Reality

What? I saw this necklace somewhere. Where did I see it? I can't remember now. But I saw this pendant somewhere.

When my bath is complete, I start walking toward my new house.

"This waterfall's water is sweet. I will come here again later." I filled the water flagon and the wooden bucket before the bath. I took them and came to my old cottage that would break even if there was a little strong wind.

On the way, I saw a rabbit. So I tried too hard to break a branch of the tree. But couldn't in one try. I tried hard to break a branch of a tree. After I got the tree branch in my hand, I threw the branch to the rabbit. Luckily, the tree branch pierced the rabbit's stomach. It fainted and I took it with me.

Then I went inside to my house. I covered the water of a wooden bucket with a wooden lid. Then again, I looked at the pendant. This was something I knew it was in my mind. But where was this picture in the book? After thinking for a while, I found the answer.

"Wait, I know this necklace, this pendant design. Why would that novel's one of the family's heirloom symbols pendant be on this body's neck? Is she related to that family? Did I become an aristocratic family's heir? No, wait. Did I transmigrate into a novel world?" I was amused, linking the necklace to the role I was in within the novel world.

"I now reside within the very world I once explored as a reader. Do I really have to live like this? I have to right." She recognized that the circumstances transcended her knowledge of the novel's plot; she must adapt to her newfound reality and surmount any challenges that arise.

With these unwavering thoughts, I resolved to navigate my newly acquired existence. I pondered my immediate needs, starting with my appetite. Starvation had overtaken me, prompting me to explore the forest for sustenance. Though I have previous knowledge of the novel, I recognized the necessity of foraging for edible provisions within my current reality.

But today I am not going anywhere. I have food in my little cottage. The rabbit I caught. 

"Fortune smiles upon me today."

It became night while cooking the rabbit. After eating that rabbit meat, I was tired. I went to my bed while thinking about how I entered this body. Also, who was the person of this body owner?

Suddenly I saw some wild fruit beside the pillow. The fruit was unknown. I think this fruit is poisonous. So she ate this fruit and died. After she died I entered her body. What a peculiar thing!

I threw away all the fruit in my house. Then I rested for the day. 

The next day I woke up early in the morning. The rabbit I cooked last night, I ate only half. So I ate the other half in the morning. After eating, I thought I had to go find new food. I came out of my house and started walking forward. 

As I ventured deeper into the forest, I made a fortuitous discovery of some herbs that I knew. It will be working on cooking. Then I made another discovery—an elusive rabbit.

"I shall capture the rabbit."

My success in trapping the rabbit and gathering herbs for nourishment lent a glimmer of hope to my circumstances. I soon returned to my house with culinary aspirations. Once my culinary masterpiece was complete, I indulged myself, replenishing my strength and resolve. I was tired after all the hard work.

I ate lunch and tried to find who I was. Now I have all the time in the world. So I am finding some documents over the house. Under the pillow, I got a note. The note has some writing. The writing was in some unknown letters and alphabet. But somehow I know the letters.

"Alexandria, go to your uncle's place. He will take you to your father if I don't come back after three days." I think she didn't read this paper.

At that moment, the realization washed over me – now I resided within the world of my friend's cherished novel, "The Story of Ava Ace." Her fascination with the novel had led me to pick it up the previous evening, granting me a day off from my research due to an impending award ceremony.

This young girl's name is Alexandria, although her mother fondly referred to her as Alexa. It is a name that has now become my own. With a mere year separating me from my fateful demise, I ponder the means by which I entered this role. My transformation began by recognizing the fatal poison of the fruit, leading to her untimely death. Once her life was extinguished, I took her place. Regrettably, within the context of the novel, I am a side character fated to an early demise. Yet, I reject the notion of surrendering my life. While the novel's pages may dictate my destiny, I shall endeavor to alter its course and determine my own path.

As I waded through the plot's intricacies, I found myself transported into the very heart of the narrative. The protagonist, Ava Ace, was a viscount's daughter within the Aston Empire, a character she had always admired for her tenacity and honesty.

But it was Ava's tragic fate that had cast a shadow over my reading. The pages of the novel foretold a grim future – a cruel uncle destined to end Ava's cousin's life when she reached the tender age of thirteen, all for the sake of acquiring her magical necklace. 

I have to defy her tragic fate. Also, I will set forth on an uncharted course that wasn't in the novel. Because I will live. I won't die like Alexandria. Again I observed the necklace. The necklace pendant has a sign and there was some writing. 

A closer inspection of the necklace yielded a revelation: it was a cherished heirloom of the Herald family. It possessed mystical properties, capable of adopting various forms. The decision to shape it as a necklace had been a safeguard, and protecting it from the young heir who could easily misplace it somewhere unknown.

"The novel, 'The Story of Ava Ace,' is my new reality. Ava Ace, the Viscount's daughter within the Aston Empire, was a character I admired for her unyielding commitment to unveiling the truth. Yet, my fate as the heir of the Herald family, doomed to perish at the age of thirteen at the hands of my treacherous uncle, remains unchanged. However, I am resolute in my refusal to accept this preordained outcome. My life is my own, and I shall not forfeit it to anyone."

Also, I remember that the Ace family was connected to the herald family. Ava's father took the necklace from Alexa and made her the herald family's new heir. What a turn of story!

Imposter! Imposter! I liked this character. How could I? Ava Ace found that Alexa's uncle was the one who killed Alexa. She was a good female lead who knew how to tell the truth. Sadly I will die when I reach thirteen years old. Because this body's uncle will come to find me. Takes her necklace from her and kills her for his greed.

Alexandria was born in Autumn. Now is the spring, then I don't have time to waste. I was a fan of the novel because I like martial arts. I read many novels based on martial arts. There was a historical novel where the female lead knew all the things. Such as reading, chess, music, painting, medicine, and martial arts. So I was interested in all the things. Because one of my favorite female leads was an expert in all of these. So I wanted to learn everything like her. That's why I became a researcher in various subjects. Who didn't care anything and didn't like injustice? So I learned all of them. Many people called me crazy, I learned this because of a novel. But in this novel male lead has Aura. I don't know if Alexa has Aura or not.

Because she was mentioned in only a few chapters. The only thing I know here is mana/Aura in this world, and all people don't have it. In this world, Aura is a very important thing. Royal family members and a few high-level warriors can have Aura. That means she was a side character who didn't have anything. All the reader was sympathetic towards her. Now I am that poor side character.

So I learned everything while reading a novel when I was fifteen in my past life. I can't die in vain in my greedy uncle's hand. I am thinking about how can I escape from his hand. While thinking the night came. This little body isn't energetic. I think I have to make this body stronger. So that I can live till my old age. Who wants to die early?

Since I learned all the necessary things in my past life. I will live freely and happily in this life.

After finishing thinking, I ate some food and fell asleep.

At that time I didn't know that living freely would be my wishful thinking. I have to work hard to become stronger now than in my past life.