Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 241

Chapter 241

At first, Beili really wasn’t used to Madam Constance’s burning body temperature.

For some reason, she was perfectly normal during the day, but at night she would become especially hot.

When they passed a pharmacy, Beili even thought about buying fever medicine for Madam Constance, only for the woman to refuse with a look of utter bafflement.

The woman insisted she wasn’t sick.

And besides.

Making someone who wasn’t sick take medicine was a kind of curse.

-So Beili had no choice but to give up.

Of course, Beili also wasn’t used to being held by Madam Constance while sleeping.

After all, sleeping in someone’s arms was somewhat restrictive and uncomfortable.

-Especially when she knew that the person holding her was a light sleeper, and even the slightest movement of her arm might wake her.

But as time went on, Beili gradually got used to it.

She could even feel a faint, familiar sense of security in the woman’s embrace.

…

However-

The scarcity of Mana in Tilisha Kingdom was giving Beili a real headache.

After all, they had been sightseeing the entire way, and there was barely any Mana for her to absorb.

While accompanying Madam Constance on their outings, Beili looked out at the empty desert and could only think of other solutions.

If they went somewhere livelier and more densely populated, perhaps there would be more opportunities to obtain Mana.

After slowing their pace and taking their time for a few days, Madam Constance was the one who started growing tired of it.

Tilisha was too hot.

Once the initial excitement wore off, aside from going out during the day for three meals and buying a few things at the market, the woman preferred to stay inside the Inn most of the time.

She would sit by the window in a daze, or flip through the books she had bought at the market.

She no longer excitedly suggested places they should go visit like before.

Madam Constance seemed rather listless overall.

Fortunately, Madam Constance never once mentioned wanting to return to Sainthos.

Otherwise, seeing how bored the woman was now, if Madam Constance asked to go back…

Beili really wouldn’t know what excuse to use to persuade her to keep traveling for a while longer.

Noticing this, Beili had no choice but to take Madam Constance onto a carriage and change locations again.

They soon arrived at Tilisha Kingdom’s imperial city.

…

Tilisha Imperial City was exceptionally prosperous.

The streets were wide and clean, and the shop signs glittered with gold-in Sainthos, no shop would dare inlay gold and jewels into its signboard.

The dresses and jewelry sold in the shops were even more exquisite, far more gorgeous than the items they had seen in the places they had visited before.

Moreover, most of Tilisha’s Noble class was concentrated in the imperial city, so the social scene here was very lively.

Originally, Beili had only planned to visit one Town after another around the imperial city. She hadn’t planned to come to the imperial city itself.

But after they arrived at Tilisha Imperial City, Madam Constance seemed to rediscover her enjoyment, and her spirits gradually returned.

It was no exaggeration.

Only a few days after arriving in the imperial city, Madam Constance began receiving salon invitations from the Noble ladies here.

Uh… don’t ask Beili how she knew.

Because today, she had been planning to have Madam Constance accompany her to the market to buy a few things, but the latter gave her an apologetic smile.

Then she showed Beili the exquisitely made invitations in her hand, with the times and locations written in ornate Ink and elegant script.

“Fine, fine… You abandoned me, Mother. Tonight, your punishment is… your punishment is sleeping by yourself!”

The girl deliberately emphasized the last few words.

“Oh-what a powerful threat. Hehehe.”

Madam Constance covered her mouth and chuckled.

Using the invitations as a fan, the woman stepped closer, then kissed her on the cheek.

“To tell you the truth, Luoluo, Mommy was already used to sleeping alone when she was even younger than you.”
Then…

The woman touched up her bright lipstick in front of the mirror, sprayed on a heavy perfume, and left without the slightest hesitation.

Beili watched Madam Constance hurry off in high spirits, and in truth, she felt relieved.

Madam Constance had returned to the Noble social circle she was most passionate about and best at navigating, even if this particular circle was one she had only just expanded into.

Beili was different. Her heart was not in these social activities.

All she wanted was to find Mana she could absorb.

In Sainthos, she could absorb Mana through the Flea Nest and the Rat Hole.

In Nauze Kingdom, she could obtain Mana from the waters of the Cradle River.

However, in the vast Tilisha Kingdom, she could not find a suitable and powerful source of sinful Mana.

Tilisha Kingdom felt to her like an enlarged version of Butterfly Valley-spacious, peaceful, and with very little sinful Mana.

Perhaps this had something to do with the people of Tilisha Kingdom advocating cremation.

Once the body that stored Mana was burned to ash, the Mana naturally dispersed as well.

Most people in Tilisha Imperial City were born with powerful perception and detection abilities.

So places like the Rat Hole seemed terribly uninteresting to them-they could even easily tell what cards their opponent was holding.

As for pleasure establishments like the Flea Nest, they did exist in Tilisha Imperial City, but there were very few of them.

Because in Tilisha Kingdom, places like the Flea Nest and the Rat Hole were strictly prohibited.

If someone was caught, they would be seized and dragged to the busiest part of the street, have their pants pulled down in full view of everyone, and receive a harsh flogging.

The pain of the flogging was perhaps secondary.

Having one’s pants stripped off in front of so many people and being exposed for all to see-that was the real point of the punishment.

Generally speaking, someone who had been flogged would not dare go outside again for nearly a year.

Only after everyone gradually forgot about it, or after a new person was flogged and took their place as the talk of the town, would that person have the courage to venture out again.

Oh, of course.

Lance had told her all of this.

Yes.

Just now.

After being heartlessly “abandoned” by Madam Constance, Beili had gone out alone, intending to look around somewhere crowded and see if there was any Mana she could absorb-without the Black Bone Scythe, she had no choice but to handle the matter of absorbing Mana herself.

Then…

Right at the entrance of the busiest market in the Imperial City, Beili witnessed a flogging.

At first, she was only curious.

Why were so many people gathered around the market entrance?

She had just walked closer and squeezed in for a look when she saw a Tilisha Knight pull down a man’s pants.

Almost at the same moment…

Someone reached out and covered her eyes.

Beili heard the whip slice through the air beside her ears, followed by the sound of it striking skin.

The Morpho Butterflies perched on her hair and gauze dress had not yet had time to swarm and attack.

Then she heard a familiar, slightly frivolous young male voice ring out beside her ear.

“Mm-hmm. Beautiful miss, this sort of scene isn’t suitable for you to look at. It might scare you, you know.”

“Also, don’t think this man is just some unlucky fellow. He is a complete scumbag who tried to make his own daughter receive customers. In our Tilisha Kingdom, that is an evil deed we absolutely cannot tolerate.”

There was a distinct smile in the young man’s voice as he explained,

“Tilisha’s rules are very strict, especially in the Imperial City. Something that violates basic human decency like this is absolutely forbidden. Of course, the reward for reporting it is also quite high, so before that sinful establishment of his could even officially open, it was shut down. Then he was dragged here.”

“So, the flogging is exactly the punishment this scumbag deserves. Hahaha! Serves him right for getting such crooked ideas!”

Beili was quiet for a few seconds, then said softly,

“Lance…”