DWBVP 01

“Found you.”

A man with a massive build pressed against the wall, trapping me in place and closing in with overwhelming pressure. His golden eyes flickered with a gloomy light.

“I’ve been looking for you for a long time, teacher.”

“W-why… is something, u-uncomfortable?”

I tried my best to smile, but the corners of my lips kept trembling. I was too scared.

“What?”

He looked dumbfounded by my answer.

A handsome man, yet so overwhelmingly intimidating—the villain of this world, the Grand Duke of Serbil Beriart. His hot breath spilled down onto the top of my head.

“Uncomfortable place?”

He sneered at me.

That sneer was so cold and chilling that I got goosebumps. It didn’t feel like “him” I used to know at all—it felt truly like a villain.

Why are you doing this to me?!

I wanted to protest loudly, but the atmosphere didn’t allow it. I couldn’t say a thing.

“My heart.”

After silently staring down at me for a long while, the man finally spoke.

“Your heart?”

“My heart hurts, Teacher Ailet.”

“Pardon?”

I widened my eyes in confusion, but he was completely serious.

Heart hurts? What reason would a young man have for heart pain?

As I looked at him in confusion, he bit his lower lip and stared at me with a wounded gaze.

“You saved me, took me in, raised me… and then you coldly abandoned me. You didn’t even keep your promise.”

“T-that’s…”

I stammered because his words weren’t wrong, but he stepped even closer.

“Ever since then, it’s hurt here. Constantly.”

He frowned, clutching the area over his chest as if squeezing his clothes.

“Hah.”

This is insane.

It was so ridiculous that I let out a dry laugh.

What is he even talking about? I know better than anyone that he’s the healthiest person alive!

“You’re lying!”

“…No.”

“I’m going crazy.”

So I guess I need to explain the relationship with this man who’s pretending to have heart pain.

So, I died—exactly after being hit by a truck.

It was brief, but I remember it being quite painful.

How meaningless.

After growing up in an orphanage, I had been living in a tiny exam boarding room, skipping meals and studying for civil service exams—my boring, exhausting life had simply ended.

I did nothing wrong. I was just walking through a crowd on the sidewalk reading a romance fantasy novel when a crazy truck driving the wrong way suddenly swerved onto the sidewalk and hit me.

The headlights blinded me. Then I felt my whole body shatter, let out a short “ugh,” and closed my eyes.

When I opened them again, I was lying on the bed of an unfamiliar log cabin.

Blinking at the wooden ceiling, I sat up abruptly after spacing out for a while.

“…What is this?”

I had felt my body shatter completely when I was hit, but now I was perfectly fine. At first, I thought this might be heaven.

Though, if it was heaven, it looked a bit too shabby.

After lying there for a while and looking around, something felt strange.

If this were heaven, shouldn’t I feel something abnormal? But there was nothing like that. Only a deeply familiar sense of reality grew stronger.

“No way… huh!”

Only then did I realize I wasn’t dead—I was still alive. I thought the truck that hit me had kidnapped me instead.

Maybe the pain had been an illusion, and they planned to kidnap me and harvest my organs or something.

Panicking, I jumped out of bed and scanned every corner outside, but there was no one in this mountain.

I was completely alone.

‘What…?’

Holding a bat I found in the corner of the house, I searched again, but there wasn’t much to find.

Only that this place was deep in the mountains, isolated from people.

‘What on earth…?’

I spent time eating food from the house, cleaning, and spacing out—and a week passed.

Then something changed.

Memories of my previous “self” began to fade, while memories of this body started to emerge.

I was confused.

“My name is Ailet?”

Then one day, everything came flooding back at once.

I realized I had possessed a romance fantasy novel I had read multiple times. It was even the novel I loved so much that I reread it right before I died.

“Seriously? I got isekai’d into that?”

At first, I doubted myself.

But as time passed, this world kept insisting that my existence here was real.

“I’m doomed.”

I had entered the romance fantasy novel <His Majesty Is Hiding Something>.

It was still ongoing, not even finished yet. It was my favorite series—I waited eagerly for every update.

But I didn’t become the protagonist.

…Damn it.

I was just a minor character. What kind?

A character described in exactly one line by the author.

“Myriad Grand Duke’s physician Ailet disinfected his wound and left the room bowing her head.”

That was it. That single line—that “Ailet”—was me.

I couldn’t believe it, but no matter how much I searched my memory, it was definitely me.

“I got reincarnated as an extra?”

My face turned pale as I realized my role.

“No.”

The problem was that the Grand Duke I served wasn’t just any character—he was the villain who would destroy this world.

And I was destined to become his subordinate.

“Why?”

I looked around the log cabin in confusion.

It didn’t make sense.

“Why am I alone here? I’m supposed to be the Grand Duke’s physician, right? Shouldn’t I be highly educated and living in the capital to qualify as a royal physician?”

That’s how it should be.

The villain, Grand Duke Beriart, was the emperor’s younger brother—royalty. There was no reason for someone like me, raised in a rural mountain, to become his doctor.

‘Do I have some special reason?’

I tried to stay calm despite my confusion.

“Calm down. There must be a reason.”

I went to the desk and wrote down everything I remembered about the novel.

The problem was that my current memory was mixed with Ailet’s, so I couldn’t recall things clearly like I used to.

And Ailet’s perspective only showed fragments, so I couldn’t deduce much.

But one thing was clear: if I was living in this cabin, then I hadn’t become the Grand Duke’s physician yet—meaning the main story hadn’t started.

‘Wait.’

A thought crossed my mind.

Then I could just change the story, right?

My eyes sparkled.

Isekai’d people usually don’t let the story flow as it is—they change it in their favor.

They fix the dark story and aim for a happy ending.

“My first goal is to NOT become the Grand Duke’s physician.”

So the best option was to avoid him completely and hide deep in this mountain.

I swallowed hard.

“Yeah. Villains always end up dead anyway.”

Unfortunately, the Grand Duke and all his subordinates die at the end of the story. There was no guarantee I would survive either as his physician.

Even if the story wasn’t finished yet, and more chapters were coming, the villain’s death was certain.

“I don’t want to die. If I got a second chance at life, I’m going to live it properly.”

I made my decision.

The first thing I had to do was avoid becoming the Grand Duke’s physician at all costs.

‘No matter how I ended up becoming his physician, I’ll stay unnoticed.’

I carefully began planning.

To avoid becoming the villain’s physician.