Ch.99EP 0 From the Beginning [Complete]

Dealing with Jörmungandr didn’t immediately change the world.

Everything remained the same as usual. The daily routine of the sun rising and setting.

Even the Fusion Bodies emerging from collapsed ruins.

The only difference was that the electricity we’d enjoyed for 20 years was gone.

The survivors had to relocate.

There was nowhere suitable to stay because of Jörmungandr’s rampage.

So the place chosen for residence was, naturally, the frozen citadel that existed inside the large mirror.

This was also Aurel’s suggestion, and the second-generation users who had grown up under her brainwashing followed her decision without complaint.

Aurel seemed to be enjoying the current situation immensely.

She always smiled and took the lead in directing people.

Building her own kingdom in this frozen world.

I fell into thought watching her.

As soon as I escaped from Jörmungandr’s body, I received a blood transfusion from Aurel.

During that process, her memories flowed into me, and I discovered one strange memory among them.

A memory of looking down at this world as if possessing an enormous body.

What’s peculiar is that apart from that memory, everything else was normal.

Aurel had been an ordinary woman living in South Korea.

She had lived an unremarkable life, except for her slightly unusual taste in enjoying Blood Carnival.

How did someone who had lived such an ordinary life come to possess such a memory?

My suspicion accelerates.

Aurel had never consumed the blood of another vampire.

I knew this fact because I had inherited all of her memories.

So how did this alien memory get mixed in?

“Aurel.”

“Yes?”

Aurel, who had been riding Hwang-gu while busily commanding the second-generation users, stopped in her tracks with a bright smile at my call.

Looking at Aurel’s eyes, I somehow thought they resembled the moonlight in the sky.

Why hadn’t I realized it before? They were so similar.

Suspicion becomes certainty.

Countless words boil inside me and then disappear.

What finally emerged with difficulty was a very short question.

“…Did you enjoy it?”

Aurel’s eyes widened at my question.

At that moment, the dark clouds covering the sky slowly disappeared.

As always, Aurel nodded with a bright smile.

Behind her, the bright moonlight revealed itself.

“I really enjoyed it!”

“What are you planning to do next?”

“Next? Hmm…”

Aurel fell into deep thought at my question.

Very, very deep thought.

After what seemed like a long time,

Aurel blinked and opened her mouth.

“Please wait for the next update?”

The moment Aurel finished her answer, the pale moonlight in the sky began to disappear.

The dark clouds reappeared and covered it.

***

Aurel gathered all the remaining people into the large mirror.

The large winter citadel was a place created for this purpose.

She was still enjoying the role-play she had created, and wished for this playtime to continue forever.

And if I didn’t reveal the truth, she would continue this life forever.

“Ah… what about food?”

On the day everyone moved to the cold winter citadel.

I muttered while looking outside the castle.

At that moment, numerous Blood Fruit Trees grew on the cold ice field.

Aurel rejoiced, saying that change had come to the world.

After that, Aurel began to cultivate this snow-covered field with the second-generation users.

They built walls and created a village inside.

I still reigned as queen, while Aurel and Hwang-gu served as the queen’s lovers.

With everything needed for living available inside, there was no need to go out.

The second-generation users naturally stopped going outside the mirror world.

***

Time passed very quickly.

Around the time wrinkles began to appear on the faces of the second-generation human users who hadn’t aged well, Aurel said to me.

“Charlotte!”

“Yes.”

As time passed, my attitude toward Aurel had also dulled.

If I didn’t pay special attention, she would always exist by my side as a little girl, and as a lover who shared warm body heat and rubbed skin.

“Shall we go outside?”

“Outside?”

“Yes!”

I got up at Aurel’s question.

The white cloth draped over my body slipped down, revealing my pale naked form.

The only things attached to my body were Aurel’s blonde hair and Hwang-gu’s red wolf fur.

“You’ve prepared something new, haven’t you?”

“Yes!”

Aurel nodded at my question.

“What have you prepared this time?”

“This time it’s a slightly different genre!”

Aurel began to explain another story she had worked hard to prepare.

A girl who visits an antique shop by chance buys a large mirror.

Returning home, while combing her hair in front of the mirror, she is tricked by a mysterious entity inside and gives her blood, becoming a vampire.

The girl, now a vampire, lives an ordinary life without realizing she has changed.

Even though she instinctively avoids sunlight and flowing water, and can no longer wear silver as it causes red spots on her skin.

During this time, she is discovered by a group called hunters who hunt vampires and werewolves, and is pursued.

The girl fights the hunters who break into her house.

In the process, the mirror breaks, awakening the vampire queen Charlotte who was sealed in the mirror, which is where the story begins.

“This time, I’m the main character!”

“And Hwang-gu…?”

“Hwang-gu is with me too!”

At that moment, Hwang-gu, who had been sleeping, suddenly raised her head.

But after perking up her large ears, she closed her eyes again and sprawled out on the bed.

“That story. Are we starting it right now?”

“No! I need a little preparation. The outside is almost ready, but I need to slightly manipulate everyone’s memories here.”

“Will I lose my memories too?”

“Hmm… not that. Because I like you, Charlotte.”

Aurel said that and approached me, leaving a small kiss on my cheek.

“I’ll leave now and we’ll start tomorrow. You need to wait here, okay?”

Aurel left those words and disappeared.

As if she had never been there in the first place.

Only the sensation left on my cheek was evidence that Aurel had been there.

I got off the bed and took out an empty wine bottle.

I couldn’t fully trust Aurel’s words.

I bit my finger and let the blood flow into the wine bottle.

The bright red blood trickled down, filling the wine bottle.

As the smell of blood spread, Hwang-gu jumped up and approached me.

“Woof woof!”

It was a bark as if asking why I was drawing blood.

I smiled lightly and sealed the wine bottle with a cork.

If memories are manipulated, what memories will Hwang-gu and I have?

I put the wine bottle in the shadows and embraced Hwang-gu.

As I buried my face between the large, fluffy wolf’s chest, Hwang-gu whimpered and licked me.

“I told you I don’t like the wolf form.”

“Whimper…”

***

The little girl Aurel diligently moved the doll she had created.

A doll with the memories of an ordinary girl living in South Korea.

Although she didn’t like its appearance very much, this problem would be solved when she met her queen.

“Here… attack…”

Aurel immediately prepared the next situation.

She made black shadows attack her doll.

Windows shatter and violent gunshots ring out.

But the doll Aurel controls doesn’t die. Because Aurel herself wanted it that way.

At that moment, the doll Aurel was controlling climbed up to the attic, and finally the old mirror broke.

Crash…!

The moment the mirror broke, Aurel frowned and attempted a spectacular production.

Dark clouds began to gather in the clear sky, and she changed the blue moonlight to red.

At that moment, the vampire queen emerged from the broken mirror.

Noble, arrogant, beautiful—her own queen.

Aurel believed without doubt that this emotion was love.

This world was created solely for Charlotte.

Hoping that she would like it, Aurel moved the doll.

Vampire Queen Charlotte killed all the shadows that had attacked the doll.

The queen enjoyed the death of humans, and taking the wine from the shadows, she drank it to the music of their screams.

Truly befitting a vampire queen.

Aurel was greatly satisfied with Charlotte’s actions and switched places with the doll.

***

“Y-you are…”

I looked down at Aurel, who was sitting on the floor trembling.

Aurel kept her promise in a strange way.

What I was conscious of were the memories of Charlotte who had lived for 3,000 years. Not a single piece of my previous memories remained there.

If I hadn’t drawn my blood, I would certainly have lost myself.

The uncertain gamble had succeeded.

“Charlotte.”

“Ch-Charlotte…”

“That’s my name.”

In this world, Aurel and I had a setting where we were lovers in a past life.

Looking back at the memories of the previous world, it wasn’t exactly wrong, but the memories Aurel had set were quite heavily dramatized.

At that moment, a wolf jumped out from under the shadow with a pop.

It was Hwang-gu with her red fur.

“Woof!”

As soon as she appeared, Hwang-gu spun her tail around and licked Aurel’s cheek.

I recalled the setting Aurel had created for Hwang-gu.

A werewolf princess who betrayed her kind for love of the vampire queen and became my lover.

Hwang-gu’s memories and settings hadn’t changed much.

“This is Hwang-gu.”

“Hwang-gu…”

I looked out the collapsed window.

The blackened sky and the red moon in the sky were scattering a strange magic.

It was the moment when Aurel’s desired new story began.

I extended my hand to Aurel and said.

“Will you come with me?”

Aurel took my hand.

I immediately spread my wings and flew up into the sky.

Hwang-gu, who had been attached to my shadow, naturally hid her body back into the shadow.

“W-where are we going?”

“Anywhere. Wherever you wish.”

“Oh…”

Aurel blushed at my words and nestled into my arms.

The world created this time had a considerable portion of romance novel elements.

I secretly sighed.