I Will Quit Being the Secretary of the Crazy Tower Master

I transmigrated into the romance-fantasy novel I had fallen asleep on while working late.

And of all things, I became the villainous witch who gets brutally killed near the beginning of the story.

I was destined to receive an order from the stepmother Empress to create a deadly poison meant to assassinate the male lead, the Crown Prince. But after being betrayed, I would ultimately be eliminated by the Empress herself.

‘It was bad enough that I died from overwork. There’s no way I’m going to die pointlessly all over again!’

What could a powerless supporting character like me possibly do?

After much agonizing, I finally made up my mind.

I would leave the Mage Tower and disappear before the Empress could send me a potion request!

“I’d like to resign.”

I pulled out the resignation letter I had been keeping close to my chest.

I had planned to neatly wrap up my life at the Mage Tower, hide away somewhere, and enjoy a quiet vacation until the original story came to an end.

But then…

My superior, the Tower Master, suddenly snatched the resignation letter from my hands, crumpled it tightly in his fist, and—

Whoosh—.

Flames erupted from his fingertips.

The resignation letter was reduced to black ash in an instant.

“I don’t want you to.”

The moment my eyes met his, with the crimson shadows of the flames flickering within them,

I instinctively realized that something had gone terribly, terribly wrong.