Chapter 130: Sophia's Campus Life and the Red-and-White Honeymoon
"Hey, look over there... who exactly is that?"
People whispered in low, hushed tones, pointing discreetly at Leest.
"What an incredibly cute girl!" One boy's eyes burned with a fiery intensity as he stared at Leest's face, his throat moving as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Did you see the ogre horns on her head? I've read about that in a text before–I think she belongs to the Ogre race."
"What?! Isn't that a legendary monster species? They haven't been spotted in ages."
"Why doesn't one of you guys go over there and try to strike up a conversation?"
The crowd gossiped back and forth, yet their collective gaze never drifted away from Leest for a single second. Leest remained completely oblivious to the fact that she had instantly become the center of attention. Her wide, pristine eyes looked as pure and clear as untainted gemstones, effortlessly eliciting a wave of deep affection from anyone who looked at her.
Sophia stood directly in front of her, sweeping a cold, detached glare across the surrounding paths.
"Get the hell out of the way. Don't dare disturb the Queen's friend!"
Her ice-cold voice echoed sharply across the entire school square. The originally chaotic, noisy plaza plunged into an absolute, dead silence within a fraction of a heartbeat. The student body froze in sheer bewilderment for a split second, before collectively exploding into a frenzy of fanatical cheers the exact millisecond they processed her words.
"Ahhhh! The Queen actually spoke directly to me! I'm the happiest man alive!"
"Bullcrap! The Queen explicitly told us to *get the hell out of the way*, what on earth does that have to do with you?!"
"Her Highness Sophia, please allow me to offer you the ultimate blessing of my eternal love!"
"..."
The teenage boys and girls were practically overflowing with pure ecstasy, launching a massive, synchronized stampede straight toward them. Sophia knit her brows in deep annoyance. Reaching out, she grabbed Leest by the wrist and executed a clean leap, vaulting through the air to land gracefully right in front of the faculty building's grand entrance.
She genuinely couldn't comprehend why these absolute idiots behaved with such unhinged madness.
"Kneel!"
Her ruby-red eyes flashed with a chilling crimson radiance. Accompanied by her sharp, authoritative command, the entire crowd let out a massive, synchronized *thud* as they dropped straight to their knees.
Granted, Shirazawa and the others had explicitly banned Sophia from utilizing any active combat skills on the academy grounds. However, her newly mastered [King's Overbearing Pressure] wasn't technically an active skill; could they really blame her if her sheer, innate regal aura naturally forced the masses into submission?
Leest blinked her wide eyes, a trace of mild anxiety coloring her voice. "Sister, you're incredibly fierce!"
"Hmph!" Sophia tossed her head back with immense pride. "On these grounds, you are to address me as 'The Queen,' or 'Her Highness Sophia.'"
"Uh... but Master explicitly told me to call you Sister," Leest countered weakly.
"Humph, humph! But within these walls, *I* call the shots." Sophia's lips curved into a highly enchanting, dangerously alluring smirk as she gently brushed a stray lock of hair behind her ear. "Be a good girl~"
"Then..." Little Leest felt highly conflicted, completely torn regarding whose authority she should prioritize. "...Sister Superior?" she offered hesitantly.
"Sister Superior works perfectly well," Sophia praised with a radiant smile, reaching out to gently pat Leest's soft, delicate hair. "Keep this in your mind: follow your Sister Superior's lead moving forward, and I guarantee you'll be living the absolute high life."
Leest nodded with massive solemnity, her expression intensely earnest. "Leest will work her absolute hardest!"
"Mhm, good child." With that settled, Sophia wrapped her small fingers around Leest's hand, leading her straight toward her designated classroom.
Shirazawa and the others remained completely oblivious to the fact that Leest–the reliable guardian they had specifically placed inside the academy to keep Sophia under tight surveillance–had been completely flipped to the opposition's side within a single morning, setting her straight down a path of mutual delinquency. At the end of the day, Leest's age was a mere four years old; she was fundamentally no match for the sheer, calculated cunning of Sophia, who possessed the compiled memories of two complete lifetimes.
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That night, the moon retreated behind the clouds, leaving the stars sparse.
Having officially wrapped up her executive duties, Shiro draped a thin, translucent silk shawl over her shoulders, stretching her frame with immense pleasure to flush away her lingering physical fatigue. Under the soft filtering of the silver moonlight, her skin looked as flawlessly white as pristine snow, glowing with an intoxicating, crystalline luminescence.
"Darling~ You performed exceptionally well today. Keep up the amazing work."
Shirazawa shot her a thoroughly exasperated glare, though he made zero effort to reject Shiro's deeply affectionate embrace.
"I love you so much~" Shiro wrapped her arms securely around his neck, nuzzling her face against his chest like a spoiled child. "Have you finalized our itinerary for the upcoming trip?"
The pair's plan to set off on a honeymoon was far from a casual joke; they were fully prepared to commit to the endeavor. Shiro shook her head. "Any destination works perfectly fine for me. Even the most thoroughly boring journey becomes something worth eagerly anticipating, as long as I have my lover right by my side."
Her smile was incredibly warm and brilliant, the kind of expression that could easily cause a man to lose himself entirely, never wishing to break away. Shirazawa's chest tightened with a sudden wave of intense affection. Leaning down to plant a tender kiss on her lips, he murmured softly, "Don't worry. I won't allow a single second of your time to feel boring."
The two indulged in another long window of close affection before finally drifting off to sleep.
The following morning, the pair woke up well ahead of schedule. Leaving a brief runaway note sitting on the nightstand, they initiated a direct spatial teleportation, vanishing instantly from the Demon King's territory.
The boundaries of this alternative world were infinitely vaster than they had initially thought. They desperately wished to witness the untamed expanses of the outside world, to immerse themselves in the grand majesty of pristine rivers and mountains, to feast their eyes on endless fields of blooming flowers, and to casually savor the simple, vibrant warmth of human civilization.
The exact second Ariel discovered their handwritten note, a massive wave of pure fury hit her chest.
"Those two absolute blockheads! They actually ran off without me!" she muttered, voicing her grievances for a long while before finally letting out a defeated sigh. Lacking any alternative, as a deeply devoted and caring Demon King grandmother, she could only choose to grant them her unconditional forgiveness.
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The Kingdom of Sariella.
The County of Keren.
After a massive time gap spanning two and a half years, Count Keren and his Countess finally laid eyes upon the divine benefactors who had saved their lives.
"Lord Divine Beast!" The Countess welcomed the pair into the grand estate with immense excitement.
The traveling couple had merely adjusted their route to pay a brief courtesy visit to Sophia's parents; they had zero intentions of making a prolonged stop. After reassuring the couple by updating them on the current, flourishing status of Sophia and Merazophis, the two resumed their journey.
Wielding an absolute abundance of free time, Shirazawa and Shiro strolled casually toward the grand entrance of the Great Elroe Labyrinth.
The memories of their early survival days felt as though they had unfolded a mere afternoon ago. Shirazawa could still recall every single milestone with perfect clarity, a deep, sweeping wave of emotions washing over his heart. From a pair of tiny little spiders desperately fighting for survival in the absolute pits of the labyrinth, to their explosive, earth-shattering clash against the Demon King upon exiting, to inadvertently acting as the core catalyst that triggered global warfare, to their brief encounter with the young Hero, and finally achieving a flawless reconciliation with Ariel...
Every single sequence flashed through his mental theater like a vivid film–intensely grueling, deeply thrilling, and profoundly captivating. It was a remarkably beautiful tapestry of experiences, comfortably substantive enough to be cherished for an entire lifetime.
Shiro slowly opened her closed eyes, gently tightening her embrace around Shirazawa's arm as she leaned close to his ear, whispering with absolute tenderness. "Darling... thank you for staying right by my side through our most agonizing times."
Shirazawa froze for a brief moment, his eyes filling with an absolute overflow of doting affection. "We're basically an old married couple at this point, why on earth are you spouting such sickeningly sweet lines out of nowhere? It's giving me goosebumps."
"Huh?! Are you seriously implying that I'm old?!"
"I'll have you know that this baby is a mere five years old, okay?!"
"I see your skin is itching for another absolute beating. Take this!"
"Ah! Help! Someone call the cops, my wife is actively attempting to murder her husband!"
"Hehehehe~"
The golden sunlight cascaded over their frames as a gentle breeze swept across the path, their two silhouettes gradually drifting into the distance, wrapped in an absolute cocoon of pure bliss.
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However, entirely detached from the relaxed, poetic aura surrounding the two spiders...
The absolute millisecond their silhouettes materialized within the borders of the human nations, Pope Dustin and Potimas received the intelligence reports via their respective global networks. The two ancient foxes immediately plunged into a state of intense, frantic overthinking.
*Could the Demon Race be engineering a brand-new strategic offensive?*
*What on earth are those two supreme entities doing wandering through the Kingdom of Sariella?*
*Could they be plotting a full-scale subversion of the Divine Word Religion?*
*Are they attempting to manipulate internal human strife to clean up the board as the ultimate third party?*
In short, it was an absolute guarantee that whatever they were doing, it spelled disaster for humanity! Pope Dustin immediately dispatched a massive army of elite black-ops agents to infiltrate Sariella, ordering them to halt the Demon Race's impending conspiracy at absolutely any cost!
Potimas went a step further, directly making contact with the imperial royalty of the major human empires, using calculated lies and manipulation to instigate them into raising massive armies to launch a preemptive strike against Sariella. He designated the pair as cataclysmic monsters existing far beyond the standard myths–the White Demon and the Red Demon–stating they had to be systematically exterminated. His objective was to forcefully accelerate the outbreak of the global human-demon conflict, generating a massive vortex of chaos so he could violently hijack the soul energy Ariel was plotting to harvest.
A month slipped by in a flash.
The exact second someone spotted the pair's silhouettes hanging around the outskirts of the Analeit Kingdom's capital–situated on the opposite continent, representing the absolute rearguard, core citadel, and central headquarters where every single piece of high-tier human royalty and nobility was concentrated–the entire human race completely hit the panic button.
*The literal ultimate enemies have strolled right up to our front porch, and not a single soul noticed their advance!* This realization was safely terrifying enough to permanently rob every single human monarch of their sleep.
Within the next fraction of a heartbeat, every single kingdom across the entire human continent simultaneously mobilized their absolute apex combat assets, fully prepared to deploy an overwhelming vanguard to intercept and slaughter these two mysterious, primordial demons.
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Shiro: *I literally just stepped out to enjoy a peaceful honeymoon with my husband, how on earth did I randomly end up as a globally hunted, cataclysmic arch-demon?*
Shirazawa: *Don't sweat it, honey. Leave it to me–I'll handle the clean-up.*
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