I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 429
Chapter 429: Skull Palace · Vivi
“So…”
On this day, in the central hall of the Little Bird Leisure Bar, Fei Luo was mixing a drink for a girl in a black dress with black hair while looking helplessly at me and Xiao Mo next to her.
“Are you planning to summon all your dark troops here?”
“Vivi knows me too well.”
Xiao Mo, sitting on a small chair, wore an expression of resignation. “The command for using spatial forbidden spells can’t be hidden from her.”
“I came here on my own, going against Lady Momo’s orders.”
In response, Vivi, sitting on a high stool at the bar, said in a flat, emotionless voice, “I miss Queen Diwu so much.”
Fei Luo’s mouth twitched. “Queen Diwu?”
Xiao Mo reminded, “Nuo’er.”
“Oh, Nuo’er.”
Vivi turned around and stared at me with her deep black-red eyes. “For Nuo’er, I am willing to accept any punishment.”
“As a dragon, I don’t really care about your matters, but… there is still an archangel here.”
Fei Luo gestured towards Gabriel, who was live streaming in a nearby VIP room, and then turned to Vivi.
“Winter Fruit or Dragon’s Saliva Fruit?”
“I want to try the local specialty.”
Vivi shook her head and continued in her emotionless tone, “Seventy-degree liquor.”
“Got it, you always want seventy-degree liquor when you come to see me.”
Fei Luo casually took a few strawberries from the nearby refrigerator, and while no one was paying attention, she quickly sliced them into pieces with a knife, adding them to the glass along with some mint powder and other seasonings she had prepared. She covered the glass and shook it up.
“How long have you been here?”
“I arrived in the morning and spent some time learning the local language and culture.”
As she said this, Vivi’s gaze remained fixed on me, who was sitting obediently in a chair. “Can I hug her?”
I protested, “You’ve hugged me several times already!”
The girl sitting on the high stool next to the bar in the Little Bird Leisure Bar was Vivi, the leader of the “Dark Legion” who had been with Xiao Mo the longest, was the strongest, and was also the oldest member apart from Xiao Mo.
We had met once before when we crossed over to the other world of Grandis. At that time, she was assigned to Lizardman Island to handle some aftercare tasks, such as arranging for the pirates to work on the island and helping the lizardmen rebuild their home.
It was said that because of me, the lizardman girl Nida was specially “promoted” from Lizardman Island to our city, Diwutith, to work as a librarian. The books there could be freely browsed.
After completing the task Xiao Mo gave her, Vivi forcefully went to “crack” the teleportation forbidden spell on the imperial altar according to her understanding of Xiao Mo.
Vivi’s appearance was that of a somewhat “cool” older sister type. She was about 1.7 meters tall, a bit taller than Xiao Mo, with a figure that was neither too fat nor too thin. Her long black hair and black-red eyes gave her a “dead” look even without makeup, somewhat resembling a gloomy girl.
However, Vivi’s true personality isn’t very aloof. Xiao Mo said she’s just not good at expressing her emotions and has difficulty controlling her facial muscles, giving her a somewhat “expressionless” appearance.
Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Mo noticed someone using a spatial forbidden spell. By the time Vivi arrived on Earth this morning, it had only been about ten hours or so.
Although ten hours seems long, it’s noteworthy that Vivi managed to forcefully understand and use the spatial forbidden spell purely based on her knowledge of Xiao Mo.
Fei Luo, Gabriel, and Yueyue were able to come to Earth because Xiao Mo taught them how to use the spatial forbidden spell. Even so, it took them a good part of the day to grasp the trick.
I spent nearly two days learning it, and due to some mishap, I ended up teleporting to Lizardman Island.
As for Vivi… this skeletal girl managed to figure out how to use the forbidden spell solely through her own efforts, without receiving the “key” to the spell from Xiao Mo.
According to Xiao Mo, Vivi’s setting in the other world is that of a skeletal girl… or rather, an “undead girl.”
She is an undead entity, her true form being a skeleton. It’s said that Vivi was once a princess of a super empire. When she was around sixteen or seventeen, a disaster caused by a beast army nearly wiped out the empire. The king ordered the most powerful mages in the country to hide in the castle’s basement and do everything possible to protect the princess.
The king then died, and the princess’s former castle was reduced to ruins by the demon lord and the beast army, becoming a desolate place where nothing could grow. The princess and many mages hid underground, unable to come out, and survived only by the mages hanging on by a thread.
Such days lasted for a very long time. The mages continually remembered the king’s orders, and even after the princess’s physical body had died, they still used all their magic to keep the princess’s soul stable. Eventually, under prolonged magical influence, the princess’s soul mutated and firmly attached itself to her skeleton, turning her into an undead being.
Perhaps because the memories from that time were so painful, Vivi lost most of her memories after becoming undead. She only remembered that she had once been a princess of this country, saved forcibly by the mages of the realm. Thus, Vivi swore to avenge the demon lord on behalf of the people and mages who had died with the empire, joining Xiao Mo’s “Dark Legion.”
Because Vivi was one of the earliest members to join Xiao Mo’s allied forces and had been with her the longest, along with her age and extensive magical knowledge, she soon became one of the most powerful warriors in the alliance.
It is said that if she were to fight freely, Fei Luo might not even be a match for Vivi, especially in places like graveyards or battlefield ruins, where her combat power is greatly enhanced by the abundance of corpses. She could even go toe-to-toe with Xiao Mo.
Afterward, Vivi became one of the leaders of Xiao Mo’s “Dark Legion,” and with her terrifying abilities, she forcibly broke through Xiao Mo’s teleportation forbidden spell to come to Earth.
Xiao Mo has complained to me that when she established the “Diwutith” Empire, she had overly emphasized “Diwu,” my faith, to the extent that now more than half of the country admires “Diwu.” Vivi, of course, was no exception.
Undead beings are not the smartest.
That’s what Xiao Mo said to me.
Vivi is very powerful, but the most obvious difference between her and Fei Luo or Gabriel is that… she hardly uses her brain.
Originally, as a skeleton, she didn’t have a brain, and from my experience when Xiao Mo extracted my soul, I know that once the soul leaves the body, even “thinking” becomes impossible.
As an undead being, Vivi had grown accustomed to living without a brain and was lazy about using her mind. Even after learning to shapeshift like the dragons and having a physical body and a strong brain, she still wasn’t used to thinking for herself and just did whatever she was told.
The reason she came to Earth this time was mainly that Xiao Mo hadn’t explicitly told her not to come. In Xiao Mo’s previous teachings, phrases like “Queen Diwu is everything to us,” “Diwu is very cute,” and “No matter what, we must protect and cherish Queen Diwu” led her to subconsciously take the action of coming to Earth to support Queen Diwu after meeting me.
Similarly, Vivi’s “aloof” demeanor is because she completely lacks control over her facial expressions, as she used to be a skeleton, and skeletons don’t have flesh.
In terms of personality, I feel that Vivi is somewhat like the character Karasuma from the ancient anime “Inu X Boku SS”.
“Vivi, you need to be careful here, you must not release your death aura.”
Seeing Vivi continually staring at me, Xiao Mo sighed lightly.
“The Earth’s biosphere is very fragile. As a newly born elf, Nuo’er’s life aura alone can affect a radius of several kilometers and heal the vast majority of illnesses. If you release your death aura here… it would likely turn into a land of corpses.”
“Don’t worry. I’ve learned the knowledge of this place according to your ‘Nightmare Content,’ so I’m clear about what I should and shouldn’t do.”
In response, Vivi nodded seriously. “Unless someone attacks Diwu… or Lady Nuo’er, I will absolutely not use magic.”
“You’d be strange if you could determine who’s attacking Nuo’er.”
Xiao Mo rubbed her head. “Listen carefully, without my and Nuo’er’s orders, you are not allowed to use any magic here. Note that it means any magic.”
Vivi stood still for a few seconds and said, “Okay.”
“This includes transformation magic, you must remain in your current form and cannot revert to your original state.”
“Okay.”
“What a strong death aura, I can tell who’s here just by sensing it.”
As she spoke, Gabriel’s voice came from not far away, accompanied by a light, quick-paced step. I saw that someone had gone upstairs to fetch an ice cream and handed it to Vivi.
“Are you planning to stay here long?”
Huh?
This scene left me next to them feeling somewhat dazed.
Angels and undead beings…
Can they really be good friends?
“What’s this?”
Vivi somewhat numbly took the ice cream from Gabriel. “Is this food?”
“Yes, it’s food. Don’t you love sweet things the most?”
Gabriel walked over to the bar and extended her hand to Fei Luo. “I’d like a cocktail, strawberry flavor.”
“Children shouldn’t drink alcohol.”
“Then I’ll drink your milk.”
“Better stick to the alcohol.”
Fei Luo sighed and picked up a glass. “What should I add?”
“Just make it as you see fit.”
Gabriel sat down next to Fei Luo. “If it weren’t for all these machines around, I’d almost think we’d gone back over a thousand years, to that small bar where we discussed where to escape to the next day…”
“There’s no need to look at the machines, just look at Nuo’er.”
Fei Luo began shaking the cocktail. “Nuo’er, would you like some? There’s a bit of milk left from this morning. Should I make you a milk cocktail?”
I looked over at Xiao Mo.
“Let her have it. It’s been a while since we’ve gathered like this.”
Xiao Mo took out her phone and glanced at the time. “There aren’t many customers right now.”
“Hasn’t the café been busier lately? Why not have Vivi work as a maid too?”
Fei Luo pondered, “She wouldn’t get tired at all.”
Xiao Mo rolled her eyes. “Have an undead being work as a maid?”
“What’s wrong with that?”
Fei Luo laughed. “You are also a demon, aren’t you…”
“Alright, alright, I get it.”
Xiao Mo interrupted Fei Luo. “Let’s talk about it later. We’ll have a small meeting soon to discuss with Su Yunqin and the higher-ups about hiring another maid to work part-time as a security guard without pay.”
“Also, don’t add too much alcohol to Nuo’er’s milk cocktail. I’m worried that if this little one drinks it, she might have a milk burp and not even know how big her chest is.”
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