I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 274
Chapter 274: Nuo’er, I Love You
Xiao Mo and I were ‘intimate’ in the changing room for quite a while. When we came out, I saw more people outside gradually.
If I remember correctly, the ‘business’ hours of this comic exhibition are from nine in the morning to seven in the evening. However, just like the café, generally, no one would come this early. The peak flow of people at the exhibition is after ten o’clock, like now.
“Wow…”
Holding Xiao Mo’s hand, walking on the path outside the changing room, I surveyed this super-large exhibition hall. For the first time, I felt a sense of ‘the world is so big.’
Since becoming a girl, the whole world has ‘enlarged’ in front of me. The room doors and bedroom doors, which are usually designed according to standard, suddenly seemed much taller to me.
Some items that used to look very ordinary, like computers, now seemed a bit bigger to me. Like the computer chair in the room, under normal circumstances, I would have to tiptoe to sit on it, and my feet wouldn’t reach the ground when I relaxed while typing.
After adapting to these things over the past two months, I’ve become familiar with them, but today at this comic exhibition, I don’t know if the ceiling is a bit high, the people around, and the buildings really gave me a very strong sense of ‘I’m so small.’
Why are all these people so tall, hey!
I looked somewhat unwillingly at the crowd constantly pouring into the entrance of the exhibition.
Also, why is it clearly a technology museum here, but the surroundings are dressed like… an exhibition hall?
“Has Xiongxiong gone to find people from her company?”
I looked at the crowd ahead, feeling very relaxed.
“Are there booths from Jialan Company here too?”
As more and more people entered the comic exhibition, the exhibition’s bathrooms and changing rooms began to feel crowded.
Moreover, I also noticed that more than half of the female Cosplayers… went into the men’s bathrooms and changing rooms.
In other words, there is a considerable proportion of “girls” at the exhibition who are played by males.
Of course, this doesn’t exclude some girls who “pretend to be boys” to find a place in the male section because there’s no space left in the female bathroom or changing room.
I’ve encountered such things before.
There are obvious physiological differences between men and women. Boys just need to find a spot in the bathroom, shake a bit, and they’re done, then move to the next one.
Girls need to find a room, close the door, undress, squat down… and finally deal with hygiene using tissue paper before getting dressed again.
From the number of “pits” available, there are more in the men’s bathroom than in the women’s, and the speed of “convenience” on both sides is not in the same league.
Ultimately, no matter what, the congestion level on the female side is definitely greater than on the male side. And many Cosplayers at the exhibition are in a state of “unidentified gender.” Some people just can’t wait…
“Where do you want to go first?”
In the bustling aisle, Yin Xiamo, dressed as Lumine, reached out her hand to me, “Do you want me to carry you?”
“No.”
I glared at her, “I can walk by myself.”
Why does she treat me like a child again?
Even if you’re a thousands-of-years-old demon, my psychological age in this world is that of an “adult.” How could anyone grow up and still want to be carried?
Lowering my head to look at my legs, clad in ankle socks and custom-made shoes, I tried moving in place for a moment. Then, for some reason, I felt impulsive. I jumped forward with my legs together, lifted one foot forward, then continued with the legs together…
Hop, one-two-one, one-two-one.
These shoes are so stable, they must be enchanted!
The completely different foot feeling and sense of gravity inside the shoes made me excited.
My clothes exuded a certain “natural scent,” the material was specially modified to be exceptionally comfortable. Wearing them felt like lying on a soft cotton blanket during sleep, giving me a sense of security as if I were nestled in my mother’s arms.
And the shoes on my feet perfectly matched my current level of activity and center of gravity. Even with all this hopping around, I didn’t feel any fatigue or discomfort in my feet at all.
“This Nahida is so cute…”
“Is she performing hopscotch?”
“Hey, Nahida, Dendro Archon! Can we take a photo?”
As I was still trying to figure out how miraculous the shoes customized for me by the centaur tribe, as Xiao Mo described, were, I heard the voices of two girls not far away.
Out of politeness, I turned around and instinctively tilted my head, “Huh?”
The girl on my left covered her mouth, “Tilting her head again, I can’t take it…”
Oops, it’s become instinctive…
I quickly steadied myself and then embarrassedly returned to Xiao Mo’s side.
Why did I, a manly uncle, just naturally react like a little girl a moment ago? Is it also the magic brought by the clothes?
“She’s really cute… How can there be such a cute child…”
“That Lumine is also nice, are they friends?”
“But she seems a little shy? I regret not recording the way she was hopping around just now.”
Uh… about that… please forget about what I just did, I was just testing the shoes.
I gave the two of them an apologetic look.
Xiao Mo said that the pair of little shoes on my feet have a “boost” and “acceleration” effect similar to sports shoes. Not only can they securely wrap the wearer’s feet, even during intense activity, there won’t be any discomfort.
They also provide exceptionally strong traction, coupled with a trace amount of wind elemental force. Even for someone like me who knows nothing about magic, wearing them makes running several kilometers feel not too tiring.
Also, I don’t know if it’s as Xiao Mo hinted before, but after transforming into an elf form, my weight seems to have decreased, and my body feels light. Now, I truly feel like the whole world, including my own body, is different.
It’s like… I’ve escaped the shackles of the mundane world, like a little bird dropping the wood on its feet. The completely different joyful mood makes me want to run or act spoiled to the fullest, to show my cuteness to the whole world…
Uh, speaking of which, the reason I decided to bring Xiao Mo here to play was because I wanted to have a “date” with her.
Actually, it can’t be called a date. I just wanted to do some things together with her that we wouldn’t normally do.
If it were before, I wouldn’t come to a comic exhibition like this. I’m just an ordinary person, with no money, no friends. Coming to a comic exhibition is not as good as sleeping in a bit more at home, or playing games and watching movies.
But now, I really want to be with Xiao Mo… Anything is fine as long as we’re together.
“Hello.”
Seeing me run to Xiao Mo’s side, the two girls came over, gesturing with their phones, “Can we take a photo?”
“Sure!”
Before I could say anything, Xiao Mo had already picked me up in her arms and said, “She’s my wife.”
“Yuri, huh? That’s great!”
One of the girls already had her phone raised towards us, “Come on, little Dendro Archon, give us a smile.”
“Huh?”
Instinctively, I flashed a smile with the habit of a maid, “Like this?”
“So cute! Can you strike another pose?”
The other girl also pulled out her camera, “How about the pose for Dendro Archon long-pressing E-Skill?”
I extended both hands to make an “L,” then made a square shape in the air, closing one eye while keeping the other open, making a “photo-taking” gesture to the two of them.
“Click click click…”
“Snap snap!”
“Can I take a photo too?”
As I was being held by Xiao Mo in the corresponding pose, several boys with cameras approached from somewhere, “Nahida and Lumine, you both look so beautiful… Are you professional cosplayers?”
“No.”
Yin Xiamo looked proud, “She’s my wife.”
“Ah? I thought you two were sisters…”
“Nope.”
With that, Yin Xiamo put me down on the ground, then used both hands to scratch my chin as if teasing a little kitten, “Lovers, in a romantic relationship, of course, I’m on top.”
Instinctively, I snapped at her hand.
Of course, she dodged it.
“They’re actually a couple!”
The speaking boy was astonished, “Wishing you two a hundred years of happiness!”
“Thank you.”
“She’s really cute, and you’re so beautiful!”
Another boy directly placed the tripod on the ground and aimed at me, “Can we take a photo?”
A yuan per photo!
—I almost blurted out this sentence, but realizing where we were, at a comic exhibition, I nodded awkwardly, then glanced at someone behind me.
Just as I was about to find a pose, Yin Xiamo once again lifted me up and placed me directly on her shoulder.
“Eek—”
I instinctively grabbed onto Xiao Mo’s neck, nearly losing my balance.
It’s a good thing that these past few days flying in the sky with Fei Luo have really improved my sense of balance, otherwise, you’d have fallen down just now.
What kind of operation is letting someone sit on your shoulder, huh! Don’t you feel heavy?!
Although I’m very light now, but you’re a clone, aren’t clones supposed to not inherit most of the original body’s strength? What’s with this technique of grabbing like you’re catching a little cat!
“Here, like this.”
After I settled on her shoulder, Yin Xiamo put her hands on her hips, striking a somewhat “cool” pose, “You can take a photo now.”
*Snap snap snap…*
“Wow! It’s the Dendro Archon!”
“And there’s another one! This is the most god-level Cosplay I’ve seen today, both of them!”
“We’ve got some great material now, these two are just too beautiful.”
I don’t know if it’s because the actions of the girls and boys were a bit loud, or if my green Cosplay outfit was particularly eye-catching in the crowd, but as we were being photographed, more and more people gathered around us, surrounding us in no time.
“It’s truly an amazing duplicate, her height… incredible.”
“Why do I feel like I’ve seen these two people before, maybe on TV?”
“Are they mother and daughter? Or sisters?”
“……”
As a former uncle and a maid who worked at the café for almost two months, I have quite a bit of work experience, but I’ve never had the experience of “standing as a model” like this before.
At the café, group photos cost one dollar each, but 99% of the time, all I have to do is make a scissor gesture, and that’s it. The remaining 1% of customers will directly tell me how they want the photo to be taken, like holding a little cat or posing with an Angora rabbit plushie on my head to look cute.
So… being surrounded by so many people for the first time, I felt a bit silly. I could only sit on Xiao Mo’s shoulder the whole time, while being bombarded by the surrounding flashes.
At comic conventions, there’s usually a distinction between professional and amateur Cosplayers. Professional Cosplayers also have differences in whether they’re full-time professionals or not.
Professional Cosplayers are hired by businesses at the convention to attract attention and solicit business. Their activities are generally limited to near the corresponding store, and they basically can’t take a break all day. The main purpose of non-professional professional Cosplayers coming to the convention is to increase their popularity.
Usually, they take photos of Cosplayers on platforms like Weibo, spreading them around, and then they come to the convention to showcase their looks for photographers, visitors, journalists, YouTubers… Essentially, it’s about increasing their fame.
With fame comes popularity, and with popularity comes monetization. Basically, it’s about making everyone know who you are so that when you livestream, you have high viewership. People will then be willing to pay for a “chance to appear” or help businesses advertise, or even do livestreams for product sales.
Apart from these professional Cosplayers, the majority at comic conventions are amateur Cosplayers, like myself.
Everyone doesn’t come for fame. Of course, it’s great to let more people know about you, to cosplay characters you love, and then play around at the convention, make friends, and enjoy this wonderful day.
Cooperating with requests for photos is also an unwritten rule here. After all, we put on these costumes because we love these characters, and when others want to take photos, it’s because they like the character you’re portraying too. Let’s all be harmonious.
But I do have a small selfishness in all of this.
Amidst the various flashes, I discreetly glanced at Yin Xiamo beside me. The reason I brought Xiao Mo here to play, apart from wanting to relax together on our day off and have a big “date,” was also a kind of desire to “tell the whole world that Xiao Mo is my wife.”
As the café became famous, it’s impossible for me and Xiao Mo, as the top maids there, not to be harassed. Our QQ and WeChat IDs were leaked a long time ago, and even now, I occasionally receive some strange messages, like “Beautiful, do you have a husband?” “I’m also in Shenzhen City, wanna meet?” “How much for a night?” or “I have three houses in Honor District of Shenzhen City, I’m interested in you now, tell me how much to marry you?” These kinds of bizarre messages.
My phone number is relatively safe because it’s newly acquired, so hardly anyone knows it, but QQ has become a “disaster area.” I get dozens of friend requests almost every time I log in, accompanied by some very strange verification messages.
Comic conventions are different from cafes. The café is in the food industry, so most of the customers are locals or people who live nearby.
However, because comic conventions are announced in advance, everyone has ample time to prepare. Thus, people from all over the place gather here. When these people take photos or videos here and post them online, the readers and viewers they face are also from all over the world.
So, I thought to take advantage of this comic convention to let everyone know—I and Xiao Mo are a couple, so please stop thinking about messy things.
Doing this also has a bit of… well, it’s like pushing Xiao Mo out to help.
?Let me introduce, this is my wife, she’s a Grim Reaper, she’s super strong.?
Anyway, that’s how Xiao Mo and I have been doing things lately. Whenever something comes up, I just stay home, cook, warm the bed, and wait for Xiao Mo to go out and handle it.
“Nuo’er, are you guys here?”
Amidst the camera flashes, I saw Xiongxiong in a black bear costume pushing through the crowd and running in, “Do you have a moment? I need your help.”
“Hmm?”
I turned my head on Xiao Mo’s shoulder, “What’s up?”
Actually, I didn’t have a clear purpose for coming to the comic convention today. In my eyes, the comic convention is just a place for various businesses to advertise in real life and a place for niche culture circles to exchange ideas.
The organizers host comic conventions to attract people who love anime and manga culture, allowing various businesses to set up booths, stimulating consumption, and then taking a cut and venue fees. Like the previous Honeydew Comic Con, some people simply enjoy the atmosphere of comic conventions, while others come because they support their favorite games, singers, or authors.
However, Xiongxiong is different from us. Although she claims to be here to enjoy the comic convention, her family’s company… the one called “Jialan,” has a booth at this comic convention. This can be seen from the “Tianqi Graphics Card” advertisements everywhere since we entered the door.
“Sorry, sorry, I need to borrow your Dendro Archon for a moment.”
Coming to my side, Xiongxiong pulled out a grass-green lollipop from her pocket and handed it over.
“Here you go.”
“What’s with this trick of deceiving kids!”
“Just say what you need, I… I don’t like this.”
“Really?”
Xiongxiong questioned. “This is vanilla-flavored, made from pure natural plant ingredients, very famous in our area. You’ll definitely like it.”
“Okay…”
I hesitated for a moment, took the flat, round blue and white flower-shaped lollipop, and asked, “So, what’s the matter?”
“Over there is the Jialan company’s booth. I just ran over to take a look, and it turns out my dad is also there. He’s busy with computer parts.”
Xiongxiong looked a bit perplexed. “But that guy, my dad, forgot a whole bunch of computer parts that were supposed to be displayed today. He just remembered and is now rushing back to the warehouse to get them. Right now is when there are the most people. Tongmeng Net had scheduled us to showcase our products at this time, but since the items haven’t arrived, they don’t know what to do.”
“Isn’t there at least one display machine?”
“No, my uncle is also an idiot. He only brought the computer cases over, and there’s nothing inside. It can’t even boot up.”
Xiongxiong felt embarrassed. “I don’t have many friends here either, and now there’s nobody at the booth. So, I was thinking… Nuo’er and Xiao Mo, can you go up there and perform something?”
“Huh?”
I didn’t expect Xiongxiong to say that.
“Us… go up there and perform? Are you serious?”
“Dead serious.”
Xiongxiong nodded. “You’ll be paid for your appearance. Just go up there and act cute. My dad and the others will be back in about twenty minutes. Try to attract the audience during that time.”
“But you…”
I subconsciously shook my head. “I don’t know how to perform…”
“We’ll give you our top-of-the-line computer with a monitor,” Xiongxiong said, displaying a wealthy appearance.
“As long as you agree, you can choose any computer parts later.”
“But…” I hesitated.
“Even if you say that, I haven’t learned how to do those things…”
“And there’s a whole set of our company’s highest-quality drawing tablets.” Xiongxiong gestured towards Yin Xiamo.
“Didn’t you mention before that you wanted Xiao Mo to draw? We can use this as a trade.”
Upon hearing this, I jumped down from Yin Xiamo’s shoulder.
“Deal.”
“……”
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