Chapter 1
Chapter 1 – I Became a Princess in a Game
[Download begins.]
[Information is announced.]
[A soul’s fragment toyed with by the gods.]
Name – Record Deleted
Age – 28 years old
Position – Office Worker
Class – None
Special Notes – A soul toyed with by divine love, divine protection, divine mercy, and compassion. Appears to have a peaceful and positive personality, but is actually complex and twisted.
[‘Record Deleted’ character will be changed.]
[Miel Kazan is fixed in the player position.]
[Game deviation penalty is provided.]
[Game return bonus is provided.]
A series of loud chiming sounds rang out consecutively.
“My phone, my phone…”
I waved my hand around feebly, but caught nothing.
[Game return bonus, Miel Kazan’s character profile is automatically downloaded.]
[Game return bonus allows maintaining the deviant character’s personality.]
[Miel Kazan’s madness is suppressed.]
[The office worker’s adaptability and social skills are maintained.]
[Record Deleted’s characteristics restore Miel Kazan’s unique traits.]
The chiming sound is so loud. What an intense notification sound.
[Miel Kazan’s complete memory download will be completed in 30 days.]
My team changed recently.
The previous team had an atmosphere of arriving exactly on time and leaving exactly on time.
In contrast, this team’s leader’s catchphrase was “As a working adult, arriving 10 minutes early is basic.”
They say when the boss changes, subordinates must follow, but this alarm sound is a bit too much. Though I chose it myself…
[Download progress 5%]
Even stranger was this window flickering continuously before my eyes.
Something that looked like a game window was dancing around behind my closed eyelids.
‘I want to open my eyes.’
I don’t want to see this chaotic thing, and I want to turn off the notification sound too.
[Acting begins without download completion due to player’s will.]
Fortunately, as that message appeared, I was able to open my eyes.
“Ah.”
I felt groggy, as though surfacing from a sleep that had lasted forever.It also seemed like I had just closed and opened my eyes because dust flew in…
‘I think it was handsome dust though.’
An image of someone with black hair and purple eyes floated up like an afterimage.
What was I doing before I went to sleep?
Even after my eyes opened, my vision didn’t return for a while.
Is this that thing, the kind of accident where you collapse from playing too many games?
It seemed like that happened, or maybe it didn’t.
The culprit seemed to be a yellow electric mouse, or maybe not.
“Game.”
Right, I was playing a game until I went to sleep. A childish and cringeworthy romance game for women.
The game was about the female protagonist Cocoa Even’s contract dating and contract marriage.
It was basically a romance game, but it mixed in merchant management and RPG elements, so there was quite a bit of grinding.
The condition for a happy ending was for Cocoa to revive her father’s trading company and end up with the person she loved.
There were 5 conquest targets in total, including hidden characters.
The true hero and Grand Duke of the Marinwood Duchy, Sio Grande.
Prince Russo Armand of the Kingdom of Albarn.
Her childhood friend, Henri Mithril.
The youngest high priest, Eugene Valentine.
And the hidden character. Name unknown, story unknown.
I had stopped the game leaving the hidden character behind. The hidden character…
Before I knew it, my vision, which had been pitch black, brightened.
‘I’m pretty impressive for thinking I should wake up early just to play a game.’
Then I saw an unfamiliar and tremendously ornate ceiling.
“That’s not my room’s ceiling… is it?”
But to call it a hospital, it was too fancy for such a common-sense place. It wasn’t cheap decorations pretending to sparkle.
“I-I didn’t do anything to the ceiling!”
“Huh?”
Someone interrupted while I was admiring the ceiling.
I turned my head to look to the side with such awkwardness that it made a creaking sound.
A girl with ginkgo leaf-yellow hair was looking at me. Trembling all over.
“S-sorry. I meant that I absolutely didn’t do anything…”
She kept bowing her head as she said this. No, she was bowing her head, then bending her knees and going to the ground…
“If you’re planning to apologize by hitting your head on the ground, I don’t think I can forgive that.”
That would cause too much damage to my freshly awakened mind.
‘But why is my way of speaking like this?’
Since she was a stranger, I did use honorifics, but the tone and such felt a bit cringeworthy. The content too… No, I’m acting a bit strange.
Anyway, at my point, the woman looked at me with rabbit eyes.
“P-please tell me what I did wrong.”
Then she swallowed what sounded like a sob, as if she was about to cry.
“You didn’t do anything wrong though?”
“S-sorry.”
No, I said you didn’t do anything wrong, so what’s with this response?
This girl is annoying.
“Th-that’s… whenever Your Highness gets angry, you suddenly start using honorifics.”
Something’s annoying. Anyway, she’s telling me not to use honorifics, right?
“I’m not angry, so stop trembling.”
She looked younger than me too, and she said we weren’t in a relationship where I should use honorifics. Speaking down to her wasn’t difficult.
I massaged my throbbing forehead and said to the still-trembling woman.
“But that hair, is it real?”
“Huh? My hair?!”
Could there be hair that color in Korea?
The woman looked puzzled at my words.
It’s tiring how she reacts to every single word I say.
I turned my gaze away from the woman and looked at the ornate ceiling again.
I stretched my hand upward.
There was no other reason. I just lifted my hand trying to find a sense of reality…
“Eh?”
But suddenly a bright blue window appeared at my fingertips.
[A time bomb that will bring the empire’s destruction.]
Name – Miel Kazan
Age – 25 years old
Position – Princess
Class – None
Paladin and Holy Knight classes have been abolished due to insufficient proficiency. You can check the conditions for class recovery.
Special Notes – The only daughter of Castlevenia’s great ruler Rio Grande Aehim Kazan. She possesses everything including beauty and talent.
She is obsessed with her fiancé Sio Grande.
I turned my gaze away from the ornate ceiling and turned my head to the opposite side of the ginkgo girl.
There was a mirror there, and I was in it.
No, in the mirror where I should definitely be, there was a woman with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was an elegant beauty, but with upturned eyes that gave quite a strong-willed impression.
It was an appearance that well reflected the concept of a villainess wearing the mask of a saint, which was said to be trending these days.
The one who told me about this trend was my younger stepsister who recommended romance games to me.
“For real.”
The problem was… unlike the unrealistic blue window or the even more absurd appearance of the woman in the mirror, the sensations were vivid.
I opened and closed my hand, wiggled my toes, and tried sitting and standing up.
My head began to throb painfully.
I tried touching the blue window that was still floating. My hand passed through it.
“Hahaha…”
The ginkgo girl staggered at my dry laugh. Whatever.
[Name: Miel Kazan.]
I tried touching the name part.
Strangely, this seemed to be referring to me.
And that mirror in front of me. If it’s not a poster, then it’s reflecting my face…
A beautiful woman named Miel Kazan with blonde hair and blue eyes.
<Cocoa Road.>
That was the name of the game I was playing.
A romance game for women with the catchphrase that the protagonist Cocoa Even carves out her own path.
Miel Kazan was one of the characters in <Cocoa Road.>
Her position was villainess and sometimes final boss. Her default attribute was loving Sio Grande.
“No way…”
It seems like I’ve entered the game.
And as a time bomb who’s crazy about men and will destroy the empire.
I barely managed to swallow the scream that was about to burst from my lips.
