Wait, What You Mean I Got Reincarnated As A Heroine In Another World?-Chapter 12 - Selene II

"Meh, not really."

I clenched my fists.

This audacity... I really wanted to gut her.

"Why?"

She let out a little, cold, robotic laugh.

"Hahahaha... hah.... I just want to see you suffer."

"That's it."

"What did I do to deserve this?"

"A lot. Want me to list them one by one?"

"No, thanks. I think I already figured that out."

"Of course you did—I already told you in your mind."

We were bitching around like cat and dog.

As if we knew each other a bit too well, yet still clashed fiercely.

"Alright, explain everything."

"Oh, of course. Please listen carefully, Miss Veylith."

She said, still acting as if she were Professor Helena in front of me.

All of a sudden, another anomaly occurred. A strange sensation crawled through the room, subtle at first—just a shift in the air, a calm before storm.

And no, this wasn't just an ordinary illusion.

A cold wind blew, but there was no source.

The light in the room dimmed, colors seemed to be sucked into the void. The furniture around us disappeared, revealing something beyond the scene.

It resembled a vacuum... no, outer space?

I thought as I analyzed this strange phenomenon, trying to make sense of it.

"No need to overthink it, Kairi."

"This is a time-space dimension continuum that can't be accessed by anyone."

She answered as if... no, she clearly knew exactly what I was thinking.

So, was this Professor Helena speaking? Nope, not anymore.

At least until exposed her, she was. But now, it was revealed.

The atmosphere shifted as the room was absorbed, leaving behind 'Professor Helena,' who gradually transformed into her true self—Selene Eryndell Veylith.

She stood there composed, as if nothing had changed, in a pitch-black dress.

Her face resembled mine but bore a gloomier, grave expression.

"That outfit suits you." I muttered, half-spiteful at the sheer absurdity of it all.

She gave me a brief, indifferent glance. "Oh... it's nothing. Thanks."

How ironic. After all the manipulation and deception she had carried out, she could still pretend this was just 'your average small talk?' Did she have no shame at all?

"Alright, let's get back to the main topic. Don't you want to hear my explanation?"

Without hesitation, I nodded hastily.

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"Okay then. If that's so, please listen carefully, my dear Kairi."

EW, WHY THE HELL WAS SHE CALLING ME 'DEAR'?

Disgusting. I wanted to kill her and then kill myself after hearing her say that so casually. But, hate it or not, I suppressed my irritation and listened carefully to her explanation.

"Perhaps, consider your vessel as an automated growth technology. And the soul exists as a fuel that illuminates such a growth. How far it goes depends on your unique traits, the shape of you. Whereas this growth then ends up customizing the 'vessel', it will then eventually become attached to your own features thus end up with yet another version of 'you', yet caricaturized in such an existential vessel."

What the f*ck is this? Isn't this just a pseudoscientific nonsense?

"What do you mean?"

"Are you familiar with the term 'black box'? Just think of this 'memory chest' as that black box, used as a medium to translate between my language and yours. And this language has no limits; it is not constrained by the perception of time or context. Everything is connected."

Black box? Ah, of course, she's using some new term she has just learned.

This was the most blatant example of the Dunning-Kruger effect at its finest.

"Okay, then, how exactly are we connected? And why did you do that to my eyes?"

I tried to analyze what she was saying. She must have understood what I meant just now.

"How do we connect? Like this."

She walked toward me casually, without hesitation, pressing her lips against mine. Moments later, before I could react, our tongues intertwined. Her saliva invaded my mouth as if this were a perfectly normal occurrence. I remained motionless, frozen in place.

DISGUSTING. SO, A KISS? YIKES!

Before I could even finish processing my repulsion, she continued her explanation.

"Logically speaking, this is the only way to remind someone of something. A strong yet seemingly erotic sensation like this is what links us together. However, when I first made contact like that, there was no reaction from you at all. What were you so engrossed in?"

"None of your business."

When I was playing gacha, my mind completely detached from the world, focused solely on the screen, completely unaware that she was doing such a thing to me.

"Oh right, I forgot to explain about your eyes. That happened because they are the source of perception itself, allowing you to control what you can and must see. So, I had to attack your eyes to complete the body-switching ritual. Actually, it's not true that the eyes capture light. It's the other way around—light captures your eyes. The light adjusts to what you see, and then it's processed by the quantum processor you have right here."

She pointed at my head—more precisely, my brain.

This has to be the most quantum mechanics delulu bullshit I've ever heard in my life.

Wait a second... didn't she just say body-switching? Did I mishear it?

"What do you mean by body-switching, and why do you want that to happen?"

"It's exactly as I said. Your body is mine now, and our memories are scattered."

"You still haven't answered my previous question."

"Oh, that... as you already know, of course, it's to fully understand your own world."

Just as I suspected from the start, this isn't merely transmigration or reincarnation—it's something much more deeper than that.

"And isn't it true that you're already fed up and bored with your own world?"

"That doesn't mean I wanted to be transferred like this, with these weird abilities."

I snapped, as if biting back as a response to her all-it-know attitude.

Well, not that I never was one to begin with.

"Well, like it or not, you're already a part of this world now, Kairi."

"Oh, I see. So, you're still dodging your real intention, huh, Selene."

"Well, not really. In this world, if I were to reference the manga I've just read recently, you are now the heroine of this story."

A strange realization dawned on me, as if this were something utterly impossible.

As expected... I couldn't have been mistaken. This was impossible.

WAIT... WHAT YOU MEAN I GOT REINCARNATED AS A HEROINE IN ANOTHER WORLD?!