Chapter 140 – Beginning -3-
A familiar feeling of floating came.
This sensation can be felt in the reminiscence room.
But it was different than usual.
“Body….”
My body, including my arms and legs, was properly composed, rather than existing as a spirit.
The fact that vocalization is possible proves that it is not an illusion.
After a while, the darkened vision brightens and the dolls of the four heroines come into view.
Neritiel, Beatrice, and Osiel.
And located in the very first… Lethe.
“What the hell is it?”
Unlike the other three, Lethe still remains as a silhouette.
I’ve never attacked, so it’s only natural… What are you doing here?
Even if I wanted to get closer and stretched out my hand, there was no message.
And then,
―Peace came to the world through the sacrifice of the hero and the goddess.
Voice… Rather, someone’s thoughts were suddenly transmitted to my head.
“Narration?”
That thought felt like something that would come out of a game ending.
After thinking for a while, I shut my mouth to listen.
―After the original evil god was exiled, the time of the world was rewinded, and a new evil god appeared.
According to what I’ve seen, that demon is named Ed… It was Ashte.
That bastard must have become a new evil god instead of Lethe.
―However, the evil spirit disappeared, and the world was restored to peace.
Good thing.
But there is one annoying thing.
So far, Messages has never told me a single lie.
I don’t know if it’s benevolent, but I always told the truth.
NO. 137 BAD ENDING — sacrifice
“But why isn’t there a happy ending?”
Ashte’s flashback was definitely a bad ending.
Why?
Ashte, who was a warrior, became a demon?
Or by exiling Lethe?
The answer came from behind me.
“The world has become peaceful. The Risen are gone, and all continents are cleansed.”
Brilliant blond hair with deep eyes.
Unlike the outside, in this space, he was not a one-armed person, and what stood out in his eyes was melancholy, not remorse.
“… Ashte.”
“Okay. The one who brought back the bright light to the world, Ashte. That is my name.”
I thought his sudden attitude was a little… It was awkward.
Why?
“As time rewinds, even though my name as a warrior has disappeared, now all living beings in the world unanimously praise Ashte.”
Ashte’s tone was arrogant and authoritative.
Where did the image of him who was called a warrior go?
It didn’t matter.
“I heard you disappeared after becoming a new evil god in your world?”
I had to get the information.
No matter what this bastard’s world is, I have to protect my world.
“Right. But, isn’t it funny? A world that worships evil spirits.”
“If the one who saved the world was an evil god, it wouldn’t be so funny.”
“That is correct.”
After replying, Ashte slowly closed her eyes and inhaled slowly.
“Okay. Is there anything else you would like to ask me?”
Of course.
It’s to the point where I’m worried because I don’t know which question to ask first.
Said Mary Joy.
No matter which of the four routes you choose, the world will face destruction.
I met the IF ending by having relationships with the three heroines, excluding Lethe.
I’m not sure what the IF ending means, but if I immediately mix her body with the last remaining Lethe, the IF ending will come to her as well.
If so,
“If all the heroines reach the IF ending, won’t my world perish?”
Is it possible to avoid the destruction that will come anyway?
After asking the question, I waited for an answer.
But it’s quiet even after time passes, so when I look up at her, Ashte is just looking at me with her arms crossed.
He opened his mouth as she scratched the back of her head with burdened eyes.
“… What do you mean by IF ending? This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”
Oops.
Come to think of it, Ashte may not know.
I’m the only one who knows the IF ending.
“So, um… What must I do to keep the world from perishing?”
Is there some other way?
When I questioned Ashte with that thought in mind, he snorted at him and replied as if he was dumbfounded.
“What are you talking about? The world will not perish.”
“What bullshit?”
So you’re saying that Mary Joy lied to me?
Confused, I blinked my eyes and waited for his words.
“Aren’t you talking bullshit?”
Not perish?
What the fuck
I carefully checked his expression, wondering if he was lying, but Ashte’s expression sincerely dismissed my question as nonsense.
“Then… No, what is it?”
I don’t know why he acted for Joanna’s revenge… Ashte revived the World Tree by clearing my shit and sealed Balladur.
It was this guy who made me meet Mary Joy.
I made her meet in person, and now she says she’s lying?
A little while ago, I felt a strange sense of difference,
―However, evil spirits that do not accumulate bad karma will perish. The new evil spirit decided to find a way to do it in another world.
Once again, the narration came.
After checking the message, I swallowed once.
Then, I looked at the ashte of this space.
Healthy arm.
An arrogant attitude with no trace of regret.
I needed to check this out.
“Oh right. I wanted to say thank you when we met. I never thought we would meet so suddenly.”
“Are you saying thank you?”
“Okay. ‘Cause if it wasn’t for you I’d be dead Thank you for killing the evil dragon, Baladur.”
Ashte did not kill Balladur.
It just sealed her magical power.
However,
“Ah. It’s nothing. More than that, there are facts you should know.”
The guy now affirmed.
“By now, you should have acquired the ‘piece’. If you’re feeling grateful to me, give it to me. Because you don’t need it.”
Piece.
Obtained after using the Jewel of Chaos on Baladur.
『€₾ : .』
―Acquisition of ‘piece’.
When a message appeared saying that I had acquired it, I didn’t think much of it.
※Warning※
If you use fragments, you die.
Because I had no intention of using something that would kill me if I used it.
But ask for it?
At a time full of questions, the narration comes again.
―That method is to destroy the eternally repeating world that exiled the evil spirits.
… If it was an exiled evil spirit, it was Lethe.
Lethe, who mistook me for my fate.
That means… The world she was exiled to is my world.
“Okay. That’s evidence of evil spirits. It is too dangerous for you as a human being to have.”
The cause of the end of the world
“I see.”
It was this kid.
“What if I give this to you?”
“What do you mean? There is no time. I will explain later, so follow me first.”
His tone seemed a bit urgent.
Then Ashte opened her mouth.
“I transfer the ownership of the evidence of the evil spirit to Ashte.’
The guy said so.
“Hurry.”
I was convinced by the way he even urged me.
This bastard is evil
Literally, an evil god trying to destroy the world.
I don’t know if the flashback I saw is this guy’s past, but even so, this bastard is no longer a warrior.
And very thankfully, this guy gave me a great hint.
“Give Ashte the ownership of the evidence of the evil spirit….”
Right away,
“Do not transfer. Never.”
That if it were not for my will, the evidence of the evil spirit could not be taken away from me.
“Good job… What did you say just now?”
“I have no intention of relocating.”
“… Get rid of the nonsense and turn over the evidence of the evil spirit.”
NO. 137 BAD ENDING.
The name of the ending is sacrifice.
I don’t know the details because the flashback was fragmentary, but as a result, it was a bad ending in which Goddess Illya and the heroines were sacrificed.
‘Rather than a sacrifice… It’s closer to corruption.’
A bad ending in which the hero Ed literally becomes an evil god.
And it was clear that the ending was continuing until now.
A crazy bastard who sacrifices the world in which I exist and maintains the position of an evil god in his own world.
This bastard is different from Ashte who helped me in real life.
Yes, a real evil god.
A goddamn guy who intends to bring down my world.
“Will you? To the bastard who will destroy the world?”
When I growled at him with hostile eyes, he closed his eyes as if he was bored.
“Hmm. Something different this time. Now this method must be abandoned.”
Also, this guy was right.
Wait a minute.
“This time? Lee Fuck Baby… So you’re saying that it wasn’t just once or twice?”
“Only once or twice? It’s not even funny. Well, a number that reaches five digits is not something you can think of in your not-so-ordinary brain.”
Five digits?
Then, how many thousands of times has the world been destroyed?
“This… Crazy kid….”
“It’s really boring. False lives in a false world. You are all fake Only my world is the real world. That is why the world will never perish.”
It’s fake
Don’t fuck up.
“It is the same in your world. It has already been repeated countless times.”
Sure, it feels alien to all humans loving just one person, but at least the women I’ve been through were real.
So, from my point of view, your world is fake.
“Did you enjoy the world where everything was created, only to imprison Lethe? An idiot.”
“… Damn, no evidence of evil spirits….”
“Pick it up. It was my own mercy. Destroying a world like this was quite a chore even for me.”
“…….”
“You made a mistake. It got on my nerves.”
Ashte, who vomited those words, walked through the space.
“It just went well. I’m getting tired of this method.”
Without any regrets, as if she was truly merciful.
… My eyes went dark at the attitude of the guy who didn’t even threaten me.
“Fuck….”
After a while, what exists in the space is a silhouette and three dolls.
And it was just me.
I wanted to go outside.
I wanted to grab Ashte, the one-armed man outside, by the collar and ask.
How the hell am I supposed to save the world?
… But I seemed to know how.
“How do you get it out?”
Piece.
No, evidence of evil spirits.
『€₾ : .』
※Warning※
If you use fragments, you die.
She came up with a piece with a strong will, and a black bead was placed on her palm.
Then, when I made up my mind to do something, the world went dark again.
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Feel like vomiting.
My head was pounding and I felt the heat.
“You….”
The face you see when you open your eyes.
In case you lower your head, you see the empty arm of your opponent.
Back to reality
I reach out and grab Ashte by the collar and throw him to the floor.
“Say it. How to save the world.”
“…….”
The guy didn’t respond.
As if unable to speak, he shook his head, pointed to his neck, and crossed his arms.
“I thought it would turn out that way.”
I pulled my arm back.
– Quickly!
And then he slaps his handsome face.
It was so shameful that I was intimidated by the evil spirit I encountered in the room of recollection,
I was afraid.
Of course, the fact that this world is a fake world derived from it did not give me any inspiration.
‘What does that matter?’
What I believe is real
In the first place, I knew from the beginning that this world was a world within a game.
Of course, now I know it’s not a game, but nothing has changed.
It is the same even if I am a person created to deliver things to evil spirits.
I always acted of my own will, and I realized that love is.
In the first place, it doesn’t make sense that I, Kim Chang-mook, a complex person, was created with only a program.
Okay.
What I’m afraid of right now is that I might lose the people I love.
With that feeling, he swings his fist more vigorously at Ashte, who has a face like that of an evil god.
– Wow!
But Ashte is a one-armed man who doesn’t open his mouth easily.
“This bastard… What are you scribbling about?”
But something was strange.
No matter how many times I hit him in the face with his clenched fist, he wouldn’t even groan lightly.
He kept rubbing his hands on the floor, so I wanted something, so I untied his collar and threw him on the floor.
He cried out with a swollen face and carved letters on the floor.
Was it because he was afraid that if he wrote it slowly, he would get hit again?
The action was very quick.
“No….”
… I realized why he didn’t speak until after hitting dozens of times.
[Fuck! I can’t speak!]
It wasn’t that this kid didn’t talk, it was that he didn’t.
“I didn’t know you were dumb….”
I awkwardly scratched the nape of my neck and helped him up.
As the resentful eyes turned to me, guilt welled up.
