〈Chapter 3〉
The consciousness of being snatched and dragged stopped somewhere. How long has it been since she was floating in an empty space?
‘Is that, the orphan?’
An indifferent voice can be heard. In that voice, Elschnein realized that she was floating in her memory.
‘Huaaa.’
Before she possessed it, her first memory of life was an old baby bottle in the nursery. By that, it was an orphan.
Everyone will think that life will be unhappy when it comes to orphans. It’s prejudice. There were orphans who lived happily ever after.
Unfortunately, she didn’t belong to the group.
‘Why does she keep coming to this playground? The kids’ emotions are not good. She doesn’t know her place.’
Unfortunately, she had a much better ear than other nursery friends, and she said,
‘Ah, are you and I paired? Hmm… Can I change my partner?’
She were so quick to catch on, but
‘Miss, don’t you know you were scammed? You’ve lost all your fortune!’
she was unlucky.
The last memory of her life is the streetlight that slowly clouded after falling down due to a heart attack while walking.
Her life before possessed was a series of misfortunes.
So when she opened her eyes for the first time in this world.
It was not unreasonable to look up at the surface of the water hit by light and think that she had been reborn as a fish.
‘I’m unlucky and I’m bored. Why must it be a fish?’
It was then that she, who was diving deeply, vowed not to bite the hook and became a raw fish, heard an angry voice.
“Mother drew my wrist yesterday.”
It was the first day I met Kylian.
When Kylian, the illegitimate child of Haunbert, was hiding in the family’s forest alone with his mother.
His mother’s mind was half sane because she was tired of various persecutions, and Kylian, who grew up under the influence, was smaller than his peers because he couldn’t eat well.
‘What? You’re a human being.’
Looking up from the water, Kylian’s face looked distorted by the rain falling onto the surface of the lake.
At that time, his mind must have been distorted like that.
“I stopped the bleeding as I saw in the book… She got angry after waking up. Should I have left my mother dead? She let me leave the house freely. Am I being abandoned like this?”
– How can a crazy mom like that exist?
“…Huh? I think I just heard a strange sound.”
Kylian, who was sitting by the lake hugging his knees with both hands, was seen looking around.
She peeked out of the water and checked her opponent.
Even if she is a fish, it’d be okay to take her head out for a while, isn’t it?
‘He’s a really cute looking kid.’
The child who had not yet lost baby fat had a very cute appearance.
Talking to her with a small stone in front of him also played a part in his cuteness.
However, one side of his face looked swollen as if he had been slapped.
Why does it feel like I’ve seen him somewhere?
– You fool. That’s not a mom.
“Thi, this sound…! Fa, fairy of the lake? What my mom said was really right! Fairy of the Lake, please grant my wish!”
At the time, Kylian said he really thought she was a fairy.
His mother said that fairies live in the lake. She said it would grant his wish.
After eating him, maybe.
Did Kylian’s mother want her child to fall into the lake?
“Fairy!”
Elschnein looked at him with a desperate look on his face in the lake. He looks so cute.
For some reason, I’m so used to this look.
Black hair and red eyes. That’s how the male leads in the rofans are.
Haha… Hm? Rofan?
“Fairy, please grant my wish. My wish is, my wish is…!
– Wish?
“To make my mother happy. I, I’ll give my life in return. My name is Kylian Haunbert. I heard that you like children’s blood!”
– Kylian Haunbert…?
In that name, Elschnein knew that she was possessed by a novel.
After being slapped by his mother, at the lake in a grizzly, a fairy came to meet him.
It’s all a story that comes from the recollection of the male lead, Kylian.
… She is his friend, Elschnein.
“My mother said I should die. You think so too, right? Elschnein? I wish you were a real fairy.”
Interestingly, Kylian was able to see her, a spirit even though he was human.
Until then, Elschnein was not very interested in Kylian.
Hm, being possessed by a novel. You don’t have to follow the flow of the original, right?
She was happy that she was not a trivial fish, and was excited to learn that she could breathe outside the lake.
She was ready to enjoy the second life born as a spirit.
– What do you mean die? Tsk.
But that unhappy kid keeps getting caught in her eyes.
Just as the male lead in the novel usually does, the child who embraces the tragedy of the secret of birth and all kinds of tragedies was dreaming of death.
Yeah. That’s why.
– Do you want to sign a contract?
“Con, contract? What’s that?”
She decided to follow clisé as a possessor in the novel. That is, she made a resolution to change the original work with her own hands.
– You want to make your mother happy. Then I will make you happy.
“…!”
Being possessed is yeah.
It doesn’t have to flow like the original, does it? She signed with him to change his unhappy life.
– Follow me. My name is Kylian Haunbert. Will you sign a contract with me?
“My name is Kylian Haunbert. Will you sign a contract with me?”
– Yup. Of course!
Elschnine believed that Kylian would be happy if he lived a different life than the original.
Therefore, she tried to save his mother, tried to prevent abuse of his father, and tried not to meet the female lead, Arwen.
She was confident at the time.
But that confidence didn’t last long.
“Mother! Mother! Huaa!”
Despite her various efforts, Kylian’s mother eventually took her own life in front of Kylian.
“Are you the maid’s child at that time?”
She couldn’t stop the meeting with his father who abused Kylian under the name of training.
“My name is Arwen. Sir Kylian.”
The day Kylian finally became a holy knight of the Temple of Alterna after he became a teenager and first met Arwen, the Saintess.
Elschnein realized it.
This world is flowing along the flow of the original work and cannot be countered by that.
But if this continues, he would soon lose his heroine and go crazy.
‘I don’t want to see Kylian go crazy.’
She hopes Kylian doesn’t get sick. Why is it so difficult to want him to be happy?
She gradually became frustrated.
Over time, Kylian became recognized on the continent as he was in the original, and began his adventure with a mission to subdue monsters along with his colleagues.
Everything was as it was.·
…At the day Kylian finally became the guardian of the continent.
Elschnein gave up.
‘I can’t change the original.’
It was frustrating.
The fact that Kylian should suffer like that.
His past, explained in just a few lines in the novel, seemed too harsh for her to watch from the side.
‘When does Kylian… become happy?’
The answer soon came out.
Kylian becomes happy a few years after the original work begins. With Arwen, whom he loves.
Realizing that the original work could not be reversed, she changed her mind.
She originally decided to stick to its role. In the role of reviving Arwen.
‘It turns out, I can’t make you happy.’
It wasn’t her role. It was the role of the female lead, Arwen.
Then I’ll make you happy through her. Kylian.
That was her wish, that was her plan.
Yeah. It was like that…
Why doesn’t Arwen wake up?
Why did the original break this time?
***
“Ugh!”
Elschnein opened her eyes wide, inhaling as hard as she could. She saw a familiar ceiling.
‘Oh… I fainted near the valley. When did I come all the way to the cabin?’
She grabbed her hair, blinked, and slowly raised her upper body.
“… Elschnein.”
And she hurriedly came to her senses with the low voice she heard right next to her.
Oh, that’s right. She triggered divine magic.
Elschnein turned her head creaking.
“…”
The first thing she saw was the red eyes. The red eyes, as vivid as the primary color paint in the glass egg, were staring at her.
Below it, a straight nose and white cheeks like a prince.
The straight lips and neat jawline looked ascetic at first glance.
However, when a red tongue was seen through the lips, the ascetic air disappeared as if washed away and only brutality remained.
He whispered.
“It’s been a while.”
It’s a sweet voice, that the malicious could not be felt, when faced by the conscious body.
Elschnein gulped and swallowed her saliva, clenching the white sheet as if it had been her lifeline.
‘Kylian… is here.’
Then…
Now, it was time to move on to the next plan.
Her heart beat fast with tension. She tightened her chin and smacked her lips slowly.
“Who are you?”