I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 135

Chapter 135: For Azeroth

The place Yin Xiamo brought me to is Nanqi Tower. More precisely, it’s the top of the Nanqi Tower, a slightly tilted, roof-like small platform. It seems like this place is designed to provide shelter from the wind and rain, and there are no stairs or poles to climb around. Because of the high terrain, the sea is right in front, with a distance of over a hundred meters from the ground underfoot. With the starry sky above, the starlight shines directly on the rocks along the coast, startling me when I first opened my eyes.

Instinctively, I grabbed the arm of the girl next to me.

“Scared?” Yin Xiamo seemed to be looking at a nervous little cat playing with a doll, and her tone became somewhat indulgent.

“From here, you can see the vast sea. When the wind blows at night, the sound of the waves is similar to another world. I like sitting here, looking at the sea, listening to the sea breeze, and slowly falling asleep.”

“Sleep here?” I surveyed the lighthouse and found that only the edge of the platform was flat. If I were to sleep, it would have to be there. But wouldn’t it be dangerous at night?

The top of the Nanqi Tower is like a giant pot lid, tilted at an angle of about ten degrees. The edge of the “lid” is a flat circle with a diameter of about one meter, resembling a small windmill by the riverside without fan blades. It seems like a good choice to sunbathe here during the day. Speaking of which, Yin Xiamo just flew up here, right? It must be like that.

I looked at the sea in front of me again. The Nanqi Tower, a lighthouse, as the name suggests, is a tall tower by the sea that illuminates the ocean, guiding lost ships or pedestrians in the right direction.

The “light” of the tower beneath Yin Xiamo and me is set slightly in the middle of the bottom. It flashes every so often, but because of the “big lid” beneath our feet, the extremely dazzling light from the lighthouse below doesn’t directly shine up. Standing at the top of the Nanqi Tower, looking at the flashing light under our feet scattering towards the vast sea in front, it feels as if we are stepping on light, overlooking the entire world.

“Well, you can give it a try.” Seeing that I’m a bit afraid of heights and being cautious, Yin Xiamo smiles slightly. She takes my hand and leads me to the edge of the “lid” beneath our feet. “Come on, bend over… don’t look down for now, okay? Sit down, good.”

With Yin Xiamo’s help, I endure the fear of the height of several hundred meters, quickly tidy up my skirt, stick the lower part of the skirt to my underwear as a makeshift cushion, and sit down at the edge of the top of the Nanqi Tower with my feet together.

“It’s okay, don’t worry. If you accidentally fall, I’ll catch you anytime.”

Watching me sit down, Yin Xiamo releases my hand on the right. “How does it feel? Is your mood a bit better?”

The powerful illumination light below continues to blink.

Once, twice.

It illuminates the surrounding scenery and also lights up the black sea and the horizon in front.

This is a very remote slope.

Except for the Nanqi Tower and a wooden cabin beneath it, there are almost only bushes and wild grass around. Even the nearest human construction requires walking more than a kilometer along the coastline to see a few thatched houses of fishermen.

Everything here seems to be isolated from the world. The elderly silently watch the sea every day, and nearby fishermen go to the sea every day to catch fish, keeping some for themselves to eat and selling the rest to merchants who come for purchases.

The small open space behind the lighthouse has been transformed into a vegetable garden. The elderly living here may not even use a cellphone, far from the hustle and bustle of the world, and also far from… the prosperity of human society.

“As for my mood, it’s been pretty good all along.” Facing Yin Xiamo’s question, I turned my gaze to the sea in front, and my dangling feet outside the lighthouse kept swinging. “Since I met you and so many other people, although the new job is a bit tough, the pay is high, and it’s worth the effort.”

Most importantly, this kind of life allows me to see the future.

Working at the cafe, updating my novel after returning to the rental house at night, working two jobs – just the commission from the cafe’s opening days is already several hundred, and if this trend continues until the end of the month, along with the base salary, my monthly income of ten thousand is guaranteed. If the cafe continues to develop, this income could become fifteen thousand, twenty thousand, or even thirty thousand.

Saving ten to twenty thousand from the main job every month, using a couple of thousand from novel royalties for living expenses, I could save up around a hundred thousand in a year.

Back when I was still an “uncle,” no matter how hard I worked, due to being clumsy in handling things and not speaking sweetly enough, I always circulated at the bottom of society. The monthly salary was just enough to cover basic living expenses and rent. The thought of eating better food or buying better daily necessities didn’t even dare to cross my mind, let alone a house or a car.

Now, whether it’s work or social interactions, everything is on the right track. And with Yin Xiamo as… well, let’s call her a good friend for now, I’m quite happy.

Of course, those things she did as a grim reaper bullying me can’t be counted that way!

“He likes to sit by the sea on the rocks, gaze at the ocean, and then stay silent for a long, long time.”

The girl beside me shifted slightly and leaned closer to me. “When I was in the other world, the last time I sat by the sea was hundreds of years ago. At that time, our war was victorious. I sat on the rocky shore in the same position as him, watching our fleet slowly disappear on the horizon.”

“Orcs, elves, demons, humans… so many people were cheering behind me for the victory in the war, but I couldn’t be happy.”

“Because I… conquered the world but lost him.”

I turned my head, “You really liked him.”

“No.” Yin Xiamo shook her head, staring at the twinkling sea surface. “I loved him.”

“Um…”

“But I didn’t have the chance to confess to him. At that time, I didn’t even know the social norms of human society.”

The girl gave a bitter smile. “Actually, he should hate me.”

“Huh?”

“His hometown was destroyed. The demon army razed the village and wheat fields, killing most of his family. And I… at that time, I was the descendant among those demons, or rather, among the demon nobility.”

Speaking as if narrating something completely unrelated to herself, Yin Xiamo’s tone was very light and gentle. “I am the youngest princess of the demon clan. When my mother gave birth to me, the demon clan was in the midst of an internal power struggle. Unfortunately, I turned out to be the one with the lowest magical tolerance among all my siblings… Oh, you might not fully understand what I’m saying now, but in short, when I was born, I had the worst aptitude among those higher-ranking demon clans—whether it’s in strength, magic, or talent. I was so inferior that all my relatives, including royalty and nobility, despised me. They proposed to demote me to a lower-ranking demon.”

“Then my mother and uncles personally exiled me. They treated me like they were abandoning a small cat or dog. While destroying his hometown, they also left me in that ruined place, intending to let me fend for myself.”

Yin Xiamo lowered her head and spoke gently, “I think he should have known who I was and understood what the demon insignia on me meant at that time. Yet, he still took me away from that ruin, as if picking up a homeless little creature.”

“I dreamt about many things concerning you two.”

Seeing Yin Xiamo pause, I spoke softly beside her, “I was like an observer, witnessing your meeting, acquaintance, and then traveling together. But so far, I’m still not clear about how that brave hero sacrificed himself.”

“It’s better if you don’t see such memories.”

Yin Xiamo lifted her head, smiled, and said, “It’s very sad.”

“Was it a betrayal by someone close to him?”

“Yeah, at that time… during his journey, he met many people. If I have to say, my place in his heart was less than one-tenth of those friends.”

Yin Xiamo reached out one hand and covered my right hand. Perhaps due to the dignity of being an “uncle” and the fact that Yin Xiamo’s personality today was softer than usual, giving me a sense of her being a “girl next door,” I instinctively pulled my hand away and then grabbed hers again.

“Is it a rule that the cat’s paw is on top?”

My little move made Yin Xiamo laugh. “Nuo’er, why are you so cute?”

I was puzzled, “What rule about the cat’s paw?”

“Little kittens usually don’t mind if someone touches their paws, right?”

Yin Xiamo explained, “There are quite a few videos online related to cats that are like this. If the owner puts their hand on the cat’s paw, the cat will always pull its paw away and put it back on the owner’s hand, no matter how many times.”

“Uh…”

I thought for a moment, “Learned something new. I’ll try it at the cafe tomorrow during work…”

Then I realized something was off. “Wait a minute, I’m not a cat!”

“You just figured that out?”

Yin Xiamo covered her mouth and giggled. “That’s why I say Nuo’er is like a little pet, very cute, suitable for keeping at home.”

“What does that have to do with anything!”

I protested, “Weren’t you just talking about the story of that hero? Since you’re treating me like him, then… shouldn’t you be in awe of that guy? At least admire him? Why do you act so strangely towards me?”

“I did hope to maintain the same relationship as before when I came to this world.”

Yin Xiamo smiled wryly, shifting her gaze back to the sea. “But later I found out that this world is completely different from ours. I received so much care from him before, so why not take the opportunity to care for you here.”

“Can you really take care of someone?”

I tilted my head, expressing some doubt. “Even someone like Xiamo, who doesn’t know how to cook?”

“Can we not bring up cooking?”

Yin Xiamo replied, avoiding the topic.

“So, you’ve been on Earth for so long and still don’t know how to use a computer. Your desktop is full of junk software. How do you explain that?”

“In another world… In another world, there’s no such modern technology. Computers… the brain, these are things of the modern world.”

Yin Xiamo’s eyes flickered a bit. “I need time to adapt, don’t you think?”

“Then, as a grim reaper, you’ve been working for years and haven’t saved much money, can’t learn how to use a computer, and completely fail to grasp the various rules of this world.”

“……”

“As a member of the demon clan, you can use magic, interfere with the life and death of others, and even fly 800 meters while holding me for a few seconds. Yet, you can’t change your own body size, remain in the age range between a loli and a girl even after thousands of years, and your… chest…”

“Stop.”

Upon hearing me mention this, Yin Xiamo covered her forehead.

“You better continue talking about cooking…”

“……”

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