Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: I Became an Extra in a Flop Game
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The 44-day battle, where their swords pierced each other's hearts and the heavens and earth shattered and melted away, finally drew to a close.
Hero Kane had slain the last colossal evil and brought peace to the Senpion Continent.
And so, Kane's journey came to an end at last.
Though the continent would not know of his sacrifice and pass him down as the Demon King to future generations, his six wives would remember his feats.
—Innocent Saga Complete
I stared blankly at the end credits scrolling up.
Collected endings: 66/66.
This was the true ending? This?
"You've got to be kidding me."
Did you think I broke into my maturity savings account for this?
Even shaking the monitor, even clicking every pixel on the screen with the mouse to hunt for some hidden route button—it was over. This was the end.
"Haha..."
What a trash flop of a game! Innocent Saga, my ass! Innocent, yeah right! You mad developers!
No matter how I racked my brain trying to figure out where it all went wrong, the conclusion was singular.
I was the idiot who touched this steaming pile of crap in the first place.
I should've known from the start!
Me, who'd devoured the original novel from its web serial days, was the real moron.
In this day and age of refreshingly satisfying revenge arcs, it was all frustration and heartbreak, nothing but sweet potatoes shoved down my throat.
When they asked, "Who's the most pitiful protagonist in recent novels?" it was an overwhelming number one—my boy—and I'd over-immersed so hard I drained my bank account and my free time, only to end up with this.
'I can't take this anymore.'
This was my rightful claim as a reader and the guy who'd dumped the max funding amount.
[Hello, this is Kang Suho. The issue is that the ending feels way too half-assed compared to the game's volume and polish...]
What made me even more furious in all this was the game's actual quality.
Sure, it was from a brand-new studio with zero prior releases, teaming up with an author whose headspace was anyone's guess, but surprisingly, the game itself was solid.
Sprawling maps, hidden items, diverse dungeons and fields—you'd never guess it came from such a tiny company.
If you ignored just the main party's endings, it was honestly pretty good.
As I typed, my emotions boiled over, turning it into a rambling petition more than a feedback form. After slamming it into the suggestion box, I hopped into the comprehensive game gallery and unchecked the filters. There they were: other diehard fans of the original novel who'd made it to the end, howling in rage.
[Photo]
[Hey, is this seriously the ending? Is it because it's the main party's first playthrough? Does it change on NG+?]
└Just ditch the main cast and go for the normal ending with the NPCs, way better lol
└Bullshit no
└lololololol
[Casual players who just bought the game won't get it, but the source novel had an ending close to a total massacre too. At least the game keeps all the heroines alive—the novel kills off more than half.]
└You read all that? Gay...
└Nah, just paid for the final chapter
Reading other people's rants just pissed me off all over again.
How many protest comments had I left on the original author's posts, which fed us nothing but frustration to the bitter end?
That's why I'd clung to the promise of a survival ending in the game like gospel, grinding it like a hardcore vet, scouring every map corner—and this was the "true" ending I got.
I rubbed my face a few times, then placed my hands on the keyboard.
[For now, let's at least send a complaint email. Who knows, maybe they'll drop a marriage ending as DLC. I'm spinning happy thoughts...]
[Password]
I stared at the email that had suddenly popped open on my monitor.
'Huh? Why'd it open by itself?'
I hadn't even clicked anything—the page just loaded on its own. I froze, eyes darting.
[We are well aware of the concerns you raised, but this is as far as our influence could reach.
We can only hope that this time... he finds happiness.]
—Rachel
'Rachel?'
Rachel—Kane's first... wife...
Suddenly, an irresistible wave of sleep overtook me, and my eyes drifted shut.