Men's Hell

V1E16

Volume 1 Episode 16

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I'm glad I'm not in another novel.

The novel she was in is obviously Edel's story.

Because the title 'Men's Heaven' meant that Edel entered this world and created a heaven full of men. Is it really fortunate that she was not just a reader? If she had just read it, there would be a lot of things she wouldn't know about this world.

There are so many behind-the-scenes stories that have not been written, and the innermost thoughts of various characters, that she had to write in ten volumes.

So, her view had to be naturally different from that of the readers. So maybe she can't hate any character she has ever met.

Still, I've never even thought about Arietta's story when she was fifteen.

Arietta isn't even the main character, wouldn't she rather know more about Mikhazen's childhood?

In any case, the reader's reaction towards Arietta was not good, probably because she was a villain, and there were so many characters in this novel that there was no room for special consideration.

She sighed, feeling a little frustrated.

When she was in full swing, she wasn't interested in Arietta because she was too busy thinking about who to feed Edel next. She was just an important supporting role between Edel and the Emperor. After she was done, she liked it, so she didn't even have a chance to express her affection to her heart's content.

Still, she knew everything about Arietta's heart and her secrets, no matter how trivial they were. Of course, she knew every little secret hidden and buried in this world. This view of the world did not end with one novel, but was used in her other novels throughout the year as an examinee. But the knowledge from the other novels was not needed now. One is a story more than a thousand years from now, and the other is a story that has passed three hundred years from now.

I've never even thought about the ordinary days of Mikhazen's childhood.

There was no way she had ever thought about the daily life of the fifteen years old Arietta that she would have spent. She just wrote, 'She had a good time.' And that's all about it.

A history-like profile was in her head, but it was just a dry sentence indicating that she was in a certain position.

Nothing in it could tell her what kind of feelings Arietta had and what kind of memories she had. That's why it's even more so. It was more so because she lives as Arietta now.

She doesn't know what the girl was like these days. As if standing on a blank sheet of paper, everything was so white and gloomy. It's not that she didn't love her. She cared so much about the topic of writing a novel that she couldn't get enough of the characters, no, the world itself, even if she had written it for three years.

I wish I was only dreaming.

Holding her head, she lays face down on the desk. The mid-term exam coming up in a month and the events that will happen gave her a headache. Is Edel really coming? He'll come, maybe. Because he had no choice but to come.

She was confused as to what she should do.

She can't live like Arietta, but she couldn't completely escape her frame as long as she is Arietta. As she decided to live her life as she changed, funny enough, she only realized that fact just now. Of course, the trigger was Mikhazen's proposal to have her as his fiancé.

Her idea, that she could live a different life just because people changed, was all arrogance. She was not the real Arietta, but she had reconnected with that crazy dog Mikhazen, and she was also associated with students who knew Arietta before. She didn't have the opportunity or the qualification to reject it. As they got entangled like that, she found herself playing a little bit of the Arietta they knew without realizing it. If she really wants to get away from the old Arietta and live a new life, shouldn't it be right to give up everything? Is it because of her instinct to want to look like a completely different person? No, in this context, she is a different existence.