Is It Bad That the Main Character’s a Roleplayer? Chapter 22

◈Episode 22 Irreversible (1)

Suddenly!

The severed head rolled on the floor and I wiped away the blood. Suddenly, the others who made eye contact with me let out a hiss. It was a natural reaction as they expected their own fate.

“It’s time to pay for your sins, you lowly devils!”

But it won’t work out just because I think about it. Because the Inquisitor is also stepping forward.

“Hero bird—!”

Pow!

I glanced at my experience bar after seeing the people dying at the hands of kimchi dumplings.

I expected it, but if the Inquisitor kills me, I don’t get any experience points at all. It’s a bit of a waste.

“Wow.”

The good news is that the Archmage and the thief are backing off? Well, actually, it would have been okay even if I had participated.

You can fill up your experience points elsewhere.

“Can you leave that one guy behind?”

But the thief suddenly said something like that. The Archmage and Inquisitor’s heads turned in that direction.

“What does it mean?”

Although he may not be as fierce as me or the Inquisitor, he is a thief who protects the Archmage and does at least one thing.

Perhaps thanks to that, the Inquisitor’s voice was not as hostile as before. Although there was still a mixture of disapproval.

“It’s nothing special…”

The thief stood in front of a pile of corpses that had been piled up on the altar, but had been used for summoning and had been trampled and crushed by Nucker. All the blood had been drained and the flesh had been crushed into a lump with no body left intact.

“One of my colleagues is the family of a kidnapped kid. I just want to give him a chance for revenge.”

Considering the past setting of a thief who threw himself into a back alley to kill the nobleman who murdered his friend, it was a very understandable statement.

Moreover, in the original work, one of the thief’s former branches was an Avenger, right? The thief’s job name is particularly lame, so that’s all I remember.

“If you can’t get your precious one back, isn’t it better to at least get some worthy revenge?”

“Private retaliation is prohibited by law.”

However, because our Inquisitor has a huge wall and window.

As I watched the thief’s expression rot, I grabbed the neck of the demon contractor who was lying messy on the floor. He was still breathing.

Wow.

“Gagging!”

good. It was a good throw in front of the thief.

“Demon knight…?”

“…lily.”

“Keep in mind. “If that devil bastard runs away, I’ll cut off your head too.”

“…Well, surveillance is our specialty. That will never happen.”

Personally, I am not a fan of private retaliation, but it does not mean I cannot sympathize.

Moreover, the devil knight is a case where even the opportunity for revenge is lost. I wonder if small favors like this would be bestowed.

Quests are not all about elimination, but they involve suppression, so even this will be allowed.

“Demon knight!”

Well, the Inquisitor doesn’t seem to like that. If he were a D&D character, he would definitely be lawful and neutral.

“I will curse you… I will offer you my blood and flesh…!”

Suddenly.

But do you think I will listen if you call?

“Arch Mage…!”

“Demon contractors are dangerous. Unless you want to use divine power to transport them, it would be better to kill them. “I don’t know what I might do.”

“Can you still work even if your tongue is cut out and the ligaments in your limbs are cut?”

“…You shouldn’t leave it for long. Demonic power is different from ordinary magic. “You can never let down your guard.”

“Don’t worry. “I will kill you as soon as you leave.”

I thought it was a waste of experience, but I didn’t know I would end up doing all the cleaning.

I stabbed to death those who uttered curses one by one. Because the Inquisitor was arguing with the bandits, I was only able to kill a few, so my experience bar suddenly increased by more than half.

“Follow the law…!”

ah. There’s no one alive anymore, right? Even with the detection skill, there was no alarm going off. Quests were also updated.

good. I think I can just leave this dungeon now.

hmm. no. Should I just log out of here? I have to rub a little more and it looks like the full dive end notification will sound in less than an hour. In the meantime, I wonder if I will be able to proceed with the quest properly.

If the quest is interrupted in the middle, it’s not a bad idea to end it when it’s as clean as Kim Pajini.

In addition, if it is a place as unique as this one, it is easy to remember how far I have progressed when logging in over time.

I don’t think it would be any other game, but the NPCs here are so realistic. If you get confused when logging in again, they might think it’s strange. I just want to prevent the concept from collapsing at that moment.

“log out.”

So I made a decision and implemented it.

“This is an impossible command.”

But what on earth is this message?

“…? log out.”

“This is an impossible command.”

“…???”

…Could it be a bug? What game in the world has a bug in the logout function?

Has the game company decided to go bankrupt? No matter how well made a game is, the moment you can’t log out, it falls into a virtual reality game.

“log out.”

“This is an impossible command.”

“…Log out!”

“This is an impossible command.”

What is it? What is it really? I couldn’t get my mind off the repeating window.

I couldn’t help it. This was a case I could not have imagined, and a scene no gamer would ever imagine.

“Demon knight?”

…No, let’s calm down. There is no way the game company wouldn’t have fixed this major and serious bug unless they went crazy. So I guess it’s just a matter of location.

Why aren’t there rare areas in the game where you can’t log out? This might also be such a case. The message is written in an ambiguous way, which only makes people scared.

“…no.”

I guess I was more embarrassed than I thought. I made a statement that was a bit distorted by the concept. If someone sees a message like this, I wonder if that will happen.

“Where are you going?”

I quickly became impatient and headed outside.

“I am going to punish those who have conspired with the devil.”

Since I couldn’t answer that I was going out to try logging out, it was natural to recite the updated quest details.

「❖ Ominous omen

∎ Suppress and eliminate all enemies

∎ Move to the temple

∎ Find traitors who were in cahoots with the devil contractor」

Of course, I have no intention of breaking. As soon as I leave the hidden underpass, I’ll turn off the game.

“…! Now, just wait a moment!”

The Inquisitor urgently called me and immediately began muttering a prayer.

Perhaps it was for purification, but it sent a slight chill down my spine.

“lily.”

But the important thing now is logging out.

I ignored the request to wait and went into the passage I came in through. Then someone followed suit.

The Inquisitor is still being purified and the Archmage is by her side, so all that remains is the rogue.

“thank you.”

Those words were delivered in a serious tone and a firm voice, rather than in a somewhat harsh or angry tone.

Even though I continued to hear faint moaning sounds – from the devil contract – after that, I could dismiss it as the simple background music.

“…thieves never forget their grudges. And we don’t forget grace. “I will definitely repay this favor.”

“Not required.”

Hello, Eunhye, and since you are a representative character of the thief profession, it is obvious that you will join as a colleague.

“…I will pay you back even if you don’t need it.”

“I would have said it wasn’t necessary.”

Was the passage here this deep? I walked a little faster and walked forward. My mental health was precious.

“Someone there!”

“Oh my. “Robbers.”

Then I encountered a guard who was just coming down the stairs. Is this why it is ambiguous to say that it is a hostile target? The detection skill did not work.

“Who are you!”

“Surrender now!”

But perhaps because I was now covered in blood, the guards trembled and raised their weapons.

I didn’t want to attack him, but I felt like I was going to die if I didn’t pick up my weapon, so I could clearly see myself pulling out my spear and sword for self-defense.

“Surrender?”

I fiddled with the hilt of the sword. Since his character was not so broken that he would wield a weapon at a civilian who was not related to the devil or a criminal, that was the acceptable limit.

There is no need to cover up the frustration that is rising.

“Demon knight!”

“Wait there!”

Fortunately, less than 20 seconds after the guard and I faced off, the Inquisitor and Archmage came running from behind.

It was very good timing. The Archmage seemed to have a hard time bending his back as soon as he arrived.

It wasn’t enough that they had been wandering around all night, so they went into battle without even a single break. A magician with weak stamina can easily get tired.

“Who are you!”

“It’s the cult’s heretical newspaper!”

Having to watch my seat here is just annoying and frustrating. The concept probably doesn’t know that either, so you can leave this time.

I calculated so fiercely and took a step aside. The same applies to thieves, so the Inquisitor was able to quickly move to our front row.

In his hand is a religious relic to prove his identity.

“Church denomination…?”

“This is the way out after detecting demonic energy in the underground passage and slaughtering all the demon contractors. And these are my helpers. “Put down your weapons.”

“Oh devil!”

“…Is that really true?”

The Inquisitor did not talk for long. Holy light flowed from her body and warmly illuminated the dark passage.

The soldiers, who were looking at each other, hastily lowered their weapons.

“Forgive my rudeness, priest.”

“You just did your job. “Don’t apologize.”

Just as I was wondering if the Heretic Questioner was of a higher rank than I thought, I heard a small murmur next to me. It belonged to a thief.

“What kind of thugs are priests…”

…If you start with the priest profession, won’t you be able to join the crew? No, it’s still not coming in yet.

I thought that the Demon Knight would have the worst personality, but if you look at the thief class, it seems that they are quite formidable. In the original, the way the story was told was so annoying that I didn’t read the script properly.

“Please go.”

While I was thinking about that for a moment, it seemed like the conversation with the guard was over. The Inquisitor stared at me with a look in his eyes telling me to leave. It was what I hoped for.

“Hey hand over the criminal.”

“Yeah? “This is mine.”

“The Heretic Questioner told me to retrieve the demon contractor.”

“…Oh, that gangster….”

“What did you just say?”

“I said it’s narrow here so I’ll hand it over to you outside, right?”

“…It wasn’t that long of a sentence.”

“It’s because I talk a little fast.”

I went up the stairs and left the vegetable store. The sunlight past noon stung my eyes brightly.

“Oh, by the way, I have urgent business. “I’ll go for a moment.”

“…! “Stop for a second!”

“catch!”

“That Mangjong—!”

“Huh.”

“Ah, Archmage, are you okay?”

“Hehe… it’s okay. However, I think this level of marching was a bit of a burden for the old man.”

“Oh, I…”

“But you can still move more, so don’t worry. “Shouldn’t we find the corrupted people in the temple?”

I focused on the ‘bung’ sound, leaving behind the thief, the guard, and the Inquisitor squabbling and the Archmage half-seriously and half-jokingly drawing the Inquisitor’s attention for the thief.

“Somon: Commercial District”

area update. Now you can really log out.

…You should be able to do it.

“log out.”

I glared at the empty space in front of me and chanted a command. And a window appeared.

“This is an impossible command.”

“You crazy…!”

The fuck is this game crazy…!

“Demon knight?”

The Inquisitor turned to me at the shouts that escaped his teeth. But I didn’t have the confidence to control my expression.

Even if someone were to take my place, they would still be the same as me. It is no longer an area that can be covered.

This isn’t a quest that shouldn’t be interrupted in the middle, and there’s no reason for the area to do so. This means that there is no reason to prevent logging out.

But still it doesn’t work? Even if I sue the game company, I can definitely win. Damn it. It’s such a serious problem.

“setting.”

At best, I tried opening a window and manually hitting the logout button.

I didn’t use this method because I was worried that the NPCs would look strange because their intelligence was so high—they wouldn’t be able to see this window—but now wasn’t the time to worry about that.

“This is an impossible command.”

“This is an impossible command.”

“This is an impossible command.”

“This is an impossible command…”

But the same window just kept popping up, layer after layer.

“…what.”

It can’t be like this. I tried to log out like a crazy person, feeling the temperature on my cheeks drop. But it still just said it was impossible.

“Demon knight? “Is there some problem?”

“you…?”

Are horror games a thing? Damn this is real horror.

I was chewing my lip and holding my head in fear.

What should I do now? What should I really do?

No matter how many bugs the game crashed, I never had to log out. I’ve never heard of it.

I’ve never been like this before….

“…! Emergency protocols.”

Then, a function came to mind, so I urgently shouted it out. It was a function built into the capsule itself.

It was a system I had half-forgotten because I thought I would never use it, but when a real crisis came, I somehow remembered it.

“Capsule forced shutdown.”

“yes?”

“This is an impossible command.”

“Force termination of the emergency protocol capsule!”

“This is an impossible command.”

“Fuck!”

But that doesn’t work either. I continued to use profanity that I hadn’t used since my 20s, and alternately shouted “log out” and “shout out.”

Unfortunately or naturally.

There was no function activated.

“What’s going on with the devil knight!”

“Why on earth are you doing that?”

What are you asking me to do? How do I turn off the game if I can’t log out and the capsule emergency system doesn’t work? How can I get out!

How did these bastards at the game company make games like this?

“Demon knight. Is something wrong?! Could it be the devil…!”

The Inquisitor grabbed my arm and locked eyes with me. A feeling of extreme discomfort and horrifying anxiety crawled over my skin.

“No….”

“Yes?”

“Log out…”

No, no. calm down. When the nutrients injected for the full dive period run out, the full dive automatically ends. Of course, the game turns off.

This is a feature that has become essential because of someone who died of starvation while continuing to play the game even after running out of nutritional supplements, so this will definitely be activated. I’m sure it will happen.

So calm down. Let’s calm down. I’m just adding a few hours. Just a few hours until the full dive ends.

“Come to your senses!”

Pow!

A tremendous pain struck my solar plexus. The sound of HP being reduced was very loud.

“Gagging!”

No crazy. I adjusted my pain level, but why does it hurt so much…!

“you…!”

I reflexively put my hand on my solar plexus and glared at the person who hit me. It was an inquisitor.

“hot! “Are you finally coming to your senses?”

Kimchi Dumplings Why are you so proud of punching a person in the face…! And why are you laughing? Are you really going to make kimchi dumplings?

“Just kidding!”

“I apologize for hitting a critical point! But it seemed like he needed my help.”

“…what?”

I felt a bewildered salute as I looked at the green eyes that were shining straight up as if nothing was wrong. Even the serious matter of not being able to log out seemed like nothing to worry about for a while.

“I felt the demon energy in my right arm stirring. “Isn’t the devil you were suppressing running rampant?”

“…?”

What kind of idiot does he sound like?

“Don’t worry. I don’t doubt you. “Even though you may be shaken for a while, I trust that you will overcome the devil in the end and that you will not give in to the devil!”

“…?”

“So, demon knight! “If something like this happens again, please leave it to me! I will do whatever it takes to buy you some time!”

“…??”

“I will definitely earn it!”

…Kimchi dumpling, I love you, but you’re talking nonsense.