The hero hadn’t gained strength yet. Bella looked at Kiel, who was fast asleep.
She patted him on the shoulder and saw him occasionally flinch as if he had a bad dream.
In the book, Kiel had lived as a peddler until he went to the palace.
Although he endured several challenges at a young age, the divine power he had gained by chance protected him.
‘For the novel to continue according to plan, I’ll have to leave you somewhere tomorrow.’
Bella caressed Kiel’s hair while she read the novel they were in.
Kiel, the illegitimate son of the emperor, wandered around until he 15 and entered the palace. At 18, he left the palace to gather the sacred objects to gain mana.
The novel began when Kiel turned 18—right when he met Rosanna.
He met her while collecting a sacred object and was struck with curiosity.
As the night wore on, Bella fell deeper into the novel.
The more she read, the more her face grew darker.
When she read the last page, Bella sighed loudly and buried her face into her hands.
‘I’m screwed.’
She peeked at Kiel and his pendant through the cracks between her fingers.
The pendant, a relic, had divine power.
Before Kiel became the crown prince, the divine power had shown itself many times.
In some scenes, the divine power was able to protect the young, wandering Kiel.
Bella read the scenes she had bookmarked once again.
[“My uncle sold me to some sorcerer, and there, I met an angel who almost died in an experiment.” Kiel showed the pendant around his neck. “Since then, whenever there is danger, a force comes to help me.”]
Uncle. Mage. Experiment.
“So the guy I killed earlier was the sorcerer.” Bella gulped as she touched the pendant.
‘I touched it.’
If Bella, who came from the demon world, could touch the pendant, it surely did not contain any divine power.
“Haha…”
So, it didn’t contain that damn divine power because Bella had killed the sorcerer conducting the experiment and brought Kiel here.
Bella laughed dejectedly.
She wanted to destroy the novel.
Unfortunately for Kiel, the ‘hero’ of his childhood had just stopped him from gaining strength.
She was like a villain.
Bella stayed up all night.
But something relieved Bella’s troubled mind. It was like the dawn’s light shedding light over the darkness.
It was the ‘Customer Center’ button.
It popped up after Bella read the whole novel.
She entered the customer center to find two sections: ‘1:1 Questions’ and ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.
Without hesitation, Bella pressed on ‘1:1 Questions’.
[The cell phone will turn off after completing 1:1 inquiries, so please do it only in an emergency.]
Bella hesitated before pressing the ‘Back’ button.
‘Yes, other people must be wondering about the same things I am.’
[Frequently Asked Questions]
With trembling hands, Bella scrolled down.
[Q: If I change the plot, can it still continue as normal?]
There was… someone like Bella.
[A: Writers may change the plot while writing, or there may be some holes in the plot, so it’s okay to change the plot as long as there is no major disruption.]
There were no problems if it was a small change.
‘But what if it’s a big change?’
“Hahaha…”
Bella could only laugh in her misery.
There was a knock, and the door creaked open.
It was Zhanbar.
“I’m done washing.”
“What?”
“I washed in water.”
“You’ve been washing up all this time.”
Bella frowned as Zhanbar nodded.
He’d been taking a bath all night.
“You didn’t use soap, did you?”
It must be the reason the stench still lingered.
“What’s that?”
“…”
“By the way, it seems I haven’t understood what the princess said, so I’ve come to eat the kid.”
Bella was too annoyed to give him a reply.
“You’re trying to eat him as well, aren’t you?”
“Get out.”
The demons seemed to have a knack for annoying Bella just by talking to her.
She couldn’t imagine living with them for thousands of years.
Bella opened her eyes and continued to look for herself in the novel.
Was there any way she could get the novel back on track?
If this continued, Kiel may die without even getting started. He’d never make it to the original story.