240 – 70-1. On a dark night without you.
[Do you want to try again?]
The text in the status window reappeared before my eyes.
It even shimmered with a golden glow.
Obviously I would have died.
I would have made the choice to save everyone, including Fine, by sacrificing my life in Jisher’s temple.
[Retry.]
“What the heck.. What is it?”
As if this wasn’t the end.
In front of my eyes, the status window was creating a retry button.
The moment you put your hand on it.
“You are awake. Mr. Lee Soo-hyun.”
As the scale-like floor moved, someone approached me and started talking to me.
A woman who drips sand and dust whenever she moves.
“Pantoz..?”
No matter what anyone says, he looks just like Pantos, the sand spirit.
I answered her with her fisheye and her dumbfounded expression.
I wonder what happened.
Is my life still attached?
“Yes, this must be the first time I see you. I am the god who talked with you through the status window.”
A goddess who gestures toward the air and draws an emoticon.
“My name is Pantos, the god of emotions.”
“…Really.”
Looking at the funny phrases in the status window that I’ve been seeing all along, it seems like they’re the same person.
“It’s a bit awkward to meet in person without talking through the status window.”
Fan Toze scratched her cheek and put on an embarrassed expression.
“How do I live, no.. Wait a minute. How the hell did this happen?”
Closing the distance step by step.
I expressed my resentment toward the person called the god of this world.
“I heard that it is boring to catch demon lords and see a happy ending.”
The ending did not change even after clearing the sequel .
Fantasia Game Company sent me an e-mail saying that they could save her nameless Saint Fine.
“I told you that if you connect only the love lines of the characters, she will give you an ending for Fine.”
Because of this, I tried my best.
“…… She said she could save Fine.”
In the end, I failed.
“…….”
The lover she loved died, and even her close colleagues were all killed in battle.
If it was going to be like this in the first place, would there have been a reason why it should have been me?
“The reason you stopped me when fighting the demon lord is right..!!”
“If you tell me, your wish will not come true.”
The moment I was about to shout for the last time, Pantos cut me off.
“..A wish?”
Wish.
It was a goddess who spoke words whose meanings could not be understood no matter how much she thought about them.
What the hell does that mean?
“That’s right. To be precise, it is the wish that you and the nameless saint wished for.”
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Soon the balance tilted once again, and this time a man wearing a monocle came down to our side.
A man whose lower body is made of octopus legs.
“I wanted to meet you. I wondered how strange he was.”
“..Akasha? Could this be a place where the gods gather?”
The owner of the library where everything in the world is recorded.
Akasha, the god of intellect, was about to shake my hand while wobbling his octopus legs.
“Yes, this is the place where the God of Light and the God of Darkness rest.”
I didn’t accept that handshake.
Then Akasha continued her words while looking around her with a slightly regretful expression.
“Welcome to the balance of Fantasia, where you can see all world lines.”
As if to prove his words, a foreign landscape passed before my eyes.
A white snake biting its own tail and circling the black world tree.
The two creatures, like a continuous loop, seemed to form yin and yang.
“So, isn’t that the story that you just stood by the sidelines because of that wish or something?”
The scenery of the world I was in began to reflect on the scales of the snake.
I was dumbfounded as I watched the gods appear one after another.
I was able to tell you about the Demon God from the beginning. You were able to keep Fine from dying.
“We had our reasons too. Lee Soo-hyun.”
At that time, coo-ung! With a dull sound, the balance tilted once more.
“It was a wish that twisted even time and space, so we, the lower gods, couldn’t get involved.”
A wolf made of steel.
Tardun, the god of will, appeared and blocked my way.
“I’ve never asked for anything like a wish. Tardune.”
“No, I don’t remember, but you already made a wish.”
What kind of wish did you make a person in such a miserable state?
“Because you… Originally came to this world as a possessed chair.”
Just as my doubts were about to grow, a nun with dragon horns slowly approached her and opened her mouth.
“Ban, nice to meet you.. Lee Soo-hyun.”
A god identical to the one seen in the temple.
The god of reason Shergh trembled at the end of his words as he touched the black veil.
“Jisherh? Were you here too?”
“How surprised I was when you ignored the words of the first saintess I sent… and chose to commit suicide right away…”
A nun who looked at me and shook her body.
Anyway, it seems that the fact that the dagger was immediately inserted into the heart came as a shock.
“I was going to explain everything, but…”
He lowers his head and speaks in a voice crawling toward the floor.
Come to think of it, I didn’t listen to the first saintess until the end and sacrificed my own life.
“You were chosen after careful consideration by the four of us. Mr. Lee Soo-hyun.”
Then Pantos, who is at the forefront, started talking first.
He is the true identity of the status window that he knew as the creator of the sequel , And the god in charge of emotions.
“To find a way to ward off fate, we decided to simulate this world.”
Pantoz carefully conveyed the truth to me.
“Could that be the That I did?”
“Yes, it is. Mr. Lee Soo-hyun.”
The first episode, , Is a god of intellect and a god of will.
The second episode, , Is said to have been created by the God of Emotion and the God of Reason.
The reason why the original and the sequel felt so different that it almost felt like a separate game.
“This time, it is the result of my efforts to choose the right hero.”
I was the one chosen by all four gods, who can be called Fantasia for short.
“Then the reason why there was no grand route ending…”
The reason why the ending didn’t come out even after I did the global first kill with Magic Hat in the game.
“Originally, Magic Hat was a demon lord who could not be killed no matter what.”
My guess, which I thought was an unkillable demon king from the beginning, turned out to be correct.
That doesn’t mean….
“Originally, you were a warrior of conviction, possessed by the body of a game character.”
“Why the past tense?”
Pantoz was talking about the fact that I was possessed in the past tense.
No matter how much I search my head, I can’t even remember anything related.
“Now, because of your wish, you came here in your original body.”
“…… !!”
Pantoz told me a shocking fact.
In the first place, Licht’s body repulsed Magic Hat, and then traveled back in time to come here.
“Lee Soo-hyun is the successor. To be precise, the soul is inherited.”
“That means… The nameless saintess Fine and I….”
Sounds like you’ve met before.
The nameless saintess in the temple knew me.
And Magic Hat’s strange obsession with me was all explained.
If the original soul is inherited, the memory will be completely transferred to another world line or time zone.
“What kind of wish did I make….”
However, I didn’t even have a fragment of that memory.
Even though he is the same successor as the demon king, he has no memory of meeting Fine, who was a saint.
“Lee Soo-hyun’s empty wish is the happiness of Fine Grancia.”
I couldn’t believe it at once.
“You said you couldn’t be happy as a nameless saint.”
“……”
No matter how much it was, I was the only one who wished for such a wish.
I must have wanted to present a new life to Fine, who has no name, no memory, no strength, no ability.
She made her wish to Starter, the Goddess of Light, to turn her time back so she could get everything she had back.
“That’s why you came to the academy.”
“Yes, because that is the moment when Fine Grancia loses everything she has.”
Now I think I can understand why I went to the point where Grand Hearts Academia existed.
Because it’s the time before she became a nameless saint.
“Wait, then, what was the reason for stopping the demon lords from being subdued?”
After hearing that answer, I recalled something strange.
In the first place, if it’s for Fine’s happiness, it’s right to catch all the demon kings of the cult of warriors.
Because of her powers, she became a nameless saint.
“That’s… In the act of going against fate, a lower god like us couldn’t interfere.”
“…So you tested me?”
Contradictory appearance of congratulating me when Fine and I were connected, but blocking me when dealing with the demon king.
“Yes, it is a decision made by the God of Light and the God of Darkness.”
For an act that goes against time and space, it is forbidden to help.
“You are the one who regressed, possessed, metastasized… ‘inherited’. A warrior of conviction.”
Akasha, the god of intelligence. Tardun, the god of will.
Caesar, the god of reason, opened his mouth one after another.
They each selected a hero who is a return, possession, or transfer in a different world.
Ironically, I possessed all of those traits.
“The Grand Route is when all the world lines merge into one.”
Finally, Pan Toze looked at the status window floating beside me and raised the corner of his mouth.
“The key to creating a single possibility by weaving countless dark and sad worlds together.”
The goddess was telling me the meaning of the Grand Route.
Originally Fine Grancia was destined to never be happy. She
She said that no matter what she did, she was apt to be a nameless saint.
In order to overcome her destiny, she had to fully grow her dear warrior.
“That’s why you should have made the romance level 100%.”
It was the reason why I had to connect the love lines of the people around me.
“Actually, it was just a numbers game.”
“..Yes? What do you mean by that?”
When I mentioned the love level in the status window, Fan Toze smiled and even made her laugh.
“It’s not an absolute number, it’s like a measure of complete love….”
If fate hinders their love,
No matter how much you like each other, it’s not 100%.
“I guess it was like that.”
“Even if it’s the same 10%, Fine’s love level felt very different from other people.”
It is not a numerical expression of how much the other person thinks of you. It was not an absolute number.
“According to Suhyeon Lee’s decision, I randomly wrote down the number.”
A fact that may be a bit futile.
But I was rather relieved by that fact.
Fine liked me regardless of the number on the status window.
“Wait, then, what is Fine’s empty wish?”
I suddenly had a question, so I asked Pantos a question.
A body that was not good enough to be called Richt.
And what happened to the constitution that doesn’t produce mana?
What was the reason why I firmly mistaken that I was possessed as a game in the first place?
“That’s… I think it would be better to hear from Fine directly.”
The goddess pointing to the place where the great white snake is spinning.
On her scales, I could see her crying because I had disappeared.
“Are you really alive?”
I just realized that the Queen of Diamonds card that was in my pocket was gone.
“Yes, because everyone was revived thanks to Suhyun Lee’s sacrifice. To be honest, I was surprised too.”
Pantoz wrote something additionally in the text of the status window.
[With the successor’s ability, re-challenge is possible.]
“Now we have to go back. Into their arms.”
The content is that even if the successor dies, the soul is inherited and can be resurrected in a different time period or world line.
“Thank you. Thank you.”
I expressed my relief at the repeated pounding in my heart.
I put my hand on the status window that says [Would you like to try again?].
The moment when everything was able to go back to normal.
[Don’t miss it anymore. Licht.]
As the text on the status window changed, a black rose pattern came to mind.