I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 201
Chapter 201: Xiao Mo’s Dragon Maid
Throughout the ages, how many people have praised the sun?
I don’t know, but I guess even for those living in another world, sunlight surely symbolizes hope and the future for them as well. Because before a world develops, the only source of energy is sunlight and heat.
Although explaining a magic-filled parallel world using the development and evolution principles of Earth’s organisms may seem amateurish, Yin Xiamo mentioned that the other world can be considered an extension of the Earth world.
It adds various mods, including magic, on the basis of existing disciplines such as physics and biology. The presence of magic and “expansion packs” has led to the birth of more “intelligent beings” in that world than on Earth.
This includes giant dragons. All dragons in the parallel world are egg-born, with regular dragon eggs being only slightly larger than adult males, averaging around two to three meters. If a dragon hatches without the care of the mother or is abandoned early on, and if humans or other creatures find and hatch them using special methods, these dragons enter a special “solitary growth” mode.
They rely on reliable beings around them to develop as much as possible while ensuring their safety. If a human hatches and raises a dragon, the dragon will develop a fondness for that person. After becoming sensible, their first self-taught magic is often shapeshifting.
However, most dragons, being at the top of the food chain, rarely experience egg loss. Normally, dragon eggs, when hatched, thrive under the careful care of the mother dragon, growing into colossal creatures exceeding thirty meters in less than a hundred years, gaining independent abilities.
As for when the young dragons growing up in the dragon community learn shape-shifting, it depends on their feelings and curiosity towards humans. Some dragons may dislike humans from a young age and refuse to learn shape-shifting throughout their lives.
?In the world of giant dragons from another world, their food includes not only large prey but also magical elements in the air. However, on Earth, there are no magical elements, and there aren’t large enough prey to sustain dragons. So even if a foolish dragon were to come here, it would likely instinctively transform into a human form. Otherwise, it might go hungry within a few hours.?
Last night, before going to bed on my small bed, Yin Xiamo said this to me.
?Due to Fei Luo’s inability to prevent the tragedy when she was young, her mother was killed by humans and some allied magical beings, leading her to struggle with her gender identity and holding significant bias against humans.?
?However, that’s all in the past. At least in the last few thousand years, she has been getting along well with humans, so there’s no need to worry about her causing trouble when she comes over.?
?The only thing that bothers me is… whether she will adapt to the lifestyle here after coming over.?
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“The first gift from Nuo’er, I must preserve it well!”
After giving me a big hug at the entrance of Ai Luodi’s rented house’s living room, Yin Xiamo happily held the gift box containing the manor in her hands and glanced left and right. She then walked towards our room.
Although a bit embarrassed, I followed along.
Wait, isn’t Yin Xiamo already over six thousand years old? Hasn’t anyone given her a gift in all these years? Or perhaps, the concept of “birthday” doesn’t exist in the other world?
No, at least when I discussed the concept of “birthday” with Yin Xiamo before, she didn’t show a clearly puzzled expression, indicating that birthdays exist in the other world. Or… did the previous heroes not pay much attention to her birthday? That’s why Yin Xiamo is so happy to receive my handmade gift…
Although my time with Yin Xiamo is not that long, considering it’s only been a month, and I don’t know much about her background, I have some understanding of her personality.
In simple terms, Yin Xiamo gives me the impression of being “frank” and “sincere.” She likes pranks and often takes advantage of me in minor matters, but these are mostly insignificant things. On important matters, she doesn’t lie to me, and she is serious when handling important tasks.
Moreover, her most prominent characteristic is that her emotions are directly written on her face. If she likes something, it shows. If she’s happy or angry, I can pretty much tell at a glance.
It’s clear that Yin Xiamo really likes this handmade gift of mine.
“Let’s place this house right here.”
In the room, Yin Xiamo, holding the handmade manor, approached the bedside and placed the manor on the top of the bedside table. Stepping back a small step, she said, “This way, every day when I come back, I can see Nuo’er’s confession of love!”
“Wait a minute.”
I, feeling awkward beside her, said, “This isn’t a love confession, it’s a birthday gift. In the Earth’s tradition, when we celebrate birthdays, we usually invite family and friends to go out for a meal and chat or exchange birthday gifts. With acquaintances, it’s just a regular meal, and with close friends, we might give a birthday gift.”
“What about those who are extremely close?” Yin Xiamo turned around, emphasizing the pronunciation of the words “extremely close”.
“The kind that can even kiss in bed, what kind of birthday gift would they give?”
“That falls into my knowledge blind spot.”
I avoided the gaze of the young girl in front of me. “Perhaps they would put a bit more thought into the birthday gift?”
“Nuo’er spent a long time making this, right?”
Fortunately, Yin Xiamo didn’t delve further into the matter of the “level” of birthday gifts. Instead, she walked towards me, grabbed my hand, and carefully inspected the finger joints and wrists of this delicate, boneless, and jade-like hand.
“If you’re tired, it hurts my heart.”
“You made the body’s strength yourself, you should know it!”
I swatted someone away. “If spending half an hour doing handicrafts every day leads to injury, isn’t that too fragile of a body?”
“I’m just expressing concern for Nuo’er!”
Yin Xiamo approached again, took the butterfly knot from my hand, and, to my puzzled expression, tied it onto the bell around my neck. “Actually, this is the gift I wanted.”
“Are you thinking about something troublesome again?”
I glanced down at the butterfly knot on my neck and suddenly felt like I had become the recipient of some kind of special “gift.” My hair stood on end instantly as I exclaimed, “This is not right, not good!”
After a few days of “getting used to it,” I have now almost become accustomed to the feeling of wearing a bell around my neck. As Yin Xiamo mentioned, the bell is almost weightless, and I hardly feel it when wearing it. It’s waterproof, so I can keep it on even during showers. I decided to keep it hanging around my neck.
By the way… the slight weight on my neck and the occasional friction between the bell’s string and my skin give me a nostalgic feeling, reminiscent of the past. When I was a child in the orphanage, there was a rule that children under 12 had to wear a key card around their necks. It was a very rudimentary necklace with a wooden tag bearing the name of its owner, the phone numbers of several leaders of the orphanage, and a magnetic card for the orphanage’s main gate.
The kids in the orphanage, including myself at that time, were somewhat naive. Sometimes, when the director announced free activities, we would go out to play far away. Either we couldn’t find our way back, or we would roll and play on the lawn until the card and ID tag fell off and got lost. In the end, the director had to make the necklace very short and difficult to untie, so even if a foolish child rolled on the lawn, they wouldn’t lose it.
To be honest, I could accept a regular bell before, but does this bell with a butterfly knot seem a bit… inappropriate? Isn’t it similar to the bell on the neck of a pet cat? Moreover, I just bought this butterfly knot from the stationery store downstairs. Does this count as me buying a gift box, wrapping myself up, and giving it to Xiao Mo as a birthday present?
“No, no, I absolutely wasn’t thinking of anything troublesome!”
Under my gaze, Yin Xiamo revealed her signature sly expression again and then, as if remembering something, asked, “By the way, Nuo’er, have you had breakfast?”
“I’ve already eaten breakfast, what’s the matter?”
I asked in confusion, and Yin Xiamo continued with her mischievous expression, “Well, it’s just that you’re looking like a gift now, so I was wondering if the gift had breakfast.”
“Hurry and change into that outfit. The one I bought for you is specifically for us to wear together when we go out – couple outfit.”
Yin Xiamo walked to the wardrobe in the room, completely unconcerned that I, a person of such size, was standing right next to her. She directly took off her outerwear, revealing a black “Nutcracker” themed dress that we wore once when we went to the park.
“I sensed it this morning, that foolish dragon is about to arrive.”
“Eh? So soon?” I was surprised. “Already?”
“I told you yesterday on the island. Others have been trying to come here these days, but they couldn’t confirm the coordinates, so they haven’t taken any action. We set the coordinates on the island, so she’s definitely coming.”
After changing into the black dress, Yin Xiamo took out the cute pink summer dress from inside, offering it to me. “She should be arriving in about half an hour. Change your clothes, and let’s go pick her up.”
Is it really happening? The Black Dragon Princess from another world?
“Don’t worry, it’s been thousands of years. Her personality has matured a lot, not as mischievous as when she was a child.”
Perhaps sensing my hesitation, Yin Xiamo took the pair of rounded-toe, chunky-heeled shoes I had seen yesterday from the shoebox under the wardrobe. “What I showed you yesterday was just the scene where the hero first met Princess Fei Luo. At that time, she was less than a thousand years old. Later, the hero fought side by side with Fei Luo for decades. After being assassinated by comrades, Princess Fei Luo followed me. Without her help, the allied forces wouldn’t have stood a chance against the Demon King’s army.”
“To be honest, Fei Luo’s relationship with me is much better than with the hero. The hero, being an ordinary human, even with magical assistance to prolong life, can’t compare to the long-lived species. Those hundreds of years are just a blink of an eye in the eyes of the dragon race. She probably doesn’t have such deep memories of the hero.”
Hearing this, my hands, which were about to put on the dress, involuntarily stiffened.
Oh… I seem to have fallen into a “cognitive misconception.”
Before I got to know Yin Xiamo, I was just an ordinary person, living life according to the conventional way of thinking and habits of an ordinary person. After meeting Yin Xiamo, although I knew she had lived for thousands of years, because I wasn’t clear about how much impact thousands of years could have on a person, I naturally considered all “long-lived beings” to be similar to Yin Xiamo.
Like yesterday when Xiao Mo played those scenes for me through illusions, I habitually thought… since the hero and the Black Dragon Princess fought so intensely in the beginning, spent such a long time together, and parted with a somewhat reluctant feeling, Princess Fei Luo should be very concerned about the hero.
I know that Xiao Mo didn’t spend a long time with the hero, and even after thousands of years, she still harbors affection for him. So, I naturally assumed that the Black Dragon Princess, Fei Luo, after thousands of years, still maintains the feelings she had with the hero, without seriously considering the span of time involved.
Assuming that the hero and Princess Fei Luo spent a few years together at that time, and then fought side by side for several decades, at most fifty years, how much weight would these fifty years have in the lives of giant dragons who lived for thousands of years?
Comparing fifty years to thousands of years, according to this proportion, it’s almost like when you were in primary school, suddenly a transfer student arrived in your class. You became friends with this transfer student for one semester, about four or five months, and then they transferred away. It’s only after twenty or thirty years that you bump into her on the street.
Even if you played games together happily during primary school, how much of your childhood memories can you recall after so many years?
Moreover, according to Yin Xiamo, the hero actually sacrificed for a long time, and for the subsequent hundreds or thousands of years, Xiao Mo fought against the Demon King’s army alone.
Xiao Mo might remember the hero so firmly because he was the first person to rescue her from the darkness and extend a helping hand. She even crossed worlds to find “me.” However, this doesn’t mean that others can remember the hero for such a long time.
Looking at it this way, Xiao Mo is quite stubborn in a certain sense.
“Well, that’s good.”
I put on the clothes and started adjusting the sleeves and hem.
“I thought I would be mocked by her.”
“Cough, well… that mockery is probably inevitable.”
Watching me put on the clothes, Xiao Mo in front of me showed a mischievous expression like a fox preparing to play a prank. “You know about the Moon Orchid Mountains, you should also be aware… after the hero sacrificed, I took his body to the Elven Forest. The elves told me that the deceased cannot be resurrected and suggested I bury the hero’s body in the Moon Orchid Mountains, the closest place to heaven.”
“After that, I would visit the Moon Orchid Mountains to pay respects every ten or twenty years, and I always brought that dragon with me. She surely remembers this.”
No way…
In my horrified expression, Xiao Mo walked over, opened her arms, and asked, “Do you want a piggyback or a princess carry?”
I hesitated for a moment. “A princess carry.”
“No problem, my princess.”
In a princess carry pose, Xiao Mo picked me up and quickly walked out of the living room, opened the balcony door, and then leaped—
“Ah!”
As I rapidly descended, I couldn’t help but speak, “Are there no people nearby?”
“Don’t worry, I only dared to jump like this after confirming that we wouldn’t be discovered.”
I don’t know what kind of cushioning was applied under my feet, but after landing, Xiao Mo quickly ran towards the seaside in the Nanqi District while holding me. “Actually, I didn’t expect her to choose this day to come.”
“Is that black dragon called Fei Luo?”
I recalled the “dream” I had in the stalactite cave. “Using golden magic?”
“That’s a dragon-exclusive breath magic, and as for elemental magic, Fei Luo is more proficient in fire.”
“But isn’t she a black dragon?”
“There’s no rule that says black dragons must be skilled in dark magic, it’s not like they’re angelic beings.”
While running, Xiao Mo looked at me as if she were looking at a little fool. “Only angels are restricted to light magic, they can’t learn other magic.”
“On the side of the angelic beings…”
I tried to ask, “Didn’t the hero meet any powerful angels like Fei Luo, who others would remember?”
“Actually, there is!”
Xiao Mo laughed, “Nuo’er, you can look forward to those old foes coming over.”
How can I possibly look forward to that!
In the sound of the wind, feeling that it would take some time to reach the seaside, I took out my phone and, in Xiao Mo’s arms, opened the Tongmeng website and logged into the account named “Little Xia Nuo Does Not Hide in the Cardboard Box.”
Currently, this account is mainly operated by Xiao Mo and me—it’s not officially affiliated with the cafe, neither as a customer service nor an idol inside. It’s simply an account we use to share daily life details. Despite this, with the cafe’s popularity and the charm of Xiao Mo and me, the fan count for this account broke the 100,000 mark a few days ago.
Normally, Xiao Mo and I encounter many streamers who come for interviews or customers requesting photos at the cafe. When these people post our videos and pictures on the internet, we often receive a flood of comments like “This little girl is so cute, what’s her name?” or “How can someone be cuter than a doll? Does she have an account? I want to follow her,” and replies like “Sneakily inserting” soon follow. People quickly copy and paste the link to our Childhood Dreams account, and the fan count grows like a snowball.
In addition, the daily photos of Xiao Mo and me under this account surprisingly receive a high number of likes. Occasionally, businesses come over to invite us to advertise their products, all of which Xiao Mo rejects.
“Server error, please check your network status.”
Holding my phone and looking at the replies and private messages on Tongmeng, I quickly realize that I’ve lost my network connection.
Xiao Mo has already flown us away from the harbor, reaching the vast sea.
“I can feel that dragon is about to leave the spatial tunnel.”
In the whistling wind, Xiao Mo speaks from above, “I estimate that by the time we reach the island, she will have just come out of the tunnel.”
I nod, “Besides Fei Luo, who else over there has a similar ability… to traverse two worlds?”
“If we have to mention someone, the Elf Queen also has this ability, but she’s unlikely to use it in the short term. The remaining option is the angelic beings I mentioned earlier. A high-ranking angel possesses this ability, but whether she’ll follow Fei Luo to our world is uncertain.”
The girl thinks for a moment, “After all, traveling to a completely unfamiliar world is very dangerous for anyone, and there’s almost no benefit in return. Unless necessary, no one would deliberately learn such forbidden magic.”
That’s a relief.
If it’s just a black dragon…
*Buzz…*
Just as I was contemplating how to greet this “Dragon Princess” from another world, a dazzling light suddenly shot up into the sky in the area where my memory placed the Moon Orchid Island.
“Huh?”
This light was very conspicuous on the sea surface, reaching straight into the clouds. Even I could feel a special energy overflowing above.
“She’s here.”
With that, Xiao Mo entered “Demon Clan” mode, her hair lengthening, pointed ears emerging, and the speed beneath her suddenly increasing several times. She left a long shadow on the sea surface and rushed towards the Moon Orchid Island with a *swish*.
A few minutes later, with my hair in disarray, I jumped down from Xiao Mo’s embrace, slightly adjusted my little dress, and then took out a ribbon to tidy up my hair.
Suddenly, the entire world went dark.
A gigantic reaper, holding a scythe, clad in a black cloak, and wearing a hood, appeared in front of us, towering at least fifty or sixty meters high, as if scrutinizing something.
“What’s happening?”
“Don’t be nervous.”
Xiao Mo took my hand, “The main body detected an intertwining point between the two worlds and is checking the situation. I’ll just establish some communication.”
“The main body?”
I paused, “Is it… the part of you that is a deity?”
“Yeah, just going through the motions, after all, we need to ensure your safety and not let any strange creatures from another world slip through.”
Xiao Mo reassured me, “Don’t worry, everything will be fine.”
“……”
Just after Xiao Mo’s words, the vast world returned to calm.
The blue sky was adorned with fluffy white clouds, and several large lizards were sunbathing along the coastline. Sea turtles and crabs were wandering around on the beach.
In a moment of trance, the gigantic reaper in front of our eyes disappeared.
“Let’s go, it looks like Fei Luo has arrived.”
Holding my hand, Xiao Mo walked ahead, “It’s in the stalactite cave where we left the ‘coordinates’ before.”
Already here? That was fast!
I followed Xiao Mo cautiously.
Walking up the mountainside along the path that the workers had temporarily carved out for resting earlier, we reached the bushes behind the clearing halfway up the mountain. Xiao Mo and I jumped down along the forest in front of us, and then Xiao Mo, holding me, made several big leaps to reach the entrance of the stalactite cave.
“Is anyone there!”
Just as I stepped into this slightly cool small cave, I heard a pleasant voice of a girl from inside, “Momo, I know you’re nearby. You set these coordinates, right? Stop hiding!”
“Defeating the Demon King and not attending the celebration is forgivable, but skipping the Hero’s worship ceremony held once every ten years? Momo, you owe me an explanation…”
“By the way, where is this place? Why is there no magic in the air? Did Momo deploy an anti-magic barrier?”
“Momo? Little Momo? Where are you? If you don’t come out, I’ll try to break this barrier, you know?”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Mo beside me gave me a look that said, “See, I told you.”
“Nuo’er, it’s up to you.”
“……”
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