A brave man may not live, but he cannot die

Chapter 1 The Brave Must Die
"Universe Superman, open your eyes, I am Shafulin"

The girl in cosplay costume in front of me has repeated Ultraman's lines ten times. Although her pronunciation is not very standard, her expression is as serious as if she is reciting wedding vows.

If Qin Chuan hadn't been naked, he would have sat up and acted with her.

It feels numb, what’s going on?
Who am I? Where am I? Where are my pants?

He should have woken up in his 12-square-meter rental apartment, facing the first rays of morning sun and turning off the heart-stopping ringtone of his iPhone. What he would have seen was a low ceiling, as depressing as the cheapest coffin lid.

But what the hell are these palaces with CG special effects?

Towering stone pillars surrounded him like majestic mountains. Qin Chuan was lying in the center of a sacrificial site. Magnificent palaces rose and fell in his sight. Above the sky was a dead gray. Wisps of mist obscured the light, making it as unreal as a mirage in a myth.

The cosplayer who was reciting Ultraman's lines in front of him seemed even more unreal to Qin Chuan than this palace.

so beautiful.

Black hair, red eyes, skin so pale it looked cold. Even at such a close distance, there was no trace of makeup on her plain little face. Perfection was unattainable.

She was so adorable just standing there, as if she had been imbued with all the partiality and love of the Creator.

Having watched less anime in the past two years since graduation, Qin Chuan didn't recognize what character she was cosplaying. I must say, her outfit is somewhat similar to the dance costume worn by the heroine Yui Inori in Guilty Crown, but the main colors are black and gold, making it look much more noble and majestic.

There are two small horns between the girl's hair and beard, and her ears are as thin and long as an elf. Could she be a character in a game?
Her chest was crudely covered by two drooping strips of cloth, revealing her flat and tender belly. She was just over 1.6 meters tall, and her figure looked light and thin. Qin Chuan's gaze gradually moved upwards, and he instantly retracted his gaze.

You're not in a vacuum, are you?

Wow, awesome, there are anime characters like this, I'm going to start following the series right away.

Wait, Buhao! Dude is not wearing any pants!

The coser lady keenly noticed the changes in his body.

But her reaction was strange. She didn't show any contempt or shyness towards the man below her. Instead, she let out a puzzled "Huh?"

"Why is it different from what the book says? Did the summoning fail?"

She murmured to herself, frowning, and reaching out her hand, a heavy book fell into her hand. The pages flew open without a breeze, and she began to study the page she was looking for.

"Why didn't the spell activate me successfully? Instead, my form changed."

Qin Chuan curled up in a ball, his face flushed, his hands covering the lump. "God knows, I really didn't mean to glance at you just now. It's just that my eyes are rebelling!"

Qin Chuan was so flustered that he didn't notice where the book was taken out from. Instead, he found that he couldn't understand what she was saying.

The girl's voice was pleasant and soft, but the language that came out of her mouth was extremely confusing and unfamiliar. Qin Chuan was fluent in Chinese, Japanese, English and German, and had some knowledge of languages ​​from all over the world, but at this moment he had no idea what she was saying.

Like Icelandic folk songs whose language has long been lost, the tones are full of ancient aesthetics.

"Let us speak Chinese?" Qin Chuan asked tentatively.

When the girl heard Qin Chuan finally speak, her eyes lit up, and then she began to chatter in a very condescending tone, but no one could understand what she said.

"What is this place?"

The naked Qin Chuan felt as helpless as if someone pushed the door open while he was taking a shit. "Is this a prank? Can you give me your clothes first? Is anyone recording us?"

If I were caught on camera during the morning broadcast, my career would probably be over (sad).

Not only did Qin Chuan not understand what the girl was saying, the girl also seemed to not understand what he said, and the same confusion appeared on her pretty face.

Then, she stretched out her index and middle fingers and lifted Qin Chuan's chin.

The two looked at each other.

“—W-what?”

Qin Chuan couldn't help feeling embarrassed.

The girl looked straight at him, but there was no ambiguous intention in her eyes, as if she was looking at a tool.

Qin Chuan realized something was wrong.

The contact lenses she wore were a little too realistic. Her eyes seemed like a brilliant red nebula, but the center of her pupils was not black or dark brown, but pure golden light. It was like a morning star dotted in the nebula.

Qin Chuan was suddenly stunned, staring blankly at the girl's pupils like a fool.

Like a pilgrim visiting a temple, he was immersed in solemnity and enveloped by her majestic and grand gaze.

The sting came without warning.

His head swelled up as if it had been hit hard by a shovel. Qin Chuan groaned in pain and fell backward, feeling an abnormal pain in his brain.

I felt a warm and sticky sensation in the corners of my eyes, ears, and nostrils, and I subconsciously touched them.
is blood.

"Okay. Do you understand now?" the girl asked coldly.

Qin Chuan blurted out subconsciously: "What did you do to me?!"

But soon, he was stunned.

The words that just came out of my mouth were in a language that I had never understood before.

"I've helped you master the language." The girl looked down at him condescendingly. "I wanted to give you some common sense about this world as well, but I feel like if I gave you any more, you'd die."

"this world?"

Even a fool would have noticed something was wrong.

A language often contains a lot of information about the civilization it belongs to. Pieces of unfamiliar knowledge suddenly popped up. He didn't even have time to think about how the girl managed to make him learn a language in just a few seconds. A terrifying premonition emerged in Qin Chuan's heart -

".I traveled through time?!"

Qin Chuan pinched his thigh subconsciously. It hurt a lot. He knew he wasn't dreaming.

No, my buddy lives on the seventh floor and can be hit by a truck. Is Optimus Prime coming to attack?
"It's not a time travel." The girl looked at him with interest. "You were summoned by me. You're from Diqiu. That's how your hometown is pronounced, right?"

She just wanted to say "Earth", but her Chinese pronunciation was not standard and sounded a bit stiff.

Calm down, calm down. Qin Chuan took a few deep breaths to make himself appear less flustered.

"Why did you summon me?"

I studied finance in college. Are you short of cattle and horses in your other world or short of people to go to jail?

"Taimu Lan, that's the name of the other world you mentioned. Every few hundred years, a natural disaster caused by the intersection of celestial bodies occurs in this world."

Qin Chuan listened silently and even forgot to cover the mouse.

"Natural disasters befall the continent, bringing disaster and death in various forms. But all natural disasters lead to one thing: the demons are able to briefly enter the human world, followed by invasion, massacre, and war."

The girl's tone was very calm, as if she was discussing a topic that did not concern her: "There is a gap between humans and demons. Even if there are extraordinary people who dive into the abyss to seek power, humans are no match for the demons. Until the brave man appears."

"Brave man?" A flash of enlightenment emerged in Qin Chuan's mind.

Hiss, what a familiar plot.

"It's you Earthlings."

The girl lowered her eyes to look at Qin Chuan: "—A brave man from another world traveled to Taimulan and became the savior of mankind, leading many countries and the Divine Religion to defeat the Demon King. For more than 1,400 years, brave men have fought one after another to fulfill their mission, allowing civilization to continue to this day."

"When will the next natural disaster come?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Five years from now," the girl replied, "so I summoned you."

“Oh, I understand.”

Qin Chuan stood up, his 1.80-meter-tall figure filling the girl's entire field of vision. He covered his crotch with one hand and pinched his chin with the other and said:

"So I'm a hero?"

His expression was wonderful.

I never thought that such a good thing as seen in anime would happen to me. I felt very complicated. Rather than being excited, I was more confused. Why did they choose me?
Qin Chuan then remembered that there was one crucial thing he hadn't asked, so he carefully examined the girl's delicate face before asking:

"Little sister, who are you? A saint of the church? A princess of the kingdom? Or a genius girl of the magic academy? You're always the kind of partner who goes with me to defeat the demon king, right—"

"I?"

The girl finally smiled, and Qin Chuan's heart beat faster at this smile.

"My name is Ruby."

"Ruby? Hey, it's the same name as my favorite comic character. You two are equally cute."

"But since my mother passed away, no one has called me that anymore."

"Oh? What do people usually call you?"

"My subjects call me Your Majesty. As for humans, they usually just call me me."

The girl tilted her head and smiled:

"——Demon King."

"Oh, it's the Demon King, that's cute too. Hmm?"

Qin Chuan's smile froze.

"You are new here, so I can forgive your offense once. But it won't happen three times. You only need to know two things."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Chuan felt his legs go weak, as if mountains and seas were pressing down on him. His body instantly fell to his knees uncontrollably, his muscles and internal organs trembling under the heavy burden, and he was in great pain.

"First, a slave should stay where a slave is supposed to be. Don't get in my way."

"Second, before you complete your mission of killing the hero, you must call me."

She raised her bare feet, stepped on his head and rolled on his toes, with a tone of arrogance and contempt.

"Owner."

(End of this chapter)