Miss Demon King, Please Endure a Little Longer - Volume 3 Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Remember to Let Go

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“Hmph, smooth talker, you’re the only one who can say such things.”

That’s what she said, but the corners of Lia’s little mouth couldn’t be suppressed anymore, and after hesitating for a long time, she still reached out her hand.

“Consider yourself passed, I’ll allow you to hold my hand!”

Aira wondered what era this was to still be doing this routine, already been through the initiation ceremony and still holding hands acting so pure.

Then she extended her tender little hand and grasped the girl’s equally soft little hand.

“Let me tell you, these past few days when I went back, I arranged everything. The church from the south has also sent word that they’re already organizing the church group to prepare for departure to Harbor City.”

After not seeing each other for several days, and only having caught a quick glimpse last time, now finally having the chance to hold Aira’s hand and talk, Lia’s little mouth started babbling non-stop once it opened.

From the superiority of the church’s centralized organizational structure, united by faith as a bond, when the Saintess speaks, branch divisions throughout the kingdom all listen seriously and execute seriously, what a united church we are.

Aira made agreeable sounds with her mouth while thinking to herself that this was troublesome. Your church being united as one isn’t because of the superiority of centralized organizational structure, is it? It’s because you really do have the Goddess of Light, and the goddess really does get things done.

“By the way, when each city’s church branch is first established, they always make a small statue next to the sun disc to commemorate people who had founding significance for the branch.” Lia scratched the girl’s palm, “I’ve already had them make one based on your appearance.”

“Me?”

“That’s right. Missionary work was your suggestion, the idea was yours, and you participated on site. For the Harbor City church branch, you are the founder.”

“…”

Aira suddenly realized a small problem, could it be that Lady Saintess already considered her as one of the church’s own people?

These past few months, she had indeed received many blessings without paying…

After thinking about it, she asked casually, pretending to be nonchalant: “So do I count as the honorary director of Harbor City’s church branch?”

“Of course you do.”

That’s good then. Aira happily accepted. As long as there were practical benefits, never mind a small statue, even if they made it as big as the Statue of Liberty, she wouldn’t mind.

The army is mine, the church is also mine, Harbor City has already become the Demon King’s own territory!

“By the way, there’s one more thing, about… us…”

Lia suddenly became coy, stammering for a long time without getting it out.

Aira wasn’t in a hurry, whatever she wanted to say, she could say slowly. But it seemed someone couldn’t wait.

“What are you talking about?”

“Ah!”

Lia jumped in fright, and Aira saw her big rice cakes bounce.

Zero didn’t know when she had arrived, standing nearby, who knows how long she’d been there. She only made her presence known when she spoke up.

“You… why are you here? When did you arrive?”

“Seeing you two always lagging behind, I came over to check.” The girl’s gaze fell on their joined hands, “Why are you holding hands?”

“I… I’m checking the concentration of evil aura on Aira’s body.” Having recovered her composure, Lia said righteously, “Physical contact is necessary for the examination, and holding hands is the most convenient method!”

Good thing there’s no Bilibili here, just holding hands and people are already making a fuss, hmph.

“I see.” Zero nodded coolly, “Then remember to let go when you’re done examining.”

“Of course, I’m not a child, why would I play hand-holding games for no reason?”

Soon, the assassin girl left, returning to the formation up front.

Lia watched her walk away before breathing heavily and patting her chest: “Scared me to death, how does she appear and disappear like a ghost?”

“Zero is like that, probably quite concerned about her companions,” Aira said gently, “so when she didn’t see us, she came looking.”

She didn’t think so herself, and didn’t want Lia to really think that way either. The reason she said this was just because a good girl should talk like this.

In short, stirring the pot a little.

At the front of the group, Celeste took the lead, with Vina close beside her, making conversation: “Did you notice? Aira and Miss Lia deliberately slowed their pace, could they be secretly doing something back there?”

“…Don’t talk nonsense.”

That was a bit ridiculous. This was on a main street, no matter what, Celeste wouldn’t believe it.

She thought for a moment, then took the initiative to say: “Rather than making up gossip about companions, how about talking about what we heard today, about the elven race’s ‘Sacred Spring seal’, have you heard of it?”

Sir Macken was a bit bad, he could tell at a glance that the loli in the elven delegation was somewhat naive and managed to extract information from her.

Although Aira had planned the same thing, Lala was only a plan that hadn’t been actually executed, so that didn’t count as being bad.

“No, where would I have heard about this?” Vina yawned, “Humans and elves have been cut off for 100 years. The oldest old man in the Magic Court is only in his 70s.”

Never mind that the little witch didn’t listen to her elders at home, no one could tell her about this.

Celeste nodded: “Tomorrow we’ll ask Teacher Roars.”

Actually, this wasn’t their business, they were just purely curious. If it was something particularly big, it would definitely have an impact in the end.

On the other side, inside the royal palace, after finishing the tour of the royal garden, the five members of the elven delegation returned to the guest building.

The elven loli Sylithea kept her head down the whole way, not daring to speak or do anything, trying to minimize her presence as much as possible.

But she was still caught out by team leader Trika:

“Sylithea, what did you say to the humans? Did you leak information about the Sacred Spring seal?”

Trika was the elven girl who had spoken up for her during the day.

The elven loli’s body trembled: “I accidentally let it slip…”

“Accidentally?!”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t want to either, the humans are too cunning.” Sylithea looked aggrieved, “That human called Mac-something was particularly frank from the start, even proactively saying what they wanted, so I… I…”

Still the same thing, we elves are a superior race, stronger than humans in everything, and can’t fall behind in anything.

Other things aside, sincerity is such a beautiful virtue, surely we can’t fall behind in that, right?

Hearing her explanation, Trika became furious, and the other elves were also very angry.

“Fool!” The elven girl said sternly, “Can humans be mentioned in the same breath as us?! Even if they were frank about state secrets, it could only be exchanged for our breakfast menu!”

Equivalent exchange, do you understand this concept?

After the scolding, Trika called the others over and said to them: “Today you all saw those four people… three people, plus the so-called Saintess of Light who didn’t appear, what do you think of them?”

Originally it was four people, but that pink-haired big-breasted girl had no presence during the ceremony, like a nepo hire making up numbers, so she excluded her.

The elven elders sent the delegation to observe the medal ceremony precisely to see the human race’s most renowned young talents, because the future of humanity would definitely be led by them.