Chapter 2: Possession (2)

.Yellow hair and black eyes. A young woman who looked about 20 years old was in front of me.

At first, I thought another person had come into the bathroom.

But it wasn’t.

“No… this doesn’t make sense.”

I repeatedly slapped my cheeks.

My white cheeks turned red. It hurt. Still, I couldn’t stop.

“It’s not. Hey. It’s a dream. Wake up! Damn it!”

Slap!

It didn’t break.

Why?

Because it was reality.

My lips burst and I tasted the fishy taste of blood. Now I had to admit it.

This ridiculous situation where I became a woman was real.

“Whew. Whew. Let’s calm down first.”

I calmed my excitement with a few deep breaths. And I started to calmly grasp the situation.

“First of all, I need to know which novel I’ve possessed.”

It’s definitely possession. Otherwise, there’s no way my spirit would be in a woman’s body.

The important thing is the genre of the novel I possessed.

If it’s a dark fantasy full of despair and death, I’ll have to rack my brains to survive.

On the other hand, if it’s a healing story about farming, I can just enjoy this life. At least it would be better than my previous life where my debt was over a hundred million.

Figuring out the worldview was surprisingly easy.

The name of the emperor was written in the newspaper on the desk.

[Bahamut Antonio.]

“Haha. Crazy.”

There’s only one novel where the name Bahamut Antonio appears.

The romance fantasy novel I was reading so hard until just now.

[I Devoured the Empire.]

“I’m going crazy. Why did I have to possess a character here?”

‘I Devoured the Empire’ is basically a world where a demon king exists.

In the progress of the story, there have been two major clashes between the demon king and mankind.

Not only that, the current emperor’s authority is so weak that the princes below him start a civil war to become emperor.

If you classify it broadly, there’s the demon king and the civil war. These two are the biggest risk factors.

I almost lost my mind for a moment, but I held on tightly, remembering that even if you’re caught in a tiger’s den, you can survive if you keep your wits about you.

“Then what should I do? Once the 2nd and 3rd princes start moving, it’s already too late.”

When the civil war breaks out, there’s nothing I, a commoner, can do.

To survive, I have to run far away somehow.

If I’m unlucky, I could die from a stray arrow.

As with most possession stories, my situation wasn’t very good.

“Usually in these cases, the possessed person takes all the opportunities and solves the problem. Honestly, I don’t want to do that.”

I have everything in my head: where the opportunities are, and how to become strong.

If I wanted to become strong, I could definitely become strong.

But I didn’t want to because I knew the process.

Moreover, most of those opportunities belong to the hero, so the moment I get involved, I have to do the hero’s work instead.

In other words, I have to fight the demon king.

“Wait. Isn’t the demon king defeated by the hero and his party working together? Then there’s no reason to steal the hero’s opportunities, is there? What if I show off and lose to the demon king?”

If the hero loses to the demon king, you can just assume it’s over.

The thought of the demon king that appeared in the work ruling the continent sent shivers down my spine.

“It’s unfair that I possessed a character in the novel in the first place, so I don’t need to suffer here. Is there…is there no way to live a normal life?”

I thought hard.

Because my survival was directly connected, my head was spinning quite fast.

At the moment when I was deriving various methods and matching them to various situations, a brilliant idea came to mind.

“Right! Do I really need to take the lead and work hard? I can just stay quietly next to the female lead.”

Anyway, the end of the story will be Emily’s usurpation of the throne.

If she eventually becomes the owner of this empire, all I have to do is stick close to her. It would be even better if we become friends.

Who knows?

Maybe some crumbs will fall my way.

“Hmm. Okay. But how do I approach her?”

I checked the dial.

Today is December 19, 1344 in the solar calendar.

“1344, it’s before the Duchy of Muelia falls.”

The motive that makes an ordinary girl walk the path of revenge is the fall of the Duchy of Muelia.

The imperial family is behind it, so she made that choice.

It’s actually better this way.

Once it falls, there’s almost no way to contact her, so now is the chance to make contact.

“Come to think of it, there are a few ways to enter the duchy.”

I got up from the chair and changed my clothes.

The clothes I’m wearing now are loose cotton t-shirt pajamas. Honestly, I feel weird even now that I’m taking off my clothes.

Until recently, if I had seen this face and this body, I would have been excited.

Her face was pretty enough to slap the average celebrity, and her body was good.

But now that I’m in this body, I don’t feel anything.

It’s just that the unfamiliar woman’s body and the man’s identity are colliding, causing awkwardness.

When I took off my pants, it was empty below. I always had it, so I didn’t feel its preciousness, but now that it’s gone, the sense of loss was considerable.

“I never thought I’d become impotent.”

Not just that there was a problem down there, but I became a woman altogether.

“But why did I have to possess a female character? Half of the world is men.”

If it’s because the protagonist of a romance fantasy is a woman, it makes sense to possess the female lead.

But this body I possessed is just an extra 1 with no influence on the story.

“Her name was…Rachel. The name is pretty.”

It’s information I got from the dial. But no matter how much I think about it, the name Rachel never appeared in the story.

“This should be pretty harmless, right?”

I roughly wore comfortable black pants and a white cotton t-shirt. It’s winter, so I put on the coat hanging on the hanger.

Then I went outside.

I opened the door, and a strange world unfolded when I took a step out.

The clothes people were wearing, the hair and eyes dyed in various colors, the style of the buildings, etc. Everything was new.

There were no high-rise buildings that you can see often when you pass through the city.

Instead, it was full of low-rise buildings, creating an overall comfortable and free atmosphere.

“To find a job, I have to go to the job guild, but where is the job guild?”

First, I went to the square.

There was a sign there showing where everything was, and I followed it to the job guild.

A job guild is literally a place where you can find a job. It would be nice if there was something like the internet, but the worldview itself is medieval.

Even if magic is developed, it’s not that advanced.

“Welcome.”

Inside the job guild, it was crowded with people of various ages.

There were not only old people who looked like they were going to die tomorrow, but also kids who were only about 15 years old.

The aftermath of the war with the demon king lasted for so long that it affected society as a whole.

In modern terms, it’s right after the war.

I passed them and scanned the bulletin board.

[Hola’s apple farm, 1 year of work].

[Looking for a cleaner in charge of Arbelin.].

[Goblin hunter in the western mountains. Additional points for professionals.].

[Lord’s artifact repair technician].

“They must be hiring at the duchy too.”

Because it’s such a huge place, there are many people working for the duchy.

That’s why the duchy posts many job postings every year.

But because of the timing, I couldn’t see the notice.

“This is not good.”

Job postings for noble families usually solve everything at the end of each year, in November. They need to give time to adjust to the work.

At that time, the job guild employee added a few more postings. I hurriedly checked the latest postings.

Among them, there was one posting related to Muelia.

“Whew. Thank goodness.”

[Librarian of the Grand Duchy of Muelia.]

Client: Grand Duchy of Muelia.

Work: Basic work as a librarian. Organize books, place orders for desired books, etc.

Position: Librarian of the library.

Salary: 12 gold coins.

Screening: In-person interview.

Location: Library of the Muelia family.

Date: December 26th.

“Oh, a librarian. It’s a bit of a waste.”

The best thing in this situation is a maid. A maid who can stay by Emily’s side.

There, while serving her, I can even become her exclusive maid.

At least with her personality that I know, there’s no way I’ll be bullied at work, so it’s the best condition.

But since there’s only a librarian now, I decided to go with this.

“The problem is that there are many other applicants besides me… It doesn’t matter. It’s good that there’s no first document screening.”

If the first screening was a document screening, I would have been eliminated in the first round.

A 20-year-old with no experience is not a good choice for an employer.

Instead, I was confident in the interview.

I’ve been interviewing for part-time jobs since high school, so how many have I done?

Of course, you shouldn’t compare the duchy’s interview to a part-time job interview, but it’s still an interview.

As long as I don’t get nervous and stumble, it should be fine.

I wrote the application and gave it to the employee.

“Are you really applying for the librarian job at the Grand Duchy of Muelia?”

“Yes.”

“Then you need to fill out this consent form as well.”

The paper given by the employee was [Death Awareness Consent Form].

It’s a consent form that says that the job chosen by the user in the job guild is sufficiently dangerous.

If you don’t get this consent form even when you’re doing dangerous work, a penalty is imposed on the job guild.

The reason why the employee handed over the consent form now is all because the target is a noble.

There are often cases where people are executed for insulting a noble while working with them.

From my perspective, who lived in a 21st-century rule-of-law country, it’s quite a scary object.

But I didn’t really care.

I know better than anyone what kind of place Muelia is, so as long as I don’t do anything weird, I won’t be executed.