Chapter 1

-It’s hurt… help me… hurt…

A thin sound like a chest piercing.

My head was sore.

-Again? Please stop.

Someone else cried out in my head.

I desperately tried to make excuses.

No, now that’s not what I said. It wasn’t my will.

But the body didn’t move according to will.

In the meantime, the voice in my head continued uninterruptedly.

-Stop it. Stop it, stop it!!

-It hurts… it hurts…

The moment I realized that the owner of the thin voice was a young woman’s self, I opened my eyes.

“Seo Yeon-a!”

My lovely nephew, my sister’s daughter.

I shouted the name of my nephew and looked around quickly.

But there was no one beside me.

My sister and my nephew also came and disappeared.

As I looked around, I moved my head a little, but my body aches and hurts.

The place where I was lying was a bed.

A big bed I’ve never seen before.

Apparently, I was in the car my older sister was driving a while ago.

‘And…’

I heard my sister’s scream and remembered that there was a big shock as if the car was flipping over.

There must have been an accident.

‘Then… is this a hospital?’

By the way, the bed and its surroundings are not like a hospital.

I got up in a hurry.

No, I tried to get up.

“Ahhh!”

At the moment, it hurt so much that the scream came out.

I have a headache that seems to break my head.

I grabbed the head with both hands.

It seemed as if someone was pouring a whole blast furnace in my head.

At the same time, strange memories flowed in.

The place I’ve never seen, unfamiliar people…

It was someone else’s memory.

I am a student who goes to an interview hard to prepare for a job in the last semester of college 4th grade.

It is me, a girl who wraps her whole body with jewels and attends all the parties every night, and drinks alcohol until dawn.

It is also me that I want to carry my nephew with my one and only sister every day because she is so pretty cute.

It was me that I didn’t even want to meet my brother or sister in the house because I hate my brother, my sister, and my family.

The self of two people in my body.

Both were me.

Me and I clashed fiercely in one body.

It seemed to pour water and oil into one cup and stir it up.

The two egos collided violently but did not mix.

When neither of me was able to take control of the body, a convulsion arose.

It was then.

“Lady Marcia!”

I heard a maid’s voice from the bedside.

“……!”

At the same time, a solution of water and oil, which had been struck by the waves, quietly sank.

And as oil rises above the water, my ego slowly rises.

Oh, I realized at that moment.

Another my name is Marcia Blick, 17 years old.

I just insisted to read a fairy tale book to my nephew some time ago.

Then I got into a car accident while riding in the back seat of my sister’s car.

At the same time, while returning to this mansion in the pouring rain, I had a wagon accident.

I could just know.

The two events took place at the exact same time without any deviation.

The moment I got into a car accident, I was sitting in the backseat and reading a fairy tale book to my nephew.

It was Seo Yeon’s favorite fairy tale book.

With her short tongue, “Aunt, read this”, I read it again and again.

Even if I closed my eyes, I was able to do not make a single letter wrong.

I am the character of the fairy tale book now.

‘It’s a bad sister who bothers the protagonist.’

The fairy tale book did not include the name of the protagonist’s sister.

But I could see that she was me.

‘First I have to check it with my own eyes. Now, this is where the fairy tale fits.’

The fastest and surest way is to go to the basement.

I quickly searched through Marcia’s memories.

‘How do you get down to the basement?’

The stimulating memories of her floated to the surface of a drop.

‘Oh, it is. I need a hidden key.’

I, Marcia got my body up in bed.

“Ahh.”

A groan came out.

My body in a wagon accident creaked.

“Oh, lady, you have to lie down a little longer.”

“Move.”

Marcia inside me struck the maid who tried to stop her from getting up.

The maid fell on the floor in the room.

‘Wow, that’s a surprise.’

I quickly lifted my arm, moving at Marcia’s will.

Luckily, my arms moved again the way I wanted.

Our souls were partially mingled, but it seemed that we were not completely mingled together.

‘No matter how it is, can you push the person who cares about you like that?’

Marcia’s displeasure has been passed on.

She was so unpleasant to me, that I couldn’t say the apology.

Meanwhile, the maid quickly got up and stood with her hands together on her apron.

Maybe it’s a frequent thing, and the maid didn’t even look very shocked.

She bowed her head towards me.

“Who told you to come in as you please? Get out now.”

I hated it, but it was too late.

Marcia rebuked the maid with her harsh tone and threw her out.

The maid obeyed with her polite attitude. Soon I was left alone in the room.

It was really weird to feel like words I didn’t mean to go out of my mouth.

Uh. When I was forced to get out of bed, my legs fluttered.

It hurt as if it was beaten, but I held back and headed to the next room connected to the bedroom.

It is a private study and reception room.

Marcia never reads the books, but she had a decorative bookshelf there.

As seen in Marcia’s memory, I carefully pulled out the third book in the bottommost compartment from the bookshelf in the farthest corner.

I put my hand in the empty spot, and the little handle was touched.

I clicked the handle on the other compartment of the bookshelf and heard the sound of a secret drawer opening.

I quickly pulled out what was in the drawer.

There were two finely woven keys on the handkerchief.

It was the key to the basement.

‘…You really do.’

It has been a long time since I used this key myself.

Marcia hasn’t been down to the basement for years already.

She was afraid of the basement.

Marcia’s room was on top of the mansion.

Usually, employees live on the top floor or in the attic.

But she took her stubbornness even though she was this house lady and she occupied the uppermost room of the mansion.

Because she needed the farthest room from the basement.

Thanks to that, the way down the stairs was endlessly long.

Usually, the stairs going up to the top floor had no decoration and no lighting, so it was cold and dark.

This house was still the way to the lady’s room, so the stairs were carpeted.

Every step of the way, there was a crackling sound from the key I had in my pocket.

The heartbeat gradually accelerated accordingly.

It was because of Marcia.

-Do I have to do this? Is there any way to check without going down to the basement! I hate it there!

Marcia screamed in my head.

I ignored the sound and continued striving down the stairs.

If this is right in the fairy tale, I had to check it with my own eyes.

The most important thing.

I can see it simply by going down to the basement.

The first basement floor was a warehouse that was not different. However, if I go down one more floor after passing the warehouse, the end of the stairs appears.

My heart jumped so hard that I couldn’t control it.

Because of the tense Marcia, a cold sweat flowed from my back.

“Whoo.”

I tried to breathe and went through my pocket and pulled out the key.

When I put the key in the keyhole of the door and turned it, the door opened with a squeak and an unpleasant sound.

There was another door inside the door, and whips were neatly hung on the wall, hung in the short corridor between the door and the other door.

In all, the color of the handle was faded or the end was worn, and the traces of bitterness were remarkable.

I shuddered and approached the second door. The second door could also be opened easily with a key.

The inside of the door was dark, and somewhere there was a fishy and disgusting smell.

I pushed the lamp I brought forward and stepped into the door.

It was the beautifully decorated aristocratic girl’s bedroom that was exposed in the flickering light.

‘It’s probably the last time I decorated it almost ten years ago.’

Thanks to that, everything that decorated the room was somewhere old and faded.

As I looked around and carefully stepped in a few more steps, I felt a presence in one corner.

“……!”

I swallowed dry saliva and reached out my hand holding the lamp.

In the corner of the room, behind a wooden chair, a small girl crouched and hid.

When the light hits, I checked who the person holding the lamp was, and my eyes widened.

‘Wow, crazy…’

The appearance came out.

The girl was so beautiful that she was not like a person in this world.

The dazzling silver hair that sways and flows down her shoulders, dark green eyes like the fresh green of summer in sunlight.

The features were arranged neatly on flawless skin in perfect harmony.

However, the skin that never seen of sunlight was pale, and her face, which had lived in a basement room, was full of despair.

Dried blood stains were on her shoulders and arms.

I was sure. This child is Marcia’s younger sister.

Only thirteen, Larissa Blick.

She was the protagonist of this fairy tale.

I sighed inside and grabbed my head.

‘It’s ruined.’

Three years.

My life now has only 3 years left.