A week passed.
At this point, I finally had to admit it.
‘It’s not a dream.’
As I stood in front of the mirror, a fat man with a cold expression stood there.
Tristan Ruellberta.
A week ago, Villain in the game that had become me.
If he was just an ordinary character, my depressed mood might have been a little better.
According to the original setting, Tristan Ruelberta is the villain of the piece. A scumbag of a scumbag who is greedy and whose own well-being is the most important thing.
But what…. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. Any human being would put their own security first.
But there was another reason why I really disliked him.
Character Profile.
Name: Tristan LuAlberta.
Age: 20,
Occupation: Count Rualberta.
Personality: Tycoon, calculating, arrogant, greedy, jealous, angry.
In the original setting, personalities are like blessings bestowed by the gods on their chosen ones.
In other words, it’s an important metric that reflects a character’s stats and personality.
Blessings are not a fan favorite. Characters with personalities are the ones with the most importance in the original story, while those without personalities are often supporting characters or unimportant extras.
In that sense, Tristan was a character with a lot of weight, with a whopping six personalities.
Certainly, based on his weight alone, he had the most impact on the story.
But it’s his personality that makes him a problem.
Pride, greed, jealousy, anger.
I don’t know if you’ve heard this before, but these four are part of the seven deadly sins. Tristan possesses four of these sinful traits…. In short, he’s a born villain.
The problem is that when I implemented this setting in the game, he unexpectedly stuck to the invaders, the players, and sold the country.
Since the players were involved, it was expected that the story would not flow according to the original storyline, but who knew that he would stand on the side of the players and end the world.
One of the biggest mistakes I made was to make him too villainous.
It makes me angry to think of how many non-humans have died in agony because of him. I will never forgive him.
I can never forgive this guy… but that’s just me, haha.
”Damn….”
I sighed and clutched my face.
How the hell did I end up like this.
A week ago, I was possessed by a character in this game.
By the creator of the game, My sister
For the past week, I’ve been seriously pondering the identity of my sister, the person responsible for this nonsense.
Normally, in fantasy novels, this kind of thing is usually done by a divine being. Only an omnipotent god would possess a person in a game. So if you’re asking me if my sister is a god…. I would say no.
Honestly, if someone like her is a god, it’s a big deal.
If I don’t give it to her, she has zero life force, and she’s been away from home for days, eating ramen for three meals. If she’s a god, the world is over.
But looking at what my sister did to me, she was an infallible, omnipotent god.
Of course, from the perspective of a writer being the creator of a world, she is a god, but…
No. Hey. Why are you doing this to me?
What has this brother done to you?
If you can hear me, please answer the bell, little sister!
Oh, no. God!
I locked myself in my room for a week and screamed, but neither my sister nor God answered.
Eventually, I was forced to accept this situation against my will.
I was trapped in a game.
As Tristan, the villainous Count Pig.
I’m not sure if my sister is a god or not, and I’m not sure if the sister I’ve known all this time is really my sister, or even a human being like me.
But the words of my sister, just before he was possessed, echoed in my head.
-Okay, then show me. The ending you wanted.
He’d said it as a joke.
“In other words, you want me to finish this story my way….”
Maybe that’s the only way to return to reality. After all, I’d become part of the game, and if I didn’t want to be killed by players, I’d have to act out.
The good news is that I still had time.
Over the course of a week, I learned something.
I’m in the game Another World Online.
But there are no players anywhere. The reason was surprisingly simple.
The game hasn’t gone live yet.
In other words, this is the time before players appear in this world.
[358 days to go].
It’s weird to see a notification like this right in front of you and not realize it.
I opened the window.
A chill stepped into the room.
Through my breath, I can see the snowy cityscape.
I recognize the majestic clock tower.
This is an otherworldly city that resembles the beautiful citadels of Europe.
“…Ludlow.”
A city in the northernmost part of the Otherworld, a symbol of the Meikhel Empire’s last stand.
The city, which had been thoroughly destroyed by the players before, was still standing in front of me. “It’s beautiful….”
Regardless of the dire situation, the world I had imagined over and over again in the novel and brought to life in the game was gloriously beautiful. Staring blankly out the window, I muttered to myself.
“Maybe this is…. opportunity.”
The real game hadn’t started yet.
For now, I can keep it.
This beautiful landscape, these unique characters, this world.
As the only reader of the original novel, I can do that, but it won’t be easy.
I know how this game was made through my sister.
When they were adapting the original novel into a game, there was a scenario for simulation play…that allowed players to enjoy different stories depending on their options…which means it was initially intended to be a packaged game, but then the game company decided to make it an online game.
It was very frustrating for my sister, who had created all kinds of possible scenarios depending on the options, but fortunately, I know that the scenarios were wasted and remnants still exist in the online game.
Anyway, out of all the different scenarios, there are about 526 that involve Tristan.
The problem is that those 526 scenarios are all endings where Tristan dies.
Poisoned, beheaded, hanged, beheaded, exploded, you name it. He’s the only one with this many different ways to die.
His outright cursed personality is one thing, but the scenarios he creates can affect this world. …. If you make the wrong move, you could end up like the original ending or any of the 526 scenarios.
It’s a hopeless situation to say the least, but I don’t intend to let it happen.
I know this world well.
From the original setting to the doomed ending of an online game I once played…. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes.
“First, I’m going to change the damn future.”
I had about a year.
A long time if you will, a short time if you will.
I will definitely avoid a miserable ending where no one will pity me.
Furthermore, I will stop the player invasion and protect everyone.
I muttered to myself as I closed the window.
“Hmm. Come on, come on. You bastardized player.”
I may be a villainous Demi:, but I’m way ahead of you now. That was the moment I smiled a smile of Evil.
“U-um, I’m sorry…. My lord. S-someone I know has come to visit, so I thought you should come out….”
An acquaintance? Ah, yes. I know who it is.
He was the only friend Tristan had left.
It’s a pain in the ass, but you gotta deal with it.
I clicked my tongue and pushed myself up.
“You.”
I said, “Is everything okay? Are you hurt?”
“I’m sorry…. for being so stubborn. Please，I’ll go back and….”
”I see. I’ll be right down.”
“Nye?”
As I pushed on the door, I felt some resistance, accompanied by a strange sound of ‘whoos’
” Whoa，，
There was a pair of moist eyes looking up at me from the doorway.
It was an maid who looked like she hadn’t been here long.
I squinted and saw her profile.
A game within a game, after all.
Character profile.
Name：Wendy.
Age: 12.
Occupation: Servant of the Countess of LuAlberta.
Personality：Crybaby, foolish, weak, unhappy
“Wendy….”
“Heh，Heh，I’m sorry, my lord. Please forgive me!”
Wendy falls to the ground and starts begging.
Her reddish-black hair is shaking.
The maid is shaky and full of mistakes.
Wendy is the first character to be killed by Tristan in the original movie. Tristan’s reason for killing her is simple.
He just didn’t like her.
This bad-tempered villain drives a young girl to her death because he doesn’t like her. ‘But that was Tristan’s big mistake….’
Of all the bed endings Tristan gets, there’s only one where he gets killed by Wendy.
-Wendy? Heh, she’s a walking death flag.
I remember my sister, who is also an original writer, saying that in a lot of game scenarios. In short, this guy’s death is a trigger for Tristan’s misfortune.
It’s not something that I can just kill off.
Even if I don’t, this sunfish dies too easily.
It’s all thanks to her personality, a fascinating collaboration of “unhappy” and “sickly”.
Personality: Unhappy.
Rank: Unranked.
Description：You have a higher chance of getting sick than others. Also, once you get sick, you won’t get well easily.
Wendy…. An extra character in a topic with a personality. She’s pretty important considering her role, but she dies early, so she doesn’t have the weight of the original character.
Like I said, she’s just a character created as a trigger to kill Tristan.
“Whoa..”
If I’m going to survive, at least for a year, I’m not going to let this douchebag die and then get behind him…. I can’t help but sigh.
“Are you okay, aren’t you hurt?”
“Just once, please… what?”
Wook….
My stomach churns for some reason.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m speaking out of character, or if I’m being possessed by the character, but these lines are too much for Tristan, who is a human trash.
But apparently I’m not the only one who finds it too much.
Wendy lets out a new scream and runs away.
Her face was blue as if she had seen a ghost.
“Ugh….”
I can’t believe I just said that.
No wonder Tristan was being such an asshole.
I scratched my head.
“It’s a shame when people suddenly become nice….”
Plus, judging by his resistance to the line, I’m guessing he wants me to act like a villain. “Okay.”
Let’s talk and act as much like Tristan as possible.
