Happy birthday to Miss Zhuli. Extra chapter.

Looking at the white-haired beast-eared girl standing naked before her with a pitiful expression that looked moments away from tears,

Yumo’s feelings were... complicated.

Honestly, Yumo no longer felt much toward the girl’s absurdly perfect and alluring body.

Part of the reason was that, as the management consciousness of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, she physically could not have that kind of “reaction” anymore.

The other—and main—reason was simple.

She had seen it too many times already.

She was used to it.

Back when Limo had first learned transformation magic, Yumo had genuinely suffered.

A gorgeous girl constantly bouncing around naked in front of her without the slightest restraint or understanding of shame had forced Yumo into a perpetual state of mental tension. She had to repeatedly empty her mind just to avoid getting distracted by temptation.

After all—

Even if she was now just a consciousness without a physical body, she still possessed nearly twenty years of experience living as a man!

And not just any man either—

A complete fucking beginner with absolutely zero experience in that department!

Scenes like that were simply beyond what she could endure!

During that period, Yumo frequently reached her limit and bundled Limo up in torn cloth before throwing her out of her sensory range.

The result was that Limo genuinely thought Mother hated her and cried so miserably it could supposedly shake heaven and earth.

Later on, though...

As time passed, Yumo gradually got used to it.

Seeing Limo’s body no longer made her nervous.

Instead—

It just pissed her off.

After all, she herself was still just a damn consciousness entity!!

Meanwhile this stupid girl had finally learned transformation magic and obtained such an amazing body, only to completely waste it!

Rolling around in mud all day.

Running around naked constantly.

What a criminal waste of heavenly treasure!!

And no matter how many times she was scolded, she never learned!

Meanwhile Yumo herself still hadn’t managed to obtain a body at all.

Honestly, if she could get a humanoid body—even a female one—she would accept it without hesitation qwq...

For five hundred years,

Yumo had existed only as a consciousness entity.

More than anything, she longed for a physical body.

Especially a human one.

Yet Limo practically despised staying in human form.

Most of the time, she preferred acting as a giant wolf instead.

That fact annoyed Yumo quite a bit.

Still, Yumo honestly had no idea whether her education methods were the problem, because every single time she lectured Limo—

The words entered through one ear and exited through the other.

She had literally spanked this girl just two days ago.

So how had she already forgotten to wear clothes again immediately after transforming?!

“You little brat, your skin’s really itching for punishment now, huh?”

A hand formed from Shadow of Silence Power tightly grabbed one of Limo’s fluffy ears.

Then Yumo mercilessly twisted it a full three hundred and sixty degrees.

The pain instantly brought tears to Limo’s eyes.

After all, her ears were the most sensitive part of her body~

“OW OW OW!! Wuuuuu!! Mother, I was wrong!! I was just too excited to come back and report my success, so I forgot!! I-I’ll go put clothes on right now!!”

After barely escaping Yumo’s merciless “iron claw,”

Limo hurriedly ran toward the distant broken throne and pulled out a tattered fur coat from inside it before throwing it over herself.

Then she immediately bounced back in front of Yumo.

“Mother, I-I’m dressed now!”

At those words, black lines practically appeared around Yumo.

“Limo.”

“Hm? What is it, Mother?”

“I believe I’ve also told you before that, in order to avoid dirtying your clothes, you should clean the blood and mud off your body before putting them on. Did you forget that too?”

?!!

“Eh?!!”

Limo froze.

Then she hurriedly pulled open the coat and looked down at herself.

Her body was covered in bloodstains and black mud.

Cold sweat instantly trickled down her forehead.

“Sorry Mother!! I was wrong!! I’ll wash up immediately!!”

Sensing the increasingly tangible dark aura radiating from her mother, Limo decisively chose self-preservation.

To avoid being personally thrown into the lake by Yumo, she immediately ripped off the fur coat again and jumped straight into the nearby water.

“Gulu gulu gulu~~”

Moments later,

after bubbles rose to the surface,

the beast-eared girl slowly poked her head out of the water and looked pitifully toward the crimson sphere nearby with eyes that were very obviously trying to act cute.

“Mother... I know I was wrong... I won’t do it again... wuuwuwuwu...”

Yumo: .....

Watching the wolf girl continuously blowing bubbles in the water, Yumo sighed in resignation.

“Fine. I’ll give you another chance. Also, don’t throw your clothes around randomly.”

As she spoke,

the crimson light rippled slightly.

The fur coat Limo had tossed aside was lifted by red Shadow of Silence Power and floated gently to the edge of the lake.

“You’d better wash it before wearing it again.” 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Seeing that Mother apparently had no intention of continuing her anger, Limo immediately let out a huge sigh of relief and nodded obediently.

“Mhm! Understood, Mother!! I’ll wash it properly!”

“That would be best.”

Honestly, taking care of childish kids like this was exhausting.

When were these little monsters ever going to become civilized?

Yumo grumbled inwardly.

Well...

There was still a long road ahead~

She finally understood a bit of the exhaustion parents felt.

“Limo.”

“Yes! Mother! Do you have more instructions?”

“Nothing major. After you finish washing up, lock up those two humans you brought back. Feed them a little too. Don’t let them die.”

“Ohhh, understood! But... Mother, aren’t you continuing the tests?”

Limo tilted her head curiously.

“No. There’s no point continuing for now.”

“Hm? Why?”

“Because it’ll probably fail again anyway. I need to make some adjustments first. The amount of Shadow of Silence Power inside the crystal needs proper recalibration.”

Yumo stared quietly at the floating crystal before her.

“Obtaining power probably can’t be done all at once. It needs to happen gradually, step by step.”

However—

The moment she heard the word “adjustments,”

a lonely look slowly appeared in Limo’s crimson eyes.

Even the fluffy ears atop her head drooped instantly.

“Uuu... adjustments again...”

Limo visibly became upset.

Because she knew very well that every time Mother performed those so-called “adjustments,” it consumed enormous amounts of time and energy.

And during those periods, Mother had no time to play with her.

Naturally, Limo was unhappy.

“Can’t you... just not adjust them...?”

Looking toward her mother in the distance, Limo muttered gloomily under her breath.

However—

Within the influence range of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, as long as Yumo had not entered her consciousness space, almost nothing could escape her perception.

Naturally, she heard every word of her daughter’s complaint.

Yumo could only sigh helplessly.

“There’s no helping it. If I don’t make adjustments, the success rate for ordinary humans accepting the power is just too low.”

“Uuuu... why even care about those humans anyway? They spend every day trying to destroy us. Why does Mother still want to give them power...?”

“There’s no helping that either~”

After putting away the purple crystal, Yumo sighed emotionally.

“I need to create some little bosses for the protagonist group to level up on! Otherwise how are they supposed to grow stronger? And if they don’t grow stronger, how could they possibly kill me?”

If that happened—

Wouldn’t the trial fail?