Chapter 01
“Hah, hah.”
A pitch-black sky.
Black smoke billowed all around, and the stench of decay wafted from somewhere.
I barely managed to force open my eyelids, caked with blood, and looked at the dead people around me one by one.
‘…That bastard over there is the male lead, and that one is the second male lead.’
Turning my head away from the corpses lying scattered about, I saw another pile of dead bodies tumbling around.
If I had to point out something unusual… they all had the same hair color.
The same hair color as mine.
They were my older brothers.
‘That one is the firstborn, the one still clutching his sword until the end is the second… The third one was a crybaby, and he couldn’t even close his eyes.’
I didn’t have much time left now either.
I let out an annoyed sigh.
‘Ah, I couldn’t even make it past 22 this round either.’
There was no trace of the fear typical of someone facing death.
Because I was already repeating this whole ordeal for the third time.
Amazingly, this world is inside a book of the childcare genre.
I have experienced this world three times already.
I’m tired.
Twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two.
All ages at which I died.
I looked at my dead or dying family members with pity.
‘…It’s not like it’s a crime to be born into a villainous family. Pfft.’
There probably isn’t anyone else who lived as pitifully as me after possessing a character in a book.
Especially since I possessed a character in an adorable childcare story.
I slowly raised my head.
Black masses filling the sky.
Among them, a human figure floated up.
Behind the floating man, the smoke formed a certain shape.
It was a dragon.
To explain, that man was a living dragon.
The one called the Dragon Duke.
And this whole mess happened because that dragon was enraged and rampaging.
‘Hah, I wish there wouldn’t be a next round. But that’s probably not going to happen.’
No matter what kind of crazy things I tried, why wouldn’t fate change?
Now I could feel my life ebbing away.
At the same time, the man raised his hand, and a black sphere formed in it.
A massive black sphere.
Considering that a city was obliterated by something much smaller than that, this time would surely be the end.
‘If those crazy male lead bastards hadn’t provoked the Dragon Duke into rampaging…!’
Why on earth did they have to mess with the innocent Dragon Duke and cause this disaster?!
‘No, how does a childcare story end in a massacre?!’
I blankly stared at the sky one last time, then suddenly widened my eyes.
In the sky where the man floated, beyond the explosion of that black sphere, the world that would probably be destroyed… I saw something familiar through the sky that was already shattered into pieces.
Familiar roads, familiar bridges and rotaries. And Gwanghwamun and Gyeongbokgung…
‘Wait. Seoul streets?!’
I wasn’t mistaken.
It was the Seoul streets I now missed so dearly.
I spotted a clear Korean sign and opened my eyes even wider.
‘Why is that visible? Ah, if I go in there, I feel like I could go back home!’
But unfortunately… my eyes were slowly closing.
What, what is this?! I finally found my hometown, but…!
It’s so unfair.
I had no strength left to endure.
But even as I watched the black sphere approaching, I felt a thrill.
That’s it, with that, I can live longer!
I can go back home.
Facing death, I grinned.
Third round of the childcare life.
Next life, I’ll seduce the dragon.
