Chapter 199.

“Ha……”

I looked at the new window, laughing falsely and gritting my teeth.

“Don’t point fingers. Why did I…! Why did I make such a request!” Hardcore mode is over, so why am I still lingering in the game? The escape failed and I died in a way. Otherwise, it seems like I’m going crazy. Even if I can’t get out of here, all I want is …… just an end to the fear of death.

I don’t want to be haunted by the fear that the game could lead to death anymore. So trying to get out of the story’s orbit.

“What does it matter to me if the world ends? I’m just one person, even if it’s Leyline, give me all of him, because I don’t need it!”

In an instant, something magical happened. Like it understood my words, new words appeared under the window.

< System > After completing all the main quests, the game will end and you will be rewarded. You can save people’s lives with the compensation [Golden Dragon’s Tusk].

But the system’s answer brought me no comfort at all.

“So why should I save people’s lives!” I shivered, offered to evil, and shouted.

“I’m already dead. Brought to this damned place to die in fear, and now I don’t even have a place to go back to, so why should I!”

The frustration and despair that had been so hard to bear all this time suddenly erupted. Even if it wasn’t because of Iben’s brainwashing, I guessed it from the moment I saw the appearance of me who was sleeping calmly in my dreams after drinking strong alcohol.

“Isn’t my body in reality dead?”

So I’m dead in reality, it’s all fantasy. Or taken to hell to be punished. If it weren’t for that, Penelope and I wouldn’t be in such a similar situation. It wouldn’t be so painful.

“But if this really is hell, what did I do wrong? Is playing games all night such a big sin?”

Complaints surged up my neck. In that case, I would cry so hard that I gritted my teeth.

At that moment. Suddenly, the white text in the square window clattered away, and a video was loaded inside.

“…… Ah.” The familiar call suddenly raised its ears.

Then I held my breath without realizing it.” Uh ……”

The screen looked like some kind of hospital room. I saw the look of a person wearing an oxygen respirator lying on a bed sleeping like he was dead.

“…… Ah.” Another familiar call was heard.

I jerked my head around. Then standing beside the bed I was lying on, clutching my hand tightly, I realized that the person with his head bowed was wide-eyed.

“How long will you sleep like that, fool.” It was the second doggie.

“…… We’ve all done wrong. Please forgive me, please open your eyes, huh?” He buried his forehead in my hand in earnest prayer. My mouth opened in incomprehension and disbelief at the scene before me.

At that moment, someone opened the door and entered the hospital room.

“Brother.” It was the first doggie.

The second guy snapped his head up and asked “Where’s dad.”

“Left for America in a hurry this morning. I heard that there are doctors there who have had several successful surgeries to remove tumors from comatose patients. Might be moving soon.” After saying that, the first guy closed his mouth.

There was silence in the hospital room for a while. After a while, the second guy spoke calmly.

“Brother. . seems to hate us.” Still not letting go of my grip.

“Ha, shit. Stomach cancer isn’t enough, either, and overwork-induced shock …… youngest daughter is spoiled, is what this is?”

He mumbled without grabbing my hand, one hand messing with my hair.

“Ha …… stomach, stomach cancer?!”

My mouth dropped open in exasperation at the reason he said I was lying down. The second of these guys spoke in a pained voice.

“I regret it. Why I did so many sick things when I was in school.”

“You, me, dad. Because I didn’t learn, so I should have.” The first guy answered short. It was the right answer without sincerity.

“No one told me to do it, but one should know that from the time one is ruthless enough to go to college.”

“I thought …… would let Dad study abroad. It’s archaeology or that side of the school kids are like that.”

The first guy that followed spoke, and the second guy was scoffed at for speaking up.

“Did you see dad’s expression when she was independent? As an entrance gift, study abroad preparation is all done, and it’s so painful to see the expression of being eaten.” But the sarcasm was temporary. There was a deathly silence in the hospital room again.

“…… Brother,…… got cancer, it seems like it’s all because of me.”

“I thought I’d be on time for dinner together if I couldn’t sneak in at night to eat like a mouse.”

“What about me.” The first guy accepted right away.

“If I’m given a single room like a beggar, I know I’ll be home before too long, and how do I know I’ll jump three times like an evil barry.”

But they didn’t know a thing. How desperately I had lived to keep from going back to that house, to keep from reaching out to my damned birth father.

“Take my stomach too, if you can …… take it.” Again, the second doggie buried in the forehead of my hand whispered. A wet, somber voice, suddenly hot. Abominable people.

It was for swearing just opened his mouth for a split second. The picture changed.

“…… this, we …… spare me!” The biological father was seen. He left the country to go to the United States, grabbed a Westerner’s pants leg and prayed. The image slowly darkened after the incredible droplets fell from the red blood-filled eyes. And.

< System > The [18% brainwashing curse] that was eaten away by your spirit is lifted!

The reason I’ve been here all this time surfaced in the square window.” Is this …… stomach cancer?”

Still feeling faint, I stammered and muttered. Working a part-time job and living at school in parallel, trying to overwork myself like this, but not expecting cancer at all. Suddenly I remembered the horrific scenes Iben had shown in his brainwashing. I died, deaf and annoyed and scrunched up at the funeral, cursing at my effigy at my family. But the real mirror showed me I was not dead. Believed dead, but alive. And no family members looking annoyed at my death. That’s all brainwashing.

“Why come now ……”

Something suddenly hot dripped down my chin. I realized I was crying.

“Why are you doing this now. Why come …… now!” I screamed angrily at the image that had disappeared.

“It’s all because of you! Because of you me! I ……!”

It would end up like this, what had I lived so desperately for. The unbearable emptiness hit me like a tsunami.

But at the same time, the relief of not seeing me in a coma as an annoyed family member’s appearance was overwhelmingly tragic. That instant.

< System > ~ main quest:hard mode hidden mode ~

[Who are the real bad guys?] Would you like to proceed with the quest? (Compensation: [Golden Dragon’s Canine Teeth])

[Accept/Refuse]

The disappearing window reappears. It’s known now. The system compensation is for the reality of me.

I was tired of floating around and had no choice.

Crying, I pressed [Accept]. So a new system window appeared.

< System > You who know the truth are given [Mirror Stick of Truth] as compensation. Do you wish to be compensated? [Yes. /No.]

“The Mirror Stick?”

Narrowing between his eyebrows [Yes.]. With a press, something “gurgled” out of the black space.

“Crazy, what is this.”

I frowned at the sight of compensation. It was a horizontal wooden pole with a handle as long as a stick and a hand mirror. As if to take it quickly, majestically grabbing the one emitting light, the word changed.

< System > From now on, you can use [Ancient Magic] with [Mirror Rod of Truth]!

Stop < System >[Evil Force] and save the world from the crisis of destruction! But [Ancient Magic] requires a lot of physical and mental strength! Please use it carefully when it’s important!

Then new words were added.

< System >At the end, the spirit of the ancient sorcerer left you a message.

‘O offspring, your money will last until the current real mirror, thank you!’

“Crazy…!” Before he could finish cursing, the black space began to collapse with a crash. Then, explosive light poured out of that gap. Bright light flickered in front of them once again.

“Gong Maiden″!”

Opening my eyes again. Someone pulled my body roughly.

Boom boom boom—at the same time, an unknown loud boom rang out.

“Uh……”

With a low groan fighting to get up, holding me as I rolled on the floor, I saw the Crown Prince. I turned my head with difficulty and confirmed where I was standing just now. The tattered [Real Mirror] was practically in powder.

“Are you alright? No injuries, right?”

Before the mirror collapsed, the Crown Prince, who had managed to save me, jumped up and checked my body.

“The moment you touched the mirror, a strong boundary suddenly appeared around you, making it impossible to approach. What exactly happened here? What else is in your hand.”

“…… Your Highness.”

“Shit, what’s wrong. Why are you crying.”

In Rinnegan’s red eyes, the way I was crying with a strange magic wand was reflected. It’s hard to believe what I just saw. And the mirrored wand in my hand was so childish and fleshy that I whimpered.

“Why on earth are you like that, male daughter. Don’t cry. I did it all wrong, huh?” Callisto immediately hugged me when he saw that I was overwhelmed by crying.