“Answer me—where exactly did Princess Avira escape to?”
Her legs in white stockings bent inward from the restraints, knees pressed together as she curled up on the bed. The maid outfit clung tightly to her slender waist, revealing a figure that was seven parts youthful innocence and three parts mature allure.
She had a head of silver-long hair, with strands framing her sapphire-like blue eyes.
Unfortunately, her slender hands, gloved up to the elbows, were shackled by chains and hung from the ceiling.
And the culprit behind all this was the stunningly beautiful dragon girl sitting on the chair opposite the bed, her long legs elegantly crossed.
Her beautiful deep-blue hair reached her waist, and her crimson vertical pupils seemed to burn with cold flames.
Outside the window, heavy rain poured down amid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, yet her nightingale-like, velvety voice instilled even greater fear.
Her light gauze dress draped over her, with her crossed legs below sheathed in black stockings, the exposed pale skin stirring endless fantasies.
The scales on her unfurled wings reflected a deep blue sheen, more beautiful than any gem in the world.
“My patience is limited.”
The dragon girl’s deep-blue tail flicked, lifting Avira’s smooth chin.
What this dragon girl didn’t know, however, was that the girl she had bound and hung humiliatingly from the ceiling was none other than the Avira she was searching for.
The real deal.
To understand this, the story had to go back to before the time regression.
Originally, she had been a young man with nothing better to do than browse the library, where he stumbled upon a book called The Counterattacking Hero’s Path to Kingship. Unexpectedly, after flipping through it a few times, he was sucked inside along with the book.
The plot followed the protagonist whose nation was invaded by the demon race. He led a resistance army, traveled through various countries, became the Hero, and successfully exacted revenge. Along the way, he bedded countless women, seized opportunities and intelligence with ease, and received help from experts at key moments… In short, no matter how you looked at it, this was a classic power fantasy novel.
If she had obtained the protagonist’s template, she was confident she could sail smoothly to kingship like him, conquering the world with the script and special abilities. Even if she couldn’t unify it, she could at least enjoy decades of carefree leisure.
The bad news was that she had transmigrated into the body of a doomed princess!
According to the plot, this powerless princess was framed and killed early in the fall of her nation, reduced to a minor character serving as bleak set dressing before the demon race even breached the city.
But the clever Avira cleverly used her knowledge of the book to not only evade assassination and establish a resistance army in opposition to the Demon King, but also advance to Saintess in just a few months, becoming a hero against the demon race.
Yet even such a hero was betrayed by humans and nearly died on a frigid battlefield.
At the critical moment, the Crystal Dragon King—or rather, the Demon King named Ophitia—suddenly arrived and took Avira away.
She infected her with special demon essence, sealed away Avira’s memories from her human days, and corrupted her into a loyal familiar.
The Demon King wielded the fallen Saintess Power as a weapon, plunging humanity into despair once more.
Then, in a certain war, Avira, now a familiar, exhausted all her strength to block a fatal strike for Ophitia.
When Avira regained her senses afterward, she found herself back at the moment when the Crystal Dragon King Ophitia destroyed the nation.
She immediately realized that, for some reason, she had transmigrated to the past and gotten a second chance.
Thus began her second playthrough.
As she calmed down and sorted through her information, she suddenly remembered how the Demon King had corrupted her into a familiar loyal to her for five years!
Moreover, during that time as a familiar, she had completely forgotten her identity as a transmigrator.
She had even blocked a fatal blow for the Demon King in the end!
Now that sane Avira had an idea. Relying on her memories and knowledge of the plot, she helped all the humans escape successfully.
Sensing danger approaching, she disguised herself as a maid, concealing her aura and appearance.
As expected, the Demon King Ophitia personally came to the royal palace and captured the Avira who was still lingering there.
Avira breathed a sigh of relief knowing the Demon King hadn’t recognized her.
She forced out two tears, pretending to cry:
“Wahhh… I really don’t know, Demon King…”
Just as Avira thought the Demon King would press a knife to her neck for answers,
She stared at Avira for a long time without looking away, crystalline glimmers flickering in her eyes.
The Demon King’s odd behavior didn’t stop Avira from continuing her plan.
She first pretended to cry in despair for a bit, then secretly tilted her body so that a pure gold key hidden in her maid outfit fell out.
This key was no ordinary item.
Legend had it that every generation’s Demon King was sealed in special locations, known only to the legendary Great Sage and a handful of others, who guarded the keys.
If the Demon King obtained the power of those past seals, her strength would rise a whole tier.
Handed to the Hero, it could be used to seal that power into her “Holy Sword,” enhancing the Hero’s abilities.
Before the regression loop, Avira had used this key to find the seals of past Demon Kings, allowing the protagonist to absorb their power and defeat the first major enemy.
This time, Avira chose the Demon King.
She could have escaped on her own for a carefree life, but before the time regression, she recalled what [the Sage] had said.
“The Saintess Bloodline will bring calamity and death. Your future is destined to be a miserable end.”
If she did nothing, the Saintess Bloodline in her body would indeed bring disaster.
This had already been proven in the previous loop.
But now, Avira had her own countermeasure.
From her five years of memories, she knew the demon race inside out.
If she could gain the demon race’s support and become the puppet master behind the Demon King, she would command the world’s strongest forces and avert the bad ending.
She could even take the chance to get revenge on both the Demon King and the Hero, trampling them underfoot.
A series of brutal scenes flashed through Avira’s mind.
Turning the Demon King into her prisoner, forcing her to kneel and beg for forgiveness~
It seemed feasible.
Avira’s lips curved up.
What’s more…
In her eyes, Ophitia was like a silly little girl.
Right now, as long as she grasped the Demon King’s psychology, she could earn her trust and rule the demon race in no time~
“Demon King… I really don’t know… wahhh…” Avira forced out two more tears. She twisted her body, pretending to struggle but actually drawing attention to the key below.
By all logic, the Demon King should be thrilled to see the sealing key.
Everything was going according to plan.
So, Demon King, are you ready to receive your new power?
But the next second, her smile froze.
The Demon King Ophitia looked utterly anxious, completely ignoring the sealing key on the bed.
She pulled Avira into an embrace by the shoulders, stroked her satin-smooth long hair, and gazed excitedly into her eyes:
“Avira… you’re Avira?”
