Chapter 63: Miss Knight, This is Called Getting Even p2
Now, with Eve’s body completely under her control, replicating a new Eve based on this body wasn’t difficult for Luo Ling. It would only take a little time.
Memories and emotions were even less of a problem. Read would reveal everything. As long as it wasn’t a relationship like Stasha and Alyssa’s, the fake Eve Luo Ling created would be perfectly realistic.
In this way, Luo Ling could even closely monitor the Company’s movements and protect her other two teammates at critical moments. It was killing several birds with one stone.
The objective conditions were met, but… the thought of impersonating a friend and mingling with other friends felt strangely awkward to Luo Ling.
“But besides this, there doesn’t seem to be any other way…”
Luo Ling scratched her silver hair, the scattered strands quickly rearranging themselves into a neat style. After pondering for a while, she sighed.
“Fine, I’ll just treat it as cosplaying as a maid lady.”
“Huh?”
Elsa, who was tidying the clothes of her unconscious teammates to prevent indecent exposure, looked up, a question mark appearing above her head.
“Nothing…”
Luo Ling twitched the corner of her mouth and began to sculpt a life-sized replica of Eve, even perfectly replicating the sword wound, leaving her with just a breath of life.
At the same time, she also created an Elsa replica—which she would destroy later as proof that Elsa had also died in the assassination, so there was no need for it to be too detailed, just adding some torn clothes and such.
As Luo Ling sculpted the figures, Elsa curiously peered over and saw the crudely made Elsa replica on the ground. She curiously poked it, then pinched her own arm.
“Wow, amazing, it’s exactly like me…”
A smile appeared on Elsa’s lips, then she watched as the crude replica exploded, blood and flesh nearly splattering onto her face. She froze in place.
“Uh…”
Why did it explode with just a poke?
Elsa’s brain was still buffering.
“Move aside, Elsa,” Luo Ling said, amused. “I’m setting the scene.”
She had to arrange everything carefully to steer the play towards the ending the Company expected.
After setting up the murder scene, Luo Ling moved the sealed Eve to a nearby house. The Puppet Ballad’s fungal threads would sustain her life until she fully recovered.
It had to be said that in Luo Ling’s hands, the Puppet Ballad’s Silent Demise ability was more versatile than even a Myriad Path ability…
“Almost done.”
Luo Ling clapped her hands, satisfied with her work.
The closing scene of “The Death of the Twintails Team” was complete!
At the same time, Elsa finally came to her senses, looking at the shattered remains of herself on the ground, her face aggrieved.
“Is everything taken care of?”
A familiar, cold voice sounded, accompanied by the clang of armor.
“Enemy?”
Elsa was instantly alert, but looking up, she saw pieces of armor clattering to the ground. A blonde woman she had never seen before, dressed in simple cloth clothes, walked towards them.
Hearing the familiar voice, Luo Ling paused, then nodded.
“Yes, it’s done.”
She was about to turn to look at the newcomer when she was suddenly embraced in a warm, firm hug, soft pressure against her back.
Elsa’s eyes widened instantly, as if witnessing something unbelievable.
“Linna…”
Luo Ling, in her White Witch form, was indeed excessively petite compared to the knight, looking like a delicate doll that could be held in one’s hand.
“Don’t turn around, Miss Luo Ling. Just let me hold you like this for a while.”
Linna’s breath tickled Luo Ling’s neck, carrying the scent of blood and dust, her voice tinged with tears. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you. Perhaps for you, our meeting wasn’t that long ago.”
Luo Ling opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but all the words turned into a soft,
“Mmm.”
Luo Ling knew that the flow of time within a Kingdom was unstable. Linna’s “so long” might not be a few years, but possibly decades, or even… centuries.
The body Luo Ling had given Linna could sustain eternal life, and the time they had been apart was long enough for Linna to seize a Kingdom.
The current Starry Victoria.
After an unknown amount of time, Linna finally released the delicate, silver-haired girl from her embrace. “Alright, Miss Luo Ling, you’ve repaid the hug you owed me all these years.”
“Hmph, when did I owe you one?” Luo Ling grumbled, standing on tiptoe and reaching out to rub Linna’s cheeks vigorously. “This is called getting even.”
Linna let Luo Ling pinch her face, only smiling.
“Who… who are you!”
Sensing the heavy, sorrowful atmosphere had dissipated, Elsa finally seized the opportunity, approaching cautiously and looking at Linna warily. Even she hadn’t hugged Miss Luo Ling like that.
Although it was because she was also small…
However, Elsa sensed something unusual about Linna, a sense of danger.
Not that Linna was dangerous, but… a certain unspoken danger to her relationship with Miss Luo Ling.
“Me?”
Linna was about to answer when Luo Ling spoke, “Right, Linna, send these people back to the real world first. Business first.”
“Mmm.”
Linna nodded, then said, “You should activate your Kingdom first. Otherwise, directly opening the Kingdom entrance might be detected by the Company.”
The Company and the Harbingers were constantly monitoring Victoria. Opening a small Kingdom entrance in secret was fine, but this place was now the focus of Victoria, definitely under heavy surveillance by the Company.
A Kingdom was most vulnerable when its entrance was open. Without Luo Ling’s Kingdom as support, it might be invaded.
Luo Ling nodded slightly, quickly activating her Kingdom, transferring the carefully arranged murder scene and her team back to the real world.
After arranging everything, Luo Ling and the others re-entered Starry Victoria and deactivated the Kingdom.
Even the oblivious Elsa understood what she had just witnessed. She looked at Linna in shock, and after a long silence, said, “Miss Luo Ling, when did you… secretly find another Apostle without telling me?”
Indeed, Elsa recognized this familiar and dangerous aura.
This blonde older sister named “Linna,” like her, was Miss Luo Ling’s Apostle!
When…
Had she ceased to be Miss Luo Ling’s only Apostle?
Was her most unique relationship gone?
Thinking about it, Elsa felt aggrieved, her eyes welling up with tears.
She knew it was wrong to feel aggrieved, but she couldn’t help it.
“Apostle?”
Linna was taken aback.
“Without telling you?”
Luo Ling was also stunned.
“I am not Miss Luo Ling’s Apostle,” Linna explained.
“I didn’t hide it from you,” Luo Ling explained.
The two answered Elsa’s questions in unison, their synchronization making them seem like the same person.
Before Elsa could ask further, they continued answering.
“Miss Luo Ling is my master. Everything I have belongs to her, even I am but a part of her,” Linna said, gently patting her chest and bowing slightly.
“Mainly because you never asked,” Luo Ling said frankly, spreading her hands, then turning to Linna with a slight frown. “Linna, your wording… feels a bit disgusting.”
“It was you who turned me into this, so you can’t just deny it now, my master,” the knight said with a smile. “But in stories, knights always accompany princesses, protecting them. So would you prefer me to call you Princess or Imperial Princess? I can use either.”
“…Just call me by my name.”
Luo Ling had a headache. Linna was still as sly as ever, and she couldn’t handle it.
“Hmph, even if your relationship with Miss Luo Ling is like that, it definitely won’t be better than mine,” Elsa said, stepping in front of Luo Ling and crossing her arms. “I sleep with Miss Luo Ling every day…”
“Hello, little master, what’s your name?”
Linna bent down slightly, trying to meet little Elsa’s gaze, a gentle smile on her lips. A peculiar scent wafted over, a faint bloodiness mixed with the earthy fragrance of soil.
However, Elsa wasn’t paying attention to this. She focused on how Linna addressed her.
“Little… little master?”
“Yes, Miss Luo Ling is my master, so you are my little master. Isn’t that right?” Linna said, puzzled. “Or is it…”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’m the little master!”
Elsa’s face quickly lit up, but then she seemed to remember something and tilted her head. “Well… there’s no helping it. Just call me Elsa.”
“Good, a very easy-going little sister.”
Linna, maintaining her smile, silently evaluated Elsa in her mind, her smile widening slightly.
“Alright, little master Elsa, I am also your knight.”
Linna knelt on one knee, taking Elsa’s small hand and performing a standard noble kiss on her hand, causing the inexperienced Elsa to blush and look at Luo Ling for help, blinking repeatedly.
“Alright, Linna, stop teasing Elsa,” Luo Ling said helplessly.
“As you command, my master.”
Linna released Elsa’s hand, and Elsa quickly ran and hid behind Luo Ling, not daring to look at Linna anymore.
“…And stop teasing me,” Luo Ling said, rubbing her temples. “How did you deal with Cheng Jianming?”
“Killed him directly,” Linna replied softly, the faint smile disappearing from her face.
“That’s it?”
Luo Ling was stunned. She thought Linna would at least torture Cheng Jianming a bit.
“Yes, that’s it.”
Linna understood Luo Ling’s thoughts. She said slowly, “Killing him is the result, everything else is superfluous. I am punishing the wicked, not becoming one.”
Linna was still the same Linna, even as a Grotesquery, even after spending an unknown number of years in the Grotesquery world. She still adhered to her knightly code.
“I’ve already dealt with the memories in his soul, according to your wishes,” Linna continued. “They’ve been transferred to the corresponding location in the Realm of Nothingness in the real world.”
“That’s good.”
Luo Ling nodded. This was roughly how she wanted it handled.
“I understand all your thoughts,” Linna said softly. “Even this Kingdom, Starry Victoria, is my gift to you, my dear Miss Luo Ling.”
“…I told you to stop teasing me.”
Luo Ling twitched the corner of her mouth. She wasn’t an easily fooled little girl like Elsa, becoming giddy and confused after a few words from Linna.
Just then, Luo Ling saw the Sacred Tool on Fiona’s back, the long-barreled firearm she had taken from Linna and returned to Fiona.
Her pupils constricted slightly, and she said,
“You’ve seen Aunt Fiona? Wait, could it be that you…”
“Yes, I saved my mother, preventing her from dying at the hands of the Company.” Linna sighed, continuing, “But… her condition isn’t good. Even the Puppet Ballad’s abilities can’t fully heal her.
“I only recently managed to seize Starry Victoria, at great cost. If I had succeeded earlier, my mother wouldn’t have…”
Linna didn’t continue.
Kingdoms were rare and coveted existences for Godchosen and God’s Favored. Seizing one wasn’t easy.
Even now, Linna still bore many hidden injuries, and the armor she had taken from Frick was almost completely destroyed. That was a top-tier Sacred Tool armor, worth at least 100,000 points in the Company, and usually unavailable even if one had the points.
“I’ll go see her,” Luo Ling said, a hint of anxiety in her expression. “And tell me what you’ve been through, Linna.”
Even though their consciousnesses were connected, perhaps due to some unknown reason, Linna hadn’t shared her memories with Luo Ling.
Looking at the small, silver-haired figure walking ahead, a complex emotion flickered in the knight’s eyes. In the end, she only softly replied,
“…Alright.”
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