"This… this didn't happen in the original webtoon, did it?" Veronica asked in a low panic, her fingers curling slightly against her skirt.
The system didn't answer.
Of course it didn't. That was always a bad sign.
In the original storyline, the original Veronica had little to no interaction with the villain. Barely two scenes—maybe three if you stretched it. He saw her as nothing more than background noise, a minor nuisance at best. She was supposed to stay in the Elementara Class, where Evangeline was.
That was her lane. Safe, boring, irrelevant.
But her decision, no, the mistake of joining the Dragonspire Class must have stirred something else. Veronica couldn't shake the sinking feeling that she had accidentally unlocked a hidden subplot the author never intended.
Her hands grew clammy. "Why does it feel like the flags are piling up one after another…?"
It felt like… she had somehow swapped places with the female lead.
