Prologue: Erica Aurelia, the Villainous Lady
“How did this happen…?”
I, Erica, the Duke of Aurelia’s daughter, couldn’t move when I saw myself in the mirror.
Dark golden hair like honey was gently rolled elegantly.
The skin was white like milk, and the cheeks were rosy.
Although it was still the young face of an 8-years-old, she had high eyebrows and erald eyes that looked arrogant.
—Is that, ?
Wrong! That wasn’t ! That was—
I began to feel a sense of incompatibility with the hair color, skin color, and eye color.
Above all, this characteristically vertical roll……!!
This was the villainous lady of the romance-fantasy girl ga『Liber Monstrum ~Phantom Beasts and the Winter Princess~』Erica Aurelia!
I was seized by a sensation that made my feet wobbly, and I leaned on the mirror to stabilize myself.
One by one, the mories of my past life was gushing forth like a spring, and I felt sick.
Does this an that I was reincarnated and awakened the mory of my previous life?
I thought that was absurd, but just now, the recollection about my life as Erica said that this was the world of『Liber Monstrum ~Phantom Beasts and the Winter Princess~』
And that was why I had nothing but bad feelings no matter how good my face was now.
More than that, it was that villainous lady, Erica Aurelia.
I knew that Erica was bullying the heroine who entered the magic academy, and she was the first person to die as the ti for the bizarre incident started.
If I grew up like this, when the drama for the heroine and her chosen capture target reached the climax and the murder case began, I would die!
I really wanted to avoid that.
Being suddenly attacked and died again, that would be too regrettable.
—Again?
And the mory that I didn’t want to rember rushed into my head.
It seed to be the mory of my last mont in the previous life.
I was shocked because I could see shiny things.
I felt a burning heat in the side of my flank and when I stretched out my hand there, it was bright red with blood.
I escaped to ask soone for help, but I was stabbed many tis as I shouted—.
I see, after that, I was dead……
He was my colleague, I thought he was a man who never talked much.
Suddenly, on my way back from work, he stabbed many tis while saying ‘You betrayed ’, but why?
The only contact with him that I could rember was lending him a retractable umbrella when it began to rain, but what was his problem?
Or was it that?
There was a similar incident during high school.
I belonged to the Geography Club, and everyone in the club (which consisted of boys except for ) said ‘I fall in love with you’ and in the end it was misunderstood that I was supposed to have a physical relationship with everyone, and that rumor was circulated around the school.
It was hell.
I was weak and poor; I couldn’t clear up the misunderstanding.
One of the mber who truly believed it hit from behind at night……
By the ti I left the hospital, the Geography Club had beco deserted and I had the worst nicknas, such as ‘Circle Crusher’, ‘Small Carnivorous Plant’, or just plain ‘Slut’……, hahaha…
Painful.
Even at university, or even in society, it was not as serious as that, but there were similar incidents.
I failed at trying to overco real human relationships as safely as possible.
It was troubleso trying to be involved with other people other than for business, and so I got addicted to sothing.
It was ga speedruns1.
Fiction wouldn’t try to go as far as trying to hit through the display screen!
How wonderful!
The mories I had rembered were mostly my disastrous experiences and the main strategy thod of the ga.
I was biased in my life experiences.
The more I traced as I followed the mory threads, there was no choice but to accept because I experienced it in real life.
So, I didn’t dislike Erica.
Strong spirit.
Prideful.
Active.
She was a girl who seed to embodied the strengths I admired in the past life.
She was close to my ideal except for the harassing people part.
If I were a girl like this, I wouldn’t be harassed or stabbed by a misunderstanding Yandere man.
Maybe an ordinary human being would also be able to overco it, but that was a trivial thing.
That’s it!
I could change this romance-fantasy girl ga into a happy-go-lucky fantasy girl ga!
But, was it really possible?
At minimum, I would have to escape my mysterious deaths.
Then I felt like I could live more freely than my previous life.
Not bad.
Surely clues could be found in the mories of my previous life.
Why did Erica die?
That was because Erica trampled over the lives of other characters.
If I avoided that, I might be able to seek refuge in the middle of a fatal situation.
The dark past of each capture targets.
It was a death flag that Erica built herself.
Since that was the case, I could strike down the death flags with all my power.
However, there was sothing I want to check before that.
This ‘mory’ could also be my delusion.
It was possible that this wasn’t a reincarnation but a sign that I was going crazy.
The young Erica was just playing with her 12-year-old older brother.
She got sleepy when she read an easy-to-read book with a lot of pictures from her older brother’s collection.
She fell asleep on a chaise longue and she just ca in front of the mirror with her ssy hair again.
In order to judge whether my mory was a delusion or not, I had to make sure whether sothing that I knew had happened or not.
“Are you okay, Erica?”
It was my older brother that ca close to , worried about who was leaning against the mirror.
Just in ti.
“Your complexion isn’t good.”
My brother’s na was Edward Aurelia.
He was the first child of Duke of Aurelia and one of the heroine’s capture target.
He had the sa blonde hue as Erica’s, but his eyes were very kind and sweet.
“Onii-sama, thank you very much. I just got a little tired for a mont.”
“I see, you just read variety of books until a while ago. You should eat sweet things.”
Edward took out a small package from a small box on the table, and unwrapped the package.
“Here, open your mouth.”
When I opened my mouth, the chocolate grain was thrown in.
Onii-sama was always sweet to .
“Is it delicious?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah, you’re a good girl, Erica.”
He stroked my hair with a gentle hand.
If I had such an older brother, I wouldn’t bla anyone for being a brocon.
Well then, I needed to get the information I wanted from my gentle older brother.
“Um, Onii-sama.”
“Hm, what is it, Erica? Do you want more chocolate?”
“If I ate too much before supper I would get fat.”
I felt bad for making my older brother’s smile dimd a little.
But, I had to ask him about the incident at the beginning of this ga.
“May I ask you about things in the northern, the ice and snow-covered, Lucanrant territory?”
“……What are you talking about?”
“About what happened in the North last year.”
“…You an the Dukedom of Lucanrant Tragedy, huh…”
Edward-onii-sama looked sad as he said it.
“That’s, when Erica gets a little older……I will tell you in detail at that ti, now I want you to forgive .”
“……I understand, Onii-sama. I’m sorry.”
“No, it’s okay, I’m sorry for being fussy, Erica.”
It would have been better if I could have a confirmation that there was a tragedy in the North called ‘Werewolf Massacre Incident.’
I didn’t think that the 20-years-old older brother would explain such a grueso story to his 8-year-old sister in more details.
“Then, I will return to my room.”
With this, it was confird that this world is『Liber Monstrum』
The phantom beasts – nurous monsters, werewolves, vampires – were the beginning of a strange world where they were engulfed in the shadows of the night.
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1 Speedrun: a term in gaming where you tried to challenge yourself while gaming, whether it was to beat the highest score, beat it in the fastest ti, or make all routes play-throughs.
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