Her voice was not loud, but her pronunciation was very clear.
Medea blushed and let go of Ask, patting the hem of her clothes.
"This is my... former personal maid, Malkina. She was appointed by our mother." Her voice rang out secretly in the mind channel.
The first half of the sentence introduces the other party's apparent relationship, while the second half hints at the person behind her.
"Why are you here, Malkina?" Medea asked seriously.
"His Majesty wants to see you, Your Highness. So let me open a portal on the road you all must take." Malkina bowed slightly, then stepped aside, revealing the dimensional portal behind her.
"Medea!" Medusa's voice rang out in the depths of her heart. "Behind that portal, there is the breath of purgatory!"
"That should be Lingbo City." Medea reminded the two in the mental channel with a serious expression.
Lingbo City, originally named Limbo, means "the edge of hell". Legend has it that it is the place where the spirit of a dying person resides. It is located in a half-plane between purgatory and the main plane.
The Succubus Queen is the actual ruler of that demiplane.
"So it's your mother who asked you to come home for dinner?" Ask concluded.
Medea: …
No, it was indeed my mom who came to see me, but it definitely wasn’t to go home for dinner…
"Wait, you said Medea's mother is the Queen of Succubi?" Sheila finally reacted.
"You just found out?" Ask said.
Sheila was speechless. She had originally guessed that Medea was from an oriental noble family, but she had never thought that she was the biological daughter of the Queen of Succubus. How could a succubus be phobic of men? That's not right! This is like the Pope washing the feet of pagans. It is completely contrary to the common sense of the character!
"Everyone," Malkina reminded again, "His Majesty is waiting for you."
"What should we do?" Medea asked Ask in the channel, "Should we go?"
"Let me remind you," Ask said, "that's your mother. You're the only one who knows best what kind of personality your mother has and how she treats us."
"Then I will explain as well," said Medea. "She has been a demigod since I was born. I have never been able to guess her thoughts, and neither has my father."
"Medea, your mother, the Succubus Queen, is actually a demigod? Then how could she marry your father?" Sheila found it completely unbelievable.
"She never married my father," Medea explained. "She simply posed as a slave to lure a Middle Eastern merchant into buying her at the bazaar, and then gifted her to my father. She loved to play this kind of chance encounter routine, posing as a different woman each time and having sex with a different man."
"But when my father found out about her identity, he seemed to offer a high price to keep her. I don't know what the price was exactly, but she agreed to stay in his mansion temporarily until she got tired of it one day."
"So the title of Succubus Queen," Sheila said thoughtfully, "is not because your father made a slave girl of succubus bloodline his queen, as the rumors outside have said."