I Prepared for a Fire Festival Drill and Woke Up as a Dungeon Core

Aki had spent three years rebuilding a kingdom’s real past from hidden scraps and burned records, and that work left her with a habit of checking every lie twice. During the first night of a three day rural festival, she was pulled out of her old life and woke as a dungeon core in another world, with walls, traps, and monsters now answering to her. The first people to enter her halls thought they were dealing with a normal ruin. Aki knew better. Every step they took felt like a second chance at the death game she barely survived before. She kept going anyway, because the only thing worse than fear was letting the wrong story win again. The key fragment behind the bathroom mirror and the seal...