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“EEK, YOU MONSTER!”

SLAP!

The slap echoed throughout the silent room.

Lesiah crossed her arms on her chest protectively and backed up, glaring daggers at the stunned blonde with her tearful eyes.

“You actually TRIED to do something like that again while I was unconscious!”

“No! I didn’t! Don’t accuse me like that…!”

Lilith denied three times first, then clutched her cheek that didn’t even sting from the slap while glaring at Sae who was impishly rejoicing at the side.

“How dare you trick me! You better be ready to get your soul stuffed into the body of an eighty-year-old grandma, Sae!” The blonde shook her fist at the artifact spirit.

“What?! Wait! That was just a prank! You can’t do that, Lady Lilith!”

“Give up. I’ll make sure that new body of yours won’t come with even a tooth. Watch me feast on amazing food every meal while you can only live tragically on porridge!”

“Noooo!” Sae could immediately picture Lady Lilith feasting in front of her, deliberately waving a delicious chicken drumstick in front of her eyes from time to time. Then she’d feign concern and ask, “Do you want some? Don’t resist your cravings”, even while knowing Sae could barely even hold the bowl she was eating porridge from!

The thought got Sae turning pale while begging for mercy.

“I haven’t eaten a real meal for more than ten million years! All I wish for is a healthy body that I can feast with! Please spare me, Lady Lilith!”

“Hmph! No! Besides, you’ve already eaten when you were in that Ruth or whoever’s body it was! Don’t even lie!”

The artifact spirit immediately latched herself onto Lilith’s thigh. “Mercy! Besides, I wasn’t the one who hit you, Lady Lilith! Do you have to be this cruel to me!?”

“Hmph! This discussion is over!”
“Ugh…”

It’s all your fault, you little btch…! You better wait until I…*

Sae secretly glared at Lesiah, but head chopped by Lilith.

“Do not blame someone else!”
“Ouch…!”

Although Sae was in her spirit form, she had to take the initiative to accept Lilith’s not-so-light head chop. If she failed to appease her now, Lilith might really find a fresh corpse of an eighty-year-old grandma for her to use.

Her past experience in dealing with Lilith had convinced her that the latter was really capable of such nasty acts. And not only that, she would do it delightfully!

Looking at how Lilith apologetically explained herself to Lesiah, frustration started festering inside Sae.

Although it wasn’t like Lady Lilith and herself were mutually dependent on each other to survive, they actually spent a long time together. So how could this little girl come out of nowhere and threaten her position?

So love would always be valued more than friendship?

……

“Did you really do that to save me?”
“Of course!”
“You really didn’t do that to take advantage of me?”
“Of course, do I look like someone who would assault innocent girls at night?” Lilith hammered her flat chest.

The princess shot her a weird look, but lowered her guard in the end.

“Fine. I’ll believe you one more time. Ugh…”

As soon as she relaxed, a wave of weakness hit her. Color drained from her face and her extremities turned cold.

Sure enough, the dehydration and excessive blood loss put Lesiah’s body on the verge of collapse.

“Are you alright?”
“I’m fine…”

The princess pushed away the hand that Lilith offered to her and struggled to sit up by herself. “I’ll be fine after resting for a bit.”

“Eat something then. I have all these precious ingredients that are very nutritious. If you don’t believe me, try it.”

Looking at Lilith piling up heaps of various meat in front of her like tributes, Lesiah burst out laughing.

“I am the princess of a country. There’s nothing I’ve never eaten before… Umfff…!”

As soon as Lesiah tore off a small piece of meat and put it in her mouth, she instantly felt as though there was a piece of coal burning in her mouth!

Furthermore, the piece of meat instantly melted in her mouth. Before Lesiah could even react, she felt something akin to lava flowing directly into her stomach.

The princess instantly clutched her stomach and curled up. Her body couldn’t stop shaking. After swallowing the piece of meat, she felt like there was a ball of fire burning the meridians in her entire body.

“What’s wrong, Lesiah…?!” Lilith asked in concern when she saw the princess in pain. She thought it had something to do with her overfeeding on Lesiah’s blood earlier.

“The meat…”
“Meat? Was it rotten?”
“What… meat is that?”
“What meat? Just the meat of a normal primal beast.” Lilith scratched her head, confused by Lesiah’s question.

Normal… primal… beast?

Lesiah almost wondered if she was hallucinating from losing too much blood.

Primal beasts were legendary creatures which could only be found in the Sea of Origin. It was even rumored one of the ancient primal beasts had attained the demigod realm, the realm which no human had ever attained. It was definitely one of the most dangerous creatures in this world.

And someone actually eat them for food?

It was a feat that Lesiah didn’t even dare to think about, let alone tasting it.

Lilith continued speaking. “This is the finest meat I brought from home. Even for me, this is considered a luxury since the people back home would only make a trip to the Sea of Origin every few days and bring some back. If it wasn’t for the sake of replenishing stamina quickly, I couldn’t even bring myself to eat it. Hm…? Now that I think about it, it’s probably past expiry. I wonder if it has really gone bad. But then again, I thought time was frozen in the storage ring.”

“It didn’t go bad. She’s just overwhelmed by the overpowering energy in the meat. She’ll be fine after a while.”

Sae rested her chin in her hand and pouted. “I told you my method is for her own good. Yet, she complained about being taken advantage of. Now you can suffer all you want, hmph.”

“Shut up.”
“…..”

The corner of Sae’s mouth twitched as her tears threatened to fall.

How can my master be this cruel to me? If she keeps this up, I’m going to switch sides and be a turncoat!

Lilith was oblivious to Sae’s dissatisfaction. Or more like even if she did notice, she wouldn’t care.

In any case, there must be a reason why the ancestor had sent Sae to her. It must be something along the lines of becoming her servant.

So there shouldn’t be a problem for her to utilize her however she wanted.

And what pissed Lilith off the most was Sae’s attitude of knowing something but still keeping her in the dark.

It was really infuriating.

Lilith took out some ordinary food this time. “You can eat this first.”

“Alright.”

After the burning sensation faded, Lesiah sat up again and ate the food that Lilith offered to her. This so-called ‘ordinary food’ was probably something that an average family couldn’t even afford with their one year worth of living expenses.

Although eating the flesh of a primal beast made Lesiah feel extremely unwell, it was undoubtedly effective. She could clearly feel her physical condition gradually improving.

At least, her skin started looking rosy again.

“Lilith, you’re a dragon right…?”

Lesiah suddenly asked while munching on her food.

“Hmm? …Huh?”

Lilith couldn’t react to the sudden question.

“What do you mean…?”

“Are you still trying to hide it? I already know that you’re a dragon…”

“……”