"This is definitely a mistake!"
Adelaide screamed at the sky; she wasn't going to take the blame for this inexplicable mess!
Merlin continued, "There is no mistake, and I think you should hate him too. After all, you died because of him."
Adelaide:???!!!
Her face showed an expression of shock and confusion. Then, her eyes widened as if she had suddenly realized something, and she asked with a trembling voice, "Wait, are you saying—"
Merlin nodded and replied, "Exactly. It is just as you thought. That soul from the other world is the very Cockroach that literally scared you to death back then."
Adelaide's eyes turned dull and lifeless, and she slumped onto the clouds as if she had lost the ability to think.
After a long silence, Adelaide asked with difficulty, "Are you saying that the one who merged with Lord Voldemort's soul fragment is the soul of a Cockroach?"
Looking on the bright side, if that's the case, at least there's no need to worry about the other party knowing the future plot.
Merlin corrected her solemnly, "Please do not underestimate your enemy. That is no ordinary Cockroach. Driven by a powerful obsession, he successfully forced his soul to escape the reincarnation cycle of your original world, and even broke through the boundaries between planes in one go to reach my world and accurately attach himself to the world's calamity—in the terms of your original world, this is a Protagonist Cockroach."
"Oh."
Adelaide calmly accepted the concept of a 'Protagonist Cockroach.' To be honest, she felt that nothing in this world could shock her anymore. Even if someone told her right now that she would become a god in the future, she would accept it expressionlessly.
Merlin thoughtfully told Adelaide what happened after her death in her previous life: "After you were scared by the Cockroach and fell off the bed to your death, your roommate heard the commotion and came to your room to call emergency services (120)—unfortunately, it was already too late."
"Your passing drew great attention from the local Sub-district Office. They immediately took action and launched a massive Cockroach eradication campaign across the neighborhood, successfully killing millions of cockroaches."
Adelaide's face had turned as pale as paper. Her lips trembled as she hurriedly interrupted, "Wait a minute, are you saying every aunty in the neighborhood knows I fell to my death because of a Cockroach?"
Merlin replied in a relaxed tone, "Not only that. Since your cause of death was so rare, it attracted many reporters for interviews and reports. This matter even became a hot topic on your world's internet—but none of that is important."
Adelaide looked ashen, constantly brainwashing herself in her mind: 'I am Adelaide Grindelwald now, I am Adelaide Grindelwald! What does Du Ling's social death have to do with me, Adelaide!'
Merlin continued, "The Cockroach that scared you to death wasn't killed by your roommate at the time. In the subsequent period of hiding, it became one of the last to be exterminated. Before dying, it somehow gained sentience. When it realized that this series of events was ultimately caused by your death, its heart was filled with resentment and hatred toward you."
Adelaide forced herself to think calmly. Having one's entire family wiped out, learning the enemy's identity before death, and then transmigrating as a weakened Dark Lord... this indeed sounded like the growth path of a dark-style protagonist.
However, she was not to be outdone: a blood relative of the first Dark Lord, a guardian who was the pinnacle of White Wizards, her own talent maxed out, and even being the darling of the Heavenly Dao (Merlin). When it came to buffs, she didn't fear the opponent at all.
But there was a logical problem—Adelaide asked in confusion, "You're saying that Cockroach died a few days after I did, right? Then how did it smuggle itself into this world before I transmigrated? With such a large time gap, logically, I should have already been reincarnated by then!"
Merlin explained unhurriedly, "As I just said, that Cockroach did not follow the standard procedure to report to your world's Underworld. Instead, it chose to take a risk and sneakily smuggled itself into my world."
"When I sensed something was wrong and observed the stars before heading to your world's Underworld to find your whereabouts, you were still lining up to fill out forms and wait for Granny Meng's Soup, let alone being reincarnated—oh, during that time in the Underworld, you were in a wandering soul state, so it's normal not to remember."
Adelaide was struck as if by lightning. So, in her previous life, she had spent days just queuing for Granny Meng's Soup and hadn't even reached the front!
Ah, this... the level of absurdity of the whole situation had far exceeded her expectations. This was the kind of plot that, if written into a novel, would make people suspect the author had been driven insane by mental attacks like 'How much money have you saved this year? You need to be more ambitious!' or'Still no partner? Little Hua next door already has three kids, and they're twins!' during the New Year visit home, and had just smashed their head against the keyboard.
How could this world be so crazy... Merlin sighed, pulling Adelaide's mind back to the Wizarding World, and instructed her, "The current situation is very severe. After absorbing the Cockroach's powerful vitality, Lord Voldemort's Horcrux has become active, and it is even bewitching innocent students at Hogwarts to do its bidding."
"You said the Horcrux is bewitching innocent students—the Horcrux possessed by the Cockroach is ravenclaws diadem!"
Adelaide was both shocked and frightened. Actually, around the start of the term, she had hesitated over whether to go to the Room of Requirement to get her hands on ravenclaws diadem first.
But considering she currently had no tools to destroy a Horcrux, and that long-term close contact with a Horcrux would lead to being influenced by it, she didn't act.
Looking back now, it was fortunate she hadn't acted rashly. If she had alerted the opponent, the situation would likely have become even more complicated.
"The worst part is that Lord Voldemort's Horcrux has had its mind influenced by the Cockroach, leading to an extremely intense obsession with you—it's no exaggeration to say that the Horcrux's level of hatred for you now is not in the least bit inferior to its hatred for the savior."
Adelaide laughed out of anger. Even a clay man has a bit of temper; as the victim, she was the one being hated instead?
What right does he have to hate!
"I understand. I will improve my strength as quickly as possible and eliminate this hard-to-kill pest soon!"
A gratified smile appeared on Merlin's face. He nodded with satisfaction and said softly, "Yes, it couldn't be better that you think this way. Only when you truly become strong will we have hope of defeating that evil existence. Grow up quickly; once you can stand on your own, I'll be free! Then I must go traveling..."
"What are you muttering about?"
"Cough, nothing. I said the future of the Wizarding World is in your hands!"
Although Adelaide didn't know why Merlin was suddenly so fired up, she still replied, "Oh, I will definitely do my best to protect the peace and tranquility of the Wizarding World!"
"Let's leave it at that for now. Be careful. Once you destroy the diadem, I will naturally summon you back again."
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