Chapter 7 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Demon
“I know what you want to talk about, but you don’t have to worry. Even if I don’t step forward in the first place, Stral will naturally be eliminated from this world, even if it’s because of the karma from the past.”
… Nevertheless, Prysian conveyed to his escort knight that he had no intention of going forward in person.
It wasn’t because she had feelings for Strahl as her fiancé.
No, rather, she hates him to the point where she would want to kill Strahl with her own hands if she had the chance.
That level could already be said to be a level of hatred. Nevertheless, the reason she did not want to come forward was because she calmly judged that it was not necessary.
“You said the place you headed to hide there was Lina Forest, right? It’s certainly a better option than staying in the imperial capital or trying to escape by carriage or train, but it’s only a temporary solution. “There is no way that the delicate former Yeongsik, who grew up like a flower in a greenhouse, could survive for a long time in harsh nature, even in the forest near the capital, right?”
So, if left alone, Prysian was saying that he would either return to the capital on his own and be crushed by his own karma, or else he would die in the forest before that.
“So, this is the end of the story of that guy who will disappear from the world on his own if left alone. To put it bluntly, just thinking about that guy gives me goosebumps.”
Although the news that he had run away into the forest was surprising, Freesian declared that it was just a story of that level and that he did not need to worry about it.
Since it was clear that the Demon King’s army had cut off Strahl, it was difficult to think that he had any particular plan and ran away to the forest.
“All right.”
Therefore, the escort driver also decided to stop talking about Stral anymore.
“Anything more to say about Lore, Your Majesty?”
“Here it is.”
Prysian, who had passed over the unexpected news about Strahl, asked for news that was much more important than that.
Then, in order to check whether the guard knight was in any danger, he handed over to her the letter from her empress that he had previously received.
After fixing his blue hair tied into a side tail, Prysian carefully opened the letter he had received from the knight and read its contents. And…
“… “Tch.”
“Why are you doing that?”
… While reading her writing, she blatantly scrunched up her face and clicked her tongue to see if there was something written that contradicted what she wanted. When the escort driver carefully asked her, she opened her mouth.
“They say that if you resolve the matter with the church, the marriage itself will be permitted. However, since she is from a commoner background, it seems like she cannot accept me as a wife.”
Prysian says so and throws the letter behind her back even though it is a letter from the Empress, venting her frustration.
“Well, I understand up to that point. From the beginning, marriage was prohibited for saints, and even if she was a saint, she was from a commoner background, so she was prepared for the fact that she would have to go through some hardships to be her husband.”
“… “To begin with, the princess and Master Lore aren’t even dating yet, are they?”
It was impossible for her to have a relationship with a man she had not yet dated, and when the escort knight, who had no idea that she was writing a letter to the Empress to get permission, spoke in a tone of absurdity, Prysian puffed out her cheeks. It revealed her dissatisfaction.
“We’re going to be dating soon, right? “I have set a date for confession, Lore is almost over, and my engagement has been broken off. If I keep pushing forward, Lore, the saint of this generation, will be able to get out of my way as soon as possible.”
So, the guard knight couldn’t help but sigh slightly at Prysian’s confident reply, saying that it wouldn’t be strange for him to contact the Empress in advance while getting engaged to Lore after breaking off the engagement.
“Ha… , It’s good that you’re confident, but it seems like the other three people are also planning to attack the fact that they’re behind in earnest starting from the winter break. Is that okay? From what I hear, it looks like that dragon lady is planning to kidnap, imprison, and rape Master Lore.”
“Ha? What is that crazy dragon thinking? Does he not know that if he does something wrong, a war could break out between the church and the demi-human alliance?”
“I don’t think this is something the princess would say, as she was planning on giving me alcohol and stealing my virginity as soon as she accepted my confession on the day I confessed…”
If Eugene had been listening to this conversation, in which the woman is overflowing with intentions to attack the man, perhaps in a world where the sexes are reversed, he would have been dizzy from the sense of disparity he felt compared to his original world…
… No, if I felt dizzy, it wasn’t just because of that.
That’s because even though Eugene, the male protagonist and default name Lore, took the princess route, he would have been horrified if he heard that he was being targeted by other heroines.
Orbital World was a romance fantasy game centered on the reversal of men and women. And in romance fantasy centered on women, there was even a genre called reverse harem.
It is a female-oriented version of harem, in which several men compete to obtain one woman or share the same woman in the end.
… And of course, in Orbital World, a worldview in which men and women are reversed, a reverse harem can ultimately be said to be close to a male-oriented harem.
The difference is that in regular harem stories, the man seduces the woman and then goes around eating the women, whereas in this one, the man seduces the woman and the women prey on the man.
In any case, the important thing is that since the romance genre includes reverse harems, it was natural that Orbital World’s route had a reverse harem, that is, a route that was no different from a male-oriented harem.
In other words, there is a route where the male protagonist Lore seduces the four main heroines at the same time.
… However, the disadvantage of going this route was that you had to throw away the growth opportunities of the protagonists and heroines who were already difficult to raise due to love events.
Even if you develop your character by taking the harem route, if you choose the wrong option, there are cases where the heroines fight to the death and end up with each other.
Since it was a world where men and women were reversed, the spirit of all the heroines was so high that it could pierce the ceiling.
One was even the crown princess of the empire, another was a warrior with the duty to defeat the Demon King, another was a dragon who was the next head of the demi-race union, and the last heroine was a magician with the talent to rise to the top of magic engineering.
In other words, since he has talent and power at the highest level in each field, his pride is bound to be high.
Since this is not just a harem route, but a reverse harem route in a world where men and women are reversed, competition between heroines was bound to be fierce.
The Orbital worldview itself states that although it is possible for a woman to have multiple men, it is very rare for a man to have multiple women.
Even if polygamy and polyandry were allowed at the same time in novels or comics, it was the same principle that polyandry was visible, but polyandry was rare.
Therefore, in an ordinary harem story, even the development of agreeing to share the male protagonist because they do not want to harm the male protagonist is bound to turn into a battle between the heroines in Orbital World to win the man.
It was said that while sharing one man with multiple women is treated as a harem, the sentiment of men who treat sharing their women with other men as NTR applies to women in Orbital World.
Of course, as it is an Orbital World with a variety of options, if you are good at strategy like a ghost, you will be able to reach the harem ending with all the heroines after managing the fishing grounds.
The only thing is that the level of difficulty was extremely difficult, and in order to do so, you had to almost give up on the character’s growth.
Even though this was a story about the normal route, you take the harem route from the true ending route?
This was closer to just saying hello for not wanting to see the ending.
In fact, Eugene also pioneered the harem route from the normal route, and not just a harem, but even a 7-person harem route including sub-heroines, and then attempted the true ending route, but he gave up on the harem route in the true ending after dozens of attempts.
No, I didn’t even take a single route, let alone a harem, and only maintained the appropriate level of likability needed to progress through the game, and only focused on character development before I was able to enter the story after graduation and defeat the Demon Lord.
But in a reality where destruction is certain if you don’t clear the true ending, what about the harem route? That was no different from just saying we should all explode…
… The problem was that while entering the princess route, the male protagonist, Lore, seduced another heroine and went on to another route. Even though this was not the case, the other heroines were rushing towards Lore, indicating the harem route.
“Instead of that half-lizard bitch, how about the princess of the Dragon Lover and Magic Tower?”
“It’s not much different. “If I see an opportunity, I plan to somehow defeat Master Lore and enjoy it.”
“Even though I know that Lore has the biggest crush on me?”
“That’s because Master Lore shows that he is also friendly towards other people.”
“Phew… , That’s the problem with Lore. You look so indecisive. Well, that’s why it’s cute that if you push it away, it gets caught up in the atmosphere and just moves on.”
And if she had found out through the conversation between the princess and the knight that the main character’s route, which she thought was the princess route, was actually a harem route that started with the princess route, Eugene would have fainted on the spot.
This was because, as I said, taking the harem route in a situation where you had to clear the true ending route was just a story about everyone dying together.
Even if one of the wrong choices was chosen incorrectly, the heroines who fought each other with swords to the death as if they were lovers were a problem, but the harem route was also problematic in that all villains from each route appeared.
Villains from each route, including the villain of the princess route and the villainous Stral Zenon, appear each semester.
Even in a situation where all the villains appear like this, the heroines have no intention of cooperating with each other and instead try to figure out how to beat each other up so that they can get the main character first. This was the harem route.
Even Eugene, who was a stagnant person, somehow mediates with these heroines and joins the Avengers, Assemble! How much trouble did you go through to deal with all the villains who cried out?
If the individual route was of normal difficulty of the normal route, the harem route could be said to be of hard difficulty of the general route.
Even the harem route, which only had main heroines as harem members, was somehow able to minimize the RPG part through options, but when sub-heroines started to be included, there was no answer.
When harem members start including sub-heroines, not only do the sub-heroines start fighting with the main heroines, but even the villains in the sub-heroine route join the villain Avengers.
Therefore, in order to mediate these heroines and overcome the bad ending or dead ending route that forces villains to flock in, the protagonist was forced to have a minimum level of power, so in the end, he had no choice but to forcefully proceed with the RPG part.
According to Eugene, the harem route with 5 or more people is a pre-practice route to get used to the true ending route, so it can be said to be the toughest route among the general routes.
But the harem route in a world where destruction is certain if you don’t take the true ending route? Even if no sub-heroines are included, the harem route of the four main heroines… ?
… If Eugene had found out about this, he would have immediately grabbed the main character by the collar and asked her how on earth she had been doing this for a year to seduce a woman like that. … No, in some cases, wouldn’t they have tried to kill the main character by saying, “You die and I die in a world that was destroyed anyway?”
“… Well, okay, all three are not easy bitches, but since this Orbital Empire and Orbital Academy are the stage, I will ultimately be the one who receives Lore’s sympathy this vacation.”
The unfortunate thing is that Eugene, who entered the dungeon to become the elf Cheonma’s disciple, has no idea that not only the princess but also other heroines are targeting the protagonist’s sympathy with lights in their eyes.
