Chapter 3 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Demon
‘… In other words, that’s it. If you don’t reach the true ending, it’s a happy ending, and it’s a mess, and doesn’t that mean you’ll be completely destroyed later?’
Unbelievably, no user could have expected that the foreshadowing of the Demon King, who had only sent his subordinates to the Academy to check on him during the normal route, would be resolved in this way.
Since the genre is a romantic fantasy, there were even players who said that the Demon King was just a background setting for the hero heroine and a trigger to occasionally create a crisis.
However, even if you reach a happy ending in any route other than the true ending route, the world will be destroyed a few years later, whether by the Demon Lord or some other factor… ?!
Naturally, the players who found out about this through the PV began to challenge the true ending for the sake of a future where the main characters and heroines live well even after the happy ending…
‘The level of difficulty was the same.’
It wasn’t just shitty, it was shitty enough to make me swear. First of all, the true ending route itself could be entered by satisfying the conditions of the normal route.
Force figures, a system added after the True Ending PV appears. Through this force figure, the force figure of the Demon King’s Army and the third force will be reduced by more than 10% by the end of the first semester of the first year.
If this was successful, the Demon King’s army and the third force would recognize the heroine, including the protagonist, as present, not future, strong enemies and would begin to launch an offensive that could not be compared to the normal route from the second semester of the first year. .
The danger felt by the Demon King’s army and third forces to the main characters and heroines of the general route is only at a level where they do not feel the need to kill the main characters in advance, even at the cost of great damage, as they are strictly protected in the capital of the empire.
In contrast, the true ending route is a route in which the protagonist and his party kill off the sprouts, who somehow manage to grow even at the cost of their own, feeling a sense of crisis, saying, ‘If we don’t pluck off the branches before those bastards grow, they will pluck off our own branches later!’
And in the true ending route that started like that, by the end of the second semester of the third year, the power level of the Demon King’s Army and the Third Force was reduced to less than 10%, and then moved on to the ‘Post-Graduation Part’, which does not exist in other routes, and the Demon King’s Army and the Third Force were reduced to less than 10%. Had to win after a decisive battle with the forces of.
‘Besides, there are various other conditions such as preservation of imperial power figures and likability with the heroines, but…’
The important thing was that the game became extremely difficult from the moment you entered the true ending route.
If you choose one wrong choice, you will go straight to a dead ending, and even if you choose correctly, whether or not you can overcome the episode is determined by the character’s growth level, which was not paid much attention to in the normal route.
‘To summarize, the normal route is literally a romance fantasy genre, and the true ending route is a dark fantasy genre.’
It’s a content that only the worst of all, who has to calculate all kinds of options, develop characters, and even support controls, can try.
And Jeol Yu-jin is the same old person content, one of the old people who challenged the true ending route, and one of the commonly talked about oil users…
“… Apparently, until a day ago, I was happy that I had finally cleared the true ending for the first time in the world after defeating the demon lord, but when I came to my senses, I found that I had been exiled to a poor place.”
… When I came to my senses after seeing signs of clearing the true ending route for the first time, I could say that I was an unlucky young man who had been possessed in the Orbital World I was playing.
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“I’m bored…”
After looking up at the blue sky for a moment and remembering some important information about Orbital World, the game in which he was possessed, Jeol Yu-jin, no, the young man who is now just Stral, came to a conclusion.
“Fuck, I’m just so screwed.”
… The conclusion is that his life is ruined.
Finally, just when the true ending of the game he had been working on for several months, learning Excel, which he had never learned even in school, and creating charts was in front of his eyes, Jeol Yu-jin suddenly lost consciousness.
… And when I came to my senses, I found myself possessed by the body of Stral Zenon, a villain who appeared in the Orbital World I was playing.
And that’s not even at the beginning of the gameplay, but at the end of the second semester of the first year, when the main character is going through the princess route, at the moment when all kinds of evil deeds are revealed in Stral Zenon’s body!
Jeol Yu-jin, who was possessed in the body of Stral Zenon, had been suppressed as a criminal and had no choice but to admit to the charge that he had not simply continued his evil deeds but had colluded with the Demon King’s army.
Thanks to you, Jeol Yu-jin, no, what situation is this young man who has now become Stral? While he was in a daze, as per the main story of the princess route, he broke off his engagement with the princess, and in addition, he was stripped of his title as archduchess, that is, a nobleman, which he held since he was the son of Archduke Zenon, and was exiled from Archduke Zenon’s mansion. .
“Under… , How can they kick you out without paying even 1,000 won…? …”
In order to somehow understand that fact, Strahl, who was thinking deeply about the Orbital World in which he had been possessed, soon admitted that he was bored and began to search his pockets.
And as he sighed as if he was in despair at the lack of money in his pockets, should he be relieved that at least the clothes he was wearing were not taken away? Letting out a laugh at the thought.
‘Well, colluding with the Demon Lord’s army is a serious crime. No matter how much he is considered a grand duke, he is stripped of his noble title and expelled from the duchy without a penny.’
In fact, the villains Yeong-sik and Stral Zenon that Jeol Yu-jin knew were characters that deserved to be treated like that.
As the gender reversal setting was added to the romance fantasy, the character of Stral Zenon was the one who reversed the gender of the villainous daughter who originally existed as a cliche in the romance fantasy.
‘He has zero talent, and in a world where men and women are reversed, he has a younger sister who can be said to be the eldest, so there is no possibility of him succeeding to the grand dukedom.’
However, as he is the son of one of only three dukes in the empire, and the only son of the only grand duke, the character named Stral Zenon is a character whose pride is exceedingly high.
However, the talent that was inferior to his high pride only fueled his inferiority complex, and therefore, by the time he entered the academy, which was equivalent to high school, Stral Zenon was already a crooked character.
Unlike the popular villainess with a story or the villainess with a false accusation that is popular these days, should we really say that this is a character that is based on the villainess that appeared in the early roman dramas (in this case, Yeongsik)?
At least his love for the princess who held the engagement ceremony seemed sincere, but unlike the talented princess, Stral, whose talent was at an all-time low, loved the princess but at the same time harbored an even greater sense of inferiority due to the insurmountable difference in talent, and became crooked.
Because of this, he was a character of such poor quality that his hobby was to harass the Academy’s commoners through the noble spirit who followed him, but when the protagonist took the princess route and became involved with the princess, that level went too far.
‘To a certain extent, they actually colluded with the Demon Lord’s army to eliminate the main character.’
Well, even though he was the Demon King, he wasn’t an idiot. Even if the opponent was the only son of an archduke, he did not truly invest in a person without any talent or real power.
If you do it right, you’ll end up using it and then throwing it away. As I said there, in the normal route, the Demon Lord’s army and the third force do not attack the main characters of the Academy with their teeth clenched.
This is because I decided that there would be no problem if I left it alone and dealt with it after graduation. Rather, they judged that it would be detrimental to attack the Academy, which was located in the center of the imperial capital and was thoroughly defended.
So, it will be dealt with when you graduate and leave the academy. That kind of decision was made.
In other words, even if they colluded with Stral, it was just a slight check that would not cause any damage to their power.
‘Thanks to you, I was able to avoid summary execution and ended up in exile…’
Therefore, even if his collusion with the Demon King’s army was revealed, Stral was able to survive by being expelled from the Grand Duke’s family.
What if the Demon King’s army had tried their best to manipulate the Academy and Stral was involved… , Because Stral couldn’t stand idly in the middle of the capital like this.
Of course, even if there was no major damage, collusion with the Demon King’s army is a crime equivalent to treason. At least since Strahl was the child of an archduke, it could be said that he was only expelled.
In other words, rather than expressing dissatisfaction at being kicked out without paying a single penny, you should be relieved that your life was saved…
“Fuck, I didn’t do it, so what?”
… That’s the story if the Stral Zenon here, no, the Stral here is the real Stral, and the Stral here is a possessor named Jeol Yu-jin who possessed the Stral with good timing.
In other words, when I came to my senses, I found out that I had been exiled to a different world where I knew nothing for something that was not my fault, without a penny, so I had to try not to be annoyed, so I couldn’t help but feel annoyed.
… But what disturbed Stral more than anything else was the fact that he was none other than Strahl.
… Stral was expelled not only from the Archduchy but also from the Academy in the second semester of his first year.
‘And… , This is really annoying. What to do for dinner right now is a problem, and where to sleep is also a problem, but it’s more than that…’
… It could be said that the biggest problem was being possessed by a world whose destruction was confirmed. That’s why it’s hard for Stral to control his immense depression right now.
“If I were an exiled Stral, then the current period is the second semester of the first year, and the main character is going through the princess’ solo route? I’m bored. The world is ending.”
Yeah, that was the most disturbing thing. I couldn’t help but be distraught because I understood what it meant for the character named Strahl to be exiled more than just becoming Strahl.
Proceed with the normal route. The princess route is also in progress. There is no problem with the princess route itself, but if you proceed with the regular route, there is a high probability that the world will be destroyed within 10 years.
The hero group, including the protagonist, perishes regardless of whether they failed to subdue the demon lord or if there was some other reason.
‘… Well, I can guess the reason.’
Of course, Jeol Yu-jin, an oil user and the deadliest among the dead, was able to roughly guess why the world was being destroyed through the general route.
… The problem is that if the speculation is true, the destruction of the world cannot be prevented unless it is the true ending route.
… And at the point where Stral was exiled, the true ending route was over, so the world had no choice but to rush towards destruction!
“No, there’s no point in possessing me at the start of the game when I’m not the main character in the first place… ?”
No. At least at the beginning of the game, you could have pushed or guided the main character to take the true ending route.
… But at this point it is already too late. There was no chance. In the case of the Demon Lord’s Army and the Third Force, the danger level of the protagonist and his party would already be at the level of a talented student.
It’s a story that the Jin ending route, which involves fighting at the academy and undermining the opponent’s strength by instilling awareness that you will be ruined if you leave it alone, was neatly done.
And the fact that the true ending route is in trouble means that the world is in trouble, and even if you secure the means to live today, you will eventually die within 10 years.
“Wow really…”
And Jeol Yu-jin, who became aware of that fact once again, looked up blankly at the sky in Stral’s body and let out a lament.
… It is said that Strahl thought that the sky was so fucking blue even though he had to worry about not only tonight’s dinner but also the future destruction of the world.
“… “I’m really annoyed.”
And no matter how much he thought about it, Jeol Yu-jin nodded and concluded that this world was already in a mess.
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“Whoa, come to your senses.”
Stral, who had been looking up at the sky in a daze for about 20 minutes to organize his thoughts, no, he was banished for now. Eugene, who had originally decided to use his real name, tapped his cheeks to regain his senses.
‘If it continues like this, destruction is certain. But that doesn’t mean there is no possibility at all.’
If this was the Orbital World he was playing in, there was no chance. If I couldn’t enter the true ending route at the end of the first semester of my freshman year, I couldn’t avoid the destruction of the world no matter what I did.
‘Actually, one user experimented with various things.’
I also experimented with whether it was possible to enter the true ending route without seeing the true ending trigger, that is, the PV, which can be seen as seeing the main heroines’ happy endings.
