Blurb One: Qiong Qiu thinks she’s the main character of the world.
After all, who else could go to sleep and wake up having gone from a short-lived species to an immortal one?
Then, in the blink of an eye, she became a prophet whose intuition was always right.
The worst thing she ever went through in her previous life was being tricked by a little elf into dyeing her hair green when she came of age.
As an adult, she resolved to become a traveler. Every now and then, some fool would cross her, and she would draw her soft sword, leaving them with nothing to say but, “Prepare to die.”
Her parents lived to a ripe old age. Her life was completely uneventful.
Being invincible was so... lonely.
Then, looking for some excitement, she took an SSS-rank quest to “become a hero” and casually drew three tarot cards:
The Tower upright, The Hanged Man upright, The Star reversed.
In plain language: a hopeless dead end, no chance of saving anyone, and she’d have to sacrifice herself too.
Qiong Qiu’s first thought: Wow, I finally have something to do!
Her second thought: Wait, if I can’t save them, does that mean the whole world will be buried with me?
Blurb Two: Qiong Qiu’s first half of life was peaceful. Her mother was European nobility, and her father was a wealthy merchant who had settled in Europe.
You could say that Qiong Qiu had never worried about money, not even once, from the day she was born.
Perhaps her parents thought life needed a little more excitement, because when she was seventeen, they set off on a journey.
And her?
Of course she went traveling too.
But a girl in the bloom of youth was bound to feel a little attached to home. In truth, she just couldn’t bear to leave her friends.
Thanks to her thirteen-year friendship with the elves, she spent a year living with them.
On her eighteenth birthday, she received a cloak, a blessing, a headband, a talisman to save her life, and what she thought was washable green hair that turned out to be permanent.
As the saying goes, if you’re asking for a beating, you’re going to get one.
At the same time, it was time to make her dream of traveling come true. She said goodbye to the elves, and one elf whose eye was still purple came along with her.
On their travels, it wasn’t quite a matter of relying on each other for survival. It was more like a pair of troublemakers had been unleashed upon the world.
Witch hunts, demon hunts, anything bad: tear it all down first and ask questions later.
When their life-saving talisman broke, they just laughed and scratched their heads.
They ran into plenty of robbers on the way, and the number of people left disabled also rose sharply.
Then, while she was divining alone for their next destination, she drew The Tower upright, The Hanged Man upright, and The Star reversed.
Qiong Qiu’s first thought was: Ha, at last, my dream of saving the world has arrived! Her second thought was: I need to find a way to ditch the elf.
She had always looked down on “hero complexes,” but she couldn’t bear to see a friend follow her into a hopeless dead end.
Saving the world was her wish alone. If anyone had to die, it could only be her.
A coming-of-age story about a girl in the throes of a teenage rebellious phase. The timeline is set before the timeline where they definitely won’t fall for each other.
Theme: How can you see a rainbow without weathering the storm?
