Prologue
“Ha, ha.”
A sky that was nothing but pitch black.
Black smoke billowed all around, and the stench of rot wafted from somewhere.
Barely prying open my eyelids, which were a mess of blood, I looked at the dead people around me one by one.
‘……That guy is the male lead, and that one is the second male lead.’
As I turned my head away from the characters lying dead and sprawled out, another heap of dead people lay rolling around.
If I had to pick something peculiar…… they all have the same hair color.
The same hair color as mine.
They were my brothers.
‘That one is the eldest, the one clutching his sword until the end is the second……. The third, that crybaby couldn’t even close his eyes.’
Now, not much time remains for me either.
I let out an irritated sigh.
‘Ah, I can’t even make it past 22 in this round either.’
The fear unique to someone facing death was nowhere to be found.
Why? Because I was already repeating this crap for the third time.
Surprisingly, this world is inside a book of the childcare genre.
I am experiencing this world for the third time already.
I’m exhausted.
Age 20, 21, and 22.
Those were all the ages at which I died.
I felt pity as I looked at my family members who were either dead or dying.
‘……It’s not a crime to be born into a villainous family. Tui.’
There probably isn’t another human being living as pitifully as I am, despite possessing a character in a book.
Moreover, especially since I possessed a character in a “cute and precious” childcare story.
I slowly lifted my head.
A black mass filled the sky.
In the midst of it, a human was floating serenely.
Behind the floating man, the smoke was forming a certain shape.
It was a dragon.
To explain, that man was a living dragon.
The one called the Dragon Duke.
And this disaster was the situation caused by that dragon becoming enraged and going berserk.
‘Ha, I wish there wasn’t a next round. But that probably won’t happen.’
No matter what kind of crazy stunts I pull, why does fate never change?
I could feel that my life was also coming to an end now.
At the same time, the man raised his hand, and a black sphere was generated in that hand.
A black sphere of massive size.
Considering that a city was blown away by something much smaller than that, this time will truly be the end.
‘If only those crazy male lead bastards hadn’t made that Dragon Duke go berserk……!’
I mean, why on earth did they provoke the innocent Dragon Duke and cause this disaster!
‘No, does it even make sense for a childcare story to end in total annihilation?!’
As I stared blankly at the sky for the last time, I suddenly widened my eyes.
The sky where the man was floating, the world that would likely perish along with the explosion of that black sphere.
Between the already fragmented sky, I saw something familiar.
The nostalgic roads, the nostalgic bridge and roundabout. And Gwanghwamun and Gyeongbokgung Palace…….
‘Wait. The streets of Seoul?!’
I hadn’t seen it wrong.
It was the streets of Seoul that I missed so much now.
I opened my eyes even wider upon discovering the clear Hangul signs.
‘Why am I seeing that? Ah, if I go in there, I think I can return home!’
But unfortunately…… my eyes were slowly closing.
What is it, what is it? I finally found my hometown……!
It’s unfair.
I no longer had the strength to hold on.
However, I felt euphoria even as I watched the approaching black sphere.
That’s it; with that, I can live longer!
I can return home.
In the face of death, I smirked.
The third life of a childcare story.
In the next life, I will target the dragon.
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