I'm a villain, not a devil

"Xiaoci, do you have any taste like that in your memory?"

"smell?"

Looking at Xiao Ci's clear and confused eyes, Xiao En nodded: "Like having a vague feeling that you need something or something?"

After coming back, Sean called his step-sister over. Given his relationship with Xiao Ci, he didn't need to beat around the bush and could just ask directly.

Xiao Ci tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Brother, what are you talking about, food?"

"Food, that's not a problem, right? It's that kind of taste that you will never forget, that taste that makes you... um, feel happy? Feel familiar?" Sean didn't remember the specific description of the task, so he could only ask tentatively.

He didn't think that he could find any evidence against the emperor with Xiao Ci's memory, but more information would be good.

Xiao Ci's face was red and she was a little distressed. She seemed to have no memory of what her brother said.

Besides, isn't it everything related to her brother that makes her feel happy and familiar?

She glanced at Sean and saw from his expression that it was not about him...

About me? Before I became a slave? Did my brother find a clue to my past?

Xiao Ci rubbed his head, and finally some vague impressions emerged.

"If that's the case, when I was very hungry in the past, I always wished I could have something to fill my stomach... Well, I can't tell you what it is specifically, but I have a vague feeling that the thing is in the imperial capital."

Fill your stomach? Something related to the emperor?

Sean looked thoughtful. In his memory, there seemed to be nothing relevant...wait.

Judging from the various conditions displayed by Xiao Ci, she has a great connection with the World Tree and the true royal family of the empire... and Sean happens to know such a thing.

His cheap son Winnac...

Most of Winnak's consciousness was in a dormant state, and the awakened consciousness was entangled with the Skinner, pigeons, etc. Sean destroyed the temporary body of the evil god, and most of the consciousness in it should have been destroyed, but Winnak was definitely fine.

And Winnac said that his body was in the hands of the emperor.

Could it be that this is what Xiao Ci wants?

Hiss... isn't this right?

Xiao Ci has not yet broken through to the Deep Red stage. Although he has enormous innate abilities and a Deep Blue chip fused into his body, Wen Na Ke is still addressed as "He" by others - there is no reason for Xiao Ci to use Wen Na Ke's body to fill his own stomach, right?

But somehow, Sean had a vague feeling that his direction was correct.

Could it be that it’s not the body, but some characteristics carried by Winnak’s body?

Just as Xiao En was thinking, Xiao Ci suddenly clapped his hands: "Ah, I remember now."

"what?"

Xiao Ci blinked his eyes: "I always feel that I have seen the thing I need. Now that I think about it, it seems to be on the military anniversary."

"Military Day? The most recent one?"

Xiao Ci shook his head: "No, I think it was the last time when the emperor was giving a speech. I felt that he had that smell... but I don't have much impression. I just felt that familiar smell was very close to me - because I was always hungry, so I remember it very clearly, but then I met my brother and I was not hungry anymore, so I don't remember it very much."

Once before… Sean narrowed his eyes.

The emperor had not been involved in state affairs for a long time due to his health, so naturally he would not give a speech on the military anniversary.

I remember there was a related record when I last looked at the information... The emperor's last appearance on a military anniversary was sixteen years ago.

Sixteen years... Sean couldn't help but look at Xiao Ci.

This orange-haired little loli with a royal sister voice has always been very petite, but when Sean picked her up, she said she was fifteen years old. Now, after so much time, she is just over sixteen years old, which is an adult in this world... The age is right...

The only unscientific thing is that, although the time matches, Xiao Ci should have just been born at that time... How could a baby have a vague sense of familiarity with the things around the emperor?

Suddenly, Sean remembered what Xiao Ci had said to him at that time.

"...someone used to call me Little Thorn, the thorn of a mutant hazelnut..."

This is how the name Xiao Ci came about.

Xiao En looked at the somewhat confused little orange-haired girl and asked, "Who called you Little Thorn before?"

Xiao Ci? Xiao Ci found that after he followed his brother's name, his original nickname seemed very distant, so distant that he had no memory of it even now.

She tugged at her orange hair in confusion and said uncertainly, "Since I can remember, someone seems to have called me that... but I don't remember..."

"Does your memory begin when you smelled that scent on the emperor?"

Xiao Ci was stunned, and she also realized that she seemed to have just been born at that time.

She was a little anxious: "Brother, I didn't lie to you, I really had an impression of it at that time...but I don't remember why..."

Not remembering, not not knowing...

Sean grabbed her orange hair and pulled it towards himself, rubbing it mercilessly. After rubbing her hair, he rubbed her face. He only stopped when Xiaoci's face turned red.

He was satisfied and said, "Who said you lied to me? I just found out something - and remember, after I bring you back, you will only be Xiao En's sister Xiao Ci. Do you understand?"

Xiao Ci didn't hate her brother's intimate yet somewhat rude behavior. She just leaned on Sean's shoulder and said "hmm" with some happiness.

Bai Ye saw this scene when he came in. The brother and sister were hugging each other peacefully, discussing what to eat in the evening.

A feeling of powerlessness came over him. There was a fight going on outside, but Sean acted as if nothing had happened... Didn't the uncle ask him to help...

Bai Ye made some noise to indicate that he had arrived, and then gave Sean a look of disdain.

"Even Xiao Ci was not spared..." she muttered softly.

Sean said righteously: "Your Highness, you can't look at others with the same eyes just because your head is full of yellow garbage. I am ashamed of you!"

"Do you know?"

"You didn't look like this when you yelled?"

"Sean! What are you talking about! Xiaoci is here!"

Xiao Ci didn't listen to the bickering between the two. After hearing Bai Ye say "even Xiao Ci is not spared", the little girl started playing with her fingers shyly and excitedly.

Bai Ye: "..."