“… … .”
I muttered in a low voice.
It was a message to convey to Arien.
I didn’t need an answer from her. After I finished speaking, I disarmed the opponent without a word.
A bag of mangoshu.
Gloves with iron rings embedded in them.
Two white capsule bottles and three Shiznikan daggers.
And, a belt that can be used as a whip if you loosen it and let it hang down.
After disarming me, I couldn’t ignore the guy’s leg, which was pouring out blood like a pump. I grabbed the end of a blackout curtain and tore it off with my hands. It was to stop the bleeding on the assassin’s leg.
The assassin looked at his severed leg and murmured briefly.
“Damn it.”
And like a seasoned assassin, he didn’t interpret my first aid as a favor.
“Looks like you’re planning a long torture.”
I wrapped the torn curtain over the guy’s legs. Then he thrust the knife into the man’s throat. The face of the guy who was looking straight at it, the expression was still not revealed.
But now, I was able to check the guy’s system information.
[Name: Naf Nakisis]
[Class Rating: Sub Character]
[Strength: 5, Dexterity 7, Sense 6, Health 5, Charisma 4, Wisdom 6]
[Living Control Level 5]
[Until the actual killing act is carried out, it has strong immunity to the skill that detects killing.]
[Weapon Mastery Level 2]
[Has general knowledge of weapons. You can have expertise up to level 2 even for the skill of a weapon you have never caught before.]
[Self-study 3Lv]
[You know how to make chemical poisons and how to store biological poisons. It can be used for weapons.]
[Knife Fighting Lv 5]
[Swords below short swords can be handled like ghosts. For an anomalous situation, creatively utilizes the weapon’s characteristics.]
[Dagger Throwing Level 3]
[You can throw more than 2 daggers at the same time. Each dagger has a 95% accuracy against stationary targets.]
[Secret ventriloquism 3rd level]
[He emits a voice that vibrates the air. Without a special skill related to hearing, the location cannot be detected by voice.]
[Peace Level 2]
[Has strong immunity to provocation. Control yourself over emotional abnormalities such as anger, excitement, temptation, fear, etc.]
[False detection level 3]
[I logically infer the intention of the words and actions that do not fit. However, this is activated with a probability for those who have skills related to ‘Lies’.]
[Encryption/Decryption 5Lv]
[You can create an encrypted document or read the meaning of already written ciphertext. The time required to create and decipher the ciphertext is proportional to the difficulty of the cipher.]
This guy is definitely a semi-boss level character. From the beginning, a character’s ‘strength’ is not simply due to their abilities. In the system log of the character ‘Naf Nakisis’, countless skills of the guy were connected even after that.
[Weapon Concealment], [Dark Adaptation], [Theft], [Sign Language], [Lip Reading], [Negotiation], [Shadow Walking], [Shadow Hiding], [Leading], [Poison Immune], [Education], [ Search with a bow], [Resist torture]… .
It is a character armed with so-called numerous utility skills. I wonder if my silence was long, he added.
“For a comfortable death, what must I offer?”
“Just tell me one thing.”
“… What are you curious about?”
“Where were you trying to escape?”
The other person tilted his head slightly and said.
“Why are you curious about that? Are you planning to desert?”
“I try to use it often. When you’re craving a late-night snack.”
The character named Naph laughed bitterly once.
“Now, do you believe that?”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe-”
Hard.
Something went wrong with my body while I was talking. The tip of the knife is shaking. Thanks to that, the tip of the sword of the [Equipment of Justice] was touching the tip of Naf’s chin.
“Six hours.”
“what.”
“It’s your time, kid.”
Instead of asking what he meant, I put my finger on my wounded chest. The blood that was smeared on the academy’s active clothes clung to his fingers.
“After 10 minutes, you will get chills all over your body. I will fall asleep in an hour. If you fall asleep, you will suffer from all sorts of nightmares. So now is the only time you can stay sane.”
Looking at the guy’s system log, this is what I expected to some extent.
“You poisoned the mangoshu.”
“okay. It also takes me a while to prepare the antidote, so if you’re going to negotiate with me, you’ll have to do it quickly.”
character, for sure. The person who was sitting down with one of his legs cut off is threatening me with a calm attitude.
“If you intend to torture me, you better give up. I’m in moderate pain-“
“I will take that role.”
At that moment, a man’s voice came out from the exit of the printing room and interrupted Naf.
I’m sorry-
I’m sorry-
I’m sorry-
When the darkroom curtains, which had been drawn in layers, were pulled back, the light of a match shot into the pupil.
The words he had muttered to Arien were conveyed correctly.
“John, there will be no complaints, right?”
The first to appear was the Guardian Knight, Hoan.
“It seems that you were the first to take someone else’s role.”
My body trembled, and I couldn’t think of words to answer. Even if she was in good physical condition, she might not have been able to think of what to reply to the words, ‘Since you protected the princess instead of me, I will do the torture for you.’
However, the reaction of the blonde hair that followed was a little different.
“John, are you hurt? sick?”
The pain was tolerable, of course. Until that woman touches me like this. Seeing my face contorted with pain, Adrinne looked in the direction of Naf and said.
“Blow it.”
“What?”
“Poison name. type. Antidote name. manufacturing method. Symptom. everything.”
“Nope.”
Whoop-
At the end of Naf’s words, something small that had been hidden in his mouth protruded. It was an understandable act as a final desperate act, but it was a desperate act without knowing the protection.
Tup.
The memorization that came out of the assassin’s mouth was blocked by Hoan’s palm before it could reach Adrine’s body. Considering the darkness of this darkroom and the close distance, it was an act close to divine. But neither Adrinne nor Joan were happy or surprised. In ‘Savior from Another World’, all actions that Hoan takes to protect Adrine are systematically corrected.
Clink.
Hoan pulled out the assassin’s memory embedded in his palm as if it were a rose thorn. A memorized note the size of a fingernail that had fallen to the floor glistened in the light of the match he held. Adrine made a chin gesture.
“Hoan, let’s start.”
“All right.”
Of course, I know the pre-history given to Hoan.
He has another face besides the title of ‘Guardian Knight’. If the middle boss of the academy, the wizard Kirov, is a ‘torture lover’, the guardian knight, Hoan, is a ‘torture expert’.
Imperial dungeon.
He brought out the screams of countless political prisoners there.
Hoan, who had been commanded by the princess, trembled before demonstrating the torture techniques of the imperial family. I wondered if there was such a preparation motion, but after a while I realized that the trembling was mine.
My body is convulsing.
“Yoan! What’s wrong?! Yoan!!!”
“son… Lynn. Sat, aisle.”
“yes?!”
“About the aisle, please listen.”
It was not a lie to say that he was poisoned. My whole body shook from the sudden cold. I bit my twitching tongue a few times before speaking.
“The author says… Out of the academy… They said there was a passage.”
It was the information I needed. A passageway outside the academy that must have led underground.
This is also one of the randomly determined elements in ‘Savior from Another World’. And if you can find out the passage, you can find a clue to Kirov’s second ability.
“For me… We need it.”
I heard a thump and looked back.
Looking at the black floor, I must have fallen. The match that Hoan was holding must have died, and the son-in-law became grumpy again.
The words ‘Turn on the lights’ didn’t come out. Seeing that my entire face was paralyzed, it seemed that this was my limit. And when I realized that the light wasn’t out, but that my eyes were blind, I passed out.
***
In ‘Savior from Another World’, there is a cliché that I often used.
My game had a lot of characters, so I needed a way to highlight the main character’s choices and feelings in a simple and clear way. So this is the method I chose.
This is the lucid dream that Johann Esperts used to have.
Such was the black background that was now unfolding in front of my eyes. Just like the reward in [Another Original], I could tell at a glance that this was a lucid dream.
“There are things you need to live your life to know.”
Ahh.
this voice.
“That there is an unforgettable scene for everyone.”
That’s right.
There is no fixed genre in life, and the self left in various backgrounds remains in the memory like a stuffed photograph.
Whether it’s the story of her and me on a rainy day, or the music playing in earphones plugged into my ears while visiting the sea alone. The first day I held her, the faint scent that flowed through her hair.
Against the black background that spread around me, such scenes of me passed by. And the flowing scene was fixed as the last one in terms of time.
I really can’t forget that.
A monitor showing the executable file of ‘Savior from Another World’. And two beer cans lying on the computer desk.
Two men and women sit side by side in front of each beer can.
And in this dream world, one of the two was me. And the woman sitting next to me stared blankly at me. Those deep gazes seemed to ask me like this.
‘Do you know what this is all about?’
I swallowed once and said.
“It is my life.”
It seems that the answer was wrong. Jung Mi-ri tilted her head slightly and said.
“It’s life… How many scenes can a person’s life be reduced to?”
Even without Jeong Yo-han’s [simulation], I could guess what she was going to say. Having developed games with me for a long time, she had good qualities as a creator. And that quality was something I didn’t have.
“I am.”
She took a sip of her beer can and said.
“I was concerned that the characters appearing here are only represented by a few scenes that are revealed on the surface.”
she was While developing together, I used to cry and laugh while being immersed in the story given to each character. Then, I felt sorry for the vague appearance of the character.
“So it was.”
“what?”
“The characters.”
Miri tilted her head once more, but I didn’t elaborate. While quietly reviewing the stories that happened here.
Maybe you already had a vague feeling.
A warrior given to Arien who should have disappeared as an extra in the first place.
The story of running to Ong.
The hidden event leading to the Hamma Crescendo and Mubartrigger, the bastard of the Frodo family.
The ‘Eating Succession Law’, which did not stop at the setting book, was melted in an event with a wizard named Pirallo.
She has completed all the settings and characters’ stories by melting them into the original work.
she said with sad eyes.
“This game is my tribute to you.”
Her phrase, the first sentence I saw in this world, comes to mind.
‘In memory of John whom I loved.’
“That is my intention.”
For a moment, the tears came to my eyes.
“Now, your turn.”
And I was able to know the whole story of this event. A sub-event of [Meeting of Destiny], [A question only I can answer]. Was it in a lucid dream?
She looked me straight in the eyes and said.
“Tell me. Why, does dating at the academy have a bad ending?”
had to accept
that this is an unavoidable question.
“You can just tell me. Whatever that means, I won’t get hurt. It doesn’t have to be a long-winded reason, so tell me your real reason.”
“… … .”
“By the way, this is a blank event.”
blank event.
An event that does not affect further progress or flow, whatever the outcome.
I reached out and took both of her hands. Then, like a criminal, he bowed his head. The assassin’s ‘you will have a nightmare’ was not wrong.
Soon this will become my nightmare.
“because… .”
I can’t raise my head. can’t look at her face
“because… .”
I let out a hot breath and fell to my knees. What I am going to say now is something I cannot possibly say while looking straight into your face.
Words I had never said to her.
If words could be used as a weapon to stab someone, the words I would now utter would stab myself.
I gritted my teeth and said.
My conspiracy that made love only lead to a bad ending.
“Because my relationship was unhappy.”
I like it ❤️
This novel is surprisingly deep