Chapter 2
If I was going to remember the memories of my past life anyway, how nice would it have been if I had remembered them before all of this happened!
The virus must already be spreading.
Slowly, throughout the entire country.
‘Even if I tell other people about this, will they believe me?’
It was true that people were very interested in me, but definitely not in a positive way.
If I had to put it into numbers, I was a gossip girl whose credibility was almost zero.
‘Even I wouldn’t believe myself if I were them.’
Damn it.
At this point, there was only one way to save my own life.
‘This is not the time to just lie in bed!’
I needed to build a bunker—a shelter where I could hide and defend myself from the monsters that would appear after the world ended.
Even though the novel had been put on hiatus, I roughly knew its story.
If I prepared properly, I should be able to avoid danger.
And most importantly, I was lucky enough to have a huge amount of money.
People often say that you can’t buy time with money.
But that’s only something people without enough money say.
I just had to throw as much money as necessary into building a shelter and save time.
‘Yeah. Let’s just do it. I have the memories from my past life, so I should be able to manage.’
As soon as I made up my mind, the first person I went to find was Harrison, the Sinclair family’s lawyer.
The lawyer’s office in the Sinclair mansion.
Harrison was about ten years older than me, and he was like an older brother to me.
He had been with me since I was young.
Rather than simply being a lawyer, he was more like the Sinclair family’s representative and assistant, handling the family’s affairs.
“What do you mean by that, Miss? Weapons?”
Harrison asked again as he sat on the sofa in his office and elegantly drank his tea.
His neat brown hair and warm green eyes gave him a gentle appearance.
He pushed up the glasses that had slipped down the bridge of his nose and looked at me with confusion.
“Why do you suddenly need weapons?”
“Because I want to protect myself.”
Harrison stared at me for a moment before giving me a small smile.
Harrison smiling like that was extremely ominous.
“Please explain exactly what you mean. What are you planning to use the weapons for?”
He asked me in a gentle voice, as if he were trying to reason with a child.
It sounded almost like he was asking, ‘What kind of trouble are you planning to cause this time?’
‘Damn it. He doesn’t look like he’ll agree easily.’
I wished this was something I could handle on my own.
If I wanted to obtain weapons, especially a large amount of them, I needed his help.
If I handled it myself, I would definitely attract attention.
Capable Harrison would be able to take care of everything neatly without causing any problems.
Yes.
I knew that simply saying I wanted to protect myself wasn’t going to be enough to convince Harrison.
I looked directly into his eyes.
Then, gathering all the sincerity in the universe, I said—
“There’s someone I want to shoot and kill.”
Harrison, who had been leisurely drinking tea on the sofa across from me, stopped moving.
But I was completely serious.
I really meant it.
Of course I wanted to shoot and kill the virus monsters that would threaten my life.
Harrison slowly put down his teacup and raised his head.
The light reflected off his glasses, making them shine so brightly that I couldn’t see his eyes.
“Who the hell is that bastard?”
He adjusted his glasses and asked me.
I had to choose my words carefully here.
Harrison was extremely overprotective, so he would definitely investigate whoever I was talking about.
I put on a sorrowful expression, took out a handkerchief, and unnecessarily wiped the corners of my dry eyes.
“That…… I don’t want to say it myself.”
Phew.
Even I thought that was an excellent choice of words.
Now Harrison wouldn’t be able to ask me anything else.
He would probably secretly assign someone to watch over me, but I didn’t care about that.
All I needed to do was safely prepare for the end of the world.
‘There isn’t much time left anyway!’
Harrison remained silent for a while.
Judging from his thoughtful expression, he seemed to be trying to figure out who this ‘bastard’ could be.
After a long silence, he finally spoke.
“……I understand for now. What specific types of weapons do you want? I’ll also arrange a teacher who can teach you how to use them.”
“Swords, crossbows, axes, things like that. All kinds! But Harrison, I don’t need a teacher……”
“Miss. I won’t compromise on this.”
Harrison was firm.
There was absolutely no room for persuasion.
Besides, there were only twenty-one days left until the end of the world.
I might not even get the chance to meet this teacher.
Still, having an expert help me would be useful.
I nodded casually.
“Fine. Anyway, make sure you prepare plenty of weapons, including extras. Since I’m doing this, I want to do it properly. I’m going to build an armory too. You know my personality, right?”
Until just yesterday, I had been an immature heiress who couldn’t feel satisfied unless she wasted money until she had gone all the way.
Perhaps because of that, Harrison nodded without any particular suspicion.
His calm expression seemed to say, ‘She’s planning to do something strange again.’
Considering Cherry Sinclair’s behavior until now, there were plenty of reasons for him to distrust me.
It was unfair, but I couldn’t say anything about it.
“Where are you planning to build the armory?”
“In a village called Brunel.”
“Brunel……?”
Harrison looked somewhat puzzled.
‘Why is he making that face?’
I became a little nervous, but calmly answered him.
“It’s not far from the capital. Look for it on the map.”
Harrison stood up.
He took a map from the drawer of his office desk, brought it over, and spread it out on the sofa table.
Then he searched for the village of Brunel.
It was a very small village located a short distance southeast of the capital.
“……Miss, why this village of all places?”
Harrison looked at me as if he couldn’t understand.
And it was understandable.
Brunel was such a small rural village that it didn’t even have a train station.
But I had a clear reason for choosing Brunel.
The village had been mentioned in the novel Ruined Love.
[Vanilla survived alone for half a year in a secluded mansion in the village of Brunel.
She said that the mansion was special. She also added that it was a mansion optimized for survival.
The mansion we actually saw was exactly as she had described it.
—From the novel Love in a Ruined World]
I remembered something roughly like that.
Anyway, after the apocalypse began, the supporting character Vanilla survived alone in that mansion for half a year.
A whole six months.
That was why I chose Brunel.
Around that time, Aurora and her group would arrive at the mansion and meet Vanilla.
Vanilla’s secluded mansion was a fortress located on top of a hill.
It had a large garden, which would be perfect for growing vegetables.
There was also a mountain behind it, making it easy to gather things from nature.
But at this point in the story, none of Aurora’s group had strong survival skills.
In the end, they couldn’t solve the food shortage caused by their growing numbers and soon left to find somewhere else.
Later, after meeting Jose, the second male lead and a weapons expert, they gradually became better at surviving.
But before that, they weren’t very capable of taking care of themselves.
‘Food will be fine if I create an environment where I can produce everything myself.’
My parents in my previous life had been farmers.
They owned a lot of land.
I was supposed to inherit it.
Of course, I had never actually farmed myself.
But I had sometimes helped with the work, and I had learned a lot just by watching my parents.
So maybe I could do it.
It would take two years for the protagonists to meet the scientist male lead who could develop the cure.
So I only had to survive for two years.
‘Would Harrison believe me if I told him all of this?’
Thinking that I had nothing to lose by trying, I decided to tell him.
“Harrison, the world is going to end soon. An infectious disease that turns people into monsters is going to spread. I’m going to Brunel to prepare for the apocalypse.”
I don’t really want to describe how Harrison’s expression changed after hearing that.
“……Do you need medicine again? If you don’t want to receive treatment at Rudfusher Hospital, I can find another hospital for you. I think it would be better if you stayed in the hospital for a few days and rested……”
“Ah, no! It’s a joke! A joke! I just had a dream. It was very vivid.”
I waved both hands and tried to convince Harrison that I was perfectly fine.
After my parents died, I had suffered from depression and taken medicine for a short time.
Who would have thought that would become a problem now?
‘I can’t end up locked inside a hospital when the apocalypse comes!’
“If you’re alright, then that’s all that matters.”
Harrison answered with a relieved sigh.
As expected, Harrison was the only one who truly cared about me.
That’s why I absolutely had to bring Harrison to the shelter.
“Um, but Harrison. Could you come with me to Brunel? I don’t know much about armories, and I’m not exactly good at judging things like that.”
Harrison looked at me as if he were thinking, ‘If you don’t even know anything about weapons, why are you trying to build something like this?’
I had no good excuse, so I decided to shamelessly push ahead.
“I’ll assign someone to you.”
“No. I want to go with you, Harrison.”
Because I absolutely had to get him out of the capital.
Harrison frowned and looked up at me as if he couldn’t understand.
His expression seemed to say—
‘What are you planning this time?’
