Selene Virellian, noble-born, and one-time future boss-level villainess destined to die by plasma sword to the face, was currently…
…being dragged through a tunnel filled with fungus by a squad of cackling Orks.
Her dress an elegant pseudo-military coat of noble fashion was covered in grime and what she really, really hoped was not some kind of bug intestine. Her heels were gone and her red hair was frizzed while one of the Orks was wearing her captain's hat like a trophy.
"Where are you taking me!?" she shrieked in a refined universal language.
She was very aware that one of them had a gun duct-taped to a car battery and was calling it "Da Fartblasta."
"Let go of me, you beasts!" she shouted, trying to free herself from the almost 3 meter tall brutes. "I'm nobility!"
"WAAAGH nobility now!" cackled one Ork, cheerfully gripping her by the cape.
"Straight to da Boss! He wants ta look at yer face 'fore he squishes it!"
"Or eats it!"
"Or mates wit-"
The third Ork was immediately punched in the throat by the first.
"Shut it, Zogwob!"
"TO DA BOSS!" one Ork yelled gleefully.
"Da Krork-boss!"
"Da Green Humie-Git What Screams Internally!"
"Da Prophet-WAAAGH! Dat eats Queens!"
Selene went still not understanding their low gothic.
"…Excuse me. He what?"
But no one listened. They just kept dragging her deeper into the station, which looks something like a bio-horror lab park and scrapyard were fused together.
in the back of her mind, her survival instinct yelled "This was NOT how the story was supposed to go!"
When Selene woke up reincarnated in this world two years ago in the body of a short lived villainess, she vowed one thing:
Avoid the plot. Stay low. Get strong. Don't die stupidly.
Which made her next decision make perfect sense.
She'd gone straight to the abandoned Bellwether Station to claim one of lucky encounters the mc will have later on.
Because the main character wouldn't appear here until 5 years later and this would still be a bug infested station.
Right?
…RIGHT!?
The Orks shoved open a massive fungus-covered doorway and dragged her into a cavernous chamber. Green bioluminescence pulsed along the walls. The air smelled like blood, and fungus.
And there, seated like a war-god atop the ribcage of a dead Queen, was a figure. A human figure albeit a gaint one.
Tall and Muscular like a statue from the greek era. His eyes glowing green wearing a coat stitched from Grot-hide and large backbones of what she can assume was the queen's. He radiated a deep "do not screw with me" energy.
He stared at her with his green eyes. Looking at the pale read haired beauty's trembling appearance a thought suddenly emerged from his mind 'we do a little trolling'
Selene stared back.
Her mouth opened.
Nothing came out.
Then he spoke.
"Tell me are you from earth?"
…He spoke English.
Suddenly selenes eyes dillated and her body stiffend as if she was caught doing something wrong by her parents
Selene's knees buckled.
"So you are huh" kael muttered noticing her change with his now enchanced senses.
"…Oh my god," she whispered. "You're one too, aren't you?"
"You're from Earth!" she blurted, pointing a shaking finger. "You're like me! A reincarnator! That's why you speak English and command… whatever these things are!"
She gestured frantically at the Orks.
Kael smiled and said sarcastically "…You think I'm from where now?"
Selene stepped back, his joking attitude didn't calm her but instead triggered her more. "You must be! You're clearly human or was one You speak fluent English! And none of this was in the novel! You're not supposed to exist! Did you also read the story?!"
Kael stood and look at her straight in the eye 'lets do a little trolling '
Selene immediately dropped to the ground from the sudden psychic pressure that fell on her.
"I surrender!" she squeaked. "Please don't mind control me or vaporize me or kill me for sysmtem points or something! "
"…Why would you think I'll do those" Kael asked, genuinely confused.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR POWERS ARE!"
The Orks roared with laughter in the background.
Kael pinched the bridge of his nose. "Alright. Start over."
She took a deep breath.
Then broke down in a rushed confession telling everything about her past life.
Her name was Kim Yuna and she died on a rainy afternoon in Seoul. One moment she was cramming webnovel chapters with cup ramen dripping onto her pajamas, the next she was staring up at a golden cathedral ceiling while a dozen nobles cried over her "rebirth."
She was reborn as Selene Virellian, daughter of a planetary duke. Arrogant, beautiful, doomed.
Because in the story she had read, Duchess Selene was one of the major villains introduced in Act II.
A woman too ambitious for her own good, who after inheriting the title, ruled a duchy with an iron fist and filled it with taboo research, illegal gene-modding, and warcrimes.
A woman who died screaming when the protagonist's fleet reduced her moon to rubble with the power of friendship and justice after her parents got into fight with him.
"I was a Korean student! I read a weird sci-fi novel about this world! The main character's supposed to conquer this station! I'm playing the role of a doomed noble who dies horribly! And I thought I could cheat the story and come here early a- an-and now you're here and you weren't in the original plot and this is all off the rails and oh god what if I just triggered a secret bad ending"
Kael raised a hand.
She stopped mid-breath tears starting to fall from her eyes.
He crouched down to her level. His green-glowing eyes shimmered, In fact, he looked like an intrigued cat.
"So you're sayin' you know things about the future?"
"…Maybe."
"Like what happens next?"
"…If this is still the same story which it wass until you appeared then yes.. Yes."
He grinned. "so you're useful."
She stared, trembling. "You're not going to kill me?"
"Not unless you bite me."
"…I don't bite."
"Good. Then we're friends."
He then stretched her arms and helped Selene stand up while smiling at her half laughing "sorry just thought it would be funny to scare you, being with orks and aliens is too boring an this is the only time I've been with humans again in this universe..." "How about we talk somewhere private" he added signaling to her that their subordinates are around.
As for wether she was telling truth? He already checked her emotions and even hijacked some subordinates brain to extract their memories so no need to fear getting tricked.
Furthermore her knowledge of the future will be a great help.
"She said this world was a book but gork and mork said this is a special universe, maybe it just manifested in her world in the form of a book?"