Chapter 16
Chapter 16
Ch. 16 .｡.:✧ Retry (2) ✧:.｡.
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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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The progress of the 2nd playthrough was quite good.
I learned magic.
I challenged dungeons.
I aimed for a straightforward progression and built stable relationships with the heroines.
Jill was no longer the idiotic saintess who whined to me about disliking commoners.
Yulia no longer burnt out Petenburg’s national power just to monitor me.
And Yerina’s paranoia had greatly improved.
The 2nd playthrough, which seemed filled with hopeful developments everywhere you looked,
“You’re my bodyguard knight! My faithful puppy! So why do you keep trying to leave my side?”
“… Ah, fuck.”
“Ah, fuck? What did you just say?!”
was coolly ruined by Jill going on a rampage.
It’s okay. It doesn’t matter.
From the beginning, when I first challenged the dungeon, regression was already assumed, so the mental damage was minimal.
It ended in just 3 months, so I didn’t feel much regret either.
The final scores were even more miserable than the 1st playthrough.
Jill 100%, Yulia 84%, Yerina 65%.
I glimpsed the possibility of success in the 2nd playthrough.
I had memorized the structures of numerous dungeons, the types of monsters, their weaknesses, etc., so I would be able to dramatically reduce the time in the next playthrough.
Let’s go to the 3rd playthrough.
“Stop right there, Yoo-jin. If you go, I’ll freeze you to death.”
“…”
“Open your pocket right now. There seems to be a flashy dagger inside. Whose is it?”
“… Haa.”
The 3rd playthrough was also ruined.
Yerina’s intuition was quite sharp.
I thought I had made good alibis and moved around this time.
I was so tired from trying to traverse two continents with one body that I thought I would die.
The final scores were a bit better.
Jill 92%, Yulia 100%, Yerina 88%.
If the scores had been worse, I would have been very discouraged.
I felt like I could succeed in the 4th playthrough.
“What is this again.”
“What else could it be? It’s a crusade marching to subjugate the Witch of Petenburg.”
“But why the hell…?”
“Isn’t it better for the world if the evil witch disappears? Don’t you think so, Yoo-jin?”
“Hey, you crazy bitch!!!”
6th playthrough.
I discovered a new event.
The Holy Knights’ invasion of Petenburg event.
Kya. After repeating the same thing 5 times and getting bored, a new event that made me wide awake.
I was so moved that my organs felt like they were twisting.
Ah, shit. My stomach hurts. I’m dying.
There was another thing to consider.
If the relationship between Jill and Yulia became severely strained, a war would break out between the Pope’s Office and Petenburg.
Until now, the Pope’s Office and Petenburg had been in a relationship where it wouldn’t be strange for a war to break out at any moment, but it seemed the saintess had been strongly opposing the invasion.
As their relationship became strained, Jill approved the invasion.
But if I tried to keep their relationship close, both of them would find out that I was cheating.
It was important to guide them to maintain an appropriate relationship.
It would be nice if this was as easy as it sounded.
I was going crazy.
The final scores were Jill 99%, Yulia 100%, Yerina 91%.
It had risen a lot.
I would succeed next time.
“You didn’t think I wouldn’t know, did you? How much of a fool do you think I am?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Yerina.”
“This minotaur’s head. It’s been over 6 months since it was hunted. You just cast a preservation spell on it and that’s it? You should have also put a barrier on it. And this jewel. I checked and found out it wasn’t bought from the auction house? It’s been processed similarly, but the back is slightly different. Where did you go when you said you were going to the auction house? Shall I recite more?”
“No. It’s fine. I just have to do it again.”
“What?”
10th playthrough.
It was hopeless.
Yerina knew everything.
Until now, she had just been pretending not to know.
She had been watching and seeing how far I would lie while turning a blind eye to the fact that I had committed perjury.
She was a complete psycho.
There were several playthroughs where the conquest rate exceeded 90%.
It meant she loved me that much even though she knew I was a liar.
I needed to be even more careful about perjury in the future.
… But no matter how much I said that, how was I supposed to perjure more meticulously than this?
I was at a loss.
The final scores were Jill 95%, Yulia 100%, Yerina 90%.
I was slowly starting to feel discouraged.
“Yerina, could you raise your hand?”
“Yes…”
12th playthrough.
Everything was perfect.
The relationship between Jill and Yulia was hostile, but it didn’t escalate into a war.
Of course, both of them had no idea in their dreams that they were each dating me.
“I thought about it a lot. Our relationship hit rough patches more than once or twice, but each time I reflected. Did I really do nothing wrong?”
My experience points were also considerable.
My head already contained the map of the entire continent, the locations of dungeons, and even their detailed structures and types of traps.
I probably knew more than the current RPG developers.
I had rammed my head against the wall 12 times, so I knew all the hidden pieces, items, and how to obtain achievements.
“In the end, I came to the conclusion that it’s all baggage we have to shoulder together.”
Learning from the failures of the 10th and 11th playthroughs, I strengthened and strengthened my perjury.
To the point where I couldn’t make more perfect perjury and alibis than this.
As a result, I succeeded in completely deceiving Yerina.
With all suspicions put down like that, I finally succeeded in entering the ice cave with Yerina.
In this serious atmosphere, at the point when Yerina let me into the ice cave, her conquest rate had reached about 93%.
Yerina probably sensed it too.
What I was going to say.
“No matter what happens, I want to be with you forever, Yerina. Will you marry me?”
“Yes! I’m so happy!”
Yerina shed tears of joy.
This was the end.
I had already finished conquering Jill and Yulia up to the point right before kissing, so I had definitely surpassed 95%.
If I just received Yerina’s kiss, it would truly be the end.
It meant the long, long 12-playthrough journey was also coming to an end.
“…”
I slid the ring onto Yerina’s ring finger.
With this, the conquest rate should be around 94%.
And then I stood up and slowly approached.
‘Did you think I was naive? Did you think I knew nothing?’
Yerina’s voice played in my head and my body trembled.
It felt like Yerina would perk up her ears at any moment and say those words.
That my perjury was sloppy this time too.
That she knew everything.
My trauma was revived.
“… Hup.”
But that nightmare didn’t happen.
Mucous membranes touched mucous membranes.
The moment I roughly pulled Yerina into my arms, her movements stopped.
[Congratulations. You have cleared the game.]
[Escape Condition 1: The affection rate of all heroines must exceed 95%.]
[Escape Condition 2: The final boss ‘Draken’ must be defeated.]
Tada!
It’s clear.
The tension eased and the breath I had been holding burst out.
“Phew…”
[Proceeding with the tally.]
[Number of monsters hunted: 821]
[A-rank boss: 1]
[B-rank boss: 0]
[C-rank boss: 15]
[Hunting score: 38825 points]
[Heroine affection rates]
[Jill Diner: 96%]
[Yulia Petenburg: 100%]
…
I hunted a lot.
Now my eyes are drawn more to the monster hunting tally window than the heroine conquest rate window.
I hunted more diligently in this playthrough than ever before.
There were times when I ran through 10 dungeons in a single day.
I had to catch a lot of boss monsters at once and put them in preservation magic and barriers to secure evidence and alibis to use for the next 2 years.
That too would remain as memories now.
Although it was painful, there were plenty of happy memories too.
I would probably never forget it for the rest of my life.
[Yerina Frost: 93%]
“What? Fuck?”
But what the hell was this?
It’s not over yet?
Even though she accepted my confession without any doubts, promised to marry me, and kissed me, her conquest rate was 93%.
She said that although she had no evidence right now, she couldn’t fully trust me in case I cheated on her in the future.
She was spouting nonsense.
[Failed to achieve escape conditions.]
[Moving to the starting point in 10 seconds.]
“Ah…”
It was an impossible game from the beginning.
Even if I satisfied all the conditions, I couldn’t see the harem ending.
Because of that severely paranoid psycho Yerina.
I almost felt relieved now.
If there had been even a glimmer of possibility, I would have probably repeated this meaningless act dozens of times more.
What was 12 years?
I might have sunk 120 years into it.
Until my emotions wore out and my mind broke down.
I was grateful that I could realize it was impossible now and quit.
[Returning to the starting point.]
At least I was fortunate.
Because I wasn’t told ‘Bam! You are now destined to be trapped in the game’.
There was only one path left for me.
I had to challenge escape condition 2, conquering the final boss.
Let’s depart with a new opportunity, a new mindset.
Now I don’t need to smile at the heroines anymore.
I don’t need to spout cheesy lines.
I don’t need to say I love you, words that aren’t even in my heart.
I might be able to freely adventure and live as I please.
“Let’s fucking try it for once.”
How dangerous it would be was a complete unknown, but my head contained the entire game’s settings.
No matter how hard, how hard could it be?
There was no way it would be harder than dating three psychos.
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