episode_0002

Grumble- Boom!

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Tou-doo-doo-doo-duk.

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As I feel the rain pounding hard on my body, my sunken mind slowly comes back to me.

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It’s fucking cold. Why is it so cold? I thought I would never experience this much cold again after training in a crappy Type A tent in a mountain valley in Gangwon-do.

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My head was so hot and dizzy that my thoughts were not organized properly and flowed in fragments.

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You can feel the damp dirt on your cheek. Heavy rain that soaks my entire body. Thunder that strikes at short intervals. A body with no pain.

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As I lay there dazed in the rain, instead of organizing my thoughts, a flood of water came rushing in.

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“I can’t fall asleep…”

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Instincts honed through extensive training rang an alarm.

Even a three-year-old child, let alone a trained soldier, knows that falling asleep in such a situation is a fact.

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I barely managed to lift my eyelids, which were trying to keep them from falling off, as if they had been glued on them, and look around.

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“Ah…”

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A dense forest. The height of the tree was not very high, and a small altar was set up in front of me.

I could tell as soon as I saw it, even with my eyes that couldn’t tell if it was open or not. Because it’s the starting point scene in ‘Vegabond’ that I’ve seen hundreds of times.

Although it felt unbelievably vivid, unlike seeing it on a flat screen.

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I was definitely playing a game.

Character creation, whispering voices, caressing hands… Past events came to mind like a panorama.

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“Kuuut…”

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My head hurts like it’s going to explode. It feels like someone reached out and kneaded my brain with broken glass.

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Due to the excessive pain, I began to wake up slightly.

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First, I tried to get my head around the situation and summarize the situation as calmly as possible.

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First of all, it seems like you’re in the game. It’s bullshit, but the little information I currently have tells me that this bullshit is true. Even if it is not true, that is something to consider later. You have to live first to consider it or not.

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Moreover, entering the game is usually not a bad thing, but it seems like I am possessed by the body of a character I created, not my original body. I felt a heavy feeling on my chest as I was lying on my stomach and the feeling of being pushed to the ground, and I felt nothing in the place where my long-time partner, who was strong in his own way even when he wasn’t angry, was there.

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Maybe that’s why my physical condition is beyond the worst and I’m just a mess. It could be seen as natural since the body was well protected from all kinds of debuffs, but the rain was falling and taking away body heat, making the situation even worse. If I lose my mind like this, I’ll probably die within an hour.

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According to my experience of deleting and creating countless times, the starting condition is not this bad even if I apply a lot of debuffs, but I think it’s been a while since I lost my mind and lay down in the rain.

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But it’s okay. No, I don’t know if it’s okay.

I’m not an idiot, and I didn’t know it would be this bad, but anyway, I made appropriate arrangements for the starting points so that I could get through the beginning with my body like trash.

However, in order to make that arrangement, I had to move a little bit, and whether I could do that was a different problem.

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“Ouch…”

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I tried to move my body little by little to somehow get up, but a dying sound came out of my mouth.

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His left leg and part of his upper body were completely immobile due to the effects of polio, and even though he tried to stand up by leaning on his basic equipment, an old tree cane, his physical abilities were set to the lowest, so he couldn’t handle his paralyzed body and fell down.

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“Fucked…”

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I had no choice. No matter how much I took all the factors into consideration when planning the build, I didn’t take this ridiculous situation into consideration.

Still, I couldn’t give up like this. I didn’t want to die yet, and I had to live a miserable life in order to find something to do with the idiot who put me here.

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I did my best to crawl forward using my right arm, right leg, and part of my left arm, which were still moving.

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Mr. “..haircut…”

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My heart… my heart is so full. I didn’t know it because I’d never thought about it, but a woman’s body was designed very unreasonably for a low crawl. This was especially true because I customized it to a size that was sufficient to suit my taste. However, I didn’t have enough strength to do a high crawl.

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Every time I crawl, my whole body burns with pain, as if it were being held by an iron. On the other hand, the distance it covers is catastrophically short, so even if it were to compete with a baby who had just started crawling, it would be embarrassing to say that it was a good fight.

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I laughed out loud because I felt so miserable seeing myself in this mess. How long has it been since I felt this way?

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Even though it sucks, I have to live.

I stretched my arms out again toward the front, which I couldn’t even see.

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How much time has passed?

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I can’t even tell if what’s flowing from my eyes is rainwater or my own blood.

His fingernails had already fallen off and blood was flowing, and the distorted skin exposed outside the robe was covered in all sorts of scratches as it was rubbed against the dirt and gravel.

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I don’t have the strength to crawl anymore and I’m about to give up.

Tuk.

A solid object touches the inertial, weakly stretched out fingertips.

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“Ah…”

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Finally arrived.

A square tombstone that is neither too big nor too small. It’s just the right size for one person to stand in.

To be honest, it was less than a hundred meters from the starting point, but even though I would have marched a thousand miles in full military gear, I never wanted to experience this again.

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I mustered all the strength I had and slowly drew a picture in the center of the monument with my bleeding fingers.

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A drawing of a smiling skeleton wearing a parka and showing off its healthy teeth.

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Damn it.

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When the painting was completed, the front of the monument, which had been polished without a scratch, slowly cracked with a faint noise, and the cracked front opened with a creak, releasing a breath of death that made my whole body shiver.

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Ariel.

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The only arrangement I have prepared.

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A special achievement episode that can be performed only once in all episodes.

In the special episode where you can go back to the past and change the future, it was hidden as a one-time buggy play, so I couldn’t prepare any other arrangements other than Ariel, but in fact, with Ariel, there was no need to prepare anything else.

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I swear it’s the most perfect body.

It is safe to say that it is the end of the game, and it took several years to create it using the necromancer character.

The living sacrifices I used to create Ariel’s body amounted to millions, and all the materials I poured into the Dafa to carve strengthening techniques were enough to build a castle out of gold.

It’s hard to describe in words the effort I put in to gather those materials.

As such, his thoughts on Ariel were special, and it was safe to say that he was his daughter born from his heart.

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But, this feeling… what is it?

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It’s Ariel’s appearance that I’ve looked at countless times because I couldn’t allow a single flaw, but now the moment I look at it, my heart is tightened as if in a vise, the surroundings are immersed in silence, and the only sound I can hear is my own heartbeat.

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thud.

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The pure white hair, as if it had been covered with snow in an untouched polar region, aroused a desire to reach out and stroke it to make a handprint, just as seeing snow creates a desire to leave footprints.

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thud.

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What about white skin that has that pale, corpse-like feel? It stimulated a protective instinct deep in my heart that I didn’t even know I had, and I wanted to run up to him right away and hug him as if he were crushing me, sharing my warmth with him.

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thud.

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Red eyes that seem to have concentrated, concentrated, concentrated red. When I looked at it, it felt like blood was starting to flow from my toes and I was suffocating, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

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thud.

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The gently curved curves from the neck to the shoulders, from the shoulders to the waist, and from the waist to the pelvis showed off a sensuality that could not be hidden even with a loose robe, making the whole body feel hot.

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okay. This feeling.

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It sucks.

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It was also an intense feeling, as if he had been celibate for three months.

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Regardless of the thought that I shouldn’t have these feelings for Ariel, who was like my daughter, my body was honest, and my lower stomach was pounding as if to make up for the fact that I was no longer leaving my long-time partner.

I wanted to rush in and rub Mecha Kucha right away, but unfortunately or fortunately, I didn’t even have the strength left to lift a finger.

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“Ariel… to a safe place…”

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Ariel, who was staring at me intently, came towards me with somewhat stiff movements and carefully picked me up.

It was clearly a cold body, but the part it touched felt hot, as if it would burn.

It’s so hot it feels like my brain will melt.

So I lost my mind again.

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