Chapter 153 – Chapter 153 ― Thank You (1)
Episode 153 ― Thank You (1)
Soft music was heard.
The view is completely blocked, and the sight that should be seen outside the door – the inside of the building – is not visible at all.
Instead, what unfolded before my eyes was the panoramic view of Merde.
The walls of white stone wrapped in beautiful green vines are the walls of Spross that Roan has just seen.
‘What… , This?’
However, despite Roan’s bewildered mind, the scene of climbing up the white wall continued to a deep blue sky.
And phrases floating in the blue sky.
Sex Hero legend.
It was only then that Roan realized what he was seeing and what he was hearing.
‘Crazy…’
A scene I’ve seen dozens or hundreds of times.
This is the opening of the Castle Hero legend game.
‘You’re showing this here?!’
Of course, if it’s a game, it’s time for the opening to come out.
After learning about the hero character’s skills through a tutorial in a small town outside the capital, the opening begins as you enter the capital.
Right after the opening begins, most of the locked functions are unlocked, and you go to one of the first unlocked facilities, the guild. The story progresses in earnest as I accidentally start accepting Helen’s request…
‘Anyway, it’s been over half a year since I came here, and this is here…’
Roan let out a stupid laugh.
But, unfortunately, this was not the end.
The shot against the blue sky changed to a composition overlooking downtown Sprouse below.
Along with it, the sound effect that is continuously heard.
It was a notification that a message had arrived.
[Message: Welcome to Spros, the capital of Merde!]
[Message: You can collect and view the information about the captured character!]
[Message: Cleared character — Grünent, Helen]
[Message: Complete character details open]
[Message: Opening of the main scene of target character]
[Message: Features to help your character grow!]
[Message: Stat distribution and confirmation function open]
[Message: Inventory open]
[Message: Visit the facility to unlock additional features!]
[Message: The function of the facility deployed in Sprouse is unlocked!]
[Message: Visit the facility shown on the map and see what it does!]
And the panoramic view of Sprouse, which was overlooked, changed to an illustration displaying a mini-map.
[Message: Visitable Facilities — Mercenary Guild, Shop, Temple, Tavern, Inn]
The location of each facility is displayed on a map modeled after Sprouse. A picture in the same style as the waypoint’s minimap.
I already know it well, but seeing this scene with a full field of vision is a different experience.
‘Alas.’
And Roan, who was crazy about what he was doing right before this, kept his mouth shut.
The door was open
Helen is by my side, but I don’t know if it’s safe. Anyway, this place is in the middle of a strange land.
[Message: Best of luck to you, the first demon king to set foot in the human land, Sprouse!]
Seeing unhelpful messages and the minimap disappearing from view, Roan looked around as soon as the sight before his eyes was restored.
“Master?”
Then Helen’s voice was heard in a small voice.
“Is there something wrong with you?”
“Hmm?”
“Shall I open it?”
There’s no embarrassment or big question in Helen’s voice.
“I… Isn’t it strange?”
“Yes? Umm… “
Rather, Helen pondered for a moment as if the question was strange. Without her needing to answer, Roan realized what had happened.
Time did not pass while Roan watched the opening screen.
“No. Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
Helen stopped thinking about what Roan said.
Deciding to slowly copy the message later, Roan pushed the door aside.
As already confirmed by ‘detection’, there is nothing in the knight’s rest area connected to the passage.
The sliding doors designed to hide the seams are hidden by the tapestry of the Merde family crest decorated in the resting place.
Even if you look at the wall behind the tapestry, the sliding door, which has a structure in which the handle is grasped by pressing the groove, will not be seen as a door to the people of Merde.
Helen, admiring as she peered through the door through which she had escaped, hurriedly caught up with Roan as she strode out of her knight’s resting place.
‘Here… Sprouse.’
Roan inhaled.
The resting place of the knight is adjacent to the other shopping street and residential area attached to the castle wall.
An area inhabited mainly by soldiers commuting to and from the city gates.
No matter how crowded it is late at night, there is no time to look around. Roan hurriedly moved his steps.
Helen, who followed Roan as she walked through the alleys of the castle she had never seen before, looked around rather intently.
Roan, who had reached a certain distance from the wall with a quick pace, stopped his steps only then.
“… Ha, ha, master.”
“I was in a bit of a hurry. Are you okay?”
“… Yes.”
Helen caught her breath. She’d rather run. She walks like a run, and it’s not easy to keep up with someone.
If you leave the soldiers’ residential area, you will come to a back alley leading to a shopping district.
Taverns and inns that occupied back alleys are surrounded by silence late at night. The time when the waning moon rises in the eastern sky.
After midnight, Sprouse is so quiet that no trace of the day can be found.
“… Strange.”
“Hmm?”
“Like this… Here, Master and really…”
Helen’s voice is full of excitement and sadness.
Roan quietly reached out her hand and took Helen’s hand.
“Master.”
Helen smiled bashfully and looked up at her Roan.
Roan patted Helen’s head with her free hand and quietly moved her steps.
“This is a familiar place to Jim.”
“Yes?”
“You must be wondering how I know where I am.”
“…”
Helen looked at Roan with her wide eyes. It was a question she had wanted to ask several times but never dared to ask.
Roan looked at Helen with her kind eyes.
“It’s the first time I’ve come to see it in person. But the story… I’ve heard the story many times, and seen it dozens or hundreds of times in pictures. It’s as if you’ve been here yourself.”
“Ah… You seemed to be used to it somehow.”
Helen nodded her head.
After all, there was no way the master would set her foot in the middle of enemy lines without preparation.
You seem to know people well,
You know the news of Merde and the story of the royal family well, so the information you carefully gathered from her spies was the basis.
Even Helen, who spends a lot of time with the emperor, has never seen the spy. Now, until he said she, Helen hadn’t even noticed her presence.
Helen looked around her with repeated admiration for her master.
“It seems you are more used to it than I am. I haven’t been to this area since I was a kid. It’s just a vague memory.”
Roan listened silently to Helen’s words.
“Before entering the orphanage, I wandered the streets. No memories of parents or home… I only have memories of being hungry and begging. It was around here. I’m not even sure about that…”
Helen brings up painful stories from the past.
Roan silently released his hand and put it on his shoulder. Just like lovers walking down the street often do.
Helen, who had joined Roan, widened her eyes, then smiled.
“But now I have good memories. The person I adore… The fact that the two of us can walk like this… I can’t believe it.”
Helen was hugged by her Roan, enjoying her body temperature to the fullest.
“Up until last summer, my life was a sad one. I wanted to be comforted by attending the goddess, but the things I had to endure were so painful… Every day was tough. But I want to tell you about me at that time. If you wait a little bit and persevere, such a happy time will come.”
Hearing Helen’s words, Roan also smiled.
I’ve seen it hundreds of times, but a smile that always makes my heart flutter.
Helen felt her heart pounding again.
“Good job. Helen. You are proud.”
Her master stroked her hair gently.
Helen clung to him like her spoiled child, and the Emperor did not push Helen away.
So the two of them walked down the quiet midnight street.
Because it is not a main street, even the faint magic street light cannot reach the alley.
Unlike Evirgio, where you can feel that it is still winter, it was a chilly spring night with the scent of spring.
Moving without saying a word, Roan began looking at the menus he had just entered Sprouse one by one.
It was.
There was a menu UI.
‘… It’s absurd.’
If it was a game company working like this, I would have sent dozens of complaint calls or e-mails.
It’s been 9 months since I started, and now the opening and basic functions have been unlocked.
Just in case, I clicked ‘Customer Inquiry’ at the bottom of the menu, but it is empty.
‘If this is the case, why did you make a customer inquiry?’
Roan narrowed her eyes and looked at other functions.
‘Save & Load?!’
Roan’s eyes widened.
He hurriedly opened Save & Load, but
‘… There’s no load.’
There are 2 save slots.
Save slot 1, which I vainly saved the last time I visited the waypoint for the first time.
And save slot 2, which is not yet used and remains empty.
However, the load function is disabled and grayed out.
Roan’s eyes narrowed in dissatisfaction.
‘What are we going to do?’
The rest are just features that a game should have.
Character menu.
When you enter details, a menu appears where you can check the character details.
It’s similar to the stat check function that Roan has been able to look at so far, but this one is a little more detailed.
In addition, it was a little different that the character’s — in this case, Roan’s — equipment could be looked at at a glance.
In the seat of the helmet is the ‘Demon King’s Transformation Tool’.
In the place of the armor, there is a set of ‘human street clothes’.
In place of the sword, of course, ‘Demonic Sword Fiora’.
Three of the trinket slots are empty.
In the stat check function, there is the phrase ‘Stat Undistributed Points: 0’ along with the previously acquired ‘Skill Undistributed Points: +2’.
Stat points are disabled in gray text because nothing has been acquired. Will we be able to distribute stat points as we like in games in the future?
‘Anyway, most of the other stats are already +99, but…’
Roan turned his eyes to another menu.
Party slots are disabled. Like in the game, it won’t activate unless you go to a guild.
Opened the inventory slot. A state in which there is nothing in the empty 5*10 square.
An inventory that can hold 50 items, regardless of weight, if it’s like the game. Roan felt a little relieved.
With this, you can easily carry your luggage wherever you go. From magic shielding suits to magic measuring tools, seedlings to be planted… Besides, the best thing is that you can move crystal lumps and powders freely…
‘Now, wait.’
Roan removed a smile from his grinning face. I think I’ve come to regard myself as a burden too much…
‘Yeah, but… The decision… Because it’s dangerous…’
Roan, who struggled to find a reasonable reason, looked at the next menu.
There is no ‘map’ menu that should have been there originally.
It’s a menu that moves automatically when you click on a facility displayed on the mini-map, but maybe it’s because it couldn’t be implemented in reality.
And the familiar words that occupied the bottom,
‘Attack Character Details’.
Roan looked around and sighed.
And Roan stopped walking.
“… Master?”
The master’s breathing in the dark seemed a little rough, so Helen cautiously called for Roan.
Roan, who had come to his senses, replied in a panic.
“Oh, well. It’s nothing. Helen.”
The reason why the strategy detailed menu is the flower of this game is,
It is also a menu where you can browse the profile of the captured character.
‘How the hell did you put all this together…’
This is because it is a menu that allows you to collect and view H-scenes.
The erotic images of Grünent and Helen were collected in several cut scenes.
However, it does not feel like a photo was taken, but it is drawn as an illustration like the original game.
But Roan knows. This is not an illustration from the game. In fact, these are the appearances they showed when they were in a relationship with Roan.
I was confused for a moment, but even if I think about the impression or source of the scene, I won’t get an answer right away.
Roan closed the menu and began to savor the streets of dawn without a word again. Their footsteps stopped when they reached the plaza.
We arrived at the central square, one of the roads leading to the temple through the gate.
“Hmm.”
An exclamation escaped Roan’s mouth.
In the middle of the square,
A huge statue of the goddess was placed in the center of the fountain, overlooking the plaza.
