I Was Reincarnated as the Emperor’s Sleeping Pill - Chapter 0: Prologue

Nyxna.

A beta who cures the Emperor’s insomnia.

In fact, the status of Nyxna in the Atrasia Empire was not that old.

For generations, extremely dominant Alpha emperors had all suffered from severe insomnia. As the excessive release of pheromones, which only Alphas and Omegas could smell, was known to be the cause of insomnia, research results showed that the human scent emanating from betas, who do not emit pheromones, helped stabilize the Emperor’s sleep.

Thanks to this, those chosen among the betas, whose numbers were significantly smaller than Alphas and Omegas, were given the status of Nyxna and lived in the Imperial Palace as the Emperor’s sleeping aid.

The reason for creating the status of Nyxna separately was that most betas were of humble origin and could not be brought in as empresses or concubines.

A device created to bring them into the Emperor’s bedchamber as sleeping aids and easily discharge them when their usefulness was over, a status created for easy disposal. That was Nyxna.

Omega, Lysei Orphe, disguised herself as a beta using black magic. This was due to her fate as a bastard of the Orphe baronial family, destined to be a sacrifice for the power-hungry baron.

Her mother, a maid, exchanged Lysei for a few coins given by the baroness as soon as she gave birth to Lysei.

Growing up neglected in the baronial family, which had no daughters, she realized why Baron Orphe had bothered to buy her from the maid. It was on the very day she presented as an Omega.

As soon as Lysei presented as an Omega, she was subjected to persecution and contempt from Baron Orphe and his family, which was incomparable to the neglect she had suffered before.

From the beginning, Baron Orphe needed a beta daughter to enter the Imperial Palace, and he seemed to have thought that Lysei, born from a maid’s body, would definitely become a beta because betas mainly presented from humble origins.

But contrary to expectations, when Lysei presented as an Omega, he went so far as to use the black magic of heretics, which was forbidden in the Empire, to turn her into a beta.

And as he sent Lysei to the palace, he ordered her to have the Emperor’s child.

Lysei had no choice but to follow the baron’s wishes, even though she knew that her life would be forpheit the day her beta status, achieved through black magic, was discovered.

From the beginning, she had no choice.

“The sinner Lysei Orphe, hiding that she is an Omega, dared to enter the Imperial Palace as the Emperor’s Nyxna!”

A guard, holding a gleaming sword in his hand, looked down at Lysei, who was tied up and bowing her head, and shouted sternly.

“The crime of disguising herself as a beta using the Empire’s forbidden black magic and infiltrating the palace! The crime of plotting a scheme as the Emperor’s Nyxna!”

What she had expected had finally happened. Tears streamed down Lysei’s eyes.

All of this was due to her power-hungry father. From the beginning, she, born as a bastard of the Orphe baronial family, had no choice.

No, even if she had a choice, could she have avoided entering the Imperial Palace?

That was also not true. She had steadfastly endured the beatings of the monstrous baron, who was only a father in name, but it was no longer possible, and for Lysei, it was a much better choice to become a beta using forbidden black magic and enter the Imperial Palace than to be next to such a monstrous baron.

So, in the end, was it also her fault?

“Therefore, the sinner Lysei Orphe, and the Orphe baronial family’s title, and all property including the estate, are confiscated!”

However, she couldn’t help but feel wronged.

The Empress was determined to kill her simply because the Emperor could sleep deeply with her scent, so her resentment reached its peak.

In the end, even though Nyxnas were supposed to solve the Emperor’s insomnia, if they were even slightly more outstanding than other Nyxnas, they would offend the Empress and end up dying like this. What a ridiculous situation.

‘I don’t want to die…’

Lysei bit her lip. She didn’t want to die like this.

“And the sinner Lysei Orphe and Baron Orphe are sentenced to beheading for all these crimes!”

She really didn’t want to die like this. Her life, from birth, was not blessed. Nevertheless, it was a precious life.

Although she was a fake Nyxna, she had the good fortune to embrace the Empire’s sun, and she loved that sun so much that she gave him her whole heart. It was an unrequited love, but she was happy in her own way.

‘God is too much. I didn’t ask for anything. I loved His Majesty, but I never wanted that love to be reciprocated. I only wished to be by His Majesty’s side until my usefulness was over, but you are taking my life so quickly. Are you not sorry for me? Why do you hate me so much?’

Lysei bit her lower lip tightly.

“Execute!”

The guard’s voice was like a large awl piercing her heart.

Lysei squeezed her eyes shut. Tears streamed down her cheeks endlessly.

In the end, she lamented her fate of dying like this. She begged anyone to save her pitiful fate. Lysei prayed like that as she offered her neck to the gleaming guillotine.

***

Splash!

Her eyes snapped open at the cold water poured over her face.

“Uselessly weak! I told you to train so that black magic would work, but with that body!”

A middle-aged man who looked like a raccoon with a white beard poked her body unpleasantly with the end of his cane, shouting. Judging from the water bottle in one hand, the one who poured water on her face was clearly this raccoon.

Jay blinked, trying to figure out what was going on.

The unfamiliar room she was in had only a small, unbelievably dirty bed, with wooden plank walls that didn’t even have wallpaper.

No, what kind of dream is this dirty? I’d rather have a poop dream so I can buy a lottery ticket. But why does this raccoon keep poking me with his cane?

Jay knocked the cane away with her hand, annoyed, and said to the raccoon.

“Hey— what are you doing, mister.”

Then the raccoon widened his eyes in surprise, and soon his face turned red and he began to stutter.

“Wh, wh! Mister…?!”

“Where is this? What kind of shitty dream is this? No, how can it be so wet in a dream?”

Jay roughly wiped the wet face with her hand and got up.

Throb.

But, her body hurt.

Huh…?

How can it hurt this much in a dream?

Jay began to examine her body here and there. She had graduated from the Department of Security and was working as a club guard at Hera, one of the top three clubs. Therefore, she immediately realized that the bruises on her body were caused by the cane the raccoon was holding.

“Th, th, this is finally crazy…!!”

Thwack.

She lightly grabbed the raccoon’s cane as he raised his hand holding the cane and shouted. The raccoon’s cloudy green eyes shone precariously.

What is it, did he put on circle lenses or something. Ah, but what’s this bastard’s smell. It’s not a bad smell, but it’s a disgustingly unpleasant smell…

A smell she had never smelled before. Jay pushed the cane she was holding towards the baron, thinking that it was a very strange and unpleasant dream.

But because her grip was weak, she couldn’t exert even half of the strength she could normally exert, so the baron, who should have fallen to the floor, didn’t budge.

Far from falling, the cane flew back and struck Jay’s forearm.

“Ouch!”

It hurt indeed.

“Ouch! Shit! What is it? It’s not a dream?!”

She shouted, blocking the continuously flying cane with her hands. While doing so, Jay turned her head and her eyes widened to the point of popping out when she saw the mirror.

“Uhhh?!”

The woman reflected in the mirror was not her. No, she was too pretty to be her. Of course, she was also decent, but the woman in the mirror…

She was beautiful despite her disheveled appearance. She had dazzling silver hair, mysterious aquamarine eyes that couldn’t be compared to the raccoon’s, and a body that was so slender it was emaciated. Such a girl was standing in the mirror.

“What is this…”

Jay muttered, covering her cheeks, as if she had lost her mind.

“You’ve finally gone mad. Useless thing. I have to send you to the Imperial Palace quickly, tsk! Mary!!”

As the raccoon shouted towards the outside as if annoyed, the closed door opened at once and an orange-haired girl in a maid’s uniform that she had only seen in movies entered the room.

“Yes, master.”

“Call Towan to heal this thing’s wounds. The day to enter the palace is not far off, so it must be healed cleanly.”

“Yes, master.”

As the raccoon clicked his tongue and went outside, the girl wiped Jay’s wet body with a dry towel and muttered.

“Ugh, what’s the point of healing it. You make wounds like this every day…”

Jay was still bewildered as to what this situation was, and she was silently staring at the mirror.

“Lysei, are you okay? What happened today that you got beaten like this again?”

The orange-haired girl called Jay Lysei and looked worried.

Lysei?

A somewhat familiar name…

In an instant, Jay’s eyes widened.

It was natural that the name was familiar. It was the name of one of the characters in the novel she had read a while ago.

***

Jay had been stabbed in the side instead of the boss while working as a club guard. She had to be hospitalized for several weeks, so she was bored, and a friend who came to visit her told her about a web novel.

A 19+ reverse harem novel with a unique Omegaverse worldview.

It was a novel where the beta female lead becomes a human sleeping pill called Nyxna and gets entangled with the Emperor and several men, suffering from obsession and torment, and most of it was filled with erotic scenes.

Lysei was definitely an extra who appeared in the beginning. As a bastard of Baron Orphe, she was an unfortunate character who became the Emperor’s Nyxna with her Omega body against her will.

It meant that an Omega, without fear, changed her pheromones to the scent of a beta and pretended to be a Nyxna and entered the Imperial Palace. That too, by her father’s order.

The problem was that, instead of conceiving the Emperor’s child as planned by her father, the raccoon baron, she was exposed as an Omega to the Empress beforehand and lost her life by the Empress’s order. That too, in the early part of the novel before the original female lead appeared.

She was clearly an extra used as a device to reveal the Empress’s viciousness, but…

No, what the hell is this.

No, why her of all people…?

She didn’t know why she was possessed by this shitty character, but if this wasn’t a dream and it was really possession, then she was very screwed.

Because she remembered that she, who had been doing well in the hospital, was suddenly transferred to the intensive care unit due to an unknown complication.

She probably died there. So she was possessed by this body.

Ah… I’m really screwed.