I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration - Chapter 93

“Hahaha! Edith! We’re one now, forever! Forever……!”

“Says who?”

A familiar voice growled at Fred.

The next moment, something hit Fred. There was a loud thud.

“Give me my Edith!”

Fred’s voice faded with another thud.

And a familiar face loomed over me.

“Edith! Edith, can you see me?”

“Kil…… Killian……”

“Hah…… Hershan, thank you……”

It was Killian.

Killian saved me again.

‘How did he know I was here?’

I wondered, even in the midst of the chaos. But I didn’t have the strength to ask.

Killian ordered the knights who had come with him to bind Fred, and Anna, who had followed, burst into tears at the sight of me.

“Miss!”

“I’m sorry, Anna……”

“No, it was my fault, I didn’t……”

“No…… don’t blame yourself. And I’m sorry…… please take care of my stuff over there.”

While Killian was preoccupied with tying up Fred, I asked Anna to pack up my erotic romance books.

I knew that if Killian saw them, I’d die in shame on the spot.

I watched out of the corner of my eye as Anna packed, and then scrambled to my feet when Killian turned toward me.

But he scooped me up, refusing to let my feet touch the ground.

“Do you feel dizzy or nauseous?”

“I- I don’t know.”

I think I might have hit my head when Fred lunged for me and I fell. But I was too disoriented to objectively assess my condition.

“What the hell just happened!”

“That guy was chasing me.”

“This is all your karma for going around flirting with this guy and that guy! When men have bad intentions, a fragile woman like you can’t handle it! Why on earth would you even mess with a grimy guy like that……”

Although he was trying to pretend to be rational, it seemed that Killian was also panicking and frantic right now.

His words were slurred and his voice was louder than usual.

Even though he was scolding me, the scent of his cologne and the feel of his body heat made me relax.

“Killian…… thank you……”

The moment I consciously realized that the tension had been lifted, the strength drained from my body at a ridiculous speed, and I barely managed to get the words out to thank Killian before I blacked out.

‘When I read Rofan novels, I wondered why the female leads always collapsed like that, but then I realized that the characters in the Rofan world have tough grueling situations.’

Even through my foggy mind, I grumbled out my complaints.

It’s not fair that I got sick to death from poison, almost died in a yacht accident, and nearly got killed by a crazy stalker…… Isn’t this really too much?

And when I was blacked out and semi-conscious, that sister announcer’s voice was playing in my head……

[Some of the flow of the original story has been broken by the author’s excessive intervention. The original story has been further damaged. The author’s control has been severely weakened.]

The fact that I can hear that voice means that I am not yet dead in this world, and I am happy to hear it.

But there was one thing that was different this time.

‘The author’s control has been severely weakened?’

Haha! That’s it!

Perhaps the author thought that this time he could finally kill me.

Last time, I’d drowned in front of Killian, but this time, I’d been dragged away without his knowledge.

‘I don’t know how Killian knew and came to my rescue, but it must have been an unexpected interruption for the author, and if his control has been severely weakened, it will be hard for him to do it again.’

Killian had gotten more and more distant from his original character by the day, and had all but given up on Lizé.

Perhaps the other characters are breaking free of the author’s grip, too.

‘It’s only a few episodes until my head is cut off…… I don’t think the author is going to do anything more than this.’

Rather than pushing things too far, he would likely try to make sure I didn’t meet the third exception condition.

‘I’m still at a disadvantage because I’m still like a cow walking backward to catch a mouse. But the fact that the author tried to kill me and failed means that the range of conditions the author can put forward is becoming increasingly narrow.’

I’m not 100% sure about that, but that’s how I’ve always defined my game with the author, and it’s worked for the most part.

And since I can’t know exactly what’s going on, I have to make assumptions and move forward.

Yeah, moving forward without stopping.

That’s the only way I could beat the author in this game.

***

[Some of the flow of the original story has been broken by the author’s excessive intervention. The original story has been further damaged. The author’s control has been severely weakened.]

The inorganic, yet friendly voice gently informed him of the current situation.

Of course, K already knew all of this.

‘How can this be? This is ridiculous. How can you survive in that situation?!’

K hadn’t given it a second thought that this was going to fail.

He was backed into a corner, and he’d made up any excuse he could think of.

He’d gotten Duke Ludwig involved to allay Edith’s doubts, and the location of the Millane Bookstore was cleverly chosen.

He also took a character named Fred, one of the men infatuated with Edith, and gave him a new characterization: a man who blindly worships Edith’s haughty attitude.

The reason Fred didn’t show up was because he was recuperating at the estate, and the reason he came back was because he lied to his father with the intention of dying with Edith.

I could feel the original story creaking and twisting because the character was suddenly brought, but in this situation where I had no idea when or how the third exception condition would be met, I had to kill Edith somehow and get the flow back on track.

‘And judging by the fact that Killian showed up there, he is now becoming the male lead for Edith!’

The original story was getting more and more damaged by the day, and now it was splitting into Lizé Sinclair’s story and Edith Ludwig’s story.

It was a situation that only the author, K, could have known, but it frightened him even more.

‘I can’t believe Killian is becoming the male lead for Edith! Who the hell made up this story?’

It was the first time he had ever experienced a story he created being out of his control.

The biggest change was that Killian, who was supposed to be the second male lead, was gradually becoming the male lead for the thirteenth Edith.

He instinctively sensed that Edith was in danger and rushed to her rescue, stopping at nothing to save her.

‘Now it’s too late to turn Killian back into Lizé’s second male lead; he’s just a supporting character who’s swayed by Edith and becomes devastated when she dies.’

He was a character I had grown attached to, but if he was going to be a world-shattering character in Lizé’s world, I had to write him off with tears in my eyes.

But the problem is, in order for that to happen, Edith must die.

‘I didn’t expect her to verbally persuade Fred to stop.’

I thought she would panic and scream herself to death, but that was unexpected.

Her calm response managed to influence the most powerful force in this world: probability, and she was able to postpone her death for a while.

‘I didn’t know Killian would find her in those few minutes. I was too complacent.’

When Killian heard that Edith decided to go with Lizé to Le Belle Marie Street, he felt uneasy about it.

So today, he came to Le-Belle Marie Street without Edith and Lizé’s knowledge to find them.

“Lizé, why are you alone? Where’s Edith?”

K was surprised to see Killian suddenly appear and ask Lizé about Edith’s whereabouts, but he assumed he couldn’t change Edith’s death.

“I’ve been looking for her, too, because she suddenly disappeared……”

After making Lizé utter that line, K had no intention of revealing where Edith had disappeared.

So he took it easy.

After all, he’d just been informed that Edith would be dead in three minutes.

‘How can you look for her in this wide Le-Belle Marie? Oh, it’s less than two minutes now.’

K was chuckling to himself when suddenly Anna rushed out, grabbed Killian, and urged him on.

“The ladies went to the bookstore in the back of that alley, and Miss Lizé came out alone; Miss Edith has disappeared, and though we have been standing near here, Miss Edith has never come out of that alley!”

Hearing this, Killian and his two knights scoured the alley, and in less than ten minutes they found her.

In the end, it was Anna who saved Edith’s life.

She had narrowed down the search for Edith tremendously.

‘I let my guard down!’

I don’t know when Anna became such a loyal maid to Edith.

I didn’t realize how much the extras, who didn’t even have names in the original story, had been influenced by Edith.

That was the defeat of the day.

‘Edith’s narration is already on the same level as the female lead’s.’

It’s a cliché that doesn’t make sense in real life, but is acceptable in a Rofan world, for the male lead to show up and save the female lead in a moment of crisis.

This is a lucky break only for the female lead.