A saintess? She's just a bad woman.

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The Mermaid Queen did not refuse Saint Karina's hand-kissing gesture, but merely observed her words and actions.

She appeared motionless, yet her aura was incredibly imposing. Compared to the young Emperor Ernest XV, this mermaid queen, who possessed an underwater kingdom, clearly had more of an empress's presence.

"To be honest, judging from your face, figure, voice, and overall demeanor, my daughter certainly has excellent taste in choosing a spouse. Come to think of it, I don't even know your name, Miss Saint..."

"Oh? My apologies for my rudeness. I have met the two most beautiful and lovely women of the mermaid race and have not even introduced myself. Your Majesty, you may call me Little Saint Karina or Little Randall."

Saint Karina continued the conversation, following the Mermaid Queen's lead. She said this intentionally; both women were beautiful, but the mother was clearly more of a high-and-mighty beauty, while Princess Hero, with her almost sister-like face, gave Saint Karina the feeling of a girl next door.

Having encountered a woman of high skill, the wicked woman licked her lips, appearing excited about the challenge to come.

The more a woman is someone you can only admire from afar and not touch, the more intoxicating and greedy the process of climbing to the top becomes once you pluck her.

By opening a delicate and lovely little flower bud and picking a bright red rose covered in thorns, Saint Karina clearly had a strong competitive spirit and a desire to conquer the latter.

"Little one, you have such a sweet tongue. Is that how you fool my daughter?"

"My love is sincere and passionate, how can it be called deception... Waaah..."

Just as Santa Karina was about to continue arguing, she suddenly felt a foreign object in her mouth.

Those were two fingers, which the other person was stirring, blocking Saint Karina's next words.

"Mom...you!"

Princess Heroine panicked when she saw her beloved kneeling on one knee, being treated with utter disrespect by her own mother, who showed no intention of helping Saint Karina to her feet.

But just as she was about to rush over to help her beloved out of the predicament, she was glared at by her mother's cold eyes and dared not move.

Princess Hero felt incredibly awkward about taking her beloved home to meet her parents. She stood with her hands clasped at her sides like a schoolchild, her heart pounding with anxiety.

"Alright, Xiao Hailuo, you can go out now. I won't do anything to your little lover."

Seemingly impatient with her daughter's foolish and helpless expression whenever she encountered the woman in front of her, the mermaid queen directly chased her away.

"But... okay... alright."

Princess Hero looked hesitant, but she understood her mother's temper and personality. If she disobeyed her now, her beloved would suffer even more at her mother's hands.

If she could, she would certainly like to pour out her heart to Saint Karina and express her longing for her, but her mother was terrifying when she got really angry, and in terms of strength, the Mermaid Queen was at the tenth level while she was only at the sixth level, so she would be crushed.

"See you later, Saint Karina."

Princess Hero gave a somewhat forced smile, suppressing her worries, and secretly changed how she addressed her beloved after learning his name.

Of course, Princess Hero did not receive a response from Saint Karina until she left the garden.

It's not that Santa Karina doesn't want to respond; it's just that she can't.

"Alright, stop staring at my daughter's departing figure. In the underwater kingdom, she doesn't have the final say, I do. And I hate it when the person who should be looking at me is looking at someone else when I'm speaking, even if that someone else is my daughter."

The mermaid queen said somewhat unhappily.

“You know what? If an ordinary person did this, I would gouge out her eyes right now, so she could never look at things she shouldn’t see again.”

"Ugh... I don't understand... It hurts!"

Because the foreign object sensation was still bothering her, Saint Karina managed to utter only a few words before being interrupted by a spell.

Her taste buds were pinched hard; the other person may have held back, but she was still in so much pain that she almost cried.

33. You're such a mother!

"Let...let go..."

Slurring her words, Saint Karina begged the Mermaid Queen to stop pinching a certain pitiful spot, her eyes welling with tears.

"Let go? Oh, of course. You're so soft down there, I'm afraid I'll hurt you."

He pulled his finger out of his mouth and pulled out a glistening silver thread.

Before Santa Karina could even catch her breath, she felt a wet, cold, sharp touch on her neck again.

Those were the mermaid queen's fingernails, but Saint Karina had no doubt that those fingernails could easily create a bloody hole in her neck.

"You never intended for me to leave alive, did you?"

"How could that be? You're my daughter's sweetheart. I just wanted to ask you some questions so your words would be more reliable, wouldn't they?"

"Is this considered a threat?"

"Hehe...you can understand it that way."

The mermaid queen's casual remark was itself a threat.

"Do you really love my daughter?"

“Princess Hero is lovely, and I am naturally willing to engage in a deep physical and spiritual exchange.”

"Be bold!"

Seeing Saint Karina's fearless provocation and her flirtatious remarks about his daughter, it seemed to have provoked the mermaid queen in front of him.

Her fingernails dug slightly into Santa Karina's skin, and drops of hot, red blood rolled down her neck and spread into the seawater.

"If you continue to talk to me like this, then I'll take this as your last words."

The power of a tenth-tier cultivator against a weak human saintess who has lost her former power and only possesses the power of a tenth-tier cultivator is naturally very oppressive.

Of course, Saint Karina knew that the Mermaid Queen couldn't really want to kill her, otherwise she wouldn't have wasted so much time talking to her.

So, Saint Karina decided to deliberately act in accordance with the Mermaid Queen's personality. For a woman of this caliber, an empress with an extremely strong desire for control, she deliberately matched her already moist eyes with a hint of fear.

This fear shouldn't be overdone; just enough to project a pitiful and vulnerable image.

"I am very sorry. I was indeed very rude and overstepped my bounds just now. Please forgive me, beautiful queen of the mermaids."

Saint Karina's humble demeanor seemed to please the Mermaid Queen, who appreciating Saint Karina's expression with a sense of enjoyment.

Soon, the corners of her mouth began to turn up.

"Behave yourself, so you can live a good life, right?"

"Yes, it is……"

Those timid, wet eyes, like a little pet, and the slight tremor in his voice when answering questions, clearly pleased the queen even more.

She genuinely believed she had intimidated Saint Karina, and felt immense satisfaction and a sense of conquest as a result.

"Let's ask the first question: Is it true that you and my daughter said it has been sleeping for more than 500 years?"

"um, yes."

She felt the mermaid queen's fingernails leave her neck, then pinch her chin, lift it with her index finger, and gaze into her eyes from a downward angle.

Saint Karina immediately continued her performance, pretending to tremble slightly before nodding obediently like a chick pecking at rice.

Do you know why you faked your death?

"I'm sorry... I don't know."

Saint Karina noticed that the Mermaid Queen used the words "sleep" and "feigned death," clearly indicating that she believed she had indeed "slept" for over five hundred years, but did not believe in resurrection.

She was a tenth-tier powerhouse of her time, and her knowledge and experience were naturally far greater than that of ordinary people. In the Mermaid Queen's mind, even a miracle could not possess such power.

"So, you approached my daughter with the Trident of Poseidon just to get that thing?"

"no……"

Just as Santa Karina was about to deny it outright, she felt a sharp pain in her jaw, a sensation as if her bones were being crushed, shooting straight into her forehead.

"You'd better think this through before you speak. You know I hate it when people lie to me."

"pain……"

Santa Karina cried out in pain, and then she felt the force subside considerably.

The slender fingers left her chin, and the Mermaid Queen continued to smile, seemingly waiting for Saint Karina's explanation.

Saint Karina first lowered her head slightly, letting the shadows obscure her expression, feigning struggle and thought. Finally, she raised her head and spoke with feigned hesitation:

"Actually, if we're talking about the time more than 500 years ago, I accidentally fell into the sea while being chased by my enemies, and that's how I met Princess Hero. This time, I'm here because I really need the Trident of the Sea God. The Lorian Empire is currently beset by internal and external troubles. I have a deal with Ernest XV, and the content of the deal is that I help her defeat the demons."

Saint Karina distorted some of the facts; the deal's content regarding repelling the demons was limited to the invasion within the capital.

As a result, the young emperor, the counterparty in the transaction, lost what is most precious to women, while Saint Karina gained some confidence to be more extravagant.

Saint Karina's current ability to think and perform so calmly is also due to her possession of the Unsealing Stone. If she were to encounter a life-or-death crisis, escaping the underwater kingdom would not be a problem.

In other words, even if the Mermaid Queen intended to kill her, she wouldn't be so foolish as to let herself be killed by her.

A mix of truth and lies is what makes something seem real. And what she told Princess Hero was the absolute truth, yet the Mermaid Queen didn't believe her.

The "resurrection" was real, even Saint Karina didn't know the reason for it yet. To make her words more believable, Saint Karina decided to strike while the iron was hot and continue.

"The demons in the capital have been temporarily repelled and the demon tide has been eliminated, but demon reinforcements are still lingering in the north of the Lorian Empire and may return at any time. It is shameful to say that because the people have changed their faith, the emperor's control over the areas outside the central government is becoming increasingly weak. Ernest XV is almost like a puppet emperor who has been sidelined by nobles and ministers."

Saint Karina said this without showing any remorse on her face.

She was actually quite pleased that the descendants of the traitor had fallen to such a miserable state. Otherwise, how would she have had the opportunity to wreak havoc on the empress of a nation?

"Hmm, it certainly doesn't sound like a lie."

Even the Mermaid Queen didn't realize that she had developed a strange possessiveness towards her daughter's sweetheart.

She was eager to know more, so she directly pointed out the question she wanted to know.

"Little one, your relationship with that Ernest XV isn't that simple, is it?"

“This… Your Majesty, this is my privacy.”

Saint Karina shook her head with a wry smile.

"Hmph, fine, pressing you directly would make me seem too heartless. How about this, you swear allegiance to me, and I'll lend you the Trident of Poseidon."

She emphasized the word "loyalty" and then pointed to the bottom of her skirt.

This… Saint Karina was shocked!

She never expected that the other party would be such a queen! Openly stealing her own daughter's boyfriend!

34. Offending the Queen

"Why, don't you want to?"

"Of course I'd like to."

Saint Karina was completely dumbfounded. This mermaid queen had no martial ethics and didn't wear panties!

Now that she's seen the other person's delicate, luscious petals, how could she possibly say she didn't want to?

I'm afraid if she dared to shake her head, her head would roll on the ground.

"Then I'll be very sorry..."

To make it easier to maneuver, she changed her posture to kneeling on both knees.

"Um……"

Santa Karina treated it as a plumbing repair, ignoring the indescribable noises from the construction work, and focused entirely on fixing the leaking faucet.

If a water pipe joint in the house is leaking, the first thing to do is to disconnect the water supply and unscrew the connector. Although she can't completely shut off the water supply right now, she just needs to let all the water flow out.

"Good girl... Hmm, just remember, I am your queen."

The Mermaid Queen's face grew increasingly red, and her eyes began to become hazy and unfocused. Slowly, she placed her hand on the back of Saint Karina's head.

"From now on, just call me Nora..."

"Um……"

"However, in front of a third person, you still have to call me Her Majesty the Queen."

After being reminded of each other's identities, Nora squinted, completely absorbed in the experience.

Finally, cut off the broken pipe first, and then put the connector onto the end of the pipe so that the cut on the other end is flush with the other opening of the connector, so that it can be straightened.

Once all the stored water gushed out instantly, Santa Karina's plumbing repair work was complete.

"Little guy, the way you look makes me want to eat you right now."

Nora looked at Saint Karina with affection as she saw the water stains still remaining at the corners of her mouth.

She pulled out a handkerchief, and I don't know how she did it, but it could be used as a wet wipe in the deep sea.