I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 372
Chapter 372: Diwu
Our honeymoon agreement, Xiao Mo’s and mine, was simple: wherever the dart landed, we would go, with the added note that if there weren’t many tourist attractions nearby or if we were done exploring, we would head to the nearest big city for the next stop.
The term “big city” was quite broad, so we agreed to simply head towards the nearest major city when the time came.
Typically, big cities have places to rest and allow you to experience various local customs. After experiencing life in the wilderness, it was complementary to visit a big city compared to a small county town.
The nearest city to this small county town is 520 kilometers away in a straight line. However, perhaps due to its higher altitude, this city isn’t even considered a third-tier city.
Nonetheless, it still qualifies as a city. Images online show its night scenery to be quite beautiful, unlike the pitch-darkness of this small county town at night.
With a population of over two million, the city features a continental plateau climate. Its main attractions include vast grasslands, wildlife parks, and various temples, reflecting its rich cultural heritage.
However, due to the sparse population, the city only has regular buses with no subway system and lacks some basic facilities—this is what I found out about the city from online sources.
In a sense, the area Xiao Mo and I are about to visit is probably only about half the size of two districts combined in Shenzhen City in terms of area and population. Exploring there might give us the feeling of being in half of Shenzhen.
However, the advantage of fewer people is that Xiao Mo and I won’t need to dodge various gazes and surveillance cameras underground while flying in the air, saving us quite a bit of time.
It’s worth mentioning that our “simulated combat” with Xiao Mo not only allowed me to grasp the “Water Element Domain,” a skill whose utility I’m still unsure about, but also helped me understand how to deactivate the Catgirl Mode.
In simple terms: Let go of obsession.
Don’t always think of yourself as a catgirl, and don’t assume Xiao Mo likes catgirls. If you were a catgirl, you’d be bullied by Xiao Mo in various ways… As long as you don’t think about these things, calmly switch back according to the elf mode switch method.
I feel this mode fits the habits of cats: rebellious and stubborn.
“I think it’s because deep down, Nuo’er likes to act cute, so she’s been staying in catgirl mode without switching back.”
Sitting on the magic array heading towards the nearby city, Xiao Mo looked at me who had returned to elf mode and teased, “Cats are so cute, their moods are reflected in their ears and tails. Stroke the base of your tail and it’ll fluff up, super fun.”
“It’s not fun at all!” I protested, getting up and grabbing her face.
“It’s all because of you teaching me magic with those messy runes, I ended up being a catgirl for half a month!”
Although I’ve been disguising myself well every day, reality isn’t an anime world. Plus, with so many surveillance cameras in the café, there have been some discussions online lately like “Could Nuo’er really be a catgirl?” or “Nuo’er’s ears and tail look so real.”
The cat ears on my head and the tail under my skirt are definitely not toys. When visiting the café, if people are observant, they might get suspicious, even if no one has proof.
—Even if they really suspect my ears and tail are real, what can they do? They can’t just come up and grab them, right?
It’s precisely because the café has always been under surveillance and there are many videos of me before I became a catgirl that no one has started thinking about whether ‘Nuo’er can switch between human and cat forms.’
Anyway, chaos is the main theme.
Therefore, these suspicions have also become one of the “Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries of the Café” on the internet, gradually overshadowed by the gaming craze of “Age of Aquarius.”
“I quite like it when you act cute as a little cat,” Xiao Mo leaned against me in the air.
“But being an elf isn’t bad either. Elves have this unique plant fragrance and life force… Hmm, just sitting next to Nuo’er makes all fatigue disappear.”
“Well, regardless of the form you’re in, you always have a reason to snuggle up to me.”
I, long accustomed to this cheeky person, could only sigh and lie down on the magic array, gazing at the beautiful blue sky.
“If I learn how to use that spatial forbidden spell, can I go to your world, Xiao Mo?”
“Of course,” Xiao Mo replied immediately.
“Otherwise, why do you think I spent so many years studying this forbidden spell to bridge the two worlds? And also that world should be said to be your homeland.”
“My… homeland?” I pondered for a moment. “But I don’t have memories from there.”
“Your body was born there and developed for hundreds of years without a soul. I only brought you over later.”
Xiao Mo’s voice suddenly lowered. “I mentioned before, those were… the darkest experiences in centuries.”
“Ah…”
In truth, I knew. If we go by the body, Xiao Mo’s world is closer to the concept of ‘homeland’.
Xiao Mo spent a very long time studying the life-forbidden spell to give me a physical body, collecting a sprout from the tree grown from the seed of the Elf Tree in the Hero’s Rest Land as a catalyst, ultimately creating the initial embryo.
So, from the beginning, I had both human and elf genes.
As for being a catgirl and succubus, Xiao Mo explained that she needed the help of a catgirl during the creation of the body. The demon genes came later during the war with the Demon King, when the world was so polluted that even Xiao Mo was contaminated by demonic energy.
After returning to the ‘Crystal Palace’ without a soul, I somehow helped Xiao Mo purify the demonic energy, but ended up with a demon-like physique similar to Xiao Mo’s.
Xiao Mo appeared quite relaxed when she talked about these things, as if these hundreds of years were just a momentary blur.
However, I knew that these last few hundred years must have left the deepest impression on her.
After all the effort to learn the life-forbidden spell and create a body for her beloved, my soul, which had been wandering in the void, suddenly disappeared and ended up on Earth. Meanwhile, the final battle with the Demon King in the other world was about to begin…
“Actually, when we first created you, we gave you a name.”
After a brief silence between us, Xiao Mo spoke again, gazing at the receding grasslands as though recounting a warm story.
“Phonetically, it’s pronounced ‘Diwu’. Translated, it means ‘White Dew’.” [1]
“Diwu? White Dew?”
Curious, I asked, “Is that the name of this body, mine?”
“Yes, White Dew. Dew, as in the morning’s first dew and the hope of new life. In our language, both Elven and Demon, it’s pronounced ‘Diwu’. Translated directly into Mandarin here, it’s White Dew.”
Xiao Mo explained with a smile. “If you learn the magic to return in a few days, when you meet acquaintances there, they might still call you by that name. But the current you, Nuo’er, is also quite adorable.”
“Huh? Acquaintances?”
I felt like I had just stumbled onto something incredible. “Why would I have acquaintances there? Acquaintances of the Hero?”
“No, did you think I could complete the life- forbidden spell all by myself?”
Xiao Mo looked at me with eyes as though I were an adorable little cat, calmly delivering something that shook me to the core.
“To cast the life-forbidden spell, I built a city. The people in that city are your followers, they all know you’re the Hero about to be revived, destined to bring light to the world.”
“The city’s central core, the Crystal Palace, was built to facilitate your rapid growth. Similar to a royal palace in a city, you slept there for hundreds of years.”
Xiao Mo continued, “Nuo’er, if you were to return now, you would be regarded by the people of that city as… their Queen.”
“……”
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TL Note:
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