Poverty makes me capable of anything.

When I went to the clothes, I learned the name and the name.

After returning to the Covenant ship, Anran made contact with the Void again.

The second class is about to begin.

Chapter 38 The Void Panda's Gradual Homecoming

"Which of these two models would you generally choose?"

An Ran held a freshly made model in each of her left and right hands.

On the left is an adorable panda, while on the right is an ugly and ferocious monster.

"panda!"

Without hesitation, Ella chose the panda that Anran was holding in her left hand.

The panda got a vote.

"As expected of Ella, here you go, I made this myself."

An Ran patted Ella's head and handed her the panda model.

"Thank you, Anran!"

Ella made her decision quickly based on her own "perception," which doesn't mean she actually liked pandas.

But when Anran said that she had made the model herself and was giving it to her, Ella immediately accepted it with delight.

It should be carefully stored away and not eaten.

Anran then took out a second panda model from the Ether Machinery Factory.

"Which of these two models would you generally choose?"

Neither Juliana nor Heloise made a surprising choice: they both opted for the panda.

Ibn's gaze lingered on the monster for a moment longer, but his final choice remained the panda.

Everything seemed to be going well, and Anran was in a very good mood. However, a small accident occurred when she met Russell.

Russell, whose mind had become somewhat different due to devouring too many targets, began to have an unusual glint in his eyes when he saw the monster model in An Ran's hand, which was a symbol of fear.

"..."

His hand had just reached out a little when An Ran pulled his right hand back, glanced at Russell, and then at the panda in his left hand.

“We clashed at the shipyard last time, I never imagined we’d become partners now.” An Ran smiled and squinted her eyes.

Something's not right here.

Russell's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He had already seen An Ran giving away the models he made everywhere, and he never expected it would be his turn.

What is An Ran's intention in suddenly bringing up that matter again?

Russell withdrew his hand.

He dared not act rashly before he had figured it out.

If An Ran were to suddenly go berserk, none of the people on this ship would be able to save him.

Fortunately, Russell was quick-witted.

He noticed that An Ran kept staring at the panda in her left hand, while her right hand not only pulled back a little but also pressed down a few centimeters.

The meaning is very clear.

"Of course I'll choose the panda! I love pandas the most!" Russell happily accepted the panda.

He's a professional actor.

It's not too easy to fool the naive Void.

You're smart, the panda gets another vote.

She left with a peaceful smile.

Russell breathed a sigh of relief; he hadn't made a mistake. Enough already, having to play this "either/or" game with people every day.

He couldn't understand why An Ran would play such a seemingly childish game. Was it a peculiar hobby of the Mechanic? Maybe.

That's truly unfathomable.

"look."

In the empty room, Anran muttered to herself.

No one would suspect that she was talking to the void at that moment.

“A total of sixteen people were surveyed, and everyone chose panda.” An Ran shrugged. “Don’t rush to question me. I know you suspect this might have been pre-arranged by me, and it’s normal for you to have this suspicion. Because you don’t understand me, you don’t understand me, and you don’t understand any creature in this world.”

"Your decision to invade this world was a completely impulsive act on a whim. You thought you were invincible and you were unprepared. That's why you are trapped in the gap between worlds and unable to escape."

"Whether you believe it or not, you alone cannot conquer this world. In fact, the moment you appeared with that terrifying face, you were immediately sealed away."

"The test I just did was to show you a brand new possibility: a rule maintained by conquest and violence will inevitably collapse because of conquest and violence. Even if you conquer this world, can you guarantee that even more powerful alien creatures won't be after you in the future?"

The Void Panda fell into deep thought.

It originally disliked An Ran a lot, and if it could kill An Ran, it would have eaten her long ago.

However, after several conversations, Void Panda had some new ideas.

It is young and inexperienced among the Void race, but it still possesses normal thinking abilities.

What this otherworldly person said makes a lot of sense!

She was unlike any other person from another world she had ever met.

Those otherworldly beings in the past either regarded it as a god, kneeling on the ground and worshipping it endlessly.

Or they treat it as a monster, and without thinking twice, they directly attack it with force. If they feel they can't win, they shout "monster!" and run away in all directions.

At first, the Void Panda found these things quite amusing, but after being imprisoned here, it stopped finding them interesting.

It began to use various means to entice the people from another world to release it.

But even after being bewitched for hundreds of years, it still can't get out and has instead been targeted by people from another world.

Things did not go as it had planned, and there must have been some factors in between that it could not understand that led to this outcome.

Perhaps it should listen more to the advice of this otherworldly being.

As for the suspicion that Enron had ulterior motives?

The Void Panda was a little worried, but then it felt relieved.

Nothing to worry about.

It's trapped in the gap between worlds and can't get out, so what's there to worry about?

Is this otherworldly being after it?

"Unless she releases me first, or she comes to the gap between worlds in person."

Entering the gap between worlds isn't easy. I don't know how she got in last time, but it didn't seem to be a physical entity.

As for breaking the seal?

That couldn't be better.

The void remains proud.

Even if you have ulterior motives, as long as you dare to let me go, I'll take it all!

Once it leaves that damned gap, it will have a way to contact its own kind, and then it's hard to say who will eat whom.

"So, what is that new possibility you mentioned?" Void asked humbly.

An Ran offered her answer: "First, try to integrate into this world, and win through culture, not force."

"Look..."

Anran began a new round of brainwashing of the Void Panda.

"People in this world all have a hero complex, so there are countless stories of heroes fighting dragons and heroes standing up to defeat demon kings in times of crisis. To be precise, for the people of Nagria, you are also the demon king who was defeated. The demon king will come again, but the hero will defeat the demon king again. To give you a deeper understanding, I will show you some video footage first."

In the following days.

A message suddenly began circulating on the Covenant spy's spaceship—

"I've noticed that ANR has recently become obsessed with binge-watching TV series."

"Watching TV shows? What shows?"

"Of course it's a TV series, what else could it be?"

The person speaking was immediately puzzled: "Are you kidding me? The Overlord of Time and Space is addicted to watching TV series?"

Holiday news for the year?

"Really, why would I lie to you? It's that movie that was popular a while ago, 'Starry Night,' and she also watched the movie 'The Devil's Castle Chronicles' before."

"How do you know everything?"

"I overheard it by accident."

“I suspect you are spying on me, and I have ample evidence.”

"Stop fooling around."

"Don't you think that's strange?"

"What's so strange about that? According to reliable sources, ANR is not even 20 years old. What's wrong with a girl who's not even 20 watching a TV series?"

It's nothing, it's just that the thought of her identity makes me feel inexplicably strange.

"The mighty demon king who shakes mountains and rivers and makes enemies tremble is actually a roadside laborer? Don't you think so..."

Emmm...

It seems there really is such a story.

Leaving aside fictional elements, the first pope of the Mechanicus, Tindas, used to repair machines for people on the roadside, and that was after he became a Grandmaster.