I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 66



Event Story

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Something so bizarre that it was hard to believe it existed in this world.

She thought it was a centipede the size of a house, but it also took the shape of a giant lizard with short arms, and she could see a human with bulging eyes.

Crash!

That unidentified something was wildly tearing up the area where she had been just moments ago.

If the person holding her now hadn’t pulled her away, she would have been crushed.

The chilling possibility made her hair stand on end.

How much time had passed?

The monster disappeared.

It didn’t move somewhere else; it vanished without a trace right there.

Flash

And then the light illuminating the [Archive] came back in.

“Are you okay?”

Regatia finally sighed in relief and could fully see the face of the one who helped her.

Dark, yet spotless and clean skin.

A sharp, high-bridged nose.

A dark elf boy with such a beautiful face that one might mistake him for a girl at first glance stood there.

“Hey?”

Her mind, which had been momentarily distracted, returned to the repeated call.

“Are you okay?”

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“Ah, yes, yes…”

Even though it was a game, the situation just now felt so real.

It wasn’t easy to come back to her senses.

“Thank you for helping me.”

“You must have been very surprised. When I first came here, I was scared out of my wits and ran away because of that guy too.”

One thing was certain: if this dark elf in front of her hadn’t helped, something bad would have happened.

“My name is Regatia.”

That’s why she was curious.

What exactly was the identity of this dark elf in front of her, and what was going on in this [Akashic Archive]?

What was his identity that he could show such a skilled survival expert’s side?

“May I know the name of the person who helped me?”

“Me? My name is… huh?”

But the answer he returned was unexpected.

“I am… what?”

“…?”

He suddenly grabbed his head, as if he was feeling a headache.

“I don’t know… Who am I? I can’t remember anything before coming here.”

Can’t remember…?

The [Archive] that had gone strange and the monster that suddenly appeared.

And on top of that, the survival expert Dark Elf who had lost his memory.

The horror game was starting to take a unique turn.

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“So, your oldest memory is being chased by that monster?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The boy reassured her that the monster wouldn’t return for a while and built a hill out of books between the bookshelves.

Legatia sat on the hill with him and they talked.

“So, you have no memory of anything before coming here?”

“That’s right.”

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– Lega, no!

– Women who go to the Dark Elf never return!

The chat window scrolled rapidly, but Legatia had long forgotten the existence of the broadcast.

The boy said that when he came to his senses, he found himself in this archive, among the bookshelves.

He couldn’t remember his name, let alone how he had lived.

So, has he been living here for so long that he doesn’t even know how much time has passed?

“How did you manage to eat or drink?”

“I took it out from the books.”

He picked up a book that was lying around, opened it, and put his hand inside.

He rummaged deep inside the book and pulled out a loaf of bread.

“You can take food out of books like this. Want some?”

“……”

Legatia took the bread from him and stared blankly.

Food coming out of a book.

“Other books have tasty food too, but the bread from this book is the best.”

Come to think of it, this [Akashic Archive] is a storage warehouse that contains stories from all over the world.

Wouldn’t it be strange to take food out of those stories?

It seems like she has learned a secret about this space, including the curator.

Taking a bite of the bread, she asked the boy.

“What was that monster earlier?”

“Monster? ……Oh, that guy?”

The boy scratched his head.

“I don’t really know either. I’ve just been hiding from that thing to survive.”

The 21st sector of the [Archive] is a bizarre space that repeats infinitely.

They say that sometimes the fifth bookshelf in the 21st sector splits infinitely.

When that happens, the monster appears and stirs up the surroundings.

“But there’s no need to be scared. The thing never shows up more than twice a day, and as long as you stay quiet and hide behind the bookshelves, you won’t get caught.”

So, since it appeared once earlier, we won’t see it again today.

…But how do you even know what a day is here?

“Well…”

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At that moment, the lights in the Archive went out again.

Just like when I first met him.

Just like when the monster appeared.

“This… can’t be happening, right?”

“…It shouldn’t be.”

I couldn’t see anything in the darkness, but I could hear the boy’s voice, clearly filled with panic.

“Something’s wrong…!”

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There it is again.

The strange sound of the monster we heard earlier.

The monster was coming this way.

!!!

The boy hurriedly covered his and Legatia’s mouths and leaned against the back of the bookshelf.

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Crash! Crash!

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Then, the monster that covered the hill of books where they were.

It was a close call.

But they couldn’t relax yet.

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Crash!

The monster began to rummage around.

The monster, glowing just a few steps away from where she was.

It wouldn’t be strange if they were discovered at any moment.

Then

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‘Have we been discovered…!!’

With a sound that was hard to distinguish between a cry of pain or a laugh of joy, the monster charged towards Legatia and the boy.

“Damn it!”

The boy hurriedly grabbed the book from which he had taken the bread earlier.

“Get in!”

Then he grabbed Legatia and pushed her into the book.

Thud!

“Ouch!”

She fell from a slightly elevated place and landed on her bottom.

“Are you okay?”

The dark elf boy followed her in.

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A roar echoed from above, as if the monster was furious at losing them.

“Sorry. This was the only way to escape from it.”

“It’s okay. I understand.”

Legatia rubbed her sore bottom, took the boy’s hand, and stood up.

“Where are we?”

“We’re inside the book where we were eating bread earlier.”

Have we entered the story?

When the curator did it, it was through some magical means, but can we enter physically like this?

“How do we get out?”

“I don’t know. It’s my first time coming in too. Actually, I’m not sure if we can get out.”

The two elves looked around to understand where they were.

“Bring the enemy commander!”

[Ha, don’t do it!]

[Raise your head, enemy commander Gaizerus!]

In the distance, elf children could be seen playing.

“It seems like we’ve entered the playroom of young elves.”

The architecture and furniture of the building looked luxurious at a glance, and the children were dressed in fine clothing.

The status of the elf children playing did not seem ordinary.

Just as she was thinking about hiding to avoid any misunderstandings,

“I said don’t do it!”

A dark elf child, fleeing from the elf girls, passed through her body.

‘…A spirit?’

It seemed she had entered the story in the form of a spirit, just like in the previous tale of Perlerina.

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“So, we’re currently staying in this story in the form of spirits?”

“It seems that way.”

“Hmm……”

The boy quietly watched the child, who was being bullied by girls of the same age, burst into tears.

“If we’re in the form of spirits, can’t we just fly out of here?”

“I tried, but it didn’t work. It’s as if the walls around us are blocked by a barrier, and we can’t escape. It seems we can only leave through that one door.”

Legatia pointed to a small door located at the back of the playroom.

“Shall we try to go out?”

“In order to find a way out, we have no choice. Let’s go.”

Legatia crossed the playroom door with the boy.

[Screech!]

[Sa, Saphira!]

Then the same background unfolded again.

Only slightly different, with children being kidnapped by other adult elves.

“Repetition…?”

“No.”

Even though they had crossed the door, the playroom reappeared.

However, the events happening there had changed.

“It seems this world wants us to see the story.”

Perhaps if they crossed that door again, the story would continue.

After confirming the scene where two elf children were being kidnapped by strangers, she crossed the door again with the boy.

This time, they were greeted not by the playroom, but by a small, dark, damp room in an underground city.

A dark elf child undergoing harsh training for the girl who came with the leader of the dark elf kidnappers.

As the training progressed, the child grew little by little.

And the child’s appearance gradually changed into someone she knew.

‘…Was that it!’

Only then could she understand.

Who the owner of this story was.

Why this world wants her and him to see this story.

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Somewhere in the heavens

Bubble bubble

A tank filled with water brimming with divinity.

Inside, a dark elf god floated.

“Confirming cohesive perception.”

The goddess of wisdom checked the measuring device made by the magitech engineer and organized the figures.

“Exceeding target value.”

She smiled as if satisfied with the observed figures.

The initial crack of sin born from the shock she felt while playing the game.

Into it, the perceptions of many began to gather.

Through the revival of past connections, blackened and forgotten by the foggy nightmare of hundreds of years, the crack widened.