~LFTV 01~

Chapter 1

The local wizard 1 said:

“Hmmm… I have no idea. Go see another wizard.”

After asking around, Daisy found an old wizard 2, who said:

“Eh? This is…?”

“Do you know what it is?”

“Not at all. Healing isn’t my specialty.”

“Eeek!”

Wizard 3, introduced by a distant cousin of a miscellaneous goods shop owner in the neighboring village, said:

“One thing I can guarantee… this isn’t an illness, at least.”

Even the ragged-looking wandering wizard 4 agreed with Wizard 3.

“Miss, your body is perfectly healthy. So this must be either psychological or magical.”

Today, too, Daisy tore at her hair in frustration.

“Ugh! Why doesn’t anyone know?”

Suddenly, while screaming in despair, a familiar dizziness hit Daisy. Her vision went black, and she lost sensation in her hands and feet.

Until the very last moment before losing consciousness, Daisy vented her frustration.

‘If this isn’t an illness, then what is it!’

Originally, Daisy had been the daughter of a pauper baronial family—a noble girl under a drunken, abusive father.

Because of the old-fashioned custom that “nobles do not perform manual labor,” Daisy had to watch her crumbling manor sink further into ruin as she grew up.

Daisy shuddered.

‘Ugh, this was not an elegant life at all.’

In her eyes, a noble forced to hide torn clothes and harassed by creditors was nothing more than pitiful.

But a year ago…

Right after the death of her violently abusive father, the second act of Daisy’s life began!

Even if she was kicked out of the collapsing mansion with nothing at all, Daisy was fine.

‘Living as Baron Fried’s daughter is over. Now I’m just Daisy, a common girl, and I’ll live as I please!’

Some might say that giving up noble status to become a commoner was absurd.

But to Daisy, the freedom of a commoner, living without worrying about others’ eyes, was far better.

Moreover, the future awaiting a fallen noble girl was bleak beyond measure.

‘If the best I can hope for is being sold as the old, ugly noble’s second wife…’

She thought it far better to carve out her own life.

“And I could make much more money that way!”

As a common girl, Daisy quickly found work at a reasonably large restaurant. She was capable and quickly adapted to the job.

Working scrappily without caring about appearances, she steadily saved money.

‘If things keep going like this, maybe I can open my own shop someday?’

Just as she was envisioning this hopeful future, a major problem appeared in what seemed to be a smooth-sailing life.

“…What on earth is happening to my body?”

Daisy first noticed something strange exactly six months ago.

‘I collapsed at work and couldn’t get up for an entire day.’

At first, she thought it was extreme fatigue and let it slide.

But when it happened a second and third time, it was impossible to ignore.

‘Collapsing like this once a month and being unable to get up!’

Even worse, the time she remained unconscious was gradually increasing. Initially, it was a day, but now it could stretch to a day and a half.

Recalling the past, Daisy frowned.

“Ugh. Doctors say it’s not a disease, and wizards don’t know either. What on earth is happening?”

She had just started a new life after shedding her grim noble status, and yet, such hardship awaited…

Daisy grumbled.

“Living a normal life like everyone else is so difficult!”

She had already wasted over six months, both time and money.

‘Since I don’t know the method, I can only chase wizards in desperation.’

…And so, the thirty-first wizard Daisy encountered today finally spoke:

“I know your problem.”

Daisy leapt to her feet.

“Wh-what is it?”

She had been to countless doctors and wizards over the past six months, but no one knew the name of her “illness.”

Naturally, she had assumed today would be another dead end—so this news was a relief!

Daisy leaned forward eagerly toward the thirty-first wizard.

“Please, tell me! Now!”

The young lady, with apple-red cheeks and sparkling eyes like stars, might have seemed adorable—but the elderly wizard did not even twitch an eyebrow.

“However…”

Instead, he held out his palm.

“From here, there’s an extra fee.”

“Excuse me?”

“Money. I need money.”

Daisy gaped, momentarily forgetting her joy.

‘Ah, this wizard is notoriously money-hungry…’

After shaking Daisy’s wallet empty, the wizard finally spoke.

“Miss, your soul’s trace is weak. Ordinary people’s body and soul are tightly connected, but yours… there’s a gap between them.”

“G-gap? Why is that?”

“That’s just your unique constitution. I don’t know the reason.”

“So how do we fix it?”

To practical-minded Daisy, vague talk of soul traces was irrelevant.

“Can it be fixed or not?”

What mattered more was whether she could recover and live normally.

“You’ve given me a lot of money, so you must know the method, right?”

The wizard crossed his arms and replied:

“No. That would be difficult.”

“What?!”

Daisy slammed her hand on the table.

“You emptied my wallet and now you say it’s difficult? You scammer!”

“Miss, calm down! Calm down!”

The wizard dodged Daisy’s furious attack like a nimble monster.

“I don’t know the exact reason, but I roughly know how to fix it!”

Daisy’s ragged breathing eased slightly at the words “there’s a way.”

“Okay… so how do you fix it?”

“You need the essence of the world.”

“The essence of the world?”

The wizard explained that it was a concentrated energy of the world, something only obtainable in extreme environments.

He continued:

“I’ve examined you carefully, and your soul and body interaction is weak.”

“What does that have to do with the world’s essence?”

“To reconnect the body and soul, we must infuse them with the world’s energy. Therefore, we need the essence of the world, which contains powerful energy.”

Daisy tilted her hip, pointing a finger at him.

“So… you have some of this world’s essence?”

“Of course not! That’s why I said it’s difficult.”

Daisy screamed at the top of her lungs.

“What? You talk big but don’t even have the materials? You…!”

The wizard waved his hands to interrupt her.

“Unless I were a grand mage, even if you shook me by the collar, I couldn’t get anything that extraordinary. So consider it a miracle that I’ve learned even this much!”

With that, he quickly cast a spell, and Daisy was thrown out of the lab by an invisible force.

“Argh! Give me my money back, you fraud!”

Daisy screamed outside the wizard’s lab, kicking the door repeatedly. Only her feet ached; the door didn’t budge.

‘Essence of the world…’

Even meeting an ordinary wizard required enormous effort for a small-town girl like Daisy.

“And now they say you need materials only a grand mage could gather?”

That meant the odds were practically zero.

On this continent, those titled “grand mages” were few, and they lived in seclusion where no one could find them.

Daisy, who had grown up in a narrow, shabby mansion, had no way of knowing… until a sudden lightning-like realization struck her.

‘I know a grand mage!’

She even knew his residence and some details of his personal (romantic) history.

‘…Maybe I can claim I know him pretty well?’

…And so, Daisy stood before a stone tower nine stories high.

“Oh, so it really exists here.”

She looked around in wonder.

‘I knew it was a world from a book, but seeing it in person is amazing.’

Daisy had a huge secret: she was a reincarnator, specifically one born into the world of a book.

‘I used to mock such ridiculous setups in fantasy novels…’

And yet somehow, she had become a living example of it.