I don't really know for how long I was walking in this forest. My body started to feel hot, my legs were starting to get draggy and all I wanted was to drop to the ground and rest. However my mind told me not to do it. I knew very well what would happen if I stopped walking now. It was obvious. Once I would stop moving, I was doomed. I can give this life a check and say goodbye very very fast.

Fuck!

Screw this damn world!

Where am I even?

Is this normal?

Screw the one summoning here!

Screw god!

Screw everyone.

At this point, I was just done with life and everything. Of course I was done. How could I not be done with it? Did I have a chance to survive? No! Whoever abandoned this body owner must have been crazy! There was no chance an ordinary girl could make it out of this situation!

Desperation was what kept me going or should I say it was the will to live because I was uncertain what would happen once I stopped moving. Would I die? Would there be a main character who was about to be safe? Was there a second chance? Would I return back to my world and my place? Who knows! All I had were questions running wild in my mind and all I could think right now was nothing. My body felt too heavy and I was just tired. Still nonetheless I continued moving forward step by step. I had to keep going on!

Where this power in myself came from was unknown but thanks to it, I managed to go further and further into the woods till I started to hear something. It was the first time I was hearing noises ever after I woke up and of course after that one snapping sound and the thunder in the background. The weather was soo not getting better and it was in fact against me.

Should I try to see what is going on?

No!

Are you dumb?

Hahahaha!

Yeah, no. I might have really lost it at this point. I wanted to go see what was making these noises since they were the first ones in what feels like hours. There was no sense of time at all thanks to this rain I couldn't even tell how late it was. One thing was for sure. It was still not dark and that meant it was something around late afternoon but seriously I didn't know it exactly.

Then there it was again, more snapping could be heard but this time I had a bad feeling about this. Something about this place was weird. I mean a kid in a forest without any traces of anything and then there was the fact that there was no cliff, no road or anything. At some point, I should have found something but there was nothing. I wasn't sure if following this sound was a good idea now but did I have any other choices right now? I wanted to live and survive after all.

I should get ready and have a plan B at this point!

What if that is a monster?

What if there is someone wanting to harm me?

What if that is an animal?

What if they're gonna kill me or it!

STOP THINKING LIKE THAT!

Sometimes I wanted to kill my mind for coming up with things that it should not do. Panicking was not doing me any good and yet here I was doing exactly that. How else should I actually deal with this feeling if not panic? I knew nothing! I was alone and there was nothing that was actually keeping me alive or giving me a chance to survive!

Wait!

What if this is a cursed forest?

Ahh!

SHIT!

I haven't thought about this!

What if this really is the wrong place!

It could be seriously cursed!

Is this why there are no animals around?!

Maybe it is also filled with beasts!

I hated my mind. The mind was my worst enemy! It could come up with soo many things and every single one of these ideas could be real at this point. I might just walk to my own demise or I could walk to salvation. Maybe these noises were in my mind or they were real. If they were something that my mind came up on its own then well done. I am crazy and I am lost so I deserve this.

No matter what it was, my little legs kept me going and going till I got through a bush and it was louder and louder. By now I knew it was not walking but it sounded more like chopping. Who in their right mind would chop some would right now though? It didn't made sense but the closer I got the more I was thinking that it sounded familiar, yet also not. What was this sound of clashing? At first I thought it was someone walking but it was too loud for it and it was echoing a bit as well. Next thing I thought was that someone might chop some wood but it was raining heavily. So if not that, what would people do in the forest else? Especially in this kind of forest with this weather?! There were no animals, nothing to hunt for and I didn't see any fruits, wild berries or any kind of mushrooms as well. It was all just vegetation and greenery around me. However, it looked gloomy and gave me the feeling of getting swallowed by it. Seriously! Something was wrong with this forest!

As I got closer to the sound, I could hear some screaming as the rain mixed with the thunder were overpowering it. It sounded too close to a fight but there were humans! That meant that there was help!

That was what I thought.

SHIT!

I shouldn't have come here!

This smell!

Blood! That was the scent which was filling the air right now but I was already out of the forest to the small place where everything was going down. There I could see it. People fighting each other. People in armor looking like knights but their sword was enveloped into some kind of faint light. The light was all in different kinds of colors and yet no one seemed to mind it at all. The other guys were wearing black but the fact that these guys were losing was obvious since they were dropping to the ground quickly like flies. Then there was this one guy, my instincts were telling me to run away from him. I honestly also wanted to do that. Nothing better than to get away from here! This was not something I wanted to get involved in! Not to mention that I could actually do anything to protect myself at all.

What the-

I need to move!

I have to get out of here!

MOVE!

Come on!

Please legs!

I want to live!

As much as I wanted to turn and run back, I couldn't. My body was at its end. I didn't have the energy to continue on and I was way too scared to move as well.

Did he see me?

Please NO!

"SIRE, A CHILD!"

What was going on here?

That's what I wanted to scream out but it was definitely useless right now. The fight I just witnessed was nearly at the end. There were just some people fighting but there were also others which saw me. There was this one guy in particular which looked a bit tired but more curious. His eyes met mine and they were of the same golden color like mine. Sharp, dangerous, calculative and yet there was a hint of gentleness in them. I didn't know what it was that made me relax when I saw the man but I felt kinda safe. Never did I ever see a character like this man.

While I was too focused looking at this man, I found myself staring at him and looking at the weird thing he was wearing. Definitely a sword and some armor but it was lighter and a cape. Was he someone special? It seemed like that judging by all the accessories and silver, gold jewelries around his complete attire. Maybe he knew who I was since I was also wearing something that didn't seem cheap but more on the fancy side.

However there was something else I was staring at. It was the emblem on the man's shoulder. It was a dragon head with a wing shielding it and flames around. I knew this emblem. How could I forget about it after all?! It was the only reason why I picked up that goddamn cursed book out of boredom! The cover looked nice and this emblem was on it but the storyline was sloppy and everyone died at the end of it as well. There were some ridiculous ways how they died. I remember there was a duke which died because of the excess amount of demonic beast storming in. The damn king sent the man to die. The crown prince then took down the king before getting killed by the people of the empire because of a curse layed on the duke's family. A plague started spreading and people started dying. It was all a mess but in short, the most important thing was that the duke was a direct descendant of a dragon and had dragon blood running through him. Whoever was killing this man and the entire family would doom the whole continent since it was founded with the help of a dragon and the protection of it was basically that duke's family and was the only thing keeping the people safe. It was messed up to say the least since the idiotic king wanted to get rid of the duke soo badly.

"No...."

That was the only thing I could muster right now.

"This can't be real...."

I finally managed to make a step backwards from the scene in front of me. I should have caught on to the fact about my golden eyes sooner. Only the direct descendents of the dragon had these golden eyes. Why didn't I think about them when I was looking at myself and admiring their beauty before? Oh yeah... maybe because I was thinking of getting myself out of this damn rain and trying to think of a way to survive.

I am doomed...

I am soo doomed....

I am ...

No...

WHY?!

Why did it had to be this novel?!

It couldn't have been something sweet?

Why this?!

The man with the golden eyes started to come closer but I was just panicking. My mind went blank as I started to step backwards till I fell over and landed down on my butt but still trying to back away from this scene.

"Who are you child?"

"....."

"What's your name"

"...."

There was no running away now. He was faster and he was definitely stronger, not to mention that he had a sword and could kill me at any moment. Of course I didn't dare to look at the man's eyes anymore but looked down to the ground. I didn't have anything to say to this man.

FUCK!

What should I do?!

I don't know who I am!!!

But...

These golden eyes!

Only descendants have them!

So am I somehow related to this man?

What is going on?

I was too busy to figure out what to do next, to see that this man crouched down in front of me and waited for my reply. He seemed patient enough since he didn't hurt me yet but who knew what would happen in the future. The duke's family members were known for killing each other. I still remember there being the head-family which were notaries for killing all their sub-relatives and all the others which were not worth their dragon blood. It was survival of the fittest in that dragon lunatic family.

And now you tell me, I was part of that family?

Oh where did I get myself into?

"Can you talk?"

No... nononononono...no!

This is unreal...

Just no!

Why...

....

Was there really a choice I had? I knew that sitting here looking down was not doing me any good. Maybe I could even get killed here if I was not careful at all. This was not your typical transmigration story where you could live a happy life as a child or be a princess. It just so happens that everyone is cursed at the end and dies if things really start to get out of hand. Everyone was kinda a lunatic here. I had to be definitely careful about what I would do next. I was literally walking on eggshells right now. No question and no doubt about that.

" Can you hear me?"

"Yes...."

It was only now that I looked up and met the man's golden eyes. He had slim pupils which reminded me of snake eyes but then again he was a dragon or should have dragon strength, their speed, agility and magical power. Wait! Magic?! I completely forgot that this whole book was about demonic beast and magic and the dragon's curse. Was there really a moment that I could spare and think about that right now?

"...What's your name?"

Was I imagining it?

His eyes looked as if he would want to kill me but right now they looked more gentle and he was even stretching out one of his hands. Was he trying to help me up or something? What was going on here? I remember them all being lunatics and here he was talking to me as if he just found something precious.

"...."

"Can you understand me?"

Since I couldn't get out any words right now, I decided to node. I was way too scared to talk and my body was shivering heavily. I also was at the end of my strength. Walking any further was out of the option for me. So in the end there was no running away right now at all. All I could do was face the man in front of me not knowing who he really was. One thing was for sure, he seemed to be in his early thirties and he didn't have the intention of killing me right now.

"Good, at least something."

"....Ahm..."

"Yes?"

This is scary!

I want to die right here!

This is not worth it!

Soo not worth it!

"Where.... Where...where am I?"

"This is the Silent Forest."

Si-

SILENT FOREST?!

That damn place which is filled with all kind of demonic beasts?!

How the hell did a kid like me get here?!

....

No doubt someone tried to kill this child before I kinda possessed or took over the body!

What should I do now though?

The silent forest belongs to the duke's land...

I really was too shocked to say anything more but apparently I didn't have to say more than this because I could see my field of vision starting to get darker and darker. First there were just a couple of spots but it was growing a lot faster and darker than what I thought. Was this it? I really hoped that I could go on for a bit further than this.

"HEY!"

This man screamed in front of me and I felt his arms around me but it was already too late. I was just too tired and I couldn't go on any further. I knew that it was a matter of time till this body collapsed due to everything. However this was definitely one of the worst moments for this!