Chapter 3

The first sensation that I felt after I gained my consciousness is how hard and rocky the floor is. The small rubble kept on rubbing my cheeks that it became scratchy I almost want to throw a tantrum. I grunted, trying to lift my body to scold the dust. My body felt strangely heavy, and strangely seeping with some energy that I don’t know. I squinted my eyes to perceive my surrounding.

In my eyes, the place I’m in looks like a dimly lit cave, only the light that comes from a hole located far above me is my source of light.

“Where am I?” I mumbled.

I suddenly froze when I heard my own voice. They were feminine, but echoing like I’m some kind of huge animal—different from my original voice—which was small and thin. Covering my mouth, I noticed that something sharp is scraping my skin. I glanced at my hand and my eyes widen in horror. My fingers… They were SCALY! And the nails were definitely not that of a human, it looked more like a reptile’s claw. I fumbled on my own face. My Lord…My whole face is scaly. Then I touched my head, it was bald. I gasped in terror.

“You’re kidding me, right?!” My cries sounded like a behemoth wanting to destroy the world. I weeped in agony, shrinking myself at the corner of the cave.

While weeping for a few minutes, I’m actually a little bit glad that I susseccfully reincarnated and didn’t die a useless death. To be honest, I was scared of wanting to jump to the train track while the train is coming through. The reason as to why I did that was easy. I, want to reincarnate, but can I just disappear like that when I have people who cherished me? Of course not, right?

To add to the reason, my family consists of my parents who were a police officer and a detective respectively. They’re gonna search for me, until the ends of the world, if I disappeared without a trace and without any prove that I died. So it’s better to die while many people looking, because it’ll provide alibi that I’ve passed away and no longer am available in my old world.

That’s it. It’s as simple as that. It’s just I’ve never knew how nerve wrecking the feeling of wanting to commit suicide is. I might not be like those people who willfully wanted to let themselves be killed—the lifeless one who gave up on their life because of stress and something else, I’m one of those who cherished my life.

I finished my weeping, and heaved a sigh. Well, I guess being a winged scaly figure is better than crossing River Styx, for now that is. That being said, I’m still going to file a complaint to that couple for turning me into a dragon. I did say that I wanted to be a majestic creature that made people stare in awe of me, but at this rate, won’t they just ran away without a second glance?

I grumbled and repeatedly clenched my claw hands into a fist. For the account, I’m satisfied by how they designed me to be; a shiny, healthy lapiz lazuli scales, a strong tail with prominent ice-like thorns at the end of it, and most importantly, I possessed two pair of wings! I stared at it’s white beautiful webs that displayed like a decoration of ice on it. They’re a bit burdensome though, because they’re big. I really wished that I have a mirror to look at myself, I must’ve look like a bald lizard or something.

“Alright. Now what should I do.” I mumbled after praising my features. I remembered saying that I want to be bestowed with skills, so there must be some ways for me to access the menu, right? Like in many reincarnation mangas? I started to fumble the air in front of me. If Noel was true in giving me abilities, I should be able to access my status window that said what am I and my name.

“Uh… Status… Status window?” A hologram window appeared before me. Oh sweet, Noel really give me a game-like ability.

I scrolled my status.

NAME: SUNA

RACE: ILDIAN DRAGONOID

AGE: 1021

LEVEL: 999

TITLE: TRANSGRESSOR, GLUTTON, READER

SKILL: ONLINE STORE

Hm.

I’ve really became the last boss, huh?

I ignored my HP and MP because the numbers ached my eyes, including my multiple connected attribute that I don’t know even what’s the use was for.

Rather than that, I’m more interested in my skills, ONLINE STORE. Like the adventurer who ventured with his dog, slime and dragon companion, I clicked the name, and another window displaying an online store appeared before me. I scrolled the window to make sure that it was a legit store.

Suddenly, I heard a bling from inside my head and saw a message icon popped up at the uppermost corner of the status window. I relocated the online store window to the side to see what the message is.

Clickling the icon, another window popped up in front of me.

CONGRATULATIONS!

READER BONUS:

THE EVIL VILLAINNESS IS MY LOVER CHAPTER 1-135

PROGRESS: (0/135)

“Eh? Isn’t this my favorite w******l that I read back then?” I tapped on the name, and the chapters appeaered in front of me, all summed up to chapter 135, where I last read before I reincarnated. I giggled happily, glad that I’m able to read it here even though I’m no longer back at my old world. However, I guess I won’t see the end, because chapter 135 still tells the part where Minerva got kidnapped by some Demon Lord because he loved her. For those who’re wondering what genre “The Evil Villainness id My Lover” is, it solely revolves around romance. Yeah, I know. The character is epic and all, but all of them were to attract the readers to read the story, because why not slavering upon the handsome and beautiful characters with excellent background while reading the story?

After being satisfied with my perks, I closed all of the windows and started to look around for an exit. To better ascertain my surrounding, I better get out from this cave first. I started practicing how to walk on all fours. I know I’m able to walk on my hindlegs because it’s bigger than my front legs, but I don’t know what size did the couple put me at for me to not even able to fit inside the exit unless I walk on all fours. After training for a few minutes until I got the gist of it, I squeezed myself out through the exit and managed to get out from the place that I wake up. As I trotted on all fours, I glanced around the cave. The interior of the cave—gleaming crystals and lush greens that grow at the riverside—somehow reminded me of that slime anime I watched just a few days ago about a slime who got lost in a cave and meet a dragon.

Ugh, I’m not that dragon aren’t I?

“Wait a minute…” I turned my head to the huge river, that extended almost the size of my waist down to my legs and is filled up with clear, flowing water. I inched closer, determined to see what I look like.

“Oh…My God…” I fumbled my head. I really AM bald! But to be homest, my looks weren’t that bad at all. The scales of my head partained the same colour as the scales throughout my body, my mouth is like your average dragon’s mouth—with an addition of upper canines on my front jaw—and dilated ashen blue eyes. I gestured a victory sign because I managed to escape my stereotypical looks.

I started to crawl again, this time following the riverside towards the direction opposite my waking up place. There might be an exit to this cave somewhere at the end of the river.

When I was busy sightseeing the beautiful magic stones that caught my eyes while I tried to find my way out, I faced my first oponent that daringly slid closer to me.

It’s a slime.

“…You’re joking, right?” I narrowed my eyes, my face grimaced into a look of disgust towards that wiggling figure. Just a few moments ago, I was cursing that small, wobbly figure because I wished to not be a part of their story plot and got devoured. Maybe my bad luck, I stumbled upon one.

I stared at it, contemplating whether to kill it or not. Suddenly it extended its shiny light blue body parts as it approached me little by little, irking me and giving me no choice but to step on it. It immediately died.

“So weak…” I mumbled and lifted my foot that was used to step on it.

I grimaced at the goo on the soles of my scaly feet. A shiver ran down my spine as I look at it oozing down from my toenails. I treaded to the river and dipped my feet in it to clean the remnants. Then I quickly shook my feet and went away.

How I wished to have a watch now, because I’ve been walking to the same direction for some time I felt like an eternity!

“Ugh…” I whined and stopped to drink some water from the river. It was chilly and refreshing. My tummy started to grumble from the hunger of not eating any food since I got up. I sat doen on an opening and opened the online store to buy some food.

Scrolling through list of breads, my mouth drooled as they have the same selection as the ones back in my world; melon bread, custard bread, and even the limited edition soba noodles bread are also here!

I immediately tapped the items that I wsnted to the cart and was about to check out when they said that I didn’t have enough money to pay.

“Eh…?”

You’re joking me right?!

“What should I do?…” I weeped again, my tummy grumbled twice to comfort me. I’m starting to feel my hunger sucking me me into agony, but my will refrained me from getting immersed by my mind, so I scrolled the online store window and went to the search button. Suddenly, I noticed a MERCHANT icon just beside the CART icon. Curiously, I clicked.

The description said something about being able to sell items from the inventory, and if successfully bought an item from the online store, we can either store it inside the inventory or let it out to use.

I nodded understandingly, finally getting the gist of how the store worked. So it means that for me to get money, I have to sell something so I can get coins and buy something in return?

But… What items can I sell?

I glanced around my surrounding. It’s hard to know what I can sell around me because I don’t have the appraisal skill. I started by plucking a tiny white flower that was growing in a patch beside me. Then, tapping the MERCHANT button, a hollow space that looks like a dropbox appeared, with a description above it.

PLEASE PLACE THE ITEMS THAT YOU WANT TO SELL.

I studied the phrase, before carefully placed the flower into the space. Instantly, it disappeared. Soon after that, a notification appeared before me.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’VE SOLD AN ITEM

DESCRIPTION:

MIULA FLOWER

• A flower used for healing.
• Commonly found in Mangreatle Cave in Rustaval Region.
• Price: Five copper

“Oh? So a single flower is sold for 5 copper, huh?” I scrolled back to the cart window to look at the price. One melon bread and one caramel  bread cost me 3 copper coin respectively, while the soba noodles bread cost me 5 copper coins. The price for every bread is cheap, but I’m not quite sure if only a single one of the could satisfy my huge belly. Because pf that, I start mass collecting the flowers and sell them when they’ve filled the palm of one of my hand.

I placed them all in the dropbox, and a different description appered in front of me.

SELL MIULA FLOWER x 167?

I mouthed a surprised OH, didn’t expect that I’ve gathered those tiny flowers that much. I mean, there’s still plenty of them that I havent plucked yet. I tapped the YES button and the flowers disappear, replaced with a new window.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’VE SOLD AN ITEM(S)

Total income: 83 silver 5 copper

I raised my eyebrow when I saw the amount that I’ve made from plucking flowers. That was quite a lot. If I remember it correctly, in this novel, the currency for one silver coin is 10 copper coin, and one gold coin is 100 silver coin. I also remembered gold coins being rare in this story, that’s why Minerva is called the richest aristrocrat in the capital of Edith.

My tummy grumbled again, reminding me the purpose of my flower picking was to provide it with food.

I scrolled the CART window and bought about 20 breads from each type. A big box appeared immediately after purchase.

I gasped in amazement when I opened the box. Inside, was the bread that looks exactly like the one I ordered, and surprisingly, their size were bigger than what I expected, almost like a bite-sized mochi. I quickly unwrapped them and inhaled the breads.