The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

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That hot, acrid sensation prickled at her throat and around her eyes.

“If you join my side, then I’ll help you.
Whether it’s revenge or looking the other way.
Whatever it is that you wish.”

“……”

“And, I’ll help you find the real medicine for that child.”

Hearing Rosetta’s offer, Diana shook her head in disbelief.

Even now, she still couldn’t understand.

Why.

“Why… Why would Your Ladyship go that far for me? I am no one.”

In response to her genuine confusion, Rosetta raised her eyebrows.

The people that she was trying to help thus far were only the kind of woeful people who wouldn’t take goodwill as goodwill at its face value.

People who wouldn’t easily trust others and who wouldn’t easily trust this world that really could not be depended on—the kind of people who lived their lives only by surviving.

Well, it’s not bad to be suspicious of others.

After all, wasn’t it that Rosetta was trying to win over both Cassion and Diana for her own agenda?

Rosetta looked to the side slightly.

There in her periphery, she saw Cassion’s fingertips.

Then, looking back towards the front again, in that tense silence, Rosetta slowly rose from her seat.

The two people’s gazes met.

“I want you.
I am someone who invests that much in the people I want.”

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As Rosetta said this, she began to walk forward.

Ta-dak.
Ta-dak.
Ta-dak.

The sound of her footsteps echoed in the small shanty.

The sound of stifled sobs.
The sound of footsteps.

In the midst of that unbecoming harmony, Rosetta’s aloof voice rang through.

“I will be the roof over your head.
I will be the foundation to your shelter.
The floor, the walls, the bed, the food.
Whatever else it is, I will be that for you.”

Strangely, this indifferent tone was more comforting.

There were times when a tone like this would echo more greatly inside one’s heart.

“Either during the day and even during the night, I’ll let you live amidst brightness.
Both you and your sister.”

Without a single exaggeration.
Just, she would give what she had mentioned.

“At the world’s behest, if you’re supposed to roll over like a dog anyway, wouldn’t you rather roll over under the care of someone who can be your shelter?”

She was not a warm person, but this at least, she could give.
She was someone who would keep her word.

“For being my hostage, your sister will receive support and protection from me.
As long as you do not betray me, that is.”

Because it was a small house, no matter how slow she walked or how narrow her steps were, Diana and Rosetta soon faced each other in close proximity.

There, as close as they were when they had confronted each other in the alley.

“That is all I require of you—that you do not betray me.”

With Diana’s eyes brimming with tears, Rosetta patted her on the arm twice.

As if telling her, you’ve gone through so much, you’ve worked hard until now.

At the emotions she was feeling for the first time, her tears eventually fell down from Diana’s eyes.

Rosetta walked past the sobbing woman and towards the door.

Ta-dak.

Rosetta’s steps stopped as she faced the door.

“Ninety… Ninety-one… Ninety-two…”

With a small voice, the child could still be heard counting.

Perhaps five times had already passed.

Even so, the child did not come back into the house.

Just as the child’s small voice could be heard from the inside, she would have also definitely heard what was being said from the outside.

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Even if she couldn’t hear the details of that conversation, even a child could tell that it was not a very pleasant situation.

“One hundred.”

Finally, the last of the countdown came from beyond the door.
However, it was uncertain which round this was.

At the same time, Rosetta pushed the door.
As it loudly squeaked open, Rosetta saw the child squatting on one side, sobbing as well.

Ria glanced up as she felt the door open, then looked at Rosetta who appeared before her.

“One hundred… I… counted it all…”

Hearing the child speak through her tears, Rosetta smiled warmly.

“Mm-hmm.
You’re very good at counting, aren’t you.”

A gentle palm stroked Ria’s head.

A gesture that said there’s nothing to be afraid of.

Soon afterwards, Rosetta crouched down and held the little girl in her embrace.

The scrawny child was as light as cotton candy.

Rosetta patted the child on her emaciated back, then she turned to nod at Diana.

“I’m taking this little one as my hostage now.
Because no matter how much I think it over, I really do want you.
Now then, what will you do? Will you follow me?”

At the question that held not a hint of a jest, Diana dropped her head.

She had lost both her parents at such a young age, and ever since then, she had been protecting her younger sister all by herself.

Without her, she knew that Ria would not be safe.
So, all this time, she had obsessively been protecting her.

But strangely enough…

Ria looked so safe in that woman’s arms, despite how slender Rosetta was.

Even Diana herself wanted to hold onto that slender hand and beg for her protection.

If she were to be honest with herself, this life she was living was so tiresome— daunting.

She, too, wanted to have someone who would protect her.

She was tired of this old house, tired of being hungry, tired of being looked down on, tired of being so poor.

Diana slowly bent down.

And bowed her head.

Towards the woman who would be her shelter—the woman who would take her younger sister hostage.

“I will gladly go with you, Princess.
Please accept me.”