A Mercenary Who Gets Eaten in a Pure Love Game 97

Chapter 97 – Prologue -3- Modification

Looking back, it was

In the original world, I didn’t have any friends I could call, and since I was an orphan, I had no family.

Well… Except for one bitch who kept coming to my place of work and tickling me, I was always completely alone.

Having lived like that, I thought I was a solid person and didn’t feel lonely.
I didn’t even try to change anything.

Just, maybe someday someone will lead me on the right path.

And maybe, Lethe, you were that person to me.

After meeting you, I became motivated to live.

At first, I fell in love with you because you were so pretty, and I realized after I was thrown into this world and met you.

That I’ve always been lonely since I was born, and that I’ve been forced to ignore it until now.

But how kind and innocent you are my destiny, how happy this is.

So, I guess I was a little conceited.

-I like you.

You were so beautiful with a grinning smile that I held your hand without realizing it, and that evening we confessed while drinking the honey wine the village chief gave us.

—… Does Ed sometimes make weird noises? Why are you talking to me like that?

I wondered if I had misunderstood those words, but as I use the language every day, it quickly improved.

Thanks to you, I understood that what you said was a kind refusal.
Even if it’s decided by fate, we still don’t know each other well.

It was fine though.
Because next time you can confess again.

If we are destined
Do I still have a chance?

I drank the honey wine with a bitter smile at the rejection of my confession, and went to sleep in my room you prepared as usual.

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By the way, what is this?

“Anyway, in the bathroom….”

In the village chief’s outstretched hand was a hair tie I had given to Lethe.

The last time the peddler stopped by, I begged and got it.

“Restroom… ?”

“Lethe’s body… Rick and I got it right.”

Ah, I studied hard, but I still can’t hear well.
What the village chief says sounds like bullshit.

I want to kill you.

Fortunately, I was confident that I could speak now.

“Where is Lethe?”

“I know that she is embarrassed by the sudden situation. Everyone in town is sad. For now… Calm down a little.”

After saying that, the village chief forcibly put the hair tie in my hand and took me somewhere.

‘Blood….’

When she stretched out her hand to check, there was blood on her hair tie.

“How could this happen to our village….”

When I arrived there following the village chief, the villagers were gathered.
The Rick who taught me swear words, the kid who stopped by every once in a while to get a sandwich, and the young and the old.

However, Lethe was nowhere to be seen on this back mountain.

“I buried Lethe there.”

I casually pushed my foot through the crowd to where they were looking.

Then, a small tombstone caught my eye.

[Lethe]

Lethe’s name was engraved on a small wooden board.

“Lethe.”

It was an easy read.
Because her name was the first word I learned.

“Well… Lethe, Joe, must have gone to a good place. Ha… Urgon will be back soon, so I don’t know what to explain….”

I couldn’t hear Rick coming up next to me and muttering.

‘Don’t play around.’

Without expression, she pulled out the ugly board with Lethe’s name on it and threw it away.
Then she starts digging her grave with her bare hands.

“Ji, what are you doing now!? No, dry it!”

“Such a madman… !”

In an instant, the sight returns.
The tingling on his chin from someone’s kick made his head even colder.

Without stopping, I continue to dig Lethe’s grave.

“This, this bastard!”

That’s right, isn’t this all a lie?
Lethe’s biggest fear was her bathroom, but her ego tripped her?

‘Don’t talk nonsense.’

These fucking bastards
It’s no fun, so stop.

– Quickly!

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When I woke up, it was midnight.

It looks like he fainted.
Thank you so much for bringing me home.

‘Let’s go.’

I can’t admit that Lethe is dead until I see it with my own eyes.
As if it were natural, he headed for the grave, and once again dug it up with his bare hands.

“Kyaaha ah!”

However, the lady who had greeted me several times saw me and screamed, so the villagers rushed at me and kicked me like a dog.

Hurt.
My heart really hurts.
Leave me alone.

The next day and the day after that.

Failed to identify Lethe’s body.
Why are you stopping me

Only then did he realize.

Lethe, you guys killed it.
You guys killed Lethe and lied.

If not, why is there blood on the braid I gave you?

-Sue.

She reached out and grabbed her small knife.

Lethe cut her bread with this.
I liked that you cut it.

“Lethe.”

It hurt a lot.
Are you okay.

This time I’ll cut the villagers.

All,
I’ll kill you.

The moment she was about to leave Lethe’s house.
My vision is blacked out

And the letters of this place appeared in front of my eyes.

『₤₯₥₨₦₼₽₿€₭₾₧₯₮₰₱₲₳₥₽₨?』

At the appearance of it, the strength in the body was drained.
Well, it can’t be.

“Whoa… Okay.”

Also, was it a dream?

『₰₤₯₮₭₧.』

It was clear when I saw the letters floating around.

Good luck, Lethe.
I will study harder when I wake up.

By the way, what a fucking nightmare.

What should I do to wake up from my dream?

… If it dies, then won’t it wake up?

Ignoring the truth, and ignoring it again.

Haha….

Raise your arms without force.
Because I instinctively knew I had to do this.

– Kwadeudeuk!

Then he stabbed Lethe’s knife into his heart.

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『You have reached the save point.』
―Memories come back for 5 minutes as a bonus for playing 10,000 times!
―With the privilege of playing 50,000 times, you can twist the causal rate just once!

※Caution※
If you record or divulge your memories, the world will disappear.

As disparate memories flood in in an instant to fill my head, I open my eyes.

『The 50,001th episode begins.』

I see

After all, my memory is intact for five minutes.
If you do the math, that’s only half a year.

However, it was unavoidable that his mind was collapsing.

『The size of the data is abnormally high.』
―Some data will be burned.

“Eww… !”

It was hard to control my body from the burning pain in my brain.
The pain of erasing what makes up my existence is something I can’t adapt to at all.

Even if the pain was somehow endured, mistakes were becoming more frequent.

Because I repeated countless lives, memories began to seep into my unconscious.
If, by chance, someone hears the mention of memories through my mistake, this world will disappear.

In that case, it was only right for me to disappear.

“Haha….”

There is no time for this.
We must hurry.

Because it’s about to start

The heat simmering from his head made the surroundings feel hot, but he endured it and collected his morale and condensed it into his heart.

Power accumulated through 50,000 deaths, which is why it has never been touched.

“This is your last chance to break the chain. I don’t want to repeat your death anymore. So definitely….”

I take out the condensed morale and create my thought body.

Desperately hoping for this thought body to reach you, you actually do the act you have repeated in your head countless times.

“I will definitely save you, Ed.”

Hurry up and head outside.
I catch my breath and wait for the next meeting.

“Please… Please.”

As much as this time.
Please I hope you are happy

That moment,

“Uh.”

Loving.

“Ugh.”

That’s why I can give my all.

“Isn’t that a crumpled character!?”

Freshly summoned, Ed greets me with a bewildered look.

You idiot.
What the hell is a crumpled character?

Seriously, no matter how many times I hear it, I can’t understand what it means.

Looking at Ed, who spat out an unfamiliar language, I parted my lips.

“Start.”

After five minutes, everything passes quickly.

Ed stares blankly at me as he teaches me the language.

‘…….’

Ed, who is listening to my warning to be careful in the bathroom, probably engraved in his subconscious.

‘…….’

My favorite scene, repeated countless times.

-I like you.

Ed shyly confesses with clumsy words.

—… Does Ed sometimes make weird noises? Why are you talking to me like that?

The me of the past who couldn’t accept it at all.

‘Sorry.’

It’s my favorite scene, but paradoxically, I felt the pain of my heart being hacked to pieces when I saw Ed drinking the honey wine, paradoxically dying.

‘I love you.’

I know it won’t be told to him.

‘I love you… !’

I know I can’t reach it, but I shout more intensely.
But time didn’t give me the time to reflect on my feelings.

Time accelerates faster, and eventually the end is reached.

– Kwajik!

He vaguely felt his body fading away from Jurgen’s blade, and his consciousness began to be covered in black.
This will be my last death.

Repeat 50,000 times and everything will fall apart.

‘I love you.’

However, my fervent emotions, which had not been crumbled in the slightest, were disappearing as unnecessary data.

Is all of this a karma for falling in love with a man who is not the object of fate?

The goddess hated

… So I am annihilated.

I hope the thought body I left behind will reach you.

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Reached
The country that Lethe left behind was the thought body that reached Ed.
While watching Ed with a different sense, a question came to me.

Am I a thought body, Lethe?

‘… It doesn’t matter.’

The important thing now was Ed.

“Lethe.”

Ed heads for the door, holding the knife.

At that moment, a text appeared in front of his eyes.

『₤₯₥₨₦₼₽₿€₭₾₧₯₮₰₱₲₳₥₽₨?』

No.
Ed, you can’t read it.

『Do you wish for the destruction of this world?』

You will never accept that
As the thought chain Lethe left behind, I was convinced that now was the time for me to intervene.

―With the privilege of playing 50,000 times, you can twist the causal rate just once!

I used this opportunity, given only once, according to her will.

『I twisted the causal law.』

I’m not sure how this will work.
Ed desperately hoped for a slightly better future.

‘If you fail… There is no other way.’

Moments later, when Ed looked up at the text with dead eyes,

『Save the world and win the one and only love!』

Its contents were strangely altered.

‘Did it go well?’

I changed the future that was set, so I wonder if this is it?

… I hope you don’t get sick.

Consciousness slowly began to fade.
Am I disappearing like this

However,

“Whoa… Okay.”

‘No-!’

Ed’s mood was unusual.

He looks like he’s trying to escape reality.

Haha….

Again, Ed lifted her knife arm weakly and tried to drive it into his heart.

Suicide he has repeated tens of thousands of times like himself.
Hell after that.

‘This is a failure again… ?’

Why?

At that moment, a strange thing happened.

『ERROR!』

-Less!

Ed dropped his knife and began to scan his surroundings with a puzzled expression.

“What? What the fuck.”

Ed scratches the back of his head and mumbles indifferently.
I watched it endlessly.

“Lethe is dead… Mmm.”

I felt a sense of alienation in his attitude, which had suddenly changed to the extent of being grotesque.

Then Ed stroked his stretched chin and tilted his head.
As if you forgot something important.

Then he walked around the house, and he left the house after taking things that could be money.
The only thing left in the house was me, Lethe’s thought body.

‘… It’s okay.’

I don’t know what happened, but Ed has broken free from the infinite loop of the past.

Did the emotions I harbored disappear as a reaction to the twisting of the causal law?

‘This is what it is….’

It was heartbreakingly painful, but
It was something I hadn’t hoped for.

‘I love you.’

If this is the punishment of a goddess, I will accept it sweetly, so please be happy.
Please don’t remember me, Lethe.

―Coooung!

In the space where Lete’s thought body disappeared, only one small stone monument stood alone.

And a few hours later, it stood firm even in the fire caused by Jurgon.