Raised as a princess since childhood, Lamia had always been Leticia's aide in internal affairs. In the world of Little Garden, the most important quality for a leader was their fighting ability; having a strategist was only secondary. This held true for Arcadia as well.
Therefore, despite having slumbered for over a thousand years and endured countless curses, Lamia's thinking was much clearer than Leticia's.
To her, the current situation was already the best possible outcome.
Although the injustices against the vampire clan had yet to be cleared, the fact that she and her sister had survived proved there was still a chance.
"Lamia..." Seeing her younger sister's sensible demeanor, Leticia's eyes were a mix of guilt and heartache.
"Oh dear, Sister, you're still so childish for your age! As your younger sister, I'm truly worried for you. You haven't grown up at all after all these years. I really wonder how you managed to move Lord Su Mo to help you!" Lamia sighed in an adult-like tone, then shook her head and looked back at Su Mo, curtsying once more.
"Please allow me to apologize on behalf of my immature sister. If not for Lord Su Mo's favor and tolerance, it would have been difficult for Sister to survive in Little Garden for so long with her emotional intelligence." She bluntly criticized her own sister.
"Lamia!" Leticia called out her sister's name again, but this time, unlike the last, there was a hint of panic and complaint in her voice. How could this foolish sister expose my shortcomings in front of Lord Su Mo?
"Ehehe~" The loli vampire stuck out her tongue playfully, her crimson eyes twinkling as if she had gleaned something from Leticia's expression.
"You don't need to thank me for that," Su Mo shook his head. "The one who awakened Leticia from the Demon Lord Game and led her to survive in Little Garden was Canary."
"Thank you, Big Sister Canary!" Lamia was quick to adapt, gracefully curtsying to Canary.
"You're welcome, little Lamia. Leticia has helped me a lot too," Canary waved her hand, her eyes crinkling into a smile. She had a very good impression of Lamia. Who could dislike a cute and polite golden-haired loli?
"But neither Lord Su Mo nor Big Sister Canary denied my sister's immaturity, did they?" Lamia tilted her head, noticing this, a more genuine smile appearing in her eyes. "It seems I should thank you both even more for taking care of my sister!"
Hearing this, Leticia was a little confused. "Why do you say that? It's true that Lord Su Mo and Canary have helped me a lot, but what does that have to do with my maturity?"
Hearing her innocent question, Lamia shook her head, her admiration for Su Mo and Canary growing. "Given the dangers of Little Garden and the current reputation of our vampire clan, for Sister to maintain such innocence means that you two have protected her exceptionally well. Only in such a case would she not need to grow up too much."
She looked very happy.
"Is that so..." Leticia finally understood, her gaze towards Su Mo and Canary filled with even more emotion. "I've been a burden to you both." She immediately imitated Lamia's earlier gesture, awkwardly bowing to them.
Seeing this, Canary and Su Mo exchanged a look, about to say something, when Lamia, noticing this, blinked and added, "My sister's gratitude is indeed necessary, but the reason you two were willing to take care of her must also be because her cuteness is worthy of being cared for, right?"
With this said, the cumbersome politeness that Leticia had started was immediately cut short.
Canary looked at the vampire girl with admiration, nodded in satisfaction, and played along. "That's right! Who can resist Leticia, she's such a cute and beautiful girl?"
"Sister is the best in the world!" A mischief-maker and a sister-con's flattery instantly made the honest Leticia blush crimson.
"Wh-what are you two saying? Cute and all that, it has nothing to do with me!" Just as she was about to say something self-deprecating, Leticia suddenly remembered that Su Mo had just praised her.
Her voice caught, and after a quick, furtive glance at Su Mo, her face turned a deep red. She stared at the ground and fell silent.
"Ooh~" Although Leticia hadn't finished speaking, Lamia drew out her tone as if she had realized something.
After exchanging a look with the maid Kāla and confirming her thoughts, she stopped teasing her sister and turned back to Su Mo.
"Lord Su Mo, my sister said before that you were very interested in our vampire clan and had some questions?"
"Mhm," Su Mo nodded.
"Lord Su Mo is my master. I will not hide anything you wish to ask. However, my sister knows more of the vampire clan's secrets than I do. If you want to ask about information I know, I may not be of much help," Lamia said honestly.
Although she was skilled in internal affairs, she was not the heir and was raised as a political tool for marriage alliances. Even if the vampire royalty had secrets, they would not have told her.
"No matter," Su Mo shook his head calmly. "I only need to analyze and compare the composition of the Divinity within you and your sister. I don't need verbal information."
"Eh? My sister and I, are our Divinity compositions different?" Although they weren't twins, they were both pure-blooded vampire royalty. Their Divinity compositions should be the same. Canary also cast a curious gaze, wondering what Su Mo was planning.
"Of course," Su Mo's answer remained concise. "You are attached with a large number of curses related to the vampire clan. You may think this is an undeserved disaster and not the true core Divinity of the vampire clan, but for Little Garden or the outside world, that is not the case."
"You might feel it's unfair, but in a sense, the so-called curses might be closer to the essence of the vampire clan than the Divinity of a Knight of Little Garden."
If anyone else had said this, it would most likely be considered an insult to the vampire clan. The noble and kind vampire clan had fallen from being nobles of Little Garden to monsters precisely because of these curses.
They dreamed of washing away this shame.
But today, someone was telling them to their faces that those vicious curses were closer to the essence of the vampire clan than their noble lineage?
Only because it was Su Mo saying this did it arouse their curiosity rather than anger.
"Lord Su Mo, why do you say that?" Leticia asked, puzzled. She didn't understand his meaning but instinctively trusted that he had no ill intent. Lamia also pricked up her ears, wanting to know his opinion.
Facing the gazes of the three, Su Mo asked a question in return. "Which came first, Little Garden or the outside world connected to it?"
"Of course, the outside world came fir—wait!" Leticia gave the obvious answer, then immediately realized the problem.
This question was similar to the "chicken or the egg" dilemma.
In the outside world, it might be a simple philosophical debate, but in Little Garden, it represented a series of paradoxes.
Did the gods create the world, or did the world create the gods? Did man create God, or did God create man?
According to current understanding, Little Garden was established later by the gods and buddhas, but understanding could be rewritten.
"Lord Su Mo, are you pointing out the causal paradox caused by the inconsistency between Little Garden and the outside world? So, from the perspective of human history, the fate of our vampire clan was destined from the beginning?"
While Leticia was still a little confused, Lamia had already grasped Su Mo's idea, and even took it a step further, expressing it with great clarity.
It was well known that the changes on the stage of Little Garden were completely consistent with the outside world.
For the god-groups that supported creationism, the great war of gods in the dawn of Little Garden was entirely self-driven from within.
The victorious god-groups gained the opportunity to lead human history, became the leaders of Little Garden, and used its center to radiate their influence throughout the multiverse.
But from the perspective of human history, the great war of gods in the past was nothing more than the expansion of civilization and cultural fusion caused by the increase in population due to improved productivity.
It was human civilization that, in order to maintain its rule, chose the Christian church as the sole option, leading to its dominance.
Reflected in the world of Little Garden, this was the Christian church beating all other religions and becoming the strongest god-group.
The difference between these two views was related to the core paradox of Little Garden's establishment: between man and god, who was the creator and who was the creation?
Su Mo's purpose in bringing up this paradox was not to solve it now, but to point out the curses of the vampire clan from another angle.
As members of Little Garden, Lamia and Leticia naturally believed they had suffered an undeserved disaster.
But from the perspective of human history, everything was destined.
It wasn't the rebellion of the vampire clan that caused the curses and negative evaluations, but rather the vampire clan first received negative evaluations, and only then was the reason of rebellion added.
The facts were not important here; the only thing that mattered was the result. So, for what reason did the vampire clan have to suffer slander and negation from people?
Connecting this to their previous conversation, Canary suddenly understood something. "Are you saying that human history rejected the correctness of the vampire path, making this race notorious to prevent it from becoming the direction of human evolution, and that's why the rebellion and curses appeared in Little Garden?"
"Mhm," Su Mo nodded, confirming Canary's guess.
"..." Canary pondered for a few seconds.
Under this reversal of cause and effect, the curses of the vampire clan were determined from the very beginning. To continue human history, this wrong evolutionary path had to be slandered, a point unrelated to good or evil.
And compared to the Divinity of a noble of Little Garden, the curses, which shouldn't have been a core part of the vampire Divinity, could better reflect the harm the vampire clan posed to the continuation of human history.
For a curse to be effective, it must be sufficiently targeted. Thus, Su Mo's plan was also clear.
"Are you planning to use the targeted curses to deduce the disadvantages of the vampire form for human history in reverse?" Canary's eyes widened, finally understanding Su Mo's true intention.
To have thought this far from the very beginning... As expected of Lord Su Mo, even the word 'genius' is insufficient to describe him!