Reincarnated into a Doomed Novel as an Unknown Extra

Slowly opening my eyes, I found myself back into my room, with Selene's head facing me.

[Yo, what happened this time?]

"...Another nightmare?"

Both she and Glutton asked at the same time, Glutton with curiosity and Selene with concern.

Ignoring Glutton, I teleported next to Selene and indifferently patted her head. "You can sleep too, I'm fine now. I didn't have a nightmare, so I'll sleep normally now."

"....Are you sure?" Selene asked, looking at me with doubt and concern.

I had other things to think about right now, so I forced a smile across my face and nodded before pretending to sleep.

Selene didn't seem to fully accept my excuse. She looked at me with squinted eyes, then sighed before closing her eyes and going to sleep. I was glad that she decided to let the matter pass.

Afterwards, all of a sudden, Glutton's voice returned:

[Umm… is everything alright?]

'It's a long story… let's start with…'

While explaining everything to him, I was busy thinking about all the things that happened.

If I understood what happened correctly, then I had already met 2 other reincarnators without noticing, and one of them was even closer than I could have imagined.

I had just known that Selene was a Child of Fate, therefore she couldn't be a reincarnator as far as I knew, which left only 3 candidates.

She was either Liora, Celestia or Aria. Unfortunately, they all had equal chances to be the reincarnator.

As a reincarnator myself, my sister would logically have a high chance to be another reincarnator. That was very likely to happen.

Celestia was the stepsister of a Child of Fate. She had special power to detect lies and had a traumatic past — perfect to be a hidden reincarnator.

As for Liora, I had thought at first that she was one of the main characters and even a possible heroine, but Isaac didn't say she was a Child of Fate. If a talented girl like her wasn't a main character then she probably died early in the novel or there was another plot twist about her.

Reincarnated as the doomed heroine. I could imagine a novel about her with that name.

And of course, I couldn't forget that there was another reincarnator. Ivan was at the top of my list, with Limitless second only to him, but everyone else could still be the real chosen one so I couldn't focus on only them.

Unlike me, the other reincarnators might have full knowledge about the future and maybe stole some cheats. If they were against me, I might face some trouble.

Additionally, there was the problem of deciding whether I'd join the Dark Order. As much as it was dangerous, it also was a great opportunity for my growth!

[Wait, why are you even bothering yourself with all that?]

Glutton's question echoed through my head. Confused, I asked inwardly: 'What do you mean?'

[Why are we even fighting now? He may be lying, but if he said the truth, then all our problems are fixed! We only need to help the Dark Order indirectly a few times.]

I thought about what he said for a moment before finally understanding him.

My main goal was to stop the demon king from destroying Eldoria so I could live peacefully. My revenge could definitely wait.

If all the things that Isaac said were right, then every reincarnator had seen a different future, which meant that there were 4 "potential" villains, like the demon king, and 4 "potential" heroes, like Arthur. There was no real hero nor real villain. Maybe for another reincarnator, the demon king was the fallen hero and Arthur was the villain, right?

In that case, what the hell was I fighting exactly?!

Wasn't the best plan now just to live my life? get stronger, and kill a few corrupted people from time to time? That way, I'd lower the chance of an origin being villain without helping any side directly.

I imagined myself taking a deep breath as I said Inwardly:

'Glutton, there are changes in plans, we will do our best to confirm Issac's claims before doing anything else. And if we can, we may try to see the other reincarnators as well.'

[Yes sir!]

Making up my mind, I stopped pretending and started trying to sleep.

Tomorrow's plan was simple. I'd meet Limitless and talk about love while giving a few hints from time to time.

If he didn't react, I'd just move to the next suspect until I found one. However, I wouldn't try to do anything with Ivan. It was already dangerous with people the same age as me, so the apex of the second year wasn't an option yet.

Before darkness could swallow my consciousness, I remembered something as I said inwardly:

'Glutton, don't simp over Lunara. In the worst case, she may become an enemy.'

[...]

Glutton didn't answer, but from his emotions, one feeling was overwhelming. It was the sadness.

Maybe he was no different from a man that was forced to stop talking with his crush. That man was overreacting over just a stupid kiss.

Obviously, I was enjoying all his emotions.

•••

In my restaurant, I was sitting on the third floor on a special table. In front of me, Limitless was eating like a pig, knowing so well that he wouldn't need to pay anything.

Fuck that!

To bring him here, I had to promise to feed him for free, and that bastard was taking full advantage of my kindness!

The next moment, he stopped eating as he smirked at him arrogantly.

"Hehehe, with such food, I'll definitely help you regarding whatever you want. Of course, it shouldn't be something big because I'm really busy as a handsome boyfriend. I barely kept Nyx at home to answer your small request."

I resisted the urge to cut his tongue as I said: "I want to ask about your love life. Tell me how you knew that you loved her and anything related to that."

"Huh?" Limitless squinted his eyes as he looked at me sharply, "Are you joking?"

With an indifferent face, I hissed: "Would I lose both my money and time to bring you here and hear your fucking voice as a joke? Just answer the question."

Limitless scratched his neck as he kept thinking for a minute, then he opened his mouth: "It was simple. My first encounter with her was strange. She was…"

Limitless explained as I kept nodding despite my confusion.

What the fuck was that love story?!

He found her hurting herself, so he decided to stop her as her roommate. After failing multiple times, he ended up sharing her pain. Whenever she tried to make her sword cut her skin, it would touch Limitless first.

That way, she gradually stopped to not hurt him anymore. She was probably starting to love him at that point.

When he felt that he loved protecting her and stopping her pain, he knew that he was falling to her.

He didn't talk in detail about how they suddenly became significantly close to each other — though I had a wild theory about what happened — but he then knew about why she was doing that.

He hesitated for a moment before deciding to talk about her past.

She was a normal blind servant in the servants academy. There, one of the teachers had a disgusting habit.

He loved torturing. He was a sadist, and Nyxis was one of his victims who were tortured until they slept with pain. Later on, she formed her aura core, becoming a cultivator, then ran away from that bastard, and even reported him

Because of him, she couldn't sleep again without feeling pain anymore. It was like a strange addiction to her, a kind of habit after the long torture.

That was worse than I expected. I knew that something probably happened to trigger the aura core formation, but I didn't expect it to be that extreme.

"Fortunately, she ended up meeting a genius kind man like me. After all these days, she hugs me instead of the sword. That was progress regarding her condition. Although she'd become a little obsessed, she was adorable in her own way."

I rolled my eyes, but then I found an opportunity as I said: "Yeah yeah, you are probably a reincarnator too. I wonder how many times you have died to become such a genius. I bet you reincarnated so many times that you changed your world entirely."

I was expecting him to react suspiciously, maybe even show changes in his body, but unfortunately, he only gritted his teeth as he yelled: "What about you, you sadistic cockroach?! I'm sure you were a cockroach in your past life!"

I couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. I had no choice but to wait for a second opportunity or just give up for now.

Taking a sip of coffee, I decided to tell him my second reason for coming here.

"I need your help as an expert in love."

Limitless nodded arrogantly as I started explaining.