ICSM 08

Chapter 08

“Gasp!”

When had I fainted? I opened my eyes in bed. The last thing I remembered was several panels filled with prophecies suddenly popping up in front of me.

“What happened? ……Huh?”

I ran a hand through my bangs, which were soaked with sweat as if I had just had a nightmare, and looked around because something felt strange. It felt familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

“……What is this?”

I couldn’t understand it. This was definitely my room.

Last year, when I had the walls repapered in a trendy color, I had also changed the arrangement of the furniture.

But what I was looking at was my room from before the wallpaper had been changed.

“Which crazy person put my room back the way it was?”

And did my family just stand by and let them restore everything? It was far too much work just to play a prank.

Unable to hide my bewilderment, I got out of bed and felt something strange again. My field of vision was lower than usual.

Come to think of it, my whole body was shorter and plumper. Not that I had become obese. It was more like the baby fat hadn’t completely disappeared yet……

I hurried to the mirror standing in one corner of the room, checked my reflection, and opened my mouth wide.

I had been an adult for a long time, so why had I somehow turned back into a teenager?

“Ena! Enaaa!”

I urgently called for my maid, Ena. Footsteps sounded outside, and soon Ena rushed in.

“My lady? What happened……?”

“What year is it?”

She looked at me with confusion, as if wondering why I had called her so urgently just to ask the year, but I had no time to laugh it off.

“Quickly!”

“Um, well…… It’s the year 218, my lady.”

Ena looked worried as she answered. I must have been acting strangely enough to make her wonder if I was all right.

But my last memory was clearly the summer of 227.

My head spun at this situation that no ordinary person could possibly understand. I had somehow gone back almost ten years, and I felt so dizzy that I could barely remain standing.

“Ah……”

“My laaady!”

Ena practically caught me as I collapsed and helped me back onto the bed. I told her I wanted to rest and sent her away while she made a worried face and asked if I was feeling ill.

I closed my eyes and lay quietly, but my mind was spinning like crazy.

‘They said it was the ending.’

I remembered the gods’ final words.

After secretly watching their conversations for such a long time, I had roughly figured out that the gods viewed this world like a play or a work of literature.

‘Perhaps “female lead” and “male lead” weren’t names…….’

I assumed they were abbreviations for the female protagonist and male protagonist. Judging by the kinds of things they seemed to read, it was probably some kind of romance novel.

The ending meant the end.

The phrase “the end of the world” sounded ominous just from the words themselves. If there was an end to the world, what else could it be besides destruction?

“Ha…… What the hell?”

Not only had I experienced the sudden destruction of the world while secretly watching the gods talk about the future, but now I had even regressed to my childhood.

Wouldn’t it be easier on my mind to simply believe that everything I had experienced had been a nightmare rather than accept this?

Just as I was thinking that and trying to compromise with reality, something familiar appeared before my eyes.

<Best> [Gold Family Kumssi Sibling Fanatic]

I’m part of the early readers. I read all 130 launched chapters in one day.

The male lead is completely obsessed, and the female lead is completely tragic.

No-regrets obsessive imprisonment trash-bin yummy (⋆ˆ ³ ˆ)♥

You won’t regret taking off. Ah, but there’s something a little unusual…….

The conversation window of the gods that I had seen long ago had appeared again.

Even the number 78 displayed right below it was exactly the same.

I wanted to make it disappear because I already knew what it said, but this window would not disappear until I had checked all of its contents. So, just like before, I had no choice but to touch the number.

└ [Gold Family Kumssi Sibling Fanatic]

(Spoiler warning) There’s a somewhat interesting character. Honestly, they have absolutely nothing to do with the female or male lead’s actions, but somehow they keep delivering satisfying moments one after another, you know?

Sometimes the female lead is so kind that it gets frustrating, to the point where you wonder if she even has a brain. But watching this character makes me feel a little better.

That said, like I mentioned, they never meet the female or male lead……

I think they might become an ally who helps the female lead later on.

A crazy dog who bites all the bad guys. Total girl-crush material. Whew.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they were the protagonist, but if that happened, the genre would change completely, so it’s a little disappointing.

└ [Please Look at Evil Baeksu ㅠㅠ]

Oh my, I see you here too, Fanatic. How many ongoing series are you reading anyway?

But the contents were different from what I remembered.

I clearly remembered the god called Gold Family calling me a “sweet potato villain.”

Could they have been referring to someone other than me?

Then I saw the name “Lovely” in the following conversation and realized it was me.

‘The contents changed? Why?’

And why were they acting as if they were seeing this for the first time when they had watched that horrible ending together with me?

I couldn’t understand it.

Even though I couldn’t understand it, I realized that what I had experienced was not simply a nightmare. So I decided to start by getting rid of the useless trash in my life.

“Oppa.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“I want you to go somewhere with me. It would be nice if your friends…… I mean, your fellow knights, came along too.”

I spoke with a bright smile to the second idiot of our family, who was the most reliable person when I needed something like this done.

Perhaps he thought I wanted to go somewhere alone with him, because he smiled brightly at first when I asked him to go somewhere with me, but his face fell when I told him to bring his friends too.

“Them too? Why? Can’t I just go with you?”

“Yeah. It’s a place where it’s better to have a lot of people with us. Will it be difficult?”

“Well, I can ask them, but…… I don’t really want to. What if they see our cutie and fall for her and start bothering her?”

The second idiot was acting all cute despite his huge body.

But when I asked him again, he eventually raised his hand as if he had no choice.

“Fine…… If our cutie wants it, I have to do it. But where are you planning to go?”

“Um, the Imperial Capital.”

“The Imperial Capital? Are you planning to meet that Pedro guy?”

“Hmm, something like that.”

He wondered why I wanted to bring the knights along to meet Pedro, but when I told him I was going to show them something interesting, his face filled with anticipation.

After setting a date, I went up to the Imperial Capital on the appointed day. My brother, who had finished work that day, was waiting for me with his colleagues.

“Lovely! You worked hard coming all this way.”

“What do you mean, worked hard……? I was just playing around in the territory and then used the teleportation gate to come here.”

“You must have had a hard time walking all the way here on those tiny little feet!”

“Ugh. You crazy bastard…….”

One of his colleagues snickered and cursed at him after hearing my brother’s shameless praise.

It wasn’t really malicious. It was just the kind of swearing that came from affection between friends.

As I had requested, my brother had gathered as many people as possible.

There were nearly thirty of them, so it seemed like he had brought the entire knight order he belonged to.

Some of them were people I had never seen before, while others were familiar faces I had known for a long time.

“Hello, Lovely. So what are you planning to do today that you gathered so many people?”

“Just…… I wanted to show you something interesting.”

Everyone tilted their heads, apparently wondering if I was going to take them to see a play.

Some of them seemed reluctant, perhaps because they had no interest in plays, but when I told them they wouldn’t regret coming, they followed me with doubtful expressions.

‘Right. What could possibly be more stimulating and entertaining than an affair?’

I planned to make all of them witnesses to Pedro’s infidelity.

We headed to the house of Yoanna, Pedro’s mistress who had given birth to his illegitimate child.

According to the servant I had planted in the townhouse, Pedro had said he was going to spend the night at the knights’ quarters today.

‘As if.’

Pedro was obsessed with luxury despite his status. Rather than sleep in a shared accommodation where he had to live with others, he would choose to crawl all the way back to the townhouse.

If he was using the knights as an excuse, there could only be one reason.

It had already been quite some time since he finished work. Had they perhaps already gotten down to business by now?

I estimated the timing for a moment before turning to my brother with a smile.

“Oppa.”

“Hmm? Why?”

“Could you break down this door?”

“Huh?”

My brother looked quite flustered by the sudden request.

And understandably so. The building in front of us looked like an ordinary family home.

As a knight, he couldn’t exactly bully an ordinary person who wasn’t even a criminal, so he looked troubled.

I made a sad face.

“Can’t you? I guess you can’t……”

“Ah, ah…… Lovely…….”

“If you can’t, well, there’s nothing I can do. I’ll have to do it myself.”

“……What?”

I pulled out a small hand axe.

I had brought it with me from the territory.

My brother was flustered, while his friends looked at the two of us with great interest.

They didn’t know what was going on, but it already seemed like it was going to be fun.

“I-I’ll do it. Just…… You could get hurt if you swing something like that carelessly.”

Worried that I might hurt myself by swinging a hand axe when I had never done anything like this before, my brother made a troubled face and took the tool from my hand.

However, he didn’t seem to have any intention of chopping the door with it.

Instead, he raised one leg and kicked the door hard with the sole of his foot.

The wooden door was easily torn apart like a sheet of paper under the kick of a trained knight.

“Aah!”

“W-What is going on?!”

“……That voice?”

My brother, who had broken down the door with a guilty expression, froze when he heard a familiar voice from inside.

The colleagues who had followed him also looked at one another with expressions that seemed to say, “Huh?”

He kicked the remaining pieces of the door and completely broke them apart, revealing everything inside.

Startled by the sudden intrusion, the woman covered herself with a sheet, while the man hurriedly pulled up his pants.

Then he stared blankly at the familiar faces before him.

“Lo-Lovely?”

“……Pedro Sachsen! You crazy bastard, how dare you!”

No matter how much of an idiot my second brother was, there was no way he couldn’t understand this situation.

What else could a half-naked man and woman possibly be doing together on a bed?

Playing doctor?

My second brother charged at Pedro like lightning and beat him senseless.

Pedro couldn’t even fight back, or even properly defend himself.

Considering the enormous difference in their builds, it was only natural.