“Translated by Gon”
She has been physically weak since she was a child. At the age of four, she suffered from heart disease and underwent repeated surgeries and treatments abroad for several years, and at thirteen, she developed sarcoma cancer, which resulted in the removal of a large part of her right thigh, leaving her unable to walk without support.
At fifteen, She went to school for the first time. No one approached her, who was sick and gloomy, but it was still good. Having lived in a hospital for a long time, she was happy enough to be mixed with children her own age in the daily routine.
But that happiness was short-lived.
“Um…Ma? Dad?”
Her parents, who were brought in due to a traffic accident, grabbed her hand with bloodied hands in front of the operating room. Their lives were in danger.
“My daughter… I’m sorry for making you suffer.”
“Eun-Jae, if anything happens to us, you should live well.”
“Don’t say that! The surgery will go well. Don’t be scared……. Don’t go anywhere without me!”
“We’ll do our best……. we’ll do our best. My daughter……. Don’t worry…….”
“Yeah……. Dad, I didn’t mean…… to say that. I’m sorry.”
It was the last time of her with Mom and Dad.
“Ugh… How can it be like this… How can it be like this!”
Her parents were on their way to hear the results of her routine checkup. It was as if they had suffered and died because of her.
After suffering from guilt, she collapsed on the ground shortly afterward. And when she opened her eyes, she heard the news like a bolt from the blue.
“It’s stage 4 gastric cancer.”
“…what?”
It was only less than a year after living as a proper student.
She inherited a small fortune from her parents, who hadn’t saved enough money to pay for her medical bills, and the insurance money barely covered her surgery and hospitalization. For a year, she was fine. she was able to do most things on her own and didn’t need anyone’s help.
But she was becoming more and more in need. she had no relatives and no caregivers to help.
The nurses took pity on her and helped her occasionally, but after a few months, she quickly became a pain in the ward. Eventually, she decided to leave the hospital.
she managed to get a single underground room that was falling down. At that time, the remaining money was only 1 million won. She didn’t know how long this money would last. she was not afraid of death, but she was worried about what she would do if she didn’t die until she spent all 1 million won.
Whether unfortunate or fortunate, her condition worsened due to the bad environment.
She was lying in the small single room and looked around at the wallpaper full of mold. The stinging smell, the sharp rat sound from the corner, the cockroach passing by her eyes.
She turned them away and picked up her phone, the most expensive thing she had ever had. She turned on YouTube, which she secretly watched every day with the Wi-Fi above her house.
Smiling.
On the screen, the material screen in the movie where they were performing swordsmanship and the people who demonstrated themselves alternately appeared. Among them, the thing that she was into these days was medieval swordsmanship.
“Swordsmanship Awesome…….”
She was a big fan of YouTube. Among YouTube videos, She enjoyed watching strong videos such as kendo, fencing, parkour, martial arts, and medieval swordsmanship. It was the only thing that she watched when she was lying on a hospital bed with a body that couldn’t even run properly.
[When performing a “backslash,” you should use a “thumb grip,” in which your thumb rests on the side of the sword, which helps set the angle of the blade for the backslash and protects your fingers].
She noticed him holding the sword with his thumb raised above the handle. Watching the instructional video, she eagerly read the subtitle below.
Oh, my.
“You’re so cool!”
With hollowed cheeks and bony fingers, She played through all the recommended videos, especially the dueling one.
Boom, boom, boom!
In the blink of an eye, the sword clashes seven times, the point of the sword aimed at the nape of the neck. When She slowed the playback down and watched it again, She realized that the swordplay was like a dance. He blocks across the chest, shoulders, and head, then spins the sword to tilt the opponent’s upper body and bring the tip to the throat. It’s an exciting moment no matter how many times she replays it.
Snap! Snap!
“Oh my God!”
A mouse rushed past her as she watched the video. Startled, she dropped her phone, and the room went pitch black. In an instant, she felt like she had been pulled out of the virtual world and into the real world.
Immersed in the darkness, she lay still, unmoving.
‘……I wish I was healthy.
If She had a normal body, a normal childhood, and a normal schooling, her life would have been different. Instead of being a dying child lying alone in a single room in the basement, she would have been a thriving adult with loving parents.
“I could have been a pretty daughter.”
she vividly remembers her parents covered in the blood before her eyes.
When she was young, she was a bright kid who listened well to her parents. She didn’t go to kindergarten because of her illness, but she loved making friends, being positive, and being active. her parents loved her with all their hearts.
Before she knew it, the stagnant tears fell silently to the floor.
If she was healthy, her parents wouldn’t have to die.
“……Wouldn’t it be better to die?”
No one answered a sad question.
She picked up her phone again after the awful silence. The moment She picked up her phone, She pressed the screen, and an advertisement on the video clicked.
“Eek. What is this?”
The title of a web novel popped up: <Submasters Won’t Let Me Go!
What kind of title is this?
She clicked on episode 1, which was listed as a free series. She had never encountered a web novel before, but it was quite interesting.
The free episode was quite long, and the first part was about the female protagonist, Roella Clemens, being adopted and not fitting in with the family.
The men around her love and support her. A story of blind love that couldn’t possibly exist in real life. she flicked through the scroll without meaning to.
‘If I were her, I wouldn’t waste my time on this nonsense.”
Anyway, strong people made her stomach hurt. She was filled with tears of embarrassment and pressed ‘Exit’ without hesitation. When she clicked exit without even reading all the free episodes, there wasn’t a single male lead left in my mind.
[Do you want to check out ‘The Real Male Lead’? (Free)]
As soon as she hit “exit,” she scratched her head at the window that popped up.
“Was there a real male lead?
She hadn’t been paying attention to the male lead, so she wasn’t sure what it meant. After a moment’s hesitation, She saw the word “free” and clicked the “accept” button.
It wasn’t going to cost her anything anyway!
“……?”
Sure enough, She clicked the accept button, and the web novel disappeared from her screen. She looked for the ad again and tried to enter, but the same ad was nowhere to be found.
“What the hell.”
she closed her phone with a frown on her face.
That night, her whole body felt heavy as a stone. she’d always been sick, but this was different.
“Oh, I’m finally going to die.”
A lonely death in a single room, waiting to be discovered by someone. her heart sank at the thought of her shabby corpse, but she was glad it was over.
It wasn’t long before She didn’t even make a sound of pain. Her consciousness faded into darkness. she was relieved to think that it might not hurt anymore.
‘At least she had good parents and lived this long.’
She let go of her consciousness thinking as positively as possible. She hoped the body lying lonely in a single room was smiling.
‘You’ve done well, Eunjae Jung. Now you can really…… rest.
That was the end of seventeen-year-old Eunjae Jeong’s life. She wasn’t feel sorry for her life, but then.
“……?”
She opened her eyes again, thinking she was dead. she woke up in a strange place she had never seen before.
The first thing she saw was a gorgeous chandelier. She turned her head in surprise and found herself lying alone on a bed that was wide enough for two grown men to lie side-by-side. A dark navy blue and gilded blanket looked very expensive. She quickly, scanned the unfamiliar room.
In the bedroom, there was a gold leaf shelf matched with a dark brown color, a dresser, and a small closet and drawer for the clothes. The furniture was regularly carved with fine-grained Ramses, and the antique stand on the shelf gently illuminated the room. There was also a balcony just below the bedroom to brighten up the view.
Her eyes rolled again. The bedroom was connected to several other rooms. Behind a door at the foot of the bed, She could see a guest table and a carpet that looked ridiculously luxurious at first glance.
“Where am I……?”
Judging by the size and quality of the furnishings, it was definitely not a basement dormitory, at least not the one she was in. There was none of the unpleasant smell of a basement. If anything, it smelled like scented candles or flowers.
What is this strange room? Is it heaven?
She leaped to her feet, her mind was so focused on the unfamiliar that she hadn’t realized that her sickly body had become as light as a feather.
She looked around her and stumbled to the dressing table. The moment she stood in front of it, she couldn’t help but stumble backward.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!……!!Eek!”
She gasped as she caught sight of herself in the mirror.
Waist-length blonde curls, and red eyes that looked like they were filled with blood. Her lashes were as long as a doll’s, and her tiny lips were shiny as plums about to burst.
The overall impression seemed cold, but the face that still seemed to have a little baby fat was very pure. Most of all, the thick cheeks looked very lively, unlike her previous thin face. In short, an undergrown beauty.
But…… why did I look like this……!
She raised her hands and looked at them in disbelief. she raised her hands and examined them from side to side. She turned her hands as she pleased, kicked forcefully, and wiggled her toes vigorously. Then, all of a sudden, she realized an astonishing fact.”
“……?”
She realized that her body could move at will.
Her body moved in sync with her thoughts, operating at the same speed, as a computer.
“Oh! Ohhh!”
She flapped her feet and hands in excitement. At first, she moved slowly and then faster, but her body was not affected at all.
“Awesome!”
Everything… …is up to me!
She was even faster! She was lighter!
What the hell, this? Is this really heaven, and is it this real?
Just as she was admiring the heaven, something snapped in front of me.
[Welcome to the Lumann Empire! You are Roella Clemend, the heroine of this book!]
“Huh?”
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