Chapter 1

Prologue

“Haa, haa.”

The sky was pitch black.

Black smoke billowed around, and a putrid smell wafted from somewhere.

I barely opened my bloodied eyelids and looked at the dead people around me one by one.

‘...That guy is the main character, and that one is the secondary lead.’

Turning my head from the scattered dead, I saw another pile of dead bodies.

If there was anything unusual... they all had the same hair color.

The same hair color as mine.

They were my brothers.

‘That one is the eldest, and the one still gripping his sword is the second... The third one, a crybaby, couldn’t even close his eyes.’

Now, I don’t have much time left.

I let out an exasperated sigh.

‘Ah, I can’t even make it past 22 this time.’

There was no particular fear of death.

Why? Because I was already repeating this for the third time.

Surprisingly, this world is inside a book of the child-rearing genre.

I have experienced this world three times.

I’m tired.

20, 21, and 22.

All the ages at which I died.

I felt pity for my dead or dying family.

‘...It’s not a crime to be born into a villain’s family. Pfft.’

If I were to be possessed in a book, no one would be as pitiful as me.

Especially not in a cute and adorable child-rearing story.

I slowly lifted my head.

A black mass filled the sky.

In the midst of it, a human figure floated.

Behind the floating man, smoke formed a shape.

It was a dragon.

To put it simply, that man was a living dragon.

The Dragon Duke.

And this chaos happened because that dragon went berserk and rampaged.

‘Haa, I wish there wasn’t a next round. But that’s unlikely, right?’

No matter what I do, why doesn’t fate change?

I could feel my life draining away.

At the same time, the man raised his hand, and a black sphere formed in it.

A massive black sphere.

Considering that a much smaller one had destroyed a city, this time it would definitely be the end.

‘If those crazy main characters hadn’t provoked the Dragon Duke...!’

Why did they have to mess with the poor Dragon Duke and cause this mess?

‘No, how can the ending of a child-rearing story be a total massacre?!”

I stared blankly at the sky, then suddenly my eyes widened.

In the sky where the man floated, the world was about to be destroyed by the explosion of that black sphere.

Through the shattered sky, I saw something familiar.

Familiar roads, familiar bridges and roundabouts, and Gwanghwamun and Gyeongbokgung...

‘Wait. Seoul streets?!”

I wasn’t seeing things.

These were the now nostalgic streets of Seoul.

I opened my eyes even wider when I saw the clear Korean signs.

‘Why can I see this? Ah, if I go there, I might be able to return home!’

Unfortunately... my eyes were slowly closing.

What, what? I finally found my hometown...!

It’s so unfair.

I no longer had the strength to hold on.

But even as I saw the approaching black sphere, I felt a thrill.

That’s it, with that, I can live longer!

I can return home.

Facing death, I grinned.

Third round of the child-rearing life.

In my next life, I will conquer the dragon.