[Twist it. If you want to kill me.]

The sword embedded in the mans heart was twitching.

At the end of his short life, the man haughtily asked for his death.

[]

The woman who held the sword twisted it without saying a word.

His chest was cut open and blood gushed out, but he didnt even let out a single groan.

[Youre stillso beautiful and yet I cant have you]

The mans hand slowly reached up to touch the woman.

The blood on his fingers dirtied her cheek.

The woman held no expression. Cold and firm, just how she was when he fell for her. It was a beautiful sight worthy of the end of his life.

The man wore a hazy smile.

Before long, his last words poured out like blood.

[Damn bitch]

Damn bitch he said.

Phew. Its not lagging anymore

I sighed while looking at the screen. I once again looked over this characters settings.

[Deculein von Grahan Yukline]

: Disposition [Evil]

: Initial Job [Senior Professor]

: Initial MP [3357]

: Aptitude [ Rank 6]

: Aptitude Type [Magic: Control Type/Elemental: Earth, Fire]

: Traits [6]

: Personality [13]

Deculein. One of the games mid bosses, a named villain. There had been a lot of bugs since there were a lot of important villains with a wide variety of branching storylines, but fortunately, he had done a lot of sneaky and cunning things throughout the whole game so that hed die without fail within the first 11 hours of gameplay.

This time his cause of death was his fiances sword.

Uh, Woojin-ssi?

I was going to play the game again, but I heard a familiar voice call out my name. I turned to look back.

Ah, yeah. Ah-rah-ssi.

Even without any make-up, her eyes looked big and her long hair was shiny even without special care.

This woman, who was endowed with such beauty, was Yoo Ah-ra.

Shes the one Im dating, or rather dated.

Is the testing going well?

I shrugged at the question.

Yes, Im still on it~

Yoo Ah-ra nodded silently. As I looked at her I noticed a new accessory hanging around her neck.

My lips pulled up into a pout unconsciously.

Looks like its going well with your boyfriend, huh?

Huh? Oh Im not sure?

Yoo Ah-ra shrugged her shoulders as well.

Some of our gestures had become somewhat similar as we dated.

I think its going well.

Hmm~

I pointlessly drummed my finger on my mouse.

I had heard about it from the rumours, but I still felt very upset hearing this directly from her.

Why do you ask?

just because.

Our break-up was already 6 months ago.

In the end, there was no one right or wrong. We just couldnt understand each other anymore.

I was at my roots a loafer while she was a natural-born workaholic.

Her drive to improve led me to become a man who could make ends meet, but in the end she couldnt accept my introverted nature.

No, it was because I didnt want to change.

I wish you all the best in your marriage.

Hah.

Aigo. Was that a bit pathetic?

My eyebrows twitched provocatively along with my sarcastic remark.

However, it didnt get to Yoo Ah-ra.

Just get ready for work. Theres been changes in the setting so you have to get the modeling done.

Again? No Why does the author keep changing it?

I sighed and looked at the clock.

9 p.m. It was already night time, but I still had a lot of work to do.

Ah. Were you watching one of Deculeins scenes?

Yoo Ah-ra, who was looking at my monitor, smirked.

Yes. He died after 11 hours. But if you use certain tricks, you can kill him right at the start of the game. Isnt he supposed to be a mid-boss?

Thats one of our games charms. The more you leave Deculein to his devices, the more evil hell become, so the earlier you kill him off, the easier the game will be. The difficulty depends on the players choices.

I see.

The game was tested hundreds of times by all employees of this company, including me. I had already played it 4 times.

It must have been played a thousand times in total, but the mid-boss called Deculein always got killed except for one time.

But did you know? The model for this character was actually you, Woojin-ssi.

For Deculein?

Yep. So I just kill him off right at the start.

What?

I frowned.

There was still the Line Damn Bitch displayed on the monitor.

Fufu. Didnt you notice while modeling him? You look similar.

That cant be. I only met the author twice, you know?

I guess he saw you while dropping by the company. Anyway, look. You even have similar personalities.

Similar personalities? Me and that guy, whose last words were Damn Bitch?

Youre similar.

Phew So thats why I got dumped by you.

As Yoo Ah-ras expression hardened, I raised my hands pretending to be scared.

Aigo, Im sorry. Did that sound kind of pathetic, too?

I couldnt help it.

After hearing me call myself pathetic again, she lost her temper, so I couldnt help but poke at her more.

Eventually Yoo Ah-ra also got involved.

Im the one whos pathetic here

Its just that you think youre pathetic. Do you have paranoia? Its me whos pathetic.

Shut up. Just check the game. How do you feel about this times test run?

I decided to change the subject. I put my eyes back on the monitor.

The game itself is fun.

The backdrop of this game was a fantasy world mixed with culture from the 14~20th century.

The whole framework was that of a massive RPG, but its main focus was its storytelling.

The only problem is that, if this flops, the whole company will go bankrupt.

REW appeared in Korea, the barren land of console games, like a bolt out of the blue.

As soon as it had been founded, it produced one successful game after the other. Now, REW, which the whole world was paying attention to, was creating a AAA class game that was already beating the profits and investments of the past before it had even been released.

If it failed, wed be screwed.

Literally screwed.

Dont worry. It wont fail. Didnt you see the reactions to the game play sneak peek? There was a huge uproar.

The story of the game and its difficulty depends on how the player acts.

Although its a single player game, you dont play alone, but with several named characters equipped with advanced AI.

Thanks to that fresh approach and the hype that REW had built up, not only international players but also many international webzines had nominated our game as GOTY (Game Of The Year)!

As long as we keep raising our IP reputation with a single console, we can rake in a lot of money online. Well make it, no matter what!

As it had been said before, there were a lot of attractive characters and jobs in this game.

Knight, wizard, demon, demon hunter, administrator, adventurer, mercenary, king, aristocrat, etc.. The player could become anything.

Okay. That would be great for me. Id get a bonus after all.

With a big smile I turned my head towards the window.

Oh, there he is.

My seat was by the window, so I could see the street outside the company.

Near the entrance, a shiny car was waiting for Yoo Ah-ra.

By the way, isnt he more pathetic than I am?

I whispered and pointed out the window.

I said these words casually.

She smiled slightly.

Hes a good person in a different sense from you.

I was also a good person, huh? That was enough for me.

Even if she didnt mean it like that, Id just take it that way.

Oh, yeah? Thats a relief then.

Of course, I was still upset, but not as much as I was before.

As she said, the man in that car was a good person.

Id be angry if he were some type of gangster.

Yeah By the way You know. That

Yoo Ah-ra seemed like she wanted to say something, but her mouth kept on snapping shut.

She was going to mumble and struggle like that for a bit and then turn around saying Its nothing.

I knew her habits just too well.

So I already knew what she wanted to say, as well.

Ah-ra-ssi. We first met three years ago, right? So what are you trying to say?

Office romances were to be kept a secret.

We started dating before we joined the company, but as it evolved into an office romance we had to keep it a secret.

Well. What was I going to say again?

Yoo Ah-ra smiled helplessly.

Tick, tick, tick.

The short silence that floated between us and the sound of the clock was so loud that it bothered me.

The first person to break the silence in this awkward moment was Yoo Ah-ra.

Well, Woojin-ssi. Ill get going now.

Okay. Get some rest.

Yes. Good luck with work.

Clack clack.

She moved further away accompanied by the sound of her high heels.

She was more perfect than anyone Ive ever met, but she was actually more beautiful on the inside than she was on the outside.

That was how wonderful she was.

She was my greatest treasure.

She was also the first person who convinced me that people could change.

Good bye.

I spoke words that couldnt reach her anymore. I just mumbled them to myself.

I felt pathetic, so I just sighed and put my attention back on the monitor.

No, but the authors pretty mean as well.

When I looked at this character called Deculein, who had already died, I got goosebumps.

This is supposed to be me? Thats ridiculous.

.Although there was a certain resemblance.

Certainly, my appearance was used as his base.

I did think that he looked like someone I knew while I was modeling him.

I didnt know that someone was me.

I need to upgrade his appearance.

Externally, the gold haul had ended, but the companys and authors greed remained.

So they gave me the highest authority and asked me to do the final touches on the models.

Lets see.

Nobody would complain if a character was made a bit more handsome.

No matter how villainous he was, I was the model, so I should at least give him a decent face. Ive never been called ugly after all.

Fixed.

While I was checking over my correction, I suddenly saw the characters Characteristics in my field of view.

Hmmm

There were two characteristics in this game that determine the characters personality.

Traits that directly affected the base specifications and Personality that indirectly affected them.

The more important a character is, the more likely it is for them to have one of these traits and personalities.

[Traits]

: Intimidating Grace

: Prodigy

: Mediocre Magical Talent

: Broken

: Aesthetic sense

: Fate of a Villain

Deculeins qualities are these six above.

Oh my god, this combination Prodigy and Mediocre Magical Talent. Its the worst of the worst, the most evil.

[Personality]

: Elitist

: Mysophobe

: Habitual

: Competitive

: Noble etiquette

: Sensitive

: Authoritative

: Pretentious

: Resilient Mind

: OCD

: Atheist.

There are a lot more personality traits.

Such terrible characteristics.

No matter how much he was based on me I was neither an elitist nor was I a mysophobe nor was I pretentious. I didnt even have any authority so how could I be authoritative?

I glared at the monitor with dissatisfaction, glancing at the tapered codes next to the traits and personality columns.

Hm Hm.

There was no one in the office. I looked over the other traits and personality codes.

I wasnt going to do anything bad, I was just scrolling through them for fun

Found one.

[Understanding]

With that you wont be so pathetic at least

Looks like its similar to sympathy. But for some reason its classified as a trait and not as a personality.

I put [Understanding] among Deculeins traits.

After that, [Billionaire] One has to have a lot of money.

Click, click, click.

In addition to that, I added a lot of other characteristics as a joke. [Man of great wealth], [Midas Touch], [Vision], [Iron Man] and so on

Just what am I doing?

I put in this and that, about 5 traits that wouldnt be that obvious, only then was I satisfied.

I let go of the mouse and leaned back on my chair.

Laughter unexpectedly flowed out of my mouth.

Huh. Its been 7 years.

7 years.

For you and me, 7 years was such a long time.

It was too long to just end in an instant.

No, maybe it was just me who thought of it as an instant.

You just gradually grew tired of this.

You mustve slowly prepared for this break-up as well.

I was just not aware of your change.

Driiing

Uh!

A loud notification. I almost fell off my chair.

[REW (5/107)]

[Lane: Woojin, are you still working?]

It was from an in-house messenger.

The sender was Lane-ssi, author of this game and general manager of the AI department.

As the name suggests, hes a foreigner.

[Oh, yeah. If you want me to change the models, please let me know. Ill change them right away]

I moved my mouse to remove the traits I just added.

[Lane: No Thats not it. Im just waiting and watching]

I suddenly stopped.

What are you watching?

Are you watching me?

I looked around, but no one was there.

[What are you watching? Me?]

I blinked and stared at the monitor.

Soon, I got a reply with a smiling emoticon attached.

[Lane:Puhaha ^-^ No~ Look out the window!]

I turned my head towards the window without much thought.

Huh?

Transparent glass and the sky stretching beyond it.

It gave birth to Light.

A flash fell while illuminating the heavens and earth.

Light craved itself into the air like human veins.

Lightning.

With my eyes wide open, fierce rays of light flooded in.

A huge shock shook the world.

The bunch of rays that flooded the office blinded my vision and the delayed thunder rattled my ears.

Ruuuuuumble!

I didnt remember anything after that.

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