Please Don’t Open the Chest in My Room

Sae wakes with a crown of ash in a body that everyone fears, and she starts measuring dungeon loot like a field researcher because that is the only way she knows how to stay alive. The Demon King court wants orders. The hero’s side wants her head. Sae wants answers, and she keeps finding the same bad pattern in every cave and ruin she studies. The treasure inside a dungeon changes too neatly. The soil is wrong. The bones are wrong. The numbers are worse. Then a hidden letter in her room carries handwriting she knows from childhood, and the person she thought was a stranger turns out to be the one who kept answering her secret notes for years. Sae can handle poison, seals, and spies. What she...