I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 69



The Last Repetition

The first explanation of the abnormal phenomenon described in the manual Legatia had picked up.

It is the passage existing in Sector 3-2.

She realized that the sentence pointed to the door back into that world.

The second bookshelf in the third sector on the opposite side.

Legatia found a small door there.

Creak

Beyond the door that opened with a chilling sound was an abyss of darkness that no light could penetrate, but without a moment’s hesitation, she threw herself into it.

A black world without a single ray of light.

She fell for a long time.

Is this the right place?

Could it be that I’ve come to a place where I shouldn’t be?

When I think about it, the manual only mentioned things not to do, but it didn’t say that sentence was related to any other sentence.

As her doubts began to creep up.

Vroom

She found herself standing in front of the archive’s bookshelf.

21-5

The place she tried to escape from, but came back to find again.

“Huh? That’s strange.”

A familiar voice came from behind her.

When she turned around, she saw a dark elf boy staring at her with wide eyes.

‘Gaizerus.’

The one she had sought so desperately to find again.

“There were other people besides me.”

It seemed he didn’t remember their previous encounter at all.

Flash

– – – !

As all the lights in the archive disappeared, the roar of a demon was heard.

“Damn! We need to hide!”

The boy grabbed her wrist and tried to hide behind the bookshelf.

The events of their first meeting were repeating themselves.

He, who had returned to the form of a boy, would be chased by the monster, return to the world of that story, and regain his memories over and over again.

If they stayed still like this, they might be able to spend some intimate time together like before.

‘But.’

Legatia activated the characters she had nurtured all this time.

The abilities of various characters imbued her.

“Hey! What are you doing! It’s dangerous to stay here!”

The boy, who was trying to save her at all costs despite being a stranger.

He tried to drag her away forcefully.

“Please wait here for a moment.”

But the strength of an ordinary boy could not overcome the power of the heroes that had gathered in her.

With a determined expression, Legatia pushed him away.

– – – !!!

The demon lunged at her.

In a brief moment, the demon transformed into numerous monstrous forms, including a centipede, a human, and a lizard.

It seemed as if it was trying to instill fear in her by any means.

“I’m not running away anymore.”

But she was no longer afraid of the presence before her.

She knew its true identity and the harm it could cause.

The boy suffered in this horrifying space for what felt like an eternity.

Thinking about that, this monster was nothing.

“I will save him.”

BOOM!

The demon’s forepaw clashed with her spear.

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The boss battle began simultaneously.

The demon kept changing its form during the battle.

It transformed into a scorpion, striking with its tail,

then became a giant dragon, breathing fire.

It turned into a Balrog, smashing with its fists,

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and then into a crocodile, biting fiercely.

Even she, who had fought numerous weekly boss battles before, found it hard to grasp the pattern of this fight.

Already mocked by viewers for her lack of gaming and combat sense, she struggled to cope.

“I will! Definitely free him!”

Despite that, she gritted her teeth and endured.

If I fall here, he won’t have another chance.

His suffering will repeat again.

Even if her whole body was in tatters, she held on, using recovery items from her bag.

When the floor pattern started, she dodged with wide-open eyes.

If there was even a slight chance for a deal, she would inflict moderate damage and retreat without being greedy.

Legatia twisted her body as much as possible, accumulating damage on the demon.

“Haaa!”

After such a strenuous struggle, the demon’s remaining health bar was reduced to half.

If she could do just as much as she had done so far, she could defeat the demon!

It was when she was filled with hope.

–!_!_!_!_!_!_

The demon’s body began to swell bizarrely and rampage here and there.

‘This is a pattern that hasn’t been seen before!’

Legatia couldn’t respond to the erratic and fast movements.

Boom!

She was struck and sent flying, crashing into a bookshelf located behind her.

Her remaining health bar drastically decreased, and strength left her entire body.

She fell helplessly to the ground.

She thought she would collide with the cold floor.

Grab

Someone caught her from below.

“Did you forget that I told you not to come back?”

“…Gaius?”

The boy who held her in a princess carry looked at her as if he remembered her.

I had lost my memory just a moment ago…?

“Do you remember me?”

“Why did you come back?”

He frowned.

“You just got caught up in this prison. You shouldn’t have come in.”

Legatia could feel the warmth in his cold tone.

“But… but…”

You know what situation you’re in!

How can I leave you here and go!

“…You.”

“Don’t tell me to leave. As long as you’re fighting that monster here, I’ll be with you.”

“…Ha.”

He laughed as if he couldn’t believe her bold declaration.

“How long has it been since we met?”

Well… I don’t hate it.

“Can you catch that thing?”

“I’ll catch it, no matter what. I’ll get rid of it and get you out of here.”

“Then let’s try. Let’s see if we can kill that thing.”

– – — – – !!!

The demon, who had been rampaging, charged at them as if it wouldn’t give them any more time.

Two elves, as if by some unspoken agreement, simultaneously sprang into action.

Boom!

As Legatia’s wide-area lava attack slowed the demon’s speed, the boy soared above.

His attack cleaved the demon’s head.

_!_!_!_!_!

From behind the roaring demon, Legatia emerged and thrust her spear.

The demon, enraged, breathed fire towards where Legatia had been, but the boy had already whisked her away.

‘My body is getting stronger.’

Buffs began to stack on Legatia’s body.

‘That’s it! The power of unity!’

The power the two elves had wielded together when they defeated Axilla in the final moments of the memory replay.

As she fought alongside the boy, those buffs were accumulating.

Before long, they had become fast enough, tough enough, and strong enough to completely toy with the demon.

!___!_-!_!_!

Their attacks severed the tendons in the demon’s legs, bringing it to its knees.

The two elves instinctively knew.

This attack would end the demon.

“Ready?”

“Of course!”

The combined power of the two elves rained down upon the demon.

A blinding white light filled the surroundings.

– – – – – – – !!!!

The demon struggled persistently, but it could not withstand their increasingly powerful attacks and was annihilated.

The world of Sector 21-5, reduced to dust, scattered behind the demon that was erased without a trace.

The prison, which no longer had any reason to exist, began to disappear.

“Is it… over now…?”

Gaizerus watched the collapsing world blankly, with an expression that showed he had no more regrets.

We did it….

Legatia turned to the boy with a bright smile, feeling a sense of accomplishment for finally succeeding.

“Rus, Rus! Your body!”

And then she was horrified.

His body, too, was turning to dust, just like the world that no longer needed to exist.

“Huh? …I see, so I’m going too.”

“No…”

Legatia’s eyes were suddenly filled with tears.

“Why… the demon is dead…!”

“Who knows…”

The boy smiled peacefully.

“Maybe it’s because I’ve lived beyond the time that was allowed to me.”

“But! But Rus, you were just suffering, trapped in that prison!”

The boy placed his hand over Legatia’s head.

“Don’t be too sad. Thanks to you, I’ve found freedom and peace. If it weren’t for you, I would have been trapped here much longer.”

The boy embraced her.

“Thank you so much.”

Affection had already filled the boy’s eyes.

“The time I spent with you was short, but I’ll never forget it.”

“Russ! Hwaaang!”

“It’s time to wake up from this dream, miss.”

As his face disappeared with the last smile he left behind, Legatia was left alone in the collapsing world.

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Soon, as the world completely vanished, her consciousness also faded away.

* * *

“…like that!”

Mumble mumble…

“Wake up!”

“Oh my, you startled me!”

Legatia woke up, startled by the shout echoing in her ears.

“Wake up, how long are you going to sleep?”

“Director?”

Beyond her blurry vision, the director was looking down at her.

“Yes, it’s me. How many times do I have to call you to wake you up?”

“…Huh? Where’s Russ? The demon?”

“…Demon? Russ? Did you have some kind of dream?”

A dream?

No.

It was so vivid.

It couldn’t have been a dream.

I remember every journey we took together.

It couldn’t have been just an illusion.

…Right! The broadcast!

There was a broadcast!

To verify its authenticity, she opened the broadcast screen she had been running.

[The broadcast has ended.]

But what greeted her was the broadcast end screen.

The broadcast window had cut off the moment she entered the dream.

‘…Then what about the chat window I saw when I was with him! Are you saying all of that was an unreal illusion?’

Her mind was in utter confusion.

“…I don’t know what kind of nonsense you’re talking about, but put the book you’re lying on back on the shelf over there. It should go in 22-5.”

…A book?

She realized that she had been resting her head on a book.

‘Sector 22-5…….’

She opened the book, just in case.

A book filled with pictures, without a single word.

But the pictures in the book were familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before.

A boy meeting and saving a girl in a repeating world.

A girl realizing the boy’s truth, leaving, and then returning.

The scene where they defeat the demon together.

It was certain.

This is not a dream.

This story is indeed the story of the world I experienced.

The boy disappearing with the collapse of the world, and the girl weeping.

With trembling hands, Legatia turned the page.

And on the next and final page….

“A note?”

It was a note of rules she had found within the story’s world.

1. If you are patrolling or monitoring the archive and find the bookshelf in Sector 3-2 open, avoid approaching it. The bookshelf in Sector 3-2 has no lock, so it should not be open.

……

8. If a dark elf appears and speaks to you, do not respond and ignore it. If you avoid answering, it will soon leave.

All the rules were the same as when she had seen them before, but one line had been added at the end.

9. Sorry. I wanted to find you in the outside world, but due to the cracks in the world, I can’t go there. Are you safe and sound? The length of the message I can send now cannot exceed a certain limit.

Although it wasn’t written who wrote it and the content seemed unfinished, a smile naturally formed on Legatia’s lips as she carefully embraced the note.

Because that short but long story was not just a mere illusion.