chapter 5
The girl, who tilted her head for a long time, said with a sigh.
“Big, big… .”
The 12-story dormitory is reminiscent of a solid castle wall.
She was in pure admiration for the grandeur of the academy dormitory building. Considering that he was the one who had just begged for help, he must have succeeded in reassuring her.
“Remember what I said?”
“yes? Oh, that, yes… . Go straight out of the room and up the stairs to the 12th floor. Room 1205.”
I nodded and looked at the windows that were still lit.
Fortunately, the roll call was still in progress. The lights were turned off in the room after the roll call, but light was leaking from the window of the room on the 10th floor above.
It means that the roll call to my room is still far away.
“I go in, count to ten and come in.”
“Yes Yes… .”
The front gate of the dormitory closes at 12:00. But since I was the designer of this game, I was able to come up with another way to get in and out. I walked to the window of the room at the end of the first floor of the dormitory, dragging the girl’s arm.
Game planning is also an area of creativity.
Of course, the creator’s tendencies are buried in the creations, and my tendencies are buried in this game.
I hate numbers given without meaning.
That’s why I also attached my own meaning to things like the date that appears in the game or the age of a certain character.
A good example is that my dorm room number 1205 is Miri’s birthday.
It is convenient because there is no need to memorize meaningful numbers separately. And that quirk was now a way out.
I am memorizing the room numbers where the main characters live.
My birthday is on the 8th of January.
There are eight rooms on one floor, so Room 108 is right here, at the end of the first floor. Here, Johan Espertz’s best friend is staying.
The windows of the dormitory are covered with iron bars.
As I said, the girl hid herself close to the window, and I swung my sword and cut through the bars in Room 108.
Deuk deuk-
The iron grate hit by the blade of the famous sword fell to the floor, being cut like sorghum cans.
I picked them up and knocked on the window.
empty-
“Evangeles. It’s me. John.”
empty-
“Evangeles. Come to the window.”
empty empty-
“Evangeles. Hurry up and open the window.”
“Well… , What?”
There seemed to be a small commotion in the room. Before long, Evangeles’ face appeared through the window. Judging by the outstretched head, it seems that he was lying in bed.
“John?”
“okay. Open the window first.”
Evangeles accidentally unlocked the window.
I went straight into the room through the window he opened.
In this sudden reunion, he was unaware that the bars on his window had been slashed.
“What are you? … Are you here now?”
“yes.”
“… under. why are you so late It’s roll call now. That’s why I asked you to come with me.”
I know why Evangeles is saying that.
In ‘Savior from Another World’, many routes are arranged for story branching. Among them, at the very beginning of the game, there are a total of three routes for Johan Espertz to arrive at the academy.
One is to come with Evangeles, who is worried about a friend of a fallen family.
The second is to come with his sister.
Lastly, hitchhiking the carriage of the twelfth princess of the empire.
Of course I’m not stupid. At this point in time when time is running out, to the worried expression of a friend… .
‘I’m actually the developer of this game, and I chose the third route to appreciate the character I drew the most.’
… I’m not stupid enough to say
I came up with a simple excuse.
“Because of the hangover.”
“… well done Eat a little bit.”
The mental count to ten is over. I dragged Evangeles’ arm.
“Wait, let’s take a look at your bathroom.”
“Uh, huh? bathroom?”
I opened the bathroom door and went in with Evangeles.
Evangeles seemed to want to know what all this was about. Entering the bathroom, I turned on the faucet in the bathtub.
shoot ah-
Water poured out.
“no… , Why are you in the bathroom again?”
“This building, if the water doesn’t work well, move to dormitory building B.”
“Eh? what are you You have no money.”
“It’s money, you just have to earn it.”
“????”
All I needed was sound. I will bury the voice of the girl who will follow me through the window I entered.
I chattered and focused on the sound coming from the other side of the door. Fortunately, the girl did exactly what I said.
When the sound of her footsteps died away with the sound of the door closing, I turned the faucet off.
“done. The water comes out well.”
“???”
“Then see you tomorrow.”
“???”
I brushed his red hair once, then closed the door and left. ‘Did that bastard eat rat poison?’ I heard from beyond the door. I pretended not to hear it.
I hurried to my room.
***
Fortunately, the roll call ended safely. Except for the badly bruised knee joint for not having the blood plate method done yet.
The officer on duty briefed me on what was going to happen tomorrow and then left my room as if everything was bothering me.
And after a while, the loud voice of the officer on duty resounded in the hallway.
“Finish the roll call in dormitory C building! Students who have not yet implemented the blood plate method should do it before going to bed! You won’t die if you bleed a little on your palms! And after this time, I will give penalty points to students who are caught wandering the hallways! Get a good night’s sleep and gather at the small training ground by 9:00 in the morning. More than!”
A small sigh came out. The roll call is over.
I said to the closet, touching my bruised knee.
“Now, you can come out.”
The girl hiding in the closet peeked out. I locked the door and looked at her.
A slender body with bare shoulder blades, short stature, waist-length black hair, and a face that looked about my age.
A character that was not on the timeline of the original scenario is now in my room. And I can easily infer the reason for the situation that I have never created.
In the original scenario, there is no scene where Johann Esperts cries while looking at a bulletin board.
[Academy’s Problem Child] and [Mulkan’s Sword] are both events that must be moved as soon as you arrive at the academy.
And there is a subtle difference in the occurrence location of each event.
And both, when the event is over, ‘If I don’t go back to the dormitory soon, I’ll be late for the roll call.’ They are forcibly moved to the dormitory along with the ambassador.
Therefore, the two events do not overlap.
But I was wasting my time… .
That time difference was enough for the academy’s problem child to drag this girl through the place where Mulcan’s statue is.
In the end, all these divisions were caused by me squeezing while watching Miri’s credits.
For a moment there was silence between the girl and me.
Seeing her expression mixed with fear and relief, I couldn’t easily think of what to say. I wondered if I should introduce myself, but she was the first to break the silence.
Growling-
Seeing her touching his stomach made me smile. I handed over a loaf of mocha bread from my backpack.
“eat.”
“Ah, that, thank you!”
A light came to her face. I was about to say ‘I don’t take it, so eat it slowly’, but then I realized that I didn’t know her name. Even though I planned the game myself, it is impossible to memorize all the names of the characters that appear in the game.
“What is your name?”
“My name… yo. this? Ah, Arien.”
I nodded and walked over to the blood count.
“Don’t look at me, eat first.”
Arien did just that.
She vigorously took the bread and put it in her mouth and chewed it. I listened to her hissing and took out my dagger.
from here
What determines the direction of Yohan’s growth?
There are some excuses for the fact that “Savior from Another World” took 10 years to develop. Aside from the fact that there were two people in development, about the difficulty inherent in the game plan.
From here, each character’s aptitude is randomly assigned. All characters, including the main character.
There are a total of 166 aptitudes for Danjeon identified by the blood count.
The 10 years it took to develop the game was the time it took to develop considering all the situations and cases divided by aptitude.
i drew a knife
Saak-
Red blood leaked out as the dagger passed under his thumb. At the same time, a woman’s coughing sound was heard.
“Coke, Coke, Coke… .”
“If you open that door, it’s the bathroom. When you turn on the faucet, water comes out. Drink it.”
“Nyeon. Coke, Coke… .”
I can see why she was surprised. Perhaps my appearance was seen as self-harm.
As Arien disappeared into the bathroom, I opened the lid of the bottle of blood plated water. And I spilled my blood on it.
Knock-
The blood that fell on the pitch-black blood platelets spread out white. gradually forming a certain form.
said Arien, who jumped out of the bathroom door again.
“Master, what have you done?!”
Laughter ensues.
you are the owner
Whatever enslavement she went through, I have no interest in that relationship.
“Speak small. And call me John.”
“yes?”
“Johann Esperts. That’s my name.”
“John S.… blood?”
“Johann Esperts.”
The colors that had been smeared white in the blood count began to be separated into strokes. Then, the strokes were interlocked and schematized.
The ends of the four straight lines intertwined.
My blood plate diagram was M-shaped.
Schematic of blood plate has detailed settings.
I don’t even have to look at the platelet guide document on my desk to know what it means.
Applicable to my scheme is classification through symmetry.
If the schema revealed in the blood count is vertically symmetrical, it is an aptitude for [reflection], and if it is symmetrical, it is an aptitude for [replication].
In my case, it’s M-shaped, so it’s symmetrical.
That is, what corresponds to [replication].
By the way… .
My aptitude was not one. My diagram has 4 strokes going up and down.
“… You have two aptitudes.”
In terms of number, the 23rd and 112th types out of 166 types of blood plates.
“This is not going well… .”
I roughly cut off the sleeve and wrapped it around my hand instead of a bandage. And I recalled the events related to the second aptitude in my head.
An aptitude that comes with a low probability.
An aptitude that is classified only when exactly 4 strokes go up and down in a zigzag pattern.
My second aptitude was [cheating].
***
In the circus, the bath water is reused. As the youngest, I always take the last turn.
So by the time I took a bath, the bath water would be cold.
How long has it been since you took a warm bath?
I asked after putting on the dress again after taking a bath.
“I… host… .”
“John.”
“Ah yes. John S… Knight… Where can I sleep?”
“Sleep in bed.”
also be like that
There was only one bed.
In the end, I ran away and reached this.
Even though I was determined that it would happen someday, my lips trembled. Bread and bath were not given freely.
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Nothing is free in this world.
With resignation, I pulled the shoulder straps of the dress aside. Then the man who was looking at me smiled.
I thought it was a mean laugh.
“I understand what you misunderstood.”
“… yes?”
“You may wear clothes.”
It took me a while to understand that short sentence.
“… yes?”
“Quit your complaints and come.”
“… yes?”
“Blow on the lamp and come.”
I turned off the lamp on the desk as instructed. After it got dark, I calmed down a bit.
But the moonlight cannot be turned off.
I hesitantly went to bed and lay down. I don’t know what position to lie down, so I’m at attention.
“I have something to ask you. While staying here, you must avoid people’s eyes. The door must be locked, and if someone wants to open the door with a key, go under the bed, not the closet.”
The breath dripping on the nape of my neck bothered me so much that I couldn’t understand what the man was saying. Thanks to him, he had to say the same thing three times.
“If I find out you’re here, I’ll be in trouble too. This is the academy, because it is an imperial military facility.”
“Ah yes… .”
“There is a way to get you out, so you just have to suffer for the time being. Be patient.”
After listening to the explanation, it was only belatedly that I understood.
From saving myself to secretly bringing him here, this man is risking it for me.
There was a strong image I got from seeing this man killing people.
‘Is this a real article?’ doing.
There were those who offered to be her knights in difficult times, but none acted like real knights.
They were all temptations with a purpose.
Countless people scratched their heads.
A circus trainer who treated me harshly.
The leader who tried to sell it back to any lord at a high price.
The soldier who tried to trick him into escaping and then ended up doing a tough job… .
This man is on a different track from those people.
By the way… .
By the way… .
“why… ?”
“Why? That’s what I want to ask.”
“yes?”
“Why are you crying?”
“uh? me?”
Tears flowed from my hands as I wiped my cheeks.
I see
i was crying
It was strange.
When he patted him on the shoulder, a cry suddenly broke out. In my heart, ‘I have to be patient. I have to be patient.’ I repeated, but these goofy eyes kept gushing out water.
“Ugh… .”
“It’s troublesome when you make noise.”
I quickly pulled the duvet and buried my face in it. After crying for a long time, I was shocked when I even blew my nose.
What I pulled was not the blanket, but the hem of this man’s clothes.
“OMG. sorry, sorry… .”
“done.”
The man said as he raised his hand.
“Instead, I have a small request.”
I thought I knew what the request was. And I decided not to resent it anymore. But this man grabbed my hand holding the underwear strap.
“You misunderstood again. It’s a request I want you to make when I wake up, not now.”
Sure, the heat has risen.
His face turned red in embarrassment.
“Ah yes. something?”
“In the morning, if you wake up first… .”
Hearing the man’s request, I nodded. It was a bit of a bizarre request, but I was able to do as much as I could.