AUTHOR’S NOTE

Heyya guys! This is just a trial run to see if I can finish a short story to begin with. I'm really happy that even if there were some twists and turns to the plot, I still finished it! Yey!

This story was inspired by a certain university student I know whose roommate did not always stay with her.

From what I've heard, the roommate only stays for about four days at most in a month to sleep in their room. Imagine that.

The other boarders have their own roommates to cozy up with while she's in her room, all alone.

When that roommate was studying in the middle of the night, she said that she saw "someone" standing by the bedside of the sleeping girl. The roommate told this to her, which creeped the hell out of her.

The roommate told this to the girl before she left, so imagine the horror she felt when she's alone, sleeping in the middle of the night.

The roommate is a MedTech student, so maybe, she was holing herself up in the laboratory right now?

I'm not in a medicine related course but in a business course, so I can only grasp a few details from what I've heard.

The first few chapters were of the slice-of-life genre, which basically happens most of the time in reality.

Anyway, connection with reality aside, I was supposed to give the story a "horror" feeling, similar to the one the roommate told that girl.

But I'm not really good with the horror theme due to my rigid writing style, so I mixed fantasy and supernatural elements in!

And finally, I got Raja! The former mixed-blood Empress in an unknown empire in another world. Her background was supposed to be the daughter of the Emperor and the princess of the Abyss who have the Reincarnation Marble, a mythical marble that can grant the user full memories of life, destroying the planet by the way, and safely guarding the user to arrive in a separate world. It's just that overpowered.

She was a gentle ruler after the death of the Emperor but did not hide her yuri characteristics and fell in love with Mirabelle, the daughter of a Count. Mirabelle was a handmaiden of the Duke's princess Vanche, which is why she got infatuated with Vanche.

When Raja inherited the throne, she first conquered the surrounding territories before getting Mirabelle to be her princess consort, instead of getting a prince consort, which became a scandal in the empire.

However, Raja was busy during this period of time, so she somewhat neglected Mirabelle in the palace, which gave Vanche the chance to get closer to Mirabelle.

In the background, Mirabelle was closer to Vanche than with Raja. It was when Vanche rebelled that Raja realized that. In the first place, Vanche was second-in-line to the throne after the Duke, the former Emperor's younger brother.

Being half-crazed due to betrayal, Raja used the marble, which destroyed this world. Then, she shuttled through various dimensions as an apparition before finding the soul of Mirabelle, who's now in her university days.

So, in the end, the "horror" elements of the story became a fantasy type chapter that stitched the plot into place, although it was super twisted.

Raja's love and obsession for Mira was mostly one-sided. In that ancient world, she fell for Vanche. In the modern world, she fell in love with her seatmate. She didn't even have a space for Raja in her heart. After all, she is single-minded and would always be loyal to those who got her heart. It's quite tragic for Raja, right?

Vanche's character was a bit tsundere. She might seem like she's playing around Mira, but she genuinely cares for the forced princess consort, which is why she did not involve Mira in her schemes to rebel. Mira did not even know that there's a rebellion happening because Vanche sheltered her away from it. And Vanche knows better than to openly show her affection for Mira when Raja got a backlash for acting like that.

In the modern world, Mira's seatmate is absolutely straight, so she didn't even hesitate to reject Mira's confession. And they parted ways after graduation, so she might not even remember Mira if not reminded.

The ending of the story was a bit abrupt, I admit, but it's just a short story. It's also an open one. Who knows, Mira might fall for Raja in the end after disappearing with her to who knows where.

Anyway, the story still got finished, so it still served its purpose, I think.

So, let's celebrate for the end of << I Have A Roommate? >> !!!

This is your little author, Astell Cassiopeia, signing out.