Gabriella refused to believe that she had fallen.
In fact, back when this was still a game, the protagonist would always be hit by all sorts of “curses.”
Things like “Curse of Certain Death,” “Curse of Mud,” or “Curse of Petrification,” and so on.
Although she had never personally experienced what those felt like in her own flesh, Gabriella was perfectly aware that curses weren’t actually a big deal—especially in a game, where they could usually be solved with some powerful item.
Moreover.
Her 【Curse Resistance】stat had been nearly maxed out.
Clearly, those character stats had carried over into her physical constitution after she transmigrated.
Of course…
If the status window still existed, her 【Maid Attribute】would probably be close to maxed by now as well.
Especially the actual maid work—every little detail, from cleaning rooms, changing water, doing laundry, to cooking—all of it required a certain degree of magic, and that magic demanded an extremely high level of mana control.
Even for high-ranking demons, it was considered difficult.
It was the same principle as how a strongman might not necessarily be good at needlework.
The next day, Gabriella planned to take her little sister to the laundry room.
The laundry room of the residential palace was not a narrow space crammed with washing machines, but an enormous circular pool of running water built beneath a fountain that gushed upward.
This was the washing pool that Gabriella herself had designed three years ago to improve the Demon King’s daily life.
Demon King Isabella did not lead a life of extravagance.
Her clothes were neatly hung in the wardrobe and needed to be washed and worn repeatedly.
Thus, washing the Demon King’s clothes had become a compulsory course for her personal maid, and as it happened, Gabriella was extremely skilled at laundry.
“Big Sister Gabriella, is this good enough?”
Elsa lifted her maid uniform out of the water and looked at Gabriella with inquiring eyes.
“You learn so quickly, little sister~ At this rate, you’ll surpass me before long.”
Gabriella praised her.
“Don’t say that…”
Elsa looked a little shy, but Gabriella wasn’t lying to her.
She hadn’t expected that her own little sister might actually be a genius—whether in learning ability or magical foundation, she was above the vast majority of people.
These past few days, Elsa had either been helping her or following behind Liya to learn various maid skills.
Even though she knew she would regain her freedom in a few months, she was still so serious about it.
By the time the day came for her to leave, Gabriella could already imagine the cute maids trying all sorts of ways to make her stay.
Because this was special training prepared just for Elsa, at this moment the laundry room contained only the two sisters.
After using wind-attribute magic to dry the water from the clothes, Elsa carefully folded them and placed them into the basket.
Then she stood on the only path out of the laundry room, turned around, and looked at Gabriella as if she had something to say.
“Sis… when do you plan to escape?”
“…”
The question left Gabriella momentarily dazed.
She truly hadn’t thought much about escaping these past few days.
Not because she didn’t want to leave, but because she had far grander ambitions~
“Elsa, think bigger. If I can hollow out the Demon King’s authority and make her completely listen to me, then I wouldn’t even need to escape, right~?”
Elsa nodded; this time she showed no particular reaction, as if she had already expected Big Sister Gabriella to say exactly that.
“There’s a reason the Holy Knight Order is attacking the demons. Do you still remember the 【Heavenly Hammer Sage】, sis?”
“I remember.” Gabriella nodded.
The Heavenly Hammer Sage was a golden-skinned, nagging old man who carried a little hammer.
He was the spinning icon in the game’s loading screen.
And he was also a legendary figure known as a “wise one.”
In the game, that fellow had prophesied many things—calamities descending, wars, famines—basically, he was the tool NPC who issued “world-level quests.”
Elsa said calmly, “He died a month ago.”
“Really? I thought he was immortal, just like the Holy King and the Demon King.”
“He was indeed immortal, the same way the Holy King who has cultivated magic to its pinnacle is immortal. But what killed him was his 【final prophecy】—the act of prophesying consumed all of his life force.”
“What did he say?”
A flash of fear appeared in Elsa’s eyes for just an instant.
“The 【Evil God】 is about to revive, and that Evil God is named Isabella.”
“…”
Gabriella fell into thought.
The Evil God is Isabella?!
How ridiculous~
There was no way that idiot could be an Evil God who crushed all living things beneath her heel.
But very quickly, Gabriella felt that something was wrong…
Because.
Before she had transmigrated into this game world, Demon King Isabella had once erupted with terrifying power.
That power had been several times—no, dozens of times—stronger than her usual self!
At the time, Gabriella had even thought that aside from the never-appearing Evil God, she could find no opponent who could match her.
Suddenly, the Demon King who had grown dramatically stronger had unleashed heaven-obscuring dark magic; her body had also changed slightly from before.
Darkness had swallowed the sun and the entire continent; it felt as though even the whole Demon Domain could not contain her shadow.
Then came overwhelming, world-shaking magic.
Strangely, almost no one spoke of that incident now; it seemed very few people even remembered it.
The Isabella of that day had indeed resembled the Evil God spoken of in legends.
Wait, could it be…?
“And then?”
Gabriella’s previously casual expression turned serious.
The fountain water reflected Gabriella’s delicate, fair face; those vertical pupils were filled with gravity.
She walked up to her little sister—she wanted to know what happened next.
“What about the 【Goddess】 of the humans?”
“The Sage said the Goddess will also awaken, but he didn’t say who exactly that Goddess is…”
Elsa’s lovely azure eyes blinked once; her gaze shifted as she said, “Big Sister Gabriella, if the knights learn that I’ve been captured, they will definitely come to rescue me at all costs and start a war with the demons.
The Holy King cannot accept the descent of the 【Evil God】—war is imminent.”
Elsa tilted her head.
“But as long as the 【Goddess】 appears, that means she will defeat the Evil God, right~? So, Big Sister, do you have any ideas?”
Gabriella took a deep breath.
For some reason, a sudden tremor ran through her heart; she felt an intense sense of crisis.
The Demon King—that idiot Isabella—would be killed by the Goddess?
Impossible…
A trace of displeasure appeared on Gabriella’s face.
“Let’s hang the laundry first. Then we’ll go report this to Her Majesty the Demon King.”
“Big Sister, you’re actually going to tell the Demon King something this important?”
“Is there a problem with that?”
Elsa shook her head, placed a hand over her chest, and nodded.
“No… it’s nothing, Big Sister.”