Dark-colored Fairy Tale: Seven Magicians - Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Liu Menglu felt guilty and wanted to tell Chloe the truth directly. But seeing Chloe’s serious eyes and remembering her conviction-shattering look from yesterday, Liu Menglu could only bite the bullet and continue to bluff.
“The saying ‘know yourself and know your enemy, and you’ll never be defeated’ isn’t just about you understanding its surface. It’s about you experiencing and understanding its deeper meaning. For example, why would a person be greedy, or like greed?”
Chloe fell silent again. Liu Menglu glanced at the time and went to the kitchen to make a breakfast for herself. But just like before, as soon as she placed the breakfast on the table, Chloe snatched it.
Chloe finished the breakfast completely. As she ate, she didn’t forget to observe Liu Menglu. Finally, she looked at Liu Menglu with a serious expression and said, “I think I understand now why the Seven Deadly Sins are so appealing.”
Liu Menglu looked at her empty plate, on the verge of tears, and forced herself to continue the conversation. “Why?”
Chloe answered very seriously, “Because doing these things makes a person feel happy and relaxed.”
Then, Chloe gave a long analysis. In Liu Menglu’s ears, the general meaning was that when she snatched Liu Menglu’s breakfast and saw Liu Menglu’s wronged expression, she felt happy.
She would get a headache when she couldn’t solve any of the math problems, but now that she was copying the homework and didn’t have to think, she felt full of energy.
It was precisely these kinds of short-term pleasures that numbed one’s senses, making people stop resisting the Seven Deadly Sins, and instead get attracted and corrupted by them.
After listening to Chloe’s analysis, Liu Menglu was surprisingly convinced. Her guilt for bluffing Chloe was slightly reduced.
Just as Liu Menglu was about to praise Chloe for her brilliant analysis, Chloe suddenly said in a solemn tone, “There are three more of the Seven Deadly Sins that I haven’t experienced yet: wrath, envy, and—lust.”
Liu Menglu was stunned. She hadn’t experienced the last two of those three either.
Over the years, whether it was her appearance, her looks, or her academic performance, she had been an all-around perfect girl, as if she had been cheating.
How could she be envious of anyone? As for the last one…
Liu Menglu couldn’t help but blush. She was still young. How could something like that even get close to her?
However, when a flag is raised, it’s time for a slap in the face.
Because she was just embarrassed, Liu Menglu had kept her head down. Now, she finally calmed down and was about to change the subject and call Chloe to go to school.
Chloe had moved next to her at some point and said in a very serious tone, “Let’s try it.”
Liu Menglu’s expression was a little confused.
Try it? Try what?
In the next second, Chloe gave a serious lesson. “Every year, among the corrupted beings worldwide, those corrupted by lust are the highest, accounting for 35%, while…”
Chloe’s words were cut off as Liu Menglu covered her mouth.
She felt that if Chloe finished that sentence, a police officer would show up at their door with a pair of silver handcuffs.
After all, the 16-year-old Chloe was a minor!
Loli-con cases start with three years in jail, and the maximum is the death penalty!
Liu Menglu awkwardly covered Chloe’s mouth. “Chloe, we’re… we’re still young. We shouldn’t study things like that.”
Chloe tilted her head. Her usually cold and calm little face had a hint of an unexpected innocence. “Do envy and wrath have anything to do with age?”
“Cough, cough, cough!” Liu Menglu coughed violently when she heard that. I’m sorry, it’s my fault. My mind went in the wrong direction!
She secretly raised her eyes and saw that Chloe was still looking at her with an innocent expression. Liu Menglu was immediately flustered. Her once eloquent mouth, which had bluffed Chloe, became a stuttering mess.
“Well, I think… those two actually have a lot to do with age!”
“It’s just… that kids shouldn’t be envious, because envy makes people ugly, for example. And wrath makes people lose their minds. If a child loses their rationality, it’s very bad for their future growth.”
Liu Menglu stuttered, rambling on and on about nonsense, trying to dissolve the awkward atmosphere.
If it had been anyone else, Chloe would probably not have listened to all this seemingly useful but actually useless talk.
But! It just so happened that Liu Menglu had bluffed her yesterday, and she subconsciously believed that there was indeed a reason behind what Liu Menglu said.
So, she listened very seriously. As a result, Chloe was fooled once again. Her thoughts successfully shifted to the relationship between being young and envy and wrath.
Seeing this, Liu Menglu let out a huge sigh of relief. She decided that for the next three days, she would not go on the forum. She was going to buy a box of laundry detergent and thoroughly wash herself to become “clean” again!
To completely change the subject, Liu Menglu saw that it was almost time for school and didn’t care that she hadn’t eaten breakfast yet.
She grabbed both Chloe’s and her own school bags and called for Chloe to walk to school.
As soon as the two of them arrived at school, they found that the atmosphere in the classroom was unusually serious, which made Liu Menglu a little confused.
Before she could ask, the homeroom teacher, who rarely appeared during morning self-study, walked in with a thick stack of test papers.
She pushed her slightly thick glasses up and looked at the students with a serious expression. “Students, after a month of hard work, I believe everyone has improved a lot. A test will begin at 8 a.m. today. I hope everyone reviews well and gives it their best shot.”
Upon hearing the teacher’s words, the students nodded one after another, their eyes bursting with fiery determination.
Especially Lu Yuting. She swore that this time, she would definitely surpass Liu Menglu!
However, Liu Menglu’s expression was frozen as she looked at Chloe, who seemed to have been struck by lightning. She asked with concern, “Chloe, are you okay?”
Chloe didn’t answer her question. She, like a lost soul, took out her test paper and dove into the ocean of knowledge.
Looking at the hardworking Chloe, Liu Menglu smiled.
Although she had indeed bluffed Chloe into being lazy, over a decade of experience couldn’t be changed by just a few words.
Just like now, if she had truly changed Chloe completely, Chloe would not be reviewing when she heard about the exam. She would be looking for opportunities to cheat.
With this thought, Liu Menglu immediately felt relieved. She was genuinely afraid that her words would make a hardworking magical being into a lazy slacker forever.
However, the facts showed that while Liu Menglu hadn’t changed Chloe’s true nature, a strange chemical reaction would occur when Chloe’s thoughts overrode her nature.
Just like now…