I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 2
Once again, I opened my eyes and found myself sitting back at the computer desk.
Before me was the familiar computer screen, and above me, the soft light of the lamp.
I could feel the gentle “thump-thump” of my heart in my chest, hear the sound of passing cars outside the window, and I could breathe and move normally. Aside from the eerie silence in the room, everything seemed normal.
Phew… it was just an illusion, after all.
I quietly sighed with relief in my chair.
I knew it all along, that talk of a Grim Reaper and getting your head chopped off, it’s all fake.
I’m just an ordinary person, a typical guy in society… right? What makes me so special to encounter such a beautiful Grim Reaper?
Just as I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to click on the lower right corner to check the editor’s evaluation of the beginning of my novel on “Honeydew,” the unusual tingling sensation in my shoulders and neck as I turned my head made me exclaim, “Huh?”
Since when did my hair grow this long?
Slightly turning my head, I glanced at the silky, snow-white hair that fell like premium silk down my tender shoulder. This waterfall-like hair, something you’d expect to see only on young girls in anime, was now quietly draped behind me, gently caressing my smooth skin all the way down. It seemed to fan out at my hips, with a large portion of it scattered on the computer chair.
Huh?
In my daze, I noticed my hands.
Are my hands so small?
Skin like porcelain, boneless and delicate, snow-white and tender, as if they belong to…
A girl?
No, these aren’t the real problems. Why am I not wearing any clothes?!
This body… these… and why is the chest…
“Are you awake?”
At this moment, accompanied by a spine-tingling girl’s voice, I felt the computer chair beneath me suddenly spin.
The computer chair stopped after making a 180-degree turn, leaving me facing away from the computer. The Grim Reaper girl, who was barefoot, with her legs clad in black stockings, dressed in a black trench coat and a black hood, reached out with one hand and caught the chair’s armrest. She slightly lowered her body, her adorable face seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
“Well, you still know how to be scared. It looks like you’ve already adapted to your new body.”
New… new body?
I bewilderedly lowered my head, glanced at my slightly bulging chest and flat stomach, then, as if recalling something, reflexively used my hands to cover my lower area and chest.
“Wh…what did you do?”
The voice that came out of my mouth was like a nightingale, clear, lively, and enticing, just like the female protagonists in the loli anime series I often watched.
A series of unexpected events made me feel like my brain was struggling to keep up.
“What did I do? Didn’t I tell you before? I changed my mind.”
The Grim Reaper girl had a mysterious smile on her face, and she looked at me as if she were watching a cute little creature shivering in fear. “Congratulations, little sister. Now you can consider yourself a girlfriend.”
No, no matter how I think about it, this is very strange!
“You… um, that is, Miss Grim Reaper.”
Ignoring the fact that my hands were hardly covering the embarrassment of my body, I tried to speak to this capricious Grim Reaper girl. “So, um… didn’t you say I was already dead? It was due to overwork, irregular hours, and sudden death, right? In that case, can you forgive the ramblings of a dying person, and according to the procedure, take me away?”
Just kill me, I’m tired.
As an orphan with no parents, I endured bullying from a young age. After finally making it through to graduate from college, I found a job, started writing novels, but then lost my job, and the novel website even closed down. Ending my life like this wouldn’t be so bad; I wouldn’t have to worry about making a living.
“I changed my mind. Do I need to say it a third time?”
However, the Grim Reaper was not feeling merciful. She gestured with her eyes towards a headless body not far behind her. “Becoming female is a punishment for your disrespect at the time. I’d rather see you struggle with this little girl’s appearance than let you off the hook. Hehehe.”
In the dim light, the girl in front of me laughed in a very pathological manner.
Oh no, I’ve ended up with such a psychologically disturbed individual…
I suddenly felt a chill in my heart.
“Miss, I really like your personality. It’s kind of yandere, very 2D, and your proposal is quite… interesting.”
Facing the Miss Grim Reaper who exuded an oppressive presence from head to toe, I mustered the courage to say, “But I refuse.”
“As an uncle, the thing I like the most in my life is saying ‘No’ to authority, especially when it’s a strong-willed person, especially a woman!”
Then, I adopted an “I don’t care” attitude. “Anyway, it’s no big deal to die again.”
“You won’t die. This body is immortal, but you will still have the sensations.”
The Grim Reaper girl maintained her slightly yandere smile and gestured towards the computer behind me. “I’m giving you a task. I’ll be back here in three days. During this time, please handle the matter of writing a good novel. Sign a contract if you can, or find part-time work to pay the rent. If I come back and you still don’t have a job, or worse, haven’t paid the rent…”
“How about it?”
I still maintained my nonchalant attitude. “I’m not even afraid of death now. Do you think I’m afraid of the threats of a mere Grim Reaper, Miss?”
“Oh? Do you think that, as the Grim Reaper in your words, I only have the ability to take away other people’s lives?”
She smiled even more cheerfully. “There are many things in this world that are scarier than death. Do you want to try?”
“What are they?”
I said with a cute loli voice, “This uncle is all ears.”
“Such as your browsing history over the past few years on your computer… where you’ve been on the internet, what you’ve watched, and your posts on certain special forums. I could send it to your former classmates, good friends, or colleagues.”
Miss Grim Reaper slowly approached me, her voice as sinister as a demon from hell. “Of course, many people might think it’s nothing since they’re already dead, and they don’t care how others see them. But you’re different. I can bring you in front of those classmates, colleagues, and friends, and in front of your eyes, one by one, go through the things you’ve done in the past. I’m sure you remember those embarrassing things you’ve done…”
Embarrassing things? Browser history?!
“Miss Grim Reaper, I apologize for my earlier impudence. My God… my Jerusalem… I mean, please forgive my rudeness.”
Hearing this, I almost instinctively grabbed the girl’s arm in front of me and begged, “I’ll do anything, just please don’t make my browsing history public…”
“Hmph.”
She shook me off disdainfully and stood up. “Then, it’s settled. Three days to resolve the novel signing issue and the rent problem. If you can’t do it in three days… the browser history will be just the appetizer. I have plenty of ways to torment you.”
“Yes, yes.”
I broke out in a cold sweat, realizing the seriousness of the situation. “I’ll do my best to make a living!”
“That’s more like it.”
The Miss Grim Reaper went to the side, one hand grabbing the headless body, and the other grabbing the head that had rolled to the other side.
“Uh… Miss Grim Reaper.”
Seeing this scene, I cautiously asked, “Look, since I’ve already realized my mistake, and we’ve agreed on a way to solve the problems, can we forget about the girl’s body and just turn me back to the way I was?”
“What are you thinking? Your previous body is already dead. I have to take this one back to report.”
The Grim Reaper girl shook the head of the old man in her hand, expressionless. “From now on, you’ll always look like this. It’s a body I spent 9,999 years of magic to create for you. Other boring mortals don’t get this treatment.”
With that, the girl controlled her scythe to cut open a crack in the air, then jumped in with the male body and head from before.
“Remember, three days, if you can’t complete the task, I believe we’ll both be very pleased when the time comes. Hehehe…”
The crack closed, and the spacious room returned to silence.
“……”