Vol 3. Chapter 117: Shame Level Off the Charts
The view shifts back to the place where Xue Tianao met his end.
Amid the ruins,
two beautiful figures were pressed tightly together~
One was incomparably nervous and uneasy, while the other remained calm and composed from beginning to end,
......
"Oh, that's not right. I should be calling you Sister Yumo~"
Completely ignoring the dense and terrifying aura surrounding Yumo, Mengxi fearlessly raised both hands and wrapped them around Yumo's neck, whispering intimately beside her ear.
The instant she heard those words,
Yumo felt as though she had been swept into the Big Bang itself, her entire mind shaken into complete disarray, leaving her abruptly frozen in place.
Her scarlet eyes trembled incessantly, while her incomparably beautiful face was overtaken by unprecedented astonishment, shock, and bewilderment.
The girl's mind seemed to outright refuse to accept the words that had just come out of Mengxi's mouth.
Only after a long moment did the stunned Miss Yumo gradually recover from her state of shock. Trembling slightly, she turned her gaze toward the silver-haired girl who had just uttered those earth-shattering words.
"Um..."
Yumo still seemed unable to believe what she had just heard. Pretending to remain calm, she barely managed to squeeze out a professional smile.
"Um... Miss Mengxi, what you just said was..."
However,
before Yumo could finish speaking, Mengxi slowly released her arms from around Yumo's neck. Her beautiful and adorable light-purple eyes met Yumo's astonished scarlet ones as she repeated, word by word,
"What I said was~ Sister Yumo~"
When she said the words 'Sister Yumo,' Mengxi even deliberately emphasized them, making sure Miss Yumo heard every syllable loud and clear. It also gave the black-haired girl a definitive answer.
Namely, the identity she had worked so painstakingly to maintain,
was ruined...
Ruined so abruptly that it completely exceeded her imagination.
And then,
as expected,
Yumo immediately petrified and cracked apart......
At that moment, a raging storm instantly swept through the black-haired girl's heart, an unprecedented earthquake shaking Yumo's inner world to its very foundations.
She,
she, she, she...... recognized...... recognized me?!! H-How, how is that possible?!! That's impossibleeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! I was obviously acting so convincingly before! How the hell did she figure it out?!
Did I slip up somewhere?!
No, that shouldn't be possible!
Even Saiboke admitted that my acting was extremely 'excellent'! How could Mengxi possibly have seen through it?!
And,
more importantly!
That girl's memories were clearly overwritten by Shuoyue back then! How could a Sixth-Tier existence possibly resist Shuoyue's power?! My daughter isn't some pushover!
......
In an instant, although Miss Yumo still appeared 'calm' on the surface, standing there blankly without moving, tremendous waves had already erupted inside her heart, and she couldn't stop herself from screaming wildly in her mind. After the shock subsided, an indescribable sense of humiliation immediately surged through Yumo's heart, turning the girl's face into a thoroughly ripe red apple.
After finally recovering slightly, Yumo broke free from Mengxi's hands and retreated several steps in succession, unable to stop herself from exclaiming indignantly,
"You...... you...... when the hell! When...... when did you figure it out!!"
In response to this question, Mengxi mischievously extended a slender finger and pressed it against her pink lips.
After thinking for a moment, the silver-haired girl tilted her head and playfully replied,
"Enmm, well, actually, I figured it out right from the beginning~"
"W-What?! The beginning?! H-How could that possibly......"
Yumo's scarlet eyes were filled with disbelief.
Seeing this,
Miss Mengxi not only had no intention of holding back, but instead proceeded to twist the knife even further.
"Also, not only did I know that Sister Yu was Sister Yumo, I also knew that Xiaomo was Sister Yumo~"
?!!!
Hearing this, Yumo's pupils abruptly contracted, as though a razor-sharp sword carrying hundreds of thousands of units of pure shame had suddenly pierced straight through her chest. A wave of heat broke through her defenses and surged all the way to the girl's ears.
?!
S-She knows about that too?!
Which means......
Back when I was taking care of that girl in the Great Winter Forest, she was acting the whole time?! She never became childlike at all?!
'Am I a fucking idiot?!!'
Just thinking about how Mengxi, while looking like a child, had fooled her so thoroughly made Yumo unconsciously hold her breath.
And even that would have been one thing,
but that girl had actually realized she was pretending to be 'Xiaomo' too? Just how...... how the hell did she figure it out?! Forget it, how she figured it out doesn't even matter anymore! What matters is that after figuring it out, she didn't say anything and just silently watched me act?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Recalling how, during that period, she had pretended to be a little girl and acted cute, constantly chirping 'Sister Mengxi' one moment and 'hug me' the next in the manner of an adorable little loli; remembering how smugly pleased with herself she'd been because she thought the other party hadn't seen through her......
Yumo was suddenly engulfed by the sensation of dying from social embarrassment.
'Aaaaaaaaaah!! Nooooo!!!'
As her shame continued skyrocketing,
Miss Yumo's mind finally overloaded......
The next instant,
the black-haired girl's brain completely crashed. Accompanied by a 'Pshhh,' clouds of steam slowly began rising from the top of her head~ The overwhelming shame and inexplicable sense of grievance made Miss Yumo's eyes turn red, leaving her feeling so miserable that she wanted to cry but had no tears......
'Wuuuuuuuu! What the heck is going on?! I'm dreaming, right?! This has to be a dream!!......'
Reality was right before her eyes,
but the girl had absolutely no intention of accepting it.
--
Looking at the incomparably beautiful black-haired girl before her, who was pursing her little lips, her face bright red and steam constantly rising from her head, Mengxi maintained a perfectly serious expression, but inwardly her heart couldn't help pounding wildly. After all, Yumo's current shy appearance hit her preferences far too perfectly.
"Wuwu! Sister Yumo! So cute~"
The corners of Mengxi's lips unconsciously curled upward.
If she weren't taking into consideration the fact that Sister Yumo was currently a little emotionally unstable, Mengxi would already have felt the urge to rush forward, pull her sister into her arms, and rub against her to her heart's content.
Actually,
at first, when Mengxi guessed that Yumo had been the one who knocked Bai Xiaozou unconscious, she hadn't intended to reveal the truth to Yumo. For the foreseeable future, she had still planned to let Sister Yumo continue hiding behind her 'disguises.'
However,
Mengxi's plan had been disrupted by Xue Tianao's sudden appearance.
The Child of Destiny, who had suddenly charged toward her and Sister Yumo with overwhelming momentum, as well as Sister Yumo's sudden release of power, had both completely exceeded Mengxi's expectations. And Sister Yumo raising her hand and reducing Xue Tianao to ashes had happened even more instantaneously.
She hadn't even had time to react before Xue Tianao had vanished into nothingness,
and while she stood there stunned, her gaze met the panicked Sister Yumo's.
'Should I pretend to faint?'
Mengxi had considered it,
but no matter how masterful her acting skills might be, and no matter how innocent and adorable Sister Yumo was, suddenly fainting right in front of her would still be far too ridiculous......
'Ah~ I've fainted~'
After briefly imagining the scene, Mengxi immediately rejected the idea.
No.
Way too fake......
And just as Mengxi was wondering what she should pretend to do instead, the silver-haired girl's brows suddenly lifted.
At that moment, Mengxi abruptly realized,
she didn't seem to need to pretend anymore......
The main reason she had kept putting on an act and playing house with Sister Yumo before was because she wanted to use those 'disguised identities' as a buffer, continuously raising Sister Yumo's affection for her and preventing Sister Yumo from leaving her and choosing to accompany that maggot of destiny, Xue Tianao.
But now?
That stupid Child of Destiny who had courted death by using divine power to provoke Sister Yumo was gone~
Didn't that mean she was now the only Chosen One left in the world?
If Sister Yumo wanted to destroy the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, wouldn't she have no choice but to nurture her?
Although Mengxi wasn't proud of resorting to such methods, if she used the matter involving the Black Rose Family to scare Sister Yumo a little more~
wouldn't Sister Yumo have no choice but to continue staying by her side?
Was there any point in continuing the charade?
After all, compared to the little-girl version of 'Xiaomo' and the noble and elegant 'Yu,' Mengxi still preferred Sister Yumo's original appearance and personality~ She preferred that gentle big sister who had constantly taken care of her back in the Great Winter Forest~
Slowly revealing a sweet smile filled with deep apology, Mengxi stepped forward, raised her hand, and gently poked Yumo's cheek, attempting to poke her out of the mire of shock and back into reality.
"Sorry, Sister Yumo. I didn't mean to deceive you before."