The Terminally-Ill Rejects the Approach - Chapter 15

Thanks to the noble young ladies and attendants who had gathered taking refuge, the number of people remaining here was less than at first.

But as knights were arriving one after another, it would increase in an instant.

Even at this moment, the [Visible Population] was continuously increasing.

“Don’t worry, Lulu. I’ll protect you.”

Hezen said, holding my body tightly.

‘What do you mean protect. You’re the most dangerous one.’

I swallowed harsh words inside.

It was obvious that his purpose wasn’t to protect me, just by the fact that he wasn’t leaving this place immediately and was just observing.

But I had an even bigger question.

‘Why is he so confident?’

As mentioned briefly before, the horn was a cash item created to summon boss-level monsters and receive great rewards.

Therefore, all the monsters that could be summoned by the horn were powerful, and not something Hezen, who hadn’t yet completed his awakening, could handle.

Nevertheless, the fact that he was so confidently summoning monsters and observing the situation meant he must have set up some kind of safety measure.

“Oh, I’m so scared, Hezen.”

I pretended to be frightened and buried my head in Hezen’s shoulder.

Then I quickly began to scan his interface with eagle eyes.

I saw a word in his status window that I hadn’t seen before.

【(Rare) Seedless Watermelon】 Lv.10 Hezen Ainsuhan

§Stealth State§

Attribute: Eunuch

‘Stealth?’

Status: Stealth

The effect of the item puts your status in [Stealth]. While this effect lasts, your presence becomes weaker. Surrounding monsters cannot sense your presence.

‘No wonder. I thought it was strange.’

Unlike bugs that attacked weaker entities first, normal monsters usually took down the strong ones first.

Although Hezen hadn’t awakened yet, he was still the strongest one here.

Yet I thought it was strange that the wasn’t attacking Hezen and was facing off against the knights, but he was unfairly using an item alone.

I couldn’t think of anyone else who so perfectly embodied the words cowardly and despicable.

“Oh dear, Lulu.”

Hezen patted my back, pretending to comfort me.

“It’s okay. It’ll be over soon. Just hang on a little longer.”

When I glanced at the [Visible Population], it had already surpassed 70.

In this short time, it seems the knights had flocked here.

‘Right, I should finish this soon too.’

I lifted my head to look at Hezen.

“But, Hezen. Even with so many knights gathered, they can’t take it down? So…”

And while he was looking at my face,

Snap! Thud!

I grabbed his bracelet and snapped it off.

[SYSTEM] Stealth state is canceled.

“Why don’t you go and take it down?”

“What…?”

It was when Hezen was momentarily bewildered, not understanding what I said.

“Keeeeeeeeek!”

The twisted its body and started roaring while looking this way.

[SYSTEM] Monster recognizes you.

Then suddenly it began to charge this way, breaking through the surrounding knights.

‘Ugh, disgusting.’

The sight of a giant king octopus jumping on land with its eight legs wasn’t very pleasant to see.

Huge marks were left wherever the ‘s heavy legs brushed past.

If hit by those legs, it would undoubtedly be at least a serious injury.

And how fast it was with that huge body, the that rushed over here in an instant leaped towards me and Hezen.

Just before the airborne pounced, I quickly did a back roll to distance myself from Hezen.

[SYSTEM] Activates skill .

[SYSTEM] Your movement speed temporarily increases by +500%.

Hezen also used a skill and barely avoided the monster.

Boom!

A huge hole was created where the pounced. The snorted, blowing out steam from its nostrils.

“Huff, huff…”

Hezen, catching his breath, glared at me as if to kill.

“Luibel Azester, you just deliberately…”

But he couldn’t continue speaking as he had to dodge the attacking again.

“Lord Hezen!”

“Are you alright!”

“Send reinforcements!”

The knights rushed in confusion to help Hezen.

However, the only targeted Hezen and attacked.

“Ugh, damn it…”

Hezen cursed as he drew his sword to face the .

But with his current skills, it was beyond his ability to face the .

[Our poor seedless player, you’re struggling against the . It’s a tricky intermediate monster that’s hard to deal with, so hurry up and kill to awaken.]

“How, can I a, waken in this situa, tion…”

Whack!

While Hezen was shouting at the system window, one of the ‘s legs struck his side.

“Urgh…!”

Hezen fell to the ground, clutching his side.

Pale-faced, he froze, unable to run away, watching the monster charging towards him.

Finally, the airborne pounced on Hezen’s body.

Boom―!

With a loud noise, dust rose.

[SYSTEM] You have died.

‘Hezen… died…’

I stared at that message for a moment, frozen.

‘Now it’s all over…’

It was then.

Ding!

[SYSTEM] When dying during the tutorial stage, the character automatically revives immediately.

[SYSTEM] You revive immediately.

With a cheerful sound, sparkling effects appeared around Hezen.

At the same time, Hezen revived, standing upright.

‘He came back to life…?’

Instead of attacking the monster, he looked at me.

[Visible Population: 99]

At that moment, the [Visible Population] just exceeded 100.

[Visible Population: 102]

He too seemed to have noticed that number, as he curled up the corners of his mouth into a grin.

[SYSTEM] Activates skill .

[SYSTEM] While this skill is active, no one questions your actions.

He started running towards me with his sword drawn.

‘…!’

The ‘s leg struck his back. But even while coughing up blood, he didn’t falter and rushed at me.

Whoosh―!

Hezen’s swung sword narrowly missed me.

“Hezen, what, what are you doing? Are you crazy?”

“Tch.”

As I dodged, Hezen frowned in disappointment.

“Just die quietly for me, Lulu. That’s your reason for existing.”

“There’s no one in the world born with such a reason for existing!”

“Person?”

Suddenly he burst out laughing loudly.

“Hahaha! An extra in a game… Cough!”

His laughter was cut short as the pounced on his body.

[SYSTEM] You have died.

[SYSTEM] When dying during the tutorial stage, the character automatically revives immediately.

[SYSTEM] You revive immediately.

But Hezen, who immediately revived again, rushed towards me once more.

‘Cra, cra, cra, crazy bastard…!’

Whether the monster attacked or not, his goal seemed to be only one.

My death.

Since this terrible game perfectly implemented even sensations, the pain of dying wouldn’t be absent even with immediate revival, but his determination to kill me somehow was evident.

However, none of the numerous knights present found his behavior strange.

That was all because of the he had activated.

“Someone help me! Get Hezen away from me!”

The knights didn’t react to my urgent cry.

“It seems Lord Hezen and Princess Luibel are having a lover’s quarrel.”

“Ah, young love, hahaha.”

“Let’s quickly take down that wretched beast so it doesn’t interrupt the two of them!”

Meanwhile, the distance with Hezen narrowed again.

There was nowhere left to run.

“No one will help you. Just die quietly and become the sacrifice for my awakening.”

It was when Hezen was about to swing his sword to finally kill me this time.

“No!”

Anselot’s pendant hanging around my neck vibrated slightly, then created a red veil.

Ting―!

Hezen’s body, swinging his sword at me, was repelled by the red veil.

And once again, the beast trampled his repelled body.

“Huff… Huff…”

I watched Hezen die and revive again, breathing roughly.

As long as that damned system exists, Hezen will revive again and again. Until he kills me and awakens, continuously.

This barrier protected me for now, but who knows how long it will last.

‘A way, how, I can’t die like this…’

At this moment, I suddenly remembered the conversation between Anselot and Hezen.

‘You don’t even have a system window, what do you think will happen if I kill you here?’

At those words, Hezen had run away immediately.

“Bug…”

Perhaps that’s the only hope.

‘This world is flowing according to one grand scenario created by the system, Your Highness. And the system defines those who try to deviate from the framework it created as bugs.’

‘I need to become a bug.’

To become a bug, I need to deviate from the framework created by the system.

‘But how do I deviate?’

That day, I was able to escape the system’s coercion and be recognized as a bug all thanks to Anselot…

“I’m hurt. I told you to use me as much as you want.”

At this moment, a familiar low voice rang in my ear.

“You only call me when it’s almost over.”

I turned around in surprise.

There, Anselot was smiling gently, his short silver-white hair fluttering in the wind.

Male lead is a Divorced Husband

She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”

Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.

After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.

She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.

But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…

Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!

――

This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!

The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.

That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”

Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”

The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”

That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”

Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”

The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.

Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.

“She was originally a ‘she’!”

At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.

The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”

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