It's Impossible that My Evil Overlord is So Cute: Prologue
The hero's body was in quite a bad shape.
His body was covered with many fatal wounds so deep that it was even possible to see bones and internal organs through his wounds, and the blood had already stained his leather clothing. To some extent, it wouldn't be surprising thing if he already died.
However, he didn't fall down. Even if the space was full of energy from the Void and it still continued to erode his body, he still wouldn’t fall down.
The pain gnawed on every nerve in his body. His excessively bleeding body made him feel as though he was being tied to a heavy chain. He could feel his entire body becoming heavier; every muscle, every blood vessel, every fibre of his body was weighing down on him heavily .His hands and legs felt as if they were being glued to the ground, gradually making it harder to move.
He lifted up the sword in his hands with his last strength. It was a gorgeous and huge two-handed sword - the holy sword Durandal. He fastened his slack eyes on his enemy.
His enemy was a tall, humanoid creature. It was wrapped in a heavy armor. The armor was black and decorated with parts and patterns that looked like the devil's wings and skeletons.
It was the evil overlord also known as the king of the strongest in history, and had titles like the Dragon King, the Lord of Hell and the Governor of the Abyss.
Half a year ago, the hero was just an ordinary high school student; and in general, this was an undoubtedly unfair battle.
However, at this moment, the evil overlord's eyes were occupied by fear and confusion.
"I don’t understand!" The brave heard the evil overlord's hoarse and dragon-like voice came out of the armor. Its voice was full of unwillingness and hatred. "Why do you want to help those dirty and stupid human beings! I know you have seen these humans' disgusting behaviors, in your journey towards my castle!"
"…"
The evil overlord didn't know if the hero had acquiesced its words, or he simply didn't have enough strength to contradict. The hero still kept silence and held his sword.
"Why are you still fighting? Aren't you a victim of mankind's ugly heart?!" The evil overlord laughed at Xu Shenxing, "After many difficulties, you finally reached me, and wanted to beat me with the person you trusted. But what happened? That person betrayed you! That person banished you and me to this space and let us emerge and perish by ourselves!"
"…"
The hero still said nothing.
"However, it's still a normal thing for me. The reason why I'm the evil overlord is because I'm strong enough to unify all demons, and I don't think the dirty human beings are worthy of the world, so I had a war with them and gained an overwhelming advantage, so they called me ‘the evil overlord’!"
The evil overlord pointed to Xu Shenxing. "And you, you are the hero recognized by the holy sword Durandal. Your strength is even greater than mine! In the eyes of those cowardly and despicable humans, you are also a hundred-percent monster! So they would persuade you to fight me by using their blandishments, and at the last time when we fight each other, banish both of us!"
"…"
Blood dripped from the hero's wounds, congealing into a small pool.
"We are the same! Even so, do you still want to continue to fight with me?!" The evil overlord saw the hero still didn't answer. It thought the hero had been shaken, so it said, "Do you still want to fight for those humans who deceived and betrayed you? Don't be silly, you do not even belong to this world! You are not an aboriginal of Olaria!"
"…"
"Reputation? Wealth? Power? These vulgar things are not worth for you to be fighting against me! It’s impossible that you don't hate those who turn their back on you!"
The evil overlord roared, "Feel pain! Feel anger! Hate the world! Then join your hands with me and have your revenge on the world!"
"You're too noisy, and I really don't care about these things." The hero finally couldn't bear the evil overlord's nagging and said, "To be honest, I'm tired and sore now. I just want to beat you and have a good sleep."
"What…!" The evil overlord made a surprised sound.
However, the hero didn't continue to let the evil overlord speak. Bright light appeared on the blade of the holy sword Durandal, dancing in the space with the brave's swing.
The evil overlord burst out unintelligible roars like it has became a beast who was forced into a corner. Its magic power almost substantialized and formed a huge magic shield in front of itself; as if it thought that was not enough, it also summoned its strongest magical beast, the Ancient Black Dragon King, and let the black dragon stood in front of itself as the second barrier; then it summoned the imperishable Deathfire and Weak Water from hell as the third barrier.
However, all of these defenses couldn't stop the bright light on the blade of Durandal… no, in fact, they weren't even able to decelerate the holy sword.
Just in a flash, the magic shield, the Dragon King, the Deathfire and the Weak Water were all disintegrated under the light of the holy sword; and Durandal's blade also sliced through the evil overlord's Armor of Endless Night - which was forged since thousands of years ago and has never been damaged.
"Why… What a strong willpower. Why… What are you fighting for…"
The hero silently listened the evil overlord's whisper, and looked on as its once powerful breaths gradually became weaker and weaker.
The hero shored up his staggered body with his sword.
Numerous dimensional rifts had been torn throughout space. They were the result of the sweeping of Xu Shenxing's sword.
The sword not only killed the evil overlord, even the so-called "immortal void world" had also been ripped apart showing a space crack. The space was going to collapse.
Even facing this situation, Xu Shenxing still didn't show any expression.
He simply looked at the evil overlord's corpse and fell into silence for a long time. Then he said slowly.
"The reason for fighting? … Honestly, I just want to protect the world for my lover. That's all."
Yes, this is not a story about a brave beating the devil and saving the world. It was simply a negligible story about an ordinary young world-traveller who brandished his sword to protect his lover's smile. That was all.
Chapter 1: The Brave and Evil Overlord's Life on Earth (1)
"Whoa!"
Xu Shenxing woke up from his nightmare because of the heavy punch on his stomach.
He opened his vacant eyes. The first thing he saw was the morning sunshine, and the bright, long, golden hair which was disheveled on his bed.
"Moli, if it is possible, I hope you will be able to wake me up in a more gentle way." (TL: Moli is Jasmine in Chinese)
Xu Shenxing half opened his dead-fish-like eyes and looked at the master of the golden long hair.
She was a girl (or "Lolita") about twelve or thirteen years old. She was wearing Xu Shenxing's old shirt. However, because every old shirt Xu Shenxing could find was much larger than the girl's shape, the clothes looked pretty baggy on the girl's body, and the sleeves also covered her hands because they were too long. Because she didn't wear pants, her white legs were exposed under the sunlight and reflected a healthy color.
At this time, she cupped her cheeks with two hands crouched in the sleeves, and showed doubt and thoughtful expression on her face, as if she was thinking "Wake people up in a more gentle way? What is it?".
After a moment, she looked as if she understood and clapped her hands, then she picked up the hot water pot at the bedside.
"I do not know what's on you mind but undoubtedly you get something wrong. Put the hot water pot down!"
The girl named Moli was surprised. Her face developed an expression as if she was asking "Can't I use the hot water pot?!". Then she furrowed her delicate eyebrows, as if she was still wondering what ‘wake people up in a gentle way’ was.
However, Xu Shenxing ordered her to out of the bedroom decidedly, and then quickly put on his clothes.
The next thing he had to do was to prepare breakfast. In fact, the main reason that Moli woke him up was because she was hungry.
When Xu Shenxing put the breakfast - a bowl of rice congee and a poached egg - on the table, the girl put her head on the table and used chopstick to knock at the table. Her little face was covered with disappointment.
"I want to eat meat!"
She said so.
"I refuse. It's too greasy to eat meat at breakfast."
Xu Shenxing completely unmoved and rejected her proposal.
"But I have drank rice congee for three days!" The girl protested and knocked the table more vigorously, "It's wrong to abuse the evil overlord!"
"Freeloader has no rights to protest… ok. In fact, my money is running out. Or rather, if there is still no one coming to rent room in the apartment before next week, we will be unable to even afford to drink rice congee."
As a sophomore, his parents had divorced. His father was an unqualified father, so he had to part-work and part-study for feed himself. As for his mother, he has never seen her after she left with a rich man when he was five years old.
His father was an unknown archaeologist, and always went all over the world. The last time he contacted with Xu Shenxing was a year ago. He said that he was looking for the ruins of Kandaya civilization in Honduras.
In a word, if he counted on that guy to give him living expenses on time, a NOKIA dropped from the clouds would be more likely to occur…
Although his father still left a double apartment named "Sakura Apartment" as a property, but because the apartment was located in the suburb and it looked very old, so no one came to rent a room.
"That alien princess… from an unknown galaxy left a large sum of money as rent when she left, didn’t she?" Jasmine blinked her eyes and asked curiously.
"It's Centauri… Besides, alien's money cannot be used in the earth!"
Xu Shenxing was a little depressed when he mentioned it. He and Moli helped the princess solve the civil strife in her country, then got a large sum of money… but it was unuseable in the earth…
Although according to the princess's words, it was the most widely used currency in the universe, but here was the earth, where aerospace technology was still in its infancy and couldn’t even achieve flying at the speed of light - people were still disputing the existence of aliens. Xu Shenxing felt that he hadn’t had the chance to experience his life in the Star Era, so the money was really unusable.
Moreover, because the number of freeloaders rose to two people a few days ago, it increased the costs on the contrary. This was also one of the reasons he got poorer and poorer.
Fortunately, after solved the crisis, the princess had to leave the Sakura apartment and returned to the Centauri because she has to assume the reins of her country, otherwise Xu Shenxing would really as poor as a church mouse.
"In short, compared with evil overlord and alien princess, I would rather an ordinary person to rent the room…"
Xu Shenxing sighed and made a final summary.
"By the way, when I was playing your computer, I saw a dialog box appeared on the screen." Moli asked and raised her hands. The long sleeves waved together with her golden long hair. “It said 'Want to know the meaning of life…?'"[1]
"Never click the 'YES' button, do you understand?! We've had enough trouble!"
After breakfast, Xu Shenxing would normally run to the subway station, in order to got to school before the beginning of the first class. But today was Sunday, and he was also had no part-time job today, so he had a rare leisure time.
Incidentally, the name of his university was Jiangjin University, in his hometown. The reason he studied here was because the university was close to his home…
As a general university, Jiangjin University didn't allow the students to live in private homes and must live in the dormitory. However, after Xu Shenxing talked with the school leaders for three hours and successfully prevailed against them, Xu Shenxing got the right to live out.
Soon after, Moli had put down the old shirt and changed into normal dress. She ran to Xu Shenxing and put a comb into his hands. She turned around, sat beside Xu Shenxing and exposed her back to him. Her white small face was with an air of expectancy, as if she was saying "Help me in combing my hair, landlord".
"I remember that you know how to comb your hair already…" Xu Shenxing stroked the comb unconsciously, then he forced a smile.
"It's too troublesome." Moli said directly.
"What happened to your self-respect as the evil overlord?"
"Gone with the scheduled reserved nightclothes."
"…"
Since the beginning, when Moli came to the earth, Xu Shen always thought to buy nightclothes for her. However, because he either lacked the budget or some other reason, he always didn’t have an opportunity. Finally, the girl got accustomed to wearing his old shirt as her nightclothes, and because this could save money, Xu Shenxing also acquiesced. From then, he had never mentioned buying nightclothes for Moli.
Looking back right now, it was indeed unsuitable to let a girl dress like that…
When he recovered from his memory, Xu Shenxing found that Molly was staring at him. Although she did not speak, but the silence was undoubtedly conveying her will.
"All right, I will comb your hair. Anyway, today is Sunday."
In the end, he sighed and compromised to the girl.
Moli's face took on a satisfied expression. She turned back and hugged Xu Shenxing.
"Comb my hair. The meaning of landlord's life!"
"If so, the meaning of my life is really cheap…"
