Raised by Villains

Did someone say that life is about eating new taffy that you haven't experienced every day?

I totally agree with that.

A year ago, I fell asleep while reading a novel to spare time in my room as always, and when I opened my eyes in the morning, some medieval European-like scenery filled my view.

On a soft bed that was dark and did not go well with my room, which was made up of only what anyone used.

Do you think the context is a bit lacking?

Yeah, most things in the world don't happen without context.

Anyway, even in such an absurd situation, I steadily got up from my spot and looked around the room.

Then suddenly, a light bulb popped up in my head.

The intuition of a 10-year romance fantasy reader was telling me.

I possessed.

‘I can't believe I'm possessed...’

I've read hundreds of romance fantasy novels, but I never thought I'd be possessed directly.

"...Huh? Michonne?"

As a 23-year-old, good-natured person who suffered from discrimination and persecution from my family, and who recently managed to become independent and received a scholarship to attend college.

If you're curious about who I am, I'm happy to answer you! The truth is always there!

I was suddenly possessed, but my soul remained the same!

Out of nowhere, I became a four-year-old child and fell into a strange world. Am I Co-X?! Is it me?

***

A year has passed while denying the reality.

‘Does this make sense?'

I was able to find a shocking fact as a result of diligently gathering information while denying this ridiculous reality.

This is the place I read about before...

Or, to be honest, it was the title of my favorite novel, <I thought I was adopted, but I was mistaken!>.

How did I know?

I didn't want to know either.

However, it was a novel that I have read over and over again, and there was no way that I did not know it.

There was no way I could not be unaware of the description and the background made up that were repeated many times.

The decorations made of dragons in all directions and the seals that looked like dragons gave confidence to my doubts.

What made it even more decisive was the fact that the name of this family was 'Etham'.

Etham.

The reason I remembered this insignificant name was...

First, because this place was the setting for the novel <I thought I was adopted, but I was mistaken!>.

Second, it was because the notoriety and various mischief committed by the Etham family appeared too cruel and ruthless in the novel.

Would it be understandable to say that it was a 17-year-old rating?

<I thought I was adopted, but I was mistaken!>, commonly known as 'Mistaken Adoption of Female Lead', was about the heroine who lived in hiding with her mother, and when her mother died and she was in despair, the duke suddenly appeared and took her to the family, saying, "I finally found you, I've been looking for you for a long time.".

However, in the process, the heroine misunderstood that she had been adopted by mistake, and prepared to leave the house on her own, but the dukes who noticed it rolled by her foot.

As with the female protagonists of all novels, the female protagonist in <Mistaken Adoption of Heroine> also caused a lot of pain in readers with her unique clearness and calmly preparing to leave the house.

Not only that, like all novels, this family had a sad secret.

Since members of the Etham family inherit the blood of dragons, they were born with much stronger healing ability and strength than ordinary people.

However, as it was a powerful force, there were of course side effects.

Yes.

The Etham family was suffering from a chronic disease called 'explosion', a phenomenon in which the magical powers run wild with the urge to kill.

The thicker the blood, the more severe the 'explosion' phenomenon.

And the female protagonist had the ability to calm this madness.

The sunshine heroine, which was rare for a troubled family, even had the calming ability of the raging madness that was the trouble source of her family?

There was no reason why this family wouldn't love the heroine.

That is to say, <Mistaken Adoption of Heroine> was a sweet and dapper novel with keywords that made you happy just by reading it, such as illusions, childcare, life reversal, and female protagonist.

Of course, it later turns into a reverse harem political battle.

Besides, it was the strongest family with crazy people armed with different tastes, warm to the heroine but cold to anything other than the heroine.

The story was obvious, as I had read it a million times, but it was still fun enough to memorize the entire sentence.

Of course, only in the early days when it was childcare.

The further back I go, the more I’ll die...

Well, I don't want to say more.

Anyway, I really liked the heroine of this novel.

Unlike me, the heroine was loved by everyone, but that was enough for me to over-immerse myself in the novel.

But?

I was not the main character.

If you have to ask me what my role was...

I was an extra.

A half-extra born as an illegitimate child. Of course, usually in this material, the half-extra becomes boneless.

In addition, this Etham family was founded by "Betad Etham," who signed a contract with the Black Dragon and drank its blood.

The Dragon Family.

Someone called Etham that way.

Their offspring were also precious since they resembled dragons, but it was difficult.

And I was an illegitimate child born outside one of Etham's lineage.

My father... It seems that the person who was mistaken for that was someone who did not give back very much.

‘I don't know how you brought me here...'

He caused trouble not only with alcohol, medicine, but also with women.

The Etham family, who usually does not give up their blood relatives, showed their teeth and broke him off.

However, I was still young and didn't know anything, and the descendants of the Etham family were quite precious.

But...?

I'm a fake.

How did I know?

Firstly, I am not an ordinary human, and secondly, I am a lizard beast.

What an L.

And in the novel, I was going to be used as a device to announce the harshness of the Etham family at the beginning of their expulsion.

This was because the change to a lizard at an important New Year's meeting where everyone in the family participates every year was triggered by a blood test.

I would be kicked out as an accident while waiting for the blood test. Actually, it was the test result, so it would have been obvious without looking at it.

Anyway, that was not important. The result was that I'm in a situation where I'll be kicked out!

…I am only five years old now, but what should I do once I get kicked out? I was quite disturbed.

Why?

…Tomorrow was the long-awaited day.

But who am I?

Wasn't I a true fan of <Mistaken Adoption of Heroine> and a reader of romance fantasy novels?

So, by following the steps of the numerous parenting books I have read in my own way over the course of a year, I also tried to get points from the Duke.

Trying to point out the dangers in the duke's house, how to fix someone who's going to die later, like some sort of industrial spy.

If there was a problem...

‘I've never seen them...'

Far from the duke, I couldn't even see the duke's family properly. Even if I wanted points, I didn't have a chance.

That’s right.

Come to think of it, the numerous possessed characters I saw were also novels with another title in which a child possessed by the original work was the main character.

“Oh dear, why are you sitting here? It’s cold.”

As I was sitting on a bench in the garden, reminiscing on the past year running through my head like a pole lamp, my maid, Myla, ran towards me with her light brown hair fluttering.

“Ugh…the world is too strong for me…”

"What…? What’s wrong, miss?"

"Tomorrow, I'll be one year older, I'm growing up in a hurry..."

“Oh, my little girl is turning five. I know. You feel uneasy when you get a year older, right?"

I feel like my heart is going to explode

My little life is like a lamp in front of the wind...

“How do I get you to relax?"

Without knowing my heart, Myla gently stroked my cheek with a smiley voice.

Of all the things I was given in this miserable foreign life, Myla was the best.

Of course, she wasn't friendly to me in the first place.

She was rather annoying, but she couldn;t pretend she didn't know in conscience, so should I say that she felt compelled?

So I tried quite a bit.

[Myla! Get the mugwort!]

When Myla was sick and she couldn't go to the clinic because she didn't have money, I used the knowledge I had accumulated as a plant fanatic from the days of drug abuse before being possessed to teach her about medicinal herbs...

[Myla! Don't go anywhere tomorrow!]

It allowed her to avoid the mysterious terrorist incident that occurred in the temple of the capital, which I knew in advance as a novel.

[Myla, this is a bunch of things I’ll give you! It's shiny, isn't it?]

And in the original case, the heroine found it and gave her a gold nugget the size of a millet, which was an opportunity to score a duke's point.

It was so small that it would not have made money even if Myla actually sold it. How insignificant it must have been for the duke.

However, the scene in which the female protagonist hands the object to the duke was also a scene that made quite a few readers cry.

[You know what, Duke? People love shiny things! Because the Duke was always angry as if something sad happened... So I wanted the Duke to see this and be happy...!]

Those were the words of the sunny female protagonist, and the comment section of the novel was literally devastated.

'... Of course, I was one of them.'

But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't utter such bright words, so the words I said to Myla had a limit.

'Because I'm not the main character.’

Still, after such a tearful effort, Myla became a pretty strong ally.

'It will be over tomorrow too.'

For the past year, I procrastinated saying, “Let’s do it tomorrow, let’s do it tomorrow, let’s take a few more days off because we still have a lot of time left…”

It was an escape from reality.

And as a result, sooner or later I will be kicked out without a penny. No matter how much I put Myla on my side, he won't let her go out with me.

'Do I have to find a new home like in other novels?'

Thinking about it, I sighed deeply.

"Oh right! How about hot chocolate with marshmallows for today's snack? I have business to go to the mansion I saw today, so I got some marshmallows and chocolate powder."

“Yes!”

With marshmallows and hot chocolate, this was the best opportunity to replenish my lost sugar.

'How does it taste when you put marshmallows on hot chocolate?'

I rolled my eyes and thought.

It was a snack I've always wanted to try in my previous life, but I could never because my two brothers always ate it all.

As I got older, they didn't even bring hot chocolate into the house, so I didn't have a chance to try it.

After I became an adult, I could buy it, but I didn't want to.

'Did you give me hot chocolate as a last gift?'

Ahhh, my wonderful maid.

“Myla, take care…”

My efforts over the past year...

"Yeah? I will always be by your side.”

“…?”

“If there are no more applicants, I will serve you.”

“Ah, thank you…”

But Myla, your place of work will probably disappear...

It was a bit of a waste to try to get points, but that doesn't mean I can give up my life because of that.

“Hot chocolate will come soon, please wait.”

"Ah."

I nodded quietly.

Even in an orphanage, if I want to survive somehow, I’ll have no choice but to eat well, even now.

'Come to think of it… I think there was a pretty good orphanage somewhere.’

Apparently, it was an orphanage run by the hero who quietly retired.

'Why can't I remember?'

That's weird.

I read the novel so many times, but I couldn't remember.

'I think there was a list of orphanages in the library, I'll have to go check it out.'

I slowly turned my head to see myself reflected in a nearby mirror.

By the way…

'I look so cute, don't you think?"

I lightly touched the mirror.

'It's different from reality.'

All the people of the Etham family were pretty and good-looking, so I won't stand out...

The pastel-toned pink hair, white, plump cheeks, and golden eyes filled with honey were objectively lovely.

I was a little smaller than my peers, so I have short limbs and a fairly short stature, but I was satisfied with my appearance.

'But, what do you do when you're cute…? It looks like I’ll be kicked out for doing nothing.'

At the most, there was nothing I could do about getting into my favorite novel.

'Because a novel is just a novel.'

I was pulling my soft cheeks in depression, and soon Myla returned.

I drank hot chocolate and pretended to take a sneak nap, then slipped out of my room when Myla left.

'Then, shall we get information about the new home?'

However, at the time, I did not know.

That I will meet one of the top 5 characters of <Mistaken Adoption of Heroine> that you should’ve never met there.