Chapter 0 Prologue
Prologue
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Prologue
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⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ You've defeated the Transcendent!
"Tough bastard. Finally dead."
Staring at the system window floating before my eyes, I muttered a curse under my breath and spat.
Bloody phlegm splattered across the floor, and I rubbed it away with the sole of my battered leather boot.
"Even with all that grinding experience until I was sick of it, the damn thing's still a nightmare to put down."
The end of the Labyrinth. The deepest layer.
Its master. A transcendent being beyond human understanding.
An existence capable of annihilating the world just by manifesting its flesh upon the earth.
I'd just beaten that fucking monster into oblivion.
It was grueling, but I sent it back to the dirt without too much hassle.
I've already repeated this shit fifty times over.
Counting the failures where I couldn't kill it or the dumbass detours chasing other endings, this makes it the ninety-ninth round, right?
Anyway, once again, I'd safely slain the Labyrinth's master and saved a world doomed to destruction.
I could be damn proud of that.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Congratulations! You have accomplished a feat no one else has achieved.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Settling your past achievements.
"Yeah, settle the achievements. Time to show me the true ending."
If I screw this up too, the regressions alone will hit triple digits.
Man, it's starting to wear me down.
I gritted my teeth against the urge to just quit and pushed harder than ever.
Broke the record for the fastest Labyrinth clear in ninety-nine rounds of history.
Wiped out every monster in the Labyrinth completely, snagged every treasure including the hidden secret stashes.
There's nothing left here even remotely fun.
I scoured the place so thoroughly it feels like my own backyard.
So please.
End this endless regression bullshit already.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Achievement settlement complete!
"Please... true ending..."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Normal Ending Achieved!
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Restarting the story.
Thud!
Overwhelmed by crushing despair, I dropped to my knees.
Expectations only lead to betrayal. Only now did I truly grasp the meaning of those words.
Failed.
The same word echoed relentlessly in my mind.
"I have no confidence I could do any better than this..."
My all-out effort had been utterly denied.
Despair blackened my vision.
I couldn't even imagine breaking free of this infinite cycle to reach the true ending.
I desperately wanted to bite my tongue and find peace, but the system wouldn't grant me eternal rest.
In the end, it'd rewind time and dump me back at the Labyrinth's entrance.
And I'd spin round and round like a hamster on its wheel.
"I've done everything humanly possible. What more is there...?"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ New achievement unlocked!
⚔ ACHIEVEMENT ⚔ Lone Wolf
"Achievement...?"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Over 99 loops, you shocked the world by shattering the standard playstyle framework of the original worldview in the bishoujo dating sim Labyrinth of Ecstasy.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ New privilege unlocked!
⚔ SYSTEM UNLOCK ⚔ Affinity System unlocked!
A barrage of system windows assaulted me like rapid-fire from a machine gun.
I could do nothing but stare at them in a daze.
"This was a dating sim?"
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