I Became the Abandoned Daughter of an Underworld Boss

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I still couldn’t get used to rummaging through trash bins.

“Lulu! Anything there?”

“Meow~”

Yuriana asked in a low voice while surveying her surroundings, speaking not to another person, but to a cat.

Lulu was a loyal friend who followed and helped her, as she couldn’t survive on her own.

The black cat, adept at rummaging through garbage, pulled something out and tossed it aside.

It was withered but clean vegetables. She was lucky to find a slightly soft tomato as well. If she washed it well and bit into it, it might stave off scurvy.

“Thanks!”

“Meow!”

After gathering the vegetables, Yuriana forced herself to fill her hungry stomach and sighed as she leaned against the dark alley.

It had been ten days since she arrived here.

She looked at her now shorter limbs and then at the gloomy sky.

Not because it was the sky of another world, but because it was the sky of Dark Town, it was always dark and dreary.

‘Did I really die? Could this all be a dream?’

There was a pitiful friend who was bullied at school. She wanted to help her, but that was a big mistake.

Instead of being grateful, the friend tried to exclude her as soon as she joined the group. When she confronted her, the friend called her to the rooftop, claiming she had something to give, and then suddenly pushed her from behind.

She remembered the color of the playground sand coming dangerously close. It felt like she was falling towards the sun, knowing she would die upon impact.

Even if she returned to her original world, she would either be dead or terribly injured.

Yuriana shuddered.

‘Ugh, forget it. They say it’s better to be alive no matter what. But still, this is too much… falling into Dark Town of the Nea Kingdom!’

When she suddenly opened her eyes, she found herself abandoned in a dark alley, not in the unfamiliar ceiling of a hospital, but in another world!

The name popped into her head, and she automatically knew where she was.

It was both fascinating and frightening. After all, her original name was also Yuri.

This place was inside a game. The world after achieving the true happy ending in the game .

It was the last game she played, so she remembered most of the characters and the plot.

‘Huff… my dad is the boss of this Dark Town, but what kind of life is it that I can’t even go find him? Poor Yuri.’

Despite her thoughts, Yuriana believed it was better not to meet her father, the boss, Asil.

Behind the true happy ending where everyone was happy, Asil was left alone in tragedy.

The protagonist Alice succeeded in persuading Crown Prince Aidan. She also allied with the leader of the Yshell Allied Force, the elf Heidel, and brilliantly defeated the final boss, the Doppelganger.

After everything ended, Alice chose Aidan as her husband.

And… in that happy ending, Asil, one of the three main male characters, was destined to be left alone.

The reason was simple.

Asil did not help Alice when she risked her life to confront the Doppelganger.

Instead, he tried to confine her comfortably in Dark Town, the place he loved…

‘Ugh, I get that a character obsessed with the protagonist is necessary. In fact, they’re often more popular. I liked Asil a lot… sob. But still, making me Asil’s hidden daughter is too much!’

Unlike the noble Heidel, who was an elf, and the well-behaved Crown Prince Aidan, Asil, the boss of Dark Town, had a vastly different personality.

Their first meeting was when Asil, in disguise, was dealing cards at a gambling den and saw someone trying to cheat Alice. He then punished the cheater with a knife.

‘Alice not running away in terror and becoming friends with Asil after seeing that is amazing.’

The protagonist Alice had a bolder personality than expected.

Even after discovering Aidan’s true identity as the Crown Prince, she didn’t bow down but acted confidently. She wasn’t afraid of Asil, who was from Dark Town.

Well… their friendship ended in the world after the true happy ending where Asil was abandoned.

Alice was now a married woman, so she should keep her distance.

Suddenly, Lulu started crying loudly.

“Meow! Meooww!”

“Quiet, Lulu.”

Eating grass as food made her drowsy. Even though she ate less and moved more than in her previous world, she didn’t seem to lose weight or get tired.

She had to hold on a bit longer and grow bigger before she could leave this place. That was the only way to survive.

Just as Yuriana, who had made up her mind about her future, was about to close her eyes, it happened.

“Meoww!”

Through Lulu’s sharp cries, a rough voice pierced the air.

“Well, well~ what a cute little high-class slave… haha, there’s a precious little princess here! Come with me.”

‘Oh, my!’

Just as she was about to fall asleep, she heard a suspicious voice.

A slave hunter!

It was the villain Alice encountered during her second visit to Dark Town!

Startled, Yuriana’s eyes flew open.

That was worse.

The slave hunter, who had approached after seeing her disheveled silver hair, became even more eager upon seeing her eyes shining like a clear lake.

“Hehehehe. This kind uncle will give you a tasty treat. I’ll buy you some apple candy. Come here, will you?”

“I… I’m fine.”

She tried to back away, but her path was blocked.

Oh, right, she had only been walking in dark alleys.

She was doomed…!

“Meow! Meoww!”

Lulu, standing on a high wall beside her, shook her head as if telling her to come quickly.

This was crazy. She appreciated the sentiment, but how was she supposed to jump up there?

Meanwhile, the slave hunter kept approaching with ridiculous words.

“Hehe, little one? Come here and don’t worry. Uncle isn’t a bad person~ I know how pretty a girl you are. I’ll dress you in beautiful dresses at a nice house. I’ll give you all the treats you want! No more digging through trash.”

Oh no! If she got caught, it was over for her!

… what should she do?

At that moment, a choice that would only appear to the protagonist Alice suddenly popped up before Yuriana.

Yuriana’s eyes widened.

Run away.

Fight back.

Throw a stone!

They were all dead ends!

“Me-meow!”

Lulu almost barked as she cried with her fur standing on end, but Yuriana, frozen in fear, couldn’t move.

The slave hunter, pulling open the mouth of a sack he had hidden behind his back, approached closer.

What could she do?

‘What do I do…’

It was impossible for her to jump over the wall with her small child’s body. Even the protagonist Alice couldn’t do that.

Just as Yuriana’s face turned to despair, a strange choice labeled [Hidden] began to appear before her eyes.

Th-this was it!

Yuriana decided to take one last chance.

[Hidden] Shout: Do you know who my dad is?!

“…”

Calling Asil Lithus… with her own mouth? Call him dad? If she did that, she might not get out of this Dark Town alive but be erased in an instant.

The slave hunter, seeing Yuriana’s frozen eyes, blatantly thrust the abduction sack at her.

“Come on~ get in here and wake up in a nice house…”

“Do-do you know who my dad is?!”

Yuriana squeezed her eyes shut and chose the [Hidden] option.

Then a loud voice, unlike her own, erupted from her throat.

She didn’t know!

But wasn’t living better than becoming a slave?

Even though he tried to imprison the protagonist in a cozy confinement and got abandoned.

Even though she knew he wouldn’t be happy to see a daughter he didn’t even know existed!

“Huff… huff…”

“Meoww!”

Exhausted mentally, Yuriana collapsed on the spot.

Now, what was going to happen?

She didn’t know either.