Chapter 01, Selena

Selena Evan was an indifferent person by nature.

To the extent that she was calm, even when they inherited her runaway mother's debt and was tied up as a debtor, and she found something to work for instead of being discouraged.

What was it like when she was told that she couldn't take any more lessons because they didn't have money?

She sold the books she had read without any agitation to the junk store.

Even at her coming-of-age ceremony, where she went over without a cake, and just she decorated the room by cutting gardenia flowers from the field instead of being sad, even if the children of the common people threw clothes at her feet for her to sew, and instead of getting angry, she would just sit silently and work.

When she heard of her mother's obituary, or when her father suddenly collapsed, she never felt sad.

She just made a sign of the cross and prayed quietly. Seeing her, her father lamented that he was guilty of making her mature at a very young age, and the nanny said, 'Miss Selena may be a cold-blooded person who can't feel emotions', and her little twin brother, Celestine, admired Selena.

'How can you be so calm?'

'I cry when I'm angry. How the hell do you put up with it?'

'How can I be like you?'

When Celestine asked such a question, Selena always smiled and stroked his head. But she didn't answer.

No, she couldn't answer.

What's the reason she's naturally calm?

Why is she so indifferent?

Why don't she express her feelings?

The answer was simple.

She's been an adult since she was born.

To be exact, this was the world in the book she read.

* * *

Her original name is Seo Eun-ha, originally 26 years old. She is an unlucky kendo player who was judged unable to recover after being injured in a game and abandoned by the association.

The day she was completely expelled from the association, she poured alcohol into her head that she couldn't even drink.

She would rather die, she devoted her whole life to kendo, and so she cried so much that for her, there's no reason to live anymore. Crossing the crosswalk like that, suddenly... thump!

After that, she opened her eyes and she was there. She was just a newborn baby. At first I thought this was reincarnation.

Doesn't they say that there are people who are sometimes born with memories of their previous life?

She thought she would be one of those unusual cases.

Can someone immediately notice that they came into the novel they read the day before their death?

But as soon as she discerned the sound, she realized that she was in the romance fantasy novel she had read, [The Song of the Moon].

The name of the country, the names of the emperor and the prince, the rumors of aristocrats she heard from time to time, the name of the festivals every season, and the name of her family's surname and her twin brother's. The result of this combination of information left her in frustration.

Celestine Evan, her only little brother.

This is because he was the subordinate of Ignis, the villain in the novel, and a supporting character who was killed while trying to kill the male lead.

***

Celestine in the novel begins to fall into the wrong path after he is discharged from the army.

Celestine, who was forced to work as a mercenary to make money for his sick father and his twin sister's depression, was caught in the eyes of the villain, Prince Ignis. And immediately becomes his right arm.

Celestine's sword skills were outstanding, just like his father, Simon Evan.

About three years after that's all.

Celestine, who tries to assassinate the male lead, the hidden son of the Emperor, is caught and killed by him.

Is that it?

No, the whole family is killed by the linkage system.

'Of all things, why?'

She was discouraged.

If she's going to be reincarnated, don't you think it's good to be the heroine's friend or servant or villain?

If she had possessed the villain himself, sge would have had to do anything but evil, but now the case was different. Selena didn't do anything bad, but her younger brother, Celestine, was bewitched by the villain prince to do bad things.

He was not easy to persuade and lead others, so she was desperate and frustrated again. However, there was hope left. She was in just a baby when she realized that this world was in a novel.

Celestine in the novel couldn't stand the poverty of the poor family and took Ignis' hand.

Then shouldn't she just eliminate the cause of the act?

Of course she didn't have the knack to make a lot of money. She was not good enough at counting to create a trend in which each day tilts differently. So there was only one option.

To let him know that there are more important things in the world than money.

For example, love, faith, conscience.

If he live with this moral code in mind, he might not fall for Ignis' temptation. No, she was sure he wouldn't let it go. Because the nature of Celestine she read was never evil. There is about 10 years left until Celestine became evil. During this long time, she decided to educate Celestine.

* * *

And now, 18 years old. She sat in her study clutching a letter.

"Ha, haha..."

Selena smiles after a long time indeed. It was a dizzy laugh as if she were out of her mind. No, she could've been a real madman.

Because the contents of the letter she was reading were so shocking.

[Dear Noona¹.]

The sender of the letter was Celestine.

[Didn't you always say? Love is everything in life.]

Celestine was a reserve soldier who was about to join the army.

[So, my sister, I'm leaving with Rose.]

And tomorrow morning was his enlistment date.

[Please don't look for me.]

"Haha... You crazy bastard..."

It seems that Celestine has grown too well. Selena's empty laughter filled the empty room.

Footnotes:

[1] Noona: a korean honorific used to address an older sister by guys.