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“Can you just stop crying? Is candy not enough? I actually saved this candy in the cellar for three hundred years to guarantee a long aftertaste! Eating one of these is better than eating six hundred of them…!”

“Uwaaaaah…!”

“If you don’t want candy, I have toys too! Look, this is the Fallen King’s Sword. It’s made of 24k pure gold, set with 250 diamonds, weighing 533 pounds! No staff or blade could possibly rival it! I think you’ll like it…”

“Uwaaaaah…!”

“Eeeeh? You don’t want toys either? How about I make a funny face? Look!”

“Uwaaaaah…!”

“……”

Little Cornelia continued crying and Lilith was at her wits’ end. She had done everything she could think of, yet none of them worked.

They said women were made of water. It was at this moment, Lilith finally gained an insight into this saying. And Cornelia was definitely a different case compared to normal people. If normal people were made from a mass of water, then Cornelia was definitely connected to a water source.

Lilith watched Cornelia crying for a long time until her tears were drying up. With her very own eyes, she saw Cornelia suddenly taking a deep breath, sucking in the very little moisture left on this continent to replenish her tears. Almost without stopping, a new stream of tears started rolling down her face again.

Fortunately, this was an extremely dry place. Otherwise, Cornelia’s tears would come gushing out like two fountains.

Be it cries or tears, when a legendary deity failed to control either one, they became catastrophic rain and storms that could ravage the land in just the blink of an eye.

The reason why Lilith could remain safe in this apocalyptic disaster was perhaps because Little Cornelia subconsciously did not want to hurt her.

She truly treated Lilith as her own “mommy”. In her current memory or impression, Lilith was perceived as the warmest existence she had ever known. So when Lilith abandoned her, Cornelia felt like her world had come crashing down.

Their relationship was very much like that gentle-looking woman and Cornelia in the past.

Lilith was somewhat curious how the Dragon Eater actually managed to transform such a powerful deity so thoroughly.

It was almost as if she had created a person with Cornelia’s appearance.

In any case, Lilith knew she must make a decision as soon as she could, without wasting more time.

Was that all she could do?

Lilith popped the candy which she used to coax Cornelia earlier into her own mouth, as she gazed into the distance.

A slender figure with silver hair came into her mind.

Lilith was starting to miss Lesiah. If the princess was here, she might be able to come up with a plan that would benefit everyone. Unfortunately, Lilith could only resort to the solution that was simplest, yet hardest to accept.

Ah, this candy tasted so bitter.

Lilith crouched in front of Little Cornelia and patted her little head. She sighed and hesitated for a long, long time. Then with a lot of reluctance, she finally said, “Alright, alright, stop crying. If you keep doing that… Mommy’s… gonna be mad.”

“Uwaa… Eeeeyah?”

Cornelia’s little hands suddenly stopped wiping her tears and she immediately raised and tilted her head. She stared at Lilith with her huge and watery eyes, almost as if she was afraid that Lilith would take her words back.

“Alright, rest assured. Since I agreed that I’ll be your mommy, I won’t go back on my word. I may not seem like it, but I’m a princess. Integrity and morality are my core values.”

Lilith gently wiped away the tears that gathered at the corner of Cornelia’s eyes and tried her best to squeeze out a warm smile.

“Eeeeyah!!”

Little Cornelia immediately cheered up, but her little figure instantly disappeared from Lilith’s view again…

“Ugh…”

Lilith let out a muffled groan, feeling a sharp pain shooting up from her ribs again. A petite and soft body had thrown herself into her arms again. And with that, Lilith felt her chest sunk a little bit more.

“Can’t you be a bit more gentler? If you hug someone else like this, you’ll definitely crush them to death.”

Lilith placed her arms on her waist, unknowingly taken on the role of a mother.

“Eeyah eeyah!”

Little Cornelia kept rubbing her face on Lilith’s chest while babbling. Although Lilith could not understand what she was saying, she had a feeling the little loli had no intention of changing her ways.

Was it because she was really a small child?

While Lilith shook her head helplessly, Little Cornelia pouted at her with obvious dissatisfaction.

Mommy, you idiot! Cornelia is saying that she’s not going to hug anyone other than Mommy.

………

For now the problem was solved, but with Lilith paying the huge price of a “happy motherhood”.

While Little Cornelia was hugging Lilith like a koala bear, peace returned to the continent once again.

As a mother, Lilith naturally had to take care of Little Cornelia’s well being. To prevent Little Cornelia from catching a cold since she was butt naked, Lilith took the trouble to modify her own dress to make another smaller one for Cornelia. Although it looked shabby, it could at least keep her warm and covered.

With that done, Lilith could finally think about how to find her way back.

“Eeeyah eeyah.”

Little Cornelia suddenly gestured with her hands and kept blabbering. Lilith watched what she was doing for a long while, but never figured out what the loli was trying to say.

Lilith scratched her head in distress, wondering if it was necessary for the Dragon Eater to regress Cornelia to the point where she could say nothing coherent save for “mommy” over and over again. Thanks to that, even communication itself was a huge problem.

It was at this time, Little Cornelia suddenly pointed somewhere in the void. A vortex then appeared before Lilith.

Lilith’s eyes instantly lit up with excitement. “Is this the way back?”

Little Cornelia nodded, her little hands were busy making gestures again.

This time, the content of Cornelia’s hand gestures was much easier to understand and Lilith quickly got what she meant.

“You mean this was what the person who looked just like Mommy told you when you were still in the egg?”

“Eeyah.” Little Cornelia nodded vigorously.

Lilith stroked her chin. Setting aside her urge to question why Cornelia could see someone’s face while she was still in the egg, the person whom she was talking about was no doubt the Dragon Eater.

When the Dragon Eater borrowed her body, the aura they exuded was completely different. This must be why Cornelia managed to identify them as two different people.

After all, children tended to be more sensitive in some aspects.

It would seem like this passage was one of the after-sales services left by the Dragon Eater. It was good to know she was not that heartless.

Knowing the origin of the passage, Lilith quickly made her way toward it without a second thought. At this point, she did not want to stay a moment longer in this s̲h̲i̲t̲t̲y place.

However, just when she was about to set foot in the passage, Lilith suddenly slapped herself on the head.

Argh, how can I be this careless. I’m no longer alone now, so I mustn’t act so recklessly.

Although this passage was left behind by the Dragon Eater who had no reason to harm Lilith, who could guarantee that the other side of the passage was safe?

She was now a mother. She must think carefully for the sake of Cornelia.

“Um, look Cornelia~ We don’t know what’s on the other side, so to be safe… Mommy will go over and take a look first, okay?”

Lilith patted Cornelia’s head and said earnestly, “Don’t worry. Once Mommy makes sure there’s no danger on the other side, I’ll come back for you.”