The Hero Kicked Me Out of His Party, So I Turned Him into My Maid - Chapter 57

Even though you sense that something is off, you have no choice in what you put in a sandwich; you can only have cheese sandwiched between two breads.

On one side, Lise crossed her arms over her chest. Her face, which had been as cold as ice, now had a touch of color. Her brows were furrowed, and there was no frost around her. She looked just like an ordinary person.

The difference was that Lise was staring intently at Evelyn’s phantom, her magic surging within her.

Similarly, Evelyn’s phantom floated in mid-air, a pair of bells tied to her beautiful, slender yet powerful horns, her bare feet seemingly deliberately placed on Lise’s desk.

A piece was clearly missing from Lise’s neatly arranged books. Ariel could tell that it was Lise’s class notes, which were lying in her own dormitory.

“Giggle…”

Evelyn’s phantom didn’t open her mouth, but she laughed, and the bells jingled with the movement of her body.

“Evelyn, as a demon lord, how dare you appear in human territory? What do you take humans for?”

Lise started by attacking Evelyn.

“Hehehe… You humans are incompetent. Ariel brought my magic into the palace, and those court archmages didn’t even notice. So why don’t I dare to come to human territory?”

After Evelyn Phantom finished speaking, she didn’t close her mouth. Her lips were slightly parted as she looked at Lise.

Ariel also noticed that Lise was different now. Before they started training together, Lise was a cold beauty, but now she was more like a girl full of fighting spirit, although this fighting spirit was not expressed too much in her body.

“Lise, do you want to wage war against me for Arivil? Even if no human can defeat me right now, including the former hero Brienne who is tutoring Mira in Arivil’s room.”

“Why wouldn’t I dare? I may not be able to defeat you in strength, but I know you.”

“oh?”

Evelyn’s phantom sat on Lise’s desk, her white legs crossed, her hand propping up her head, as if Evelyn herself had descended upon the scene:

“Did the Davor family ever investigate me? Interesting.”

Not to be outdone, Lise glanced at Ariel out of the corner of her eye and slowly released Evelyn’s dirty secrets:

“You were born by chance from a succubus and a lower-class demon. You have succubus blood, don’t you?”

“yes.”

Evelyn answered very decisively.

“When succubi exploit humans, they first use methods to get closer to them, such as arousing certain desires.”

Ariel recalled the night she first met Evelyn in the back mountains. Evelyn had aroused her desire for revenge through the hero’s fragmented memories, which also made her less wary of her.

“Then, gradually get closer to the target’s heart and build trust.”

Ariel recalled that when she met Evelyn for the second time, Evelyn appeared as a “collaborator she couldn’t let go of” and fulfilled all her requests.

“Finally, you conquer their heart through physical contact and capture them.”

!

Ariel also couldn’t forget the kiss Evelyn had taken from her.

What happened?

Everything Evelyn has been going through so far has completely matched the succubus’s modus operandi!

Could it be that…

Ariel covered her lips, her body involuntarily moving closer to Lise, while casting a wary glance at Evelyn.

Evelyn’s phantom remained completely calm, maintaining her composed demeanor.

“Like you said, I am half succubus. But, Lise, you’ve got one thing wrong—”

Evelyn licked her lips with the tip of her tongue; clearly, an illusion’s lips wouldn’t be dry.

“–So-called succubi target human men. Why would I ‘seduce’ Ariel as you suggest?”

“Because…because…”

Within Lise’s dantian, the yang energy that originally belonged to Alyssa emanated a warm current, reminding Lise of the wonderful feeling she experienced while cultivating with her fellow practitioners.

“Because she has masculine energy…you’re after her.”

Ariel opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something in her defense.

But what Lise said was true; she was a witch with only yang energy and no yin energy.

Furthermore, Lise didn’t seem to mind at all, as if no explanation was needed.

But this made me feel awkward.

“Hehehe… Why would I covet that energy? If I did, I would have already done it when I kissed Ariel last time~”

Evelyn’s phantom separated another portion of black mist, which transformed into a large black hand, reaching out to Lise and pointing at her lips.

Lise did not back down, but stared coldly at the large hand, the ice element in its palm gradually condensing.

“Lise, you got anxious after seeing me kiss Ariel, so you wanted to take this opportunity to win Ariel’s lips and heart, right?”

Evelyn’s phantom withdrew her large, dark hand, and the bells on her horns rang even louder, further unsettling Lise and Ariel.

Lise, on the other hand, was rendered speechless by Evelyn’s retort. After hesitating for a long time, she finally managed to squeeze out a weak sentence from her throat:

“I was here first, you don’t know Ariel as well as I do.”

Ariel looked at Lise in shock.

Just now, I was not rational enough and was almost driven to Lise’s lips by the instinctive desire brought by my fellow practitioner.

Looking back now, Lise did seem to be quite proactive.

Previously, Lise had always silently protected him from behind, but now she was actively involved in his affairs, both big and small.

So, Lise’s previous stalking of him was because she…liked him?

He became proactive because he witnessed Evelyn kissing him the whole time, and felt like he was being taken away from her, so he…

Evelyn’s phantom shook her head and said decisively:

“No one in this world knows Ariel better than I do.”

“Lise, why don’t you ask Ariel what she thinks of our relationship? Will she accept it or not?”

accept?

Is that acceptable…?

But what am I hesitating about? Is it because Ariel was taught from a young age to “marry a man”?

In my past life, I had seen lovers torn apart because of the “matching social status” principle, and I had seen my senior brother give up his true love and fall into inner demons because of Ochiai Kung Fu.

At that time, I already understood in my heart:

“If you don’t even dare to look directly into the direction your heart desires, then you might as well not cultivate this path!”

The teachings of “one should marry a nobleman” in this life seem pale and laughable in the face of Lise and Evelyn’s sincere feelings.

Yes, who says I have to marry a man? Who says I have to give up the truest feelings around me because of these ridiculous “rules”?

There’s absolutely no reason to hesitate!

Ariel raised her head, seemingly transforming all the tension into a soothing floral fragrance, and answered firmly:

“Lise, Eve, if you ask me, I will accept all your feelings, but I don’t know if I can reciprocate them properly…”

Lise looked at Evelyn with a smug expression.

Evelyn’s mouth dropped open, a rare sight, and she nodded repeatedly.

“It’s me who doesn’t understand you anymore… Ariel, it seems you’ve grown up, you’re not the person I used to know…”