NTR Drift Completed – The Game's Deserter
The NTR had happened. To the operators...
Everything had started because of that bastard's game.
It was an RPG game set in a modern fantasy world.
'Blue Revolution.'
An online game that had been in service for ten years.
In the beginning, it had enjoyed considerable popularity because of its beautiful graphics, RPG elements, and the appropriate mix of isekai features.
But eventually, due to the operators' poor management and the various incidents caused by it, it had lost its initial popularity and was walking the path of a failed game, with even high-level users gradually leaving.
But even as users kept leaving and the game was obviously heading towards collapse, I, one of the petroleum-grade users, continued to play until the end.
Although it was being called a failed game by others, and there were plenty of elements to justify that.
But because I had burned my school days in this game, and due to the long memories and affection, and also because of the attractive NPCs and the somewhat royal and not bad story development, I had stubbornly continued to play until the very end.
And that affection for the game had been rewarded in a dog-like way on that day.
Due to continuous popularity decline and resulting revenue decrease, 'Blue Revolution' was on the verge of service termination.
One of the major NPCs in the game, a heroine character who had once been popular in the game industry due to her beautiful appearance, gentle personality, and clear affection for the protagonist Cromwell.
Paladin Clara.
Although the game itself was clearly heading to ruin, the story progressed separately, and she had eventually reached the point of marrying the protagonist.
With this, the remaining few users including me had hoped that the game would at least progress to the point where the protagonist and Clara would end the war and get a happy ending before the game ended.
However, the patch that came after about three months, and which was considered almost the last patch, the 10.04 patch.
The ending of the story I faced was...
Beyond simply bad, it gave a mental shock.
The protagonist Cromwell, who was cheering the victory cry as the hero who defeated the main force of the rebels.
But the scene I saw in the ending that followed immediately was not the happy ending I had expected.
“Sorry, Captain, I’ve become a body that can’t live without General Neto anymore.”
Clara, the fiancé who smiled coldly while looking at Cromwell being stabbed in the back and dying.
Next to her was General Neto, who had been a more annoying ally than the enemy who had been interfering with the protagonist all along, and who had a bad reputation as one of the NPCs you could grab and beat if you could.
With a cunning smile, he was embracing Clara's body.
With the vision darkening, accompanied by a sinister BGM, the credits rolled up.
And in the middle of the black screen that signaled the end of everything, The End was embedded.
While looking at that, I finally understood perfectly how the story that had been flowing strangely ended.
There had been some signs.
The betrayal by the sub-heroine adjutant Olivier, the sudden declaration of severance and excommunication by the magician Richard and William, who were both hero candidates and adjutants, right after being promoted to general.
And some suspicious bait-like remarks from the fiancé Clara.
I had felt a sense of unease that the characters I had been friendly with until now were starting to show strange behaviors in this chapter.
But with that anxiety and belief that it couldn't be, the ending of the game I had cleared until the end was shattered in a way that completely broke my last trust.
NTR
A miserable bad ending where one is betrayed by the women they loved and thoroughly used, and meets a tragic end in a sewer-like way.
Not even a day or two, but after playing for a full 10 years, being betrayed by the heroine-level characters in the story in an instant and abandoned.
This shocking ending had given me a mental injury that was too terrible for me.
I had originally hated the NTR genre to the extreme.
But... I ended up getting it in the game I had been doing this disgusting thing for 10 years.
Even if it was virtual data, the NPCs I had felt human affection for, and had sincerely empathized with, because I had no family in reality.
But the fact that I was betrayed by such a guy in this way was enough to make me feel a clear anger that was more terrifying than being stabbed in the back by a friend I had been dating for 10 years in reality.
Eventually, I felt a furious betrayal beyond the affection and effort I had had for this game, and did something I hadn't done before.
Unlike the things I had tolerated with a shrug while receiving all kinds of patches, no matter how final, I couldn't help but be angry about the atrocities of those who hit the user's back in this way.
With that, I sent a long protest email to the game operators who had dropped this NTR drift on me.
And the next day after sending the email.
I realized upon waking up.
That I had been reincarnated into the protagonist of the game I was being NTR'd in, Edward Cromwell.
Also, in the middle to late part of the last chapter added by this patch.
After that, for a while, I was trapped in deep confusion due to the sudden situation.
Although it was the exact character from the game I had played, it was natural that there were various adaptations needed for being reincarnated into the game world.
However, as time passed and the confusion emotions subsided,
As a user who had played the game, I quickly grasped the overall situation based on my overall knowledge, and organized in my head what I had to do.
Anyway, the NPCs that could be considered allies at this point had mostly betrayed my back.
The only thing left was for Clara to stab me in the back after perfectly ending the rebel suppression.
So, in this situation where I would soon be stabbed in the back and die according to the story development,
I truly pondered how to escape this crisis.
At that time,
Desertion
📍 Location: Empire Army
🎁 Reward: Survival, God's Blessing (buff)
[You have recognized the fact that you have lost everything.
Your trusted colleagues, your beloved fiancé, they have abandoned you.
The only thing left is to hand over your achievements to their hands and meet a miserable death.
However, you, who have already seen this situation one step ahead, have another choice.
Go to those who can accept you away from the hands of the betrayers.
The God who knows your innocence will help you.
Quest goal: Desert from the Empire army.
Reward: Survival, God's Blessing (buff).
*If the mission fails, you will be accused of treason and suffer a terrible death
Do you accept the quest?]
“...!”
It was similar to the hidden quest activation phrases that often occurred in the game.
But, not just giving a couple of items, but with such dramatic content, I started serious consideration along with surprise.
'Desertion...? Leaving the Empire army?'
The Britain Empire army that I had loyally served without change for 10 years while playing the game.
Actually, about 2 years had passed in game time, but no matter what, I had never experienced this kind of development until now.
However, apart from this unfamiliar route,
I couldn't accept the future where I would just sit and be fed achievements by those bastards and die.
Thinking about it, it was not a bad method in itself, as I could turn my back on the bastards of the Empire who had used me until the end and betrayed me spectacularly at the last moment.
At the same time, it was dangerous, but from the perspective of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," it was a choice with a high chance of survival.
So, I decided to accept this quest that seemed to have many variables but could allow me to survive from the predetermined bad ending.
Now, with a deep tension, I cautiously approached the 'enemies' that had been appearing in front of my eyes so far...
Heading towards the fortress where the rebels were stationed.