All my life.
I had never cursed my life.
Even though I was born a noble orphan, with nothing in my hands.
I lost my mory in a freak accident and was left alone in the world.
I’ve never let it bother , and I’ve lived with it.
But…
There is good in even the most generous of nations.
[Patient…… Do not be alard, but listen carefully].
[You are on a ti limit].
[…What?]
Very bad timing. In a chance dical examination, I learned that my death was preordained.
…Just like that.
Two years since I was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Just when I thought there were no more surprises.
I was shocked once again.
[Appearance] – Partial synchronization with “Knox Von Reinhafer” has been completed!
[Caution! You will not be able to return to the original world until you complete the ga].
*According to the [Ti Limit] trait, the remaining players have one year to live.
I am now possessed by the ga I was playing.
And it’s ti-limited once again.
Shoot.
*Upset crash landing
[The hell…… why the hell did you make that choice, Knox von Reinhafer. Why did you make a deal with the devil? Why did you betray us?]
The sickly scent of blood and the clash of cold weapons.
On the outskirts of the battlefield, where the only sounds are the groans of dying soldiers, you hear the shaky voice of a girl clutching a sword.
[…Answer , what the hell was that……!]
Shaaaah…….
The sound of the wind whispering in my ears was silent.
The stars that filled the night sky spilled over the girl’s head.
The scene was like a painting.
The girl’s face was obscured by the inky darkness, but the figure of the man opposite her was clearly visible.
He had bleached white hair and lavender eyes.
And a handso man with skin so pale it could have been sauce.
Knox von Reinhafer.
Dressed in black, emblazoned with the family emblem of a black sword, his mysterious eyes the owner of the sword that pierced his own heart. He turns to the girl.
His lips, stained blue, open.
[Betrayal……, yes, betrayal to you].
The man called Knox von Reinhaber mocked, clearly dying.
There was no sadness in his voice, no regret, no wistfulness.
There was none of that.
In fact, given his many misdeeds in the past, his treatnt now was extrely deserved.
He had awakened the demon Baal,
and possessed him within his own body,
and sought to color the world with evil.
It was the worst cri ever committed, one that no one could tolerate.
And yet, even in his dying monts.
Knox was nonchalant. He spoke, as he always did, in a calm voice.
[I did not betray you. It was you… who betrayed ].
[Cut the crap! Say it! Say it! Since when… when did you beco so broken…!]
Nox smiled lightly at the sound of the girl’s exasperated voice.
And so far away.
Recalling so past, he muttered to himself.
[It began… with a crash landing].
And then the final, aningful line.
“After…….”
A short sigh escapes my lips and a cold sweat pours out like rain.
A phrase flashed across the lighted monitor.
[You have cleared part 1 of ‘Inner Lunatic’].
[Total number of clears: 27]
[The end credits then play].
[Thank you for playing our ga].
The voice that accompanied the ssage lifted my spirits.
I humd and muttered.
“Okay. Not bad. I unlocked quite a few hidden achievents this ti. I also got a bunch of items.”
With a smile on my face, I took a mont to review my clearance record.
This ti, it was especially difficult because of all the variables.
“Putting down the rebellion in Eastern Tahalin. To investigating the murder of the Empress in the Outer Castle, to rallying the survivors to kill the worst villain of them all, Knox von Reinhafer… well, you get the idea.”
Despite all my penance, I eventually beat the ga.
As always. This ti, too.
“Actually, even for , this is the first ti I’ve ever beaten a ga so close to perfection.”
The final boss of Part 1, Nox, is the toughest of the tough.
From all sorts of CC moves, to possessing a demon, he unleashes a barrage of terrifying attacks that only minions can use.
To be fair, he’s more of a handso monster…….
The bottom line.
A boss nad villain that is difficult to defeat, even for the oldest.
That’s the identity of Knox von Reinhafer.
I had just succeeded in killing ‘yet another’ such boss.
“I like it.”
I muttered,
I couldn’t help but add a depressing comnt.
“Except for the fact that I’m going to be killed next month…….”
My gaze drifted to the wall where a red X had been scrawled haphazardly.
I turn to the calendar on the wall.
Imdiately, a sense of gloom enveloped my entire body.
No matter how positive I am, it’s not easy to premiere in front of death.
“Kulk!”
I let out a thick cough.
I quickly wiped the bloody phlegm away with my sleeve. Should I throw this away again? It won’t co off well with water… I thought to myself.
Looking at the ashtray, which was piled high with cigarette butts, I couldn’t help but let out a hollow sigh.
I’m really going to die.
Even in this mont. I’m dying dozens of tis faster than everyone else.
Like the end of the last villain in a video ga.
It’s true.
It’s been a long ti since I’ve played this ga.
About two years.
After being given a shocking ti limit by my doctor, I holed myself up in the corner like an invalid and imrsed myself in the ga.
Inner Lunatic.
I’ve already cleared it multiple tis.
I had morized every hidden piece and character lore.
It’s a fantasy open-world genre that was highly anticipated by many, but crashed and burned due to overly high difficulty.
But for , it’s a ga I wouldn’t trade for anything. It was a ray of light for when I was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
I’ve beaten Inner Lunatic a whopping 27 tis.
I was the perfect dead man walking for this ga.
“Huh… I wonder if this is a safe ending…….”
After enjoying the afterglow of the ending.
I grabbed the mouse again and maneuvered the cursor.
As the end credits rolled on the monitor, I saw the screen light up again. The ti had co.
Ti to start a new ga.
Excitedly, I went ahead and started creating my character.
“So, what kind of character should I make this ti…….”
I muttered to myself, lost in thought.
Character creation.
This is my favorite part of playing Inner Lunatic, after all.
[Please enter your player information].
[What is the player’s na?]
“Carl.”
I typed in an appropriate na in the window that popped up, then flipped through the subsequent windows to start customizing in earnest.
One of the biggest differences between Inner Lunatic and other gas is this. It’s the customization.
“I thought, ‘I can make my character ridiculously detailed. The problem is that they take so long to create that this is often a barrier to entry.
After the na, I set the traits next.
This ti I was going to create a character that I could really get into.
This might be the last ga I ever play.
“Let’s see… I gave him both [Mana Sensitivity Genius] and [Sword and Martial Arts Genius]…….”
A new character with two [Genius] traits.
When I saw this, my heart began to pound.
My gar instincts, the ones that made helpless in the face of death, were coming alive.
“Okay, next up….”
I gave him the two main traits and moved on to the next window.
It’s actually almost impossible to create a character this way in the first place.
There are a number of talents in the Inner Lunatic nad [Genius], but you can’t have more than one per character, as a rule.
You can have many sub-talents underneath it, such as Demonic Talent or Universal Talent, but Genius has a completely different function in the ga.
It’s a talent that, if you have it and develop it well, you can easily reach the top of your field.
That’s the power of genius.
But I gave him two of them.
There was a very good reason for that.
The ga has sothing called a trait penalty.
This ans that by penalizing a character with a negative trait, you can give them an additional positive stat or trait.
It’s a feature that beginners can’t really utilize, but it’s not hard for .
I told you. I’m an old hand.
I scrolled down the page and stopped at a spot, my eyes fixed on the words.
[Citation needed].
It was the disease I was suffering from, and the disease this character was going to suffer from.
No, not exactly a disease, but a predetermined one. More like a great, irresistible fate.
Anyway. I was able to pour both of my [Genius] traits into the character, with a hefty penalty of [Ti Limit].
A glass cannon. Or, to put it another way, I created a character that said.
“That’s it.”
The character would die exactly one year after creation.
It’s possible to prolong their lives with artifacts, but it won’t be easy.
No regrets.
A ga I’ve already played many tis. It was a thrill to be able to roam the continent as a character that looked exactly like .
I don’t know, but I must have been a gar before I lost my mory.
Like, right down to the bone.
“Let’s get started.”
And so I did.
I hovered my mouse cursor over the Create Character button and pressed it.
Poof!
For a brief mont, there was the sound of sparks flying, followed by the sensation of electricity.
I looked up, feeling my breath catch in my throat as if I were being swallowed up by a vortex.
My vision was blacked out as if I had a blackout film over it, and at the sa ti, my heart was pounding in my chest.
What the hell is going on?
The pain I was experiencing was unfamiliar, like nothing I’d ever felt before.
Suddenly, a disturbing thought flashed through my mind.
“…Am I going to die now, all of a sudden, in the middle of a ga?
Death was all too familiar to , but I didn’t want to die like this.
At least not when I was ready.
I wanted to die the way I wanted to die.
But… is this how it’s going to end?
There are still things I want to do,
things I wanted to eat,
I still had a lot of gas I wanted to play….
That was the mont I realized.
[You have successfully created a character].
[Character na not allowed].
[The character’s na has been forcibly changed!]
The na was… forcibly changed?
Along with that, the intense pain that had been plaguing a mont ago suddenly subsided. My eyes glazed over as my darkened vision returned to normal.
A warm glow settled over my closed eyelids.
And then.
When I opened my eyes, I couldn’t help but panic once again.
“Where am I……?”
Dark curtains surrounded , and a brown rug lay beneath them. And the fluffy futon.
This place was unfamiliar, yet very familiar to .
A ga I’d played to death over the past two years.
I had.
I’ve just woken up inside the Inner Lunatic. Inside the mansion of one of the ga’s biggest villains, the Reinhafer family.
One of the dark masters of the Inner Lunatic, with deep ties to the world’s worst criminal organization, the Lunatic.
I quickly scanned my surroundings, then rushed to a nearby mirror to check my reflection.
Sure enough, there was a familiar face there.
Shiny, cascading white hair and clear, lavender eyes like rainwater. A silk robe emblazoned with the family’s signature black sword, surrounded by gilt.
And a smug face that would make anyone passing by turn around.
I wiped my forehead, convinced.
I was possessed by Knox von Reinhafer, the youngest son of the Reinhafer family, the greatest villain in the Inner Lunatic.
In that mont, I don’t know why that phrase ca to mind.
It started, yes. It was a crash landing.
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