That was what she said…
When Seraphina heard Movira’s name, she only sighed. “But if I don’t participate fully, how am I supposed to implement so many of my ideas? Besides, Lina, leaving you to carry everything alone makes me feel truly bad.”
Seeing that Seraphina’s reaction was so calm and that there was no irritation in her tone, Lina felt a little more at ease.
At least in her view, the relationship between Seraphina and Movira had not deteriorated further. That counted as good news. After all, in her understanding, it was already difficult for Movira to keep a relationship at the status quo.
She had no idea at all that the relationship between the two had already undergone earth-shaking changes…
Lina had not forgotten her original purpose. She stood up and said to Seraphina, “I’m going to ask Movira right now about that person. Want to come together?”
Seraphina sighed in her heart. So she still had to face this step? At the same time, she also felt it would be better for her to go along. If the situation went wrong, only she would be able to mediate the relationship.
“Alright. Then let’s go together.”
The moment the two of them walked out of the study, they saw Movira lying on a long chair in the nearby courtyard, sunbathing.
The instant she saw Seraphina come out, she immediately got up and came over to meet them.
“Didn’t I already say that you don’t need to handle those tasks anymore?” Movira had originally wanted to just take Seraphina out directly, but she was also worried that doing so would make Seraphina unhappy.
Seraphina nodded, yet she did not pay attention to this. Instead, she quickly shot Movira a meaningful look, signaling that she needed to be careful with her next words. “I know. Lina has a question to ask you.”
“Oh? What is it?” Only then did Movira look toward Lina, while also receiving Seraphina’s signal.
“Movira, the person who sat in the same carriage as Erasia—who is that?”
Lina got straight to the point with no polite words. In the Demon King’s Castle, she only gave face to Seraphina.
Movira, following the way Seraphina hoped, answered with the excuse she had prepared in advance: “Just a new maid I recruited.”
Seraphina nodded secretly to the side, approving of Movira’s answer.
Yet Lina clearly did not believe it. “Apart from Erasia, I have never seen any maid in the Demon King’s Castle with such a powerful aura. And I also feel there’s no need to recruit a maid like that. You’re lying!”
“What’s the problem with that?” Movira seemed very impatient with Lina’s step-by-step pressure and found another reason to deal with it. “Recruiting a few maids with strong power can both protect the safety of the Demon King’s Castle and handle some heavy work that ordinary maids cannot do.”
But Lina gave Movira no face at all. Her sharpness and stubbornness far exceeded imagination. She directly interrupted Movira’s words. “You don’t need to find any more excuses. Just tell me directly. Where is she right now? I’ll go confirm it myself!”
This attitude still carried a certain invisible confrontation, which made the mood that had already been somewhat poor because of Seraphina’s behavior even more irritable.
The frown on her face also made Seraphina feel uneasy.
Movira… please don’t cause any trouble…
Seraphina prayed inwardly, but what she feared came true. Movira decided that getting rid of Lina’s entanglement was more important than the risk of exposure.
She directly ignored Seraphina’s hint and stated the location outright: “She’s in the guest room on the second floor of the west wing.”
Lina got the answer and immediately turned around, rushing toward the destination in a whirlwind.
Seraphina watched Lina’s back and anxiously walked up to Movira, speaking with a tone of complaint, “Why did you just tell her directly! What if something happens?! What if Saint Eustacia recognizes Lina’s identity?!”
Movira looked at the way Seraphina was anxiously worrying for someone else. Even though the other person was Lina, she still felt displeased in her heart, and her tone grew a little colder. “So what? If something happens, we’ll just claim we don’t know.”
Anyway, they were inside the Demon King’s Castle. Movira truly did not feel that Seraphina had anything to worry about.
That completely unconcerned attitude of the other party made Seraphina so angry she did not know where to vent it. She let out a heavy sigh. “No. I have to go take a look!”
The perspective shifted to Lina’s side. With tension in her heart, she quickly arrived outside the guest room. Almost without hesitation, she directly pushed open the door.
Inside the room, Saint Eustacia had already changed out of that maid uniform that made her feel extremely humiliated and was wearing a simple long robe—the most free of Church style among the clothes she could find.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, she turned her head and saw an unfamiliar young girl. The other party’s reckless manner of not even knowing how to knock made Saint Eustacia very displeased. She asked in a guarded tone, “Who are you?”
This immediately made Lina even more certain in her heart.
An ordinary maid would absolutely never speak to her in that tone.
In front of Seraphina, calling Lina a maid was something Lina would not pick a fight over. But when alone in front of Lina, what should she call Lina?
After these past few months, Lina could already be considered a king standing on equal footing.
Therefore, Lina did not answer her question. Instead, she took another step forward, turning from guest into host, and asked back with an even sharper tone, “I still want to ask you! Who are you?! A maid—who allowed you to speak to me with that attitude?”
Lina did not have the habit of using power to pressure others, but when facing Saint Eustacia, whose strength was clearly superior to her own, she had to use this difference in status to create momentum for herself.
The air instantly solidified. Saint Eustacia was stunned into place by the question.
Of course she knew that her public identity in the Demon Realm at this moment was “maid,” but when this humiliating identity was pointed out, it only made her even angrier.
Saint Eustacia’s gaze was like a sharp carving knife, locking onto Lina’s face. It was both silent pressure and also searching for an excuse that could conceal the truth from the other party.
Yet neither of these two goals was achieved. Instead, this prolonged stare made Saint Eustacia only feel that Lina’s appearance was extremely familiar.
Had she seen this person before?
The answer was definitely no. The only ones who could truly meet her and have any intersection with her were the royal families or imperial houses of the human empires…
Royal families, imperial houses…
Saint Eustacia slightly tilted her head. Her gaze swept across Lina’s neck, wrists, and every other detailed place. “Do you… have any special mark on your body?”
Mark?!
When this word charged into Lina’s ears like a wolf or tiger, she only froze for an instant before the numbness accumulated over consecutive years pressed it down again.
“Mark?! Stop using this nonsense to change the subject! Answer my question! Who exactly are you?!”
This even stronger anger made the suspicion in Saint Eustacia’s heart grow at extreme speed, even if it could be understood as anger after being repeatedly offended.
But from intuition, Saint Eustacia always felt that there was another hidden story!
More importantly, as the distance closed without her noticing and her perception focused, she could more clearly detect that although Lina’s body was mixed with the aura of the Demon Realm, the core of it was indeed unmistakably human.