I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration

This was luck that would never have been possible if Edith was still a ‘villain supporting character.’

 

‘When on earth did she become this big? Shit!’

 

She should have noticed that Edith survived the last yacht incident. Since the accident happened right in front of Killian’s eyes, she only thought that Killian could have saved it, but she had no idea that it would be a ‘luck’ given only to leading characters. No, she didn’t want to admit that this world had ever created a heroine other than Lise.

 

‘It’s really dangerous now.’

 

It was no longer a time for pride. Due to this failure, K’s control over Killian converged to 0, and the other characters fell to around 30%. If she used all her strength, she could have planned to kill Edith one more time, but the risk of failing was too great.

 

‘The only thing I can count on now is the level 3 exception condition. We must not allow Edith to fulfill that condition.’

 

The situation became difficult. Because while continuing to frame Edith as a villain, we shouldn’t have allowed her to meet her level 3 conditions. But as she watched Edith resist Fred and struggle to survive, she felt like she could do it.

 

‘In the end, Edith is also human. As a mere human she wouldn’t be able to meet that requirement.’

 

K managed to grin.

 

* * *

 

Gradually, her vision became brighter. But she didn’t wake up.

 

‘It must be a dream.’

 

She was having a lucid dream. In front of her was a dark colored door. Looking at the surroundings, it looked like a noble mansion.

 

‘Where am I?’

 

While she was thinking blankly, someone was coming this way.

 

‘Count Rigelhof…?’

 

It was Count Rigelhof, who looked much younger than he was now. He came in front of her, took his keys out of his pocket, opened the door she was looking at, and went in. She also followed him into the room.

 

“Have you reflected sufficiently?”

 

“Yes… I’m sorry, father…”

 

Ah… Shit. It was a scene she didn’t want to see. Little Edith, who must have been only twelve or three years old, was crying with swollen cheeks and blue bruises on her eyelids.

 

“Please forgive me. I won’t do that again.”

 

As soon as she saw Count Rigelhof, she knelt down on the floor, rubbed her hands together and prayed. She was sure that whatever wrong a girl this age might have done, she wouldn’t have done anything to deserve such a beating. However, this family was strict only with Edith, and they whipped her harshly for even the slightest mistake.

 

Count Rigelhof, who was looking down at Edith, who was shaking and crying, scolded her in an irritated voice.

 

“Edith. I wasn’t asking you to sell yourself, I was just asking you to act cute. What’s so shameful about missing an opportunity!”

 

“Sorry… sorry.”

 

“The man said he liked a young girl, so he deliberately created a situation and an opportunity. An opportunity once missed never comes back!”

 

“Sorry…”

 

“Tsk. It’s useless.”

 

She was wondering why they were arresting the child, but it seems they were telling her to show off her cuteness in front of a pedophile. Edith, who was young and naive, seemed to have frozen because she was embarrassed and scared of the situation.

 

‘That bastard! What did you make your daughter do!’

 

She couldn’t believe it. Even though it is set in a time when women were treated as property of the family, this is at the level of not being treated as a child at all! While she was getting angry, the scene in front of her changed.

 

Edith, who appeared to be in her late teens, was walking in the garden with a man who appeared to be in her late 20s. The man kept looking Edith up and down.

 

“Shall we sit there and rest for a moment?”

 

The man smiled sinisterly, pointing to a bench under the wisteria. Edith smiled brightly at him and nodded to the escort driver who was following her ten paces away, but the man seemed very surprised that the escort driver was following him. Anyway, the two sat on a bench under the wisteria, and the escort driver stood guard from a distance.

 

“Miss Edith, you look more mature than your age. It’s rare to see a young lady who has matured so well at this age.”

 

“I’m still immature.”

 

“What if I don’t have a little iron? Aren’t you still at the age where you can be cute? ha ha ha!”

 

The man said, ‘It’s okay to be cute,’ and playfully tapped Edith’s buttocks. However, even after he finished speaking, he did not remove his hand from her hip. Instead, he tightened his grip and pulled Edith towards him.

 

“Hey, Valentine’s Day. “I have eyes to see.”

 

Edith slipped away from him and glanced in the direction of her escort. The man licked his lips with regret.

 

“Next time we meet, let’s do so without an escort. It’s frustrating because I get noticed every time.”

 

“If I do that, my father will scold me. You’re so sensitive to my well-being.”

 

“Count Rigelhof is overprotective of his daughter.”

 

“Because I’m still young.”

 

Edith smiled cutely, then slowly changed the topic and looked at the current situation of the Count Valentine family. And then, as if she thought she had all the information she needed, she left, saying that she would have to go back, and Edith’s escort knight put her in her carriage and returned to her count’s residence. But in her carriage, Edith was trembling all over and wiping the bare skin where the man’s hand had touched with her handkerchief.

 

“Dirty… dirty…”

 

Her appearance was not normal in any way. She broke out in a cold sweat, couldn’t keep her body still for even a moment, and wiped herself hysterically. However, the moment the carriage stopped and the door opened, Edith got out as if she had never been like that before, becoming an expressionless and elegant Countess.

 

‘Count Rigelhof, this man has completely ruined the child!’

 

Her heart broke even after seeing something that probably only happened in a novel. Strangely, really strangely, Edith’s appearance kept reminding me of myself in her past life. Choi Soo-na, who pretended to be fine in front of others while shaking with all kinds of emotions such as anxiety, fear, and self-loathing when she was alone, overlapped with Edith Rigelhoff in the original work.

 

‘It was Count Rigelhof who ruined Edith, but who was it that ruined Choi Soo-na?’

 

She kept feeling like she was going to cry. And then the scene changed again.

 

This time, Edith, who had grown up to be almost no different from me now, was fidgeting with her hands nervously.

 

‘Uh? This place… It’s my room, right?’

 

The place where she was sitting was the room she was currently living in.

 

‘Then she must have already married Killian.’

 

Naturally, she didn’t look happy at all. Her cheeks were sunken and the underside of her eyes were dark. Her empty-looking eyes wandered in the air, and her lips were dry and cracked. Next to her was a letter that she didn’t know when it came from. She must have taken it out so many times that the four corners of the letter were bluntly worn. She walked over to her side and looked at the letter.

 

[Edith See.

 

Soon, our family will declare a territorial war against the Ludwig family. Of course we will win, but just in case, we plan to attack Duke Ludwig’s residence as well. All you have to do is remain quiet and set up a simple device at the back door of the mansion on the day I give you the signal.

 

You can easily figure out how to do this by looking at the picture in the next page. It’s not difficult, so you won’t make a mistake, right?]

 

The letter was from Shane, and in her hand was something black and small.

 

‘I guess that’s the simple device Shane mentioned.’

 

The device was to be inserted into the hole on the door frame where the door lock went. And scenes that seemed to be Edith’s memories quickly flashed before her eyes. Killian always looked at her with contemptuous eyes, Killian smiled kindly only at Lise, Killian started pretending not to see her when Count Rigelhof announced war over the territory… A tear rolled down Edith’s cheek.

 

“It’s your fault…”

 

In a dying voice, Edith blamed Killian. Edith, who had been sitting still for a while biting her lip, got up as darkness fell and came out of the room like her ghost. Edith, who was walking in the dark, slightly opened the back door of the mansion, put in the black object from before, and closed the door again. On the outside, the door appeared to be well locked.

 

Then suddenly the scene changed again.

 

There were sounds of banging, something breaking, screaming and shouting mixed together, and Shane, holding a sword, was dragging the rebellious Lise out.

 

“Withdrawal!”

 

At his words, the black-clothed men who occupied Ludwig Street quickly escaped through the back door. Edith hurriedly ran after him, but suddenly turned around and looked at her. 

Unlike others who had not recognized her before, Edith was looking directly at her.

 

“Edith! What are you doing!”

 

Then, startled by Shane’s shout, she turned and disappeared again.

 

The dream became so blurry.

 

‘This… That’s the night I didn’t remember.’

 

This was what happened in the original. And this was the main reason why Killian got angry and hit Edith’s head.

 

‘But it wasn’t something Edith wanted to do.’

 

Edith’s eyes were so clear when she looked back at me at the end. It was clearly a look in his eyes asking for help. It was a desperate and sad plea.

 

‘Don’t worry, Edith. I’m not going to do anything. I won’t die this time.’

 

She offered comfort to poor Edith, who was unable to move from the pressure that oppressed her.

 

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