[No matter what you do, you will definitely meet William McCurren.]
“What is this? No, is this really the original work?”
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, so I closed and opened my eyes several times and flipped through the book, but there was only that one line written in the book, and the content didn’t change.
William McCurren was the name of the tyrant emperor who trampled Daniel Lambert to death in the original work.
And those chilling red letters just from looking at them… It felt like they were telling me that my future holds only death.
“No. That can’t be.”
I denied reality, closed the book, and read the title written on the front page again. Even looking again, the title was still <How to Survive as the Obsessive Tyrant’s Omega>.
“Damn it, damn it.”
Let me calm down first and settle my excitement.
So what this book is saying is that no matter how much I try not to meet the emperor, I will meet him? Then my plan to hide for the rest of my life and avoid death can never be realized?
No, how could this be? I can understand facing the original work like in typical possession stories, but for that original work to have only one line written in it, and for that one line to specifically point out my plan and tell me it won’t happen that way?
This is like the book is looking into my mind.
Could it be… perhaps?
I trembled as I flipped through the book again. The moment I read the letters written there, my eyes nearly popped out.
[You’re smarter than I thought. To get the right answer so quickly.]
I was so startled that I threw the book I was holding and fell flat on my bottom on the floor. Being possessed was already surprising enough, but with these consecutive events, it felt like my heart would burst. The book read my mind and responded…? This is more like a fantasy novel than the original novel.
After taking several more deep breaths, I picked up the fallen book, placed my hand on it, and asked again.
“Then will I definitely die?”
[Who knows?]
Even after asking several more questions, the book didn’t give me the answers. Does it mean I should pioneer the future myself? My head started aching, but I calmly inputted new information into my mind: ‘It won’t tell me about undetermined futures or futures the book doesn’t want to reveal even if I ask. So don’t depend too much on the book.’
It would be nice to have a notebook and pen at times like this, but there’s no way poor Daniel’s house would have such things. So from now on, I had no choice but to memorize all the information that comes up.
I calmly organized the information about the original novel that I knew so far.
I possessed the 9th Omega, an extra character in the book, while reading it.
The 9th Omega dies at the hands of the tyrant emperor.
I might be able to avoid the ending of being killed by the emperor, but the fact that I will meet the emperor doesn’t change.
However, I still don’t know if the 9th Omega will definitely die.
Then there’s only one thing I need to do.
Survive. I must survive no matter what.
***
To survive, I placed my hand on the book and began asking various things about the tyrant emperor. Fortunately, perhaps because the content about the tyrant emperor, who was the protagonist of the original work, was detailed down to things I couldn’t remember, or perhaps because the mysterious book was in a good mood, it answered everything I asked.
“What food does he like?”
[Chicken braised in wine and stew with plenty of corn]
“Why did he become a tyrant?”
[Lack of affection]
Ah, Seo Ajun, get your head straight. You’re doing all this to survive! How can someone who’s an elementary school teacher ask such questions? If a child went astray, ninety-nine times out of a hundred the reason is lack of affection – what other reason could there be? Let’s be more specific.
So I broke down my questions to nanometer-level detail to extract information about William.
Using my excellent memory and the characteristics of being an elementary school teacher, I memorized information about the target I had to conquer.
I didn’t know much because it wasn’t detailed in the original work, but although William later becomes emperor, he wasn’t the crown prince but the second-ranking prince. So from childhood, he received a lot of interference from the faction following his older brother, and because he was so outstanding, he even faced assassination attempts by poison, which inevitably led to his twisted personality.
“Oh my. The poor little thing…”
Learning information about a person was quite fascinating. Even though I had just entered a ten-year-old’s body and was only reading information about another child, and hadn’t even met that person, strangely my heart went out to him.
“Seo Ajun, don’t do that. Your life is hanging by a thread, and now who’s worrying about whom? That kid is going to become emperor anyway…”
I repeated this to myself, but being particularly soft-hearted toward young children, I felt sorry for William who had to endure even assassination attempts in his young body.
Alright. Since it’s come to this! Instead of waiting until he becomes an adult, let’s meet now. Let’s meet now and teach him well from childhood to make him a sage king rather than a tyrant! Then he’ll spare my life, and make this empire prosperous too!
When I attended teacher’s college, the creed of the teacher club that aimed for true education was exactly this:
Children change through love.
So I believed that a teacher could change a child’s future depending on how they acted, and throughout my teaching career, I never once thought that belief was wrong.
Right. Let’s try to change him. Anyway, since I don’t know if I’ll die or live, isn’t it better to try something rather than just sit still and die? Whether I starve to death here or get trampled to death by a tyrant’s foot, it’s all the same!
At first, I only planned to find out information about William to prepare for future dangers, but somehow it felt like I had found a way to live.
With a reverent heart, I placed my hand on the book and asked.
“Well then, now tell me how I can enter the palace.”
[There is none]
“Why?”
[Unless there’s a major problem with a prince or crown prince, there’s nothing a ten-year-old Omega with still minimal Omega characteristics can do in the palace.]
“Damn it! So there’s really no way for me to enter the palace right now?”
I asked that, but the book only repeated what it had said as if teasing me.
I had no choice but to despair again. If I can’t meet him now, it means the only ending is meeting the tyrant emperor who has already become completely twisted… What do I do about this?
What use is a book that doesn’t even tell me how to survive!
But I couldn’t just despair. I had to find a way to survive somehow.
I concentrated and pondered over the book’s content. Fortunately, the hint was in the words the book annoyingly repeated.
[Unless there’s a major problem with a prince or crown prince…]
I had passed over those words carelessly, but not long after, the empire was turned upside down due to Prince William’s pheromone rampage.
One day, while I was doing odd jobs at the market and receiving leftover food to survive, I was passing through the square when I heard people whispering.
“They’re selecting an Omega to enter the prince’s bedroom?”
“My, what a strange thing. Someone who’s only ten years old…”
“I heard his temperament is already so fierce that people in the prince’s palace are trembling with fear…”
“Oh my, but I’m worried. If it’s an Omega with parents, no one would volunteer.”
“That’s right.”
I smiled with satisfaction inwardly. Someone without parents, a lower-class Omega suitable to enter the bedroom, and someone who must go to the prince’s side when young – that’s exactly me.
Right. Until then, I thought this world was moving for my sake.
***
Like hell the world was moving for my sake.
In front of the palace that I had reached with great difficulty over mountains and across rivers, there were crowds of parentless Omegas like me. It’s already hard to be born with the trait, so how did so many Omegas gather?
While I was wondering, a page from the book appeared before my eyes like a status window in a game. I had carefully folded and brought a part of the book just in case, but if it had this function, couldn’t it have told me earlier? Anyway, since I didn’t have to unfold the thick book every time I had a question, it was good for me.
[Not all the children are Omegas, but since lower-class Omegas don’t show obvious signs anyway, all the orphans gathered. They will be selected through testing.]
Ha, nothing comes easy in this world. I quietly closed my eyes and thought of a way to somehow catch the prince’s attention among so many children. If I missed this opportunity, I didn’t know when such a chance would come again, so I had to enter the prince’s bedroom somehow.
However, no matter how much I thought about it, unless the young prince directly chose the Omega himself, there seemed to be no advantage for me.
That’s when it happened. A loud scream came from somewhere.
“Aaaah!”
“Get lost, get lost! I don’t need any of you dirty, lowly Omegas, so get lost.”
I turned my head toward where the sound came from. There, a silver-haired boy was wielding a sword as big as his body while screaming fiercely. The one who screamed seemed to be a young Omega who was cut by the sword the prince was wildly swinging.
“Oh my… William.”
I unconsciously spoke the prince’s name aloud and was startled, covering my mouth with both hands. Be careful. I’m not twenty-eight-year-old Seo Ajun right now, but ten-year-old Daniel Lambert.
Still, perhaps because I was looking with twenty-eight-year-old eyes, William seemed like a baby to me.
“Won’t you get lost? Fine. Then I have no choice!”
When the prince swung his sword toward the Omegas again, the Omegas who had been frozen in shock scattered in all directions, crying “Save me!”
When I was left alone in front of the empty prince’s palace, naturally my eyes met with the prince’s. And we looked at each other for a while without saying a word.
Just from the situation, I should be the one getting scared since I had no weapons and was of lowly status, but I wasn’t afraid of the prince. Rather, it seemed like the prince was the one getting scared seeing me standing still without any reaction.
“You, what are you. You, do you want to die? Huh?”
The prince hesitated while asking a nearby attendant what my name was.
Little one, you’re not a tyrant yet. You’re just acting like this because you miss your mother. Even if you do that, someone who has already passed away due to being pushed out of power struggles can’t come back. So Willy, don’t take out your anger on your brother for no reason.
While thinking this inwardly, I only bowed my head and silently held my ground. As expected, the prince couldn’t swing his sword at me or approach me.
“Behern! What’s that kid’s name!”
The attendant who seemed to have the highest rank came to the prince’s side and told him my name.
“It’s Daniel Lambert.”
He saw it when processing applications and memorized the name after seeing it once! I thought that being the prince’s attendant wasn’t a job for just anyone.
I knelt in front of the prince according to the imperial palace etiquette I learned from the book.
“Infinite glory to His Highness and the Stamili Empire!”
Just from showing proper courtesy, the attendants around the prince began murmuring. They seemed surprised that someone who looked young and of lowly status like me was greeting with imperial palace etiquette.
“Daniel Lambert, may His Majesty’s blessing be with you as well!”
But our Prince Willy, whose prospects weren’t entirely dim, had dignity overflowing from his response to my greeting despite being young.
Keh, yes! That’s exactly it. Being angry is one thing, but dignity must be maintained.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
