"No means no, why is there so much nonsense?" Melanie's twisted logic, learned from who knows where, made Leticia feel a hint of panic. She felt she needed to correct Melanie's clearly misguided thinking as soon as possible; otherwise, her own future would undoubtedly be incredibly bleak.
Heaven knows if one day this creature might suddenly go wild, pounce on her, and devour poor Leticia whole.
Regarding such matters, Leticia could not accept it. It was only her place to devour others; how could there be any reason for others to devour her?
She, Leticia, was a top.
"Her Highness says she needs to consider it, and she will give us an answer by tonight at the latest." The communication between Luna and Kira went quite smoothly. Kira was anxious to get the book, and since Leticia had offered just a tiny bit of sincerity, the progress was quite rapid.
Kira didn't care who she was making a deal with; as long as the book was in her hands, she would have achieved her goal.
As for Councilman Wang? Who told him to be so incompetent and fail to deliver the book safely into her hands?
She couldn't just stupidly wait in place, watching that Councilman run around looking for people. Honestly, based on her observations over the past few days, Kira really didn't believe this Councilman could catch the tail of that mysterious organization.
At this moment, that organization suddenly approached her and offered Kira a quite reasonable price: as long as she met with someone from their organization, the book would be given for free.
Kira just calculated it and felt this was a deal where she wouldn't lose out.
She believed that the person able to make a deal with her wouldn't be some stupid person with a head full of lewd thoughts. Since everyone was a smart person, meeting up wouldn't be a loss.
As for the danger she might encounter, Kira was relatively confident in her own strength.
If the ceiling of this world was the Sword Saint who defeated her sister, then a bit lower was her sister, and further down were the monarchs of other races.
Then Kira was at the level of these monarchs.
Therefore, the Demon Race was indeed a quite powerful branch among the other races. First of all, they had Leticia, a Demon King who could go toe-to-toe with the human Sword Saint. And below the Demon King, Princess Kira and the Four Heavenly Kings were also very powerful existences.
Unlike the human race, where the gap between the Sword Saint and others was huge; if you removed the Sword Saint, the human race would likely only be considered a relatively weak race.
"As long as the person coming to meet me isn't that Sword Saint, I have confidence I can escape," Kira said to the few people kneeling before her.
"That won't do, Your Highness!"
"Your Highness is of noble body, you absolutely cannot risk yourself!"
"Your Highness, the current Demon Race cannot do without you!"
These few demons were the loyalists of the Princess faction who had rushed over after hearing of Kira's decision. Their goal was only one: to persuade Kira not to meet with the people of that faction.
"The Demon Race has always been able to do without me. The person our Demon Race cannot do without has already been driven away by me personally, and I must make up for my mistake." Kira's voice was calm. Her personality was inherited from her sister; once she made a decision, it was very hard to change.
After driving her sister out of the house, Kira couldn't even describe how much she regretted it. Although her sister was bad, liked to bully her, never had a good expression on her face all day, and later became so decadent—decadent to the point that Kira, the sister who loved her the most, couldn't stand it anymore.
But without a doubt, Kira was a very good younger sister. She had always believed in her sister and loved her sister.
Her sister had abandoned the Demon Race and left, so Kira had to carry the Demon Race for her sister. If her sister returned in the future and saw a Demon Race in decline, Kira believed she would be hung from a tree and whipped by her angry sister.
"That book is worth me taking this risk, you don't need to say anything more." Kira waved her hand. This girl had a unique charm when she got serious. "Have you found any trace of my sister?"
The few demons below looked at each other. This was indeed a good question. "Yes, and no."
"What do you mean by yes and no? I want an accurate answer. Yes is yes, no is no." Kira rubbed her brow and said helplessly.
Only after placing herself in her sister's original position did Kira understand the pressure on her sister. A large part of that pressure came from this group of subordinates whose brains didn't work very well.
One of them summoned the courage to speak: "We don't know if Her Majesty used disguise magic, so the investigation hasn't made any progress."
"She wouldn't use it. My sister was never the type of person who liked to hide her identity. Even if she was running away, she would use her true appearance." Kira understood her sister very well. Unlike herself, her sister was a very awkward person—awkward to the point that others simply couldn't understand her thoughts.
"But we don't even know what Her Majesty looks like. Even if Her Majesty walked right past us, we wouldn't be able to detect that she was the Majesty we were looking for." The subordinates also had grievances they couldn't voice. Their direct superior had given such a difficult task that they really couldn't complete it.
Never mind searching for Leticia based on Kira's appearance; Kira had never even revealed her true face in front of them.
Kira didn't hide this from them either. This was the consistent style of the Demon King family; in the entire Demon Race, only a handful of people knew what the Demon King looked like.
"Forget it, forget it. If you can't find her, then you can't find her. But what do you mean by yes and no? Since there's no progress, shouldn't you just report that there isn't any?"
"We indeed haven't found any clues about Her Majesty, but we have found clues about the people around Her Majesty." The demons quickly told Kira their discovery. "We learned from some channels that in Central City, there is often a maid dressed very boldly who shops in stores."
"A maid?" Kira raised an eyebrow. What did this have to do with her sister?
"As far as we know, there are very few families in Central City capable of hiring a maid. And that maid is so outstanding that we originally suspected she was hired by some large family. But after investigating, we found that she is not a maid of those large families."
"Her master is a relatively ordinary girl. That girl is very introverted, hides at home all day and doesn't go out, and her daily needs are likely all taken care of by that maid."
"The strange thing is that we cannot find any other information about that girl. We only know her life experience, and we don't know why she could make such a maid pledge loyalty to her."
"Is that so... Where is her house?" Kira became interested. She thought of one person—the one who left with her sister.