Chapter 170 : Trembling Girl
Looking at the mass of monsters pressed against the glass outside the window, Lonis felt a chill in her heart.
These monsters were truly terrifying. They looked like bats, but their entire bodies were covered in blood vessels, their eyes were dark black, and their teeth weren't just the two pairs above and below, but scattered hundreds of them.
More terrifying still, at their tail positions, there was a protrusion that looked very much like a mace.
Lonis remembered from textbooks that these Headhunter Bats would pounce on their prey's face, then insert their thick and solid tails into the prey's mouth.
This way, the prey would be instantly injected with paralyzing toxin and lose the ability to resist—only to be violated by the Headhunter Bats.
After the violation, the Headhunter Bats wouldn't directly kill their prey. And the prey would become immersed in that feeling of being dominated, unable to extricate themselves. Even after the Headhunter Bats had flown away, the prey would remain in a daze, as if they had lost their sanity, craving that feeling of being injected.
So...
(So, so scary!)
Lonis instinctively clenched her mouth shut. Fortunately, the magic ship was sturdy enough. If the Headhunter Bats broke through the windows, being so cute, she would definitely be toyed with by them for several hours, right?
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Lonis was somewhat at a loss, and just then, Elucia came over.
"Hah, stupid maid, how did you wake up too?"
The black-haired girl blinked, seeming quite surprised by Lonis's awakening.
"Ah... Elucia, is there anything I can help with?"
"Hmph, they're just some small monsters. We don't need to use our trump cards yet."
Elucia shook her head, appearing very nonchalant: "Oh, right, go take care of Suling."
"Suling?"
"Yes, she seems to have been scared badly."
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"Wuu..."
Along with a sound that only small animals could make, Lonis saw the pink-haired girl curled up under the dining table.
This girl looked extremely frightened, her eyes completely squeezed shut >_<, not daring to look at the scene outside the window.
And Lonis's sudden visit seemed to startle her as well...
"Wah ah ah, don't eat me!"
"Eh, Suling, it's me, Lonis."
"Eh, is it Lonis? Thank goodness..."
Seeing the familiar silver hair, Suling's mood seemed to ease somewhat, but her body was still trembling, looking very pitiful.
So Lonis sat beside her, hiding together under the dining table.
"Suling, are you okay? I'm here to keep you company."
"I'm, I'm fine... I just suddenly felt a little..."
"It's okay. Seeing those monsters, I'm a little scared too."
......
As a girl, the fear of rod-like objects stems from instinct.
And although Lonis was originally a boy, suddenly seeing the Headhunter Bats, she couldn't help feeling somewhat anxious inside...
So Lonis had no intention of mocking Suling at all. Instead, she found the pink-haired girl's trembling appearance quite cute and endearing.
"Hehe, don't be afraid, Suling. Pat pat."
"Little Lo."
"It's okay, Suling. We're all here on the ship together. And although Elucia seems so scheming, she actually has some skills."
"Wuu... scheming?"
"Ah, I mean she has lots of clever ideas. And Senior Yi Cheng is also amazing. I heard... she seems to be the leader of the student council, right? So she's very capable too!"
"Mm..."
Under Lonis's care, Suling's expression relaxed considerably.
Her eyes no longer held fear, and she naturally leaned her body against Lonis.
"Lonis is really the best."
"Ah?"
"So gentle and considerate, truly an all-around maid."
"Wuu..."
Zhou Suling's words were fine until she said this, then Lonis started blushing.
After all, speaking of it...
Being intimate with Elucia as a girl was one thing... After all, Elucia knew about her past as a boy, so it wasn't deception.
But Suling didn't know!
She only thought she was a girl, which was why she relaxed and opened her heart to her.
She regarded her as a friend, as someone she could confide in.
But could friends hide things and deceive each other?
Thinking this, Lonis's mood became somewhat complicated... This showed on her face as an indescribable sense of loss.
"Eh? Lonis, what's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
Lonis shook her head to indicate she was fine, but Suling misunderstood Lonis's hesitation as something else.
"Ah, I understand. I said something wrong just now. Lonis doesn't just want to be a maid, right?"
"Eh?"
"Little Lo really likes Elucia, so you also want to be a little wife and stay by her side, right?"
"Wah ah ah!"
Lonis wanted to shake her head in denial, but the more she tried to deny it, the more her cheeks burned as if scalded by hot towels, her ears completely red.
She undoubtedly wanted to marry Elucia.
But even if they were to marry, there had to be a distinction between top and bottom... And now, even if given ten thousand times the courage, she didn't think she could overpower the scheming girl.
So she could only obediently be pushed down on the bed by Elucia like a little wife.
"Wuu..."
"Eh, Little Lo, did I say something wrong?"
"No, let's not talk about this anymore."
The silver-haired girl shook her head shyly. Fortunately, Elucia wasn't nearby, or she would take this opportunity to tease her again.
"Mm, then what should we talk about? Oh right, let's talk about some past events."
"Past events?"
"Hehe, Little Lo probably doesn't know, right? When I was little, I was very brave~"
"Eh?"
"I ran around everywhere, and once I even snuck into the school's slime breeding farm and caught a slime to take home!"
"That, that's called stealing, right?"
"Wuu! Lonis, I'm not that bad... Because the school's slime breeding farm is run by my family, so it's not stealing."
The pink-haired girl pouted while speaking.
"Eh?"
"So I wanted to catch a slime to make soup for grandma! But when it came time to cook it, I failed."
"Was it because it was too slippery to cut?"
At the hot pot restaurant, Lonis had also eaten slime... This animal should be a relative of jellyfish, rich in collagen, and quite delicious.
"It was because it was too cute, I couldn't bear to do it."
"Ah?"
"It kept looking at me pitifully, trying hard to jump out of the bucket, wanting to live. So in the end, I couldn't kill it."
"Mm, that sounds like something Suling would do."
Lonis wasn't surprised. In fact, if she encountered cute kittens and puppies, she wouldn't bear to make hot pot out of them either.
"But normally, I eat slime jelly quite happily!"
"Eh..."
"So I wondered if I was a hypocritical person. Even if I released that slime, it would probably be made into jelly someday, right?"
"This kind of thing..."
Growing up from child to adult, one always has to lose something.
Perhaps innocence, perhaps that bit of beauty hidden in the heart.
Even if smiles won't be numbed by oppression, there are always too many things piled up in the heart, acting as shackles that hinder people's progress, right?
Lonis opened her mouth, about to offer some comfort.
But Suling shook her head and said: "Later, it was grandma who comforted me."
"Eh."
"Grandma said that precisely because I ate the slime's share of energy, I should live well for its sake too."
"!"
"Struggling to live isn't something shameful."
Suling smiled slightly as she said this.