Chapter 02
Chapter 02
Translator : Missme
Editor : Aru
‘Not only I possessed someone, but I did it inside a novel? I possessed a character inside a novel?’
I was in shock for quite a while because of this incredible fact.
It was shocking enough just to be possessed by someone else’s body, but the reason why it was so shocking is that I literally possessed a body in a book world.
‘Why, in the book…….’
As soon as I questioned it, I remembered what I had thought, just before I died.
‘I haven’t even read the end…….’
Don’t tell me, because it was too unfortunate for me to not read the end, so I possessed the body inside the book?
It felt strange to think that what I thought with certainty just before I died might have brought this effect.
‘Well that might be the case, but it’s not….….’
I was delighted to read the novel because it was fiction. But I didn’t want the novel to be my reality.
Above all, there was a reason why it was difficult if this place was really a world in a novel.
The novel I read, <The Flower of Elphida>, was a romance ‘fantasy’ genre.
So that means there is a status system, unrealistic powers and sacred power exist, and beast animals and even monsters exist in this world.
‘So what I’m saying is, how am I supposed to live here?’
The thought of living in a world so different from the one I used to live in made me feel apprehensive.
At that time, when I was just stamping my feet because of something I didn’t want to believe,
Knock knock—
“Lena, are you in there?”
Beyond the closed door, I heard a strange female voice.
I couldn’t answer because I was so uneasy. Then the door opened and a woman with red hair came in.
“Here you are. Come on out! We have to perform!”
“Performance? What………”
“What? Is this your new concept, to pretend you don’t know anything?”
“Pardon me?”
“And what’s with the honorifics? No, we’re busy right now, so let’s talk about this later.”
The woman pushed me on my back to make me move fast. Even at the moment, I thought ‘Huh?’ I was still being pushed around.
When I came to my senses, I was at the backstage already.
‘What’s happening right now?’
The curtain rose during my confusion.
A man I had never seen before, wearing a uniform and a sword at his waist, was talking to himself.
While I was blankly watching the stage, the woman who first brought me pushed me against my back again.
“What are you doing? It’s your turn!”
“Wa, wait…!”
“Wait!? Just get out, quick!”
As I felt before, the force of the red-haired woman pushing was powerful.
I ended up out of the stage, unable to beat the woman’s force.
The first thing I saw was the dazzling lights and a lot of people.
As I was staring blankly at the audience, a man who was speaking alone on the stage approached me.
“Sarah, you are beautiful today as well.”
The man’s voice rang out as if he were using a microphone. But more than that, I was surprised at the thought that came to my mind.
‘Next is the scene where I greet him.’
What? How do I know this?
All the man’s lines were very familiar to me. It feels like I’ve seen it somewhere before……… isn’t it the line from the play script I saw earlier?
Only then did I know why the script was lying in this woman’s room and why the woman with rose-coloured hair said it was my turn.
Nevertheless, the situation was so sudden that I was so uneasy that I could only blink my eyes. The man knelt before me and reached out to me.
“Because of your beauty, I have to kneel down again today. Please say hello to me, my lady.”
At that moment, I don’t know how but I realized what a man was saying was ad-lib.
One after another, the man rushed me with a glance as if he was saying ‘get your act together and say the next line’.
‘Come to think of it, this is a stage.’
When I realized the situation, I felt a sense of duty that I couldn’t ruin the stage.
“Please get up, Sir.”
When I opened my mouth, my voice rang out loud on the stage. I was slightly surprised by it, but I continued my lines.
“No matter how tremendous my beauty is, it’s not worth you kneeling, Sir.”
“If it’s for you, I could kneel down anytime.”
My ad-lib was followed by the man’s ad-lib.
‘He has a lot of stage experience.’
After that, the man naturally led me to the stage.
The problem was next.
I said something unexpected, but I didn’t know what to do with the next line.
But that worry was unnecessary. The lines came to my mind just as they did when I first came out on stage.
The problem is that the man rarely hands over the turn to me.
He’s not completely ignoring me at all. However, my patience was gradually decreasing in his behaviour, giving me a chance only when a relatively short line came out.
I’d appreciate the man’s behaviour if I didn’t know any lines or had no stage experience. Unfortunately, the man’s attitude didn’t look good to me.
Eventually, it was my turn to speak lines again.
‘This time, this man will do everything by himself again. Even my share.’
Sure enough, he acted as I expected.
‘I can’t stay still.’
I retrace the contents of the play script. Although the lines came to my mind, mostly lines come to mind right before the scene happening.
To change this situation, I had to remember the play script I read earlier.
Fortunately, the current situation was where I read the script earlier.
And the part that comes after this………
‘This is the scene where Valer stops by Sarah’s house for a while and then goes back.’
Here I had to take care of Valer’s cloak that he almost left on the hanger. That’s the role of Sarah, my character.
However, if this continues, this man will take the cloak by himself, so I had to move.
I only waited when the man showed a gap. It was when the man who was leading the stage alone stopped talking because he was tired.
‘Now is the time!’
Seizing the opportunity, I quickly picked up the cloak hanging on the hanger.
I could feel the man panicking, but this was just the beginning.
“Wait, Valer, you forgot this.”
“Uh………”
The man only flared his lips as if he didn’t know that I was going to recite the lines.
In an instant, the situation turned over and I recited the lines with a smile.
“You left it last time when you came here. It’s nice to see you again, but when I think about the people who are waiting for you, it’s right to think about them, too. So go ahead.”
The first time was obviously ad-libbing, but the latter was the line written in the play script.
The man’s eyes grew bigger when he realized that. However, he regained his poker face and got his turn.
And this time I was the one who recited the man’s line.
The way the man looked at me changed after a few repetitions.
‘You’re pretty good, huh?’
The man’s eyes seemed to say so.
No longer did the man dominate the stage alone.
Having completely relieved his worries about me, he gave me a chance, and I was willing to live up to that expectation.
As a result, the play succeeded. There were several difficulties in the middle, but at that time, the man led me well and I was able to finish it safely.
Clap, clap, clap!
When I bent down, applause flowed.
The sound made me smile.
“Haaa…….haaa………..”
I was out of breath because I moved my body for quite a long time and talked constantly, but I smiled and continued to greet the audience.
The curtain is completely closed. It wasn’t until I couldn’t see the audience that I could straighten my waist.
“Here, take it. Do you want some water?”
The red-haired woman I saw before approached me and asked, handing me a towel.
When I nod my head, she gives me a cup.
After drinking water, I feel alive again.
“What’s going on with you today?”
“What?”
“You read the lines perfectly! Besides, you had a really colourful face. Did you fix your stage fright?”
Stage fright…?
“I know right, even at first, I thought it would be the same as usual because you couldn’t recite the lines properly.”
The man who worked together on the stage sneaked into the conversation.
“But I was surprised that you suddenly added some adlib in the middle and skillfully acted. I don’t know how you overcame it, but it’s great.”
I was a little taken aback.
‘So the man’s first ad-lib was because it’s always been like that?’
Only then did I understand the reaction of a man who was surprised whenever I did something on the stage.
How surprised he must have been to see a person who he thought had stage fright to recite the lines and act.
But I was surprised too.
‘This woman has stage fright but still became the lead actor?’
The lead actor is the most prominent role in the play.
So it’s given that the lead actor should have a proper acting ability, so wouldn’t that reason only make this woman don’t meet the standard of being one?
I was just trying to ask how this could be done when the sound of rushing footsteps resonated. The owner of the footsteps was a brown-haired man. This is also my first time seeing the man.
“Lena, Viscount Casaro is looking for you!”
The man who came upon the stage shouted in a loud voice.
‘Who is he calling? Is it me or the girl next to me?’
I tilted my head and the man beckoned to me with a face full of annoyance.
“What are you doing there? Come, hurry.”
Me? Me?
At the same time, the woman next to me tapped me on the shoulder.
“Come on, go to Bill. He said the Viscount was looking for you.”
So I am Lena?
I didn’t know anything, so I was confused. It was fortunate to hear that it is my name now, but I was a little scared.
Because I don’t know when I’ll be found out.
Shouldn’t I just have confessed everything from the beginning? Saying that I’m a different person from the Lena they know?
Although I regretted that I didn’t confess, on the one hand, I thought I was fortunate that I didn’t do it.
Because they would have treated me like a crazy person.
Even I wasn’t able to believe it, so who would believe me?
‘There’s no point in pretending to have memory loss right now.’
Because I finished our performance without any problems.
At this point, I sighed at the thought that whatever I do, it was already too late.
Still, the red-haired woman I saw earlier or the man I acted with on stage didn’t seem to be bad people, so I don’t think there’s anything dangerous………right?
I tried to cheer myself up. And it was when I was following the man, I think his name is Bill, who called my name for the first time.
“Oh, Lena!”
When I raised my head to the voice calling for me, a huge bouquet of roses, big enough to cover my sight, fell into my arms.
“Today’s performance was great, too! As expected, Miss Lena!”
“Oh, thank you……….”
I tried to greet him reflexively, but I hardened.
Because of someone’s hand on my waist.
‘What?’
When I looked next to me while holding a bouquet of flowers, I saw a middle-aged man standing for the first time. Short enough for me to look down on that, too.
“What’s wrong?”
“Excuse me, hand………”
“Huh? Hands?”
“Why your hand on my waist…….”
“Why? We’ve always been doing this.”
He said we’ve always been like this? Could it be that this woman had a ‘lover relationship with this uncle?
Of course, there are people with various tastes in the world, but I’m not! I don’t have the same taste as the previous owner of this body.
No, how could you……with an uncle like this?
While I was confused, the man kept his hands at my waist.
“By the way, Miss Lena is really like my daughter. So pretty.”
Daughter? Oh, of course. It can’t be a romantic relationship with a middle-aged man like this.
I guess he’s just some audience member who wants to deliver a bouquet of congratulations.
Just as I thought so.
“You know what I mean, right? So today is a bit more……….”
The man’s hand went further down.
And as soon as I realized where the man was touching, my head turned white with rage and my body moved reflexively.
And just like that, I kicked the uncle.
“Hey, you molester!”
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