overlord volume 16

Phoenix’s life takes a disastrous turn when she wakes up in a grimy hotel room just two days before her mating ceremony. Her life is ruined, and she didn’t need a soothsayer to tell her because not only is their a lingering smell on the sheet, which indicates that she has been unfaithful, Dylan is in the hotel room yelling profanities at her. By her unexplained actions, she has become disgraced, banished, and may have sparked a war between her pack and Dylan’s. Werewolves mate for a life, and a broken mating arrangement is an unforgivable sin. At 16, Phoenix was promised to Dylan as a way to unify their packs after years of rivalry. An alliance now broken by her infidelity. Although she would have preferred to wait for her chosen mate, she has long accepted that being Dylan’s chosen mate and Luna of his pack is a fate she can endure. Now branded as a disgrace and banished, Phoenix has been replaced by her half sister as Dylan’s mate. Exiled from the home she has always known, Phoenix is left to wander the forests as a rogue. Her central thought is to survive and navigate life alone whilst looking for a pack that will take her in, but she must face all her fears one at a time. Her life in exile takes an unexpected twist when she finds her true mate in the most unexpected way. How does she keep the secret of being the fated golden wolf? How does she stay away from her chosen mate to keep her secret? Will she learn to harness her powers and save her kind from a looming war with the hunters? Like her name, will she rise from the ashes?

엄마는 나를 미워했는데 심지어 내가 죽기를 바랐다. 나는 내가 죽어야 한다는 것을 안다. 16년 전, 내가 밖에 나가겠다고 소란을 피우지 않았다면 오빠도 날 구해 주느라 죽지 않았을 것이다. 다행히 그녀가 원하는 대로, 내가 원하는 대로 나는 뇌암에 걸렸다. 내가 엄마를 아줌마라고 부르며 모든 행복을 잊고 죽었을 때 그녀는 미쳐버렸다.

母は私を憎んでいる。それどころか、私が死んでしまえばいいとさえ思っている。 私も、それが当然の報いだと理解していた。 16年前、もし私がわがままを言って外出をねだったりしなければ、兄は私を助けようとして命を落とすことはなかったはずだ。 幸いなことに、母の望み通り、そして私自身の望み通りの結末になった。 私は脳腫瘍にかかり、母を「おばさん」と呼び、全てを忘れたまま幸せそうに死に向かっていった。 なのに、その時、母は正気を失ったのだ。