What exactly do you mean, we triggered a magic circle?
— ‘What did I do to trigger the circle?’
I asked, puzzled, keeping a straight face.
— ‘Because you broke the magic circle that was woven to kill that little boy, you foolish human!’
My younger self was a bit clueless, so I snapped back at the cat, who was pawing at me angrily.
— ‘Then why are you here? Are you trapped, too, with us?’
— ‘I-! This body! I’m-! Kyaah! I was summoned here by accident! So, why the hell am I here? Why!’
The cat, or rather, Divine Beast, threw a fluffy punch at the air.
— ‘Anyway, you’re going to die now that you’ve summoned this dangerous creature. If you don’t die, one of you will be sacrificed…’
With that, I woke up with a shudder.
— ‘What, I’m not dead, what does it mean that one of us will be sacrificed if we do not die?’
I immediately grabbed the journal I’d left on my bedside table.
— ‘It’s a good thing I still had my diary with me.’
For a beggar, the diary my brother had bought for me at a roadside stall was the most expensive and precious thing I owned.
I carried it with me at all times, both when I went to sleep and when I woke up, to record the events of my life. I stared down at the blank first page of the diary. Likewise, I had a strange intuition that writing would appear.
And my hunch that a hint would appear in the diary soon turned to certainty. The crooked handwriting that my younger self would have written was coming to life on the blank page.
[I had somehow managed to get a child out of the circle of magic, and I was summoned to a strange space.
My brother would be worried about me…
But it’s even more interesting, there’s a really cute cat here! It’s called Divine Beast, and I don’t know what it is, but it’s talking!
But this cat, Divine Beast keeps licking its tongue at us. He says we’re stuck in this cave forever because we made the wrong choice…
Is there really no way out? Why were we summoned here? Because of the magic circle that surrounded the child.
The child here wants me to sacrifice himself, so I can leave… but that doesn’t make sense.
More importantly, where did this child come from? Surely we were together in the noble’s hunting grounds, so why did he come here…?
I’m starting to get a little scared, but it’s also fun to pick berries and eat mushrooms and get a stomach ache.
Except my brother isn’t here…]
I close the diary and bite my lip tightly.
My suspicion that there might be a clue in the lost memories that could help me get revenge was true.
Divine Beast!
“How in the world did I meet a Divine Beast?”
My past self may not have known, but my present self does. Indeed, the black-furred, yellow-eyed cat was quite famous.
Mimi, the cat god.
A favorite of gods, empowered by the gods themselves. Of course, they rarely appear in this world, so most people don’t even know they exist.
So how do I, a mere mortal, know the divine beast?
Thanks to my prior knowledge, of course.
In the novel, Cassian learns of the existence of the Divine Beast and how to capture it from an ancient tome he stumbles upon.
My brother’s enemies specialized in sorcery. Things like black magic and demonic alchemy.
The Divine Beast was the antithesis of evil sorcery, and possession of it would be a great power for revenge. Cassian finds it but fails to tame it and uses it for his purposes. The cat eventually escapes from Cassian and disappears forever.
Indeed, the novel itself, 《 Bloody Revenge 》, was a series of failures, to the point where it was said that it was the author’s bloody revenge on Cassian…
In such a situation, what if I could find and tame the divine beast first?
‘I was about to give up, thinking that I wouldn’t be able to tame it anyway. Maybe…’
Mimi said that she had run into me in the past, and since it’s an animal, I might be able to tame it somehow if I do it right.
“My brother mentioned where he found the divine beast…”
I frowned and stretched forward with my arms and legs. I was getting more clues by the second.
But I had other questions.
Mimi aside, who was that little boy with me?
‘When I went missing, it said I came back alone… and I haven’t seen him since.’
He was very skinny. It reminded me of Rune…
I stroked Rune, who slept soundly beside me.
‘I wonder if the child survived?’
I’m not sure how I got out of that cave. But my memories were slowly returning, so I’d find out soon enough, and for now, I had to focus on finding the divine beast.
‘How exactly did my brother find Mimi the cat?’
‘To summarize, Mimi, the cat divine beast, is an attention seeker, weak to the strong and strong to the weak.’
Mimi needs attention from others and likes to shine like a raven.
She often disguised herself as a human and opened a dark auction house. He had a penchant for collecting rare items.
Not only that, but he was always on the lookout for humans to feed on.
…To make humans his pawns, so that he could devour them!
When does the Dark Auction House open? I have to get Mimi, prove myself useful, and then tame her like a beast of prey.
Even though it was a divine beast, it was still an animal.
This might be surprisingly easy for me, who knew how to tame them.
I put the diary back on the bookshelf and rummaged through the drawers.
‘In the novel, Mimi approached Cassian because she heard rumors that he was the flower of the capital, but I don’t have Cassian’s fame.’
Mimi was in my recollections, and I wondered who the child was.
‘I feel like I’m getting closer to finding answers.’
Whereas before I had simply sought to increase my fame by meeting with the Duke, I now needed a more concrete strategy.
It was at this point that I began to feverishly map out a plan to save Mimi. My brother’s video sphere, which had been glitching the entire time, sparkled and worked. He hadn’t even sent me Cello since we met at the palace that day.
I was surprised and shook the image ball, but it was in bad shape and strange.
— The son of a b… broke it.
“…Huh?”
— There’s…a…voodoo…practicing…bastard…so…watch out…
I couldn’t quite make out what he was saying.
— We… found… a… gap… to… send… the… cello…
The sphere stuttered with a crackling sound.
I shook the sphere vigorously, but nothing was revealed. There was no problem with the sphere connecting to Warret.
It was probably because the sphere my brother gave me was an old model.
For a moment, I felt sorry for my brother’s wallet again.
The windows of the mansion opened a fraction of an inch, and a damp, black feather slipped inside.
Cello flapped its wings and flew toward me.
[There may be a voodoo practitioner in your vicinity, so always be aware of your surroundings and take care of yourself.
Voodoo practitioners are dangerous. They’ll kill you, and then they’ll kill themselves.
Beware of the dead].
‘Voodoo… I wonder if the last spy was a voodoo practitioner?’
I recalled the attributes of the artifact.
Deception / Disguise / Fear.
‘If the fear comes from the dead, then it certainly fits.’
It was a helpful piece of information, but not something Cassian needed to know at this point.
Even though the identity of the Dark Villain was leaning towards the Duke of Cornwall, it didn’t entirely dispel his suspicions of other possibilities.
‘Voodoo, you mean voodoo.’
Then…
‘If the Final Villain is a voodoo practitioner, there’s bound to be an incident that interests him sooner or later.’
Soon enough, a case involving voodoo would shake the capital to its core.
From what I knew, the key to the case was a painting.
As I recalled the incident, I instantly recalled a specific plan, and a detailed picture, and my mind cleared.
‘I’ll get Mimi, and I’ll figure out the identity of the final villain.’
I smiled to myself as I quickly ushered Cello outside.
‘So this is where all those years of thinking about revenge have paid off…!’
The hundreds of pages of revenge manuals I’d spent day and night working on revenge were finally getting somewhere.
But I soon hit a setback.
As it turned out, ‘the method’ was only applicable if I was a prominent noble in the capital.
‘Should I save a noble?’
And then it happened. With a click, the door opened.
“Astel!”
Sally entered, ears perking up.
“…Huh?”
“Well, some of your friends have come to visit!”
…but I don’t have any friends in the capital?
What exactly do you mean, we triggered a magic circle?
— ‘What did I do to trigger the circle?’
I asked, puzzled, keeping a straight face.
— ‘Because you broke the magic circle that was woven to kill that little boy, you foolish human!’
My younger self was a bit clueless, so I snapped back at the cat, who was pawing at me angrily.
— ‘Then why are you here? Are you trapped, too, with us?’
— ‘I-! This body! I’m-! Kyaah! I was summoned here by accident! So, why the hell am I here? Why!’
The cat, or rather, Divine Beast, threw a fluffy punch at the air.
— ‘Anyway, you’re going to die now that you’ve summoned this dangerous creature. If you don’t die, one of you will be sacrificed…’
With that, I woke up with a shudder.
— ‘What, I’m not dead, what does it mean that one of us will be sacrificed if we do not die?’
I immediately grabbed the journal I’d left on my bedside table.
— ‘It’s a good thing I still had my diary with me.’
For a beggar, the diary my brother had bought for me at a roadside stall was the most expensive and precious thing I owned.
I carried it with me at all times, both when I went to sleep and when I woke up, to record the events of my life. I stared down at the blank first page of the diary. Likewise, I had a strange intuition that writing would appear.
And my hunch that a hint would appear in the diary soon turned to certainty. The crooked handwriting that my younger self would have written was coming to life on the blank page.
[I had somehow managed to get a child out of the circle of magic, and I was summoned to a strange space.
My brother would be worried about me…
But it’s even more interesting, there’s a really cute cat here! It’s called Divine Beast, and I don’t know what it is, but it’s talking!
But this cat, Divine Beast keeps licking its tongue at us. He says we’re stuck in this cave forever because we made the wrong choice…
Is there really no way out? Why were we summoned here? Because of the magic circle that surrounded the child.
The child here wants me to sacrifice himself, so I can leave… but that doesn’t make sense.
More importantly, where did this child come from? Surely we were together in the noble’s hunting grounds, so why did he come here…?
I’m starting to get a little scared, but it’s also fun to pick berries and eat mushrooms and get a stomach ache.
Except my brother isn’t here…]
I close the diary and bite my lip tightly.
My suspicion that there might be a clue in the lost memories that could help me get revenge was true.
Divine Beast!
“How in the world did I meet a Divine Beast?”
My past self may not have known, but my present self does. Indeed, the black-furred, yellow-eyed cat was quite famous.
Mimi, the cat god.
A favorite of gods, empowered by the gods themselves. Of course, they rarely appear in this world, so most people don’t even know they exist.
So how do I, a mere mortal, know the divine beast?
Thanks to my prior knowledge, of course.
In the novel, Cassian learns of the existence of the Divine Beast and how to capture it from an ancient tome he stumbles upon.
My brother’s enemies specialized in sorcery. Things like black magic and demonic alchemy.
The Divine Beast was the antithesis of evil sorcery, and possession of it would be a great power for revenge. Cassian finds it but fails to tame it and uses it for his purposes. The cat eventually escapes from Cassian and disappears forever.
Indeed, the novel itself, 《 Bloody Revenge 》, was a series of failures, to the point where it was said that it was the author’s bloody revenge on Cassian…
In such a situation, what if I could find and tame the divine beast first?
‘I was about to give up, thinking that I wouldn’t be able to tame it anyway. Maybe…’
Mimi said that she had run into me in the past, and since it’s an animal, I might be able to tame it somehow if I do it right.
“My brother mentioned where he found the divine beast…”
I frowned and stretched forward with my arms and legs. I was getting more clues by the second.
But I had other questions.
Mimi aside, who was that little boy with me?
‘When I went missing, it said I came back alone… and I haven’t seen him since.’
He was very skinny. It reminded me of Rune…
I stroked Rune, who slept soundly beside me.
‘I wonder if the child survived?’
I’m not sure how I got out of that cave. But my memories were slowly returning, so I’d find out soon enough, and for now, I had to focus on finding the divine beast.
‘How exactly did my brother find Mimi the cat?’
‘To summarize, Mimi, the cat divine beast, is an attention seeker, weak to the strong and strong to the weak.’
Mimi needs attention from others and likes to shine like a raven.
She often disguised herself as a human and opened a dark auction house. He had a penchant for collecting rare items.
Not only that, but he was always on the lookout for humans to feed on.
…To make humans his pawns, so that he could devour them!
When does the Dark Auction House open? I have to get Mimi, prove myself useful, and then tame her like a beast of prey.
Even though it was a divine beast, it was still an animal.
This might be surprisingly easy for me, who knew how to tame them.
I put the diary back on the bookshelf and rummaged through the drawers.
‘In the novel, Mimi approached Cassian because she heard rumors that he was the flower of the capital, but I don’t have Cassian’s fame.’
Mimi was in my recollections, and I wondered who the child was.
‘I feel like I’m getting closer to finding answers.’
Whereas before I had simply sought to increase my fame by meeting with the Duke, I now needed a more concrete strategy.
It was at this point that I began to feverishly map out a plan to save Mimi. My brother’s video sphere, which had been glitching the entire time, sparkled and worked. He hadn’t even sent me Cello since we met at the palace that day.
I was surprised and shook the image ball, but it was in bad shape and strange.
— The son of a b… broke it.
“…Huh?”
— There’s…a…voodoo…practicing…bastard…so…watch out…
I couldn’t quite make out what he was saying.
— We… found… a… gap… to… send… the… cello…
The sphere stuttered with a crackling sound.
I shook the sphere vigorously, but nothing was revealed. There was no problem with the sphere connecting to Warret.
It was probably because the sphere my brother gave me was an old model.
For a moment, I felt sorry for my brother’s wallet again.
The windows of the mansion opened a fraction of an inch, and a damp, black feather slipped inside.
Cello flapped its wings and flew toward me.
[There may be a voodoo practitioner in your vicinity, so always be aware of your surroundings and take care of yourself.
Voodoo practitioners are dangerous. They’ll kill you, and then they’ll kill themselves.
Beware of the dead].
‘Voodoo… I wonder if the last spy was a voodoo practitioner?’
I recalled the attributes of the artifact.
Deception / Disguise / Fear.
‘If the fear comes from the dead, then it certainly fits.’
It was a helpful piece of information, but not something Cassian needed to know at this point.
Even though the identity of the Dark Villain was leaning towards the Duke of Cornwall, it didn’t entirely dispel his suspicions of other possibilities.
‘Voodoo, you mean voodoo.’
Then…
‘If the Final Villain is a voodoo practitioner, there’s bound to be an incident that interests him sooner or later.’
Soon enough, a case involving voodoo would shake the capital to its core.
From what I knew, the key to the case was a painting.
As I recalled the incident, I instantly recalled a specific plan, and a detailed picture, and my mind cleared.
‘I’ll get Mimi, and I’ll figure out the identity of the final villain.’
I smiled to myself as I quickly ushered Cello outside.
‘So this is where all those years of thinking about revenge have paid off…!’
The hundreds of pages of revenge manuals I’d spent day and night working on revenge were finally getting somewhere.
But I soon hit a setback.
As it turned out, ‘the method’ was only applicable if I was a prominent noble in the capital.
‘Should I save a noble?’
And then it happened. With a click, the door opened.
“Astel!”
Sally entered, ears perking up.
“…Huh?”
“Well, some of your friends have come to visit!”
…but I don’t have any friends in the capital?
