Chapter 13: You aren’t real.
"Understood."
Mark watched as the maid bowed her head then left to take care of the task he had given to her.
'Damn that was exhausting...' He rubbed his eyes and face, suddenly feeling tired as the thrill of their earlier escape began to fade. 'I really don't want to do it again...'
At the moment, the only thing he wanted to do was lie down and get some sleep. Putting aside the fact that he had slept through the previous day, he still had to find a way out of their predicament before the dragon brought down the entire building on their heads. Sleep could wait until he was safe.
'How the hell am I supposed to do that?...'
Once again Mark found himself thinking about how nonsensical the situation was, but he also understood that he had no choice but to play along with its logic if he wanted to survive.
"That thing was definitely some kind of gate." He looked up at the ceiling, remembering the black stain floating in the air. "A gate, lizardmen, a dragon..."
He began going through the signs one after the other and included one of his characters appearing in the real world. Remembering how she referred to him as 'Master' the entire time, Mark covered his face with both hands as he arrived at the most likely conclusion.
'It's a web novel...' H wanted to scream at the top of his lungs. 'I'm inside a goddamn web novel!'
The realization hit him like a truck, but sadly it wasn't enough for him to wake up in the body of a child. He suddenly jolted up then turned in the SUV's direction.
'Could it be...' His eyes landed on the silver-haired maid and the despair he felt seconds ago vanished into the air. 'Did I just get the harem tag?'