Chapter 443: Creation

    “Are you hurt?”

    “Cough, cough...”

    At that time, it was Frey and Ruby who saved me while I was holding my throat and coughing painfully.

    “Let’s get out of here first. You’re in bad shape. Ruby, you...”

    “I have some business with this guy.”

    “...Then I’ll go out with Roswyn first?”

    After that day, my life changed completely.

    The Sunset Duchy, which had been tormenting me, was almost exterminated by Ruby after that day.

    Of course, being one of the three great duchies that even the royal family couldn’t easily touch, it was difficult for a maid of uncertain status to bring it down.

    But the influence of Frey and the Starlight Duchy was beyond imagination.

    One day, after the Emperor, looking very displeased, gave orders to his ministers, the Sunset Duchy quietly vanished.

    “This is not like the Emperor at all...”

    “Probably, the influence of that family, right?”

    “Well... no matter how reckless the Emperor is, he wouldn’t dare ignore the Starlight family.”

    “By the way, the Starlight family has been moving strangely lately... Is something going to happen?”

    Only a few people witnessed the usually amiable empress and her husband leaving the emperor’s room with cold expressions and made a fairly accurate guess.

    That’s right.

    The ropes that had bound and choked me all my life were untied so easily.

    So I was rescued by the maid Ruby, the rightful heir Frey, and the members of the Starlight family.

    ...So what am I now?

    Lost without a goal or reason to live.

    What should I do?

    It was only natural.

    I had lived my whole life being trained as a helper for the Hero, a tool.

    With the ones who enforced that goal gone in an instant, it was inevitable that confusion would follow.

    “You want to become a maid at the mansion?”

    “Yes.”

    So, in the midst of my confusion, I eventually went to Frey one day and made that proposal.

    “Because I am the Hero’s helper.”

    Since I could no longer maintain the status of a noble, I wanted to serve as his maid for the rest of my life.

    At that time, that was the only thing I could do for Frey.

    “Is that really what you want?”

    “...What?”

    But Frey immediately refused my words.

    “If you say that with no life in your eyes... I can’t accept it.”

    “...”

    Instead, he said that and pushed me away.

    “Then... what should I do?”

    It felt like my entire life was being denied.

    If you react like that, what was all the pain I’ve endured?

    What happened to all the time I’ve held on for your recognition?

    “What am I supposed to... do...”

    So, I asked, almost crying, and his simple answer came back.

    “From now on, find it yourself.”

    Hearing that, I gritted my teeth and shouted.

    “Y-You...!!”

    You annoying person!

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    Since then, regardless of my intentions, time flowed and flowed.

    “Um... Ms. Ruby. May I offer some advice?”

    “No.”

    “There’s no point in regretting it after it’s too late.”

    Thrown into the world without direction, I now amusingly find myself counseling Ruby about her worries.

    How did things come to this?

    Well, a lot has happened.

    Thrown into the world suddenly, losing my status, for the first time I had to work part-time to survive.

    I took real classes at the academy for the first time, not just liberal arts.

    I made friends for the first time. Ate lunch together, went on trips...

    A year living not as a tool for the Hero, but as ‘Roswyn,’ was truly enjoyable.

    “And then confess! Eek!”

    “...Tch.”

    And Ruby here, in front of me, was one of my best friends, who I depend on the most among the friends I made as Roswyn.

    She was also my savior.

    Without Frey and her, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy this freedom and happiness.

    “Right, I haven’t confessed yet today!.”

    “...Ahem.”

    By the way, she really, really liked Frey.

    If you teased her a bit, it was so obvious.

    She always blushed when she was around him, and they always flirted, making everyone else around them crumble in frustration.

    It would be weirder if someone didn’t notice it.

    “...You’ll just fail spectacularly again today, won’t you?”

    “Isn’t it better to try and fail than not to try at all, like you, Ms. Ruby?”

    Look at that sullen face. It looks like she was afraid and anxious about losing Frey.

    “Then, I’ll be taking Lord Frey~”

    “...”

    “Lord Frey~ Here’s a may lily...!”

    Thinking that, I walked to Frey and handed him the flowers.

    “...Well done, Roswyn.”

    Then Frey patted my head and praised me.

    “Thank you for fulfilling my request.”

    “It’s the Demon King’s Army!!!”

    “Ahh...!!”

    And screams began to echo from all around the academy.

    “No wonder Ruby was acting strange lately...”

    “What, what is this...”

    On the day I confessed, the Demon King’s Army attacked the academy.

    “Roswyn! Come this way!”

    “Ah, ugh...”

    And everything started to go wrong.

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    “Goodbye, everyone...”

    “”...?””

    “Please, never remember someone like me.”

    A few years later.

    As Ruby mumbled something and came out of the room where Frey was bedridden, she started crying and went back in.

    No.

    I was certain that something was wrong.

    No way...

    The day Frey became a hostage to that damned Eye during the Final Showdown.

    In fact, I had overheard Ruby and the Eye’s conversation.

    - I’ll give you another chance.

    “What?”

    - A chance to turn everything back and make Frey happy.

    The content was simple.

    In exchange for saving Frey and giving everyone a chance, Ruby would be killed as the public enemy.

    But Ruby had clearly walked away from it, and I had dismissed it as nonsense and forgotten about it.

    “Ruby...”

    “She’s acting strange today...”

    Was it true after all?

    - Crackle, crackle...!

    “Ahhhh!!”

    Before I could finish my thoughts, screams echoed from the room.

    “Ah... No...”

    When the world turned upside down and everything became blurry, I saw it clearly.

    “No.”

    Ruby’s form was transforming into the Demon King’s appearance I had seen before.

    “No, Ruby...”

    I desperately reached out, but it was already too late.

    - Crackle...!

    The world turned upside down.

    “Goodbye, Roswyn? Hehe...”

    And after that.

    “What...”

    The first thing I said to the young Frey holding a bouquet when I first regained my senses...

    “...You look really annoying.”

    Yes.

    That was probably what I said.

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    “...Ugh.”

    Roswyn, lying quietly on the desk, woke up with a gasp.

    “Huff, huff...”

    She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and weakly turned her gaze to the paper in front of her.

    What Happened So Far

    Entered a strange room

    Found a computer and learned to code

    Academy Siege

    Attacked by the evil Eye

    As she reviewed the list, she clenched her teeth.

    Frey went to fight the enemy and got captured, must rescue him.“That’s right... I need to save Frey.”

    She must have dozed off at her desk due to recent overwork, having a dream about the events of the zeroth cycle that haunted her since the day the Eye choked her.

    “Let’s do this.”

    But unlike before, with determination in her eyes, she straightened her posture and gripped the mouse.

    “I have to save Frey.”

    Dark Tale Fantasy Online: No results found

    Dark Tale Fantasy Series: No results found

    Dark Tale Fantasy: No results found

    Next to her, the remnants of the Dark Tale Fantasy series, which had completely disappeared, appeared on the screen.

    In this world where faith had vanished, Dark Tale Fantasy was a device that minimally maintained and supplied divine power by sending vestiges of emotional energy.

    With it gone, this place was no longer a debug room, a sacred space, or a place where a reversal could be attempted like during the siege.

    It was just a dark, dirty room with an internet-connected computer.

    “Hmm...”

    But that also meant...

    “So, what kind of work should I create now... The only thing I know is coding...”

    It was a space optimized for ‘creating’ ‘works.’

    “...Let’s start with some research.”

    Connected by the mysterious power of the internet.

    To another dimension called the ‘Blue Star.’