Chapter 109: Romance of the Black-Haired Lady (1)

Early in the morning, I woke up as the warm morning sun tickled my face. Even though I rarely felt that waking up this way was the best way to be woken up, at this moment, I found it to be quite refreshing.

Anyone would agree with me if the first thing they saw right after waking up was Seol Jungyeon's face.

She was sleeping peacefully in my embrace. Her arms were wrapped around my neck in case I ran away.

We had a long talk last night. I revealed that I was actually a dimensional traveler, and even now, I was still doing it. She also told me about her tragic childhood. It was such a simple story, she told me about the time she ate bread for the first time when she was a few years old, and she was so happy about it. Or a day when she was so sad because she was starving on a cold snowy day. However, despite sharing such trivial stories, Seol was happy.

Basically, her life was full of loneliness. She even told me that she was very lonely last night. So after hearing her story, I couldn’t bring myself to wake her up.

I had no choice but to lie down and spend some time looking at her face.

It wasn't boring. She looked different with every change in the way the sunlight hit her face. Every moment, her charm seemed to change. I could say that she had a ‘thousand faces'. 

‘Oh yeah. Sorry. I was busy last night.’

Somehow, the system's voice seemed to be slightly on the edge. Was it because I did something else instead of listening to her request? Now I feel guilty.

‘Is it that urgent?'

According to her words, something seems to have happened in the world of 『The Romance of The Black-Haired Saintess』. But to be honest, except for the fact that it was a world with a ‘romantic fantasy’ genre, I don’t know anything else.

I haven't been to a world with the ‘romance fantasy' genre yet, and I hoped that there wouldn’t be more of these in the future. I haven’t been able to study the genre at all, so the basic difficulty itself would be quite high.

Anyway, I would have to do a lot of preparation.

But.

I slowly lowered my gaze. Seol was still asleep without any intention of waking up. I, too, couldn't wake her up.

Just a little bit more, until she wakes up.

‘Let’s take a break for a while.'

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“Let's do the briefing. Give me the summary.”

『Romance of The Black-Haired Saintess』

#Romance fantasy #Reverse harem

#Innocent female lead #Clever female lead

#The strongest male lead #Obsessed emperor male lead

#Magician male lead #Pope male lead

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I reincarnated into the world inside the novel ‘The Evil Girl Who Turns Back Time’ that I normally read.

I become the saintess who begs for love from the male leads, gets abandoned, acts selfishly, and finally dies miserably!

Oh my God! Now that I can live once more, I can't die again.

I will surely live a normal life without being noticed by the male leads!

“Bianca, your eyes are prettier today.”

“Where are you going? Why are you keep avoiding me?”

“I picked it up on the way. Have it.”

“Are you having a hard time? Tell me everything.”

But why did these guys keep obsessing over me?!

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On my way back to the guild hideout, I sighed while receiving the plot from the system. The road ahead is bleak. To be honest, I haven't read any romance fantasy genre books till now. And I could not think of a way to hunt the protagonist after reading the summary.

In order to hunt the protagonist, I absolutely need to know the ‘probability', however, I don’t even know what kind of ‘probability’ would be given to a protagonist from a romance fantasy genre.

“…If I go ahead and do some research, I will find something, right?”

It was a hard request from the start.

I put enchanted bullets, enchanted explosives and the newly obtained firearm ‘Winchester 777’ in the inventory.

The accessories I obtained from the previous world were already given out to people.

I gave a pair of earrings embedded with a pale pink jewel to Seol Jungyeon, a gold jeweled necklace to Taylor, and large pearl earrings to Yekaterina.

I had roughly finished all the things I needed to do here. Yekaterina's spirit was also fully charged at 100%, and there was nothing in the guild that needed my permission right now.

"Let’s go."

[Moving to Altar Empire, the world where the level 99(+165+171+158+161) protagonist resides.]

[10…9…8….]

With the feeling of being sucked into somewhere, the world turned upside down.

[2…1…0]

[Dimensional travel is completed.]

[You have become the guardian knight of ‘Princess Sahar Serenity.’]

Kurreung, Kwakwang!!

The place I arrived at was a very old mansion. Some walls had collapsed while vines enveloped the rest of the walls, it wouldn’t be surprising if a ghost appeared here.

There were also neglected and dusty antique portraits hung on the walls, was it a trace of its former glory?

At the end, there was a portrait of a woman with purple eyes, and long silver hair, who was smiling faintly.

[The Goddess of Time and Season, Kader.]

“Where is this……”

The floor creaked as I stepped on it.

Rumblleeee!!

I could hear the sound of thunder and storm from outside, the rattling of the windows was eerie.

“What the hell…. Where is the protagonist?”

"Why?"

The moment I finished hearing the system's words, I could hear a sobbing voice coming from somewhere. I carefully moved towards the sound, behind the broken door, a woman with long silver hair was looking out of the window while hugging her knees.

Kwarreung…!!

And when thunder struck again, her figure lit up brightly. Perhaps, because she heard my footsteps, she slowly turned her head and looked at me.

[Villain ‘Female Protagonist Sahar Serenity']

"Huh..?”

The phrase floating above her head was confusing me. ‘Villain’ was clearly written there. But at the same time, ‘female protagonist' was also written there.

‘Is it because this world is originally inside a novel?'

The protagonist inside the book was a fake protagonist in the end, and the person who transported into the book was the ‘real protagonist’. That means, the woman in front of me wasn’t the one I had to kill.

“…Are you my escort knight this time?”

Deep dark circles were visible under her breathtakingly beautiful purple eyes. But such an appearance did not impress me. Because her eyes were already losing their light.… somehow my heart felt uncomfortable when looking at her.

“Why didn't you answer me? Say your name!"

First of all, I decided to stick to the role I was given.

"Yes. I am your escort knight, Yoo Seodam. Please take care of me, Princess.”

“Haha! Yes, I am looking forward to seeing how long you will last.”

She said with a self mocking smile.

“You'll find out that working under me is harder than you think. Oh mister guardian knight.”

Wooossh!

Storm was still pouring out of the window.

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Aracelli Reinkal was a dimensional wanderer. She could penetrate and travel between dimensions. However, even for her, finding a specific location was still impossible.

It's still impossible for her to set the destination to the place she wanted… but at least it's possible to go to the place where the person she holds dear the most was located.

As soon as she realized that her professor had moved again, Aracelli prepared immediately.

‘I have enough Mana!'

She had spent several months refraining herself from using magic as much as she could, while gathering enough Mana for dimensional travel.

“Suh-eup….”

Whoo woong…!!

The wind blew, and her hair fluttered in all directions. The gap between time and space gradually diverged, creating a new ‘path' that was only visible to her. Eventually, Aracelli reached out towards the gap and twisted it and a ‘door' was created.

It may be more correct to describe it as a torn newspaper, a part of a broken mug, or a broken cookie rather than a door. It was that incomplete.

By the way, how much risk one had to take to travel using an incomplete path?

The world distorted, even the space and time were collapsing, everything that Aracelli had was destroyed, except for one thing. It was the professor's silver bullet.

‘Eugh, ugh ugh!'

It was like running on a bridge made of dozens of stars. But the important thing was that the stars weren't as kind as humans thought.

Every time Aracelli took a step in all of those spaces, an unbearable pain penetrated through the soles of her feet. Her skin was also torn apart.

But, that’s not the only thing that bothers her.

‘The Fragment of Time!'

The fragment of time stretched its influence towards her. Like gravity that pulls everything, it kept trying to take Aracelli’s time away.

She was originally an adult, however, thanks to the Fragment of Time, she aged in reverse.

If fragments of time took all of her time here, her existence itself would be extinguished.

But, fortunately, the ‘exit' was clearly visible before Aracelli’s eyes.

‘Uaaaaaahhhhhhhhh’

She tried her best.

Swoowook!

Before long, the dark space was lit up once again.

“······Kuhh!”

Her head struck a pure white marble floor. It was always like this every time. When traveling between dimensions, she couldn’t control her own speed. And each time she entered a new world, she always came out headfirst. She really thought of creating magic to protect her head.

“Oh, huh….”

Aracelli slowly raised her body with her hand still wrapped on her head. She belatedly realized that a dozen pairs of eyes were looking at her.

"Uhhhh?"

They were women in pure white and blue uniforms.

When they saw Aracelli who looked embarrassed, they hurriedly approached her and put a white dress on her undressed body.

“Where did you come from?”

“Is your head okay?”

“Oh my God. Where did she come from…?”

Aracelli hurriedly checked her body age as she wore the clothes around her body. She guessed her current age was around seventeen to eighteen years old. It was fortunate that she wasn't very young.

‘What about the professor? Ugh! My head….'

She sensed that there was a slight deviation on her travel. She fell differently from the professor and at a different time to boot.

‘Is this… a temple?'

She found herself in a place where pure white pillars were supporting the flat ceiling, and round patterns were densely engraved on the floor.

After coming across so many civilizations, Aracelli could now roughly guess what kind of culture and civilization they had here by simply looking at them.

Eventually, her eyes turned to the place where a mysterious statue of the goddess was erected. In that statue, something foreign was written on it. Normally, she would not be able to read it. But, she was a ninth-circle wizard as well as a traveler who had wandered through many dimensions.

[Aracelli uses the skill ‘Language Barrier(SS)'.]

After focusing for a while, the once foreign symbol was interpreted.

‘The Goddess of Time and Season, Kader?'

It was somewhat a disturbing and suspicious name. The goddess had two words related to ‘time' in her title.

As Aracelli stared at the statue blankly, someone walked in from the front of the temple.

“Saintess-nim is here!”

In front of 10 attendants, Aracelli could see a very beautiful woman. She had a black hair and black eyes. She walked towards her way with a pure smile.

Then, the priestess near Aracelli began to murmur.

‘Chet. Nosy.’

‘She became a saintess just because she was lucky…'

‘She will probably tell us to throw this little girl out as well.'

However, when the older priests glanced at the younger priests, their murmurs also faded.

“Saintess-nim. I’m sorry, but suddenly this child appeared… I will take her out right away.”

Rather than being seen by a Saintess with a dirty personality, it would be better to throw her right away.

But.

Something strange happened.

Wasn't the saintess suddenly showing a benevolent smile?

"No. It’s okay. If it’s a child who came to the temple, you can accept them.”

"Is that so?"

"Absolutely. She looks like a child who has nowhere to go, can I take a look?”

"Ah. Yes…”

Then, suddenly. Aracelli realized that something was wrong with this situation.

‘Oh my God, her personality has changed.'

‘She suddenly became nice?'

‘She became a really different person.’

The image of the saintess was completely flipped even when she didn’t do anything? At the absurd sight that unfold before her, Aracelli was struck dumb. Regardless of her own emotions, the saintess still came towards her and slowly looked at her face.

‘Huh, was there a child like this in the [original]? Well, it doesn't matter.'

Then she smiled and stretched out her hand.

“Good to see you. My name is Bianca.”

At that moment, Aracelli frowned as she felt an unpleasant sensation creeping into her head.

[The protagonist, Bianca, uses passive skill ‘Charm monopoly(SSS)'.]

‘Ugh, what is this?'

It was an unpleasant and unknown sensation. It was as if the sensation was trying to manipulate Aracelli’s mind to like her.

[Aracelli resisted the ‘Charm Monopoly (SSS)' skill with ‘Eyes of the Sage (SSS)' skill.]

However, it had no effect on the Archmage.

When Bianca frowned as she felt something was strange, Aracelli grabs Bianca's outstretched hand and move it up and down as hard as she could.

“I'm Aracelli. Please take good care of me!”