102 – Route Change (2)
A few minutes after Kang Ha-neul and the others walked back to the control room.
“Hey.”
“Yes, senior?”
“…Don’t keep looking at Pandora with those weird eyes.”
River Sky, who was walking down a dark hallway, kept looking at Pandora in her cart with a gloomy expression.
“Senior…”
“Don’t look at me like that either.”
Then, this time, he avoided Rumia’s gaze, who started to make a sad expression after staring at him blankly, with a confused expression.
“Why did you call me senpai in the first place?”
“That’s…”
“If you don’t know, you’ve never been my disciple or underling?”
At that, Rumia answered with a serious expression.
“It is important for me to call you senpai.”
“…….What?”
“In comics, anime, and games…”
But she stutters her again and again with her tongue twisted.
“Anyway, a senior is a senior.”
“Ha ha.”
The river sky let out a deep sigh, moving the cart it was pulling further away from Rumia, and hurried her steps again.
“…Senior.”
“………”
“By the way, when did you become close with him?”
Then, she silently tilted her head, then came running again and stuck to her side of the river, the sky, and asked a question.
“…Do you know Pandora?”
“Isn’t it famous among people my age? As a super hacker who robbed the Hero Network.”
“I see.”
“If that cute face is known, there will probably be an uproar? Maybe there will be a lot of fans all over the world?”
＞ Yeah?
“Don’t listen to his nonsense, Pandora.”
Kang Ha-neul, who scolded Pandora for making a slightly tempting expression, turned her attention to Rumia, who was looking at her with a straight face again.
“…Why did you keep doing that?”
“No matter how you think about it, it’s really strange…”
But despite the question of the sky she likes her river so much, she starts muttering quietly to me that she is alone.
“Hey, sweetheart.”
＞ Are you talking about me?
Then as she poses her question to her Pandora with her back slightly bent, she begins to tilt her head.
“By any chance, what did you think of the concept of ownership until now?”
＞ That, why do you ask?
“I was curious~ The rumored hacker would have known who he was…:
Then, at Lumia’s question, she typed her face with an embarrassed expression on her face.
＞ Road, thief…
“……?”
＞ Like the concept of a thief? I knew it was…
“That’s right…”
＞ Don’t look at me with those eyes. Creepy.
Then, at her meaningful smile, which Rumia began to build, she held out her conception of death as a shield and hid herself.
‘As expected, it’s strange…’
On the other hand, Rumia began chewing on the question that had been popping up in her mind while watching her.
‘There was a separate concept of war in the main story…’
＞ If you keep looking at it like that, your smartphone will be hacked! Be prepared…!
‘Why did that guy become a concept of war?’
According to her source knowledge, it was not Pandora who was in charge of ‘War’ among the 4 Knights of the Apocalypse.
Instead, it was someone everyone here knew.
But why did the extra executive in front of me take over that role?
‘…It’s quite suspicious that the route was suddenly changed.’
And there were not just one or two strange things.
One of Lumia’s abilities as a ‘protagonist’ is ‘root change’ detection.
It was because her ability had informed her that the ending that Kang Ha Neul would meet had been modified.
‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I’ll go back to my route at this point…’
At first it tasted good, but Rumia was quite smart.
So she knew perfectly well that at this point where the affinity between herself and her river Sky was negative, let alone zero, she had no reason to suddenly change from Ariel’s route to her own.
That means Kang Ha-neul has entered a completely new third route.
However, her knowledge of that third route of hers was nil to her.
‘…DLC or something?’
The only catch is that the release of the DLC for the original game was announced a few days before the incident where she was possessed.
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Neither the volume nor the contents have been released, but an update for the first time in years. It was only natural that most of the fandom cheered.
‘Then, it could really be a new route…?’
As soon as the thought reached that point, Rumia’s eyes began to shine quietly.
She is a big fan of hers, to the extent that even the world’s fandom knows her as a celebrity.
He is one of the few users who has all the manga, anime, and side story novels and has seen all the endings of the game.
Of course, with the help of a friend who was insanely good at games, she was not unreasonable, but she didn’t feel any remorse because certain endings were murderous enough to have no conscience in the first place.
‘…That’s interesting.’
For such a deceased person, the appearance of a “New route” Was, of course, more valuable than gold.
‘Maybe this is the route that can save Haneul…’
Also, since it was a new route that did not exist before, there was a possibility that Kang Haneul could survive.
To be honest, the chances seem very slim, but it was still better than zero percent.
‘But…’
But the thing that bothers me is that the person involved in that route is, of course, a woman named “Pandora”.
Even leaving behind the fact that her true identity was a concept of war unlike Lumia’s knowledge.
[Heroine 1]
Once the role of ‘Executive 1’ was changed to the role of ‘Heroine 1’, she was a character that even Rumia could not ignore.
＞ Stop staring…
＞ I’ll apologize for the bad manners back then…
＞ Shouldn’t we agree on 3 nights?
But, nevertheless, when she looks at Pandora, she keeps feeling down.
“…By any chance, do you like murder games or detective games?”
＞ What is it? Is it a threat?
＞ I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’ll save you for now…
A unique trivial aura, full of steam that reminds me of the eccentric ass that I used to know in school, and even a communication disorder to the point of chatting instead of talking.
What is Kang Ha-neul good at with a woman like that?
‘…If I take off the compression bandage, my chest is a bit bigger than mine.’
Rumia, who has been looking at her Pandora for a while with her tail lowered, quietly comes to her conclusion in her head.
‘For now, I need to observe a little more.’
If I could save Kang Ha-neul, I would fully support her route, but the information is too small to draw conclusions easily.
If you rushed to help and things got worse than Ariel’s route, there’s no such embarrassment.
‘Then, would it be right to invite you to my house…?’
So if she escapes from here, she will have no choice but to hide her group in the river and sky in her house.
It’s not selfish, it’s really necessary.
If he refuses, you should bring him back, even with force.
And if things go a little weird.
At that time, the escape of love…
“…Hey. Pause.”
“Oh.”
During her fleeting moment, Rumia, who had been moving her steps absentmindedly while thinking countless things, stopped her river by her own arm and looked at the sky with her blank eyes.
“…Senior.”
“Don’t talk nonsense again, just listen for a moment.”
“Yes.”
Before long, her cheeks blushed at the fact that her best friend had grabbed her own arm, to her dismay, and she quietly listened to the words of her river and sky.
“…….Hmm.”
Her eyes soon begin to glow quietly.
“Who’s ahead?”
“Yes, I think…”
“Senior, come behind me.”
“………”
Then, she put on a puzzled expression for a while, and then the river and the sky moved behind her.
– Tuck, Tuck…
At the same time, a human figure begins to appear at the end of her hallway with the sound of footsteps.
“Ooh.”
Eventually, when the figure appeared in the dark enough to be discernible, Rumia took out a knife from her arms with an interesting expression on her face.
“………”
Spade, the strongest fighter of the Dominating Hands, was standing still in front of them, blocking their path.
‘…Really strange.’
Rumia looked at that figure in a strange way, then silently monologued.
‘It’s really surprising that that violent guy isn’t a ‘concept of war’.’
– Seruk…
‘…Then, by any chance, are there several candidates who can blossom into ‘Knights of the Apocalypse’?’
The moment her thoughts went crazy.
– Pajijijik…!!!
Spade’s yo-yo and Rumia’s knife began to collide with sparks flying in the air.
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“Ah…”
At that time, a hospital located on an artificial island.
– Record 251, completely finished the contract with the president.
There, Himari, who stayed up all night checking the records on the computer, was staring at the river sky in the screen with bloodshot eyes.
– Now all my positive emotions belong to her.
– Honestly, I don’t need it, so it’s fine.
– There is only one thing I want to say.
Then, at her next words, she starts to shed her tears.
– I hope that Himari will always be happy.
It was because Kang Ha-neul in the screen was muttering while wearing an awkward smile created by hypnosis.
– By the way, I hear there’s a kid that’s been getting on her nerves lately…
[There is a new message.]
It was at that moment that a message arrived on her smartphone.
[From: The Great Order]
– Did you say Rumia, your name?
“…Ah.”
Of course, Himari didn’t have the energy to care about that.