Prologue: The Knife's Edge
"Eh."
This is ruined.
I muttered to myself as I looked at the bloodstains dripping from my neck. Right now, I was bleeding profusely from my neck. It wasn't a mere trickle; if I didn't act immediately, I would die from the blood loss. I wasn't being attacked by anyone. In my hand was a rusty kitchen knife, and blood was smeared on the blade. The crazy girl had plunged the knife into my throat. And the most regrettable part was that the crazy girl was me.
Just a moment ago, I had been a sturdy young Korean man reading web novels. Now, how had I ended up like this?
"Uh, keugh."
I wanted to curse her out, but all that came out was dark blood. Ah, I'm going to die. I thought, collapsing backward with a thud.
The wound on my neck from the knife burned hotly. It hurt. My entire body felt like it was on fire. It was as if blood was gushing from every pore. Anyone would do. Anyone at all would be fine—just save me. This was the first time I'd ever felt such pain. My throat was blocked by blood surging back, and now I couldn't even breathe.
Although I'd read many isekai novels, this was the first time I'd been reincarnated at the exact moment of being stabbed in the neck.
While I was coughing and choking, the door creaked open.
"I brought some bread, eh...? Therese? Therese!! Blood is coming from your neck!"
The girl who entered looked disheveled and unkempt, but her beauty was so overwhelming that it could make one go blind. And at the same time, I thought she looked familiar.
'Sera... that bitch who betrayed the protagonist.'
She resembled the heroine of the novel I had been reading before I ended up in this situation. The girl who had been close to the protagonist for 200 chapters and then suddenly betrayed him and stabbed him to death.
The girl who looked like the heroine rushed toward me, desperately trying to stop the blood flowing from my neck, but there was nothing she could do.
"Why...? Why? Why are you doing this...? We were supposed to stay together all the way...!"
Do I have any allies?