Chapter 33

They say that when there is a game, it is usual for it to have a hidden quest that you can encounter why you play it. But in the game IKINOBIRU, it was hard to face it. After all, only certain unlucky players will face this hidden quest character.

And do you know what happens to those players after encountering that certain character?

It was worst than punishment. Why so? Because in this rate… it was the punishment chasing you. Even if you don't fail any story quest nor daily quest… if the luck isn't on your side, even after you use all buffs, you are doomed.

Indeed, it was a very complicated story but in a nutshell, you better log out and don't play that game for a month to fix the bug. If so, all that hard work that you have done would fall into ruin. Having nothing at all.

“Why now… of all time…”

Immediately falling down my knees, I manage to avoid the missiles that he throw at my direction.

That damn of man… he is no good to be an enemy. But… why is he aiming at me?!? Isn't his enemy supposed to be the male lead? The protagonist of this story!?!

Looking around, everyone is busy fighting and not realizing that there is a greater enemy to see for their eyes…

The time… it is almost running late. We must finish it or else… or else… I would fall in that man's hands!?

“I must do all means to not face the punishment but… isn't it already harsher than the punishment itself!?!?!”

Damn.. Damn!!!

After all this time… I was still a coward. Is it because of the trauma that I had gain after failing the daily quest?

Just as the old saying says, curiosity kills the cat. And as a new player in this game, I was wanting to see what kind of punishment would I get if I did not had the change to finish the quest.

With that beings aid, I skip the quest to see what kind od punishment awaits me. Only to regret what I have done for right before my eyes…

The word fear was carved with great care

As if their was no way I can remove it out of my eyes. It was as if… right then, I know that I am already done. That it was my last breath.

Remembering that scene made be be in horrid. He is even scarier than the final boss of this game. He seems to be the final boss who lose his title after some bug.

No… be is indeed a bug. He is indeed the final boss that was so strong enough to strike all the Magnus of this game with just a fixed aim of his missiles.

I was lucky to avoid his missile that he carelessly throw since he was just thinking about the distance to the place he was at…

No no no

At this rate… I might possibly die in no time!!!

Shit… of all people… why me???!?

“I need to go… I need to…”

Looking at the building, it leaves me with no other idea than that. It was a suicide but… it was also a great gift if I succeed!!

Just by looking at him, his fixed aim was now being prepared.

That old man!! Can't he act like a real old man that was having a hard time moving?!

Well.. I am not really sure if that was the case. After all, the life I saw before… even a kid as young as new feels so drain as if the world fall upon them. Unlike the elders who seems to have a high spirit as such. Odd to say but… why on earth am I thinking about that in this kind of state?!?

Ahhh keep moving Ethan!! Run!!!

I shouted trying to focus my steps on the debris I was holding up in the air. Due to it nervousness, I almost fall slipping on the ground if not for me having the chance to control yet another debris to keep me standing on the air.

“That was clos—”

Boogsh

A loud bombing was heard, did my fall somehow save my life?

If somehow I didn't slip myself like this.. I wonder if my body would have a big hole in the center…

Just thinking about it makes me shiver in fear

Should I intentionally fall like this again?

Just what am I thinking right now? Didn't just a while ago I was so high spirit shouting how it was nice to go boom boom bam and swish all those bastards like a clean sweep?

Now I wonder where those courage I had a while ago fell.

Hurry Ethan, just few more steps, just few more and—

I landed, not safely as the moment I land on the place I was aiming, the missile that was thrown in that very direction causes a large explosion making me be caught up just like that.

[Processing]

[Daily quest completed]

That is the notification I got as I fly in the air. Surely, the place I aim was the part where those higher ups may reside. Due to the fact that the bombing we cause and the missile attacks of that old mad that was out of his mind, this would building was now in ruins. It can no longer be saved as the damage it took is far more complicated than one can ever imagine

Hah… in time like this, why do I feel like I had no parts of me aching at all?

Is it because of the pain I received when Fiolle got me toast?

I wonder what would happen to me now, the lightning of fhe explosion as well as the debris that hit every corner of my body seems to bring me in no good condition.

This is why I hate that punishment. Even just a glimpse of that old man would be enough I make you pee on your pants while being treated like an any being stepped by a gigantic figure.

Squashing you with no mercy, as long as he make his enemy explode he is good to go. A lunatic old man who was a sergeant in his old life. Even after knowing his background story in the hidden event trailer of the game, the teaser didn't make me be sympathetic towards him but instead, I was frightened to the bones.

To be obsessed with missiles, the very same object that killed his son, his wife, his comrades and as well as his dog, it was really odd. He lost his sense and just want to go blasting his missile creation. Walking and targeting those he find interesting, his attention will not give you any bit of a recognition at all. For that kind of interest coming from him would do you no good.

Due to the fact that he was a sergeant, he was good in his aiming and all. He was an admirable person in his background story but in the way he is now… there is no part of me to hold any bit of idolizing him forge was my great fear. And who would have thought that I would end just like this?

The punishment that I was hiding from the very starts is the one that hunt me and killed me like what I have been fearing of.

Smiling bitterly… I… just… realized how the burden in this world is for me.

It was a game.. With no quit not exit button for me to leave. It was a game with never ending enemies and fighting and quest!

It was a game that I was once loved since I adore it so much… not realizing the hardship of those people that was in here…

Hah… I am an idiot

Even if I know many things about this world I am at now, even after being an addict in this game, even after spending lots of time playing the IKINOBIRU, even after being in a place where I was once wishing for… I am still an idiot just like what my family think of

Just like what m friends before think of… I am nothing more than a trash who knows nothing at all… I am an idiot that can't use his head even after having this much knowledge….

In the end, here I am. Dying just like that. Why did I even fall like this?

Where did I go wrong in making my judgement?

If I just go away… will I still be alive? No… that would be impossible since we must destroy this building as the daily quest… but…

Why does fate seems to be making fun of me

The impact of my body falling and being hit by lots of debris didn't hurt at all. In fact… it was more likely an illusion in my head. Is This what it means to die?

I never know that it wouldn't but if you are finally dying.

I didn't know that… it would just be all numb and all…

Hah…. Maybe I should enjoy myself much more. Maybe I should do things I wanted to do…

Now that my death is here… I feel a bit… sad and all.

“an…”

“er—”

“tha—”

“e up—”

“wa— p”

“et—”

“st— up”

My head was… a bit fuzzy… is it because of those small rocks in my eyes… somehow.. I feel like someone was saying something. But… I can't seem to tell what was that…

Hah… this comfort…

I'm

Tired…

I...

Want… to…

Sleep….

Yeah .. Maybe

I should just shut my eyes for now…

I am tired…

Very….

Tired…