I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration

But immediately Count Rigelhof and Shane went crazy and said they would kill her too. That too was a scene that did not exist in the original. Of course, in the original, Edith’s head fell off before this scene occurred.

 

‘What? Why did this suddenly happen?’

 

She was so surprised that she looked at Killian without realizing it, but the eyes of the guy who wanted to save her somehow seemed more burning than if he wanted to kill her. She wondered if Duke Ludwig would try to keep her alive, but he said he would respect Killian’s decision, and Killian was getting angry again when he told them to take her to prison for interrogation.

 

‘Anyway… Edith’s ending has changed…?’

 

She was a little confused because she thought she was going to die. But whether she was confused or not, the knights under Duke Ludwig’s orders grabbed her from both sides and lifted her up. After seeing that, Killian got angry again.

 

“Let go of those hands!”

 

Thanks to this, the knight standing to her right raised his hand in embarrassment, and her scarf ended up getting caught on the button of his coat sleeve and came off along with it.

 

“Ah…!”

 

Although it was a cheap scarf, she still felt chills when the layer blocking the cold air came off. She was trembling and embarrassed and glanced at Killian again, but his expression was very strange. No, the expressions on the faces of not only Killian, but also Duke Ludwig, Cliff, and the people around them also became strange. She felt like she had seen something very absurd… 

 

“The face…”

 

Killian couldn’t speak and he clenched his teeth. But with just those words, she realized what they were surprised to see.

 

‘Oh, my face was a mess…’

 

After being hit twice by Shane when she was kidnapped and three times by Sophia in the basement of Wellesley’s villa, her face was so messed up that it was a good thing her nose didn’t sink or her jaw didn’t turn. It was natural that Baron Ruben and his wife, who had helped her when she came up to the capital, and the knights who were here and there as she was walking around did not recognize her. Because her face was swollen and bruised, it didn’t look like hers. There was no way that a face like that could have completely healed in just 10 days. There were still colorful purple and green bruises around her cheekbones.

 

The first to speak was Duke Ludwig.

 

“Who did it! Was there any harsh treatment during the arrest?”

 

Then the knights who had taken her away were startled and quickly shook their heads.

 

“No! It was already like this when she was arrested!”

 

“Then what happened? Are you saying she got hit by a bully while running away?”

 

At that time, Killian, who was staring at her blankly, spoke without even turning his head.

 

“Edith was also held in the Wellesley villa where mother and Lise were kidnapped. I guess that’s when she was hit.”

 

“What? Cliff! Didn’t you say Edith wasn’t in the villa?”

 

Cliff seemed a little embarrassed by the Duke’s questioning. The male lead’s embarrassed appearance was a rare sight to see.

 

“Oh, of course! We searched every room in the two-story villa, but Edith was nowhere to be found. Moreover, Edith’s maid also stated that she was not there!”

 

Killian chuckled at that answer.

 

“Have you looked in the underpass?”

 

“What?”

 

“There was a basement in that villa. You did not know?”

 

Cliff froze, and Lise, who was standing next to him, looked very pale even from a distance.

 

“Leonard, tell them what happened when you went down to Wellesley’s basement.”

 

When Killian gave the order, the knight who had been with Killian when he kicked Anna out took a step forward and spoke in an indifferent voice.

 

“When I opened the door to the basement, there were several doors on one side of the long hallway, and only one of them was open. In the middle of the room, there was a chair that someone had been tied to, and on the floor was a horsewhip, blood stains, and… Some of Edith’s headdress was missing.”

 

Immediately Killian’s harsh gaze flew to Sophia.

 

“You must have been the one who tied Edith up there and tortured her, Sophia. And until the end, you would have tried to kill Edith by saying that Edith wasn’t there.”

 

Then Sophia giggled and she started laughing.

 

“The line is also long. How on earth did you get out of there?”

 

Perhaps it was because it was a cold execution site, but Sophia’s giggling appearance was creepy and grotesque.

 

‘Isn’t the greatest villainess in this story probably Sophia?’

 

She was a person who took pleasure in torturing Edith for having what she did not have…

 

“We can’t delay any longer, so please put Edith in prison for now.”

 

The Duke, who was thinking about something, ordered her to be imprisoned again in a softer voice than before. Killian tried to protest again, but Duke Ludwig resolutely turned his head away from Killian.

 

She was grabbed by the knights again and started walking to the dungeon. Her legs were shaking from the lack of tension, but thanks to the knights being much more polite than before, she was not dragged around. The knights who had imprisoned her rushed out again, and she was a little dazed in the silence of the place where she could hear the sound of burning torches.

 

‘What happens to me now?’

 

In the original, the story after this was almost entirely centered around Lisze and Cliff. Even if she knew it, it wouldn’t be of any help to her now.

 

“Wow, it’s really cold in here.”

 

Until now, she didn’t really feel the cold, probably because she thought she was going to die soon, but now it was so cold that she wondered how she could not feel this cold. The pain all over her body that she had forgotten about came back again. She shivered, pulling her windy coat close to her. At that time, screams began to be heard from afar.

 

‘It looks like the execution has begun.’

 

Even though a person’s head was being cut off, she wasn’t particularly impressed. Was it because she knew that they were going to die at this point? To be honest, she felt like she was being punished from heaven.

 

‘Ah, I’m sleepy.’

 

She didn’t plan on listening to other people die, but the aftereffects of not being able to sleep for several days were finally coming. She was so tired and so sleepy.

 

‘If you fall asleep in a place like this, your mouth will turn…’

 

While thinking about that, she fell asleep like she was losing her mind. But a strangely familiar darkness unfolded before her eyes. The feeling of floating in lukewarm water and the darkness like looking into space…

 

‘Uh? This… Isn’t that it?’

 

As soon as she thought that, she heard a voice that she had longed for.

 

[Level 3 exception conditions have been met. An exceptional situation arises and the author’s rights are completely lost. Stage 3 exception conditions will disappear.]

 

It was a message that met the level 3 exception conditions that she had longed for. But this time, huge question marks flooded her mind.

 

‘What, what is it? What on earth was the exception condition this time?’

 

She was so embarrassed that she couldn’t even ask politely like before. However, a voice like an announcer answered that etiquette was not an important issue.

 

[Level 3 Exception Condition: Do not resist the fate of death.]

 

What? She was in a daze and asked again.

 

‘What did you just say?’

 

[Level 3 Exception Condition: Do not resist the fate of death…]

 

‘No, I really didn’t ask you to say it twice, but what on earth does that mean!’

 

[It means giving up the will to live when faced with the threat of death.]

 

‘Ah, so, just like I did earlier, I see someone coming to kill me and offer him a piece to be cut into pretty pieces… Something like that?’

 

[You’re right.]

 

It’s even more unlucky that the crazy voice answered sound and clearly. Even though she was in a dream, she was dazed for a long time. It was funny that she felt that way, but she did it anyway. And only after a while did an enormous amount of anger come.

 

‘The damn original author!’

 

Damn, damn, what did he just say? This XX, is he playing with people’s lives? All the swear words she knew passed through her mind quickly, reproducing her anger. Whether the original author was a human or an animal, he was clearly a crazy psychopath! This was a game that was neither fair nor fun.

 

Exception conditions were the same as telling you to die!

 

‘To say not to resist your fate means to make up your mind to die!’

 

If you are a human being, no, if you are a living being, that was almost impossible.

 

‘And I accomplished the impossible? It really hits hard.’

 

Even in Wellesley’s underground villa, while she was walking aimlessly on the road up to the capital, and even when she reached the capital and hid with her face covered, she only thought about living. And that’s what brought her to the execution site.

 

‘Even if I had ridden a long-distance carriage, the knights would have chased me down and captured me, right?’

 

The empty laughter kept leaking out. However, it seemed that the unlucky voice’s business was not yet finished. She thought she heard some kind of crackling noise, and then another announcement came out.

 

[Congratulations on your survival. The original scenario set for Edith Ludwig has disappeared. Since the flow of the original work has become extremely weak, the force that supports this world changes from ‘flow of the original work’ to ‘probability’.]

 

Although she was disappointed, she won the battle with the original author anyway. All the efforts of the original author to kill her as a villain were in vain thanks to her incredible luck.

 

‘What Sophia said was half true. A guy who works hard can’t beat a lucky guy… I have never wished for this kind of glory, but…’

 

Only then was she able to fall into ‘real sleep’ with peace of mind.

 

* * *

 

‘Why did this happen? Why…?’

 

Lise came out of the execution site due to the Duke and Cliff’s consideration not to see the terrible scenes of the execution ceremony. But Lise’s hands, wearing a warm fox fur coat, were still shaking.

 

‘I can’t believe I lost!’

 

Lise walked frantically back and forth outside the execution site, chewing on her fingertips.

 

—————————————————————

Translator Note: