Prologue

Everly blinked, finding herself in an unfamiliar and strange setting.

The sun shone brightly in the sky, yet she did not felt any warmth from its rays.

She was surrounded by skyscrapers that she had never seen before, pedestrians adorned in

various types of clothing that were alien to her. People walked fast on the street and talked into a tiny rectangular device. Her eyes went over to the large screen that hanged on one of the modern buildings.

'Is this how the afterworld looks like?' Everly couldn't help but wonder.

Curious, Everly flew near the screen.

Yes, Everly flew she was a fairy. But now, she was merely a wandering soul.

The only good part about being a soul was that she can fly to wherever she wants even without her fairy wings.

She stared at the k-pop idol group that was broadcasting through the screen. Everly tilted her head and watched what was showing on the screen with high interest, she did not even blink when various advertisements were shown.

She flew back down to the street after the screen began to repeat what she had seen before. Her eyes were wide with curiosity and were interested in every single thing that came into her view.

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Everly had no idea how long she had been wandering in this modern world. However, she gained the realization that she was not in Osborne anymore which was pretty obvious and this was not the afterworld as well. She somehow got transported into another universe.

According to what she learned here, to the people in this universe; Osborne would be a fantasy world where fairies, angels, vampires, werewolves, etc existed. From what she had seen here, they are ordinary being which is called humans born without magical powers but was equipped with the modern technology.

Everly visited a lot of places, seeing a world that she had never seen before, and was having fun. This is sort of like another way for her to fulfill her dream, ever since she was a child she had dreamed of traveling the world in Osborne, but she never got the chance to do that, and she was already dead.

It was supposed to be another ordinary day for Everly, just when she was thinking whether she wanted to go to Disneyland again or not. She saw a face that she would never forget.

After all...

She was the cause of her death.

Everly's eyes widen, she could not stop the resentment that was building up within her. Her golden orbs slowly turned into plain white, and she started to turn into the look she had when she was dead.

Blood flowed down from her back where her wings were cut, a huge hole in the middle of her chest from the painful stab she had to endure and also from the agonizing moments she had to go through from having her magic being sucked out.

Tormenting moments from her death began to play in her mind, devouring every bit of rationality and reasoning within her.

Her nails grew long and a dark aura began to surround her as the temperature around her dropped tremendously.

Her eyes were locked on the carefree girl that was standing at the bus stop.

The girl had her hair tied up into a ponytail, she wore a white shirt and brown blazer, the tie that she worn around her neck had their school emblem sewed on it. Her long slim legs were covered by a pair of white socks and her plaid skirt just came until her knee. She was smiling and happily endorsed in a conversation with another girl that had the same outfit as her.

Kill her...

Kill her...

Kill her!

These words keep screaming inside Everly's head. 

Teeth gritted, she flew towards the ponytail girl with the speed of lightning. In a split second, her long sharp nail will slit the girl's throat, and she will avenge herself.

The other girl seemed to have said something that made the ponytail girl laughed. A string of silver bells-like giggles escaped the ponytail girl's lips. She was beaming at the other girl, the sun rays hit her flawless skin and engulfed her in soft light.

That laugh and the bright smile halted Everly's attack.

Everly stared at the girl with a high ponytail, dumbfounded. The shades of plain white slowly faded away and her golden orbs came back. Bit by bit the dark aura around her was blown away like smoke.

She returned to her normal self.

Looking at that joyful smile and that clear eyes, Everly pursed her lips and a thought came into mind. 'This girl... she's not Kelly. At least, she's not the Kelly that I've known.'

Kelly wouldn't have such clear and clean eyes. Her eyes were filled with greed and wicked ambitions.

Everly was confused and puzzled.

Before she knew it, she followed Kelly home. She saw Kelly dropped her school bag on the floor and sat on her bed wiggling her legs while engrossing herself into a web novel on her cellphone.

Everly was not interested in what she was doing instead she floated in midair and examined Kelly from different angles. However, no matter how she looked at it the girl in front of her seriously had an identical appearance with the Kelly from Osborne.

Her eyes widen, could this be what people said a parallel universe?

Does that mean there's another Everly in this universe as well?

Just when Everly was deep in through about parallel universe, a blinding light almost put her eyes out.

When she could finally open her eyes, Kelly was nowhere to be found instead her cellphone was floating right before her. Bewildered, Everly reached out and took the cellphone with her trembling hand. Everly thought the phone will just slide through her hand, to her surprise, she managed to grasps the phone.

Everly had her eyes fixated on the screen before her and started to read through it.

She was reading a web novel with Claire as the main character.

Everly's jaw dropped with the answers to all of her confusion revealed right before her eyes. Everly pushed down the overwhelming tidal waves of emotions within her, with her lips pursed, she continued to read the story.

Oblivious to her surroundings, all of Everly’s attention was on the web novel that was projected through the screen of Kelly’s cellphone. From the bedroom window, the sun was setting, and soon nightfall came.

Everly finally finished the web novel.

A sigh escaped her lips as a thought popped up in her mind, ‘So, Claire was the original heroine...’

The weird thing was she did not see her name anywhere in the story. Maybe she was just a random villager B?

Everly shook her head and let out a mocking chuckle as she sat on the wooden bedroom floor in the darkness, she was not even bothered to flick the light switch on.

The only light in the dark bedroom was the soft light emitted from the cellphone in her hand. Everly looked at the screen with a mixed feeling. She felt sorry for Claire, but at least Claire was still alive right.

All of a sudden, much to her surprise, she saw the words swirled together forming a blot of ink and then vanish leaving an empty page.

Then, words began to form on the pages.

When the word ‘Kelly’ appeared on the page, a thought hit Everly like a meteorite.

Being in this modern world, Everly was basked in books, stories, and web novels. Seeing what is happening right in front of her, she was stunned.

Could it be...that Kelly had been transported into the web novel?!

That explains everything, that is why Kelly was so against Claire because she knew that Claire was the original main character!

Kelly had lost herself in the greed for power and her wicked ambitions. She knew about the whole plot, she knew what will happen. She wanted what Claire had, that was why she had been stealing Claire's opportunities left and right.

This also explained why Claire was so lucky. When Everly was dead, she wandered around Osborne. When she saw Kelly kept picking on Claire, out of curiosity she had been tailing Claire. Every time when Everly thought Claire will become dead meat, she always managed to have a way to escape and survive.

Everly was practically in awe.

However, since Kelly had been stealing all her chances. Kelly in the end became someone that stood at the top of the pyramid and nobody knew who Claire is.

Everly dropped the cellphone, her head lowered and her fists tighten.

This did not explain why Kelly looked down on her and said she was merely a cannon fodder, a stepping stone for her to become stronger. Everly was baffled when she said that, but she was on the brink of death, so she did not put that too much thought.

She did not even saw her name in the original story, how could she be a cannon fodder? Actually, she would prefer to be a random villager B instead of a cannon fodder. At least, random villager B does not have to get involved with the main characters and side characters.

Everly shrugged, this had nothing to do with her anymore. She was merely a wandering soul now, she was going to fly out from the window when a strong force pulled at her.

Everly struggled and then everything turned dark.