Chapter 28: A Spooky Scheme and a Popcorn Ploy
“Movies, huh…”
Jiang Ning glanced at the ticket machine, then turned to Luo Su. “Anything you wanna watch?”
Luo Su blinked. “Horror?”
“…?” Jiang Cha was incredulous.
Maybe… this kid really came from hell? Weird thought, but succubi… kinda demons, right? Their tastes… a bit unique?
“Fine…” Jiang Ning said timidly.
Truth be told,
She’d never watch this stuff normally, but in front of her smug sister and cute little one, she had to save face. Gulp… she wasn’t scared!
“Okay.”
Jiang Cha nodded reluctantly.
She hated horror, but the vote was against her. “Ugh… shouldn’t be that scary, right?”
“Hehe…”
Luo Su’s tail curled smugly.
—She did it on purpose! Tonight, when these bad women can’t sleep from fear… she’d haunt their dreams, easy peasy!
She could already picture
Them clinging together, screaming, her “little devil horns” barely hidden! Hmph, genius plan!
“So…”
“Anything you wanna eat?”
Jiang Ning saw Luo Su’s tail wagging happily, her mood lifting. The kid’s joy somehow dulled her fear of horror.
She even thought,
If getting scared earned that smile, maybe it was worth it?
“Ugh, popcorn!”
“Got it~ Popcorn.”
Jiang Cha sighed, sneaking a tug at Luo Su’s restless tail. She regretted this… the kid was too cheeky.
If caught, trouble.
“Ugh…”
Luo Su’s face reddened, taking deep breaths. Really… her tail moved on its own, not her fault.
Jiang Ning didn’t think that far,
Just found the kid too fun! Heading to the machine… eyeing the giant popcorn bucket, a naughty idea sparked…
“Here~ Your popcorn!”
Under Luo Su’s puzzled gaze, Jiang Ning plopped a massive bag into her hands… gulp, the loli could barely hold it—so cute it broke rules!
Later…
She’d sneak a photo!
“Ugh… I can’t see the way…” Luo Su whined, hugging the huge bag. Why so big… did she look that hungry?!
“No worries,” Jiang Ning teased. “I’ll lead you.”
“Ugh…” Luo Su tilted her head. “How…” Her hands were full with popcorn…
“W-wah!”
Luo Su teared up—bad women, so mean! But… popcorn!
One tug, one save.
She tugged her tail for fun with no popcorn reward… ugh, total profit!
In the theater,
Maybe due to the genre, even on a weekend, the horror movie had few viewers. Surprisingly, the sparse audience was mostly couples—tacitly avoiding the best seats, scattered in corners.
(Under dim lights,)
(Several pairs were already cuddling.)
“Hmm… what’re they doing?”
Luo Su tilted her head, poking Jiang Ning’s arm, eyes glinting slyly, lips curved innocently.
(Her tail behind the seat,)
(Sneakily perked, betraying her scheming.)
Jiang Ning blushed. How to explain… just shady couples… But, inexplicably, she kinda wanted to do it too.
She inched half an inch toward Luo Su.
Luckily, the movie started.
Set in an old village, it began with a POV trudging through dark wilderness, sounds fading…
Until it turned!
A ghost face! A loud scream, and the theater plunged into darkness!
“Wah!”
Amid scattered screams, Luo Su saw girls diving into their boyfriends’ arms… gulp. She pouted, getting why they picked horror.
“So smart…”
“Ugh…”
Jiang Ning and Jiang Cha, spooked, grabbed her clothes. Luo Su’s eyes lit up, tail perking smugly:
Guess she wasn’t bad either~
She sneaked a naughty hand, slowly… into the giant popcorn bucket she’d struggled to carry.
“Umm… sweet.”
“Yummy!”
Sweet popcorn melted in her mouth, the monster’s screams onscreen not denting her appetite.
“Ugh…”
Jiang Cha couldn’t take it, hugging Luo Su’s left arm.
“???”
Luo Su looked down at her trapped left hand, whining, “Now I’ve only got one hand for popcorn…”
Jiang Ning, mustering courage to peek,
Saw her sister shamelessly clinging to Luo Su’s left arm. She promptly hugged the right!
“Gulp…”
Now the little succubus was a makeshift pillow.
“…”
Luo Su eyed the nearby popcorn, so close yet unreachable… no hands. “Ugh… I wanna eat…”
She tried standing…
But the sisters pressed her back. Now she envied the couples less…
“Popcorn’s better.”
“How do I eat…” Luo Su wagged her tail, thinking. “Wait, tail!”
A lightbulb flashed,
With a few strong flicks, she broke the ribbon’s bind. It’s so dark… no one would notice her tail, right?
“Hmph…”
Left hand pinched Jiang Cha, right hand patted Jiang Ning, tail gleefully scooping popcorn into her mouth.
Luo Su thought,
Old landlords had nothing on her! Left and right cuddles, endless snacks!
Nom!
Gulping popcorn, her cheeks puffed like a hoarding hamster. Jiang Ning noticed, fear fading, and poked her cheek. “This feel… unreal!”
“???”
Jiang Cha, hearing this, peeked pitifully, then joined the cheek-rubbing. Both had a blast.
“Ugh…”
Luo Su tried standing, but the sisters, as if planned, pinned her—one on her left, one on her right.
Couldn’t move. At all.
Pouting, she used her tail to grab more popcorn. Fine, she was just a spineless, cute succubus!
“Eh…?”
Jiang Ning glanced at Jiang Cha, confused—how could her dumb sister not hold the kid’s wrist? But… Jiang Cha looked back, equally puzzled.
Nom…
Luo Su happily munched more popcorn.
“!!!”
Jiang Ning and Jiang Cha, clutching Luo Su in the horror movie’s darkness, let out pitiful yelps.
Luo Su: “???”
She blinked innocently. What… happened now?