The Demon Emperor can be good or bad, but she believed Luo Shuangyue would be a good Demon Emperor.
Now that this problem was no longer a problem, it was time to discuss the other issues.
The most urgent one among them was: where were they right now?
What was this gray, hazy space? Surely, this wasn’t the Mother Star anymore, right?
And what were those white Spirits? Could this place possibly be Hell?
“I’m not sure, but the Exile Magic Mom prepared definitely isn’t simple. After all, it’s a spell she put together herself!” Luo Shuangyue shook her head.
Even though she was the victim of this magic, there wasn’t a trace of complaint in her voice.
On the contrary, she seemed even a bit proud—proud that her mother’s power was still as awesome as ever.
But pride aside, she truly had no idea what this bizarre space actually was.
There must be a deeper reason why her mom sent her here, right?
Surely her own mother wouldn’t just exile her only daughter to a place like this and never care again?
Luo Shuangyue figured, with her mom’s personality, she would never do something so heartless.
“Maybe Mom will come pick me up in a bit.” She let out a couple of chuckling laughs.
Of course, it was just a joke.
If the purpose of the Exile Magic was really to send her to her mother’s side, she should’ve seen her mom as soon as she opened her eyes.
Not be sitting here waiting foolishly for half a day without seeing a soul.
Boom!
A distant rumble faintly echoed.
Luo Shuangyue turned curiously toward the sound—and instantly, her face went pale.
In the gray space, a new color appeared. It was a color unlike the gray of the space itself, or the dead white of the Spirits.
It was a pure and gentle white.
Not good, not good, not good—Luo Shuangyue’s mind hadn’t caught up to what that white meant, but her body had already reacted.
Almost on instinct, she dove to the side, barely dodging the Pure White Arrow that shot straight for her heart.
“Is this… Mom’s power?” Staring at the white arrow embedded in the ground, cold sweat rolled down Luo Shuangyue’s forehead.
She would never mistake this presence—this was definitely her mother’s aura.
Mom wants to kill me?
Bang!
The arrow in the ground suddenly exploded, the pure white magic coalescing into a phantom form.
A familiar face. A familiar sword. A familiar shade of white.
“Mom?” Staring blankly at the white phantom not far away, Luo Shuangyue’s eyes became vacant.
She would never mistake her.
This phantom was definitely White Night—her own mother!
But why… was she raising her sword at me, why was she charging toward me, why did she seem not to know me at all…
Luo Shuangyue just couldn’t understand.
She truly couldn’t.
While she was frozen in shock, another consciousness within her body had already made the choice for her.
Her body lowered, the girl baring a beastly snarl as she faced the onrushing White Shadow, letting out a frenzied howl.
At the instant the White Sword nearly reached her, she twisted her body and dodged the strike.
After dodging, black light flickered in her palm—she meant to crush her enemy’s skull with this blow.
But before her attack could even start, the White Shadow, missing her strike, instantly smashed an elbow into the girl’s stomach at lightning speed, sending this beast-like girl flying.
When it came to combat experience, this child was still a bit too green.
Not to mention, her current physical state could only be described as weak as a newborn chick.
Against an enemy like the White Shadow, she couldn’t put up any real resistance.
Pain snapped Luo Shuangyue out of her daze.
She didn’t know what was going on, but she did know that if she kept being dumb, her mom’s sword really would fall on her body.
And her instincts told her: the White Shadow before her wasn’t actually her mother.
There wasn’t a hint of emotional fluctuation in the other’s aura—she was more like a machine with preset programming.
If her mom, a Full Bloom-Class Magical Girl, had left such a robot, what kind of program would she have set?
Would it be, “if you see someone who looks a lot like my daughter, bring her back to me”?
Ha! Luo Shuangyue thought even in her dreams, that was too much wishful thinking.
Clearly, the program her mom set was “see a Monster Girl, eliminate them all!”
So the White Shadow before her was just a dumb robot her mom left behind. Beating her up didn’t require any guilt at all!
Having convinced herself, Luo Shuangyue huffed at the eager presence inside her, “Don’t mess up my fight. If you take over, we’ll die even faster!”
That presence in her mind, who only ever thought about eating or dying, had no combat experience at all.
If she let it handle her mom’s phantom, Luo Shuangyue guessed her chest would be skewered within three moves.
Chided so fiercely, the presence inside her immediately sent a hint of grievance, as if saying, “Is it my fault if I can’t win?”
But it understood Luo Shuangyue’s words and completely handed over control of the body.
Finally, she fully controlled her body again.
Luo Shuangyue let out a light breath, eyeing the White Sword growing ever closer, and quickly reacted.
Based on her years of battle experience, she should dodge just like this… eh?
Out of habit, she tried to teleport, but in her current state, she couldn’t manage that kind of move—she couldn’t even spread the butterfly wings on her back.
So, she ended up falling to the ground in a spectacularly awkward fashion.
Well, at least she dodged that sword, right?
Having missed, the White Shadow instantly began a storm of attacks on the still-rolling Luo Shuangyue, the White Sword falling like rain and forcing her to roll frantically on the ground.
Maybe because the arrow hadn’t contained much magic power, the White Shadow didn’t use magic—she just attacked Luo Shuangyue with the most basic physical strikes, giving her a bit of breathing room.
“Wait, stop fighting!” Xia Mo also hurried over and blocked in front of the White Shadow.
She recognized the White Shadow as White Night, the one who had saved her before, but she couldn’t just stand by and watch White Night kill Luo Shuangyue.
Compared to her ruthlessness toward Luo Shuangyue, the White Shadow treated Xia Mo much better.
After looking her up and down, she pointed in a certain direction.
“Are you a child who accidentally fell into the Underworld? Just walk this way and you can leave.”
A crisp, gentle, slightly lively voice sounded from the White Shadow’s torso.
“Mom, aren’t you being way too biased!” Luo Shuangyue, already ten meters away, felt numb hearing these words.
When it comes to me, you say nothing and just attack; to Xia Mo, you kindly point the way out.
Who’s your real daughter here?!
Of course, the White Shadow didn’t respond to Luo Shuangyue’s complaint.
She was simply an executing machine, that snippet of speech having been implanted during her creation.
The White Shadow’s intelligence wasn’t even as advanced as the smart robots humans used these days.
She had only two functions: kill, and give directions to those she shouldn’t kill.
Xia Mo was someone she shouldn’t kill, so she gave her directions.
Luo Shuangyue, however, was a monster that had to be eliminated—so she would do her best to kill Luo Shuangyue.
Simple. But it sure was troublesome.
“This shadow’s physical abilities are at least Initial Bloom-class—how am I supposed to win against her?!”
In that one-sided beating just now, Luo Shuangyue had already roughly estimated her opponent’s abilities.
If Xia Mo could transform, or if she herself was in good condition, a phantom like this wouldn’t be a threat at all.