Chapter 59: Learning

“Wuaa.”

Lias hugged her blanket, tightly wrapping herself up and curling on the bed, her slender, well-shaped legs tensing as she patted the bed up and down with the blanket.

She rolled over, turning her face upward, staring at the ceiling as her mind remained a mess.

“Leon said… he said he likes me!”

So… does this count as mutual affection?

The books say that people who like each other can always be together…

Lias cocooned herself like a chrysalis, revealing just half her head.

In her fox-like, charming eyes at this moment was nothing but shyness.

It seemed like she had told Leon… that she liked him too.

Recalling what had just happened, a surge of embarrassment made her want to curl up even deeper, and she couldn’t help rolling around on the bed.

After a long while, she finally managed to recover from her earlier bashful mood.

However, strangely enough, after their feelings for each other were confirmed, she actually found herself unable to face Leon.

This feeling… was so odd.

Obviously, she was very happy.

But she just didn’t dare to look at Leon’s face.

So tonight, she hadn’t clung to Leon to have him sleep with her, but instead returned to her own room.

This lingering feeling—just what was the reason for it?

The next day, early morning.

Leon woke up and stepped out of his room into the living room, where a faint aroma was wafting from the kitchen.

Curious, he walked forward and looked at the maid demon in an apron; her serious expression was actually rather cute.

“What are we having for breakfast today?”

He asked in a soft voice.

Who could have guessed that upon hearing Leon’s voice, the little cat demon would act as if startled, hastily finding an excuse and slipping away.

During breakfast, too, she let Leon eat first while she went to clean up, as if intentionally avoiding him.

Leon found it a bit odd.

He remembered that yesterday’s date had gone smoothly—the hilltop was a place he had specially researched, said to be a lovers’ paradise for young men and women in the royal capital.

He really wanted to catch the little cat demon and ask her about it, but he had to go work at the Alchemy Association.

So he could only leave the residence for now.

Lias stood by the window, watching as Leon’s figure disappeared around the corner, dejectedly patting her flushed cheeks.

She herself didn’t know what she was doing.

It was just that whenever she saw Leon, her heart would inexplicably start to race, and she’d get so nervous that she wouldn’t know what to say.

Obviously, she could just talk to him like before.

Thinking of this, she pouted in grievance.

Hmph, it’s all Leon’s fault!

Why doesn’t he take the initiative to chat with me…

Lias stared blankly at the empty doorway, her little face full of worry.

At that moment, a nimble figure leaped over the courtyard wall and in a few steps landed in front of Lias.

“Lias sis?”

“Wuaa!”

Lias was startled by the sudden voice.

Once she saw who it was, she let out a sigh of relief and, imitating Leon, reached out to lightly tap Sophia on the head, complaining, “Why are you scaring me?”

The blonde girl clutched her head a bit aggrieved, “I’ve been here for a while already. Lias sis, it’s you who kept spacing out here!”

Lias’s cheeks flushed, and she turned to leave.

Sophia instantly followed her like a little tail, chattering away, “Did something happen to Lias sis? Did Big Brother Leon really find a bad woman?”

The girl looked both gossipy and very worried.

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

Lias put her hands on her hips, a bit annoyed.

“Okay, okay, so what happened?”

Sophia raised her hand in surrender, full of curiosity.

Looking at Lias sis’s expression, it seemed like she was troubled by something.

But aside from Big Brother Leon, there really wasn’t anything else that could bother her.

“Leon… yesterday he told me he likes me. He said he wants me to be his wife.”

Lias hesitated for a moment, then, unable to hide her joy amidst her shyness, spoke in a soft voice.

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

Sophia clapped her hands in delight.

She’d seen with her own eyes how much Lias liked Leon.

Besides, with a woman as beautiful and capable as Lias sis, who wouldn’t like her?

“So, sister-in-law, what were you thinking just now?”

Sophia casually switched her form of address.

“Si-sister-in-law?”

Clearly, Lias had never heard that term before, and looked a bit puzzled.

Sophia was used to this.

After all, her mother had told her before that Lias sis was bought by Big Brother Leon from slave traders when she was little, so she didn’t know much about the world.

She explained simply, “Because Leon is my big brother, and his wife is supposed to be my sister-in-law!”

“Oh, I see…”

Lias instinctively brushed the hair by her ear, her voice lowering, “But… we haven’t married yet, so I’m not really…”

“It’s all the same, you’ll be married sooner or later anyway!”

Sophia waved her hand, then pressed on with her previous question.

Lias hesitated for a while, then slowly shared what was on her mind.

Sophia listened, dumbfounded.

She never imagined Lias would be so innocent—she was even more naive than those airheaded heiresses.

She remembered how she and Lias had discussed family matters before, and started to suspect whether Lias even knew what to do.

So she asked without hesitation.

To her surprise, Lias nodded, her face even showing a bit of happiness and pride.

“I know! Leon taught me a lot of things.”

“Hm?”

Sophia grew curious, “What did Big Brother Leon teach you?”

When it came to this, it was as if Lias had found a switch.

She grabbed Sophia’s hand and started describing.

“You can use your hands and mouth too, but you need a bit of technique, like this…”

Miss Demon gestured naturally with her slender fingers as she demonstrated, describing what had happened that night.

For a demon, discussing such things seemed to come naturally, and she felt no shame at all.

But for a pure-hearted girl like Sophia who had no experience in these matters, it was all too much.

Every word was like a little hammer knocking at her heart.

Sophia’s face turned bright red, feeling as if her whole face was burning.

Reason told her she should stop Lias from going on, but her heart craved these forbidden bits of knowledge.

This feeling… it was just like when she was a little girl secretly reading those forbidden books in her room.

“So… that’s what the books meant… At the time, how did you feel?”

“Very… very excited? Very happy? Mm, yes!”

Lias pressed her index finger against her lips, recalling seriously.

“T-that scary thing… really can…?”

Sophia’s voice was already as quiet as a mosquito.

Every answer from Lias dealt a heavy blow to her innocent little heart.

Sophia didn’t even know how she made it home.

She had originally come to help Lias sis solve her problem, but in the end, it seemed she herself had learned many things she really shouldn’t have.