I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 42



Lewd Wisdom (5)

It was a day no different from any other.

“Muriah-25-03! It’s experiment time!”

As usual, one person a day was dragged by the researchers for experiments and returned, an utterly ordinary day.

But when Muriah-25-03 returned after the experiment, she was completely different.

“Ugh, you failure.”

Thud

“Samsam!”

When the researcher opened the second-floor door of the iron cage and roughly threw Muriah-25-03 in, a girl barely caught her.

Muriah-25-03 returned in a tattered state.

Her entire body was stained red with blood that had come from her own body, and blood continued to flow from her nose.

Most importantly,

“Are you okay?

“Damn it!”

Bang!

Even though she kicked the wall hard in her rage, the sturdy iron bars didn’t budge.

“Damn it!”

“Ah… ugh…”

Even though her furious shout echoed, the broken sanity of Muria-25-03 did not return.

“Six-six.”

A firm resolve was etched into the eyes of the girl, reddened by tears.

“Seven-seven… you can’t be serious.”

“Today, I’m going to do it.”

“…We haven’t figured out everything yet.”

Muria-17-06 also knew that the girl was analyzing the lab and searching for a way to escape.

But they hadn’t figured out everything yet.

Over the course of a year of experiments, they had analyzed bit by bit, understanding about 90% of the underground facility, except for one part.

“…We don’t need that anymore. With what we’ve figured out so far, we can escape. The remaining 10% is just to ensure perfection.”

The girl bit her lip.

It’s all my fault.

Because I was afraid of escaping, I gradually neglected searching for a way out and only pursued present happiness.

“Damn it! If I had been a little more diligent! No, if I had at least executed the escape without hesitation, Three-three wouldn’t have ended up like this!”

Bang! Bang!

The girl struck the iron bars, trying to calm her anger.

“It’s all because of me! I… I…!”

“Ahbu…bu….”

“Samsam-ah….”

Muriah-25-03 clung to the girl.

“Uuuh….”

She patted the girl’s head gently.

Just like when the girl had driven away her pain and held her warmly in the past.

“Samsam-ah… you….”

It was as if she was telling the girl not to be angry, that it wasn’t her fault.

“I’m sorry, Samsam-ah… I’m really sorry….”

“Samsam-ah… you… really.”

The girls embraced each other tightly, sobbing.

Their pent-up sorrow gathered and formed a lump.

Wooong

The magical engineering components hidden inside the iron bars responded to the girl’s power and gathered.

“We’re escaping today.”

And those who made Samsam like this will pay the price.

The girl’s eyes burned with an unquenchable thirst for revenge.

* * *

Late at night, when all the researchers had gone to bed

The magitech components, reacting to the girl’s magic, merged into one on her hand. These were the parts she had secretly gathered over time.

“Chilchil, once we start this… there’s no turning back.”

“…I know. If we fail, there won’t be a second chance. But, Yukyuk.”

The girl clenched the magitech key.

“Could it get any worse than it is now?”

“That is…”

“For SamSam’s sake. I’m going to risk my life and go out.”

“We have no choice. Alright, let’s do it.”

While Muria-17-06 carried Muria-25-03, the girl activated the magitech key.

Whirrr

A light flickered, and the hateful door that had imprisoned them so far opened so easily.

The girls stepped cautiously.

The outside space they had never set foot in, except when dragged by the researchers.

It was filled with an alien atmosphere and the pungent smell of chemicals.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

The girls ran quickly through the dark corridor, with all the lights off except for the emergency lights.

A large barrier wall separating Sector 1 from the other sectors.

An obstacle that an ordinary human girl’s frail body could never move, but,

Woo-woong

The objects powered by magitech couldn’t stop them.

“This way.”

“Got it.”

They broke through about five sectors.

They had come to a place they hadn’t seen themselves, but there was no problem.

Everything was exactly as they had anticipated through the knowledge in their heads and the analysis of the scans.

Woo-woong

“Great! This is the last one!”

The final sector where the exit for escape was located.

Only one gate remained before they could escape this tedious and disgusting laboratory.

It was when the girl placed her hand on the control panel managing that gate.

Tak

Tatadadak

All the lights in the sector that had been off turned on.

“…That can’t be.”

It was a time when the lights couldn’t be on because the researchers were supposed to be asleep.

The girl, realizing something had gone wrong, hurriedly manipulated the control panel.

There was no time.

– Access denied. All personnel access is temporarily restricted by highest authority.

However, the control panel stopped working.

The girl could no longer manipulate the control panel.

Whirr

“Finally.”

Tap, tap

“The time has come.”

From behind, the elevator door opened, and a masked man walked out.

“…Director.”

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The girl knew who he was.

The detestable head of Sector 1 and the chief administrator of the entire research facility.

The one who started the Muria Project and turned the girl into her current state.

“First of all, I want to express my gratitude to you.”

The director approached slowly with his hands behind his back.

A group of five or six researchers followed him.

“If you hadn’t attempted to escape, we would have had to start the project all over again.”

He laughed, his shoulders shaking as if he couldn’t contain his joy at the current situation.

“The vast knowledge accumulated by humanity so far. The exceptional intelligence to utilize such knowledge.”

The director tapped his forehead with his index finger.

“And the ability to execute this knowledge and intelligence at the right place and time. Everything is in place.”

…Was it all a trap?

The girl quickly scanned her surroundings, gritting her teeth.

Then she stood in front of Muria-17-06, who was carrying Muria-25-03, as if to block the way.

“The pinnacle of human civilization! The time has come to create an artificial god, a constellation of knowledge!”

The head researcher spread his arms wide with joy.

Boom, boom, boom, boom

The laboratory shook.

“…An earthquake?”

“No. It’s not something as trivial as that.”

Vroom

A gigantic magic circle, intricately inscribed with characters, emerged.

The magic circle was so large that it filled and overflowed the sector.

The girl, possessing vast magical knowledge, could read the malicious and arrogant human desires inscribed in the magic circle.

Activating such a magic circle without any preparation! Impossible! …No way!

The girl, who was astonished by the unfolding of the marvelous magic circle, thought of one possibility.

“The underground facility! They used it as a preliminary site and source of magical power for the activation?”

“Yes. It’s an extreme magic prepared solely for this moment! None of the researchers noticed, but you figured it out immediately! As expected, my greatest masterpiece and the ultimate form of my research!”

“Director? What on earth is that…!”

“Is this magic yours, Director?”

Unlike the composed head researcher, the researchers were flustered and at a loss.

“Ah. You are no longer needed. Worthless vermin with not a shred of talent.”

Bang!

As the head of the research lab clenched his fist, the heads of all the researchers around him exploded.

“This is the final stage.”

He activated the magic he had secretly prepared and killed the other researchers.

Whatever the reason, it meant that there was no longer any need to maintain his position as the head of the research lab.

The girl gritted her teeth and stretched out her hands.

With such a minuscule amount of magic, she couldn’t possibly stand against the head of the research lab, a grand mage.

But with this power…

Rumble

The power stemming from the girl’s mind shook the research lab.

The power of intelligence originating from the brain, telekinesis.

“You had it all along! But you hid it as if you didn’t have it throughout all the experiments!”

The head of the research lab laughed maniacally, delighted that the girl possessed supernatural powers.

“Such talent unbefitting your lowly status! If I had more time, I might have made you my companion.”

Thud!

“But.”

As the head of the research lab raised one hand, the shaking subsided.

“I don’t have time now.”

And he stretched out his other hand.

“After all, I only need one thing. There’s no need to keep a troublesome one alive.”

Without giving the girl a chance to react, a ferocious magic was shot from the hand of the laboratory director.

A magic of annihilation, fired to obliterate the girl.

The girl, who was concentrating on deploying her telekinesis to attack the laboratory director, could not avoid the attack.

‘…dying…’

All she could do was blankly watch the attack.

Her short life flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.

Dying without even seeing the outside world.

She wanted to avenge her friends and Sam Sam.

She wanted to visit Liberhild.

…She wanted to become one with the prince.

At that moment,

Crash!

Someone blocked the attack from the laboratory director, standing in front of her.

“…No… No, Six Six!”

“Sorry… Seven Seven…”

Thud.

It became the worst memory that would make the girl live in pain for an eternity.