Volume 5 Chapter 10
by Need_More_SleepVolume 5 + Chapter 10: The Easily-Pacified Inner Demon
“Taking everything into account, I believe that Her Highness the Princess suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The one we usually see is the dominant personality, while today it was the inner personality, hence why she behaved so differently!”
Atiya presented a rather bizarre conclusion.
For most people, it would be nearly impossible to think along these lines. The majority would simply assume that Xia Yi was in a different mood today and had merely changed the way she spoke.
“An inner personality, huh…”
Xia Lulu pinched her chin, deep in thought.
She carefully recalled various details and indeed sensed an inexplicable feeling of incongruity.
If she truly considered things from this angle, then quite a few questions suddenly seemed to make sense.
Moreover, this personality felt nothing like the human Sword Saint Wright at all, it was as if it were an entirely new character…
“Your Majesty, if the princess’s mental illness is already this severe, so severe that she’s developed multiple personalities, then she’s completely unlike ordinary dragons,” Atiya said with a sigh.
“This only goes to show just how outstanding Her Highness’s potential as a future Dragon King truly is!”
After all, in dragon’s understanding, among the successive Dragon Kings, the more ‘troubled’ they were mentally, the stronger they tended to be.
For Xia Yi to exhibit such severe dissociative symptoms at such a young age, it could only be said that her future was exceedingly promising!
“This matter cannot be confirmed yet, Atiya. After all, this is merely one-sided speculation, and there’s no concrete evidence to prove that Xia Yi truly possesses another personality,” Xia Lulu said. “For now, do not spread this information. We’ll speak of it again once it’s confirmed.”
“Yes, Your Majesty. I understand.”
Atiya nodded, indicating her acknowledgment.
……
“Haa~”
Xia Yi yawned, stretched lazily, and slowly opened her eyes.
She realized that she was already back in her room.
“Huh? How did I end up back here?”
“You’ve got the nerve to ask, you idiot Xia Yi!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi wore a thoroughly displeased expression and immediately began interrogating the newly awakened Xia Yi.
“Why did you dump everything on me and then run off to sleep yourself?!”
“Huh? Well… eheh~”
“Eheh my ass!”
“It’s not like I dumped it on you, it was you who said you wanted to take over, remember?” Xia Yi explained. “I was just following your request. How is that my fault?”
“Then what was that about you going to sleep?”
“Well, that’s because…”
Xia Yi’s eyes darted around as she came up with an excuse.
“I trusted your abilities! I believed you could definitely handle Elly! Think about it, if I didn’t trust you, I would’ve kept watching the whole time instead of sleeping peacefully, right?”
“You…”
Inner Demon Xia Yi was rendered speechless.
How could Xia Yi’s mouth be this stubborn?
She could forcibly come up with excuses for anything and somehow make them sound plausible.
“Then what about the final result? You didn’t screw it up, did you, Inner Demon?” Xia Yi hurriedly changed the subject.
“Hmph, who do you think I am?”
Inner Demon Xia Yi hugged her teddy bear proudly, the corners of her mouth lifting.
“I am the terrifying Inner Demon! Controlling the mind of a mere trainee maid was child’s play!”
“It worked? How did you do it?” Xia Yi asked curiously.
“Wash your ears clean and listen carefully!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi began recounting the story in detail, vividly describing how she used threats and inducements against Elly, forcing the unfortunate trainee maid to become her tool.
“Doesn’t that sound a bit excessive…” Xia Yi muttered.
“Excessive or not, what does it matter? For me, achieving the goal is the highest priority! Everything else is meaningless!” Inner Demon Xia Yi replied indifferently.
“As long as you’re happy.”
“Oh, and from now on, you’d better fix your attitude toward me!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi climbed onto the bed and leaned toward Xia Yi.
This forced Xia Yi to fall backward, landing on the floor.
“I am the Inner Demon! In the future, I will inevitably seize your body and destroy your entire life! When you interact with me, you must maintain a proper sense of fear, got it?!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi declared aggressively.
She was practically straddling Xia Yi at this point.
“Uh…”
A complicated feeling welled up in Xia Yi’s heart.
Why did it feel like she was pinning down… herself?
What even was this situation?
“I kind of feel like you’re not that scary…” Xia Yi muttered.
“What?!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi bristled instantly, feeling as if she were being looked down upon.
“Take that back right now! Do you have any idea how terrifying the things I’ll do will be once I take control of your body? I’ll unleash all the darkness in my heart, devour the world, and carry out endless slaughter! Isn’t that terrifying enough?!”
“The thing is…”
Xia Yi recalled what her Inner Demon looked like while drinking milk tea.
There was absolutely nothing terrifying about it.
But if she said that out loud, it felt like the Inner Demon would never let it go.
She really couldn’t understand why the other party was so fixated on making her feel afraid.
Fine, she’d just go along with it.
“Oh my heavens, I swear, this is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever heard! It’s ten thousand times scarier than seeing broccoli on my dinner plate!”
“Hmph! Good that you understand. Fear me properly, oppose me properly, this is the relationship that should exist between you and your Inner Demon!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi laughed in satisfaction.
Looking at her expression, Xia Yi suddenly felt that her Inner Demon was actually pretty easy to deal with.
Haha, she was basically a silly little loli, way too easy to placate!
“By the way, after you took care of Elly, what did you do next?” Xia Yi asked.
“I ran into a blue dragon maid. Her name was something like…”
“Atiya?”
“Yeah, that was it!”
“What happened between you and that ‘big-brain’?”
“Hmph! That blue dragon maid actually dared to accept my duel request and compete with me in swordsmanship!”
“Atiya’s swordsmanship is really strong. Did you win?”
“Do you think I’m as useless as you? Idiot Xia Yi! I never slack off, I’m always honing my swordsmanship! In the end, of course I, ”
Inner Demon Xia Yi’s words got stuck.
In the end, due to hesitation and a mistake, she got sent flying, had a mop head land on her head, and ran away.
“So… what happened in the end?” Xia Yi asked, confused.
“Don’t worry about the details! Anyway, I had the upper hand the whole time and completely suppressed Atiya! That’s what matters!”
“You didn’t… lose, did you?”
“There were some unexpected accidents at the end…”
“So you really lost?” Xia Yi laughed. “What, so even you lost to Atiya. Looks like we’re about the same after all.”
“That’s not it! I, I w-won…” Inner Demon Xia Yi said guiltily.
“Can you say that while looking me in the eye?”
“……”
“Why won’t you look at me?”
“Idiot Xia Yi, you’re so annoying! I didn’t lose, anyway, I didn’t lose!!”
Inner Demon Xia Yi shouted with a flushed face, as if she’d overheated. After throwing out those words, she vanished, returning to the mental world.
“Whatever, as long as nothing serious went wrong,” Xia Yi said as she got up from the bed. “Since the assistant has been secured, the plan can move on to the next stage! Xia Lulu, prepare yourself to accept the baptism of the Heavenly Blue Wood!”
[Translator’s Note: I really need friends that shared the same interests as me. Requirements: Love the Yuri Genre as much as me, and between 20-30 years old. Connect and chat with me on the Discord Server.]
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