Succubus cannot be a saint

A group of succubi stood in front of the desk, all of them with gloomy faces, and their eyes were all fixed on Salares.

"The herbalist in Greystone Town is undoubtedly a cultist. Judging from the fact that she's been operating in Greystone Town for three years, I'm afraid she's already taken control of the Volo family. We made the right choice by not rashly contacting Greystone Town."

Sally's good arm tapped lightly on the table. When she woke up that morning, she received the news that Sally had not yet regained consciousness and that Derek had gone insane.

Putting aside Derek's clown-like madness, although the succubus transformation was successful, Sally's consciousness still fell into a deep sleep. This is the first time such a situation has ever happened.

"Lady Saint, please forgive me. The incident with Derek...it happened suddenly. I didn't have time to react, and he..." Durenna knelt on one knee and lowered her head deeply.

"This isn't your fault." Charlene shook her head. Due to the wound on her arm and the impact of the magic on her body, her voice was much weaker and her face was a little pale. "Derek has been poisoned by the cultists' drugs for too long. Even if I were there, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to change anything."

Durenna didn't say anything. Her red eyes were filled with tears. Her teeth bit her lips deeply and her hands were clenched into fists.

Sharlelei sighed softly, slowly stood up from behind the table, walked in front of her, and patted the Succubus Knight's shoulder.

"I understand how you feel, Durenna. But we can't be too impatient right now. The most urgent task is still to deal with the monster. But I promise you, I will find a way to wake Sally. And we will definitely avenge this grudge."

Durenna's body trembled more and more, and Salares whispered again, "...Now let's go see Sally."

Volume 1: From Crazy Daughter to Saint: Chapter 97: Sleeping Beauty

Under Ophelin's arrangement, the succubus nuns dispersed and returned to their jobs, while Shalelei, Durenna, and Granny came to Sally's room.

The girl's face was rosy as she lay quietly on the bed. Her succubus-like features had disappeared without her noticing, and her expression was calm and peaceful, as if she were asleep.

Durenna stared at her sister, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably. She turned away abruptly, letting out a low whimper.

"Lady Saint, after our examination, we found that her body still has some instinctive reactions. She can swallow the food put into her mouth, but she cannot chew it." Granny said in a low voice.

Sharlelei nodded tiredly, "I understand. This is good news. At least by feeding her liquid food, we can ensure her nutrition..."

Durenna's lips trembled, and she suddenly turned around and knelt down in front of Granny and Sharlele without warning.

"Lady Saint, Ms. Granny, I... I don't know how to thank you... Sally... You've saved Sally's life twice... Without Sally, I don't know how I would have survived... I don't know what to do..."

By the end of her speech, this usually strong female knight was already sobbing.

Seeing this, Granny quickly dropped her cane and helped her up. "You're too kind, Miss Durenna..."

Sallelei pursed her lips and said nothing, looking at the unconscious Sally, her thoughts racing.

If Sally was simply in a deep sleep, he could use the dream-entering ability he had used on Ophelin to investigate.

But before Sally lost consciousness, she had muttered phrases like "He will return" and "the great master of dreams." This suggests her dreams may have been tainted by that "great master." Entering her dreams rashly would not only fail to save Sally, but also risk contaminating herself. This was not a good idea.

"It seems that the key to rescuing Sally lies with that cultist..."

At this thought, Sharlelei suddenly had an idea. The cultist "Koresa," disguised as an herbalist, had been operating in Greystone Town for several years. She must have completely infiltrated the Volo family and controlled Greystone Town. Even Derek was her pawn.

Logically speaking, Yuequan Town should also be under her control. So why did she go to such lengths to let the mountain people start a rebellion and burn her own backyard?

Moreover, Yuequan Town itself is a remote and poor place. What is the value of it that would make her do this?

Wait... Yuequan Town is a remote and poor place, not important at all... In other words, is Derek also just a discarded pawn?

Sallelei couldn't help but squint her eyes and look out the window.

If… the entire Moon Spring Town is abandoned, and rebellion or not is completely irrelevant to that cultist, then is there anything of value left here?

...Yes, there is. This "something of value" is most likely the Deer Horned Goddess.

If the mountain folk's rebellion and the mysterious medicine were all meant to test the Deer Horn Goddess, then that would make sense. And speaking of this medicine...

Sharlelei turned her head to look at the sleeping Sally, and the thoughts in her mind gradually became clear.

Only Nanned, a mountain dweller who believed in the Antler Goddess, would turn into a werewolf after drinking that potion. Both Sally and Derek were fine, and instead, in a trance, they murmured, "He will return"...

Combined with what the letter said about "drawing closer to your God"...

If Nannide became a werewolf because he "got closer to the Antlered Goddess," what is the current state of the Antlered Goddess?

At this thought, Sharlele couldn't help but feel the gloom hanging over her head grow thicker. The Deer Horned Goddess's horns undoubtedly held the power of fertility and blessing. But those who "approached" the Deer Horned Goddess were cursed to become werewolves. What was this deity's intention?

It seems that the mystery has increased again...

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"……strangeness."

In the dim room filled with the aroma of spicy herbs, a woman in a dark green robe let out a puzzled "huh?"

Before her was a dense sea of ​​light. Countless pale purple fluorescent lights emerged from the darkness, flickering faintly, forming a strange pattern, like a vast web.

And just recently, the two spots of light in this net dimmed for some reason.

"The synchronization rate between nodes 'Derek' and 'Sally' has decreased... What happened in Moon Springs?"

After pondering for a moment, she shook her head and suddenly sneered, "Hmph, could it be the work of those followers of the Deer Horn Goddess? It seems they finally couldn't help themselves and used my medicine..."

"However, although the Volo family has fallen into my control, there is still an uncertain factor in Graystone Town, that is the old wizard in the wizard tower on the outskirts of town..."

The woman muttered to herself, and the purple light in front of her undulated gently like waves.

"Even the Volo family doesn't know the old wizard's name, simply addressing him respectfully as 'Master Wizard.' Even the handover of supplies is handled by their familiars. Interesting... Has this old man noticed what's happening in Greystone Town? It's necessary to test him..."

With that, she flicked her sleeve lightly, and the magic lamp's light instantly illuminated the room. The pale purple dots vanished in an instant, and before her appeared a cluster of enormous, deep purple mushrooms, their caps shaped like human brains, riddled with grooves. Growing in a nursery on the ground, they swayed eerily and automatically without wind...

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Days passed quietly, and Durenna and the guards were still guarding the walls of Moon Spring Town. Although ordinary monsters continued to attack, the hornless monsters never appeared again.

During this period, the guards had become accustomed to fighting against the monsters. With the support of Durenna and Isadore, they successfully crushed the monsters' attacks time and time again, and delivered batches of monster corpses to the workshop.

Only during breaks would Durenna look silently in the direction of Greystone Town, her gaze cold and sharp.

In the lord's mansion, Sally still showed no signs of waking up, so Shalelei had to send two maids to feed and wash her every day.

Derek, on the other hand, had gone completely insane. He would either sit there in a daze or mutter "He will return." He didn't move except to eat and defecate. No matter how Salleigh stimulated him, even using her Charm and Blasphemy, he remained unresponsive. So she had no choice but to move him to an empty guest room and assign two servants to look after him.

In addition, Sharlele's other plans were also proceeding in an orderly manner. The servants cleaned up the empty rooms in the lord's mansion and the church and the children moved in one by one. The lord's mansion, which originally seemed a bit deserted, became lively.

One by one, catapult rune bases were transported from Sharlelei's laboratory and assembled into crossbows by craftsmen in the workshop. Warcraft tendons and ropes were twisted together to form flexible and sturdy strings. Parts were also forged in the workshop and assembled into crossbow carts.

In this way, time came to an evening in the late month of falling leaves.

"Sister Sasha! Sister Sasha!"

With a clear and powerful shout, a little golden ball jumped into Sharlele's room, but the response she received was a girl's voice that was cold and a little disgusted.

"Where did this wild cat come from? It's making so much noise."

Volume 1: From Crazy Daughter to Saint: Chapter 98: Miss Mirror and Night Talk (Part 1)

Isadore looked around and finally saw the mirror on the desk. She ran over in two steps and raised her hand to pat it.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop hitting me, stop hitting me, what if I break it..." the girl on the other side of the mirror shouted. Isadore grabbed the mirror and shook it vigorously, "Miss Mirror, Sha... No, where is the Saint?"

After a while, Vera Valindiya's voice rang out, with a hint of annoyance, "Your sister Sasha went out a while ago. She said she was going to see the children at the church."

Isadore suddenly realized. The winter shelter program at the Lord's Mansion and the church in Yuequan Town had been successfully implemented. Many children had left their dilapidated, cold-weather-proof homes and been taken to the Lord's Mansion and the church for temporary accommodation. Just now, Sallelei must have been called away mid-conversation while she was on the phone with Miss Mirror.

"I have to say, your sister Sasha learns magic really quickly," Vera Valindiya said coldly. "That Duke Dravi really made a mistake, abandoning such a treasure in such a remote place."

"Yuequan Town... Yuequan Town is not a remote place! With the Saint leading us, our lives will definitely get better and better!" Isadore shouted unconvincedly, "It's even better than your... that Elf Kingdom!"

Hearing this, the usually arrogant elf lady fell silent abnormally and did not refute.

But Isadore didn't notice this. She suddenly lowered her voice and said to the mirror, "Well, Miss Mirror..."

"My name is Vera Valindiya. At least you should use your full name when talking to people, right?" Miss Mirror interrupted her rudely.

"Hmm... Vera... Miss Vera Mirror..." Isadore rubbed her hair in distress.

"It's Vera Valindiya. You're not so dumb that you can't even remember someone else's name, are you?"

Isadore pouted in annoyance, raised her hand silently, and slapped him.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop hitting me, stop hitting me, or I'll break into pieces..."

After the little boar finally stopped, Isadore remembered the question she wanted to ask. She approached the mirror and said cautiously, "Miss Mirror, let me ask you, are there cockroaches in the land of elves?"

“…………You’d better just smash the mirror.” Vera Valindiya sighed to the sky.

After a while, seeing that Isadore was silent, she bit her lip and asked again, "Do you... like your sister Sasha?"

"I like her!" Isadore's eyes lit up immediately when she heard the topic was brought up with Sallelei. "Sister Sasha is beautiful, gentle, and powerful. How could anyone not like her?"

"What I mean is..." Miss Mirror was silent for a moment before speaking again. She tried hard to explain to Isadore, "It's that kind of liking... It's not respect, love, or anything like that, nor is it family affection, but... Oh, forget it, I guess you won't understand..."

As Isadore listened, she fell silent. She held the mirror in her hands, not knowing what she was thinking. Her pair of green eyes were sparkling and flashing with a strange light.

"You, you keep talking! I, I want to hear..." Seeing that Miss Mirror's voice had become smaller, Isadore suddenly shouted, startling the elf girl opposite.

"Do you have to tell me if you want to hear it?" This rebellious thought subconsciously occurred to Vera Valindiya. But for some reason, she didn't say it out loud. Instead, her lips moved on their own, as if out of her control.

"...I mean...that kind of love. That is, the love between women...like...the love between my two mothers."

——I said it out loud.

In the dim room, the girl leaned back in her chair, feeling her heartbeat resonate in her body like a drum.

She had spoken out. She had only told that thing to the woman named Shailelei. Now, she had told it to someone else—even if it was to that... that little girl who didn't seem very bright.

How would that little girl react to this?

Gradually, the elf girl's heart cooled down.

No... I can't do that. Can a so-called "normal person" really accept something like this? Haha... What am I doing? The world is just like this. It will never get better, it will only get worse. Just like my mothers, they will just leave me one by one...

No, that little girl definitely wouldn't give me a decent answer. Just like those elves and the people in the Magicians' Guild, I shouldn't expect to communicate with them...

"...Wow! You have two mothers! That's amazing! I've never even met my own mother!"

But the next moment, the voice from the mirror made Vera Valintiya's heart almost stop for a beat.

……what?

"Women like... women, I think that's a very normal thing!" Isadore's voice continued, and somehow, listening to her voice, Vera Valintiya suddenly felt her heart begin to beat again.

"Here, it's quite common for girls to like each other, right? I just saw two nuns kissing each other on the mouth!"

And when she heard these words, Vera Valintiya was stunned for a moment.

...Huh? Is Yuequan Town such an open place? I've never heard of it.

"Oh... But, this might only be normal among our clan..."

This time, the elf girl was completely screwed. "Your clan? Which clan are you from? Aren't you human?"

"Miss Mirror, Miss Mirror, but you haven't told me what kind of likes your two mothers have!" Isadore's voice sounded again. Vera Valintiya was startled, then she sorted out her emotions and spoke slowly.

"The love between my two mothers... They held a wedding for themselves and didn't invite anyone, but from the illusionary images they left behind, I can see... They are very content and truly cherish each other. They are willing to be with each other forever, together for the rest of their lives, and never let go..."

As the girl spoke slowly, the images of the two women in her mind became increasingly clear. She could even recall their smiles, their voices, their hands caressing hers, and the ecstatic look in their eyes as they stared at each other, as if there was no room for a third person between them...

"So that's how it is..." Isadore held the mirror and stared at the ceiling blankly. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, "Then... I want to marry Sister Sasha too!"

As soon as these words came out, Vera Valindiya was immediately knocked out of her memories. She coughed loudly, "What are you going to do?"

"Get married, just like your two mothers!" Isadore said matter-of-factly, "Be with Sister Sasha forever, hold on to her tightly, and never let go..."

"Do you, do you really understand what these words mean..." The elf girl opposite the mirror blushed, but she forgot that she was the one who brought up this matter in the first place.

"That's... always together! For a lifetime! Forever together, never apart, no matter what!" Isadore thought for a moment and said firmly. But as she spoke, a strange feeling arose in her heart.

With Sister Sasha and the Saint, forever... together. For a lifetime... just like Miss Mirror's two mothers... huh? What would Miss Mirror's mother be like?

Thinking of this, a new question immediately popped up in Isadore's little head.

"Together for a lifetime, never apart, is it really possible?" Vera Valindiya said coldly after a moment's silence. Her hot cheeks gradually cooled, and the excitement she had felt when she thought of her two mothers slowly faded, replaced by the loneliness and desolation of being alone.

"My two mothers, even though they made vows when they got married, ultimately they still couldn't..."

But at this moment, Isadore's voice rang out again.

"Miss Mirror, Miss Mirror, what kind of mirrors are your mothers?"

Vera Valindiya: “…………”

Volume 1: From Crazy Daughter to Saint: Chapter 99: Miss Mirror and Night Talk (Part 2)

When Salares returned to the study, she saw Isadore holding a dark mirror with a distressed look on her face.