I Made a Game Featuring Constellations

Chapter 45

“Again with the back?”

I don’t know why the bad guys always try to make me into a doughnut every time they see me. Like, do I have something smeared on my back?

I can’t understand why they’re so obsessed with my back.

I boldly stomped on the back of the guy who dared to target me.

“Ugh! I’m sure I saw it disappear!”

The girl, or rather, the dark man with the same appearance as her, exploded in frustration, clearly not understanding what was happening.

It wasn’t just any girl’s appearance. Inside, it was the malicious personality of the lab director.

“I told you, I don’t die.”

To think he had been hiding inside a god for such a long time, trying to devour its divinity. Truly impressive perseverance.

If that obsession had been used for good, he could have become a god through proper means, just like our investors did. But...

“Damn it! Let go, you insect! How dare you, an insect from another realm, interfere with me?”

That filthy creature now only had ugly desires left.

The nobility I had seen in the constellations was nowhere to be found in him.

If we had met outside, I wouldn’t have stood a chance against him.

He had patiently waited through eons, hiding and scheming until he could steal the divinity from a god.

There was no way I could fight him in this form.

But...

“Stop calling me an insect.”

Things were different now.

“Who’s the insect, crawling on the floor like a bug?”

Crash!

Unlike during the Abyssal event, the powers of dreams were still intact, and I couldn’t die, nor could I feel pain.

Even though I had been ambushed, it felt like I had just died from a boss's instant-death attack in a game, only to return to the boss fight.

Still, it was hard to contain the boiling anger inside me.

I had witnessed the full narrative of the Wisdom God through the form of a dream.

Her pain, her sorrow, her fear, I had seen it all up close.

And now, the one responsible for it all was standing right in front of me.

This monster, who had stolen an innocent girl’s life and tormented her for centuries with endless gaslighting to satisfy its own desires.

“...Princess.”

“...Yes?”

She jumped in surprise at the sound of my voice.

“Tell me what you want. I can tear this guy apart right now. Or, I could put him in my game and make him suffer endless death as a boss forever.”

“...!”

For her, this was likely the greatest enemy of her life.

If I were her, what would I do?

Would I have been able to contain my rage and not charge at him immediately?

But she still trembled.

Even after I had subdued him, she still feared the grasp of that monster.

Ah, this guy really is hopeless.

A weekly boss probably isn’t enough for him.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. I was about to stomp on his head when it happened.

“How dare...!”

His aura shifted, and the holy storm around him began to change.

“How dare these insects discuss how I should be treated! How dare you!”

Roar!

A holy storm began to swirl around him.

I was pushed back by the force of it.

“You should just die quietly.”

Clank, clank!

“What... What is this!”

My imaginative restraints caught him.

“Damn it!”

He struggled to break free.

I conjured more restraints.

The chains that once bound a god who brought fire to mankind.

The silk thread that had even restrained the Wolf King, who devoured gods.

The shackles that had caused so many men to weep.

Countless chains covered him.

“Grah!”

The chains that had tormented the fragile girl for centuries, I now manifested them to bind him.

With the chains covering him, I could no longer see anything except his head. His struggles stopped after a long time of resisting.

“Anyone from this continent cannot avoid my powers. With all the knowledge of this continent at my disposal, other gods’ powers cannot affect me.”

Is he trying to make excuses after failing?

“So you’re an envoy of an otherworldly god. You’re not just some otherworldly insect.”

The girl clenched her fists.

The prince was fighting.

Now, even though he had lost his divinity, he was fighting to protect her—someone who no longer had any worth.

She knew what the lab director was doing.

Taking the divinity from a god and using the holy power to corrupt even the gods—this was the most terrible of powers, used in the past by gods to save the continent from destruction.

Even though this was a dream world, the prince could not stop the lab director’s deadly moves.

At this rate, the prince would become the lab director’s prey.

“No...”

Why does everyone who gets involved with me always end up with such a terrible fate?

I want to stop.

I want to escape this dreadful nightmare.

I want to erase monsters like that and live happily for a long time.

But...

The girl looked down at her hands.

All her power was gone.

The wisdom that had been forcibly given to her was stolen away.

She was now a hollow shell of a god, a mere girl once again.

What could I possibly do?

Being the girl with extreme intelligence, she knew.

Right now, she couldn’t do anything.

She would only be a hindrance to the prince’s actions...

“Why...!”

Clank!

The girl cried out, slamming her hands on the ground.

Then,

-Are you really going to give up now?

!!!!

A voice rang out.

The girl slowly lifted her head in shock.

“...Muria-17-06?”

It was like a scene from a dream.

The girl who had long since died, Muria-17-06, smiled at her from the beyond.

-It’s the prince. The prince you’ve been waiting for.

“...But I’m powerless. There’s nothing I can do.”

She knew.

If she didn’t help now, the prince would die.

But there was nothing she could do.

-Come on, sis! You’re not helpless!

“...What?”

-It’s already inside you.

The girl touched her chest, where the finger of Muria-25-03 was pointing.

“It’s already inside me...?”

The wind howled.

A mysterious energy surrounded her, swirling in.

Vast knowledge.

Outstanding intelligence.

A completed narrative.

Everything was in place.

The last thing needed was the girl’s will.

The final piece of the puzzle entered her.

The power surged within her.

[Lustful Wisdom unlocks the shackles.]

-That’s it. I knew you could do it, sis!

-Don’t forget to tell us about the prince’s first night! Promise me you’ll tell us later!

With a warm smile, the fading images of her friends slowly vanished.

“...Okay.”

She smiled through her tear-streaked face.

“I’ll tell you everything. About our prince.”

Now it’s time to end it all.

To punish the monster who’s been tormenting the prince and us.

And then, we’ll go see the “happily ever after” ending.

[Only one person will receive the release from Lustful Wisdom.]

Just a little longer, Prince.

I’m coming now.