Mo Shangxie's intuition made every hair on her body stand on end. This little girl's state of mind had probably been frightened into something wrong. She had to hurry and find her master... have her master use great love to redeem her.
"Oh... sorry."
Yet the little girl's next sentence made Mo Shangxie shudder all over again.
The girl slowly raised her head, tilted it, and spoke. "Big sister, you've been here for a long time, haven't you?"
Mo Shangxie: "..."
She... she felt all the blood in her body turn cold in an instant. Shouldn't a three- or four-year-old girl be crying and screaming? How could she be this calm... even say something like that?
But she really had been there for a long time!
As someone from the Demon Realm, although she could not stand watching the Devil Race slaughter humans, she usually turned a blind eye. When passing through this village... she had originally intended to ignore it, but happened to see this little girl and felt pity for her.
In other words—
She could originally have saved everyone in this village, but she had not!
She, too, was one of this little girl's enemies who had wiped out her family.
And now, the girl had pointed it out directly.
"No, I was merely passing through. How about I take you somewhere safe?"
The little girl did not say anything, and Mo Shangxie took that as agreement.
Such a tiny child, without her... would starve to death here within a few days at most. Mo Shangxie knew very clearly that she was a devil, not some good person. The first reason she had saved this little girl was that she looked adorable and likable. The second was that she had endured the same experience of having her