363 – Side Story: Libanus
Caecilia had been having quite a rewarding and enjoyable time recently.
A time when all worries are gone, without being weighed down by responsibility or suffering from memories of the past. It was a peace and relaxation she could never have felt when she was emperor.
Unable to avenge her family, and weighed down by her duties and responsibilities, she was always on edge and had no one to talk to except Minerva.
In addition to her title as emperor of the Aeternum Empire, she had to kill all but one of her family and relatives with her own hands, so it was a natural result that she had no one to talk to.
So naturally, her personality was bound to be much closer to the Gaekchaban than it is now.
Of course, even now, I don’t have a personality that can be called good even with empty words. However, when she made a mistake, her tendency to take out her holy sword or act as she pleased was almost completely gone.
Kai Kilia She thought to herself that she was glad that a lot of her character had died.
“Fuuu… ….”
If she hadn’t done that, she would have had to call Delta every time she tried and ask him to use her power of restoration on the shattered computer.
Caecilia, who had been watching in vain as the character who had died, leaving behind only 3 hits of her health, raised her body from her statue, let out a long, drawn-out sigh and sat back on her chair. I leaned in.
I was able to clear the boss battle just with 3 normal attacks or 1 special ability. But I couldn’t endure it, so half of my experience bars and money were gone in the blink of an eye.
Suppressing her seething emotions, Kai Killia picked up one of her chocolates that had been piled up next to her and bit down on it.
As the sweet taste and chocolate scent filled her mouth, she seemed to calm down a little, but as soon as she checked the shredded experience points and money, she went back to normal.
‘…… ‘I won’t repeat the same mistake twice.’
After devouring twenty of her chocolates in one sitting, Cai Kilia poured her wrappers into her enchanted trash can and put her hands on her keyboard. She then tried to start the game again.
“Huh?”
She would have done so if it weren’t for Aurora, which suddenly appeared in the middle of the room with a blue light.
Caecilia glanced sideways at Aurora. She said she could not neglect the emperor’s duties for too long, so she went to the imperial palace with Minerva to check on her alter ego.
Until now, she had said that at least once every few months she needed to summarize the agenda items handled by her alter ego and specify the direction in which her orders would be issued. She was preparing for the unexpected.
“Ah, hello, aunt.”
Laura bowed her head slightly and gave her greeting. Caecilia greeted her with a glance, but even that was a huge improvement compared to the first time, so Aurora was very satisfied.
That wasn’t the only difference compared to the first time. As time passed, Caecilia became quite docile, and Aurora became quite sharp, so much so that even her outward appearance resembled her more than before.
It made me wonder if she was actually her sister rather than her aunt and niece.
‘I think we are more alike.’
This was especially true because Delta had two sisters who looked nothing like each other. Rise and Erika, the leaders of the Knights of the Silver Dawn, and Floretta and Luna, the Pope of the Sun and the Pope of the Moon.
But whether it was Rize and Erika or Floretta and Luna, their appearances were so similar that it was hard to say they resembled each other. That was right from the color of her hair. Her older sister’s side has blue and silver hair, while her younger brother’s side has red and blonde hair.
“Do you have something to say, Aurora?”
As her useless thoughts continued, Caecilia, who was staring at Aurora, opened her mouth. Aurora hesitated. It was because she couldn’t just tell away her delusions that she had been having just a moment ago.
“It’s not like that. Just…… Hmm… ….”
“It is done. How can there be a reason for every single human action? If not, that’s enough.”
Caicilia, who was staring at Aurora, who looked similar to her but was a little different, just turned her body away. The game, which had been paused for a while, resumed. Her movements were very sharp, as if she was going to catch it this time.
As if she had decided to spend her time since she had come by mistake, Aurora glanced at the back of Caiquilia as she crossed the white fog wall and entered the boss room.
“You’re working hard.”
“Aren’t you no different, Aurora?”
“Please pass the position of emperor to me. “Did you even predict that this would happen?”
Caecilia did not answer. It was because I knew that those words were not in my heart. She is a so-called joke.
“It wasn’t passed on to me.”
“I know. “I just did it as a joke.”
“You’re not good at joking, Aurora.”
Aurora laughed heartily. She felt good just having this conversation with Caiquilia.
Going back quite a long time, it was an unexpected conversation when I was afraid that my head would be blown off just because I was caught trying to reinstate the Knights of the Silver Dawn.
Well, the experience of sharing the same man in the same bed was probably the biggest factor in making their relationship so smooth.
If you are naked in front of Delta, hugging her, clasping her arms, or kissing her, entangled like a lump and endlessly screaming in pleasure, a bond that wasn’t there before will be created.
‘What a useless idea.’
She sighed and shook her head. Perhaps it was because there were four people in the house who were always looking for such things, but I felt like my way of thinking was becoming more and more polluted. It definitely wasn’t like this before.
I looked at the monitor again. The boss had about half of his blood cut off, and a character who looked exactly like Caecilia was steadily continuing the attack, rolling around and around.
‘It’s him.’
It was a boss I had defeated before. Was he even taking the same route?
If you think about how Broken 4 was created, it would be more difficult for two first-time users to follow the same route.
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“Is there an ending you want, Auntie?”
“It’s the ending you want…… That’s a strange question, Aurora. Have you forgotten that I am just like you? “You have no idea how this game will end.”
“Ah.”
Delta said that in the early days of Bronx 4. For the first time, go to the desired location without any prior information or strategy, choose the option you want, and see the ending.
They say it’s an experience that can only be had in the first round. So, saying that there was a desired ending was a contradiction in itself.
“I’m sorryㅡ”
“However, there is no such thing as a desired ending.”
“Oh, are you sure? “What kind of ending is it?”
Aurora lit up her eyes.
“Whether they are monsters or humans, we will kill them all equally.”
“…… Yes?”
If you kill everyone equally, what kind of ending are you aiming for?
“It was just a joke.”
Aurora was not surprised, but rather dazed. It was because she didn’t understand what she had just said. Are you just saying you did it? It was a joke? What? Does it tell you what ending you’re going to see?
‘…… Are you just kidding? Really?’
In the past, this was an action that I would not have dared to imagine. Aurora, unable to control her overwhelming emotions, raised the rest of her body and walked closer.
The Caecilian joked. This is Caecilia. It was a change that felt even more dramatic because I knew what kind of personality Caecilia was in the past and what she is like now.
I answered with a trembling voice.
“You’re not good at joking, are you, Aunt?”
“I know.”
The conversation ended with that, as the boss’s blood was almost gone, but just having a brief, everyday conversation was enough to make her feel moved.
Tears welled up in Aurora’s eyes. Maybe, really maybe. Couldn’t she go one step further from here?
A rosy future was already being pictured in my head. As Caequilia smiles brightly and approaches her without hesitation, she has a future where she can get along normally with other people.
Even in that future, his characteristic overbearing and self-centered tone remained the same, but his actions were ordinary.
‘Okay. You can do it.’
Aurora, determined to take that great first step here and now, strengthened her will. At that moment, Caecilia’s character had just died after being swept away by an area attack.
Before she knew that Aurora had only one normal hit’s worth of blood left on her boss, she decided to give her advice to help clear it.
“You can’t do that there.”
“… ….”
“When did you learn teabagging, Aurora?”
“…… “It wasn’t intentional.”