“I don’t know! It’s unclear! It has nothing to do with me!”
Regarding the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, Silence denied it without hesitation.
Although she and the Virgin Mary statue were both sculptures by the same person, only she had developed consciousness over the years—even if Silence couldn’t enter the church, she could still sense any abnormal energy fluctuations in the area. Kama Zuozi, being similar to her, also nodded in agreement with her statement.
“If it’s just hiding some small fry, it doesn’t matter. It’s impossible for her not to notice that kind of monster that even you guys can’t deal with easily.”
“There’s one possibility,” Xu Yintang said, “It may have existed before Silence. Its method of action is subtle enough, so even if there are natural energy fluctuations here, Silence would not feel something amiss.”
After all, since her birth, this area has been like this, and what demons would like to go to the church? As long as the situation is relatively stable, Silence would not feel anything wrong.
“For example, when the mayor died, did you notice anything?” Xu Yintang asked.
“I had a companion watching,” Silence said that she didn’t know much about it. However, when Kama Zuozi found her, she would still appear calm. “The mayor suddenly ran out of the church like crazy, tumbled and fell several times, even cracking his head open, and then he collapsed while running.”
Silence enjoyed talking about the misfortune of the mayor, even though it had nothing to do with her.
Xu Yintang summed it up for her, “It means you didn’t notice anything.”
Perhaps because one of his skills also had a parasitic property, when the Blood Moon Gaze swallowed the projection in Xiao Qing’s eyes, Xu Yintang’s brain naturally produced an “edible report,” allowing him to vaguely perceive the characteristics of the projection’s parasitism.
Hidden and low-key, when not activated, it is like a lifeless stone sculpture. It can exist without devouring the host’s life. At most, it will affect the host’s yearning and affection for the statue. Therefore, large-scale infection will not attract much attention. But if activated, it is so swift and ferocious that it can swallow up the host’s life within a few seconds.
At the same time, its parasitic condition is just the simplest “looking at”, but it is extremely difficult to get it out. Unless someone like Xu Yintang had the right skills to restrain it, any person may die without knowing how they died.
These characteristics combined can be said to be a very powerful parasitic species. Fortunately, the quality of this species itself is not too high. Xu Yintang’s “uterus” did not make a fuss or produce any problems such as when facing the Fair seedling. He only felt a slight fever and pain during the upgrade of the Blood Moon Gaze, and after taking a few deep breaths, he quickly calmed down.
It had been a couple of months for the three of them together. And with the cubs’ jealous personalities, if there is a fourth cub, it would surely lead to some unexpected trouble.
Please understand that it is not easy for single mothers to raise children.
Silence was rendered speechless by Xu Yintang’s retort and muttered in a low voice, “That’s why I said to explain it clearly…”
She didn’t say that there was no abnormality in the statue of the Virgin Mary statue.
Being a legitimate demon from the very beginning, she understood not much about the wild. It was normal to overlook some things when faced with a high tide of anti-demon sentiments in a place like this town. Moreover, she managed to settle down with her companions in this town and plan revenge in such a high-tension area. This was already excellent, okay?
If Silence were not a statue, her mouth would definitely be puckered like an oil jug.
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Even kittens and puppies at two months are still small, drinking milk in their mother’s arms. How could Little Darling be so sensible and mature, and even have a strong physique at two months?
Although Silence was just a statue, the stone eyes lacked actual functionality. Yet, this didn’t prevent her from appreciating the intricate tentacles and sharp teeth of little Little Darling. The protruding veins and blood vessels wrapped around the core flesh, coupled with the delicate and agile coral-like tendrils, created a charming contrast, perfectly hitting Silence’s taste.
It’s really beautiful.
Helpless, Xu Yintang patted Little Darling, “What benefits do I get from lying to you? Little Darling is so small; even understanding what it means to lie about age is too much for him.”
Why fixate on little Little Darling when there’s plenty of grass on the horizon?
Silence sighed again with deep regret.
Xiao Qing wiped off a few drops of cold sweat from his forehead and cut to the chase, “So, what should we do next? Do we go inside?”
After a moment of hesitation, he felt it was better to remind Xu Yintang, “It seems like Third Flora has already gone inside. I heard a lot of butterfly sounds just now.”
A large flow of butterflies surged through the small door crack, and a tumultuous roar like a storm surged in the shadow, making it impossible to see Third Flora’s figure. One couldn’t help but be deterred by the huge and surging momentum.
Xu Yintang frowned, and before he spoke, Second Treasure preemptively voiced concern, loudly calling out to Third Flora.
Third Flora!
Third Flora!
Mom is calling you back!
Its tone was filled with a sense of schadenfreude, eager to see Third Flora crying after being scolded by Mom – that was the only time Second Treasure found Third Flora pleasing when he cried. Other times, Third Flora was just an annoying little brother.
Second Treasure wailed for a while, but Third Flora still had no response. Immediately, it changed to its true form in the consciousness realm, shouting even louder. Countless eyeballs in its true form rotated accurately, searching for the boundary between dreams and shadows. The smoke and clouds that formed its body rolled and rubbed, emitting a piercing and terrifying buzzing sound.
You! Third! Flora!
If you don’t come back, Mom will get angry!
Entering the world of the consciousness realm was many times easier than entering reality from the consciousness realm. The incomprehensible buzzing awakened Third Flora, who was immersed in hunting. The butterflies with fine scales on their wings, like a torrent, disappeared in the shadows, returning to where they came from.
Of course, Third Flora was not afraid of Second Treasure but she acquiesced to Xu Yintang.
Just like all children who, when their parents call their full name, know that something big is happening, Third Flora reluctantly looked at the Virgin Mary Statue that it hadn’t eaten, lowered its head dejectedly, and obediently returned to Mom’s side.
Xu Yintang watched as the wings folded obediently on his hand, and the beautiful butterfly exuded an aura of heroism and sacrifice. He gently stroked the edge of Third Flora’s wings, and a faint outline of a red blood moon appeared in his eyes.
He himself had not yet noticed this change, but Kama Zuozi looked at him thoughtfully. When using abilities, she sensed a hint of the unique aura of the evil god—chaotic, twisted, and indescribable. She looked at the three brats around Xu Yintang and raised her evaluation of him a bit.
Anything with the aura of an evil god was either a believer or a follower. Being able to give birth to three brats alive could almost be equivalent to fanatical believers—even if it was originally a sacrifice or offering, it was difficult to withstand the spiritual pollution of the evil god without enough fervent belief.
But Xu Yintang seemed normal and awake… as if the abnormality was the world itself and not him.
Xu Yintang sensed Kama Zuozi’s scrutiny, didn’t perceive any malice, and didn’t pay much attention. Now, his focus was on Third Flora, who had been entangled with the Virgin Mary Statue for a long time. When they were attacked just now, Third Flora did not react at all. It was only when Second Treasure called from the consciousness realm that it responded, which was already quite unusual.
Under Xu Yintang’s urging, Third Flora’s butterflies began a large-scale self-inspection. They surrounded all the butterflies that had flown into the church, wrapping them tightly in cocoons as isolation and food for the birth of new butterflies. The marble statues could not produce nectar, but the projections parasitized on the butterflies could supply the energy needed for the cocoon to grow.
Third Flora didn’t know what kind of butterflies would be bred in these cocoons with internal cannibalism under external threats. It was still too young, and its understanding of its abilities was very inaccurate. It just instinctively knew that it could use this method to eliminate the internal risks of the butterflies, bringing all of them under its unified consciousness.
But this can only be said to be a last resort. The one-time loss of so many butterflies made Third Flora both heartbroken and distressed. It dared not lift its head, waiting pitifully to be scolded by Mom. Unable to resist, it shrunk into Mom’s shadow, crying with shame and regret a couple of times.
Once out of the church environment, it regained its clarity. It realized that it had fallen into the trap set by the Virgin Mary Statue just now, foolishly directing the butterflies to sacrifice themselves one after another. If not for a part of its butterflies watching over in reality, preserving a portion of its consciousness, it might have crashed completely.
Sigh…
It’s so useless…
Xu Yintang, foreseeing Second Treasure’s attempt to make mocking sounds, covered his mouth and gestured for Xiao Qing and the others to discuss without minding him. Then, he walked a few steps to a place where the live broadcast camera couldn’t capture, gently rubbing the butterfly’s wings with his fingertips, and whispered a few words.
—Xu Yintang didn’t mind being heard teaching his children, but Third Flora was a face-saving brat. Even if this distance couldn’t avoid being heard by Xiao Qing and the others, it had to make a gesture of teaching behind the back to shut up the onlookers.
“I know Third Flora wants to protect Mom, but Third Flora is still a child. I know Third Flora has been trying very hard. Don’t rush, take it slowly, and let Mom protect Third Flora a bit, okay?”
“No, it’s not Third Flora’s fault. Mom should also pay more attention to you…”
Xu Yintang softened his gaze, showing a light but tender smile. “So, let’s learn from this lesson. Be more careful next time, think more, help each other more, and strive to do things better together, okay?”
The butterfly flapped its wings twice and made a hesitant “okay” sound.
—Just increasing the number of butterflies is not enough; the quality must also be improved.
Third Flora remembered the teachings of Casey Cat, wiped away its tears, and deeply engraved this lesson into the memory passed down to the butterflies.
Knowing that it needed some time to self-soothe its emotions, Xu Yintang didn’t push Third Flora to quickly recover. He just put the wilted little butterfly on his shoulder to make it feel the company and picked up Second Treasure, who had been spinning around his legs for a long time, joining Xiao Qing and the others in the discussion with a calm expression.
“Where did we leave off?” he asked.
“We haven’t said anything yet,” Xiao Qing preemptively spoke, warning Kama Zuozi with his eyes not to mock Xu Yintang as a hero mother.
Kama Zuozi could only change her words reluctantly. “We were just discussing whether it would be useful to rush in and smash the statue.”
After messing around the door crack at the entrance for so long, there was no movement from inside. They really didn’t know if it was due to patience or the ability to endure.
Author’s Note –
Third Flora almost had a major accident, haha!
Mother Xu Yintang and Xiao Qing’s class is in session~
I forgot to mention this before, so let me clarify the setting:
If there is no reconnaissance by Third Flora, and it’s the Silence camp, they would learn about the mayor’s death through Silence after the ceremony and get a chance for a post-mortem examination before dawn.
After Investigation –
Success: the mayor died suddenly with no external injuries.
ExtremeSuccess: discover the Virgin Mary statue in the pupils.
If there are skills related to eye techniques, such as [Blood Moon Gaze], an additional Willpower is added.
Success allows the detection of parasitism, and after that, a Willpower roll is needed. If successful, the parasite can be expelled, and the eye technique gains a special attack against parasites.
Subsequently, each time a Willpower roll is made to expel the parasite, a +10 bonus is added to Willpower.
That’s about it.
Mother Xu Yintang had pretty good luck this time. [Distant Gaze]
Thank you for the update.
I think it should be eight weeks instead of eight months. Earlier it was said that Little Darling was two months old; approximately eight weeks.
Thank you for the translation, as always ~
Yea I just checked the original and it is indeed 2 months, I don’t know how I translated 2 months to 8 months.
Second Treasure is ass chaotic as always! 😭😭
I realize that’s probably a typo … but it made me chortle and hoot… 🤣
Stop why did I only see this now 😭😭
Thank you for the chapter🧡❤️
Hope Third Flora learns more about her own abilities through this mistake, maybe that’ll make her feel better
These little babies are like herding cats… cute and adorable kittens though… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️
XY is such a good Mother! Thanks for the update!!
Kama xuozi better be careful about her teasing, or Mama Xu will teach her that you’re never too old to be taught manners and respect through Mama Xu’s discipline 🤣
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