Chapter 1: Reincarnated as a Ruined Heroine
The pain gradually began to ease.
Everything was dyed bright red.
The one who was bright red was me.
The flowing blood entered my eyes, dyeing the world crimson.
“…heh.”
Blood gushed from my mouth.
Blood was flowing out from both my stomach and my head.
Even without being a doctor, I understood that it was a fatal wound.
After all, it was my own body.
Although I was still conscious, I couldn’t move a muscle.
Soon I would die, and the pain of realizing it calmly would be understood by no one.
“…sigh, what is this…”
My life has been ordinary.
I was born the only daughter in a small village with nothing special.
My relationship with my family was good, and though I had a few friends, I lived a peaceful life.
If I had to say, I was simply bored with the uneventful days.
When I turned twenty, I had plans to move to a big city in search of excitement.
I had made preparations for it and even obtained permission from my parents.
Things were going smoothly.
Soon, a new life in a new environment was about to begin.
Just when I was feeling a little excited, a horde of monsters attacked the village.
It was a small village.
There were hardly any people who could fight.
In the blink of an eye, the village was ravaged by monsters, and I, unfortunately enough, was left behind as I failed to escape.
I was crushed under the familiar ceiling of my home, and injuries opened up in various places of my body.
“…I wonder if everyone is okay…”
Did my father, mother, and friends manage to escape?
I was worried, but honestly, I didn’t really care anymore.
I am going to die here.
My life will end here.
The curtain falls on twenty years of merely existing without satisfaction.
I haven’t achieved anything.
Only emptiness remains.
Tears trickled down from my eyes.
Suddenly, a book fell from the shelf in the room.
I could barely move my eyes, but I managed to look at the book that fell.
It was a fictional story about a certain girl.
The story was about a girl with special powers who meets reliable boys, and together they form deep bonds while growing up, eventually saving the world.
I loved this story because It was filled with extraordinary experiences that couldn’t be found in reality.
“…how nice.”
I had always thought so.
If only my existence could be special like the protagonist of this book, and I could experience both hardship and happiness in my daily life.
I had thought that so many times.
Oh, God.
If there is a next life, please grant me a life with a role.
It doesn’t have to be easy.
I want to become a character in a story that is not flat but full of excitement.
In my fading consciousness, that was what I wished for.
Knowing it was a wish that would never come true, I closed my eyes slowly.
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Is my body feeling heavy?
I don’t feel any pain.
I’m still conscious, so I can’t die yet?
It’s okay; I’m ready for it to end.
I want to be at peace soon.
“…huh?”
I woke up.
My eyes opened.
The eyes I thought would never open again caught sight of an unfamiliar ceiling.
It seemed like I had been sleeping on a bed.
I slowly sat up and looked around.
“Where…am I?”
I didn’t know which way was right or left.
It was an unfamiliar room, lavishly decorated to the point where it seemed like I was seeing it for the first time.
The bed was soft and reached up to the ceiling.
From the carpet to the curtains and even the sofa, everything looked luxurious, which was quite overwhelming for someone like me who grew up in a village.
Am I dreaming?
At first, I thought that I was having a blissful dream on the brink of death.
However, the sensation felt too vivid for that.
I confirmed that I could move my arms and legs.
They had proper strength, and I could feel a surge of power welling up from deep within my chest,
It didn’t feel like my own body.
My skin wasn’t this pale and beautiful, and the strands of my hair that I could see at the edge of my vision were a fiery red colour.
My hair used to be brown.
“…Who am I?”
I didn’t even know who I was.
I couldn’t even grasp the situation.
In my confused state, I suddenly noticed a large mirror mounted on the wall.
From this angle, I couldn’t see my reflection yet.
I got up from the bed and slowly moved towards the mirror.
I felt like if I looked at my reflection in the mirror; I would know who I was.
And so, I looked.
A girl with crimson hair and eyes was standing there.
It was an appearance I had never seen before.
Yet, it was enchanting and striking, like a character from a story.
Immediately after, a shock ran through me.
“What…what is this?”
Unfamiliar images flowed into my head like a raging torrent.
They were memories.
Someone else’s?
No, They were memories of this body.
Memories from birth until today, leading up to becoming this girl, were replayed in my mind.
Startled by the suddenness of it all, I held my head in my hands.
It had only lasted a few seconds.
In that brief moment, I understood everything.
No, it was made clear to me.
“…It can’t be true, can it?”
Who I am
I know now.
And even about this world
I walked towards the window, still unable to believe it.
I looked out the window slowly.
“Ah…”
It was true.
This wasn’t the world I was in before.
There were two suns.
But it wasn’t an entirely unfamiliar world.
Rather, I knew it well.
It was the world of a beloved story that I had read over and over again.
I reminisced about it on the brink of death. It’s that world from the book.
“Really…did I get reincarnated?”
My wish was granted.
Even the gods heard it.
I was happy.
How fortunate I was.
Yet, I couldn’t rejoice wholeheartedly.
“Why…”
It was Because I didn’t just get reincarnated into the world of the book.
I had a role to play.
Not as a supporting character but as a major character in the story.
My name was Slayer Raeburn.
The antagonist heroine who harasses the protagonist of this story.
In other words, I was the villainess.
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