me snow witch behind my back, so who would be my friend?”

“It’s impossible for you to not have even a single friend, right? There must be at least one, think about it!”

“Hm… if there had to be one, then does Jasmine count?”

“Bishop Jasmine? Of course! She’s so nice and pretty, and she treasures you like a daughter, she’s your good friend!”

“Uh… don’t be so sappy, Jasmine is just a foolish woman who just transferred her love for her daughter onto me.”

Snow might have sounded ungrateful, but when she thought about Jasmine waiting for her at Winterless City, her expression became softer and she was no longer lost or had any more hesitance.

“Sister Jasmine indeed worries for me, but she knows nothing about the enlightened so it can’t be her.”

Snow knew that the one who saved her couldn’t have been Jasmine.

“Hm… then what about your other relatives? Uncles, aunts… even if your parents aren’t here, you should have other relatives, right?”

“Hehe, sorry to disappoint you Elona. I’ve never met any of my relatives before, even if I had relatives, we probably wouldn’t know each other.”

“How could that be? Snow, you…” Elona fell silent and looked down at the little girl in her chest and almost started crying.

As a red-eyed black cat, Elona lived in a large family since birth. She not only had friends but many relatives who loved her, so she couldn’t imagine the loneliness Snow must have endured, but she knew that it must have been cold and full of despair to turn an innocent little girl into a heartless witch!

“But Snow, you’re wrong, even if you don’t have them, you still have a relative!”

“A relative?”

“Yes, did you forget? Lin Xiao!”

“W-what?”

“Why are you so shocked? Don’t you like him a lot? It also seems like he worries about you… as your brother, is he not your closest relative?”

“Elona, you! …”

For some reason, Snow blushed and felt her cheeks get hot, and became speechless.

Lin Xiao was her brother, her sole relative, she knew that best but pretended to not know until Elona’s words forced her to face reality.

“That means she was sent by my brother?”

The answer was so simple, but she just wasn’t willing to admit it. Someone worried about her, knew about the enlightened society, insightful, and see-through schemes, who could it be other than Lin Xiao?

“But stinking brother, I never told you to get involved, so why did you cause more trouble!”

When she thought about how she was protected by her brother once again, she was happy and angry and had mixed emotions.

“Hmph, if I had known it was him, I would have rather died!”

If she died, then Lin Xiao wouldn’t be able to protect her anymore and she wouldn’t have to endure living under her brother’s wings forever!

“Master, how could you say something like that!? That’s not right, it’s too strange!”

“Tsk… I know, I don’t need you to tell me that.”

Of course, Snow was just thinking about it, she could still differentiate between good and bad.

“But, if it was my brother, who was that woman?”

If the woman had black hair and black eyes, then she was surely from the Eastern tribe, and the only woman like that next to Lin Xiao should be ShenDai Ying. If her voice was hoarse and she had freckles, then it couldn’t have been ShenDai Ying!

“So that damn brother is fooling around with a new woman! Damn, are you a humanoid seeder? Enough!”

After thinking about that, Snow didn’t mope around anymore and was instead filled with rage as she began struggling within Elona’s embrace.

“Master, c-calm down, hehe.”

Elona didn’t know how to react as she struggled to contain Snow, but seeing how energetic Snow became, she was also happier.

The sky was already turning white, after this much time, the crucifix guards and believers should arrive soon, so they should clean up and wait for the others.

At that moment, Snow suddenly remembered something.

“Wait! Elona… how were you able to transform before? Weren’t you wearing a demon sealing collar?”

Snow quickly felt Elona’s neck and didn’t feel a collar and started sweating.

What was going on? Where did the collar go?

“Hehe, I took it off!”

“What? You took it off? How?”

“Master, did you forget? My collar isn’t the same as my aunt’s, it isn’t locked, so I can take it off at any time… you helped me take it off once at Despair island and I remembered how to take it off. I took it off earlier to get here faster, aren’t I amazing?”

“Eh? You can take it off yourself? That is impressive…”

Her carelessness allowed Elona to take off her collar to come to save her. But the problem is… what should she do now?

She can’t beat Elona in her current state! If she cant beat her, how can she control this big cat, or force her to be her servant?

“Hehe, master you praised me, I’m so happy!”

Elona didn’t notice Snow’s cloudy and uncertain expression and spoke her true thoughts. She even took the collar out of her pocket and spun it around on her finger like she was showing off her cleverness.

“Oh right, master, since all the enemies are dead I should put the collar back on. Otherwise, if my aura leaks and is detected by the crucifix guards, that would be terrible!”

Before Snow could even say anything, Elona scared herself and quickly put the collar back on with a click.

“Phew… it’ll be fine like this!”

Elona breathed out a sigh of relief after sealing her own power, but she didn’t know that Snow was stunned in her arms.

Elona wore the collar herself without resisting…

How should she put it?

Should she call her a dumb cat? Or a naive child?

With Snow’s calculative personality, she hated stupid and naive fools like Elona the most, so she often bullied her, but now…

Now, that uncontrollable euphoria and happiness was because she was moved, right?

“Elona, you’re so nice… you’re my best servant!”

“Really? Hehe.” Elona scratched her head with embarrassment.

“Thank you for everything you’ve done for me, Elona… I promise that I won’t bully you anymore!”

“Really?”

“Really!”

Snow nodded her head and promised.

“At most I’ll just rub your breasts, I definitely won’t do anything excessive, I promise! … Hm, I might curse at you when I’m angry, that’s normal… or I might whip you once or twice if you’re disobedient, that’s also reasonable… anyways, I definitely won’t bully you anymore!”

“… but master, you’re still bullying me!”

Elona who had just started smiling was splashed with cold water after she heard Snow’s words. Her expression and pitiful tone made Snow laugh nonstop.

The darkness was still chased away by the light, when the first ray of sunlight spilled on the earth, the lost crucifix guards and the believers finally caught up and used their loyalty to respond to that little girl’s smile.

She, finally wasn’t alone.