Chapter 1

This wasn’t just my imagination; it was a fact.

“Then what in the world happened?”

It was then that I ran my hands fiercely through my hair in frustration.

“Huh?”

‘Platinum blonde? My hair was a common dark brown…’

W-wait a minute, doesn’t this situation feel familiar?

Waking up in an unfamiliar place -> a completely different body -> a panicked me.

‘Damn it! This is exactly what happened before!’

This situation was an exact match to when I was first transmigrated into this damn novel.

“D-don’t tell me… I’ve been transmigrated again?”

My mind was in turmoil.

It’s not like I have a habit of getting transmigrated. Does it even make sense to go through it twice?

Besides…

“The original story is over, so how could I be transmigrated again? Is that even possible?”

I tossed aside the fine, wavy strands of hair that were like silk threads and held out my hand.

“Undine.”

Water droplets began to bubble up from my palm.

‘Thankfully, my spirit arts still work.’

Soon, a tiny little head popped out from my palm, like a ghost passing through a wall.

- Yaaawn- Adel, why’d you wake me up so early? I barely got any sleep… any sl… sle…

Undine, who had been grumbling sleepily while letting out a big yawn, suddenly shot her eyes wide open.

Her already large eyes grew so big they took up half her face.

- Y-you’re not Adel! No, wait, this magical energy is Adel’s. Suspicious human! Reveal your identity!

“I am Adel. I think I’ve been transmigrated.”

- Transmigrated? You mean the forbidden art of soul transference? You think I’d believe that? You evil human! What did you do to our Adel! Give us back our Adel!

“Didn’t you once say you’d recognize me even if I swapped bodies with a demonic beast? Undine, I’m hurt.”

Undine, who had been huffing and puffing as she flew around, stopped dead in mid-air. Tears quickly welled up in her large eyes.

- I-it’s Adel! Adel! You were alive! You were alive! Waaaaah! I’m sorry! I’ll never bother you again! Don’t die anymore! Waaaaah!

Undine grabbed onto my hair and sobbed, tears streaming down her face.

“If you’re done crying, explain what happened.”

Undine tilted her head, then rubbed her eyes.

- Hmmm? Explain what? Don’t you remember?

“No, I remember. I died with the Demon King.”

- And after that?

“How would I know? I was dead.”

Undine’s eyes wavered.

But she managed to hold back her tears and continued speaking.

- You were sucked into the ground with the Demon King. We thought you’d get out for sure… but no matter how long we waited, you didn’t come out. Then, suddenly, the magic we felt from you was cut off.

“And?”

- We believed you were still alive because our spirit contract was still intact. So we kept waiting for you… but the King said you were already dead.

“Ah…”

- He said the contract was only maintained because your soul was still alive… but that it was a special case. Unlike spirits, he said that for humans, being without a body is the same as being dead.

Undine burst into tears again.

- Do you have any idea what it was like for us? Do you know how we felt, watching you choose to die with the Demon King?! Why did you do it? Why did you have to die!

*Because that was the original novel’s ending.*

I had no choice but to act according to the original story. That was the only way I could return to my own world.

Or so I thought.

- Adel, did you really hate us and find us so annoying that you’d rather die? That’s not it, right? It’s not? We must have misheard you, right?

It seemed Undine had been holding onto my last words—‘It was awful being with you, let’s never meet again’—this whole time.

“Don’t misunderstand. I wasn’t talking to you.”

- Then who were you talking to? The Demon King?

*No, to that bastard author of this damn novel.*

The bastard who dragged me, living a perfectly normal life, into this shitty trash novel.

The son of a bitch who inflicted pain on me whenever I didn’t follow the prompts.

He was a guy so despicable that all the curses I know wouldn’t be enough.

“There’s just some crazy bastard… Anyway, is that all you have to tell me?”

- What do you mean?

“Did anything else happen? Like a major cataclysm, or some huge incident… Anyway, something world-ending.”

- Hmmm? What are you talking about? Why would the world end?

‘Because this is a novel, and the original story is over!’

I forced down the words that rose to my throat and managed a smile. Undine’s face turned a faint pink.

- But… Adel. I think you should look in a mirror.

“Why?”

- W-well, just…

Steam began to rise from the top of Undine’s head, like water coming to a boil.

It was the water spirit’s unique way of showing she was smitten.

Only then did I get a strange feeling.

Because Undine had never looked at me like that, except for when I was defeating demonic beasts.

“Undine, find a mirror.”

- Okay! Over there!

The person reflected in the mirror was completely different from my time as the hero.

A small face with fair skin and a high-bridged nose.

Her lips were also smooth and full, drawing one’s gaze.

Above all, the voluminous, long platinum blonde hair and dark blue eyes made her look like a porcelain doll crafted with the utmost care by a master artisan.

Her build was slender and delicate, with a waist you could circle with one hand. It was completely different from my previous 178cm height and muscular frame.

‘How can a person look like this? There isn’t a single flaw anywhere.’

Even her fingernails are pretty. A little long, though.

I was admiring my hands when it happened.

The damn phenomenon I thought I’d never see again appeared before my eyes.

[Ding!]

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