I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 437

Chapter 437: Demons, the Void, and Nuo’er’s Confusion

Considering that Xiao Mo was going to discuss the placement of “base stations” with the dragon clan elders, using a lot of specialized magical and scientific terminology that I didn’t quite understand.

I took advantage of Xiao Mo’s brief absence to pull over the librarian, Ophelia, intending to ask her some questions about this world.

Ophelia, although we all know behind her back that she is Xiao Mo’s strongest assassin, on the surface, almost everyone thinks she is an ordinary scholar.

Yes, the primary task of an assassin is to hide their identity, and in this respect, Ophelia is very successful.

Her pink hair and petite figure are extremely deceptive, and she can use spells to hide her demonic features. So, even though she participated in the Demon King War and was named one of the “Twelve Heroes,” most ordinary people are unaware of her assassin identity.

Most of the time, Ophelia presents herself as a scholar, dressed in an ordinary scholar’s uniform with her harmless-looking pink hair. Only when she needs to reveal her identity does she “transform.”

For instance, when we went to the Lizardman Islands, she revealed her demon wings and tail, surrounded herself with bats, night effects, and black flames, making those familiar with the war immediately recognize “Ophelia.”

In Diwutith, Ophelia has a relatively simple name: Fia.

Everyone only knows her as the owner of the Grand Library and a person of vast knowledge.

“I thought you would go with Momo.”

Seeing that I chose to stay in the library, Ophelia was a bit curious. “From what I understand, the new Queen Diwu is supposed to be quite curious? Children seem to be like that.”

“I’m not a child!”

For who knows how many times I retorted indignantly.

“I have a very mature mind!”

“Is that so?”

Ophelia looked me over and then burst out laughing.

“What’s with that expression like you’re looking at a child!”

I clenched my fists. “Shouldn’t you… show some respect to the queen, uh, respect, yes, shouldn’t you respect me!”

“I do respect you, Queen Diwu.”

Ophelia explained with a smile, “Momo told me roughly about your situation. She said that you… wandered in the otherworld for thousands of years, always asleep, and when you woke up, you had almost lost all your memories, now like a child. Momo also said that you probably won’t recover any of your past memories, equivalent to a rebirth, so she named you Diwu, symbolizing the morning dew, the first dew. Is that correct?”

“So what if it is.”

I tried to look dignified, “I’m actually very old, not a child!”

“When did you… wake up?”

“About thirty years ago?”

I roughly calculated in my mind. “Rounding up, it’s thirty years ago!”

“Oh… then you’re still a kid. Elves at thirty are still in the garden eating nectar.”

Ophelia had a look of sudden realization. “Alright, if I’m not mistaken, the reason you’re not going with Momo to meet the dragon clan elders is that you have something you’re more curious about and want to ask me, right?”

“Yes.”

I glanced at Nida, who had already returned to organizing books on the shelves. “I have a lot of questions to ask you.”

Ophelia, as the owner of the Grand Library of this country, doesn’t just hold that title in name only.

She is truly knowledgeable and a genuine scholar.

Xiao Mo said that she got many of her ideas about magic tools from Ophelia.

Unlike the almost brainless and tireless undead girl Vivi, Ophelia is not only an assassin but also possesses a frightening amount of knowledge about magic, the universe, and machinery.

She can be considered… the “Gabriel” of the demon race.

“Alright, go ahead and ask.”

Under my gaze, Ophelia jumped back and sat on a table.

“But there’s one condition. For every question I answer, you have to let me hug you.”

“What do you mean by ‘hug’!”

“Because Queen Diwu is just too cute.”

Ophelia blinked. “I know about your relationship with Momo, so I won’t do anything unnecessary. It’s like… a princess in a castle seeing a life-sized doll she really likes and wanting to hug it. How about it?”

“Alright.”

Considering that this is Momo’s territory, and Ophelia is her subordinate and someone Momo completely trusts, I nodded, “Then I’ll ask a big question.”

“Go ahead, let’s see how big~ the question is.”

Ophelia deliberately stretched out the words “how big”.

“Ask me anything.”

“What is the Void?”

“Whoa…”

My question caused Ophelia to fall off the table. “I really didn’t expect you to ask that.”

“So, you said you’d answer any question.”

I frowned. “You should be the most knowledgeable astronomer around here.”

Calling her an astronomer might not be quite right, but my intuition told me that Ophelia would definitely know.

In the otherworld of Grandis, those closest to Momo are Vivi, Ophelia, and Gwendolyn. It’s not an exaggeration to call them confidants. And Ophelia herself is a scholar, knowledgeable in astronomy, geography, and forbidden magic. So asking her this question should be appropriate.

During the time Xiao Mo first used space forbidden magic and came into contact with the “Void,” I don’t believe she didn’t tell anyone about it.

And if Xiao Mo wanted to talk about it, she would only turn to her trusted confidants.

The most likely candidate would be Ophelia, who is skilled in extracting information.

I want to know what Xiao Mo encountered in the Void, what exactly happened that led her to decide to become the Grim Reaper on Earth, and what this power is all about. The concept of “Grim Reaper” is too vast, transcending ordinary magic, even beyond forbidden magic, and the only explanation left is the “Void.”

“The Void? If you want to know about that… Momo said you come from another world. That world should have concepts like planets and the universe, right?”

Ophelia looked at me. “For example, the land beneath our feet is actually a planet. There are countless other planets outside of us. The moon we see at night is actually our satellite… Do you understand these concepts?”

I was a bit surprised. “You have a concept of the universe too?”

“Why ‘too’? Although this is forbidden knowledge and most people aren’t interested in it, as a scholar, it’s normal for me to know these things, okay?”

Ophelia seemed thoughtful. “From your expression, it looks like you’ve also studied this area of knowledge?”

“Yes.”

I nodded. “So, what is the connection between the Void and these things?”

“The Void… Hmm, let me explain it this way. Consider our country, Diwutith, and the island of Maha where Queen Diwu came from before. If we regard each of these nations as a world, then the Void is the area between Diwutith and Maha Island.

“Or, if we consider this entire world, including Diwutith and Maha Island, along with several continents and oceans on our planet, as one world, and another planet as another world, then the cosmic vacuum between them is the Void.”

“What you’re probably referring to, the Void in Xiao Mo’s descriptions, should be the area between two universes. Note that the unit here is a universe.”

“Oh, right.”

Ophelia seemed to remember something and added.

“Studies suggest that the Demon King who ruled over us for nearly ten thousand years, or the entire demon race and demon beasts, might have come from the Void, not from Grandis, and possibly not even from our universe.”

“If you want to know what the Void is, Lady Diwu,”

Ophelia leaned in and tapped my forehead, “You should ask yourself. You also have demon blood in your body, don’t you?”

“……”

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