Princess Catherina stood in front of her giant mirror, admiring herself in her expensive medieval dress, complete with a plethora of shiny jewelry. She was breathtakingly beautiful, as always, and had everything she could ever want. This moment felt perfect, and she relished in the luxury of it all.

But things had not always been this way. In fact, her previous life had been incredibly difficult.

She was born into a poor family, and was always considered an ugly and unpopular girl. She was constantly reminded of how unlikely it was that she would ever succeed in life. As if that wasn't enough, her parents could only afford to send her to a crappy school, filled with delinquents and the worst of teenagers.

Her school days were a nightmare. She was bullied mercilessly, and she could never seem to fit in with the popular crowd. It didn't help that she was always dressed in hand-me-down clothes and could never afford the latest fashion trends. Even after she finished school and started working, things didn't get any easier for Catherina.

She could only get the lowest position, and she was disrespected by everyone around her. She had to work the hardest, for the least amount of pay. At the end of a long day, she would come home to her cheap apartment, exhausted and defeated.

But Catherina had one escape from the harsh realities of her life. On her second-hand old laptop, she loved to play a game called "The Phantom Huntress". In the game, she could fight against the unfairness of the world, taking on the rich and powerful and stealing their wealth. She would then distribute the stolen wealth to the poor and weak, giving them a fighting chance in a world that didn't seem to care about them.

But even that couldn't help her forever. One day, she ran out of money, and the landlord kept bugging her about the rent. Her boss was angry and lecturing her for hours for a mistake that she didn't even make. Everything was going wrong. Nothing was going her way. She was so angry at the world. The last thing she remembered was chugging a bottle of sleeping pills. She knew it wasn't a good idea, but she was so frustrated that she didn't care. She wanted to sleep and forget everything. And then she woke up in this world.

Did she reincarnate? Or transmigrate? She might have died from an overdose in her sleep. Who knows? But she didn't care. Her life was good now. She stared at her perfect figure, more beautiful than any actresses or models she had seen in her previous life.

Her happy mood was interrupted when Princess Catherina heard something from the corner of her room. There was a small creak from the windows, and she immediately glanced over there.

Weird, she thought. I don't remember opening it.

She walked over and checked, but there was no one there. Why was she on edge just from a simple sound? She laughed a little and then closed it.

Yes, forget about that, she thought to herself, trying to go back to what she was thinking before. Right, she reminisced about her past.

The moment she found out that she had turned into the antagonist of her favorite game, "The Phantom Huntress," she immediately became worried.

Her life had been perfect. She was a princess—beautiful, rich, and powerful. She couldn't have hoped for a better new life than this. But, in the end, there was always a catch. Soon, she was going to lose it all if she didn't stop Reiren from killing her.

"No, calm down," she said to herself. She knew a lot about "The Phantom Huntress" game. If she could kill Reiren and the assassins' organization before they killed her, everything would be okay. That was right. She knew where all their hideouts were. And they should have been significantly weaker this early in the game.

She could win this.

Princess Catherina then called all her knights and began giving them this mission: to completely wipe out the assassins' group.

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After she had heard the news that her knights had successfully destroyed all the hideouts of the assassins' group, she smiled widely. There was nothing to worry about anymore. Yes, no matter how good Reiren had been, she had lost all possibilities to grow. She didn't have any support anymore. And her little tactic of leaving some assassins alive so they would suspect each other as a traitor, had sealed her victory. They would be hunting each other, and hopefully, end up killing each other even without her needing to do more.

She was free now. She could actually enjoy her new life now. Nothing could stop her anymore.

Especially because her action had been in line with most nobles. They had all been scared of that assassins group, so now that it had been destroyed by her, everyone celebrated by sending a lot of expensive stuff to the princess, making her even happier.

And Princess Catherina didn't need any more reasons to create more parties, spending more money, having fun with other noble ladies and handsome noble sons. She had won, she was happy, she deserved all this.

Still, sometimes a part of her felt bad that all this luxury had come from the pain and suffering of commoners outside. But she tried to argue that nobody cared when she was suffering before, why should she care about them now?

That's right, she thought to herself, this is just how things are. For people to enjoy such luxury, someone needs to suffer. This time she just got lucky that she was at the top. It's not her fault.

Princess Catherina shook her head, annoyed with that thought. Tonight she only wanted to think about happy things, not worry about people she didn't know or feel bad about her actions.

She wasn't wrong.

Even if she was, her own happiness was the most important. She had to forget about anything else.

She then picked up her box full of jewelry, wanting to quiet her mind by looking at all these expensive accessories, but then something fell behind her, making her jump in surprise.

A book from the table fell on the floor. But it was quite strange for the book to just fall by itself like that.

"Is someone there?" she asked as she looked in the direction of the book, starting to get scared. "Hello?"

It was a fantasy world, so maybe ghosts existed? she thought to herself.

She closed her jewelry box and threw it toward where the sound direction was. It didn't hit anything, just fell normally to the floor.

When she was about to sigh in relief, a voice came from behind her.

"You missed," the voice said.

Princess Catherina froze in fear.

"W-who...?" she said, looking behind her. But nobody was there.

So it's really a ghost? she thought, getting more scared. N-no way! That's just silly!

She laughed awkwardly. "I must be tired," she murmured. "To think I'm starting to hear things..."

"No, I'm really here," the voice said, right beside her.

Princess Catherina jumped in shock, almost making herself fall. She then panickedly ran toward the door, but something grabbed her hand.

"Help!!" she started screaming. "Someone help--"

Her scream was interrupted, followed by a muffled, pained groan as something stabbed her chest. In pain, she sat down on the floor with blood starting to rush out of her body, painting her expensive dress red.

Princess Catherina was hurt, confused, and scared. Her consciousness started to fade away. That's when she noticed someone standing in front of her.

"This was for my mentor and my colleagues you killed," Reiren said, the purple-haired assassin girl appearing from thin air.

Princess Catherina's eyes widened. "Re-Reiren...?" she said, coughing in pain. "W-why...? How...? You shouldn't have invisibility..."

"Huh? You know my name? And you even know I can't use invisibility?" Reiren said. "Seems like Aurora was right. Do you really see the future?"

But Princess Catherina collapsed on the floor, gasping for air. Soon, her body stopped moving, and she lay on the floor, bathed in her own blood.

"Ah, probably I shouldn't have stabbed her in the vital organs if I wanted to talk to her more," Reiren murmured nonchalantly. "Well, as long as she's dead, it's all good."

The sound of guards rushing could be heard from the corridors outside.

"They were here already?" Reiren murmured, disappointed. "This is kind of a waste, but there's no other choice then."

She picked up a potion from her bag, drank it, and her body started to fade away before disappearing completely. Unlike before, she used her ability to mute herself. She enjoyed scaring Princess Catherina, so she didn't mute herself before, but now there was no point.

The guards then entered the room. The moment they saw the princess's condition, they panicked even more.

"Intruder!" one of them screamed. "Someone attacked Princess Catherina!"

"Hurry, call a healer! Inform His Majesty immediately!" the more respected guard said to the others. "And you, stop spacing out! The intruder might still be here! Hurry, check the whole room!"

Reiren calmly walked towards the windows while around her guards hurriedly opened the door to the dress room, checked the wardrobe, and more. Using her ability to completely mute herself and the Aurora potion, she truly became like a ghost.

She then got out of there. The duration of the invisibility potion was short, so she couldn't waste time. After getting out of the palace building, she immediately ran past the garden toward the gate.

She passed by the guards there without a problem and kept running towards an area with trees not far from there.

A girl with golden hair was waiting there, hiding behind the trees, looking worried. She glanced towards the palace, noticing panic starting to happen all over there.

"Rei," she murmured, worried.

"Yes? You're calling me?" Reiren said, making her jump.

"Wha-what...? You're back already...?" Eliphia said, looking around confused. She still couldn't see Reiren at all. "You should have told me sooner, you dummy! I can't track you at all because you muted yourself!"

"Ah, right, sorry," Reiren said. "Anyway, let's go first. You can scold me later."

"I still can't see you," Eliphia said.

Reiren held her hand. "If like this, you can feel me at least?" she asked.

Eliphia nodded.

And they silently left that place, contrasting with the loud panic coming from the palace behind them.

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