A faint odor wafted around her and a creepy laughter rang in her ears.
Ha...
Broken, rotten fingernails dug into Simone's delicate flesh. She, covered in blood, took deep, long breaths and whispered ceaselessly in a metallic sound.
Die
Away
Go up and fall
Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, di e, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die , die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.
Simone, or rather Seo Hyun-jeong thought about that.
Oh, she wants to eat fish porridge.
She actually hates fish.
She felt like she could tolerate its disgusting appearance now.
It's been three days since she ran away from where she was staying.
To be honest, Simone was so hungry right now that she felt like crying.
Fall and die
Die
"I'm not dying... I don't want to die."
She wanted to live comfortably even if she had to die, but she didn't want to starve to death.
Even though Simone mumbled sincerely, the woman, whose arm was covered in blood that was more than nine inches long, just rested her chin on Simone's shoulder, tilted her head, and continued to talk.
In the end, Simone gave up and left her alone.
"Do whatever you want."
She couldn't help but sigh.
The woman was a ghost that had been attached to Simone since she first came to this world, and sometimes she would curse Simone whenever she was bored.
Simone, who had somewhat given up and listened to the old woman's curse, sighed deeply once again and looked straight ahead. She then frowned and said.
"Oh, please be quiet! Is it time for you to make a fuss? Look at your senior in front of me!"
That 300-year-old giant monster!
Why on earth did this woman follow her here in the first place?
Simone let her temper get the better of her and looked up at the large mansion in front of her, or more precisely, at the dark red tree branches writhing around the entire mansion.
"Oh my, how did I get into this situation?"
It's so cursed, they're advertising.
As she looked up at the sight, it was
so horrific that she couldn't help but gasp at its majesty.
"Ha."
To be honest, it's a bit scary to see something she's only seen in movies before her eyes...
Simone clenched her fists.
"I'm nervous."
Still, she rationalized that it was much better than the death-by-sacrifice ending.
From now on, Simone plans to pass through this disgusting tree and vines and enter the Illeston Mansion which is shrouded in secrets.
***
When she first entered this world, the situation was pretty hardcore.
"Huh!"
"What is this!"
"I really jumped. I jumped! Everybody, oh, to the right!! To the... I really jumped, I jumped! Everybody, oh, to the right! No! To the left!"
When she opened her eyes, she found herself falling from a three-story roof, and there were people below, looking at her in astonishment, holding blankets.
"Please save me! Ugh!"
Seo Hyun-jeong cried out desperately and fell into the blanket, and at that moment, information about this damn situation began to fill her head.
Although she couldn't know the whole situation, she was able to roughly know that the name of this skinny girl who had now become her own was 'Simone', her age, and the simple situation.
'Simone who sees ghosts'.
That was the nickname of this child, Simone, at the orphanage.
And Simone actually knew how to see ghosts. She knew how to see, so she could see even if she didn't want to see.
It was a necromancer's natural ability, but Simone was unable to control it because she did not know how to properly handle this power.
Fortunately or unfortunately, some of Simone's memories came to Seo Hyeon-Jeong, so she was surprisingly able to remain calm even when she first saw the ghost.
Seo Hyeon-Jeong became clear about the situation she was in through a few facts.
"I'm glad I read the original to the end.'
This is the world of [When I Opened My Eyes, I Was Hiding My Powers], a mass-produced fantasy novel she read a while ago.
She was possessed by the necromancer Simone, a colleague of the protagonist who appears at the beginning of the story.
But why Simone...
She's so confused that she's in someone else's body without even knowing what's going on.
Simone pursed her lips in frustration.
She recalled a scene from a novel about Simone.
"Simone!"
Abel screamed.
Simone was slowly disappearing along with her numerous enemies in the darkness she had created.
But Simone smiled...
"Thank you, everyone."
Only seventeen. She was small and timid and smiled calmly as she endured the pain that burned her flesh.
For her, Abel's group was her first warm sunshine and salvation.
Therefore, she truly wanted them to achieve their goal.
Even though they can't be together.
"Go forward."
She was happy.
For the first time, the fact that she could burn herself with the power of death and sacrifice herself for her comrades made her feel noble.
She hoped her life was worth it to the light.
In Seo Hyun-jeong's mind, her final moments in the novel were engraved quite clearly.
Black hair and red eyes are the characteristics of a necromancer. Simone was abandoned by her parents because she was born with it. The director of the orphanage, who reluctantly took Simone in charge, abused her, calling her a disaster that would bring misfortune, and eventually sold her to an occult society called heresy.
The Occult Society was famous for kidnapping people for research and performing a lot of extremely immoral and cruel experiments.
"This kid is the necromancer."
"Oh oh! A necromancer was born in Ruan too?"
"It's a rare thing and the only one in the empire. Look at this. Since ancient times, it has been said that black hair represents the ominous energy of a person who has made a contract with the God of death, right? Wouldn't it be helpful to the society's research?"
It was at the time when Seo Hyeon-Jeong was possessed that Simone, who happened to overhear the conversation between the director and the president of the institute, jumped from the roof, saying that she would rather die than die in pain after being tortured by them.
Of course, It failed, so they're currently packing her up to sell her.
According to the original story, she will soon become a research member of an academic society, undergo all kinds of experiments, become speechless from the shock, and just wait for the day when she dies.
Then, with the help of the main character she met there, she escapes and sacrifices her life along the journey.
"What the..."
'It's a good thing to support and stir-fry a 17-year-old child!'
Simone thought as she stuffed her luggage with an expression that had everything going for it.
It's been roughly a month since she was possessed by Simone. She accepted that while she was being harassed by the director and the ghosts, she was unable to return to reality. But...
'No matter how much I think about it, being sold to an academic society is something that should never be done.'
Seo Hyeon-Jeong recalled the story of when the main character, Abel, first saw Simone in an episode of the Occult Society.
And then she trembled.
'Wow, that's creepy...'
This is a place where torture-like experiments were carried out for a long time.
Abel found a young girl there.
"Orkan, there are survivors here."
Numerous Injection marks and whip marks remained intact and covered in blood stains.
If Abel hadn't found her, Simone would have been thought to be just one of many corpses.
She didn't want to go through that kind of torture herself.
"Shit, shit, fuck me, fuck me... Ah, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Director, you bastard-"
Simone cursed incessantly and thought of a way to avoid her pitiful death.
1. Holding on at the orphanage: What should she do if she holds on? If she is harassed by the director, she will either be beaten to death or starve to death.
2. Occult Society: Not worth thinking about.
3. Finding the protagonist: Just like in the original, if Simone does not sacrifice herself, she will die along with all of her colleagues.
4. Run away: Where? To begin with, because of her black hair, if people are bored, she can get stoned while passing by, or if she is unlucky, she can be dragged to death. Above all, she starve to death because she cannot work.
5. Then get rid of the black hair? Shave her head?: she can hide her hair, but she can't hide her red eyes.
Moreover, if she looks this skinny and shaves her head, she might be thought to be a runaway slave and reported. In the end, it is highly likely that she will return to the orphanage and be handed over to the occult society.
'There's no way out?'
It was a truly difficult situation.
Even though she thought about various tricks, after filtering, there were no options at all.
It seemed like the damn writer had designed Simone from the beginning to be a character who had no choice but to die.
"It's crazy..."
At least in other novels, she is possessed by a high-ranking noblewoman who is about to be executed but somehow manages to escape if she does some good deeds. So, why is she possessing this body and just seeing ghosts?
'What did I do so wrong?'
What was so wrong with working overtime and feeling angry so she drank a can of beer and read a novel?
"Yes. Well. I'm not the main character of the novel. This is reality. The reality, huh? What? Am I crazy? How can I say this is reality? Damn it."
Seo Hyeon-Jeong looked back on her life and finished packing her bags.
"I, too, let me possess the body of a high-ranking noblewoman."
Because it's okay even if the death penalty is scheduled -
Like a woman who has reached the state of nirvana and is wandering around looking for socks, while humming a song, the luggage she was secretly packing was the director's clothes that she could barely wear.
Would she be crazy enough to pack her bags to go to an occult conference?
She was currently stealing the director's clothes without feeling guilty in an attempt to run away from home.
"Where should I go-"
But suddenly, an idea occurred to her in the song lamenting her words.
'A nobleman of high status!'
"OMG."
A smile appeared on Simone's lip
'Maybe I can survive.'
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