Chapter 82
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Volume 3 + Chapter 82: Milk Tea
Xia Yi hugged the snacks and manga she had bought, enjoying a delicious crepe, and just as she was about to head home, she encountered a strange scene.
As she passed by the window’s mirror, she saw her inner demon.
The inner demon was an extremely terrifying consciousness!
In truth, Xia Yi hadn’t met her inner demon many times.
The first time was long ago, during her time as the human Sword Saint, when she had relied on her willpower to defeat the inner demon and seal it away.
The second time was when she was imprisoned in the dragon royal palace by the “Great Wisdom.” To break through her limits, she had no choice but to face her inner demon again. In the end, Xia Yi used some tricks to succeed!
And now, this was the third time.
Xia Yi was utterly surprised by her inner demon’s sudden appearance.
She hadn’t killed her inner demon last time, and the inner demon, Xia Yi (Inner Demon), had vowed that Xia Yi would regret her actions and that it would do everything in its power to seize control of the body.
The appearance of the inner demon Xia Yi signaled a major crisis!
Her inner demon must have been plotting something extremely terrifying, right?
Yet, no matter how much Xia Yi called out now, the other party didn’t respond.
The inner demon Xia Yi was just staring at one spot.
So, Xia Yi followed her inner demon’s gaze and discovered it was fixed on… a milk tea shop?
“Did you buy the newly released taro boba milk tea?”
“Yeah, it tastes amazing! Want to try some?”
“N-no, don’t… There are other people watching…”
At the entrance of the milk tea shop, a couple was engaged in a sweet exchange.
Not just that couple—there were many other young people around, making the place quite lively. It seemed the milk tea shop was very popular.
Xia Yi looked at the crowd outside the shop, then back at her inner demon.
No way…
Was her inner demon actually interested in milk tea?
This was truly unexpected for Xia Yi.
“Inner Demon, do you… want to drink milk tea?” Xia Yi asked.
“Huh…?!”
The inner demon Xia Yi finally snapped out of it, turning to look at Xia Yi, stunned for a moment.
She suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
“What nonsense! Milk tea? What’s the point of such a childish and ridiculous drink? Do you think I’ve fallen to your level, becoming a dumb little loli?”
The inner demon Xia Yi quickly turned her head away, delivering a firm rebuttal.
“Then why were you staring at it?” Xia Yi pressed.
“I… was just thinking how laughable those people looked after drinking that ridiculous beverage,” the inner demon Xia Yi waved her hand dismissively. “Xia Yi, you’re no different. Look at yourself—holding a bunch of snacks and manga, utterly disgraceful! You’ve even got cream on the corner of your mouth. Full of openings! You really have no sense of danger at all. When you see me, you should feel terror, understand? Xia Yi, I am your inner demon. If I got serious, I could kill you ten thousand times—”
“Pfft!”
“W-what are you laughing at?!” the inner demon Xia Yi said angrily. “I’m serious!”
“Since you like milk tea so much, why not experience it yourself?” Xia Yi closed her eyes.
“Wait! What are you doing?! Stop it! I don’t need your pity. I’ll kill you and take this body myself—”
The inner demon Xia Yi felt a sudden dizziness.
When she came to, she looked down in disbelief at her current situation.
Control of the body had already been transferred to her.
She was furious.
She had emphasized over and over that her goal was to erase Xia Yi and seize control of the body. For this, she had spent years honing her swordsmanship ceaselessly in the sealed mental world.
And yet…
Xia Yi had just handed over control of the body so easily?
This wasn’t victory—it was humiliation!
“Xia Yi, get out here! Now!” the inner demon Xia Yi shouted at the shop window’s glass.
But the black-haired loli reflected in the glass mirrored her movements perfectly.
“Tch…”
The inner demon Xia Yi clicked her tongue in annoyance.
“Um, miss… are you okay? Do you need me to call a doctor?” a passerby couldn’t help but ask.
In reality, the exchange between Xia Yi and her inner demon was invisible to others.
From an outsider’s perspective, Xia Yi had just been acting like a schizophrenic—talking to herself in the mirror, laughing one moment and shouting the next, as if possessed. It was downright unsettling.
“…How annoying. I should just kill them all,” the inner demon Xia Yi muttered under her breath.
She prepared to summon the Holy Sword and slaughter everyone who had been staring at her.
Their gazes were unbearably irritating.
They were nothing but insignificant ants anyway—crushing them wouldn’t weigh on her conscience.
But just as she was about to act, she noticed something.
If she killed them, their stupid blood would probably stain the snacks and manga Xia Yi had bought.
“……”
The inner demon Xia Yi abandoned the idea and let out a cold laugh.
“Hmph! Consider yourselves lucky, foolish insects!”
With that haughty declaration, she walked away.
Her behavior left the onlookers utterly dumbfounded.
“Is that loli… mentally ill?”
……
“Why… am I here?”
“This shouldn’t be happening!”
“Could it be that I… actually…”
The inner demon Xia Yi was in the midst of a major crisis.
The milk tea shop’s employee—a senior student from Laurel Academy, likely working part-time—asked curiously, “Junior, are you here to buy milk tea?”
“N-no! I’m not interested in milk tea!” the inner demon Xia Yi insisted, her face flushing red.
“Then, junior… Why are you standing in line?”
“That’s…”
The inner demon Xia Yi glanced behind her at the queue.
Honestly, she wasn’t sure either.
Somehow, as she passed by the milk tea shop’s line, her feet had stopped moving. By the time she regained her senses, she was already standing there, being asked what she wanted to order.
This shouldn’t be happening!
If she actually bought milk tea here, Xia Yi would definitely look down on her later.
Just the thought of it made her feel like she was suffocating.
She had never believed she was anything like that idiot loli, Xia Yi.
Xia Yi was always doing stupid things, wasting her talent and potential!
She—the inner demon—was the one truly worthy of controlling this body and becoming a supreme powerhouse.
“Junior, would you like me to recommend something?” The employee was patient. “How about trying the taro boba milk tea? It’s our newest flavor, and a lot of girls love it.”
“Taro boba milk tea?!”
Hearing this, the inner demon Xia Yi’s eyes widened. After a moment of silence, she lowered her head and replied in a tiny voice:
“Then… I-I’ll have…”
——
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Biden, passing by on his way back to Laurel Academy, happened to spot the black-haired loli in front of the milk tea shop.
“That delinquent student skipped class without even an apology or explanation, and now she has the nerve to come here for milk tea? No student in my class has ever dared to act so brazenly!” Biden’s face twitched with anger. “This is beyond intolerable!!”
