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Be careful of the dragon.

I quietly cursed at the unexpected answer in this urgent situation.

“You’re talking about crocheting with dragon nose hair. What dragon in this situation!”

I roughly closed the book and shoved it into my bag.

It was hopeless. Should I go back to the Teheran Forest jurisdiction? It would take a long time, but should I still return?

Since it’s a much wealthier place than the Prongsis territory, they might be able to dispatch a knightly order to rescue Aaron.

I stood up and started running.

“Aaron Crimson, you idiot!”

Aaron is a civilian, can he hold out until I get there?

“This is so annoying.”

It’s because of me. I felt like I had unnecessarily dragged Aaron into this.

Because I was so immersed in roleplaying as the closest confidant of the male protagonist, poor innocent Aaron…

I clenched my fist and moved forward.

But the sky, which had been clear until just now, suddenly darkened as if some strange weather phenomenon had occurred.

And a dark blue mist began to creep in front of my eyes.

“…What’s this?”

It was very strange.

The weather changes this dramatically? And right after I decided to go to the Teheran jurisdiction instead of Prongsis?

“Are you playing with me right now?”

As the fog grew thicker with time, I couldn’t help but take a step back.

‘No, even if it’s an R-rated depressing romance fantasy, it’s still supposed to be a romance fantasy! This is just a thriller!’

I was gasping for breath. What was happening to me was similar to ‘that’ scene often seen in horror movies.

You know, when the fog gets thick, and something like a hand pops out from it…

“…!”

I couldn’t even scream.

Something grabbed my arm and yanked me back hard.

I struggled like crazy.

‘See, it is a thriller!’

I opened my mouth to scream, but something covered it.

I looked down to see what was covering my mouth.

My whole body was shaking violently.

‘A blue, translucent hand.’

Moreover, this ‘something’ in the shape of a hand was squishy like jelly.

I felt my brain tingling with fear.

“Mmph! Mmmmmph!”

I struggled frantically. But far from breaking free from its grasp, I only felt like I was being sucked in somewhere.

Is it another monster?

Am I going to die like this? I can’t.

For a moment, Calix’s face flashed in my mind.

What, am I hoping he’d come running to save me instead of work?

That was impossible, logically speaking.

Instead, I fumbled in my bag and pulled out the dagger Calix had given me as a gift.

Then I stabbed the hand that was holding me.

“Huk!”

With a sickening squelch, the hand released its grip, and with the recoil, I fell face-first onto the ground.

My knees were scraped and bleeding from the dirt.I crouched on the street, roughly brushing off the dirt stuck to my knees, and quickly scanned my surroundings.

And I sighed.

“Where… is this place-!”

It looked like some ancient Egyptian civilization ruins.

Emerald-colored walls covered in dense metaphysical patterns lined the road.

“This is driving me crazy, damn it.”

It seemed like I had been dragged somewhere.

The trees that had been densely packed along the road had disappeared, and right in front was a completely paved road.

It felt like a completely different space, not the forest I was in just moments ago.

I took out the diary from my bag again and threw it on the ground.

“Just rambling on about useless dragons. I don’t need you anymore, you piece of environmental trash.”

Now I was beyond annoyed; I was angry.

It’s all because of the diary.

The fact that I opened my eyes in this cursed world, that I’m trapped in Rose’s body unable to die.

“Why me? Why the hell does it have to be me!”

I shouted at the top of my lungs into the empty air. It’s not like anyone else is here anyway.

“Everything’s ruined. Because I got dragged here, my dreams, my future, everything is ruined!”

I stomped on the diary cover with all my might.

“Send me back, you bastard.”

I tried to hold it in, but unbidden tears spilled down my cheeks.

My mood plummeted into darkness.

I needed to save Aaron and find the temple of the so-called Goddess of Fate, but I had fallen into some strange place.

It didn’t even look like the Teheran Forest where I had been.

‘They said there were no monsters in this forest. What a load of bull.’

I sat down right there and bawled my eyes out.

I felt so wronged and miserable.

“I don’t want to die yet!”

I missed my mom and dad. My grandmother, my friends, even our hotel manager who was rumored to be a devil!

I tried to wipe away my tears, but they kept gushing out, making it impossible to see anything.

The dirt-covered diary still showed no reaction. I was the only one confused and wronged.

No matter how hard I work, my reality doesn’t change.

I am dead.

There is no more ‘me’.

Just a lost ghost occupying Rose Estanya’s body.

In the end, I might as well have died reading that damn novel at the crosswalk.

It was a memory I had been trying to avoid.

I thought about just cleanly accepting death, but I didn’t want that either.

I never imagined I’d come to understand the feelings of ghosts in horror movies.

I jumped to my feet and kicked the diary away.

“Say something after all this! Stop talking about that damn dragon!”

The diary fell face down on the empty ground with a thud.

I clenched my fists and huffed.

I thought I was quite a rational person, but I wasn’t.

Usually, I just read the room around other people.

Because at the imperial palace, I had to be thoroughly Rose Estanya.

“Damn it.”

In the end, I sighed and picked up the diary, putting it back in my bag.

This wasn’t the time for this. I had to get out of here.

“Let’s be rational. Please.”

I felt like I was going crazy, but I forced myself forward, clutching my head.

But as I followed the path on the ground, I was gripped by an odd sense of fear.

This place looked like one giant structure.

Excessively ornate outer walls in contrast to the damp and eerie weather.

A space where not a single sign of life could be felt.

It was just like an abandoned temple from a game.

Moreover, neither Calix, nor Ruel, nor Aaron were by my side now.

‘Surely I’m not trapped, right?’

This is a world where magic exists.

I’ve already been through a possession, so what’s a dimensional shift?

“Ah, this is really driving me crazy.”

I closed my eyes tightly and opened them again. They say even if you’re trapped in a tiger’s den, you can survive if you keep your wits about you.

For now, there seemed to be only one rational option.

Just follow the path that stretched out before me.

“Surely there won’t be any monsters.”

I looked around quickly.

Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be even an ant, let alone monsters.

‘Though I’m not sure if that’s really fortunate.’

Had I been walking for about 10 minutes?

“Crazy.”

A laugh escaped me out of disbelief.

What lay before my eyes was a broken, massive golden door.

Through the gap in the door, I could see an empty corridor lined with emerald-colored streetlights.

‘Could this be Isis’s temple?’

A massive building that looked like a palace.

The diary had clearly stated that the temple of Isis, the Goddess of Fate, was hidden somewhere in the Teheran Forest.

I rummaged through my bag and took out the diary again.

And glared at the cover.

Could it be that the undead monster that appeared earlier, and the strange blue hand that grabbed me, were all part of the diary’s plan? I carefully opened the diary in front of what I assumed to be the temple’s main gate.

Only the chosen one can find the Temple of Fate.

The chosen one. That’s what the elf in Desart had told me.

“I want to return that choice right now, so just tell me how to get out of here.”

In response to my words, the diary glowed golden, and began to write new sentences.

Mr. Mellory said.

The Goddess of Fate is perfectly neutral.

Even if she is a servant of Morisias, fate must exist independently.

Therefore, no other absolute being can enter this temple.

It is forbidden to see fate.

That’s when it happened.

As soon as the sentence ended, the book began to shake violently, and soon the letters started to jumble up randomly.

Normally, I would have fainted and screamed, but not anymore.

The vaccine is installed and the system is operating normally.

Familiar Korean text appeared in the diary.