Quick Transmigration: Saving The Crazy Villainess

His reaction made Aliyah breathe a sigh of relief, although she also felt complicated. Was she that lacking in charm? Or perhaps, what she did when her other personality surfaced was just too shocking for him? She suddenly felt like crying.

"First of all. I have no plans to sleep outside. I paid for this room. So either you sleep in the streets later or get yourself a separate place. It"s already too much on my part that I let you stay here for a few hours after you suddenly had a convulsion." The young man took a chair for himself and began eating.

She nodded. There was no problem with that arrangement. In the first place, why would she share a sleeping quarter with a man?

"Let"s get to the serious part then. I hope this will be the last time I will ask you this. Again, what happened after we escaped from the alleys?"

"You tailed me like crazy," he simply answered, biting onto his brick-like bread. She flinched at his resentful eyes. A question then popped up. How crazy was her actions back then to be this hated? 

"Er... Sorry, I didn"t know. If I was conscious I would have not done that. I swear... I would have looked for my knights and mother..."

She coughed and alternately looked at him and her shoes. "By the way, the term personality disorder should have not existed yet at this time. The people here most likely mistook the condition as being possessed by devils."

There was a hint of sadness in her tone as she added, "So for sure, it had not been easy for patients with the same problem as me to live in this era as there are no skilled psychologists around. Heck, there is even no plumber. How could there be a therapist with enough expertise here? But anyways… It"s not the matter at hand now. What I really want to say is... you should be someone like me, no?"

"Huh? No. I have no mental issue as serious as yours. I"m sure of it." He batted his eyes once. A second later, he stilled. He seemed to have realized the other meaning of her words.

"Ooops, I responded to the wrong thing. She wanted to say, I"m not of this world."

A skeptical look then emerged from his face, but he didn"t say a thing to the girl. Instead, he muted the system and began to question it.

Meanwhile, Aliyah took his reply as his refusal to admit it. But she was also so offended by his remark so she harrumphed and said, "Mister. Can you please look at the mirror from time to time? For reflection. I tell you, it"s not a difficult task to do and it will keep you in check of reality."

"Hmm? Do I need to? Sorry, I can"t afford that. Bronze mirrors are expensive," he simply replied. 

She made a face. "I suggested you that because I sincerely believe that you have issues yourself. Your morals at least have problems. After all, you so arrogantly provoked the church people and n.o.bles. In this world, who else would be like you daring to scam a bishop? You also did not hesitate to run away instead of helping a lady in distress."

With a raised brow, he asked. "In short, I, or my actions are unreasonable?" His face was very serious when he let out a low chuckle before continuing, "Putting aside the scam issue since I already explained that I am a helpless person fighting for my food and accommodation. Care to explain what"s unreasonable about being scared by a bunch of goons?"

"You"re a man," she answered.

"So what? I"m a single person. I mean in both ways. I am a single guy searching for a good and brainy wife, and I am only one person. So how could I go against them? Do you think I"m some sort of superhero?"

He paused for a while then continued, "Miss Psycho. I think you"re the one who needed to open your mind to understand. What I did is logical. I ran, because it"s dangerous. Even you ran away. What? Are you thinking only women have the right to flee when faced with an impossible situation? So men are supposed to stand up and receive beatings or humiliation, if not death? That"s some serious double standards!"

After saying his point, he went back to chewing his bread. His words made her doubt whether her three views were skewed or he just has some loose screws.

"Maybe we"re just both stubborn and crazy?"

The girl closed her eyes and then asked herself why the h.e.l.l she was arguing with somebody younger than her. The topic of the argument was not even relevant to the real issue at hand.

Feeling that she should be the one to steer the conversation in the right direction, she calmed herself down. Shortly after, the girl spoke.

"Enough of the nonsense, okay?"

He shrugged.

She continued, "Here"s what happened to me. I arrived a month ago. For some unknown reason, I suddenly became Marian Obson. But before this, I am a simple YouTuber troubled by that condition. I am the main personality. Before that, my doctor said I am already cured of it. My meaning is... I didn"t know one of them can still emerge."

"Them?" Jiang Li had some curiosity about the condition hence he remained instead of leaving completely.

"I have about three personalities in me. But through therapy, all of us have already been combined. At least that should be the case..."

"Hmm. I see. So what"s with the super annoying child-like one? Is she already existing before the merge? Or after the merge?"

"… Before."

"Oh." He laughed at her. "Poor you then. Either your therapist is a quack. Or the personality is simply very tenacious."

There was no trace of sympathy in his tone when he said that. She seemed to be living healthily after all. "Alright, I"m only curious because it"s my first time hearing about a person with multiple personality disorder transmigrating."

The girl gave him a bitter smile. "Likewise. But whatever. That term "transmigration" couldn"t possibly exist at this time too. So at least, it"s confirmed that you"re a colleague from the same world."

His expression did not change. But inwardly he was thinking, "How can you be sure? There are countless parallel universes. I might even be an alien in disguise."

She began asking him everything that happened. Jiang Li did not hold back since it was funny to watch the wry smile and embarra.s.sed expression on the female lead"s face. He emphasized all the stupid things she did just to make sure to catch up to him.

"Miss, you"re really so persistent, more than a broken record."

"Before joining the crowd, you keep on saying I should help you be back to the church. Then after that, you keep saying I was mean for not confronting the gangsters for you."

He momentarily paused to throw a meaningful look at her. "I should have noticed how odd it is for you to keep going after me. It is as if you"re a newly hatched chick whereas I"m the mother you first saw. F*ck, the comparison is so gross."

Aliyah: "…"

Jiang Li did not mention the other stuff her child-like persona kept saying, that there was a voice inside her telling her to stick to him. She was, after all, already thinking that she was going insane.

He stood up and pointed to the door. His intention was very obvious.

"For real?"

The finger did not move. It was still pointing towards the door. 

She looked at him with a tired expression. "… I get it... Just wanna say before I leave. It"s unfortunate, but I don"t know how to go back tomorrow."

He said with a smile. "And I have no plans to escort you all the way to the gate. Have some shame, please. You obviously not a kid."

For the girl, back was the feeling that the smiling boy before her was a lion wearing "I"m a cat" nametag. The smile on the face was harmless, but the eyes were screaming of irritation and annoyance. It was as if he would throw her down the window if she didn"t leave immediately.

Even though it was already clarified that neither of them wanted to end up in this situation, she still felt like complaining in her heart. "So heartless. After I satiated his curiosity, he still wants me to figure by myself how to return."

As she marched out, there was a frown on her face.

She was not much worried though. She knew she was merely being difficult.

After shaking her head she closed the door and walked down to talk to the owner of the inn. Nothing was more important right now than to get a place to stay and some food. As for tomorrow… There should be villagers going to the city in the morning. She could take that chance to get back.

…

When morning came, even though it was still so early and the sun had yet to fully rise, Jiang Li was already up. After triple-checking that all his belongings were with him, he opened the door.

He closed it again. Then he opened it.

"…" So he was not hallucinating?

He didn"t know what to feel at the annoying face that greeted him.

The girl flas.h.i.+ng a smile at him began to speak.

"Hi. How are you? I just thought about it and realized my current ident.i.ty is trouble. I"m not the real Marian so I have no plans to get in trouble with the church and the royal family just because of "her" brother"s death. You know, once the plot proceeds halfway, I might constantly have death threats and a.s.sa.s.sinations for breakfast. That"s totally scary!"

"Also, I have no right to be in a love story with "her" knight…"

"So how about I just go with you and live a life in obscurity or just run away from them? Aren"t you going to the other kingdom? I can count as a historian so I might be of help before and after we get there."

The man busy dealing with his anger management issue: "…"

"Help? Help, your face!"

"Bang!"

The door closed again, this time, in a much more violent manner. The impatience and frustration of the person on the other side was so easy to see from the loud sound the creaking door made. It made her wonder which part of her displeased the young guy. 

As for Jiang Li, his thoughts were simple.

Who wants trouble for a companion? Why would he want to travel with a female lead?

He understood that she was the kind of transmigrator that knew not to claim a fate that was not originally hers. But just because she said she wanted to abandon her female lead status, she thinks the plot would let her?

No, the bigger problem was that she wanted him to look after her.

"Ha ha."

The man directly jumped from the window and immediately began to run after landing.

Aliyah was still pounding her fist on the door, thinking the youth was still in the room. Since he was not speaking, she thought he was taking revenge against her for what she did last night, dragging something to block the door.

Hence she shouted, "Hey! Don"t be that petty. Talk to me, I"m serious! And I"m sorry for the mess yesterday. I just want to survive and I think I will be safe outside the influence of the royal family. Also, I think you"re still a nice person since you didn"t totally abandon me yesterday. I won"t be burden, alright?"

She pursed her lips for some time. There was no answer from the other side. 

But if the guy was still there, under the influence of the Original"s real temper, he would have thrown a fit already, angry at the fact that this female lead was crazily a.s.suming that there were many free people in the world.

"... Actually, the reason I"m insisting is not that I"m thinking as transmigrators we should look out for each other. There"s just a voice inside me advising I should follow you. Mister, maybe you"re from my city and you"re familiar with one of my personalities? I don"t know. Hey? h.e.l.lo?"

Silence rang for about half a minute. Her knocks had become more frequent as she furrowed her brows. "Why is he not speaking?"

The answer came to her not long after. From the distance, shrieks, and screams from several women suddenly made way into her ears.

"Ahhh! Thief!"

"Somebody jumped from the second floor of the inn!"

Voices from men resounded too. "Did he steal anything?!"

"Catch him to be sure!!!"

Aliyah was too stunned to listen to those.

For a couple of moments, her sight was pinned at the door as if she could see beyond it. Shortly after, as the woman processed what she heard, she hurriedly picked up her clothes and pieces of jewelry that were already placed inside a bag.

Wearing a set of clothes for female peasants which she exchanged with her bright lilac shawl, she went downstairs and ran after the fleeing man.