248 – 248 – 「Error code: 002, Nyx」 # 1
248 – 「Error code: 002, Nyx」 # 1
If someone asks me, ‘When was the saddest time while playing games’.
It was clear that I had to think about it in many ways.
When you lose a character you’ve worked so hard for with just one mistake?
When a high-ranking item that failed to enhance is destroyed?
It’s a game meant to be fun, but in fact, there are quite a few sad and difficult times while playing the game.
In my case, I will say this after thinking about it.
‘It’s a precious game to me. When you can’t impress others at all.’
How many times have you played
30 thousand? 40 thousand?
No, I don’t really remember.
I’m sure it’s more than that.
Anyway, D&A was a game I played a lot of time.
It was the only game I had on my computer when I was struggling with debt.
did someone ask me
-Brother, do you have to work so hard at the game? I can’t even sleep because I’m sick.
In a way, that is correct.
But for me, it was the wrong story.
Others thought it was just a game.
To me these guys weren’t ‘just a game’.
every playtime.
every moment.
I’ve never been serious
You can say that D&A is my first love.
Every moment is sincere.
“Enio, you and everyone else have always been real to me. So do not treat yourself as false.”
Enio looked at his palm, as if my feelings had been conveyed well.
“I will talk. You better talk to Tisiphone.”
Talk, not fight?
Is there such a strategy?
However, Enio’s expression seemed to be serious.
So I didn’t stop him.
Enio slowly approached the place where the sisters were fighting and said.
“Alecto, Tisiphone. I want you to stop and talk.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
The sisters retracted the blades they were pointing at each other.
As Alecto took a step back, Tisiphone took off her black hood and stepped back.
Taking advantage of the moment when the atmosphere calmed down, Enio opened his mouth.
“I got a lot of help from you guys. You have been by my side since I was very young, when I started to remember things.”
“… … .”
“Whether I’m a real Enio or not. Even if it’s a shadow that has changed, the time you spent with me is only my own. So, I sincerely hope that you will not fight at this moment.”
“… … .”
“And Tisiphone, I know that you are trying to protect me here for my sake. Tisiphone, you think I’m fake, but you want me to stay here because you don’t want me to get hurt.”
“I am… .”
“Actually, this is my problem. It must have been the indecisiveness that made you get caught up in it, taking it for granted that I was being protected by you guys.”
Tisiphone did not answer.
I just clenched the shuriken in my hand.
It was time for me to keep my tension on the hand holding the sword as well, thinking that I should break through with force.
sereung.
The shuriken in Tisiphone’s hand fell to the floor and got stuck.
“… Enio, I always thought of you as a friend too. That’s what I mean. Everything will be real if you stay here. Your brother, Aidan-sama too… You can come back.”
“Tisiphone, you followed my older brother better than I, my younger brother. But… , My brother has already passed away. The rule is that the dead cannot come back.”
“if… . What if you could break that rule?”
At Tisiphone’s question, Enio seemed lost in thought for a moment.
Towards the hesitant Enio, Tisiphone added a comment.
“I’ll lose everything I have now, but if I could get something precious back… ?”
“There is no such thing.”
“… Enio, I heard from Orca.”
Enio seemed slightly surprised by Tisiphone’s story.
Me too.
I asked.
“When you say Orca, do you mean Orca Arclight?”
“yes.”
Tisiphone nodded.
As he opened his red lips to say something, Alecto asked.
“… Did you even have an affair with the Arclight family? Since when… ?”
Tisiphone neither denied nor affirmed this.
I felt like I knew why Tisiphone was so familiar with the Arkwright family.
I never thought there was a background that I was in a relationship with Orca.
I just thought Tisiphone’s espionage skills were very good.
Tisiphone said.
“The orca said. I found the answer in the repeated process… . The end of this world is always a tragedy.”
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Quarleung-.
There was a noise like something thundering, drowning out Tisiphone’s voice.
When I raised my head, in a world where nothing but darkness existed, flashing lights embroidered the sky.
what’s going on?
Enio said when I had my doubts.
“Looks like there’s a problem with the outside world. Judging by the flashing form, perhaps… .”
“It’s Victoria.”
i gave the answer
It looks like Victorica is fighting with Enio outside.
You’d better get out of here and join him.
Shuk.
Then Tisiphone stepped aside.
What that attitude indicates is clear.
He must be trying to let us go.
Resolving the situation through dialogue rather than fighting?
This was the first time ever.
There’s something I don’t know yet.
Shuk.
It was time to pass by Tisiphone.
He whispered in a low voice that only I could hear.
“Victor, Orca told me about you too. You should have died.”
“… … … .”
It was a pretty amazing story for me too.
Those words, more than any of Tisiphone’s shurikens, were deeply embedded in my heart and made my mind go wild.
Even I couldn’t answer this, and while I was choosing an answer, someone started running in haste.
“hehehehe… ! Everyone is running away… ! The ink monsters are chasing them… !”
“Arnoi, nymph of the ditch, come and get attacked by this Tenebris… !”
The guys were nymphs.
Enio grabs my arm at the commotion of them.
“Victor-kun, you have to get out of here!”
* * *
When I threw myself into the mirror, the world turned upside down in an instant.
It felt like my head was spinning, but I was able to come to my senses quickly.
“… here is.”
When I opened my eyes, there was Victoria standing in front of me with a cane.
Most of his clothes are torn to pieces, and blood is running down his mouth.
“Hey, Victor! You were here too!”
“Thanks to Victoria, I lived.”
“It’s too early to say he’s still alive!”
I averted my gaze at Victoria’s cry.
A girl in black stood in front of Victoria, who was spitting blood from her mouth.
The entire black shadow was wrapped around her like a rich fur dress, and a fox’s tail wafted around her hips.
“… … .”
It was Enio.
To be precise, it was something similar to Enio.
“I can’t even hold you in the world of shadows. Tisiphone, it’s more useless than I thought. Could it be that my brainwashing didn’t work? The lie that the current Enio is fake and that I am the real one.”
Enio trembled at the woman who clicked her tongue with a tsk.
the guy says
“It was a lie… ? That I’m fake and you’re real… ?”
“Isn’t it fine now? Now the whole world is trapped in my shadow. The only thing left in this reality is the sound of my laughter. It will set a good example for the arrogant gods of Ludens. How upset would they be to see their amusement ruined?”
what.
The real Enio was originally Enio.
Was what Tisiphone said was a mere deception?
You almost fooled me too.
“I am Nyx, the goddess of darkness and injustice. You guys step into my shadow again.”
Pot-!
Nyx, the goddess of darkness, spread her multiple tails left and right.
Then the shadows that rolled around us grabbed our ankles and arms again.
“Is that it again?”
I barely escaped, but am I getting sucked back in?
That was when I thought about it.
“The light of brilliance!”
Victoria raised her wand high.
Light, like a hundred light bulbs turned on at once, radiates out from the tip of the wand, illuminating the surroundings.
Thanks to that, the shadows clinging to our ankles disappeared.
“Chut. Because the compatibility is not good. But, aren’t you tired from the previous fight? How long can I make that shiny thing?”
Nyx, the goddess of the night, giggles.
“Whoa, Victor… ! do something… !”
I came to my senses at Victoria’s gasping words.
I stretched out my hand from my waist and grabbed the sword.
sereung-.
“Shadow Slash.”
The fastest swift attack.
Attack the goddess of the night with it.
Paaah-.
The sword sword with all my heart flew away like a fired bullet.
──I will cut off the body of the goddess who has yet to reveal her strength.
“hehehehe… !”
“… … !”
I was taken aback by the sudden scream.
When he comes to his senses, one of the nymphs with serious injuries falls to the ground.
“Oh, Goddess… . This Tenebris protected the goddess… . You’re not hurt anywhere… ?”
The guy was Tenebris.
Tenebris, the ink nymph, took my attack instead of Nyx.
It was a wonderful loyalty.
However, the goddess Nyx did not seem to like Tenebris’ loyalty.
“Tsk. Do useless things. Who asked to be beaten for me? There was blood all over my body for no reason. Because I couldn’t even do my duty to protect the shadows. Anyway, all nymphs are useless. I only drink sugar and honey.”
It was a cold criticism indeed.
Even after robbing the refrigerator, I wouldn’t say that to Arno or Ariol. Hearing the harsh words, Tenebris looked very sad.
“Oh, Goddess… . Why are you saying that… ? You said that this Tenebris was the most helpful… . This Tenebris is the most foremost servant… .”
“Did you believe that? In the first place, I never thought of you as my servant. You are just a piggy bank. A piggy bank that stores my strength. Now the time has come, I will return it.”
Shuk.
As the goddess Nyx stretched out her hand, something black began to escape from Tenebris, the ink nymph.
“Ah, that’s not okay… . The Goddess is the one who stroked Tenebris’ hair… . You are obviously fake… ! The power given by the goddess cannot be taken away… !”
“So, it was a lie. Don’t be bothered, give it back here! Who dares to say fake? A useless guy who can only do chores and be noisy.”
“hehehehe… !”
Tenebris seemed to be trying to resist in many ways.
There was no way she could overcome the power of the mighty goddess with her injured body.
Tenebris, which had absorbed all of the black ink, became a color that seemed to have drained somewhere.
I wonder if black sneakers will become this color if I wash them several times in a row.
“why… .”
Tenebris is very sad.
Arnoi, who was trembling as he watched the situation, was afraid.
“It’s very nymphophobic… . To think that the companion nymph was abandoned by the gods… . This is too harsh… .”
I agreed.
Did the nymphs like eating dessert more than anything else?
However, he said that what he likes more than eating that dessert is being the messenger of the gods.
To throw away such a guy’s devotion like a devoted mate.
“… … .”
It is also true that there are many times when nymphs are usually not helpful.
They’re usually noisy and like to play like children.
But still, tossing the guy who worked hard for himself like breaking a piggy bank.
That’s not to be the case.
“not right.”
Did all of the ‘villains’ appearing in Ludens have their own circumstances?
It has its own definition or belief.
So, even when fighting the villains, I didn’t really want to defeat them.
Even more so when fighting Cain.
But.
He didn’t even feel the slightest pity for the guy in front of him.
Rather, the blood boils.
Is it because of Boiling Blood?
“This is not right.”
“Oh my, are you mad? your expression is scary To think he was angry for the sake of the nymphs who were bothering him. You’re kinder than I thought, Viktor-kun. But you are not enough.”
Nyx, who had absorbed all of Tenebris’ ink, had grown enough to be a goddess. He resembled Enio, but his cynical and cold smile had no resemblance at all.
“It’s not enough for you.”
Particularly different from Enio are his eyes that are so black that even the whites of his eyes and pupils cannot be seen.
It was an eye that felt bizarre and terrifying that did not seem to be human.
The warmth that can sometimes be felt from Enio’s red eyes was completely absent from Nyx.
『Watch your eyes. Be afraid. I am the one who existed from the beginning, Nyx. The world’s endless night.”
D-ring-.
At that moment, letters appeared in front of my eyes.
「Goal: Defeat ‘The Unclean – Nyx’ 0/1」
「Reward: Brilliant amusement—」
『Shhh. Don’t interfere.”
As Nyx brought her long, thin index finger to her lips, the letters in front of her eyes disappeared.
The disappearance of the quest was the first time I’d ever experienced something like this.
But.
Even without a quest, he seemed to know for sure that he had to defeat the opponent in front of him.