227 – 66-1. Can I defy fate?
***
The Office of the President of Grand Hearts Academia.
In a place where you can grasp the surrounding situation with a magical crystal ball.
“Magic Hat has become a demon, and it seems to be trying to take you all by itself….”
“Yes, if I had targeted Fine in the first place, I wouldn’t have killed Heukun.”
Kiseok and I were playing chess.
The Pillar Westerners have a habit of playing chess when organizing their thoughts.
I have asked him for help to find a way to defeat Magic Hat.
One life without retry.
Because dying here is different from dying in the game.
“..They must have attacked all at once in the first place.”
“That’s what I mean. They’re not even apostles, but they’re sending important forces that can reach the level of demon lords, respectively?”
I answered with a gulping saliva.
When Head raided the academy, it would have been simple if he had led all the Demon Kings to invade.
Seeing that it wasn’t like that, it must have had a different purpose.
“You know you are an academy cadet?”
Kwon Ki-seok moves the look this time.
He was contemplating something with his legs crossed.
“Isn’t something strange? Suhyeon?”
Magic Hat’s behavior was so strange that Giseok said this.
Erasing the existence of Silver, a member of the bodyguard, or claiming to be an academy assistant and approaching me.
It’s in contrast to how he attacked Kinel and Fine when we first met.
“… Suhyun is not weird. The strange thing is the magic hat.”
“Pine, it’s not like that..”
Fine, who was staring at the chessboard nearby, interrupted the conversation.
As if corresponding to that, the situation where Grand Duchess Sophitia is standing behind Giseok.
“Princess. Wouldn’t you be surprised to know how hard this guy tried to save the princess? That’s a weird guy.”
“……”
Exploiting the game for 16 hours. It’s a memory that I can’t forget even if I try to forget it now.
Even if it seemed impossible, I kept trying and succeeded.
But there is no retry button right now.
“Anyway, if we continue what we were talking about…. How did Magic Hat know you?”
Seeing that Fine’s eyes were directed at me, Ki-seok looked at me and smiled.
Well, how did you know?
I even called him by the terrible title of Mr. Nanggun.
No matter how you think about it, it is not a first-time face, but a spherical face.
Do you remember what happened in the game? Because I got a global first kill?
It may be because he succeeded in killing the Demon King of Truth in the sequel .
Because I received the beta tester mail for that reason in the first place.
“Maybe it’s because I killed him first? Maybe that ‘prophecy’….”
“No, the probability of that is low. Suhyun.”
Kwon Ki-seok cast a small amount of soundproofing magic around him, probably knowing that he meant to say it was a game.
He shook his head.
“If what happened in the game is a ‘prophecy’, then Magic Hat’s obsession with you is understandable….”
He said that the record I had set before was still unbroken.
I am the only player in the world who killed Magic Hat.
“How does a nameless saintess know you?”
“Based on what I played in the game..?”
I thought that if the things we did in the game had an impact in this world, it would be possible.
It’s like the “Succession System” Where you load a save file and see the ending.
Thanks to that, I was able to get close to the nameless Saint Fine right away in the sequel.
“If you really did, you wouldn’t have come out of your dream or been in the labyrinth of a temple.”
“Then, what the hell happened?”
Kiseok immediately checked. She is the White Queen who captivates the Black King.
“That’s… I’ll have to ask the person in charge. You have the second most beautiful woman in the world by your side.”
“Second? Pine is next to me…. Ah.”
So who is the first one?
Looking up at her presence, I saw that Princess Sophitia’s face was blushing.
A small flutter to her ears on top of her head.
I remember that the pillar western guy even filmed a video and showed it to me, saying that this kind of appearance is precious.
“Hey, but he’s more of a wolf than a bear.”
“Not at all? How round and cute are the bear ears.”
I continued while avoiding the check. You have to compare what you compare.
No matter how close a friend was, it was unacceptable for Fine to be placed under the Grand Duchess of the North.
“You won’t know how fluffy the wolf’s tail is, even if you die.”
“To be honest, I think it will be hot in the summer.”
“How cute it is to use it as a pillow even when sleeping….”
I heard a strange sound coming from the side as I and the guy from the pillars were talking with our voices raised a little.
“Hey, suck..”
The sound of Fine hiccuping.
She covered her blushing face with her hands, her wolf ears hung down behind her head, and her long tail swung wildly behind her back.
Looking ahead, Sophitia was pinching Ki-seok’s side.
You must not say embarrassing things in front of the person in question.
“Pine. What if her hair was black, and her eyes were red?”
“Ehh. That, that’s it….”
She asked her about the possibility of becoming a demon.
The condition for a hero to become a demon king is the loss of a loved one.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t there be some conditions for a demon king to become a demon god?
“Mo, I don’t know. hehehehe. I… I used to have dark hair….”
“Do you know the flower language of a black rose? I saw you all in black in a dream before.”
That was information I already knew.
Locke and Lupus had black hair, so it wasn’t strange that Fine had black hair.
“That might be…. It means ‘You are forever mine.’..?”
“……”
Creepy. As soon as I heard the language of flowers, goosebumps ran through my body.
Negative content completely opposite to the flower language of blue roses.
‘Perhaps… I was seriously injured and Fine….’
Confirmed by the sage’s future foresight.
The possibility that I was seriously injured while subjugating Magic Hat, who became a demon, has increased.
“Did you see it? I don’t know for sure yet, but it’s highly likely that the Black Fine you mentioned is also a demon.”
Ki-seok pointed at her black phone as she spoke.
A piece at the edge of the chessboard before you know it. I changed it to a queen.
“Aren’t you dreaming something like a dream?”
“What does that mean?”
“It’s a dream within a dream. If you think about it a little bit backwards, weren’t the fines you saw in your dream actually real?”
He blew checkmate again, taking the black queen with the white one.
A dream within a dream.
If the game didn’t affect this place, and if the nameless saint and fine drank I saw were real….
“..Are you saying I have amnesia?”
“Well, it’s just my guess.”
I was mistaken for being possessed by a game.
He has been saying that what happened once can happen twice.
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“Suhyeon-ah. What will you do when a person dies?”
“..Don’t say bad things. Because I tried to make sure that never happened.”
An event in which all the characters here died.
The magic hat suddenly appeared and cut people into cards.
To be precise, the escaped Kainel and Ariel survived.
“But, even if you subdued the Demon King of Truth, nothing has changed.”
“…What is the story you want to tell?”
Fine, the nameless saintess, was an event that couldn’t even be listed on the death list.
Buried under the rubble of her building, the scene where she was crushed countless times was horrifying even thinking back.
“If you want to change your destiny, you have to dig at least a few dozen graves.”
As he got up, he patted me on the shoulder.
A contingency plan.
Even if something unexpected happens, he gave me advice to find a way to make up for it.
“I’ll try my best, but… I haven’t found the holy spear I used before.”
“…Thank you for your help. Ki-seok.”
I had no choice but to thank him.
“What, helping friends live?”
I even said that I had to avenge the killing of Sophitia’s father, but I was grateful that she would fight for me, her friend.
***
Before Emperor Locke arrived at the academy, I told Drake and the wise man the truth.
“…Heukun is dead.”
“Nonsense. It’s very likely that Magic Hat killed it….”
Even after this, the grand route will not be achieved.
Because Drake can’t finish his revenge, he won’t be able to accept the wise man’s heart.
‘..I hope these two will be happy too.’
If you had been trying to prevent Magic Hat from becoming a demon by preventing demon lords from dying,
It’s a matter of subduing that guy who turned into a demon.
So that it can continue someday.
“Still, the Demon King of Truth is still left. Disciple.”
“The reason why he tormented us was because he wanted to become a demon god…”
Drake readily answered my call.
In the game, we were just like colleagues, but here, we really have been teachers and disciples.
“Shouldn’t we subdue Magic Hat and soothe the souls of those who were killed by the Brave Cult!”
He tries to pretend to be cheerful while raising his voice as usual.
Even though the target of revenge disappeared in vain, he smiled to help me.
“Yes, yes. If you really hold the magic hat, Drake-sama will be comfortable too, right?”
Perhaps the sage knew what kind of past Drake had.
It’s a prediction of the future, but I think you’ve done a lot, and among them, you’ve probably seen a prediction of living with him as a couple.
“Thank you. Everyone….”
I thanked them.
If they hadn’t worked hard for Fine, they wouldn’t have helped even if the same thing happened now.
Thank you for being able to protect people even when you are weak.
“Licht student. The magic hat is starting to show.”
I prepared for a bloody fight with the demon lord.
“Pine.”
Eyes trembling with anxiety. Fluttering ears and drooping tail.
A sword that is about to break by the handle.
She was showing anxiety towards the demon lord in the distance.
“Tomorrow morning… how about eating strawberry cake at the bakery in front of the academy?”
As he gently held Fine’s hand, he promised a vague future.
I speak of survival as if it were natural.
“Yeah.. Good.”
Without any action or words, we were already of one mind.
“Suhyeon-ah.”
“Yes.”
While answering, he was watching the ominous approaching.
She stroked her side with her tail and painted her future in a shy voice.
“When I get married… I want to wear a white wedding dress.”