Chap 6-The Villainess in the Game Advances Towards Destruction

 

“Interesting. Is this the work of the Transcendents? I thought those bastards were just stuck in the Spirit Realm, peeping.”

“There must be circumstances that force their hand, wouldn’t you say? Haha…”

It wasn’t as clear as if it were echoing from nearby, but someone was definitely speaking.

It felt like slowly rising to the surface from deep underwater.

My whole body was heavy, and my limbs wouldn’t move like they were made of stone.

‘Mason?’

The familiar voice made my consciousness sharpen a little more.

My eyelids felt heavy, but I strained to open them.

“Yeah, I guess so. Still doesn’t change the fact that they’re disgustingly incompetent.”

The moment my eyes cracked open, a bright light filled my vision, and I instinctively shut them again.

A dizzying sensation washed over me, but I forced my eyes open once more, and the white ceiling lights came into view.

‘My limbs should have been torn off by the monsters…’

I managed to open my eyes and look around, and my body was in better shape than I expected.

“Ugh!”

Instead, a feeling like my insides were turning over washed over me, and a sudden wave of nausea erupted.

“Annie…”

The image of her dying with a hole through her chest flashed in my mind.

The memories of the blood-soaked maids and the collapsing knights, and of having to flee helplessly, flooded my brain.

“No…! Cough… Cough…”

Even trying to breathe, my throat felt blocked, and my chest tightened.

“Lady!”

“Hngh… Heuh…”

At that moment, an intense pleasure washed over my entire body.

My mind went blank, unable to think.

The illusions that had been clouding my vision were instantly pushed aside by the pleasure, disappearing into the depths of my memory.

“Heuh… Haa… Haa…”

“You’re safe here, Lady. You don’t have to worry. The monsters can’t hurt you anymore.”

Mason seemed to think I was having a panic attack from fear.

Well, I was at first.

But now…

‘This damn Unique Ability…’

Thanks to it, I was able to come to my senses, but I wasn’t exactly grateful.

“So, you’re finally awake?”

“Hngh…?”

I suppressed a moan as much as possible and looked at the unfamiliar man next to Mason.

“You can’t even recognize your own father’s face anymore.”

‘Father…? Could it be…?’

My mind snapped to attention, and I instinctively sat up.

My mind went blank.

‘Wait… what should I call him?’

On the surface, Yeon Bennet was the adopted daughter brought in by the Duke himself.

I honestly had no idea what her personal relationship with Isaac Bennett was like.

While I was panicking and darting my eyes around, he spoke first.

“I wasn’t particularly close to her in the first place. Call me whatever you’re comfortable with.”

‘What…?’

My heart almost stopped at those words.

The words he had said just before I lost consciousness, and his current attitude.

This man definitely knew.

That I wasn’t ‘Yeon Bennet,’ but someone else.

“There was no need to be close to a soulless doll. Unlike you now.”

‘A soulless doll? Yeon Bennet? What does that…’

A setting that wasn’t in the game.

I was confused.

“So, who sent you?”

“Excuse me? What do you mean…”

“Don’t tell me you don’t know anything? Which of the Transcendents put you in there?”

‘A Transcendent put me here?’

If…

If what he was saying was really true.

There was only one person.

There was one being I had suspected ever since the world I had only seen in the game became my reality.

‘Tales of Eterisha (TOE)’

And the name of the game company that made the game was also…

“Eterisha?”

Dreamer, Eterisha.

Among the gods and Transcendents, one of the six monsters who had reached level 11.

One of the Six Heavens.

Even among them, she was considered the strongest.

She was a character who had influenced the company name and the game title, so there were rumors among users that she was the CEO’s self-insert character.

“Hahaha. Of course! If it’s her, it’s definitely possible!”

As I blankly uttered her name, the Duke burst into wild laughter and began to stare at me with longing eyes.

“So, what should we do now?”

“Excuse me?”

The Duke stared at me for a while, then narrowed his eyes.

“There must be a reason why she sent you here, right?”

The Duke’s voice was a mixture of expectation and suspicion.

I tried to hide my bewildered feelings and thought to myself.

‘I’d like to know too!’

I slowly shook my head and briefly explained my situation.

The Duke’s expression twisted slightly.

He seemed disappointed that he hadn’t gotten the answer he had hoped for, and he closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

“So… you don’t know anything.”

The Duke stared at me silently for a while.

He narrowed his eyes as if lost in thought, and lightly stroked his chin with his fingers.

Then, he chuckled softly and opened his mouth.

“Then, wouldn’t you want revenge?”

“Revenge…?”

“You were quite close to the people who died, weren’t you…”

The Duke continued, glancing at Mason before turning his gaze back to me.

“Those damn monster bastards. There’s a way to wipe them all out. If you’re willing to help, that is.”

I blankly nodded.

…

I had expected the game company to justify Yeon Bennet’s past actions in order to release her as a character, but the hidden truth about her that I learned from my conversation with the Duke was more shocking than I had anticipated.

The ‘Contamination’ that was currently plaguing Terra was only a small fraction of the Evil God’s power.

Originally, with the authority of an level 11 conceptual god, humanity should have been annihilated in an instant.

But why was humanity still able to resist the Evil God and fight against his followers?

Why was the Evil God’s power so weakened?

The Bennett Dukedom had been conducting investigations for generations to find the answer to this question.

As time passed, clues accumulated.

And eventually…

They found…

A girl named ‘Yeon.’

A doll that sealed the Evil God’s power.

…

Swish

The sudden downpour instantly soaked my entire body.

Normally, I would have been annoyed by the stickiness and unpleasant sensation of the wet clothes,

But today was different.

The cold raindrops seeped from my head to my toes,

Gradually washing away the remnants of the terrible nightmare that filled my mind.

While everything around me was getting soaked, only the ‘Bennett Lady Safety Rules’ remained fluffy thanks to the preservation magic.

Rustle

The sound of pages turning smoothly in the humid space.

Perhaps because I had been living in a world where magic actually existed for two years, it didn’t feel that amazing, even though I had no talent and couldn’t use a single spell.

1.Under no circumstances should you trust Lady Bennett.

The first rule, which had been quite shocking when I first saw it.

The first page on which it was written now had something completely different written on it.

‘Please take good care of our kind Lady.’

On the back page, instead of the survival rules like a ghost story, there was a dense list of information about my life, such as my favorite foods, the water temperature when I took a bath, and the time I went to sleep.

Perhaps because of the rain, my vision was blurred, and I couldn’t read the words properly.

There was no one around, but.

I was really glad it was raining.

Whoever sealed the Evil God’s power had sealed it in the most effective and cruel way.

By creating a false Evil God in the world.

An existence recognized as evil by the world.

A god who received malice, contempt, scorn, and fear from people.

In order to live as a false Evil God, she had to receive a resource called ‘Malicious Faith,’ which was recognized by people as evil.

A soulless doll programmed to collect ‘Malicious Faith.’

That was the true identity of Yeon Bennet.

I don’t know what the being who possessed me here was thinking…

But unnecessarily, I was possessed by her.

A situation occurred where the seal was momentarily shaken.

Because I tried to change ‘Yeon Bennet’s’ reputation.

Because I approached the maids and guards.

Because I tried to change the story of the game.

Because I was greedy and wanted to socialize with people.

I ruined everything.

I…

I…

I killed them.

“That’s right.”

Haa…

Here we go again.

“You killed them!”

“Because of you, you stupid bitch!”

The graveyard, which had been empty just a moment ago.

Beside me now stood the servants I had been close to, and the guards who had vowed to protect me.

They were in a completely different form from when they were alive,

Their faces distorted with resentment and hatred, pouring out their anger at me.

“Lady.”

Drawn by the familiar voice, I turned my head.

There stood Annie, with a hole in her chest, staring at me with hateful eyes.

“Annie… Haa!”

This sucks.

The disgusting Unique Ability that made me feel pleasure even from the hatred of someone I thought I was close to.

At times like this, I found my Unique Ability unbearably repulsive.

Thud

She grabbed my hand tightly with her blood-stained hand.

“I shouldn’t have trusted someone like you.”

“I know, you fool…”

With my free hand, I picked up a fist-sized rock nearby.

“I’m sorry. I can’t do what you want right now. I have a lot to do.”

Crack

“Heuh.”

As I infused mana into the hand Annie was holding and crushed it, a tingling pleasure began to travel from my wrist to the depths of my brain.

The illusions that had been tormenting me were no longer visible.

“My end will be much more miserable than yours. So, don’t be too resentful.”

To atone for you, even if just a little.

And for the happy ending of this world.

The villainess in the game heads towards her doom.

…

I had only left my seat for about 30 minutes for the paperwork for the release procedure.

She couldn’t even wait that long and disappeared.

“Haa… What a troublesome bitch.”

Bella, on the one hand, was puzzled.

Even if I had released her magic and restraints, how could she have broken through the security of the infamous Bastille Prison without a sound?

Yeon Bennet

The infamous villainess who became famous for summoning monsters by dabbling in Contamination simply because the servants and guards ignored her, and ultimately being the only survivor.

This incident was almost covered up by the high-ranking nobles, but fortunately, a righteous newspaper took the risk and exposed it to the world in an article.

Everyone strongly demanded her punishment, but the Allied Council suspended the punishment due to her being a young child from a high-ranking noble family, causing much backlash.

As a result, Yeon disgracefully became the most infamous person in Terra, surpassing even the Contamination worshipers.

Even after that, she didn’t come to her senses and repeated similar acts several times.

She was arrested after committing the same acts at the academy after abusing the people around her.

Bella, along with most people, thought that this time she would finally be punished.

But absurdly, the Allied Council once again ordered her amnesty.

However, Bella couldn’t be angry at the council.

Because she had heard the whole story from her father, who held a seat in the council.

Isaac Bennett, the head of the Bennett Dukedom.

He had gone against the family’s opposition and used all his resources to prevent the punishment that would be imposed on her.

For a foster daughter who wasn’t even that important.

Thanks to that, dirty rumors that were sickening to even hear spread, and the power of the Bennett Dukedom was significantly weakened.

“I guess it’s around here.”

The traces had been mostly erased by the rain, but for her, who had rolled around on the battlefield, tracking this much was a piece of cake.

The trail led to a well-maintained graveyard.

‘Could this be?’

Looking at the remains of the burned-down mansion in the back, it was certain.

The very place that was mentioned in the article about her.

There, Yeon Bennet was holding her blood-stained hand and staring blankly at the graveyard.

Author’s Note

More detailed settings will be revealed later…

Thank you for reading!