“Stop, stop, stop! I never said it would turn you into an idiot! Let me give you an analogy—if you had to write 100,000 words in an instant, wouldn’t your brain explode?”
“To put it simply, it’s just your brain processing too much information at once. A good night’s sleep will fix it.”
“As for the wound, a retired Magical Girl from our hospital’s healing department has already treated her. The best way to heal a Magical Girl’s injuries is still to seek treatment from another Magical Girl—it’s the fastest, most efficient, and lowest-cost method.”
“Is this reliable? Don’t you need to prescribe any medicine?” Hui Feng vaguely felt the doctor was a bit sketchy.
“What? You think this isn’t reliable? This is the invaluable experience accumulated through years of global research, okay? Our public hospital isn’t here to squeeze money out of you. If we really wanted to, we’d have plenty of ways to do it.”
“Alright, alright, just sign the paperwork already. According to your insurance, the total medical cost this time is only 300 bucks—hardly enough to bankrupt you.”
The Hui couple didn’t say anything more. Perhaps their worries really were laughable.
They took the medical bill to the payment counter and settled the fee.
The sun of a new day rose from the eastern horizon, its pale light gradually climbing until it spilled into Eve Nightburn’s room.
Only after the sunlight had bathed her for a long time did Eve sit up in bed, visibly displeased.
“Morning~”
Rubbing her eyes, Eve threw on her oversized T-shirt and got out of bed. After freshening up in the restroom, she changed into her clothes.
Noticing it was already 9 a.m., Eve wasn’t in any hurry. After all, she had all the time in the world now—what difference did a minute or two make?
Putting on her glasses and mask and pulling up her hood, Eve grabbed the door handle and stepped out of her coffin-like apartment.
“Where should I go today?”
Pondering her plans for the day, Eve felt the sharp northern wind brush against her cheeks, its chill refreshing and invigorating.
With no particular destination in mind, she simply wandered wherever her feet took her, following the green lights at intersections.
After walking for who knows how long, Eve suddenly stopped and looked up at the building beside her—a library.
“Maybe I’ll just spend the day in the library!”
Once decided, she stepped inside.
After greeting the librarian, Eve headed straight for the manga section to entertain herself.
Picking a random manga, she found an empty seat and settled in.
The story wasn’t complicated—in fact, it was almost too simple.
It was an old four-panel comic, straightforward and efficient, but the content it conveyed was minimal—just a tiny story in four panels.
It couldn’t carry anything too intricate or elaborate.
Eve flipped through page after page, occasionally chuckling to herself, content to let her time slip away.
After finishing the last page, she flipped through it twice more, reluctant to let go, before finally losing interest and returning it to its shelf.
As she browsed for another book, she suddenly noticed a girl in the corner reading with her eyes closed.
“Am I seeing things?”
Eve couldn’t believe her eyes. She crept closer for a better look.
Nope, she wasn’t mistaken—the girl’s eyes were definitely shut.
Eve quietly approached and waved a hand in front of her face.
“You’re disturbing me.”
“Gah!”
Eve jumped back, startled. This girl was seriously reading like that!
“Can you actually see what’s on the page?”
Still skeptical, Eve couldn’t help but ask.
“Mhm.”
The girl didn’t argue. Instead, she simply turned to the next page.
“By the way… are you even human?”
At Eve’s question, the girl’s hand, still flipping pages, trembled slightly.
She lifted her head and opened her deep, abyss-like purple eyes, gazing at the sunlight streaming into the library.
“I’m not human. Never have been.”
“Then… are you a Calamity?”
“No.”
Eve was baffled. If you’re neither, then what the heck are you?
“You’re asking what I am?”
The girl turned her head to look at Eve, who stood beside her.
“A demon. Does that answer satisfy you?”
“A demon?”
Eve knew what that was—an absolute evil created by various religions during the Dark Ages.
Religions used these malevolent entities as foils to uphold their authority and guide believers toward virtue.
But in the Divine Continent, a country that didn’t allow religions to spread unchecked, most people didn’t follow any faith. Eve was one of them.
In a world without The Divine, how could there be demons?
“Right… in a world without gods, how could there be demons?”
The girl voiced Eve’s thoughts aloud as she stood up and returned the book to its shelf.
While watching her, Eve caught a glimpse of the book’s title—The Bible.
This doesn’t fit her character at all, does it?
Eve was momentarily speechless. A demon reading the Bible?
Does that make sense? No, it doesn’t!
She kept her thoughts to herself, observing the girl and sensing a lonely pride in her demeanor.
Eve watched as the girl brushed dust off the bookshelf, her tattered clothes blending into the gray shadows.
To Eve, she seemed like a misunderstood wanderer, left to dwell in the darkness with only dust for company.
Yet when she held a book and gazed out the window, she almost seemed like an omnipotent dreamer.
The girl slid the ancient scripture back into place and pulled out a fresh book before sitting down again.
“Want to read together?”
“Huh?” Eve hadn’t processed the offer yet.
But she replied simply, “Sure.”
Eve sat beside the girl, skimming the book’s contents.
The girl continued reading with her eyes closed, while Eve barely paid attention to the text, instead stealing glances at her face.
Eve wanted to figure out what this creature really was.
“You don’t like it?”
The girl seemed to notice Eve’s fidgeting, startling her into pretending to focus on the book.
“You don’t have to read if you’re not interested. I’m not forcing you.”
“No, no, I really want to read!”
Putting on an act, Eve feigned deep concentration as she stared at the pages.
