I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 22



Mission and Fate

A plain a little away from the village

A small water orb, just big enough for one person to fit inside, floated into the air.

Bang!

“Ow!”

As the water orb burst, the girl who had been curled up inside fell and landed on her bottom.

“Ouch…”

The girl grimaced in pain and rubbed her bottom.

“Are you whining over just that much?”

The girl looked up at the demon floating beside her.

A majestic atmosphere emanated from the ornate decorations adorning her entire body.

It was clear at a glance that she was no ordinary being.

As she said, by manipulating the magic, she could use invisibility and water magic.

Who would have imagined that such magic could be wielded in a place devoid of water, a space filled with flames instead?

“Who… are you?”

“……”

The demon god fell into thought as she looked up at her former master with an innocent face.

The young appearance of the master, who always seemed relaxed and flawless.

Cute.

…No, what am I thinking right now!

Brrrr

The demon god shook her head to clear her thoughts.

“I am Huff… no…”

She couldn’t reveal her true name.

The demon god came up with a suitable alias.

“I am called Karlos. The demon god.”

“……”

“……”

Silence fell between them.

“Are you really the demon god? The god of magic who protects our demon race?”

“Yes.”

“The Demon Lord who reigns over all demons and controls demonic energy?”

“Yes.”

“Then… why didn’t you save us?”

“……”

“If the Demon Lord had saved us… if he had saved us! My mother would have been…!”

Suddenly, overwhelmed by emotion, the girl burst into tears.

“If the Demon Lord had gotten rid of those bad humans, my mother wouldn’t have died! Why didn’t you help us? Why did you just watch?”

Waaah!

The Demon Lord silently watched the girl sobbing.

He clenched and unclenched his hand, looking down at his palm.

Then he made a fist.

He had never felt such intense helplessness before.

After the death of his master, he rose to the position of Demon King, uniting demons and other races, and even ascended to the position of Demon Lord.

As one of the five great lords, he was the ultimate demon that no one dared to treat lightly.

Since ascending to that supreme position, there was nothing he had set out to do that he hadn’t accomplished.

But… in this world, he couldn’t do it.

He couldn’t even protect his master’s mother.

He had no choice but to watch his master suffer the same tragedy he had experienced as a child.

Even if it was all part of a play to resurrect her, it felt bad.

“……I’m sorry.”

The demon god raised her hand and stroked the girl’s back.

Being in a spiritual form, she couldn’t touch the girl’s back.

Because she was not omnipotent.

“I… was lacking… I couldn’t save you.”

The demon god, who was filled with pride and refused to acknowledge her own flaws.

She recognized and admitted her own shortcomings.

Surpassing her pride.

* * *

Before she knew it, the sun had set.

Growl

The girl clutched her abdomen at the sound of hunger coming from within.

“I’m hungry….”

It was only natural to be hungry after crying all day.

The demon god wanted to provide her with food and a place to rest.

If this were the divine realm, she could have prepared everything with just a flick of her finger, but this was a fantastical world within a game created by the power of dreams.

Even though she was a mighty demon god, there was nothing she could do.

Ding

[Possession Unlocked]

-You can temporarily possess a character appearing in the story. However, you must obtain the character’s consent.

At that moment, a notification came through the game system.

Possession…?

Come to think of it, was the goal of this game for me to assist my master in achieving history as it was?

It is difficult to guide the master with just a few pieces of advice from the side.

So, such a system exists.

The demon flew towards the girl.

“Would you lend me your body for a moment?”

“To… the demon?”

“If things continue like this, you will soon lose consciousness and collapse. But this place is not kind to a lone demon child. It is very dangerous. I will take responsibility and move you to a safe place.”

“…Alright. Do as you wish.”

The girl fainted and collapsed as she gave her permission.

The demon absorbed into the girl’s body as if embracing her.

The demon inspected the body it had entered.

“…To think you endured until your body reached this state.”

The fact that she had held onto consciousness until now was almost a miracle.

No matter how young the girl was, a master is still a master.

[Come to me]

The demon gathered the surrounding demonic energy.

Even if it was just a soul, the dignity of the demon engraved in her made the demonic energy submit.

“It’s a bit lacking, but let’s try with this.”

The demon began to manipulate the dark energy swirling around him.

“Hmm… Mom…”

A girl who had been talking in her sleep in a cozy bed opened her eyes.

“…Huh?”

Reality came crashing down on her as she opened her eyes.

The reality she didn’t want to accept—that her mother no longer existed in this world.

“…Where am I?”

But the surroundings that enveloped the girl didn’t seem real either.

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She was sure she had collapsed in the middle of the plain at the last moment…?

Could it be that all of that was just a dream!?

“Awake, are you?”

Turning her head towards the voice, she saw the demon Huffiness floating with his arms crossed.

“Lord Demon…”

It seemed it wasn’t a dream after all.

“Did you… bring me here, Lord Demon?”

“Yes. If you had collapsed in such a place, you would have become food for wild beasts or monsters.”

“Thank… you.”

The girl, looking around, asked.

“Where… is this?”

“A nearby forest. I found the closest empty house and modified it with dark energy.”

Can a house left empty by magic be transformed this cleanly?

Is it really the power of the demon god?

But if it can control my body to do such things… couldn’t it have saved my mother too?

“……”

The demon god seemed to understand what her young master was thinking.

If the episode had started just a little earlier, wouldn’t she have been saved too?

…Should I quit the game now and go out to command the Apostle of Dreams to change the game’s content?

No.

What am I thinking?

This is not the real master.

It’s just a ritual with a fake master to revive the real one.

The demon god began to feel a bit confused.

“What should I do now?”

“What… do you mean?”

“All the villagers are dead. All my friends have been killed. My only family, my mother, is no longer in this world. There’s no one I can rely on. So how am I supposed to live?”

“……”

The demon god saw its past self in the despairing girl.

She too had lost all her loved ones, including her family, to other races.

Her master was no different from her.

What did the master say to her back then?

It seemed like she was saying something about being a great existence.

“……You are special.”

“Yes?”

“In this world, you are the only one who can see me. You are also the only one who can accept my power.”

“……”

“Soon, you will stand tall above the demons and lead them. As a king who will save your oppressed and suffering kin.”

The demon god recalled the brilliant image of the master who united the demons as the demon king.

“Only you can save the demons.”

“Is that… really true?”

The girl fell into thought for a moment.

Then she shook her head.

“I am a fool who can’t do anything alone. And you say I will save the demons?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t believe it.”

Is there no other way?

The only way seemed to be to enter her body and show her the vision of herself as the demon king that I saw.

It seemed like the only way to motivate her, who had lost all will.

“In that case….”

Just as the demon god was about to enter the girl’s body,

“Where are the demons here?”

“No, I’m sure of it. I smell the scent of demons.”

Outside, the voices of strangers could be heard.

Rumble, rumble, rumble

The stench of demon hunters was thick in their tone and atmosphere.

The girl began to tremble in panic the moment she heard their voices.

The demon god peered outside through the window.

Two mercenary men.

They were moving three demons in a large cage. Two adult demons and one child.

They didn’t seem like the type who enjoyed killing demons, but rather the kind who enslaved them or turned them into soap.

‘…Hmm? But those demons…’

As the demon god observed the demons captured by the hunters, he realized that one of the children was a demon child from a nearby village.

“That child. Is she your friend by any chance?”

“…?”

The trembling girl lifted her head at the demon god’s question.

Following the demon god’s fingertip, she saw the demon child being dragged away by the humans.

“Mei, Meiru!”

The girl jumped up from her seat.

“Ma, Master! Meiru is a close friend of mine! Could you please save her?”

The demon god looked at the girl, then closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again.

“I can save her.”

“Ma, Demon Lord!”

The girl’s expression brightened.

“But I cannot exert my power on the surface.”

“…What?”

“It is only possible through your body. So you must do it.”

The current girl could easily capture those two hunters.

Thanks to the demon lord entering her and moving the demonic energy, all her blood vessels were opened, and she was engulfed in demonic energy, gaining a level of affinity with magic comparable to that of a great mage.

“Wh-what is that…”

“Do not worry. I am with you. As long as I am with you, there will only be victory.”

The demon lord brought its lips to the girl’s ear.

“Do not be afraid.”

Bang!

The door of the hut suddenly opened.

“W-what!”

The two hunters approaching the hut were startled.

…

But no matter how long they waited, no one came out from inside.

“Hey! Come out! If you opened the door, you must be inside!”

Are they mocking us?

One of the hunters, angry at the fact that he was startled, approached the door.

“Ugh! Grrr….”

A phlegm-filled sound came from his comrade behind him.

“…Huh?”

The startled hunter turned around to see a black dagger lodged in his comrade’s neck.

The sound his comrade made was a death rattle from the knife stabbing his throat.

“Fe, Felo!”

The hunter immediately drew his sword.

In the blink of an eye, his comrade was struck down.

This is no ordinary foe.

Who is this guy!

As the hunter summoned his magic,

Crunch!

“Ugh!”

A pitch-black sword pierced through his chest from behind.

“How, how….”

At the same time, the hidden figure of a girl emerged.

“Huff…huff….”

Still catching her breath from the excitement of the battle, the demon spoke to the girl.

“How is it? Possible, isn’t it?”

The demon pointed to the three demons in the cage, who were staring at the girl with astonished eyes.

“They are the ones you saved. You saved them from a bleak future that awaited them.”

The girl looked at her friend with a flushed expression.

“Do you understand now? You are destined to be the savior of the demons.”

“…Really?”

The girl looked down at her own hands.

Salvation.

The thing she needed the most.

The thing she couldn’t obtain because she was a little late.

“Let’s give it a try.”

But with this power, she could also give to others.

Perhaps my mission.

And my destiny.