Chapter 67: 66. Whipping

66. Whipping

"I, I..."

Facing the giant dog with a sturdy body, the girl's voice lost its usual tone that focused on precise pronunciation, not knowing whether it was because she was so nervous that her throat shrank together, or because she was carrying a crying tone.

"I made up my mind, yes, I must do it."

She encouraged herself repeatedly and took several deep breaths.

Raising her hands, she began to brew power, making the action of wanting to summon the Demon Life Flower.

More than ten seconds passed, and there was no change in her palms.

"What's wrong?"

"Don't know, why can't I summon it?" Dorothy looked at her hands in surprise.

"Snore—"

The sleeping Pale Dog startled Dorothy, and the crystal clear liquid in her eye sockets accumulated more and more.

Closing her eyes, the girl called out again. It could be seen that she used all her strength, and the knuckles holding her arms turned white due to exertion.

However, the plant monster hidden in her body still did not appear.

"Forget it, come back first."

Li Ang beckoned to Dorothy and returned to the secret passage.

"If you can't call out the Demon Life Flower again, that monster is going to wake up."

Originally, Li Ang wanted to see what the so-called bloodthirst of the Demon Life Flower was like, so he planned to force Dorothy more.

The system said that her relationship with the Demon Life Flower needed to be controlled by will, but she was now nervous and difficult to mobilize this will, so she couldn't even call out the flower.

Wild Pale Dogs were relatively alert. This one had its intelligence suppressed and was fed a bit fat, so it was sleeping soundly, but dragging it for too long might still let it notice.

The room guarded by the magic dog could only be reached through the secret passage. In theory, the sound here was not easy to spread out, but if the movement was too big, there would still be hidden dangers.

It seemed that her power was relatively special. Just forcing it wouldn't work; it required her to constantly engage in a battle between heaven and man to control it.

Dorothy heard Li Ang's call but didn't move immediately. She bit her lip and said: "I can do it, let me try again."

"No, look at the situation clearly."

"But, this is the last time. If I don't do it, you will leave..."

Li Ang went over and grabbed her arm, pulling her back into the secret passage.

Closing the secret door, Li Ang turned back and scolded: "Idiot!"

"When you find that you have something you can't do during a battle, you must adjust your strategy immediately."

"Letting you show determination is not letting you mess around. You won't die, but you can't mess around either. Injuries, limb fractures, these are also troublesome once they happen."

"Even if I break my hand, I can grow it back."

"Strong recovery power is for bottoming out. The feeling of pain and body separation sometimes destroys your will, and instead, it cannot play a training role. What do you think the result will be if you rely on yourself to force it? That is failure, even worse than failure!"

Dorothy lowered her eyes, her cherry lips bit, listening honestly to the training.

Following Li Ang's scolding, she slowly raised her head, her eyes filled with water, flashing in the dim light of the narrow space.

Li Ang subconsciously thought she was going to cry out, but saw her snow-white skin, which was as delicate as white silk, gradually showing a blush, her breathing slightly rapid, and the air like sweet flower fragrance gently blown out from between her lips.

The girl's voice was extremely small: "Anything else?"

"What else?"

"I mean, you are right, you can say more."

Dorothy's originally mature and elegant face now presented a spoiled expression like a child who had done something wrong, and the light in her eyes was a bit strange.

"I am indeed cowardly, delicate, and troublesome. I realized it, and I want to change and become a qualified Sky Knight. But I am always a little bit short myself, so you can whip me more."

Her eyes drooped, her toes pointed to the ground, a small part of her visible slender neck had been dyed red, and her earlobes with rounded curves were like cherries.

"Scold me more, maybe this way, I can change towards what you expect."

Li Ang scratched his hair; he felt that the situation began to develop in the wrong direction.

"I am finding problems, not just scolding you. How should I say it, you..."

Li Ang said halfway, not knowing where to cut in.

The problematic girl in front of him, her problem might not just be those before, but also some other deeper and harder-to-handle parts.

Finding that Li Ang was confused by her, Dorothy recovered a bit, and panic appeared on her face.

"Sorry, I just... just haven't had anyone want me to be better and scold me for a long, long time. I suddenly had a strange feeling, sorry, said strange things."

Dorothy quickly wiped the corners of her eyes with her index finger knuckles.

"I just suddenly felt that maybe if you were stricter, you could push me to change faster."

Li Ang said: "You said before that your father and brother were not good to you. They wouldn't scold you?"

"They... they wouldn't. They hate me, just pure hate."

Dorothy turned her face to one side: "The scolding I said is the kind that sincerely hopes I can be better, like you just now. They mostly belittle and ignore.

"You say, if every time I am delicate, every time I am weak, someone asks me properly, tells me what to do, will I be stronger now?"

The girl leaned gently against the wall. While speaking, she unconsciously twisted the ginger-yellow hair tips between her fingers and rubbed them slowly.

"Before, when I was ignorant, my mother would teach me. Children only feel annoyed, but before I realized that might be concern, no one managed me anymore.

"Along the way, when you were saying various things about me, I suddenly thought of her."

Li Ang softened his tone as much as possible and said: "Your mother?"

"Died of illness. There are too many unknown things in the Newbis world. She got a strange disease from somewhere."

"She was a princess of an elf kingdom. She went out to adventure and met Dad, later married him, and fully supported him in building the territory and developing his career. But she didn't know when she got sick. After giving birth to my two brothers and me, it became more and more serious.

"After she was bedridden, she never accompanied me again. Father and brother surrounded him, and different adults came into the house from outside all day long."

"Then your Demon Life Flower?"

Speaking of this, Li Ang suddenly had a vague guess.

"No wonder it's an old Sky Knight, you thought of it. The Demon Life Flower is something guarded by her kingdom. As long as its seeds are allowed to reside and symbiosis, mother's illness can be cured.

"My grandfather was the king there. He firmly disagreed. Mother didn't consider this option at first, also because they elves were very nervous about this kind of monster.

"But if she left, Father's career would stagnate. In the end, she still found a way to get someone to find the seeds of the Demon Life Flower. This is a once-in-a-hundred-years opportunity."

Li Ang asked: "How did the seeds end up with you in the end?"

Dorothy lowered her head as if recalling for a while, but finally shook her head and said: "I don't remember."

"Don't remember?"

"Father and brother said that I was a natural bad seed. I heard that it was a very powerful thing, so I wanted to grab it, so I secretly went to grab it when mother was preparing to plant it. So I killed mother."

Li Ang frowned: "Why did they say it? You didn't have consciousness at that time?"

"I don't know, I don't know."

The lady raised one hand to cover her forehead, and her face was also completely shrouded in shadow.

"I only feel that I had a dream. It was mother who planted the seeds for me, but I don't remember the things before and after. I told them about this dream once. At that time, Father's face was too terrible, so I never mentioned it again."

"Mother passed away, and I fell asleep beside her. The Demon Life Flower grew in my body.

"Because of me, mother didn't survive. What Father and brother said was also the truth."

"When I did something wrong, they never told me what was right. They just... said that maybe I shouldn't be alive."

"Stop talking."

Li Ang stopped Dorothy, preventing her from making her emotions increasingly difficult to control as she recalled.

He felt that there was something tricky in this, but obviously it was not the time to talk about this now, because Dorothy suddenly stood straight and walked towards him, and the faint fragrance on her body gradually approached.

"What are you doing?"

Looking at Li Ang at close range, she brewed for a while, moved her slightly curled lips, and her tone was soft and baseless.

"After eight years, I also understand that I can't let others take care of everything. But I am still very unpromising. If Li Ang you can always whip me behind me, maybe I can really be corrected."

Seeing that Li Ang in front of her didn't speak, she raised her hand to her neck and untied the choker.

"Scold me more, even if it's much stricter. Look, I'm actually used to it."