Chapter 224 – Is This Real? (02)
In general, it is difficult for people to recognize their own voice.
Because the sound you hear comes from inside your body, it is heard purely through your eardrums, that is, the voice you hear from others is different from the voice you feel.
That’s why you feel awkward while watching your own recorded or videotaped voice.
However, I knew the voice of ‘Aren’ well, because of course when I used ‘voice’ to myself, it rang as a sound that others could hear.
“…”
I thought for a moment before hanging up the phone and then opened my mouth again.
“Who is it?”
[What are you really curious about?]
This time, the voice changed to that of an old man in the mental world of the companion practitioner.
Of course, the way he spoke was different.
If you think about it carefully, it didn’t matter who the opponent was.
“No, now that I think about it, I don’t think it really matters.”
[I guess so. Well, to explain it simply, should I say ‘mod creator’…?]
It is no longer Aren’s voice, but has become like a neutral mechanical sound that is difficult to distinguish between genders.
Although it is not familiar to my ears now, I remembered hearing this voice quite a lot over the past two years.
‘It’s a system message’
Ding.
[Originally, I was going to give you quite a bit of time to think about it. Because you’ve been living a life faithful to reality, you’ve been wasting time]
“I’m deleting the text message because it’s being sent like that. It’s suspicious to anyone who sees it…”
[Yes, if it had been a little later, it would have ended. Right?]
I closed my eyes, gathered my thoughts, and asked what I needed most.
“Again…”
[Don’t make a decision easily. Don’t be in a hurry. Shouldn’t you listen to the explanation?]
“What would a guy who was suddenly sent to the gaming world for two years say?”
[So this is not something I am saying out of reflection. If I come later and act rudely, saying there is no explanation, that’s unfriendly, and please cancel, then this is going to be in trouble?]
“Wait a minute. Let’s record.”
[I’ll send it to you via messenger. [Accept friend request now]
As I sit in front of the computer and wait, a friend request comes in.
{19+/Mode production/installation instructions at the link below}
“…”
I thought it was bad taste, so I accepted, and after a while, a long message came up.
Although he did not reveal his identity, he said that if I wanted, I could enter the world of Celestial Academy again.
However, even if they send you the mode again, you cannot enter the original world because there is no save file.
Starting from the beginning again, but this time, it was deleted and reinstalled without a save file, so Ofelia can start without any vague memories of the first game.
[Recommended if you enjoy multiple rounds]
Now, once you recognize the outside world and enter it, you can escape from the world of Celestial Academy at any time and live a real life, and then live there again.
It wasn’t a bad offer. No, to be honest, it was very good.
But if there is a problem.
“That’s not my world.”
I had no intention of repeating the loop.
Because it wasn’t a good idea to lose the memories and memories I had accumulated so far.
[I waited for those words. This one was a little twisted…]
It is said that not all lives in the world can be perfectly repeated.
I can make the right choice in that situation, and after endless attempts, I can attack them again and live the same life.
However, except for the basic elements that make up the character, such as Inori’s [Desire to be loyal], The rest of the personality is determined randomly, so it will not be completely the same.
In fact, Ophelia was fixed on one tendency, [Aren], Because she still remembered the first time, but in the second time, a problem arose because I would no longer be [Aren], So it would just be a random tendency.
“What if we name them Aren and Ophelia again?”
[That’s a different Aren and Ophelia]
“What if I didn’t delete the save file?”
[Thanks to someone, they updated the mode midway and added a third route, so the save got messed up, so I probably couldn’t call it anyway.]
What surprised me quite a bit was that when I chose the third choice, the third route encompassing the academy route and the rebellion route, something was created and applied.
Those words made me feel like my insides were boiling.
“Did you start a conversation to get angry?”
[A little?]
While I was typing on the keyboard asking where do you live and where to give me your phone number and location right now, the following content came up.
[Can you come this far?]
Can’t I just go to China? More than that, I haven’t even sent it yet, so how did I find out?
“…Tell me how.”
[There has to be a way. However, if that happens, all the good conditions I just mentioned will disappear.]
“Good conditions?”
[You can return to reality at any time and you can recognize this reality]
“Then?”
[It’s simple. It means you can’t return to reality. In the form of a save file… After backup… Reconstruction… Preservation… It is impossible… So it goes in]
“…”
[You can go in as you please, but not when you leave, right? How is it. Still want to go back in? Or do you want to do it in a better and more convenient way than now? We’ll make it compatible even if you reinstall the mod you want. This time, the writing won’t be broken. However, buggy play will be blocked, but I will allow some cheats.]
It’s full of bugs and loopholes, the difficulty level is as difficult as hell, and you never know when you’ll die.
But now that was my world.
“…Send me the mod again.”
This time it took a while.
[That’s your choice]
After the reply, the mode arrived right away.
But I couldn’t run it right away. First of all, there was a problem with installing this.
Starting with unzipping, there were still a lot of bugs, but I had to force myself to move the Celestial Academy file, obtain an older version of the game file, and reinstall it.
I cleaned up my surroundings for a few days, and fortunately, I didn’t have any regrets except that I had to ask my friends to clean up after me since I didn’t have any family.
[There is something I want to talk about before I go back]
“What.”
[This can never be done. Until now, if you die, you just bounce out and wake up in reality, but if you proceed without save data, you cannot turn back or get a second chance at some point. When you die, that’s where it ends]
What else can I say?
“Is there anything special?”
[Huh?]
“That’s life in the first place.”
There is no turning back, and each and every one is a series of choices.
Even though every day is hard, difficult, death-like, and painful, finding happiness, resting, and living within it.
Whether there or here, it was the same life for me anyway.
[…
For a moment, the talking over there stopped.
[That’s a pretty interesting answer. This is why I… I can’t stop doing this]
“Why don’t you reveal your identity? If you go in anyway, there’s no one here to spread rumors.”
[You found out my address and tried to report pornography! To send it to the police station!]
“Chet, did you get caught?”
As I said, I had packed up all my belongings and was preparing for the final launch of Celestial Academy.
[Think of him as a guy who likes a little bit of dirty stuff]
“Okay. Don’t reveal it. You can leave with at least one question you have.”
Taking a deep breath, I double-clicked to launch Celestial Academy.
In the original game, an animated opening appears when you run it for the first time, but since it is a new installation, the animation appears again from the beginning.
The opening of the ordinary Celestial Academy that I know.
While I was waiting with my eyes closed just in case, the 3-minute opening ended and the main screen of Celestial Academy came to mind.
“…What is this? Why is this?”
While I was panicking as I saw that only starting a new game, options, and exiting were activated, I was embarrassed by the thought that I would get bored if I started a new game.
Ding.
A system message window appeared above Celestial Academy.
On the main screen without even entering the game.
[Mmm haha! Thanks you idiot! Thanks to you, the Earth is mine… Hey! Don’t force the power off!! Flying!!]
“…”
[Can’t you even tell a joke? Don’t worry. I’ll come pick you up soon. Rather, don’t you… Have something to say to me?]
“What.”
[There’s something to be said in gratitude when someone helps you find and install the mod you want and takes care of it until the end]
I don’t know what it is.
However, the title screen of Celestial Academy faded, turning black, and a blurry silhouette began to appear beyond it.
“You want me to say that? That’s just a comment.”
[Huh? Hmm?]
“And that is only done before giving it away, and after actually receiving it, tea-bagging is basic, asking who will send it to you?”
[Hoo, you’re going to come out like that?]
When the screen suddenly froze and stopped loading, I had no choice but to realize that I was still being held hostage by this guy.
[Tch, you’re looking for it so desperately. Let’s go in and see]
With those last words, I ‘closed’ my eyes.
* * *
“Ugh… “
I ‘opened’ my eyes while feeling a throbbing head.
Before my eyes, there was a complex array of broken letters, and after a while, they were sorted out and I could see my abilities as if looking in a mirror.
Current condition, potion addiction, muscle rupture, arthritis, mana depletion, cardiovascular damage…
But still, he didn’t die.
And after a while, a warning message appeared in red and a system message was heard in my ears.
[I won’t show you as kindly as I do now. Changing it to an expression that is familiar to you could have a negative impact on this place, which is barely maintained.]
In other words, from now on, I will no longer be able to see the status window.
I don’t know who is interested in me, how I feel right now, or who they are and what abilities they have.
[The martial arts you learned will also be taken back. And… With the patch, it is no longer 65535 reinforcement, but -1 reinforcement]
Yes, this is a scam.
[And your voice will no longer have the same mystical power as before]
It meant that the only unique ability I had would disappear.
The other person seemed sorry while talking about it.
“That must be so realistic.”
[You’re positive]
“If the status window is floating in front of your eyes, your immersion will be broken.”
I see the status window and numbers slowly fading away.
There will be no more words given to me as information.
They probably won’t even give me a goal in the name of a global event.
The heroines’ emotions will not be viewed as shameful.
‘Anyway… That was a bit inaccurate’
There were many cases where it went beyond level 5 because it was loved so much in the first place.
[Still, should we do one last service?]
“Huh?”
A commotion began to arise around.
Perhaps they sensed that I was waking up, when I heard the heroines’ voices and there was a bit of a commotion as they tried to enter the room where I was sleeping.
Flap.
An angel statue… No, a living angel appeared before my eyes.
She appeared before me with a beautiful appearance, like the statue of the angel who handed me the sacred sword of the World Tree.
With her black hair flowing and large wings on her back, she looks like an angel more holy than a Valkyrie with wings of light spreading out.
The heroines came in, the temple officials, and even the Cylian who was running with a baby in his arms he stopped at the entrance and stared in fascination at the angel who appeared in front of my bed.
“Oh…!”
As Cardinal Alfred knelt, other priests, including Priestess Beace and Chris, also knelt, and the heroines were watching this scene in shock, unable to approach.
[Player Aren. You succeeded in saving this world]
Voice of system messages. However, she opened her mouth in a voice that was a little more inclined towards women.
[I congratulate you and wish you eternal blessings on your future path]
I said a word of high praise that I thought I would never say out loud, a word I only used online until now.
“Are you God?”
She answered in small words so that others could not hear, with a slight smile on her face so that only I could hear.
[…Correct answer]