I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration

And about an hour later, a woman’s shrill scream rang out near <Millane Bookstore> and quickly disappeared. Of course, no one paid attention to those involved in troublesome matters because no one wanted to be involved in them.

 

‘It’s enough now. Ha… Please die quickly…’

 

When Anna asked, ‘Where is Edith?’, Lise told Anna that she was also looking for Edith, and she just stamped her feet on the spot. Anna, whose heart became impatient, ran into the alley where the <Millein Bookstore> was located, but with only Anna’s strength, she would not be able to stop Fred Sicily.

 

[When Edith Ludwig dies as a villainess, the story returns to its original track. 3 minutes until her death.]

 

This was the guidance she had been waiting for so long. And as soon as Lise heard the announcement, Killian appeared before her eyes.

 

‘How did this happen? Why is Killian here?’

 

Lise was surprised, but Killian looked even more surprised.

 

“Lise? Why are you alone? What about Edith?”

 

“Well, I was looking for Edith too. Edith suddenly disappeared…”

 

Although she was surprised, Lise responded with a relaxed mind. Edith was going to die soon, and the dead never spoke. At that moment, Anna, who had been searching through the alley, jumped out and grabbed Killian.

 

“Lady Edith, she had never been out of that alley!”

 

At the same time, the world’s system repeated ominous announcements.

 

[When Edith Ludwig dies as a villainess, the story returns to its original track. 3 minutes until death.]

 

The time until death was extended. It was like déjà vu during a yacht accident.

 

‘How on earth did you buy time?’

 

While Lise was wide-eyed and surprised, Killian quickly began searching the alley. While Lise prayed that Edith would die quickly, and Killian and Anna prayed that Edith could hold out just a little longer, the time until death was extended twice more. And finally, the sound of someone shouting echoed through the alley. Killian and his knights ran into the abandoned house at the end of the alley.

 

“No…!”

 

Lise moaned softly, but the system mercilessly declared Lise defeat.

 

[Some of the original work’s flow was broken due to the original author’s excessive intervention. The original was further damaged. The control of the original author is being seriously weakened.]

 

Lise suddenly relaxed. After listening to the system’s guidance, not believing it was true, but the control that could be extended to the characters was reduced by about 30%. If you think about how arbitrarily Killian moved with 30% control, she had that much control, but it was reduced even more. When she returned to the mansion with her empty heart and heard the story behind it, it seemed that Edith persuaded Fred Sicily with ‘words.’

 

‘This kind of thing is lucky not to happen to extras.’

 

In reality, Edith would not have been able to resist properly and she would have died. However, this was a world in a romance novel, and the clichés of romance did not easily allow death for major characters. It was evidence that Edith was becoming a ‘heroine’ even faster.

 

‘There can’t be two female protagonists in one work…’

 

Lise’s hands trembled at that thought.

 

‘I have to kill her before she reaches the 3rd level condition. Certainly!’

 

Lise began preparing for the final episode, territorial war and the Kidnapping Case, feeling like there was a knife at her throat. Just before declaring territorial war, Shane wrote to Edith offering her one last chance, but Edith refused. Moreover, the Rigelhof family’s spy was kicked out after his tail was stepped on and whipped as soon as the war on the territory was declared. The spy was the one who stayed in the mansion until the end in the original and plotted with Sophia, but was discovered this time perhaps because Edith met the second stage conditions. So now the raid on the mansion has become a task solely left to Shane.

 

‘I can’t just trust Shane.’

 

They failed even in the original work, but now that Edith’s narrative has become stronger, the Rigelhof household has become less trustworthy. Lise sent a secret letter to the Rigelhof family with an unknown sender.

 

“I am a person who works at Duke Ludwig’s residence. If you are trying to take down the Ludwig family, I would like to add a little bit of my help.”

 

Although Count Rigelhof and Shane were suspicious, they had no choice but to accept the proposal. Lise, who had planned things up to that point, gave Killian one last bait of temptation before heading out. She deliberately visited him in the middle of the night wearing an off-the-shoulder, sexy nightgown that Edith might have worn, but Killian frowned when he looked at her round, white shoulders.

 

‘What? Isn’t this what you like?’

 

Although she was momentarily taken aback, Lise formed a consensus by recalling memories of his past that must have been beautifully glorified, and slowly approached Killian.

 

“In fact… I knew how Killian felt.”

 

Of course, Killian looked surprised.

 

Lise, who seduced him with a sad smile for a while longer, spoke with the intention of completely shaking Killian.

 

“Before you leave, can’t you just kiss me once?”

 

Killian paused. Lise was sure that Killian would not refuse this request. However, Killian’s hand, which was coming closer to Lise, did not cup her cheek, but instead flicked the tip of her finger and tapped her forehead.

 

“Killian…?”

 

“You don’t have to act like you’re sending someone off like that, you idiot.”

 

Killian smiled cheerfully at her face, which showed no signs of affection. Lise realized something when she saw that.

 

‘Killian… It’s not mine anymore…’

 

Even the smallest part of him was no longer available to Lise. She felt abandoned by the character she created, and Lise returned in a depressed mood. Cliff was standing in front of the room.

 

“You look like something’s not right.”

 

“Cliff…”

 

He seemed to already know where Lise had been going. Yet he did not scold her or openly show his displeasure.

 

‘Yes, I still have Cliff.’

 

Cliff continued to try to reveal Lise’s true feelings in a subtle tone, but Lise was unable to reveal her true feelings even to her ardent followers.

 

‘If you knew what I think, you would abandon me too, wouldn’t you?’

 

In the end, Lise sent them to the place where the territory war was taking place, showing only her frail and cute appearance in front of Cliff. Edith was saddened by the sight of her not being able to even receive a greeting from Duke Ludwig, but she had no time to be happy about such a simple thing. Princess Catherine came to visit and offered to send them unsolicited imperial knights, and Lise mustered what little strength she had left to get the Duchess to decline the offer. Lise’s strength had weakened to the point where he had to rest for a while because her nose was bleeding from exertion.

 

‘Now, I can’t use the original author’s power.’

 

After losing her seemingly omnipotent power, Lise had no choice but to make her own move. But it didn’t turn out that easily either. She had installed sleeping scents and anti-lock devices to make it easier to raid the Rigelhoff’s mansion, but Edith, like someone with obsessive compulsive disorder, found all of them and put them all away. In the end, Lise wrote a letter and sent it to Cliff, saying that Edith’s behavior while looking for it was strange.

 

‘The raid on the mansion cannot be successful in this condition. I need to change my method.’

 

After thinking about it, Lise wrote a letter to Count Rigelhof.

 

[The mansion’s defenses are very tight. Miss Edith is especially disturbing. I think we need to change our methods. The Duchess and Miss Liege will attend the Earl of Wyndham’s party held on the day of the Duke of Langston’s rebellion.

 

Aim for the path home.]

 

As expected, Count Rigelhof and Shane decided to follow Lise’s advice. At the party at Wyndham Manor, Lise faced Layla who apologized to her, but waited for the moment when the Emperor’s assassination failed and the banquet would end. And when the imperial knights finally came and had to hurriedly get into the carriage, Lise unconsciously chewed her lip, nervous that she might fail again.

 

‘I must succeed this time. If nothing else, Edith must die…!’

 

The letter had emphasized that Edith had completely abandoned the Rigelhof family, so there was no way Shane or Sophia would leave her alone. At that time, the voice of the escort knight and the neighing of horses were suddenly heard, and the carriage shook.

 

‘It’s done!’

 

Even as Lise screamed, she was happy on the inside. However, instead of immediately killing Edith, Shane burst into the carriage and dragged all three to Wellesley’s abandoned villa. Even there, they wasted time by confining Edith separately.

 

‘You idiots! Why don’t you kill Edith? Kill her quickly!’

 

Cliff would attack in a little while, so they had to kill Edith by then. That was all she could think about while dealing with Shane, who was trying to rape her. So she was a little annoyed when someone knocked on her door and Shane fell into her fist from outside.

 

‘It’s too early… What happened to Edith?’

 

Of course, while she was thinking that, she didn’t forget to cry and cling to Cliff, who came in with an urgent look on his face. However, Sophia was by Lise’s strong side until the end. Even as she was captured and taken away, she did not reveal Edith’s location.

 

“Ha! Do you think our young lady would be suitable for a place like this?”

 

Contrary to the words that at first glance seemed to be trying to hide Edith, her eyes were overflowing with malice like venom.

 

‘Yes, if I were to be trapped in this weather, I would freeze to death or starve to death.’

 

Lise encouraged the knights to hurry back by saying to the Duchess, who was shouting that Edith could not have betrayed them, ‘When I opened my eyes, Edith was not there.’ However, as time passed, the voice of the system was not heard. By this time, there would have been an announcement that Edith had a few minutes left to live, but there was no such announcement until the Duke and Killian returned to the capital.

 

‘Edith Riegelhoff! What in the world are you doing?’

 

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