The villain daughter did all kinds of things

"...Heh, you said it yourself, so don't be afraid later."

Emery chuckled, her lips curving upwards, and her slightly gleaming eyes suddenly made Marcy a little afraid.

Time quickly came for the punishment game to begin.

Contrary to what Marcy had imagined, Emery did not prepare any instruments of torture such as whips or branding irons. Instead, she took her to the bedroom, made her raise her hands above her head and clasp them together, and then tightly tied them to the headboard with a belt.

"How...how are you going to punish me, young lady?"

Marcy, who could only move her legs while lying in bed, swallowed nervously. She felt that Emery's gaze was strange, and it seemed that she was about to lose something important tonight.

"Of course, this is how you'll be punished~~"

Soon, Marcy's feet also lost their freedom, as Amelie grabbed them in her hands, her nimble and soft fingers gently tracing the soles of her feet through her black stockings.

"Ugh! It itches! Hahaha... Miss, no... Ugh!"

Marcy immediately began to moan and beg loudly for mercy, but it was to no avail.

Amelie didn't stop; instead, her eyes became even more excited.

"Didn't I tell you? This punishment is going to be really tough~~"

Chapter 20 The Flame of Life

While constantly scratching the soles of Marcy's feet with her fingers, Emerald made a new move.

Seeing that Marcy's eyes were glazed over during the punishment, she figured she was no longer fully conscious, so she secretly used her innate magic again.

An invisible ribbon, manipulated by Emerald, extends and strikes Marcy's entire body, but instead of cutting and piercing as it would when killing an enemy, it tickles her.

Marcy's ears, armpits, sides, navel area, and other ticklish spots were all key targets of Emerald's attacks.

Marcy was already delirious from being tickled on the soles of her feet by Emery, and now the unbearable itch spread throughout her body, almost immediately pushing her to her limit.

A strange flame rose from the depths of Marcy's bloodline, instantly engulfing her entire body and setting her ablaze.

It's not a homonym for "burn," but a true burning in the real sense.

Every part of Marcy's body that could breathe fire—her mouth, nostrils, ears, navel, and so on—became ablaze, spewing flames like a lit gas stove, instantly setting her own clothes, the sheets on her bed, and Amelie's clothes ablaze.

Even Emerald was somewhat taken aback, but she reacted quickly, immediately retracting the invisible ribbon for defense, and while retreating, she cut and threw away the already burning clothes.

Even so, because Amelie had been playing with Marcy's feet, her arms were still too close together and caught fire, burning both sleeves off completely.

Strangely, while the clothes and furniture were quickly burned to ashes in Marcy's flames, Emerald's arms were unharmed. Instead, they felt warm and comfortable, and the damage to her meridians caused by the flow of magic was repaired and the blockages were cleared.

"...As expected, his talent has awakened."

Emery muttered something knowingly and immediately got to work.

She ignored Marcy, who was burning the most on the bed, because this kind of fire couldn't hurt people, but it wouldn't do to the furniture and clothes in the room. They were engulfed in flames in just a few dozen seconds and turned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Brush brush!

The invisible ribbons around Amelie danced like a sword dance composed of many sharp blades, cutting through all the fire spots in the room almost instantly.

Then, with lightning speed, she reached out and grabbed the cut pieces of burning material.

Whether it's the fabric or the wood used for fuel, once Emery catches it, the flames that quickly burn the flammable material will automatically flow to her smooth forearm and then be absorbed by her skin.

"Ah...that feels so good!"

Emerald squinted like a cat being petted, and her hands moved even faster. In no time, she extinguished all the fires in the room with her bare hands, leaving only the naked Marcy falling to the ground from the completely burned-out bed, panting softly.

The reason the fire was extinguished in this way was not because Emery had a special talent for absorbing flames, but because Marcy's flames were quite special.

This is the power from the bloodline of the Marcy elves, and it is also the greatest asset that allows the Crimson Moon family to become one of the councilors of the Elf Royal Court—the Flame of Life.

The Flame of Life does not cause any damage to life; on the contrary, it has a super healing effect. As a result, Marcy became the first healer of the protagonist's team in the original game, and a noble fire healer at that.

Moreover, just like the furniture and clothes that were quickly burned before, the Flame of Life is only harmless to living beings, but it is much more ferocious to inanimate objects than ordinary flames. Things that are not magically resistant are almost no different from toilet paper when they encounter the Flame of Life, and will be burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

In the original game, many of the puzzles and mechanisms that the main characters' team encountered during their adventures could be bypassed using Marcy's Flame of Life—most of the mechanisms were built with inanimate objects, so burning them would allow them to ignore any puzzle.

In the original game, Marcy was able to escape from the slave traders because she was stimulated during training by the trainer. The ordinary slave traders did not recognize the Life Flame of the Crimson Moon family. They were terrified by the flames that could ignite almost anything they touched and dared not stop her, watching helplessly as Marcy escaped.

Even during the pursuit of Marcy, many slave traders and henchmen who had witnessed the power of the Flame of Life chose to slack off, which allowed Marcy to be exiled in Locke City for nearly a month and finally meet the heroine Julia.

Of course, Emery had long wanted to help Marcy awaken her bloodline talent. A mere decorative maid wouldn't be of much use to her, even if she had the status of the original heroine's number one harem member; at most, it would only give her a sense of accomplishment.

Emerald had her eye on Marcy from the very beginning because of the power of the Flame of Life. She deliberately subjected Marcy to extremely difficult training and then punished her, all in an attempt to stimulate Marcy's awakening of this power.

However, in Emerald's original plan, at least two more punishments were needed, and Marcy would only awaken when the punishments were so intense that Marcy was practically devoured.

Unexpectedly, Marcy was such a weakling. It was only the second punishment, just playing with the soles of her feet and tickling her whole body with a ribbon, and Marcy couldn't take it anymore.

"Sissi, you're such a weakling!"

Despite her inner disgust, Emery didn't hold back, grabbing Marcy and dragging her straight to the bathroom, where she threw her into the warm water.

Stimulated by the water, Marcy finally slowly recovered from her dazed state.

"what!"

As Marcy gradually recalled what she had just done, her face turned ashen. She jumped out of the pool and grabbed Emerald's leg.

"I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to burn your things, Miss... Waaah, please, Miss, don't abandon me!"

"...What nonsense are you talking about? You stupid maid."

Emerald simply pinched Marcy's cheek, then reverted to her seemingly gentle demeanor.

"Be thankful, silly Sisi. As long as you don't make any big mistakes in the future, I probably won't have the thought of abandoning you again... because you are very valuable to me now, and you are no longer just a pretty face."

"Hey?"

Marcy was just a little short-sighted and slow to react, not really stupid, and she quickly understood what Emery meant.

Marcy knew very well that Emerald was after the value of the Flame of Life, not her.

But Masie didn't care, and was even a little happy—as long as she mastered this power, she wouldn't be abandoned by the young lady, right?

After all, Marcy could no longer return to the elves and jeopardize her mother's future, and the other humans in the Federation were too unfamiliar and frightening to her... The slave traders she had previously encountered had left a very bad impression on Marcy.

She only has Emerald now, and can only rely on Emerald.

"I will always be of use to you, young lady! I promise!"

"Yes, I believe you, Sisi."

Emerald then pinched Marcy's cheek again and patted it gently:

"Alright, you've trained all day and just awakened your bloodline, you must be tired. Go and get some rest. Don't forget you're coming with me to give a lecture at the Magic Engineering Academy tomorrow!"

Chapter 21 First meeting

Every year when students are about to graduate, they are busy looking for jobs, which is the same in every world.

Unlike most of her classmates who have already signed employment contracts, Yulia still doesn't have a job in sight, with only half a month left until the graduation party.

This is mainly related to the professional skills that Yulia chose.

Just like universities on Earth have many majors, so too does the Magic Engineering Academy. Yulia's major is called "Melee Magic Weapon Forging Craft," which is essentially blacksmithing forging swords and other cold weapons, but at a more advanced level. It involves adding magical inscriptions to cold weapons to create magical devices that resemble them.

This is supposedly a popular major, belonging to the manufacture of combat-type magical artifacts. Both large companies and small workshops need people with this skill, so it shouldn't be difficult to find a job.

In other cities, Julia might have already secured a labor contract, but things are a bit different in Locke City.

The core industry of Locke City is Velon Copper Industry, and the city's main industrial chain revolves around copper mining and processing. However, the manufacture of magical artifacts like swords requires working with various alloy steels, and the demand for such talent in Locke City is very low, making it difficult to find a job in this field.

Anyway, Yulia sent her resume to several companies and was politely rejected. The few companies that didn't reject her were probably up to something else.

Yulia is indeed a passionate and somewhat naive girl, but she's not stupid. The way those HR managers and company leaders looked at her was too intense; they were clearly lusting after her body. She wouldn't dare go to those companies.

So when Emerald spread the word that she intended to start her own business in Locke City and planned to recruit some recent graduates from the Magic Engineering Academy, almost all the recent graduates like Julia who hadn't found jobs yet came to listen to her speech.

Tonight, Emerald wore a red evening gown, making her appear even more glamorous and beautiful. Marcy, having put in the hard work of the past few days, played the role of the "decorative maid" very well, always dressed in her maid outfit and standing behind Emerald, her posture ramrod straight and her face smiling, attracting the attention of many students as well.

The speech went smoothly. As the daughter of a wealthy family, Amelie had experienced countless grand occasions since childhood and had received professional training, so she was not nervous at all and spoke fluently and eloquently. Combined with the motivational techniques she learned from her high school homeroom teacher in her previous life and some inspirational literature she read online, she easily got the students excited and full of enthusiasm, making them eager to start working overtime immediately.

However, for Emerald, the effectiveness of her speech was irrelevant. Her real purpose in coming to the Magic Engineering Academy today was to meet Julia and, incidentally, to introduce Julia and Marcy to each other and observe their reactions.

During the speech, Emerald secretly marked Julia with a spell, so even though Julia headed straight for her dormitory after the speech, she still bumped into Emerald.

"Excuse me, student, please wait a moment."

Marcy, having hastily crammed a few days' worth of maid etiquette training, stopped Julia on a road near the Magic Engineering Academy:

"My young lady requests your presence."

"Huh? Me?"

Yulia swayed her golden twin ponytails, looking somewhat surprised, but she didn't refuse. She nodded and followed Marcy.

Of course she wouldn't fail to recognize the maid she had just met in the academy auditorium, which is why she agreed without much hesitation.

If it were an older man's maid who invited her, Yulia would be wary, worried that it might be another wealthy older man trying to seduce her.

"Hello, I am Emery Melson. May I ask how this student is addressed?"

At this point, Julia had not yet received the opportunity she had at the beginning of the story. She was just an ordinary magic craftswoman who was pretty, unlike the famous figure she became later in the game, where even members of the conglomerate and high-ranking government officials treated her with great respect. Emerald treated her indifferently, and behind her seemingly friendly expression was the arrogance of a conglomerate heiress towards ordinary people.

This is the normal reaction that won't arouse any suspicion. Even some suspicious people would find it difficult to find anything suspicious, not to mention that Yulia has the nickname of being hot-blooded and silly in the original game.

Without much hesitation, she gave her name and major, and said quite enthusiastically:

"Is there anything I can do to help you, Miss President?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to talk to you about the situation on campus."

Emery first chuckled in response, then gestured with her eyes to the others who had gathered around out of curiosity, and suggested:

"How about we find a quieter spot to enjoy the evening breeze and chat as we walk?"

"This……"

This time, Yulia hesitated for a moment and did not agree immediately:

"May I ask why you sought me out, Ms. President? If you simply wish to learn about the college and its students, I'm sure the principal and other school leaders would be happy to speak with you."

"But I don't want to talk to them. Do you really think it would be pleasant to chat with a bunch of old men, Julia?"

Emery revealed a playful smile typical of young people:

"Compared to that, it's definitely more enjoyable to chat with a beautiful girl like you, Yulia."

"Ah this..."

Yulia quietly took two steps back, becoming wary.

Could this CEO, who comes from a wealthy family, be just like those rich older men who lust after her?

I've heard that rich people are all perverted, and it's normal for women to like other women. Could this young lady be the legendary "姛" (a derogatory term for a woman who is promiscuous)? Will her maid warm her bed at night?

Yulia suddenly started having wild thoughts, and kept glancing between Emerald and Massey with a strange look.

"A beautiful girl is bound to be the center of attention wherever she goes, especially in academies with a lot of young people."

Emerald ignored Julia's strange behavior and continued:

"I guess you're quite popular at school, Yulia, right? Plus, you've been so enthusiastic before... You're also very helpful, aren't you? A helpful and beautiful girl like you is bound to have a wide network of friends among her peers. That's the real reason I wanted to talk to you."

"You should know more about the students' talents than the college's teachers and principal. Your kindness and enthusiasm will also make you genuinely willing to help the students find suitable jobs, won't they?"

"...So, Miss President, you want to use me to get to know some students in the academy who have special talents but haven't had many opportunities to showcase them, and try to recruit them?"

Yulia nodded in realization, relieved, her eyes sparkling.

"Of course, no problem. I'd be happy to help, Miss President."

Chapter 22 Marcy: I'm enough for the young lady's vase!

As the main protagonist of the main storyline and classic adventure, Yulia's most prominent personality trait is her helpfulness, even to the point of being somewhat of a saint.

Upon hearing that she could help her classmates find jobs, Julia accepted Emerald's invitation to walk and chat in another place almost without hesitation.

The two soon came to a quiet, deserted path and began to stroll around, with Marcy following behind them with elegant maid-like steps.

After a brief chat, Julia's outgoing and friendly personality kicked in, and she began to talk non-stop, while Amelie listened with a smile for most of the time.

Julia was indeed very kind, mentioning the names of several classmates and embellishing their talents appropriately, showing that she genuinely hoped her classmates could find good jobs under Emery.

What's even more remarkable is that Yulia didn't recommend herself at all, even though self-recommendation would have been the top priority in this situation.

But this doesn't mean Yulia is stupid; rather, it means she is self-aware.

Her specialty is the manufacture of melee-type magical artifacts. Her self-recommendation to Emerald is like a student from Lanxiang Vocational School asking Musk to build a rocket—it's far too presumptuous of her.