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A dark room where all sides are covered in pitch darkness.

“Coolook!”

In the center of the place, a man vomited a clot of blood. A handful of the man’s blood poured onto the black ground. His blood was as thick and black as the ground itself.

Of course, I wasn’t surprised by that. I already knew that he was different from humans anyway.

I put my sword to his neck.

Sling – The cool blade touches the opponent’s skin.

I said, looking down at the other person.

“It’s over, Demon King. Your ambitions are now over.”

The Demon King, a being that once brought fear to this world.

As I said that, I was quite out of breath.

Haa, haa, the sound of heavy breathing fills the pitch-black room.

That breathing sound was not just mine, but it was the sound of everyone present here.

A knight covered in wounds all over his body.

A wizard who is exhausted and leans on his staff.

Even the saintess who used up all her divine powers.

Everyone was barely holding on and breathing heavily.

As the hot breath gradually subsides, I finally realize that this fight is over.

Seriously, it was a tough fight.

So much so that it’s hard to express in words.

There were blade marks everywhere, and the party members almost crossed the Samdo River several times during this fight.

Actually, there was one sacrifice.

But we won in the end.

I stood up and held on, and caught the Demon King who had filled the continent with fear and chaos. If I swing the holy sword in my hand, I can probably cut off his head.

The world was saved by this.

But strangely enough, I didn’t feel anything special about it.

Then the Demon King opened his mouth.

“Keuheu··· What a pity, what a pity. If only I had stayed a little longer, I could have gained full strength···.”

There was arsenic in the corner of his bloody mouth.

“If I had more time, I could finally end this hateful world··· Is that so? Is this where I end up? Does my ideal disappear here······.”

“······.”

The guy mutters, lost in an inexplicable sense of regret.

I listened to the guy’s words without saying anything.

Oh, it’s not that I feel any sympathy for the guy, it’s just that this scene is originally ‘unskippable’.

The guy who had been talking like that for a while looked at my face and said.

“Kill me, warrior. I won’t beg for my life.”

As he said, I drew the holy sword diagonally.

Crunch!

Along with the silver line, the guy’s neck falls off.

At the same time.

[Congratulations!]

[I defeated the Demon King!]

A system notification window appeared on the monitor screen.

I stared at the sight in silence.

“······.”

*

『Wow! Thank you for your hard work, warrior! Really, really… thank you for your hard work!!』

“With this, the people will be able to stretch out their legs and sleep comfortably. Thank you, warrior. It’s all thanks to you.”

“It’s finally over… It was truly a difficult journey.”

After defeating the Demon King, the warrior party headed back to the kingdom in good spirits. On the way back, smiles bloomed on the faces of the party members.

The saint praised the hero’s achievements, the knight looked at the hero with a face full of favor, and the wizard smiled with a look of great relief.

Everyone looked full of affection.

If things go back like this, the warrior will probably start a peaceful life with the whole party, creating a wine pond and meat forest.

Perhaps the kings of each country will also support the warrior and record his great achievements in history.

It was a truly comfortable and happy ending.

however.

“······Tsk.”

I couldn’t help but click my tongue at the sight.

From my perspective, this round of play was ultimately a failure.

Haha, I see heroines with smiling faces.

Saints, knights, wizards······.

There are no thieves.

The warrior party member who was eliminated this time was a thief.

Last time it was a saint, the time before that it was a wizard, and the time before that it was a knight.

This time, the thief was eliminated again.

I muttered with a regretful face.

“Damn, this time I really came···.”

Unfortunately, the thief was eliminated in the final battle with the Four Heavenly Kings. She couldn’t endure the final phase and chose to sacrifice herself.

Still, I somehow managed to become the Demon King, but it was only a half-assed ending.

So I deleted this episode without hesitation.

All records accumulated so far are quickly reset.

It was a shame to lose all the achievements and equipment I had earned… but in the end, I had no choice but to erase them since it wasn’t the ending I wanted.

‘This is the 999th.’

In the quiet room, I muttered to myself.

With this, the 999th try also ended in failure.

Although they struggled until the end, it was still difficult to save all four heroines.

Phew, but I brought all four of them alive, including the last one, so I guess I’ve accumulated some data.

This time, I guess I’ll have to find some consolation in that······.

no.

“Eww!! This is fucking shit!!!!”

It’s no comfort at all!

I screamed loudly in a room dimly lit only by the monitor lights.

It was a hysterical phenomenon that occurred every time I experienced failure in the true ending.

This time I almost broke it. The plan was going perfectly.

In the end, I failed this time too!

It was even more painful because it was the 999th failed attempt.

Thanks to this, I was able to become aware once again.

This game [Demon King and Hero Party] is a fucking piece of trash!

It was a really common harem game, but it was a really stupid game without a single proper happy ending!!

Even the gameplay is roguelike, where you die once and the game is over, so it was difficult to see H-scenes.

······No, to be more precise, it was difficult to see the sweet H-scenes I wanted.

If you go the losing route, there are so many scenes of the heroine being humiliated that it’s overflowing.

[Demon King and Hero Party]

This game, which is about a party of warriors going to catch the Demon King, is a novel game that combines elements of a roguelike and a fantasy system.

The charm of this game lies in the random elements that keep the game from getting boring, and the heroines that you become closer to as you travel.

Thanks to this, it was a game that was quite popular when it first came out.

The fun gameplay and pretty heroine illustrations were enough to grab attention.

However, its popularity was bound to wane within a few months of its release.

In fact, the purpose of the game was not for the hero to become stronger and build a harem, but for him to be defeated and die.

This game is a game of humiliation.

It’s not just a simple rape game, it’s an extremely minor game with a lot of grotesque and dark fantasy added in!

Because of this, all the players who really wanted to break it disappeared, and only the true perverts remained.

Of course, at first, there were people who tried to somehow achieve the harem ending.

First of all, since it was a roguelike game with many random elements, many people claimed that if you tried several times, you could save all four people.

But the road to that ending was long and arduous, and one way or another, one or two of the heroines had to be eliminated.

That’s why all the people who were pursuing the true ending have dropped out.

‘Except me.’

And I was starting to feel like I was going to pass out from exhaustion.

If I just think about the time I’ve spent on this game, it’s already been almost 7 years. This is the game I’ve spent almost half of my 20s on.

But despite that, I still haven’t saved all the heroines.

Even though I’ve defeated most of the bosses in the game dozens of times.

It was so difficult that even though I knew the strategy, there were many times when I failed to clear the game.

“What a fucking game.”

At this point, you might be asking something like this:

No, if the game is that shitty, why don’t you just give up?

I might be the crazy one, investing 7 years in just one game.

I knew it too.

But even knowing that, I couldn’t give up.

It’s really, really embarrassing.

It’s really… absurd, so much so that it might make you laugh out loud.

Because I really like the heroines in this game.

No, in fact, to this extent, it would not be an exaggeration to call it love.

I really liked the heroines here.

All the heroines appearing in this game were attractive.

Not only were the illustrations pretty, but each heroine was three-dimensional and had her own distinct charm.

Plus, all the characters are courageous, kind, and strong… so you can’t help but like them.

But these fucking producers, they created these attractive heroines and turned the genre into a pornographic game.

They were incomprehensible bastards, whether they felt sexual pleasure from something strong being broken or not.

“ha······.”

I can’t help but sigh.

Actually, at this point, I had this thought. Actually, there was no ending where everyone was saved from the beginning.

It was blocked in the system from the beginning, and I’ve just been wasting my time.

Whenever I thought about that, my mood would naturally plummet.

“···No, but there must be something.”

Still, I tried to pull myself together and picked up the mouse again.

Of course, it’s a roguelike game with lots of random elements, so there’s bound to be something.

And I’ve finally finished the 999th episode, so it’s a shame to give up now.

So, let’s do it exactly 1000 times, no more, no less.

It’s not too late to think about whether or not to fold it later.

So I pressed [New Game] for the 1000th time.

Then something strange happened.

[Achievement, ‘The One Who Never Gives Up’ has been achieved!]

[Hidden Route, ‘Noble Sacrifice’ has been opened!]

[Would you like to try?]

“Oh!!”

I shouted without thinking.

Hidden route! And that too before starting the game!

Oh, yeah. I knew there was something.

Considering how massive this game is, there’s no way they wouldn’t have prepared something like this.

I smiled broadly and looked back at the monitor screen.

I see a selection window flashing before my eyes.

[Would you like to try?]

[YES or NO]

“Of course yes!”

Anyone who doesn’t take on this opportunity is mentally ill.

I pressed the mouse without a moment’s hesitation.

And──

[Warning! The difficulty of monsters increases significantly!]

[Warning! The hostility of the characters increases!]

[Caution! Unexpected variables may intervene during play!]

“···Huh?”

With a halo of light illuminating the surroundings.

[May good luck be with you]

I lost my mind.

*

──And so, half a year later.

“······I shouldn’t have pressed yes then, damn it.”

I’m currently out of the game.

“Warrior, is that the only way you can act?”

“Ugh, it’s dirty. Hey, can you walk a little further away?”

“Even Enen would definitely curse at you if he saw you.”

“······Disgusting.”

And I was being bullied by those heroines every single day.

A sigh comes out on its own.

“Haaa······.”

This game is fucking shit.