The Defeated Little Xingyue (つД`)

“Tell me, how did the two of you find my lair?”

The flower demon interrogated Xisitina.

“Urgh… this young lady won’t tell you anything X﹏X”

Xisitina was barely holding on.

The electrified vines formed a purple-black net in front of her. Xisitina’s fair skin was already covered in black burn marks.

The blue-haired girl stubbornly held her head high, confronting the flower demon. Yet, her trembling fingertips were still condensing a faint ice blade to cover for Xingyue.

Xingyue: ‘This is bad. Tina can’t last much longer like this… By the time I find the staff, she’ll definitely be done for!’

Xingyue bit her lower lip and finally decided to go all out.

Choose B!

Of course, she wouldn’t be so foolish as to attack directly.

“I-I surrender… Don’t hurt Tina…”

The little white-haired, red-eyed loli weakly raised her hands, tears glistening in her eyes as she spoke.

“Oh? It seems you have some self-awareness.”

The flower demon said with a smile.

But she didn’t know that this was actually Xingyue’s charging move.

“Take this! (ﾉ｀⊿´)ﾉ”

Between Xingyue’s hands, star magic erupted into fine blades of light.

They flew towards the flower demon!

“!”

This attack indeed caught the flower demon off guard, injuring her body, but…

“You damn loli… you’ve got some nerve!”

The wounds on the flower demon’s body were actually healing slowly!

Xingyue: ‘She has self-healing abilities?! ∑(❍ฺд❍ฺlll)’

‘Oh no!’

‘She won’t fall for the same trick again!’

Unfortunately… if only Xingyue’s stats were a little higher, she might have been able to save Xisitina.

“I will never forgive you!”

The flower demon angrily swung her vines.

“Urgh X﹏X”

Xingyue was hit and, like a kite with a broken string, crashed into the rock wall beside her.

“Xingyue—!”

Before her consciousness faded, Xingyue saw Xisitina’s heart-wrenching scream. The blue-haired girl’s despairing eyes were the last image she saw before falling into darkness.

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“Mmm… ugh…”

After being unconscious for who knows how long, Xingyue groggily opened her eyes, only to meet a pair of blue eyes brimming with tears.

Xisitina’s messy hair fell between their touching foreheads, revealing the burn marks from the electric current at the corners of her eyes.

Their fingers were intertwined as they were hung high up by the vines, their soft bodies pressed closely together, even their rapid breaths mingling.

“Why are you so foolish…”
Xisitina’s voice was hoarse, unlike her usual self. A hot teardrop fell onto Xingyue’s face.

It seemed they had been captured by the flower demon and were now in a cell…

“Why didn’t you listen! This young lady told you to run, so you should have run!”
She buried her trembling face in Xingyue’s neck.

“I’m sorry…”

Xingyue didn’t know what to say, so she could only apologize…

“Don’t apologize to this young lady! I don’t want to hear it!”

Xisitina’s grip tightened.

“Damn it, how could I be defeated by something like this? If only I had my staff, I could have transformed…”

At that point, Xisitina suddenly stopped.

“Transformed into what?” Xingyue blinked.

‘Does that staff have some special use?’

“Hehehehe~”

However, Xingyue’s question was interrupted by a sudden, delicate laugh.

The flower demon swayed her petal skirt as she walked into the cell.

“You gaudy slut, let us go!”

Xisitina shouted.

“Still talking so big even after being captured… Hah, forget it. It’s not like you’ll be able to talk for much longer anyway.”
The flower demon revealed an evil smile.

“What are you planning to do…?” Xingyue trembled.

“What am I planning to do… Actually, I’ve thought of quite a few things. I was originally planning to feed you to the man-eating flowers as fertilizer, but…”

The flower demon’s gaze swept over their faces, and she smiled again.

“But the magical power within your bodies is surprisingly rich. It should be enough for me to evolve into a stronger form~”

The vines binding the two of them suddenly tightened, and countless tiny thorns pierced their skin.

“Urgh—!”

Xingyue grunted in pain. The magical power in her body was being rapidly drained, and her limbs were gradually losing sensation.

Xisitina’s situation was no better. She gritted her teeth, trying to use magic to escape, but she couldn’t sense any magical power.

“Don’t struggle. Your power has long been sealed by my specially made vines. Just obediently become my nutrients along with your little sister.”

The flower demon giggled.

In just a short while, a third of their magical power had been drained.

Looking at Xingyue’s weakened face, Xisitina bit her lip…

“I beg you… at least let her go… I-I’m willing to give you all my magical power. Just let her go…”

Xisitina slowly spoke, begging for Xingyue’s life, her tone completely devoid of her usual young lady arrogance.

“Tina…?”

Xingyue’s pupils trembled.

But hearing Xisitina say such words only made her feel even more guilty…

“Hahahaha—!”

The flower demon let out a sharp laugh and lifted Xisitina’s chin with a vine:

“A young lady begging for mercy? What a pity. The magical power in this loli is even greater than yours. How could I possibly let go of such good nutrients~”

“Just wait for your deaths. I’m going to take a beauty nap first~”

After speaking, the flower demon left the cell.

With her departure, the cell fell into deeper darkness, only the sizzling sound of the vines greedily sucking their magical power echoing in their ears.

“Xingyue… don’t fall asleep…”
Xisitina’s voice grew weaker and weaker.

But Xingyue’s condition was even worse.

At this moment, Xingyue’s eyelids were already as heavy as lead. The weakness from having her magical power drained made her vision gradually blur.

“Mmm…”

“Ngh…”

Xisitina had no choice. Blushing, she pressed her lips against Xingyue’s, kissing her.

The two girls encouraged each other in this way.

…But that was only delaying the inevitable.

Xingyue soon became too weak to even kiss back.

“I’m sorry… Tina… I should have listened to you…”

Xingyue was on the verge of death. She used her last bit of strength to apologize to Xisitina.

“You have to hold on! Don’t you dare fall asleep! This young lady won’t allow you to die!!”

Xisitina shouted, her voice laced with sobs… no, she was already crying.

But Xingyue really couldn’t hold on anymore…

Soon, her magical power was completely depleted, and Xingyue slowly closed her eyes…

“Waaaaahhhhhhh—”

The last thing she heard was Xisitina’s heartbroken sobs.

[Game Over.]

[Ending Achieved: The Difference in Stats.]

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Little Xingyue, oh little Xingyue, I really don’t know what to say about you. You’re so weak right now, why did you try to compete with her in stats?

Sometimes it’s better to think in reverse. Is it possible that what you thought of, the young lady also considered? There’s a reason she told you to run.

Maybe it’s because you were there, she couldn’t use some of her powerful moves (ˊ˘ˋ)

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“Ah!”

Xingyue’s eyes snapped open.

She had rewound once again.

And the place she had rewound to was—

“Hehehe, there’s still one more. Little sister, if you don’t want to suffer, you’d better obediently put your hands behind your back and let this big sister tie you up.”

“Run! Xingyue!”

“Go find my staff… We can’t both be caught!”

Xisitina was stalling the flower demon…

[Time of Decision!]

[A. Run and find Xisitina’s staff!]

[B. Stay and fight the flower demon to save Xisitina!]

[C. Surrender to the flower demon…]

[Note: There is only one correct option. If you choose incorrectly, you will enter the bad ending—”The Flower Demon’s Affection.”]

This time, Xingyue decided…