The girl in the mirror was someone I never met. A foreign kid was looking back at me with the same expression I had on my face; surprised.
The child has shoulder-leveled red hair, as if it was kissed by the sun itself. Together with her red hair, a pair of red eyes stared back at her. Her eyes looked magical as if they were truly a pair of ruby gems. Her skin was as white as fresh snow. The first thing that came into my mind was Ariel; the Little Mermaid except for her eyes.
How could a child be this beautiful? It was unfair. It only gave me more insecurities when I remembered my real face.
Was this really a dream?
I pinched myself hard. "Ouch…"
The sting on my cheek was real. It didn't wake me up but only made me realize that where I was at that moment was not in the dream world.
I had read many transmigration novels in the past… was this something similar?
"Oh my!"
A woman's voice suddenly interrupted my thoughts, making me turn towards the person who entered the room and was now looking at me in shock.
The foreign woman was wearing a maid's attire which gave me an idea of her position. Despite the confusion inside me, I was someone who was used to hiding my emotions. That's why I have always appeared calm in front of others.
Another maid entered the room and gasped in disbelief, "Young miss, you're awake!"
How could I even understand what they were saying? The foreigners in front of me were speaking a language that didn't belong in my past world but despite that, I miraculously understood every word they were saying. It was strange yet amazing.
The first maid who entered the room hurriedly came over to check only the body's temperature by touching my forehead. "Thank goodness, the fever's gone!"
My eyes scanned the strange faces in the room. Now then… How should I extract information from this woman? Should I act like someone who lost her memories just because of a fever? That was going to be too much, right? But I don't have an idea of how the original soul acted before I entered the body.
At that moment, I was placed in a difficult situation.
"Young miss, are you alright?"
No, I wasn't. How could I be alright when I found myself inside a child's body in a place where I didn't know?
'Can I jump on the balcony and stay dead this time?'
Wait… how did I even die in my world? The last thing I remembered was just falling asleep!
"Quick! Call the doctor! I don't think Miss Scarlet has recovered yet!"
"Y-yes!"
Miss Scarlet?
At the mention of the child's name, memories began flashing in my head all of a sudden which caused a sharp pain in my head, making me groan in agony.
"What's wrong? What's happening?" The maid was in a panic when she saw me in pain. She didn't know what to do. Her face turned pale.
The memories that slipped in my head were the memories from the body's original owner but I couldn't organize any of it all because of the sharp pain.
Just when I thought that the pain would never go away, it finally stopped as it did but my sight was slowly turning dark and I felt my body go limp.
'H-Huh…?'
The last thing I remembered was the maid's sallow face as she caught my body in her arms. "Miss Scarlet? MISS SCARLET!!"
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Scarlett Brielle Trancy. This was a name I was familiar with since she was a character in one of the otome games I played. It's a story-based video game that was targeted towards women. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal, was to develop a romantic relationship primarily between the female player character and one of several traditionally male characters.
Of all the characters I could be, why did it have to be the ruthless villainess?
A sigh escaped my lips. I woke up in the middle of the night in the same room I woke up earlier. Except for this time, it was dark. The only light that filled the room came from the moon which entered through the glass door of the balcony.
If I remembered the setting of the story correctly, the place she was in right now was in the kingdom of Clover. A magical kingdom that was blessed by the goddess Atria; the goddess of nature. As for Scarlet's background, her mother died after giving birth to her, making her the only child in the prestigious Trancy family. Her father, Duke Charles Trancy never remarried after his wife died. In fact, he buried himself with work which made him neglect his daughter. Because of his neglect, his daughter grew up to be a malicious woman.
Huh... to think that we have the same name.
With the memories of the young Scarlet in my mind, I could tell that Charles didn't completely forget his daughter since she remembered receiving countless gifts from him. The only problem was… those gifts were never enough to make up for his company.
I didn't have a choice anymore but to live as the story's villain, Scarlet, now. Her ending might end in death so might as well see the story itself uncover before me.
Yes, just like any other story, the villain's ending was death. Even if Scarlet didn't become a villain, I was sure that she would still die because of how sickly the body was.
Dying from sickness should be fine… If death comes knocking on me earlier, then I would gladly accept it. At least in this world, I didn't have to kill myself. A natural death awaited me.
Now that I was going to take over this world's Scarlet's, things would be different. I knew what was going to happen and I decided to become a spectator in this world.