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I hesitated for a moment before replying, “Ninety-nine.”
“Huh?” She looked genuinely surprised. I could understand why—after all, that name really didn’t sound like a proper name…
“Anyway, a name is just a code,” I said nonchalantly.
“That won’t do! Names are very important! But… I haven’t learned much. How about I just call you Ninety-nine? Let’s drop the ‘number’ part it sounds too ugly, like you’re an object.” She spoke excitedly, even though I, the person in question, didn’t really care… Sigh, the girl meant well, so I agreed. It’s not like I had anything to lose.
“Mm.” Just as Xu Yi and I were talking, that tall goblin pushed open the secret door, holding a magic wand in his hand, and stormed right in.
He looked furious when he saw us.
“You two? You’re awake but don’t come out! Get back to your room!” Xu Yi and I both nodded.
Hmph! The goblin snorted in displeasure.
Then, following the goblin, we returned to our room.
The goblin waved his magic wand, drawing a few circles in the air, and then said, “Get up!” I saw the wand emit a faint cyan glow, spreading rings of sound waves.
Standing behind the goblin, I didn’t find it that loud, but everyone else in the room scrambled up with a clatter.
Seeing the panicked expressions on their faces, I could roughly guess how loud it had been.
After that, the goblin led us out and assigned us work.
On the way, I counted the others besides myself again—nineteen…
Today, my task was to clean the side stairwell from the third to the fourth floor.
I got to work briskly, but today the goblin said that after finishing the work, I had to stay by the stairs and wait for other tasks.
So after I was done, I found a corner to loiter in.
Later, I was assigned to clean the various patterned stains under the walls—the entire third floor was mine to handle.
In fact, although the total cleaning area was much larger, since I didn’t have to carry water buckets back and forth, cleaning the wall patterns was still easier than scrubbing the stairs.
When I finally finished everything, I saw the golden light of sunrise through the window.
Thus ended the morning’s work.
Back in the servants’ small area, we still had work in the afternoon.
And so, I gradually began to adapt to this s*ave life.
Two meals of cockroach soup a day, two work shifts a day. One from midnight to early morning, another from afternoon to evening, occasionally from noon to afternoon.
Every day I was exhausted to the point of near death, deeply impressing upon me the hardships of child labor.
Through occasional conversations with Xu Yi and exchanges with others, I learned that I was currently on the continent of Tianxia, in the year 576 of the Holy Emperor calendar.
I didn’t know the exact date, but it was May.
And the situation of humans was about what I had guessed.
Humans had been invaded by multiple races capable of using magic—subhumans, demons, the holy race, dragons, and others.
All humans could only live in hiding, either as ‘savages’ in the mountains or as ‘livestock’ in certain royal cities, called ‘ancient species’ by other races. After learning this, I once again felt that I had really transmigrated to the wrong place.
Of course, there was another thing that left me speechless: these people had absolutely no understanding of magic!
In the first year of the Holy Emperor calendar, humans were completely invaded. Yet in 576 years, no human had come to understand magic?
Was it just that the people around me happened to be ignorant?
Sister Xu Yi and her sister Xu Xia occasionally taught me the script of this world—Holy Script.
They were happy to teach me, but I found the writing system of this world frustrating.
I had transmigrated to a place where people spoke Chinese! Naturally, the script of this world was also composed of square characters!
Despair! Despair!
Chinese has three thousand commonly used characters; some prodigies even know tens of thousands!
This meant I needed to memorize three thousand or even ten thousand completely incomprehensible basic characters! And probably thousands of new words on top of that…
It wasn’t like English with 26 letters or Japanese with 50 syllables! It was three thousand basic characters!
“Miserable, broken…”
The first time Xu Yi taught me the numbers one through five in this world’s script, I already felt a bit disheartened…
(Though I still had to learn…) A ‘nine’ required seven strokes, while a ‘ten’ only needed three. The ‘three’ in this world looked exactly like ‘seven’!
“I seriously wonder if I’ll end up not only failing to remember this world’s script but also forgetting my original world’s script.”
It took me a full two days to remember the numbers one through ten in this world, plus zero! And of course, the lowercase digits.
“But thankfully, the small numbers were just ordinary Arabic numerals, so no need to learn those.”
“I’m too tired to complain.”
Of course, I was still grateful for their lessons.
But they only treated me like a little sister…
“And I’m a guy!”
[Fourth DayMorning] I didn’t wake up early today, so I was naturally jolted awake by the goblin’s ‘get up’ greeting, which felt like a shockwave.
I was exhausted, but I had to go to work.
Following the goblin, I clearly noticed on the way that all of us looked terrible.
Everyone seemed malnourished…
“I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”
Without a mirror, I couldn’t see myself, but I felt sure I looked just like them…
“Sigh… who would have thought something like that would happen yesterday…” one of my personalities said.
“Ah, yeah…”
I recalled with a face full of black lines the terrifying events that occurred during last night’s sleep.
Last night, my third day as a servant (s*ave).
After dinner, I lay down on the bed. Since a few more people had died, I now had my own bed.
Finally having my own bed, I naturally wanted to have a good sleep.
But just as I was halfway into sleep, I felt my bed sink significantly and shake.
I immediately opened my eyes, alert.
At that moment, I saw a dark shadow pressing down on me, lifting up my clothes.
“Mm… what’s this about?”
The shadow flipped my clothes up.
“I’m going commando here… Is this pervert?!”
I sensed something wrong and tried to struggle, but then I realized my hands were tied to the headboard.
“WTF?! What does this mean?”
Well, the thing I least wanted to happen was happening!
“This guy probably wants to f*ck me.”
Fear surged into my heart. I struggled desperately, kicking wildly and twisting my body, trying to move toward the headboard.
But as soon as I twisted a bit and started to lift my leg, a large hand suddenly clamped over my mouth, pressing my head down onto the bed. The other hand shackled my two calves together tightly.
The powerful force stunned me. Though there was a hand over my mouth, I could still breathe through my nose, but the problem wasn’t breathing. It was…
By doing this, he completely prevented me from struggling or moving.
“Meow meow meow?? Is this even possible?”
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