[The Star Light of Dawn]
It was a romance fantasy novel that my younger sister half-forced me to read.
It has been three days since Kim Hyunsoo possessed this novel.
And surprisingly, he wasn’t the only one who had become possessed by it.
“By the way, Dad… that… what is it… something a bit…”
“Ah…hahaha!! You! Right now that… ha… I’m going crazy… Ahahaha!!!”
“Um… honey, then I’m hurt…”
This family, who has become the extra villainous family, including Kim Hyunseok, who has possessed the Countess ‘Freya Evergarden,’ aged forty-six this year.
The reason why Dariann, who has lived half of his life with him, couldn’t help but burst into laughter was that the father, Hyun-seok, had become a beautiful countess dressed in sparkling clothes.
“But it really doesn’t seem like Dad, but he fits pretty well… Haha!”
“Our daughter… then I’ll cry, Dad.”
Next to him, trying to hold back laughter, was his daughter, but now Felix, who had become the first son of the Evergarden family, couldn’t help but laugh until tears streamed down his face.
Freya, now staring blankly into space with a hollow expression, lost her light.
“By the way, Mom looks perfect.”
“Really? I’m comfortable in this body! There’s no annoying back pain~ I feel strong! I like it!”
Looking at Dariann, Felix shared his feelings about his mother with a new body, and Dariann grinned, raising her arms.
Dariann, who had been a strong woman even in her previous life, seemed to genuinely enjoy her new male body.
Although the sharp and blunt facial features gave off a somewhat awkward vibe when she smiled like that.
“But our daughter is something… um…”
“You don’t have to give me empty compliments. Even I can see she looks too suspicious.”
Felix sighed as he tried to come up with words to ensure Dariann wouldn’t get hurt.
“I really can’t stand this shrewd and vile male character… Aah! I wish I had possessed someone like the Duke of the North! Or even the Crown Prince!”
Felix, whose hair was styled in a peculiar part and had a strangely upturned gaze, looked like a typical villain from common creative works.
“Well, at least it’s nice for you, right? To become such a beautiful woman without ever having a girlfriend.”
“Do you want to die?”
Turning away, Felix threw a remark to Rosaria, who was sitting beside him, only to receive a disgruntled response from her.
“No, I was a man! Suddenly wearing a sparkling skirt… it’s so uncomfortable!”
If Felix had a villainous face, Rosaria looked like the perfect wicked woman.
Her sharp eyes and long eyelashes gave her a fierce gaze and a facial expression that screamed “evil woman.”
“I’ve never even dated a girl… damn it.”
Thinking about her own junior who had disappeared without ever having the chance to shine, tears rolled down Rosaria’s face.
“Dad… I understand… yes.”
“Ah, son…!”
As Rosaria approached the laughing Freya and placed her arm on her shoulder, as if to say she completely understood her feelings.
“I was so surprised when I woke up in this woman’s body…”
“Yeah, I was really surprised… I didn’t realize how heavy my chest would feel…”
“…I don’t really know about that. Huh? Suddenly saying that makes me feel strange?”
Rosaria approached to comfort her father, who had become the laughingstock of her mother and sister.
However, when Freya, with a gloomy expression, lifted her ample chest from below, Rosaria felt an indescribable emotion.
It was huge.
Really huge.
Having just come out of the military, where men had been everywhere until just a few days ago, Rosaria found herself naturally drawn to the attraction of such ample breasts.
Still, even though Freya had a beautiful face with abundant charm and a violent chest size, the knowledge that it belonged to her father complicated Rosaria’s feelings.
“Why are these things so big? It’s annoying!”
“Ah, ayayay!! Honey!!”
“Ugh… I wish I had those breasts, why did it have to be Dad…!”
“Daughter?!”
Watching this spectacle, the two mothers—now seeming to be father and son—grumbled out of spite.
Among them, Dariann, seemingly annoyed, grabbed Freya’s chest with her hands, causing Freya to shed a few tears from the sudden pain.
“Wait! Let’s talk! Let’s wrap it up! Okay?!”
As Freya’s statement calmed the family down, they returned to their seats, gathering their thoughts.
“Cough. So, first, we need to figure out what this family’s possession… Oh, what a thing… Anyway, we need to sort out what kind of place this world is and what the Evergarden family is like.”
Freya, receiving the family’s gazes, cleared her throat and began to speak.
“If that’s the case, I know it very well!”
Now that it was finally his turn, Felix stood up energetically, straightened his clothes, and struck a confident pose.
“Okay! [The Star Light of Dawn]. What’s this novel about… Basically, the worldview is a typical setting full of convenient arrangements by authors, continuing the development of a medieval romance fantasy, but magic comes into play, and the fantasy setting comes in strongly!
Because of that, it’s a world where magic is somewhat ahead of technology~ you can understand that easily…”
“Ah… huh?”
“…What are you talking about?”
“What? Isn’t it just a fantasy world where magic exists?”
“No! You don’t understand! There is magic, but the framework is different!”
“…What does that mean?”
Felix confidently stepped forward, mumbling, but the others, who had no knowledge of romance fantasy or web novels, found it hard to understand what Felix was saying.
Still, they managed to ask questions in between and could sort things out to some extent.
[The Star Light of Dawn]
The main stage is the Ovina Empire, a large continent on this planet, where the story unfolds from a girl in a rural area at the far end of the Ovina Empire receiving a revelation from the starlight.
The Ovina Empire unified the continent through a conquest war 1,000 years ago and has maintained peace ever since.
However, as a girl from the countryside receives a revelation, the demon tribes, who have remained isolated from the continent until now, begin to openly show their ambitions for world domination and launch an invasion against the Empire.
The girl who received the revelation, Eileen, enters the Empire’s academy and undergoes growth, which is the essence of the novel “The Star Light of Dawn.”
Now, the family that has possessed the Evergarden family is one of the counts among the ranks of dukes, marquesses, counts, viscounts, and barons—a family that holds quite a high position among the nobles.
“And now, my brother and I are the extra villain characters who get severely punished for bullying the protagonist in the early stages when Eileen enters the academy.”
“Is it like, ‘How did a commoner like you get in here!’?”
“Yeah, exactly the stereotypical villain role.”
“Am I… that? No, just looking at your face, you do look a bit fierce…”
The Evergarden family literally played the role of villains who oppressed the protagonist in the early stages.
“So, what happens afterwards?”
“Um… honestly, there’s hardly any reappearance after that… they do show up briefly afterward, but… the family probably gets wiped out due to a rebellion?”
“Wait, daughter, what did you just say…? A rebellion? The family gets wiped out?”
“Uh… isn’t that a big deal?”
They could somehow get past being scolded by the protagonist, but with Felix’s follow-up, Freya felt a chill run down her spine, and Dariann, noticing her husband’s reaction, felt a bead of cold sweat trickle down her forehead.
“Wait, does that mean we all die?”
“Uh… probably…?”
“Hey, you crazy! Is it okay to say something so important so casually?!”
“No! It’s just… we just have to not bully the protagonist, right? In this genre of possession, you typically possess characters who die in the future, but somehow manage to avoid it!”
“But we don’t even know why the family gets wiped out!”
Similarly, Rosaria, who heard about their eventual death, glared at Felix in anger.
Having finally been discharged from the damn military, she felt miserable about possessing a strange novel on the day she got out, so hearing that their family would be wiped out was understandably infuriating.
“Wait… I feel like I remember… Ah! I remembered! The academy! The Crown Prince secretly comes in to help the protagonist, but not knowing that, we’ll probably end up bullying them as usual!”
“Ah… so that’s why it’s a rebellion? Then we just need to not bully her, right?”
“Phew, that’s a relief. It’s nothing serious, right?”
But at that moment, Felix, who was digging through his memories again, made Rosaria and Dariann sigh in relief and regain their composure.
“Right? So there’s no need to worry so much—”
“Wait a minute.”
At that moment, Freya, who had been silently listening, interrupted Felix.
“Is that really the end?”
“…Dad?”
“For the past three days, the people in this mansion… doesn’t it feel strange?”
“People?”
“It’s as if most of the employees are frozen, as if they’re ready to cut their own throats at any moment.”
“Uh… well, that’s probably because the original people here are bad guys who bully them all the time?”
“That seems to be the case. They were trembling even though I hadn’t done anything?”
“Right, today, the person who was combing my hair knelt down and apologized profusely because a strand got slightly tangled…”
Hearing Freya’s words, they began to reflect on the past three days and recall the people who had served them.
As she had said, they all realized that even though they were nobles, everyone treated them far too difficultly.
“If what our daughter said is correct, the core issue might be that bullying the protagonist at the academy became a problem, but… there still seems to be a fundamental cause.”
“… gulp”
“Uh… I’m not sure beyond that…”
“So what are we going to do?”
The atmosphere, which had previously felt like “Oh, it’s nothing serious~,” suddenly sank again, and each of them held their breath, waiting for Freya to continue.
“I think we need to go to the office first.”
Finally, Freya initiated action.
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