161 – [Side Story] A student studying abroad in the East Continent – 20
He lived as he pleased by taking advantage of the goodwill of others.
In the end, she ended up getting stabbed by the hand of the man she used so much.
On that day, a girl named Eucerin died like that.
That’s how everything ended.
I thought so.
She was given the next life.
Sherry, the only daughter of a poor couple in the slums.
That was her next life.
In this life, the house she lived in was desperately poor.
After a while, her family’s fortunes declined and she had to live an even more needy life than when her mother had been earning money by working night jobs.
As soon as Sherry was able to stand on her own two legs and walk, Sherry said she had to go get her own food.
She runs errands for adults in exchange for money, begs, or steals other people’s belongings.
She lived a life of chasing how to make a living.
My father was the worst person.
I don’t know what he was like in the past, but he always talked about his past glory and never went to work.
She was always eating and drinking in the dilapidated house, taking away the money her mother earned and beating her when she resisted.
After a while, she even targeted Sherry’s money.
And after Sherry had grown to a certain extent, she killed it.
It was as if poison had been mixed into her drink, and she died, twisting her body wildly in pain.
My mother didn’t say anything.
If a drunkard in the slums dies, there is no noise around it.
It was that kind of world.
And, it was time to sort out the things left behind by the deceased.
Today, both Sherry and her mother took a break from work and worked hard to organize their belongings.
Then, Sherry’s eyes caught a book.
It was a worn-out memoir, full of dust, and the ink had even smudged. When she asked her mother, she said that it was her family’s inheritance and that it was something she kept for herself.
She took a look once in a while, but she said she couldn’t find out anything about her mother, who couldn’t read.
Sherry could read to some extent.
But even from Sheri’s perspective, the text written in the book was full of content that was completely incomprehensible.
After thinking for a moment, Sherry took the book aside.
Years have passed.
Her mother, who was originally weak, was abused by her father, and she died of illness shortly after her father died.
Although she was an orphaned Sherry, her life did not change dramatically.
However, there was one thing that definitely changed.
Sherry, who was quite intelligent, was able to read and write her letters after investing a long time.
Thanks to that, Sherry’s routine included reading books at the library outside the slums when she had time.
Even for children from the slums, there were no restrictions on entering the library or taking out books to read.
Of course, she had the disadvantage of not being able to borrow books and being glared at by the librarian, but it didn’t really matter to Sherry who didn’t care what other people thought of her.
Through books, Sherry learned about this world.
She discovered that her world closely matched the descriptions in novels she had read in her previous life.
World Tree, two huge continents, Ardia Empire.
And, Belnoa Academy.
There was no doubt about it. This world is the world in the novels she read.
Even the recent consecutive crop failures and strange phenomena occurring in various places.
It matches perfectly with the beginning of the novel.
This was several years before the novel began.
However, the character Sherry has never appeared in the novel.
In other words, she is an extra who has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the novel.
No, not even extras. Because she never appeared in the first place.
Well, what can we do?
I am an ordinary person who is not good at fighting or using magic.
Thinking like that, Sherry felt envious of the heroine of the story somewhere out there.
After some time, Sherry had another routine.
It was none other than the book she left behind. She began to decipher the contents of the book.
It was very difficult at first, but at some point she was able to decipher it smoothly.
The letters written in the book were not like something new.
A simple password created by randomly twisting or reversing the arrangement and combination of language.
If you could figure out the rules, it wasn’t that difficult of a password.
Then why couldn’t its ancestors crack this simple code?
Sherry didn’t know it, but wizards had a tendency to be secretly obsessed with the regularity of the language and letters that make up magic.
For those people, this kind of code that twisted the language into a mess was like a text that they didn’t even want to look at.
Nevertheless, since it is a book that has been passed down for a long time, I just kept it.
Well, it didn’t really matter to Sherry, who didn’t really have the mindset of a wizard.
So, how long has it been?
Decoding that long note, Sherry learned a surprising fact.
The contents written in this book contained a curse.
A forbidden curse that can be used if the person performing the curse has the mental power, some magical power, and a medium prepared.
It was a terrible curse that swapped one’s own body with that of another person.
When she first found out, she was excited.
However, when I deciphered the memoir and learned about the curse’s shortcomings, I was greatly disappointed.
First of all, even if you take away the other person’s body and power, you cannot take away their memories.
Of course, there was a high probability that people around me would be suspicious.
If it is discovered that you have used this terrible curse, you will 100% be executed.
According to what was actually written in the memoir, the brother of the writer of this memoir stole the body of a nobleman, but was eventually executed when it was discovered that it was a fake.
It is said that in the process, the brother, the ancestor who left the memoir, was almost in danger, so it was understandable how serious the sin was treated.
And, meaningful details about this curse.
This curse can only be used once.
No, more accurately, you can use it multiple times.
However, there was no case where it was successful twice.
Everyone says that I failed and became a crazy idiot, so the risk is high.
Sherry was worried.
The difficulty level of the curse itself is not very difficult.
However, unless the memory is also taken away, it is quite difficult to portray the person who stole it.
If you don’t act properly, you will of course be caught, and if you are caught using such a terrifying curse, you will be dealt with 100%.
Will you take on this risk and change your current life?
Or will we abandon this dangerous path and live quietly?
“…There’s no need to think about it.”
Yes, there was no need to think.
And, above all, there was a perfect target.
Alyssa Leipert.
The main character of this novel.
She is the first to come to her system to enroll in Belle Noah Academy.
In other words, there is no one in her system who knows her.
And her father, Viscount Leifert, doesn’t know that much about Alyssa either.
If we had to be honest, the only people who would know about her are the people in her hometown, the village where she is said to have lived before going to Jajaja.
But no matter what they say, in the end it is just the opinion of the common people.
Sherry smiled.
Sherry is not even an extra, she is a girl from the slums.
The main character of this story could be Alyssa Leipert, a noblewoman and saint.
Time has passed.
With the news that Prince Joshua, the crown prince of the Empire, was entering Bellenoir Academy, Sherry thought it was time.
After disposing of all of her personal items and making her preparations, Sherry hid in front of Belle Noah Academy.
It was still early, so there were hardly any people around.
But I saw someone running.
There is no doubt.
A girl with honey-yellow blonde hair, blue eyes, and pretty clothes.
It was Alyssa Leifert, the girl whose appearance was depicted in the novel.
As per the novel, Alyssa arrived too quickly and was unable to enter her academy.
And then she receives the help of her son, Chris, who arrives shortly after, and she becomes acquainted with him.
There was no time.
Sherry stepped in front of her and spoke to her.
The curse was definitely successful.
Sherry, who opened her eyes in the body of ‘Alyssa’, smiled at the sight of ‘Sherry’, a girl from the slums, lying unconscious and sleeping before her own eyes.
Because she swallowed her sleeping pills at the same time as activating her curse, the real Alyssa, whose body had been swapped with her own, remained asleep and did not move.
He let out an exclamation.
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I felt that she was overflowing with magical power, which was almost non-existent in her original self.
Her body was so healthy that it felt as if she could fly.
“I…I’m Alyssa Leifert…I’m the main character…Huhu…Huhuhu…”
She mutters without realizing it.
Behind her, someone spoke to her.
“Hey, are you okay?”
I looked back.
There was no doubt that he was ‘Chris Maletti’, the son of the prime minister, a handsome boy just as he was described in the novel.
“The kid lying down over there…? What happened?”
Sherry, or now ‘Alyssa’, smiled and answered Chris’ words slyly.
“Oh, I bumped into that person earlier. It looks like he fainted, but I’m trying to take him to the hospital.”
“Hmm? No, class is about to start, so it’s better to leave it to someone else…”
“No, I hit it by mistake. I should take responsibility.”
Having said that, she lifted up Sherry’s body.
Sherry’s light body was easily lifted by Alyssa’s strength.
“Then please excuse me.”
“Ah…Uh…Okay.”
She smiled at Chris and quietly left the place.
She entered a deserted back alley and laid down Sherry’s body.
“……”
Of course, I had no intention of taking him to the hospital like this.
If she came to her senses and started talking about the girl in this slum, it would only be trouble for her.
She opened Sherry’s bag and took out cutlery and medication from there.
She smiled the benevolent smile of ‘Alyssa Leifert’ and opened her mouth.
“…If I say something useless, I’ll get in trouble, so I’ll have to stay quiet for the rest of my life. Huh? Right?”