I Made a Game Featuring Constellations

Legatia had picked up a manual that described the anomalies. The first one was about a corridor in sector 3-2.

She realized that the sentence pointed to a door leading back to that world.

The second bookshelf in the third sector, located on the opposite side.

Legatia found a small door there.

Squeak!

With a chilling sound, the door opened to an endless darkness, one that no light could penetrate. But without hesitation, she threw herself into it.

A world of black, without a single beam of light.

She fell for a long time.

Is this the right place?

Did I come to a place I shouldn’t have?

Now that she thought about it, the manual only contained warnings about things not to do, but there was no mention that these sentences were related to others.

As her doubts began to creep up, she heard a sound.

Whoooom!

She found herself standing in front of the Archive’s bookshelves.

21-5

The place she had tried to escape from, but had come back to find.

"Eh? What’s going on?"

A familiar voice came from behind her.

She turned around to find the dark elf boy staring at her with wide eyes.

Gaizerus.

The one she had wanted to find so badly.

"I see. There was someone else here," he said, seeming to have no memory of their previous encounter.

Whoooom!

Suddenly, as all the lights in the Archive vanished, the roar of the demon echoed.

"Ah! We have to hide!"

The boy grabbed her wrist and tried to hide behind the bookshelf.

It was as if the first meeting between them was repeating.

Once again, she would be chased by monsters, return to that world, regain her memories, and repeat the cycle.

If she stayed still, she might get to spend some quiet time with him, like before.

But...

Legatia activated the characters she had leveled up over time.

The abilities of many characters now resided within her.

"Hey! What are you doing? It’s dangerous to stay here!"

Even though it was their first meeting, the boy was doing everything he could to protect her.

He tried to drag her away by force.

"Wait here for a moment."

But with the strength of an ordinary boy, he couldn’t overpower her, now that the powers of heroes were gathered inside her.

Legatia pushed him away with a stern face.

-- - - - ---!!!

The demon charged toward her.

The demon, in a split second, transformed into countless monster shapes, including snakes, humans, lizards, and more.

It seemed determined to instill fear in her.

"I’m not running anymore."

But she wasn’t scared of the creature before her.

She knew its true nature and the harm it caused.

The boy had been trapped in this chilling space for what seemed like an eternity, suffering the whole time.

When she thought about that, this monster seemed insignificant.

"I will save him."

KWA-HA-HA-HA!

The demon's front leg clashed with her spear.

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And just like that, the boss battle began.

The demon kept shifting forms during the fight.

It transformed into a scorpion, striking with its tail, then became a giant dragon, breathing fire.

It turned into a Balrog and pounded with fists, and even morphed into an alligator to bite.

A battle with unpredictable patterns that Legatia, who had struggled through countless previous weekly boss fights, found difficult to follow.

Her lack of combat and game sense, often mocked by viewers, made it hard to cope.

"I will... definitely free him!"

She gritted her teeth and endured.

If she fell here, there would be no next chance for him.

His suffering would repeat once more.

Her body was battered, but she kept using recovery items from her bag to endure.

When the floor attack pattern began, she squinted her eyes and dodged.

Whenever there was even the slightest window for damage, she avoided greed and struck carefully, retreating as needed.

Legatia twisted her body and built up damage on the demon.

"Ha... ha..."

After a grueling struggle, the demon's health bar dropped by half.

If she just kept going, she could defeat the demon!

She was filled with hope.

--!!!!!!

The demon's body suddenly swelled unnaturally and began rampaging wildly.

This is a pattern we haven’t seen before!

With its erratic and fast movements, Legatia couldn’t respond in time.

KA-WOONG!

She was struck and sent flying, crashing into a bookshelf at the back.

Her remaining health bar plummeted, and her strength drained away.

Collapsing, she fell helplessly toward the ground.

She expected to crash into the cold floor, but...

Swoosh!

Someone caught her from below.

"Did you forget I told you not to come back?"

"Gaizerus...?"

The boy, holding her in a princess carry, seemed to remember her.

Just moments ago, he had lost his memory...

"Do you remember me?"

"Why did you come back?"

He frowned.

"You’re just caught in this prison. I told you not to come."

From his cold words, Legatia could sense a warm feeling.

"But... but..."

I know what you're going through!

How could I leave you here alone?

"...You."

"Don’t tell me to leave. As long as you’re here fighting that monster, I’ll be right there with you."

"...Sigh."

At her bold declaration, he laughed as if he couldn’t believe it.

"How long has it been since we met?"

Well... I don’t mind it.

"Do you think we can catch that thing?"

"I’ll catch it no matter what. I’ll get rid of it and get you out of here."

"Then let’s see. If we can kill that thing."

---- - -- - - !!!

The demon, now rampaging more violently, rushed toward them, not allowing them any more time.

The two elves, as if by some agreement, moved into position simultaneously.

KOOO-WOONG!

As Legatia slowed the demon's speed with an AoE lava attack, the boy flew overhead.

His attack split the demon's head open.

!!!!_!

From behind the roaring demon, Legatia appeared, plunging her spear into it.

The demon, enraged, released a breath toward her position, but the boy had already swept her away and moved them out of the way.

My body is growing stronger.

Buffs began stacking on Legatia’s body.

I see! The power of unity!

The strength they had displayed together when defeating Arcilla was now coming into play.

As she fought alongside the boy, the buff stacked, growing stronger.

Soon, they were fast enough, tough enough, and strong enough to completely toy with the demon.

!__!-!!!

The demon knelt as its leg tendons were severed by their combined strikes.

The two elves instinctively knew.

With this attack, they would finish the demon.

"Are you ready?"

"Of course!"

The combined strength of the two elves poured onto the demon.

White light flooded the surroundings.

- - - - - - - !!!!

The demon struggled fiercely, but it couldn’t withstand their steadily growing attacks and was eventually obliterated.

With no trace left, the demon's body disintegrated, and the world of sector 21-5 scattered into dust.

The prison, which had lost all purpose, began to disappear.

"Is it... over?"

Gaizerus, with no more regrets, watched the collapsing world vacantly.

We did it...

Legatia, finally filled with a sense of accomplishment, smiled brightly as she turned to look at the boy.

"Russ! Russ, your body!"

Then, her face turned to horror.

His body, too, was disintegrating, just like the world that had lost its reason to exist.

"Eh? ...I see. I’m leaving too, huh?"

"No...!"

Her eyes filled with tears.

"Why... the demon is dead...!"

"I guess... I’ve lived longer than the time I was given."

"But! But Russ, you were just trapped here, suffering!"

Thump!

The boy placed his hand on Legatia’s head.

"Don’t be so sad. Because of you, I found freedom and rest. If it weren’t for you, I would have been trapped here much longer, right?"

The boy embraced her.

"Thank you so much."

His eyes now held affection for her.

"The time I spent with you was short, but I will never forget it."

"Russ! Hwaaa!"

"It’s time to wake up from this dream, young lady."

With his last smile, the boy faded away, leaving Legatia alone in the collapsing world.

Koo-Goo-Goo-Guung

As the world completely disappeared, her consciousness slowly drifted away.

***

“...that’s what I said!”

Hmph, hmph...

“Get up!”

“Ah! You startled me!”

Legatia was startled awake by the loud shout echoing in her ears.

"Get up already, how long are you going to sleep?"

"Director?"

Through her blurry vision, she saw the Director looking down at her.

"Yeah, it's me. How many times do I need to call you to wake up?"

"...Huh? Where’s Russ? What happened to the demon?"

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"...Demon? Russ? Did you have some kind of dream?"

Dream?

No...

It was so vivid.

It couldn’t have been a dream.

She remembered every moment of the journey she had shared with him.

It couldn’t possibly have been just an illusion.

...Right! The broadcast!

The broadcast was still on!

To confirm the truth, she opened the broadcast screen she had been managing.

[Broadcast has ended.]

However, all she saw was the broadcast ending screen.

It was the broadcast window that had been cut off the moment she entered the dream.

‘...So then, what was the chat window I saw when I was with him? Are you telling me that everything was just an illusion that doesn’t exist?’

Her head was filled with confusion.

"...I don’t know what nonsense you’re mumbling, but the book you’re resting on is over there. Just put it back on the bookshelf. It should go in 22-5."

...A book?

She realized that she had been resting on a book.

‘Sector 22-5...’

In a sudden impulse, she opened the book.

It was a book filled with pictures, with no text.

But the pictures in the book were familiar, as if she had seen them before.

In a recurring world, a boy meets a girl and saves her.

The girl realizes the truth about the boy, leaves, and then returns.

A scene where they defeat the demon together.

It was clear.

It wasn’t a dream.

This story was exactly the one from the world she had experienced.

With the world collapsing and the boy disappearing, the girl was left crying.

Legatia turned the page with trembling hands.

And on the next and final page, there was...

“A note?”

It was the same note she had found inside the world of the story, the note with the rules.