Chapter 18: The innocent will clear themselves.
Plop——
That was not only the sound of Chloe’s safety shorts hitting the floor, but also the sound of her heart shattering.
“Uh… were you changing clothes? I won’t disturb you. I’ll wait outside, okay?”
Rita’s face turned red as she took a step back, ready to close the door. Chloe’s deformed, trembling scream immediately rang out.
“No! You come back here, or we’re cutting ties!”
“I really didn’t mean to! You were changing clothes, right?”
“I was about to dig for treasure, you believe me?”
“Don’t say things like that!”
Rita couldn’t stand it when the seemingly pure and adorable Chloe opened her mouth and spoke such filthy words, and even looked like she was actually about to do what she said.
This was something her pure heart could not accept.
Seeing the usually calm big sister on the verge of collapse, Chloe felt a little disappointed and pulled her shorts back up. She quickly walked to the door, grabbed Rita’s arm, and dragged her into the room.
“Then stop making a fuss. I was just changing clothes. Come in and tell me the specific arrangements my mother made.”
“You’re not going to do me, right…”
Rita pressed herself tightly against the door. No matter how hard Chloe pulled, she remained motionless as if fused with the door, looking at Chloe like she was some ferocious beast.
“I… I’m only thirteen!”
Chloe opened and closed her mouth, finally squeezing out these words through gritted teeth.
“But even younger succubi have already started hunting on their own!”
Rita stiffened her neck and shouted, still refusing to let go.
“I’m a blood demon, not a succubus!”
Chloe increasingly felt that Rita had been possessed. She didn’t remember doing anything too excessive, yet this Flame Demon princess’s attitude toward her had changed so drastically.
Could it be that because of that kiss on the cheek that day, plus the nonsense she had fed Rita, the girl actually believed she wanted to become lovers with her?
“Big Sister Rita, do you still see me as your little sister?”
She let go, folded her arms across her chest, and looked at the girl hiding behind the door with a face full of displeasure.
“I…”
Faced with such a direct question, Rita’s face turned red and she stammered, unable to speak.
She lowered her head and stared at the floor.
Before she was sent to this city to receive Chloe, both her mother and Yalith had had a detailed talk with her.
Her mother’s meaning was: if Chloe likes you, just give yourself to her. Rita hadn’t taken those words seriously at all, since she knew her mother’s thought process was even simpler than her own.
As for the Demon King’s instructions…
If she had any feelings for Chloe, she could urge the still-young little girl to correct her attitude. The Demon King’s bloodline would not disappoint this strength-worshipping little girl. As for the so-called mission, she didn’t need to worry about it.
【Raising Chloe into a powerful warrior and wife or something… how could I say that out loud? Just thinking about it is embarrassing. I’ve always treated her as my little sister since we were young.】
Though they had only known each other for five years.
Yet Rita had already formed a bond with Chloe that was far deeper than sisterly affection—it was a warrior’s bond. Now being told she could treat this girl as a child bride-to-be, the pure-hearted Flame Demon princess felt more and more…
Excited.
Yes, it was excitement.
The demon race’s nature of bullying the weak made them, regardless of age, naturally develop a maternal-like trait when encountering beings weaker than themselves. They liked to raise the other party.
When encountering someone stronger, the opposite happened.
Clearly, Rita did not consider herself the weaker party, so Chloe could not become a loli-mom type of existence.
After realizing she could raise Chloe, Rita had been in a state of excitement and nervousness every day.
Therefore, no matter how Chloe reacted to her, she would act bashful and awkward, turning into this completely different version from what Chloe had expected.
“So the daughter of the Flame Demon Great Lord, the self-proclaimed strongest warrior among us princesses, is actually this kind of idiot?”
The silver-haired little loli’s face turned cold. She let go, frowned, and looked at the girl hiding behind the door with distrust, even carrying a trace of disgust.
“Or does Big Sister Rita actually hate me? You weren’t like this before. Where did my confident, straightforward good sister go? Give her back to me.”
“Eh?”
Rita hurriedly let go of the door handle. Not expecting this reaction from Chloe, she rushed forward in panic, wanting to take Chloe’s hand. Chloe quickly took two steps back to keep distance.
“Too disappointing. I’ve always treated Big Sister Rita as my real older sister. It’s fine if you have other thoughts about me, but you’re even being picky? Is Chloe such a disgusting person?”
“I never thought that! Never!”
Seeing Chloe put on a disgusted expression, Rita instantly panicked. The first thing she did, however, was to close the door first, then move closer to the little girl whose expression had changed.
Chloe, who had felt a little guilty for sounding like a bad woman with her pua-like words and was wondering if she should stop, saw what this woman did and her hair stood on end.
If you want to talk, just talk properly. Why lock the door?
Rita was just like her mother—same fiery red hair, same fiery and reckless personality as blazing flames.
Beneath that voluptuous figure were muscles that could definitely crush her head with a single squeeze. Chloe had always thought so. She even believed that both Rita and Rivet had grown their muscles in their brains.
She could get intimate with anyone, but absolutely not with these mother and daughter. It wasn’t that she disliked mature big sisters, but she genuinely believed these two had no sense of restraint and could really play her to death.
“Then just talk properly and don’t come over!”
Chloe swallowed hard and shouted.
“You… you don’t hate me, okay? That… I like you. Ah, it’s the kind of love a big sister has for her little sister. I definitely don’t have any other improper thoughts.”
“Aren’t we sisters?”
Before long, the two of them went from standing face to face to Chloe being pinned down by Rita.
“His Majesty the Demon King wants me to form an adventurer party to compete with the Hero’s party and provide you with support. Elda will also come along later…”
“I… I know that. You don’t have to talk to me like this.”
Chloe couldn’t understand why Rita, who was pressing her down, could still look so aggrieved, leaning close to her ear and speaking in a pleading tone.
“But if I don’t do this, you’ll hate me… Blood demons express closeness through bloodsucking, right? Why don’t you bite me? I promise I won’t act like that again.”
Rita whispered, then gently bit Chloe’s earlobe. Chloe, whose entire body instantly broke out in goosebumps, immediately exploded.
Having been a little virgin in her previous life and still a little virgin in this one, being teased like this by a self-proclaimed pure-hearted idiot Flame Demon princess made it impossible for her pride and sense of modesty to stay calm any longer.
“If you keep doing this, I’ll never talk to you again!”
“Don’t be polite. I’m not joking. We’re good sisters. Just bite me~ It’s nothing. If you bite me, I can prove my innocence. Right now I really only see you as my good little sister. I don’t hate you…”
“What kind of logic is that? The innocent are innocent on their own. If there’s nothing, there’s nothing. You don’t need to make a special declaration. Let me go, I’m begging you!”
Chloe could not stand this strange development at all. She looked toward the door, hoping something would turn the situation around right now—like her loyal maid suddenly bursting in.
However, the more one hoped for something, the less likely it was to happen.
And so, before the undercover mission even began, Chloe was “gnawed on” by Rita—who kept begging for forgiveness—for the entire morning.
For the first time, the young demon princess felt that she had been dirtied.