When Torina Dewell was sent flying by a griffin that had pounced down from a tree, she became certain of her death.

The vertebrae in her neck gave off an ominous series of clicks. Her ears filled with static, while the blood splashed across her vision made the griffin’s silhouette at the edge of her sight look even more grotesque.

They said that, in the moment before death, time would slow down. They said you’d see your life flash before your eyes.

Apparently, it was true.

Born into a noble family in the Northern Dominion, she had left school to become an adventurer and formed an adventurer party filled with beautiful girls. Those memories flashed through her mind like raindrops, leaving behind only a series of irritating faces.

For example, that arrogant princess with her spoiled temper.

For example, those bootlicking little followers.

For example, that useless, incompetent loner.

For example…

There was no “for example” left, because Torina finally hit the ground. Her head struck a protruding rock, producing an exceptionally crisp and pleasant sound♪

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At two in the morning, the sound of typing still came from a cubicle at the far end of the office.

“He” happily worked overtime while humming an old song from the previous century. His fingers moved across the keyboard with the grace of a piano master. Code flowed onto gVim like musical notes, its syntax more precise than anything that had passed a lint check.

“git add… commit… tag… push origin. Done.”

“He” closed the laptop and glanced at the novel on his desk, *I’m Actually Invincible After Being Kicked from the Party*. He casually shoved it into a drawer, then checked the time.

It wasn’t even three in the morning. He’d only been grinding away for nineteen hours. He could easily keep working until nine, then hold the morning meeting right on schedule after dragging in all the subordinates who came to work.

Grrrrowl~~

His stomach was empty.

When had he last eaten…? It seemed to have been fourteen hours ago.

Maybe he should go downstairs and buy some compressed biscuits to hold him over.

“He” took the elevator down under the astonished gaze of the security guard on patrol. The cool night breeze put him in a wonderful mood.

What kind of expression would the leader of the neighboring team—the one competing with him for the project—make when he saw that “he” had already finished a whole version ahead of schedule?

Whatever. It didn’t matter.

At the thought, “he” let out a strange, cackling laugh.

“Hehehehe…”

He strolled happily out of the office building. Just as he was enjoying himself, a strange noise suddenly came from above.

The instant “he” looked up—

A brand-new outdoor air-conditioning unit plummeted from the sky and smashed him into a modern painting pasted across the pavement.

It made an exceptionally crisp and pleasant sound♪

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Summer, at a sanatorium in the Zhiweidun City resort—

Sunshine!

Fine wine!

Snacks!

A swimming pool!

A luxury hotel!

A girl lounged on a deck chair, cocktail in hand, basking in the sun as she happily took in the scene. The resort’s beautiful maids massaged her shoulders and pounded her legs. Servants fanned her with gorgeous feather fans, while foreign dancers performed for her.

“Miss Torina, is the pressure all right?” the maid massaging her feet asked sweetly.

“Mmm, not bad… Ah~ Yes, that pressure. Perfect~”

“Are you satisfied with the new drink?” the enthusiastic big-sisterly bartender asked.

“It’s all right. It’d be even better if it were a little colder~”

As she spoke, she adjusted her black hair, dark as satin. Her long legs bent into an elegant curve, while her full breasts fell with gravity into beautiful teardrop shapes.

Even though all the attendants around her were women, they still couldn’t pull their eyes away.

She slurped down fine wine, nibbled on delicate pastries, and enjoyed the service of beautiful girls.

What a divine life.

At that moment, Li Hua—now known as Torina—felt like the luckiest person in the world.

Torina Dewell, seventeen years old. Eldest daughter of the noble House Dewell. Top student at the Central United Academy. Registered adventurer of the Adventurers’ Guild. Leader of the Shepherd Moon Adventurers.

These were all impressive identities.

But at the same time, her current self was hiding a secret.

A week earlier, she had led her party into a dungeon. Due to the negligence of one antisocial party member, she had been ambushed by a stealthy elite griffin and knocked unconscious.

Her teammates had taken her to the sanatorium. She spent an entire week there under the careful attention of the medical staff before finally waking up.

Afterward, she fell into a brief daze.

A huge mass of strangely familiar memories exploded inside her mind. Words like “code,” “overtime,” “PowerPoint,” and “air-conditioning unit” surged forth uncontrollably, almost drowning out her original memories.

It took her an entire day to sort through her thoughts.

Then, at last, she realized the truth about herself.

“This world has reincarnated people from other worlds. Under extreme circumstances, they awaken the memories of their previous lives.”

That was a widely circulated rumor.

The old Torina had always dismissed it as nonsense. But now, she was certain.

She herself was one of those reincarnated people.

In her previous life, she had been a “programmer” from a world called “Earth.” A “country boy” born into poverty. A “small-town exam warrior” who had clawed his way out of a remote region.

After graduating from university, he had joined a “blessed-benefits mega-corporation” and worked himself to the bone. Every day had been spent competing and grinding against everyone else.

After becoming a team leader, his salary barely increased, while his workload did nothing but grow.

He had worked until the world spun dark around him.

And yet, after being killed by an air-conditioning unit, that very man had reincarnated into another world.

He had even become a beautiful girl!

A beautiful girl born with a golden spoon in her mouth!

“Hehehehe…”

Torina couldn’t stop herself from letting out another strange laugh. Then she took a large gulp of wine.

Ever since childhood, she had considered her wealthy noble life only natural. But after her brain was smashed by that griffin and she awakened the memories of her previous life, she finally understood how happy she was.

Look. Just look.

In his previous life, he had survived on discounted convenience-store meals.

Now, she could eat delicacies from land and sea whenever she wanted.

In his previous life, his wardrobe consisted of shirts and hoodies worn in rotation.

Now, even a single one of her pajamas was worth a fortune.

In his previous life, he had been a lifelong virgin who couldn’t even get close to a beautiful girl.

Now, she herself was an absolute top-tier beauty.

In his previous life, he had worked overtime, competed endlessly, schemed against his coworkers, and worried about mortgages, car loans, and marriage.

Now, she didn’t need to work overtime. She didn’t need to compete. She didn’t need to scheme.

She didn’t need to worry about mortgages, car loans, or marriage, either.

Wasn’t this amazing?

“Huh? What did you say? Would I regret losing my little bro?”

“Why would I?”

Although she had originally been a man, Torina accepted the irreversible fact that she had become a woman in this life after only half a day of remembering her male past.

Apparently, polls in a certain island nation had found that becoming a beautiful high-school girl was the dream profession of countless middle-aged men.

If someone conducted the same survey in Xia, the results probably wouldn’t be much different.

It had taken her several days to fully reconcile her previous memories with her current body. But now, she had completely accepted everything.

She set down her wineglass and stretched. She deliberately showed the maids the graceful curves of her body.

After confirming that her injuries had mostly healed, she leaped into the pool and lazily floated in the water, blowing bubbles.

The more she thought about it, the luckier she felt.

In her previous life, she had read plenty of other-world reincarnation novels.

Some protagonists reincarnated purely to suffer. Others had cheats and harems, but still had to slowly level up and accumulate power.

And what about her?

This other world was, in general, a standard sword-and-magic JRPG fantasy world. She was a noble young lady who could enjoy a life of luxury forever without a single worry.

This treatment was already pretty damn good.

Her party members… should be waiting in Garden Town, not far from here, right?

Whatever. They were just a party formed by classmates and noble offspring. When she was around, she would enjoy their flattery.

While she was gone, they could entertain themselves.

She’d enjoy doing absolutely nothing here for a while~

…………Mmph.

But how should she put it…

Ever since awakening the memories of her previous life, an inexplicable sense of wrongness had been lingering somewhere in her heart.

Sometimes, certain details of this world would suddenly feel familiar. Yet whenever she tried to think carefully, she couldn’t identify what was wrong.

That distorted sense of déjà vu followed her everywhere.

*(Come to think of it…)*

She rolled over in the water and began swimming on her back. The rippling light swayed alongside the waves as she pondered.

*(Since I keep getting déjà vu, could this other world be a game I played? Or a book I read? Maybe Earth’s history from a parallel universe? Getting transported into something like that is a pretty common plot, too…)*

But she had rarely played games in her previous life and had never cared much about history.

She had read plenty of novels, though. If she searched through the other-world stories she’d read…

*(…Nope.)*

If this was a transmigration into a book, then even if she wasn’t the protagonist or part of the protagonist’s party, she should still recognize certain objects, locations, or events.

But she couldn’t find a single match.

Take the resort city where she was currently staying, Zhiweidun City. She was absolutely certain she had never seen that name in any book—

Zhiweidun—

Zhiweidun…?

Turn it around…

Dunwich?

That name felt familiar. There seemed to be a place called Dunwich City in one of the books she’d read.

The name was similar.

The neighboring town where her adventurer party was currently staying was called Garden Town. That book had a Flowerbed Town.

Similar names.

The school she attended was called the Central United Academy. That book had an important location called the Central Alliance Academy.

Similar names.

The people of this world liked to play a tabletop game called Kante Cards. That book also had a game called Gwent Cards.

Similar names.

This world had three moons, four oceans, five continents, six great mysteries, and seven Guardian Beasts.

That book had three moons, four oceans, five continents, six great mysteries, and seven Guardian Beasts, too.

The setting was similar.

The cocktail she had just drunk was mixed from two liquors called Johnny Walker and Olianfair.

That book had liquors called Monishika and Oliana.

Even the drinks were similar.

Was it really a coincidence?

*(No, no. There’s no way it’s a coincidence. What was that book called again? It was something like…)*

*I’m Actually Invincible After Being Kicked from the Party.*

That was the book he had glanced at just before being crushed to death.

It was a standard “kicked from the party” novel. A painfully generic one, at that.

The male lead was seen as a useless burden in his adventurer party. After being humiliated by the scumbag leader again and again, he was kicked out.

Later, under the guidance of a system, he obtained an invincible cheat, built a career, and returned to slaughter everyone who had once looked down on him.

And by “slaughter,” the novel meant the kind where arms and legs were actually torn off.

It was the most textbook plot imaginable.

The adventurer party in the book was called the Moonlit Adventurers.

It differed from the Shepherd Moon Adventurers she had formed by only one character.

They were even pronounced the same.

*(……………Wait. Wait. No way, right? Of course not.)*

She gave a cold laugh, grabbed the pool ladder, and climbed ashore. Then she accepted the bath towel offered by a maid and began drying herself.

*(That’s ridiculous. That book was written entirely from a male perspective. The appeal was the male lead showing off and slaughtering everyone. Every member of the party that got slaughtered was a man.)*

Her Shepherd Moon Adventurers were made up entirely of women.

The two parties didn’t match at all.

That was right.

They didn’t match at all.

Besides, the scumbag party leader in the book was a northern noble young master named Dorina Dewell. His class was Rune Blade Rogue.

She was Torina Dewell, a northern noble young lady. Her class was Rune Swordswoman.

See?

They were completely different.

“————————Different my ass! Isn’t this just the gender-swapped version of that damn book?!”