How to Survive as a Player Chapter 51

#51

And within it, Sehyun faced herself dying in loneliness. I found out that fact when I finished the aptitude test and the test result table appeared on the screen.

Lack of affection.

Just looking at it, I felt depressed without realizing it. I didn’t think so, but hearing it directly made my heart ache as if I had been stabbed by something. I miss people, I miss affection, and I want someone to hug me. I didn’t know that until now.

It was there that I encountered someone who looked similar to me. ‘Nelus’ touched my heart so much that it made my heart flutter. He had lonely eyes that resembled Sehyun’s. Even his desire for the revival of his tribe could not replace his loneliness.

So I decided to give love and be everything to them. I didn’t want to call it just a game. To Sehyun, Elix was not like a game. It was a place where you could breathe, a space where you could give love and fill loneliness.

So I raised him more carefully and poured affection and love into everyone. I wanted to fill the vast emptiness of Nelus and fulfill the wishes of my vassals. That was all.

never… I didn’t want to receive hate or anything like that.

Jureuk-

I felt a wet sensation on my cheek. Sehyun unconsciously raised his hand and wiped his cheek. I don’t tend to cry a lot, but lately I’ve been feeling weak and I’ve been squeezing my eyes shut from time to time. Moreover, he even cried in his sleep.

As I stood up, wiping away my tears without fear of anyone seeing me, the first thing I noticed was that my body felt better, as if it had been washed.

“Stat window.”

As I opened my dry mouth, a stat window appeared. The addiction value that followed my name had completely disappeared. The cold that had been bothering me was now gone.

Sehyun closed the stat window and glanced at the surrounding scenery. It was a very tall place with a glass front. The room was large and had a circular structure. The interior, equipped with only the necessary things, was old-fashioned and soft, but there was only one thing. It was a secret room.

There was a door, but it didn’t seem to be designed to be opened, and instead of a doorknob, there was a magic stone embedded in the handle.

“… “It’s a castle tower.”

All I could see out the window was blue sky. Birds could be seen floating through the clouds in the midday background. Sehyun took his feet off the bed and stepped on the soft carpeted floor.

Sigh-

And only then could I see something wrapped around my ankle. A leather loop lined with soft cotton was wrapped around one ankle and connected to a chain. The chain was connected to somewhere in the room, but it had disappeared as if it had been cut off midway, so I couldn’t find the end of it.

Sigh-

Sehyeon straightened up. However, as soon as I got up, my center of gravity shifted backwards and I had to sit down on the bed again. When I looked behind me, I saw a pair of wings sprawled across the bed. When I looked closely, I realized that the clothes were not the dirty group uniform I had been wearing the whole time. He was wearing a long, spotless white robe with a belt tied around his waist.

A sigh came out of my mouth. Sehyun strengthened her legs again and got up from the bed. Then he dragged the chain and moved as far as he could. Just thirty steps like that.

Just… So far.

The point where the chain was pulled tight was exactly one step in front of the front windshield. I still don’t know if it’s because they’re afraid they’ll break the window and jump to their deaths, or if there’s another reason. However, Sehyeon learned very well what Empire thought of me.

It seemed that the empire had no intention of showing favor to Sehyun. No, it would be more like the Archduke than the Empire. The same thing happened when they were locked in a secret room.

Sehyun looked around the secret room and went back to bed. Considering that there was no place like this before the game was shut down, it was highly likely that this place was prepared recently. Judging by the height of the outside scenery, the location is probably the castle tower of the main building. Among them, the most heavily guarded place and the one that can be placed under Ruhak’s management is most likely one of the private rooms located close to his office.

With that in mind, I slowly walked towards the bed, but suddenly I heard the sound of a machine clanking. Sehyeon’s gaze went straight to the door.

As expected, the person who opened the door and came in was Ruhak. He faced Sehyeon calmly without any sign of surprise.

“I thought there would be an uproar, but this was surprising.”

“What about the others? Answer that first. “I wonder if other people are dead or alive.”

“I tried to survive. “Isn’t that what you wanted in the first place?”

Ruhak sneered. He knew from the beginning that Sehyeon’s intention was to test him. The answer to the question of how inclusive Ruhak can be was actually decided. And as Se-hyeon wished, he only ‘saved’ people.

“… Should I rip your wings off? Or, could you please threaten me with my life?”

There could be no better threat to him than this. For example, there was an evil aura in Ruhak’s eyes. The eerie feeling disappeared as soon as he closed his eyes.

“The ‘property fusion drug’ will be ready as soon as possible.”

approximately.

“If you use the coexistence stone, the pain will be less. Now that we can open the treasury, let’s prepare it.”

Sehyun’s head gradually lowered.

I vaguely expected it. When I heard about the empire’s ‘desire’ from Baek Do-hyeon, I thought that maybe what my empire wanted was attribute fusion. I thought that maybe I wanted to experience the same pain, maybe I wanted you to experience it too.

And that thought was solidified into certainty here today. The sin I had committed was too great to hope otherwise, so I had no choice but to accept it.

still.

“If that’s what you want… Yes, I should… .”

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had drunk bitter water.

It was then that the man’s legs appeared through my lowered vision. I couldn’t even hear a sound, but when I realized, I was standing right in front of me. In an instant, a large hand stretched out over Sehyun’s shoulder. I could feel his fingertips brushing the feathers of his wings even without looking.

As soon as I raised my head, our eyes met. The distance was close enough to reflect each other’s images. Through the unfamiliar silence, I felt a hand brushing my wing feathers. It was a languid touch. In an instant, a shivering sensation ran through my entire body.

“okay… “I will tear your wings off.”

Sehyun followed the warning that appeared in the contrasting eyes without wavering.

“Isn’t there too much overconfidence in a subject that is merely the weakest? “How long do you think that threat will work?”

“… “What if I refuse the medicine?”

“If you want to get high on opium and swallow it, I’ll prepare it. If that is the king’s will, the vassals should follow suit. “Isn’t he the king who will walk the same path as us?”

Before I knew it, the hand that was sweeping my wings had reached the back of my neck. The firm fingertips dug deep into the space between the cervical vertebrae. The numb pain made me grit my teeth. Sehyun closed his eyes tightly to endure the tingling pain that went down his spine. His low voice flowed through them.

“If you want to weigh their lives with trivial threats, I will agree with you. But don’t think they will be safe.”

The moment the hand that was rubbing the back of my neck left, my breath burst out of my throat. Sehyun followed Ruhak’s back with a calm gaze as he turned around as if his business had been completed.

It was a solid back. A figure that I had never thought I could actually see was alive and moving before my eyes. A thought crossed my mind: was that why it was so perfect? Elix, everything was perfect.

However, unlike the perfect world, Ruhak lacked everything.

Like Sehyun.

“Nell.”

Nell. That was the name that Sehyun used as a nickname, a shortened version of Ruhak’s name, formerly Nelus.

Ruhak’s fingertips, which were reaching for the magic stone, visibly stiffened. In an instant, hatred appeared in his eyes. The surrounding air became suffocating, and sinister eyes engraved with murder turned towards Sehyeon.

The first thing that caught Ruhak’s eyes was the small bottle in Sehyun’s hand. Sehyun took the cap off the bottle and swallowed it in one go.

Heat as if I was swallowing a fireball flowed through my esophagus and into my body. It was so hot that the entire inside of my throat felt like it was melting.

It was like this.

“There’s one thing you don’t know.”

“what… “Did you drink it?”

Ruhak’s body completely turned towards Sehyun. His eyes showed confusion for the first time. Looking at his narrowed eyes, Sehyun dropped the medicine bottle on the floor.

“I was originally… I wanted to make you completely black. When an evil fragment emerged from the 30th floor of the tower… I didn’t think it was a coincidence. Heaven gave me… “It felt like an opportunity.”

“I asked what you were drinking.”

A voice filled with anger was heard as if it were spreading. Sehyun smiled bitterly. opportunity. How much sacrifice did you make and regret because you were deceived by that word?

It was like that at the time. No one had ever attempted or accomplished attribute fusion, so they did not know that it was accompanied by pain. If I had known it would involve such terrible pain, I wouldn’t have even tried in the first place.

It was only when I saw Ruhak lying down, vomiting blood and writhing in pain, that I realized something was wrong. Even the elixir did not work on that pain. After some research, he learned of the existence of a ‘coexistence stone’ that would help harmonize the fusion of attributes, and spent a huge amount of money to request a coexistence stone from a neighboring country, but by the time he got it, it was already too late.