Chapter 58 Doubts

The Griffin family, the Rosenberg family, and the Lovett family. In the Zenith kingdom, these three families sit at the top of the noble hierarchy.

These families are the ones with the most power in their hands after the king and the royal family itself. This system was designed to prevent law and order in case of emergency if the royal family gets attacked by other countries.

If that or a situation similar to it ever occurred then the three families can work together and take control of the constitution of this kingdom until the next king is selected or the state of emergency is sorted out.

That was a vague explanation I guess. Anyway, verbal information doesn't matter much as I have the real thing here.

Right now the girl on whom my eyes are set, one who's right in front of me, is the heiress of the Rosenberg family.

She had sleek waist lengthed red hair that covered her back like a cape and her deep brown eyes had a slight glow in them. Her face was small but not too small, the perfect size you can say. She wore a little bit of makeup but maybe it's just my imagination.

Overall, the girl had a statuesque aura around her.

She was Ellyn Rosenberg, the heiress of the Rosenberg family and the person I was looking for.

In the novel, she was the first person to date Leon, and remember, I said first to date, not the first to get in bed with him.

I was looking for her because of two reasons. The first is to meet another character from the novel and confirm whether this world is really the same as the novel.

Though I think that doubt is cleared now since she is standing right in front of me and her looks are the same as what was described in the novel.

And the second reason is…

"Zero? When did you come here?"

Followed by this question someone's hand patted me on my right shoulder. I turned back to see who it is and there before me, stood Anya. With a bit of confused expression on her face.

She was right though. There is quite a distance between classes A and B so I shouldn't be here.

"Oh! I came to see, you know. In the morning when you tried to talk to me I kind of…brushed you off. Sorry about that, I was not in the right mood," I apologized.

Listening to my reply her expression relaxed. "So that's what it's about. It's okay though. You don't have to feel bad over silly things like that."

"Anyway, how was your first class?" I asked as we walked together toward the dorms.

Neither of us suggested this but since our classes were over and both of us were headed toward the dorms. There was no reason to not walk together.

"Hmm, I think it was fine. They didn't really teach anything today, the most we did was introduce ourselves to each other, and the teacher measured our ranks…Oh! and we also learned about how this academy was formed."

It seems every class was handled in the same way. Here I don't have much information on what exactly is taught in this academy because in the novel, mostly everything was explained except what the classes are about.

I have to wait and find that out in real-time.

***

It was around noon. After escorting Anya to the dorms I went back to the main building and looked for Ellyn again.

Fortunately, I found her soon as she was surrounded by a group of girls. Then I spend the next couple of hours stalking her while keeping my distance.

I wanted to be completely sure if she is the same Ellyn I know and for that, I had to know her routine as well.

From what I observed, most of the time she was never alone and had a group of girls around her; when one group left the other came.

Because of her being from the Rosenberg family she had many admirers who looked up to her like she was a celebrity of some sort.

'Being from a famous family comes with its own set of problems I guess.'

Truly, spending all day surrounded by a bunch of people you barely know must've been exhausting.

In the end, it was dusk when she was finally free and had some alone time; though she went to her room in the dorms right after that.

The result of my stalking; she and the Ellyn I know from the novel…are the same person.

***

Lying on my bed I was staring at the ceiling above me. My mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts and emotions.

I felt extremely stuffed and empty at the same time.

What is this feeling? I don't know. It's like I have everything I want, everything I wanted to have but the next moment I have nothing.

The realization that I am inside a novel left me stunned. I was like this since the opening ceremony; I barely kept my cool all day because I didn't want to break the "normal guy" part.

…But now that I'm alone.

"Fuck! Why me? Why the fuck only me?" I slammed the bed and cursed out loud.

Why was I in a fucking novel? I thought I'm reincarnated in a new world where I can live a new life, live the life I wanted to live. The life I couldn't have in my former world.

I got parents who loved me-no, the parents whom I loved, and a sister who I cared for. I was finally living my life as any normal boy should have.

And now you're telling me they're just characters of some fucking clichéd novel written by a motherfucker who's so obsessed with lolis that he divided 'lollipop' into 'loli_pop'!

Everything I did was fake? Am I truly inside a novel?

All the interaction I made, all the moments I spent…is some bastard reading and enjoying all that?

"If I'm inside a novel then it must also mean that the personality of the people I met was pre-programmed, how they'll behave was already decided!"

…

Then a thought struck me. A thing I was missing, a thing I ignored due to the shock of being inside a novel.

…

"There personalities are pre-programmed? How can that be possible? If I remember correctly, which I do, then Anya's parents were never mentioned in the novel. If they were not mentioned then how can they be pre-programmed?"

Leave my parents; there are a bunch of people I met who never even appeared in the novel.

That can't be possible if I'm inside a novel, right? The people who were never mentioned, shouldn't exist in the first place? But they do, how?

There was only one way to explain this, only one theory. A theory that can make sense.

It's the theory of parallel universes.

According to the parallel universe theory, every possibility can have its own universe. Each and everything is possible. A world you think and daydream about can be real in a form of a parallel universe.

For example, say you wore a red shirt today but you wore it in this universe. In some other universe, you could have worn green, or yellow in a different one, or blue in another.

If I apply that theory here then it just means I'm not inside that novel, but I'm in a world that's based on that novel. The things mentioned in the novel are here but the things that didn't exist are here as well.

The people who were not in the novel are here because without them this world can't practically function. Like only the name of Anya's parents was mentioned in the novel, they were never shown in person. They didn't exist there.

But it was only because it was fiction, not reality. This world, however, is real. And in the real world, Anya can't exist if her parents aren't there to marry each other and give birth to her. They exist because Anya can't exist without them.

And when they came into existence due to this very reason, they developed personalities of their own. Original personalities that have nothing to do with the novel.

The same goes for every other person in this world who was not in the novel. They exist because the world can't function without them. Like a machine can't function until all of its parts are there.

This is it!

'This is no fake world. This is real, I am real, my parents, Anya, they are real!'

"Sigh! I was worrying over nothing," I sighed as I hopped off my bed.

Now that this misunderstanding is clear, I can focus on what to do next.

In a month or so, I'm going to die, or rather I'm supposed to die until I don't interfere and change the storyline.

'And there's no second thought about it…I'm gonna fucking do it! After all, it's not every day you found yourself in another world, in fact in a world where you already know what's going to happen. How can I miss this opportunity?'

My doubts were clear now. It was time to set things in motion.