Chapter 1
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Something's Terribly Wrong
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Something was terribly wrong.
A romance fantasy novel where the protagonist endures her stepmother's bullying and torment before triumphing spectacularly: The Lady Survived Today Again.
I'd possessed a character in that novel. As the exclusive attendant to the protagonist—the Northern Grand Duchess—and, at the same time, the assassin tasked with killing her.
I had zero interest in assassination. All I wanted was to hold on to my position, so I'd done a little gaslighting on the protagonist back in her childhood, planting the idea of a 'secret friend'...
"While I was in class today, someone badmouthed my secret friend, didn't they? It was magic lesson time, so I pretended it was an accident and gave their hand a little lesson."
"Oh my, for a secret friend, seeing them naked should be fine, right? You were the one who said there's nothing we should hide from each other."
"I don't need friends like that. I already have my secret friend."
"...You seem to have made a friend lately?"
...It looked like my gaslighting had gone a bit overboard.
Actually, way overboard.