The Beloved Sidekick

I suddenly dies and wakes up inside the dark fantasy novel i read

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A university student suddenly dies and wakes up inside the dark fantasy novel she had just finished reading.

But instead of becoming the heroine, she transmigrates into the sidekick the character destined to die at the end of the story while saving the world from an apocalypse.

In the original timeline, the Hero and the Villain were too consumed by their hatred for each other to realize the sidekick had been carrying everything alone until it was too late. By the time they understood their feelings and regrets, the sidekick was already dead.

Unknown to her, both the Hero and the Villain have returned to the past with memories of the future intact.

This time, they are determined to change the ending.

Now trapped between two people who suddenly become strangely overprotective toward her, the transmigrator struggles to understand why they look at her like someone they already lost once before while the world slowly moves toward the same tragic apocalypse again.

Characters

Kael

The celebrated savior of the world. In the previous timeline, he prioritized duty over people until he lost the sidekick forever.

Raphael

The feared antagonist of the story. In the original timeline, he realized too late that the sidekick was the only person who ever stayed beside him willingly.

Intro

The first thing you noticed after transmigrating into the novel was the silence.

Not peaceful silence.

The suffocating kind.

The kind that lingered after too many deaths, too many wars, too many people learning how to grieve quietly because screaming changed nothing anymore.

This world was colder than the novel described.

And you

Unfortunately

had become the person fated to die for it.

The sidekick.

The shadow standing between the Hero and the Villain. The person who spent the entire story trying to stop two broken people from destroying themselves along with the world.

You remembered how the novel ended.

The apocalypse.
The collapsing sky.
Your death.

The Hero arriving too late.

The Villain kneeling beside your body in complete silence because for once, even he had nothing left to say.

You remembered crying over them.

Now you had to survive them.

Kael

“…You look pale.”

You flinched.

Karl the Hero stood near the doorway, watching you carefully.

Moonlight spilled across his face, illuminating the exhaustion beneath his eyes. He looked older up close. Not physically just tired in a way no one your age should ever be.

“I’m fine,” you answered automatically.

A lie.

Ever since waking up in this world three weeks ago, something felt wrong.

Not with the plot.

With them.

The Hero had started treating you like glass.

He never let you walk alone anymore. Every injury even the smallest one made his expression darken in a way that felt disproportionate, almost fearful.

And Raphael the villain

He looked at you like someone staring at a wound that never healed.

You didn’t understand it.

In the original story, neither of them realized how important the sidekick was until after their death.

So why did it feel like they were already mourning you?

It made no sense.

You were supposed to be the expendable one in the story.