The location was the temple of the saint. After returning to the kingdom, the bishops locked Erselica in a prison.

She was notified of two things: the first was that her father had passed away, as the fleet he was in sighted the Kingsfort ridge and, they were destroyed to prevent that information from leaking out so they could prepare properly.

The latter they did not know, it was just Klein's thoughts on seeing a small fleet that could ruin the feast they would soon be bringing to them.

The second was that for lying to them and provoking almost all the high commands of the Temple; among them the confirmation of the death of the high pontiff. She would be executed in public.

The Temple did not know which face to put on after what happened.

An emergency meeting was held, which was interrupted by a message from the King.

Hearing that the war was coming, everyone without exception fled.

Several adepts and maidens were dismayed to see their leaders fleeing like rats.

Even the holy knights; men and women chosen to protect the land that founded their religion.

They were fleeing faster than an Olympic athlete, taking valuables with them.

Erselica from her cell could hear everything, but she didn't care about anything anymore.

She lost her father and they were not even going to tell her, they only told her to torment her.

She would be executed, but the war of the game, the one that was supposed to be at the end of the 3rd year. It was happening right now, plus seeing Klein attack them.

That was something impossible for her to believe, that was something that was not supposed to happen, but reality showed her that a game and real life are different things.

As her tears fell with her little cry. Footsteps approached her cell and opened it.

She thought her end had come until....

"Here it is!"

"Quick, we must go while they rob the whole place!"

A group of knights that had the crest of the royal family came for her.

They all had their weapons ready to fight, but not against her, but against the temple guards.

"They saw us, run straight for the exit!"

"The prime minister demanded that she arrive safely, don't you dare let them touch her!"

A small confrontation was occurring between the palace knights and the guards.

Some knights were carrying her as they ran straight to the exit, while Erselica.

"...I don't care about anything anymore."

She had lost her will to live.

◇◇◇

The girls finally arrived at the palace, Lecia, was the one who greeted them as she wanted to make sure Alisa was okay.

She told them in a private room about what happened in the capital, about the coming war and about Erselica's situation, which for some reason Rudel requested her presence.

Meanwhile, Erselica recently arrived at the palace and was escorted to a room that was guarded with guards.

The reason was that she, being an impostor, left both the temple and Marquis Balzac in a very bad position.

For that reason, it was not unusual to think that someone would come to silence her.

The only people allowed to enter were the prime minister and the queen.

And, the person who requested it came for some reason from the kitchen.

She had something around her waist.

After reaching the door, he told the guards to leave, that he would take over.

When he entered. He found a very unexpected group.

Erselica-san, cheer up!"

"You're right the prince, I'm sure it must be a mistake."

"Blame it on those guys at the temple anywhere!"

When Rudel entered, he found Chlust, Frey and Liam trying to cheer up a dejected Erselica, who was sitting against a wall with her legs and arms crossed.

At the other end were Allen and Cana also trying to cheer her up. They were in the house prepared for the Saint.

The followers and servants also fled with the exception of the two of them.

Liam, was still trying to cheer her up.

"Erselica-san, I'm sure it must be a mistake about Klein and his family, I'll help you so don't be afraid!"

A small voice sounded in that room.

"...Shut up."

"Huh?"

At that moment, Liam knew a harsh shock of reality.

"I told you to shut up! What do you mean I don't have anything to be afraid of! Do you think you'll be able to do anything! You didn't even see those bastards firing mercilessly, do you really think you can do anything? A useless man like you just! You're really stupid to even think they're innocent at this point. Oh, that's right, I remember you told me that a butler sent you a letter writing what was going to happen on the cruise, the name of the traitor minister, a payment ID and you destroyed it thinking it was a lie. I was stupid too, but for believing you. How stupid you really are to destroy incriminating evidence!

"...Erselica-san."

Erselica, finally showed her true identity to everyone.

"Get out of my sight all of you, disappear!"

"I... I curse this filthy world I've come to!"

"I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate you all!"

Erselica broke down psychologically.

Seeing her screaming in pain. Cana went to her mistress to reassure her.

"Erselica-sama, please don't say that, we want her to get her usual smile back."

Hearing that, she raised her head and her cruel words also attacked those who stayed with her out of loyalty.

"Hah, what the hell are you still doing here, go back to your island, I only helped you since you gave me pity nothing else, disappear!!!!"

Cana's legs couldn't handle what she heard and she collapsed to cry.

Erselica's gaze then, turned to Allen.

He was startled to see his mistress's withering gaze.

"You little brat. Always talking smugly to me. If I hadn't forgiven you every single one of your brattishness, you'd be back with that bastard Klein right now or worse, you should be thanking me for saving your little ass from that time forever!"

Allen, averted his gaze to the floor.

And, now her gaze shifted to the trio of main characters she loved, but now hated them.

"You, green bastard, your narcissism disgusts me! Are you a girl to talk about a lot of hair care or are your homo maybe? You the red ape posing as a human being, you disgust me too, I don't even know what you're thinking, I can't believe there's anyone more stupid than you! And what the hell is this about protecting me? You think the brute strength of your disgusting muscles can repel bullets? Who the hell do you think you are; that you can speak human language is a miracle in itself! And lastly, you, yes, you are the most troublesome of all, the stupid crown prince!"

"...Erselica-san?"

Liam, got a shock of which he never experienced in life nor in the game.

"The prince, oh, the big prince who's good for nothing but using his title. Seriously, you're such a jerk. You think a woman will be happy if you annoy her with your stalkerish insistences, your childish way of thinking... and, most of all, your denial of reality? Seriously, what an asshole you are. klein, he tried to kill me. both he and his family want to kill us all and you, only you could have prevented it and warned me not to defend him!!!!"

"You are the prince of stupidity!!!"

"Treat me with dedication, dammit! I wanted to help you, but you're all selfish or stupid or traitors! All you had to do is listen to what I was telling you and that's it! That's why I hate all of you, the ones who make fun of me, the ones who belittle me, I hate you... I hate you aaaall!"

Rudel had been watching everything for a while, he didn't say anything, he just yawned due to the fact that he found the drama he was watching boring.

Erselica raised her head again and saw him. Her expression was disgusted and her words worse.

"What the hell do you want, disappear! All this is because of you, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have to return everything back to normal! Give it back to me, give it back to me! Give me back my happiness and my peaceful life!"

Erselica began to cry again, and at that moment, Alisa and Airi entered the room.

"Rudel! Are you okay! ...W-what's wrong? What's going on here?"

"Rudel-san, I'm glad you're okay! ...Why is Erselica-san crying?"

The girls upon entering and seeing Rudel alive were happy, but now they didn't understand the bizarre image of Erselica crying and everyone but Rudel melancholy.

At that precise moment...

"... Enough. I've had enough of this stupidity."

Rudel pulled his katana from his back, as the blade could be kept, there would be no problem hiding it.

He walked over to where Erselica was standing and roughly grabbed her hair.

"Noo, what are you doing, let go of me!"

Erselica was trying to pull Rudel's hand away as she was dragged kicking everything.

Her screams made everyone react.

"Rudel what are you doing!" shouted Alisa as she saw him heading for a continuous room.

He stopped for a brief moment and told them as he turned his head to them.

"Nothing. Just get a garbage bag and cleaners."

They all reacted to those cold, dark words.

They ran to stop him, but....

"What is this?"

Both the girls and the others were hit by a wall of force created by Ixion.

This one said to them as his master opened the door with the hand holding his katana.

"This will be over soon, so being patient."

Rudel entered the room as Erselica; kicked, cried and screamed for help.

"Bradford, leave her alone!"

"Rudel, leave her alone, please!"

"Rudel-san, what are you planning to do to her!"

The screams of the others could be heard even outside the room and, the door that would mark the end of Erselica closed.

♡♡♡

I heard a noise down the stairs.

I had the game box in my hand.

I thought it was the cat coming in to steal food, so I left the box on the bed and went downstairs to chase it away.

I didn't even say anything to him as I wanted to grab him and say a few words to him.

When I went downstairs; I went to where I heard the noise, it wasn't the dining room or the kitchen, it was in the living room.

I walked slowly and when I jumped up to catch him.

"Huh?"

I encountered a scene that shouldn't happen.

"...Dad. What are you doing with that knife?"

My father was in the living room, the lights were off, but I could clearly see in his hand he was holding a shiny, sharp object with something glowing.

He saw me, his face was pale and, I think he was sweating a lot.

He spoke to me, but his tone scared me a lot.

"...You, you knew it didn't you?"

"Huh?"

"You saw your mother, you knew that slut had a lover and that she would elope with him today!"

At that moment, I turned on the light as I was standing near the wall where the button was.

As I turned it on, I observed an unknown man lying on the floor and, next to him was my mother. Both had holes in their bodies and red liquid was pouring out of them.

I was terrified, "what is this?" I thought as I saw my father with a knife, both he and what he had in his hand, were covered in red liquid.

Slowly backing away in panic, he noticed and spoke to me as he stood up; from the couch where he was sitting.

"...You too? Are you also going to abandon your father like what this slut wanted to do?"

"Answer me!!!"

He ran straight to me, I was heading towards the stairs to go up to my room and hide.

But...

"Ahh!"

Something sharp and cold was going into my back.

It hurt, it hurt so much, it hurt like I've never felt pain like this in my life.

I fell to the floor and my father spoke to me the bending down.

"You'll leave me too won't you! Always locking yourself in your room, you don't want to go out at all! It's not my fault, it's yours!"

Dad... it hurts... stop it.

"I'm always working hard for you! You damn ingrates!"

He pulled something out of my back and then I felt him bury it again and again.

"If only that good-for-nothing was still here, your mother would make him his breakfast since she spoiled him like a son! But what do you think, that good-for-nothing brother of yours died! He committed suicide since he was a flaw in society like you!"

The sharp object left it buried in my back.

It doesn't hurt anymore, it burns so much.

I can't breathe either.

I was trying with all my might to climb the ladder to reach my smartphone and call an ambulance.

Each step made me spit out red liquid by the bucketload.

My vision was blurring. But, that didn't hurt, his words did.

My brother died weeks ago, I was at home when my parents came to inform me that he had committed suicide.

I couldn't believe it. I refuse to accept it. That idiot would never do something as cowardly as hurting himself.

He is such a coward that he dislikes hurting others.

I managed to finish climbing the stairs and was approaching my room, which, luckily, was close to the stairs.

I heard my father again.

"That damn company I curse them too! Firing people just because the machines protect the workers! They're bullshit! Those bastards don't see people as humans but as parts! I curse them! The-"

Suddenly, my father's voice cut out and a sound of something falling I heard.

I walked into my room and reached my wobbly arm to the bed to grab my Smartphone, but....

"...Idiot."

...I grabbed the game box instead of my mobile device.

I'm an idiot, my life is in danger and I grabbed a game.

I pulled it towards my chest and hugged the game.

I hate this cruel world, why can't it be a much more fun and happy place like games?

The people of the world would be happier if life was like a video game.

My vision was darkening little by little.

Yes... If I had a second chance at life. I wish I could be in the same place as my brother.

"I really... wished... it."

After saying that, my consciousness shut down and, for some reason. I woke up in a world that was exactly the same as that certain game.

I am happy, my wish came true. But, my brother was not here.

What's the point of having a second life if the most important person in my previous life wasn't here?

To make matters worse, a bastard of the game by the name of Rudel, altered the line of the game as he pleased. Everything went wrong, to the point that Klein betrayed the country, the prince is a stupid idiot, my parents of my new life are dead and, my life will now end.

Why is life so unfair to me?

Help me, brother.

◇

"...Brother."

After entering the room, this girl fainted.

I roughly laid her down on an armchair as I didn't want to look at her almost to the floor because of her tiny size.

My katana was ready to cut her neck after waking up and asking her questions.

But out of nowhere she started screaming that she was in pain and now she's calling for a brother.

Ixion stared at her until her eyes slowly began to open.

Slowly, she stood up and sat down, her look seemed downcast, but I didn't really care.

I called out to her "hey, we need to talk". But she wouldn't listen to me.

I called again louder and she looked at me with dead eyes in life.

I showed her my katana so she would understand the situation.

"We need to talk about something very important to me. Then, you can rest forever."

"...No."

She mumbled something and I told her to speak louder, and then....

"I won't tell you anything until my brother comes!"

"Get my brother now!"

What is wrong with this girl? I researched her family and I don't understand why she talks about a brother, when she doesn't have one?

As I was getting fed up I yelled at her.

"I don't know who that blissful brother is, but if he's related to you, he must be a loser hahaha."

"Don't you dare talk about him like that!"

She grabbed a glass ornament from the table and threw it at me.

I used Ixion as a shield to protect myself.

He yelled at me that he was the worst, I kept using him as a shield while this little pest yelled things at me about her brother and threw things at me.

"Just so you know, my big brother was superrrrrrr kind, gentle with me, gave me things willingly and always helped me!"

Because he was talking trash, I decided to brag to him about my cousin whom I loved like a sister.

"Hah? Is that what you call loving you? My cousin from my previous life was a nice girl who always smiled at me, bought her things out of satisfaction when I got good grades, and we went for walks whenever my salary was high!"

"Hah? What kind of pervert you are! No normal girl would enjoy that and more from a guy like you!"

"Shut up! She's better than a trash like you!"

"I don't care if you talk bad about me, but I won't tolerate you talking bad about my big brother!"

"Like I care!"

After yelling for some mysterious reason. I felt déjà vu, I once argued with my cousin over something stupid.

It felt very similar, to the way this little pest talked about perverted men and shameless women.

It must be my head.

I grabbed my katana and nailed it to the table.

"Let's cut the crap and tell me what you know!"

"...What are you talking about? She said, but I said again.

"There's something you know about this world, and I want to know what it is!"

"Depending on what you say, I can eliminate you or not."

It's time to know, who she is and what she knows about me and this ridiculous fantasy world.

No matter what I say, I will accept it.

◇

"Lies!"

"That's impossible!"

Who was saying that was Ixion who was annoyingly crashing into the walls.

This girl, Erselica, told me the truth that I didn't know.

Ixion, heard things that his calm and serious personality was destroyed in a matter of seconds.

While I...

"It can't be... it's a lie... tell me it's a lie..."

I was in a corner in a fetal position, after hearing many things I never thought possible.

"...I can't believe it. It must be a lie, yes. A vile and absurd lie."

My sweat was cold as I could not believe what I heard.

This world is not just a generic fantasy world, it is also the world of an RPG game.

I expected it to be a futuristic world and that she is a time traveler and that's why she knows me. I expected it to be that and not, a ridiculous, cliché depiction of popular anime where a guy is reincarnated into his favorite game and the viewers self-insert themselves as that guy, to satisfy their miserable, empty lives.

That wasn't what left me like that, but the next thing he said.

Liam, he is the protagonist of this world and Airi? would become his wife!

Alisa, that Alisa who always scolded me for misbehaving or hit me in the rib for looking at her breasts. She was a promiscuous girl and Airi's enemy!

Klein, she wasn't a dirty rat and me....

I'm a pathetic, miserable turncoat villain!

Don't fuck with me seriously! Don't fuck with me!

There's no way Airi wants to be together with Liam, she said herself that she hated him.

As for Alisa, there's no way those two generating a weird pink aura around her are enemies! And more so, her doing obscene things! I would kill to be able to see her in a bathing suit, but this is another level!

The Klein thing surprises me to the point that I know it's a lie, I don't know a Fritz so I don't care who he is.

But in my case with Ixion.

"I refuse to accept it! A super technology like mine losing against the new humanity? And for that matter, against that strange human?"

"Impossible! Unacceptable! I won't believe thaaaat!"

It had broken, this floating sphere of an ancient destroyed civilization shattered.

I can't blame it. I too feel like I'll break because of all the crazy things he said.

"...Hey."

Erselica called out to me in a very shy and small voice.

I turned shaking towards her hoping she wouldn't say any more scarier things to me like selling my family.

I would never do it...maybe give Lyle a scare, but that would never happen.

"...What's wrong?" I said still terrified.

She was looking at me with wet eyes for some reason.

"...You, you said you lost your life in a train accident didn't you?"

I told her how I died before she told me everything that happened to her and how she woke up.

I answered her still scared "...yes, why?".

She opened her mouth to want to say something and then closed it repeatedly.

"By... by any chance did you... got a message that day?"

I was still panicking and answering like a frightened child.

"Yes. It was from my cousin."

Her mouth seemed to make a strange grimace.

"...That message, did it happen to say that she wanted you to help her complete a game?"

Eh, how does she know that?

"...Yes."

What am I imagining? It's impossible, the chance of what I'm thinking is possible is between 1 and the big bang explosion.

"...And, you replied that I'd better use her time... off... on something constructive?"

I looked like I was about to cry. My mouth was stammering for the answer that couldn't possibly be true.

"...Yes."

Her snot and tears were falling like waterfalls.

"O..."

O? What does that mean?

"O..."

What's an "or"?

"Onii-chan~~~!!!"

She shouted something really crazy and jumped straight at me, but I....

"Don't come near me!"

...I deny that!

I put my hand on her face for her to stop her from approaching me, her hands were trying to come closer to hug me.

"Onii-chan! Onii-chan! It's really you! I wanted to meet you all this time!"

My eyes were trying to stray from her tearful, snotty face.

"I don't accept it and I refuse to accept that you are actually my cousin from my previous life!"

I asked her things that only my real cousin would know about me and not this imposter.

"If you claim to be her, tell me the age we last saw each other and yours too!"

She was trying to approach me like a dog. For some reason, it was very adorable.

"You were 27 and I was 14!"

Damn, she got it right!

It's a coincidence...just a very exaggerated coincidence.

Another question.

"What were my favorite dishes?"

"Anything you could add tomato sauce to and accompanied by a nice cold beer!"

She was smiling more and more and my arm was losing strength. She could now touch my face.

(Okay, the question that definitely only I know and no one else.)

"What was the password to my laptop!"

"Easy. Big boobs are life! All together and capitalized."

"How the hell do you know that!"

He stopped and sat up to give me a smile that totally tore me apart.

"Because, you're a nasty closet pervert and no woman would date a guy who'd rather see their breasts than their face!"

(Damn! She got it all right! ...She...really...is she...my cousin from my previous life?)

When the strength of my arms fell, she jumped on me and shouted in happiness.

"Onii-chan, I missed you so much! I really missed you! I was so lonely and sad! But now you're here!"

At that moment, Erselica, the girl who wanted to destroy me and turned out to be my cousin from my previous life, stepped back to tell me something very scared.

"Th-that's right! Onii-chan what should I do! Those guys from the temple want to kill me and Klein turned out to be a traitor!"

I told her "it's your problem the first thing and the second thing I'll take care of."

As I went to tell her that, she stepped back and said.

"Y-you're so cruel! You've reunited with your cute little sister and you're planning to leave her to her fate? You're horrible!"

I saw her very upset by what she said.

"What do you mean by cruel!!!? Part of this, if not all of it, is your fault and little sister you are not. I already have a sweet angel waiting for me at home."

"...Master."

Ixion seems to have calmed down already.

"Let's leave your interesting life of the past behind. I never imagined your bullshit was true. Without a doubt, you are something out of calculations."

Wait, you didn't believe me before?

"You have to solve the traitor problem if you want that 'plan' to work."

I replied, "You're right." And I stood up.

I looked at Erselica and asked.

"You said there was a special object hidden at the bottom of the castle, didn't you?"

She, crying a little with tears still on her face answered me.

"...Yes. You need the main character and the Saint to make it work."

"Good. You'll help me, you don't expect me to save your ass just out of kindness, do you?"

She cried again and said.

"How cruel you are, Onii-chan, I hate you! If it were those two, you'd help them with a smile."

"Don't compare them to you, they are my irreplaceable friends!"

This is definitely the kind of fights I had with my cousin.

It's very annoying that just the girl I wanted to kill, was my cousin from my previous life whom I loved like a sister.

◇◇◇

Everyone had been chased out of the room by Ixion, the door opened and a strange scene appeared.

Erselica, was crying as she grabbed from behind the shirt of an irritated Rudel.

As they came out, everyone wanted to ask them what happened.

"Remember what I told you. You will help, whether you want to or not."

"You'll really get me involved!"

"Obviously."

She looked annoyed.

"I hate you, you're the worst!"

She took off running in the opposite direction where Rudel had to go.

He scratched his head and Ixion asked him.

"Shouldn't we look for her?"

"...She'll be fine. It'll pass after a while."

Rudel turned around and said.

"I have something to take care of that was more important."

◇◇◇

"I-I'll go get her!" Airi said that and ran off after Erselica. Alisa watched her from behind deep in thought.

◇◇◇

As she ran after Erselica, she thought.

(Why did she get so attached to him?)

(What was it that happened in there?)

After chasing her for a while, he found her that she had reached the very place she was supposed to be in the game, the rooftop.

In that place, Airi confessed to Liam and the same place where she was declared as the Saint.

Only whoever took that position was on her knees and crying. Airi was going to ask him to come back, mostly to know what happened inside the room, instead....

"...I'll give it back to you."

"Huh?"

Erselica turned with tears in her eyes to tell him what she thought.

"I'll give it all back to you, so you give it back to me too!!! Whatever you want, I'll give it all to you, your position as the Saint, to Liam, anything you want!!!!! ...I will give it all back to you, I don't want anything that if I can't be happy with him!

Airi couldn't understand what she was talking about, but Erselica continued.

"I'll give it back to you, so give it back to me!!!!! Give me back my onii-cha-... to Rudel I'll give it all back to you, so you give it back to me too!"

Airi approached Erselica....

"It's a fair deal isn't it? You can be the Saint, have your destined person and I can be happy by Rudel's side."

And she swung her right hand hard on the cheek of the kneeling girl, then came another with her left. Both cheeks red, she didn't understand why he did it.

Erselica touched her cheeks as she smiled faintly.

"It's because of yesterday, isn't it? Don't worry, you can get even all you want. If that's enough for you to hand him over to me, you can hit me all you want."

Airi collapsed on the floor and cried out her feelings while crying.

"...Don't make fun of me!"

As she cried, she emptied her heart's content on a shocked Erselica, who looked at Airi with a face of pain and anger.

"Rudel-san is no object...he's a human being just like any other!!!I don't understand...I don't understand you...I don't understand any of you!!!Why can't you leave him alone!!!He just...wants to live in peace."

Airi's tears and lamentation welled up from her heart because of everything that had happened.

"All this trouble happened because of horrible people like you who just want to use him or throw him away! I know him better than anyone and I know it hurts him to be treated like an object! Even in the capital, I know he's hurting from killing those people! He doesn't know them, but he's not someone who likes to hurt someone else...so why, why do you people enjoy making him miserable! Now he must deal with the trouble those horrible people caused!"

More tears were falling and Airi each time brought her face to the floor.

"...The only thing, the only thing I wanted was to be with him for the entire remaining time of the academy. I didn't want or ask for anything more than that."

A noble and a commoner, the main heroine and a villain; between them there was a big wall called social class difference, but Airi, she couldn't cross it to get to where her friends were....

Airi thought, being nobles they both looked good for each other. She wanted them both to be happy, so she knew she should stay away and stay in the shadows. After all, her true happiness was together with Liam and not with Rudel nor Alisa, the villains, her enemies and most of all, her best friends.

"Don't ask me to give him back to you!!!!! Rudel-san doesn't belong it to anyone but himself, it doesn't belong to Alisa or me! I'd like to always be by his side, but that would hurt Alisa!"

Erselica ducked her head and laughed. "In that case, what will happen to me? In the end, I'll lose him again, no longer have a family, and only he would be left to me. What a misfortune of mine. Even in my second life I keep losing everything I love."

Just then...

"Master!"

"Erselica-sama!"

Allen and Cana arrived. Erselica raised her face to look at them.

She averted her gaze to avoid contact. But both servants ran to grab her hands.

Still with her face down, they spoke to her, first was Cana.

"Erselica-sama, please come back inside! We'll figure out together a way to keep her from being executed, shall we?"

Then came Allen.

"Cana is right, for sure the prince will do something... besides, that viscount said he was going to help her so it's sure to turn out well."

Erselica in a low voice spoke to them.

"...What are you two doing here? I yelled horrible things at both of you, I don't see any point in you coming?"

Cana, put her hands on her teacher's face and lifting her head, Erselica looked into her eyes red in tears.

"I... Despite everything, I consider Erselica-sama as my first friend and my mistress! I could never hate her after taking me out of that horrible place where everyone treated me badly and blamed me for everything!"

The tears were falling harder and her expression looked like that of a child.

"Even if you don't want to, I want to be by your side! Please come with us!"

Allen also backed Cana, his face was red and very embarrassed as he said.

"I... I'm really sorry for my behavior, spending a lot with that bastard Klein, his way of talking rubbed off on me. I'm really sorry. And, I want to be by her side too."

Erselica cried at the sight of the two of them and her mouth moved to express what she truly felt.

"You two, I'm truly sorry..."

Her servants- her friends helped her up and while she was still crying, they said goodbye to Airi.

But Airi...

"...A vile liar you are. What do you mean you have nothing? I'm the one who has nothing."

She spoke with a bit of mischievous desire she had never experienced before.

She realized a little too late that her eyes showed her anger, her hands were painfully close to her legs and what she said besides. She immediately covered her mouth because of words like that she would never say.

◇◇◇

"...Airi."

Alisa was at the door that connected to the rooftop, she arrived after Airi shouted.

She heard everything her friend said.

"Airi, you...I'm a fool. It's amazing I didn't notice, I'm so obvious after all, we're always together."

Alisa saw Airi cry and felt a sharp pain in her chest. She knew about her friend's feelings, but the time the three of them spent together was so much fun that she inadvertently tried not to pay attention to it.

"I'm sorry. If only... I hadn't developed... these feelings, I'm sure you wouldn't have to suffer right now. I'm really sorry, Airi."

She also began to cry as she covered her mouth to keep from making noise. Then, she wiped her tears and firmly walked towards Airi.

"...Airi."

She heard someone coming and as she lifted her face, she looked at her trying to hide the tears on her face.

"Alisa? E-Erselica-san came back safe and sound. And-and, well, if possible I don't want you to look at me now. Some things happened and..."

At that moment, Alisa held out her hand to help her up, Airi watched the tears come down as she smiled and, the proud daughter of a duke, the villain who was not to become her friend, expressed her sincere and true feelings.

"I... love Rudel."

Airi closed her mouth. She was greatly surprised as her tears fell to the floor. Alisa was crying, one couldn't say sincere out of happiness or sadness, but her words continued.

"That's why I don't want you to give up."

"Huh?"

Alisa wiped Airi's tears with her fingertips while her tears and smile didn't stop. Then the two stood facing each other and Alisa grabbed both of their hands.

"I don't want you to give up, please don't. I want you to keep smiling next to him and next to me, just be you. Confess your feelings to Rudel."

"I did. I confessed my feelings to him once and then asked him again, but after that. Rudel-san immediately became defensive and since then he evades the question or won't give me an answer. I'm sure it's because he loves you, Alisa."

Alisa was shaking her head from side to side making her small ponytail wag....

"If it were true, he would smile at me like he does at you, I'm sure it's you! He's just a coward sometimes. This time I'll make sure he doesn't run away again and..."

Alisa's cheeks turned red after what she was about to say.

"I plan to tell him my feelings, so you do too. It doesn't matter if I, you or none of them are chosen and there is someone else. I want to make my feelings clear and support whoever he loves."

Tears welled up from both of them, they smiled and gave each other a tight hug.

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"Really?"

"Yes."

After making it clear that they both loved Rudel. They sat on a bench in the garden.

Airi shouted to Alisa "I always wanted to talk about love with someone!" and Alisa replied in the same way "me too, I always wanted to know what it feels like to talk about the person you like. And that we both like Rudel makes it more exciting."

They talked about what they liked and disliked about Rudel.

A lot of truths about him came out.

The sweet way they talked seemed like two innocent little girls. Even if they were things about that person who "is secretly a pervert" or "is so shameless in seeing her breasts while talking to her."

Occasionally they would blush when they would say about how gallant and manly he was when he was serious or when he saved them in the past.

"I can't tell you if it was before or after he rescued me that I started to see him in a very manly way." Alisa was saying as they both held hands and like a couple of little girls, moved their legs up and down in sync.

"I understand you, I'm so ashamed to remember when I confessed to him, but at the same time I'm glad I did. I was really happy to tell him how I felt."

The two conversed happily until....

"What was that!?"

"It came from downstairs!"

A loud rumbling was happening, it was voices raised in an annoyed tone.

The girls thought the same thing "something happened with Rudel!" And they ran off downstairs.

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At the same time, in the treasure vault, two men were talking.

"How did you manage to get to him safely?"

"My group was destined to free it as we were not going to trust the scum of the realm. Many lost their lives as some strange flying things took them all out except me, due to the fact that I understood that they killed everyone who had clothing that identified them as enemies, so I dressed in the armor of a dead kingdom knight. Once we get out, we should go to this coordinate to get to an allied ship."

The man who spoke very confidently was of medium height. While the one at his side was a tall, stocky man in his black armor, it was Bandel.

"Taking out those scumbags of guards was a piece of cake."

"Guhaha, you have my thanks, where is he?"

After freeing him, the two came to the treasure vault. Much of it had been looted by different people, including the guards themselves.

In this place they kept his armored unit and demonic sword.

They made it as a trophy, when they lit the magic lights.

They found him the first instant the light was turned on. The head was destroyed by Rudel, and someone had installed a new one, the model was totally different, the only thing that mattered was that the prana did not leak from the magic circuits.

Bandel picked up his sword that was lying on the floor like a dirty rag.

"What is this?"

As he walked to his armed unit to climb up and escape, he found something that shouldn't be there.

It was Rudel's ring, a golden one with a red crystal.

Bandel grabbed it.

"This thing wasn't here before as it's not easy to forget."

At that moment, a black liquid emerged from the crystal and gradually took hold of Bandel's right arm.

"What the he-!"

The black liquid looked like an octopus that gradually covered her arm and approached her face.

The ally came to help her, but....

"Gahh!"

The right arm moved alone grabbing her head and with great force, it crushed it making in one direction only the blast came out of how tightly it was squeezed.

"Damn!"

The black liquid came up to his face covering only his eyes and ears, he seemed to have red arteries as if he was a living being.

"What is this, get away from me!"

Bandel was struggling hard until....

"...Huh?"

He stopped for some reason.

He stopped battling to get free, instead....

"...You're fucking with me, aren't you?"

He seemed to be "talking" to someone.

Bandel, was shaking his head from side to side as if he was denying something.

"...A video game?"

"...Liam?"

"...Me. A villain and defeated by a brat?"

Somehow or other, Bandel was knowing not only his truth, but the truth of this world.

Who or what was it that knew that?

"..."

Bandel stopped moving and mumbled something.

"...My house was destroyed because of that...the real culprits are the Kingsfort. And me, I was destined to be the bloodthirsty knight since I was a child..."

A normal person upon learning a shocking truth would be traumatized.

"...Guhaha."

But that person not a normal one, it was Bandel who was being talked about.

"Guhahaha!"

He started laughing with his usual wicked laugh.

"It's funny, this shit is hilarious!"

His arms were up in the air.

"So all this time my life was prescribed by someone else!"

"This world...everything I did...and the Bismarck's included are nothing but a lie! Shit, this is definitely the best! My fight against that guy was even preordained, it's so wonderful!"

Bandel laughed harder.

"Hey, by the way, who are you?"

He asked a simple question for a mystery being.

Then.

"...You're kidding right?"

He knew "it´s" identity.

"...That's your identity!!!?"

Bandel started laughing harder again.

"Guhahaha. I can't believe you're that, guhaha! I definitely never expected you to actually be that! It's fucking hilarious and funny!"

His laughter stopped.

"...I understand. You want my help in killing Rudel to bring this world back to its original form, sounds good to me, count me in! I'll kill Rudel for you and then, just like the ouroboros, I'll have fun repeating this lifestyle!"

Bandel laughed loudly and even while having his eyes and ears covered by the black liquid. He made his way to his armored unit, climbed up and then destroyed the wall to fly away.

"Rudel. soon you and I will have our final debut!"

The final boss, had escaped to destroy the villain and the kingdom once and for all.