Chapter 9.2 (2/2)
Chaos slowly swung his staff and broke the orb.
He did not feel any change within him, but Elizabeth felt that burden which had been suppressing her for many years disappear.
It was as if the chains around her had been released.
[….. Finally with this….. Thank you very much, Chaos-san.]
(Hah—- I’m finally free.)
Her dream had finally came true, and she trembled with joy.
Elizabeth hummed naturally at the entrance of the mansion.
The place that had always looked like a prison to her, was now just a door.
She resolved herself and opened it.
The doors that opened made the radiant sunlight pour through it.
She closed her eyes and advanced forward step by step.
— She was finally out of the mansion.
[Thank you very much, Chaos-san. I have no more regrets—]
Elizabeth said with a beaming smile.
[I have something in the house as a gift—]
Although she did not know if it was going to be of use…… She thought with a forced smile.
Chaos’s reaction was slow. She looked up slightly as she was curious.
His expression was —
[You’re really a kind person. I am really glad to have met Chaos-san.]
He was the only one who did not treat her like a monster, other than her father.
How much was her heart saved by that alone?
[Please don’t have an expression like that. Thanks to Chaos-san, I can finally move on. This is my wish, so please send me off with a smile —]
The girl brushed back her hair and smiled, and Chaos smiled back stiffly.
—- Thank you, Chaos-san—-
============= Chaos POV =============
– Crunch, crunch.
The quest is done.
On my way to the kingdom, I saw a little girl in the house, so I went over to check it out.
When I found Elizabeth with pink hair and a translucent body, I thought it might be a monster, but it was more likely to be a NPC.
Still, I was scared at first and was wary of her.
– Crunch, crunch, crunch.
When I talked to her in the room, I received a new quest.
The quest’s name was [Release the captive soul].
After I investigated the situation, I found out that Elizabeth suffered from an illness and her body was weak, and her father tried many ways to do something about it.
But he was unable to cure her.
In the end, he finally reached the idea of keeping the soul here like the undead.
But that was not all.
Was it because he locked the soul here which became a bad side effect, or did it became a punishment for messing with life—
She bore the punishment of being born and dying of old age in a single day, repeatedly.
When I met her for the first time, she had the appearance of a little girl with short hair and covered with a rag-like dress, but when we parted she had grown into an adult female.
Her father tried various means to save her from this repeating life and death cycle, but could not solve the situation and suffered in distress as he took his final breath.
There was something like a corpse which looked like a mummy on the bed in one of the rooms on the second floor.
— This was the setting.
Destroy the orb that cursed the dead and release the girl.
The reward was a staff that the father used to use.
– Crunch, crunch, crunch
This is the commonly seen downer quest in a game.
In a few hours, I think the quest will reset and she will return to this place, so another player can redeem the quest again.
– Crunch, crunch, crunch
Even so.
– Crunch.
Why am I feeling so wretched inside my heart?
Was I someone who was so sensitive and flooded with emotions?
If an onlooker look at this scene from a display screen from the outside, I think it will just be a somewhat sad event.
Is it because it’s too realistic in the VR world?
That brought so much hurt from just a chance encounter?
– Crunch, crunch.
I thought about it.
Did I have any other way to rescue her?
But the quest can only be completed if the orb is destroyed.
Is her setting and existence not locked by the fact she was in a game?
It was only an event that allowed players to experience it over and over again.
In the end I wonder if she was really rewarded from pa.s.sing in peace.
Crunch — Therefore.
I dug a hole and buried both Elizabeth and her father’s body.
I stab my staff into the ground that I have been using up until now as a gravestone.
I thought I could dig a hole like how the Giant Mole attacked through the ground in the past, but considering how I’m able to do something like this, I think the developing programmer must be a genius.
This action is probably meaningless.
Elizabeth will be back in a few hours.
So this is just to satisfy myself.
Even so, just one person like myself — it’s fine for a player to something absurd like this right?
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