"Hum..."
Waking up from a state of confusion, Shirley got up and rubbed her eyes, looking around.
She noticed that her colleagues were all in the garden, sleeping in various peculiar positions.
Sylvia was upside down with her head down and feet up, practically head-over-heels, which was strange for a "bird-human" like her.
Nicole was still standing there, not even closing her eyes, as if she hadn't slept all night.
But after all, this was just a human corpse, and the real Nicole should be sleeping.
Or rather, if she hadn't slept at all and had just watched everyone the entire night, that would be truly frightening.
Norma was face down, sleeping inside her water bubble, and Shirley had a constant urge to go and pop that bubble.
After looking around a bit more, Shirley discovered that Zola and Zoe, the twins, were hugging each other and sleeping inside a cup, without worrying about being swallowed.
Tiffany...
Hmm...
Not found.
And Karina?
Shirley stood on tiptoe and looked around.
Rosamund was lying in a large "X" shape on the floor, while Karina was resting with her face in her breasts, displaying a satisfied expression.
"Damn it!"
Shirley didn’t know where that anger came from, but she ran to Karina, pulled one of her ears, and brought her mouth close, shouting:
"Wake up!!!"
"Wow!"
Karina suddenly woke from her dream, flailing her hands randomly, and sat up with a confused expression on her face.
"What’s going on? Did the world explode!? Or did someone steal the meat I was saving!?"
Clearly, for Karina, the possibility of the world exploding wasn’t as important as the meat.
"There’s no meat, get up already, got it!" Shirley said irritably.
“Why did you wake me up so early? I’m going to sleep a bit more...”
As she spoke, Karina was about to lie back down on Rosamund's chest.
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"Why are you still sleeping? Get up!"
As Shirley was making so much noise, everyone gradually woke up, yawning and sitting up.
"Eh? Did we sleep here yesterday? I don’t remember that, and why is my clothes wet?"
Rosamund got up from the floor, looking at the wet stain on her clothes with a perplexed expression.
"Hmph!"
Shirley glared at Karina angrily, then turned around, clapping her hands to get everyone’s attention.
“Ahem.” She pretended to cough, striking a commanding pose before continuing: "To celebrate that I, Shirley Bartoli, was elected the older sister, I decided to throw a big party for everyone. So enjoy yourselves, eat and drink as much as you want!"
After saying this, there was a brief silence in the room.
"Eh!?"
Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
Well...
Actually, not everyone was so synchronized.
Norma just blew some bubbles, Nicole said nothing, Zola was excited, pinching Zoe’s face, making Zoe only able to emit "uh uh".
Only a few made a more normal surprised shout.
"What are you talking about? I want to be the older sister!" Zola flapped her wings and flew in front of Shirley to confront her.
“Hm?" Shirley made an even more exaggerated expression, as if she were the most surprised.
“What are you all saying? Wasn’t it decided yesterday?”
Saying this, Shirley took out a memory crystal and played the recording from the previous day.
Seeing the look of bewilderment on everyone’s faces, Shirley couldn’t help but boast about her cunning, if she hadn’t recorded it, these shameless people would certainly have tried to deny yesterday’s fair election.
Ah, these people are so bad...
Shaking her head silently at their character, Shirley continued: "Well... If you have any preferences for the party, now is the time to inform the vampire maids. Don’t be shy, eat and drink as you like. Anyone who’s too polite to me will make me angry!"
After speaking, Shirley, with a calm expression, took back the memory crystal and, with a speed worthy of a getaway, quickly left, not giving the others a chance to react.
"Shirley, you bastard!"
Hearing everyone’s reproaches, Shirley wasn’t embarrassed, on the contrary, she smiled in satisfaction and quickened her pace even more.
She needed to show the contents of the crystal to her mother, proving she had completed her task.
...
Meanwhile, in the familiar "dark room" of the castle.
“Catch her quickly, she dares to skip out on paying her debt!”
Shirley’s mother, still well-dressed, overturned the table and pointed at the ghost queen, shouting.
"Hmph, as long as I’m here, no one will escape!"
The Polar Queen, dressed only in underwear, was about to attack the Ghost Queen.
"Do you think you can catch me?"
The ghost queen sneered, dissipating like smoke and causing the Polar Queen to lose her target, reappearing elsewhere.
"Ha ha!"
Seeing the Polar Queen on the floor, the ghost queen smiled with satisfaction.
"Bang."
"Ouch!"
However, she wasn’t happy for long, as something unknown hit her neck, making her moan in pain.
Being a spirit, she was completely immune to physical attacks, so what exactly had hit her?
With this doubt, she crouched down and picked up a white shell from the floor.
"What is this?"
The ghost queen looked with wide eyes at the mermaid queen.
At this moment, the mermaid queen, with part of her body emerging from the water bubble, had one hand covering her chest and was holding a similar shell, ready to throw it.
Yes, the object that flew toward the ghost queen was not an ordinary item.
How could the mermaid queen’s personal items be ordinary?
"Now, everyone attack her!"
At the command of Shirley’s mother, all the “magnanimous” queens rushed together toward the Ghost Queen and fought until they formed a ball.
Suddenly, the whole room was filled with a strange atmosphere.
"Bang bang bang!"
But at that moment, someone knocked on the door, causing the room to fall silent instantly.
“Mother, we chose the older sister.” Shirley's voice came from outside, accompanied by the soft sound of the doorknob turning.
Instantly, every queen’s face was filled with "seriousness."
They glanced at each other quickly, as if confirming something, and then nodded.
The door was also opened at that moment.