Chapter 46: Aoi’s Confession
Translated by XianPiete
Everyone sat down around the table and then Guy looked at each person sitting around the table and opened up with, "Guy de Montfort is dead." Everyone stared at him blankly as if not understanding what he was trying to say. Guy thought back to the first day he arrived and continued, "My na is Ito Aoi, in my world and in my culture we say our surna first. So to all of you, my na would be Aoi. I was a twenty six year old man who lived with my father and younger sister. My mother died when I was just thirteen." He paused and looked around the room, "At twenty six years old, I died. When I woke up, I was in the body of Guy de Montfort. Guy had died during training with his father's soldiers. One of them hit him in the head too hard during sword practice."
Madeline shook her head and then said, "How would sothing like that even be possible, it just sounds crazy!"
Guy nodded and then said, "I know how it sounds, but that's the truth. Now, as for the reason I know so many strange things... My world, Ito Aoi's world, is hundreds of years more advanced than this world. Things like electricity are as commons as horses. I hardly know a tiny fraction of my world's technology and its already enough to make a billionaire here. That may sound like an exaggeration, but it's not. I managed to fill gaps in my knowledge by letting the skilled craftsn here interpret my ideas into things they are familiar with, it's not perfect, but they shock with their level of imagination."
Olivier looked pale as he asked, "What about, Oto ga?"
Guy nodded and then took a deep breath, "My sister played a ga, I don't have a way to properly describe this to you, because there is nothing you have ever seen, heard or thought about that you could possibly relate it to, because the technology level of this world has no equivalent. It is a ga which is similar to a book, a book you can interact with, a book that changes based on the choices you as the reader make. This ga that my sister played, was about this very world, and all of you were characters in it."
Alicia gasped and covered her mouth. Olivier looked at Guy and Madeline seed on the verge of tears. Diggory looked interested. Claude seed completely lost. Madeline asked, "Did you use knowledge of this, ga, to make us do things we wouldn't have done?"
Guy looked her in the eye and said, "I only heard about the ga from my sister, and in the ga you were the villain." He turned and looked at Alicia, "And you were the hero."
Claude asked, "Was I also a villain?"
Guy shook his head and said, "No, you were a capture target. As was Olivier and our late friend Charles."
Olivier asked, "What do you an, capture target? They were to kidnap us?"
Guy smiled and chuckled, "No, Olivier, let explain the ga for you. In this ga, the reader, would play as Alicia. The goal of the ga was for Alicia to have a relationship with one of the male characters in the ga. So, Claude, Charles or you, Olivier. As Alicia tried for one of these three targets, Madeline would be in the way and use her family's influence, or friends, to harass or defa Alicia."
Madeline blinked tears out of her eyes and said, "I would never do that!"
Guy nodded at Madeline and said, "But think about how your school life began here, Madeline. Didn't Alicia mistake your actions for harassnt? Rember when your guards almost killed the male students Alicia had been complaining about you to?"
Madeline thought for a mont and said, "But that was just a misunderstanding due to Alicia not knowing about the Order of the Rose.."
"Never the less, those events happened. In ga, the character of Guy de Montfort didn't exist. The things I have introduced didn't exist..." Guy started to say.
Madeline gasped, "..And you were never there to save . All those tis you saved , it was because you knew I wasn't really a villain?"
Guy smiled and said, "I was telling you the truth, the first ti I saw you, I thought you were the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on. I had no idea who you were or that this.." He waved his hand around, "Was even that ga my sister used to talk about. I did think you reminded of that character, because of your hair, but at the ti, I had no idea who you were or what this place was." He sighed and then said, "When I realized that you were that character, I rely watched from a distance as things started to play out. When I realized that this was just a misunderstanding I took action to save you."
Olivier asked, "Did you know I was the third prince from the beginning?"
Guy shook his head, "No idea, that one caught off guard as well."
Diggory asked, "Now that you have interfered with the ga world, are things beyond your ability to know in advance?"
Guy nodded and said, "Once I started making changes here the world beca unknown to . Magic never existed in the ga for instance."
Diggory asked, "The reason you read the magic books?"
Guy nodded and said, "In my world, that is the language used by these gas I ntioned."
Everyone at the table let out a breath. Doreen who also had tears in her eyes asked, "Could you have saved Charles or Renée?"
Guy shook his head and said, "If I could have saved them, I would have Doreen. You all know here, if I had the power to stop that, it would have been done, I promise you."
Madeline wiped at her eyes and then asked, "Should I call you Howie now?"
Guy shook his head and said, "I am Guy de Montfort now and forever, as near as I can tell. Nothing needs to change between us, you are still the woman I love and who I intend to marry, and I am still the sa man you have always known." He looked around the table and said, "That goes for all of you here. I have only been the person I am now, since Guy de Montfort and I beca one person."
Diggory asked, "Then you are trying to tell us, the other guy was responsible for all those cris?"
Guy nodded and said, "It was because of those cris, Duke Montfort had his son trained by his soldiers."
Doreen asked, "On the status, where it says favorability, is that due to the capture you ntioned?"
Guy nodded and said, "In an Oto ga, they add that in the status to let you know how your progress is with the target you have selected for the relationship. When it is at Max, that is when you would see the end of the ga. Alicia and Claude have co to that point which ans the ga would be over. The fact that we are still here leads to believe that my changes have caused the ga and this world to diverge from each other."
"Or you are not in the sa ga." Diggory thought out loud.
Everyone turned and looked at Diggory with apprehension.
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