[Best End!]
[You have solved the hidden piece and achieved the ending none player ever had...]
The prompt faded after floating for a second, and the end credits started to roll.
My eyes stayed glued to the screen.
That was weird.
Not about the end credits, but what the system message displayed.
"None player ever had?"
I had solved more than five hidden pieces in the game, and usually, it displayed something like You have achieved the ending 99% of players couldn't.
But to achieve something no one ever had?
That was a straight-up insult.
It could've been a celebration, maybe even an overwhelming feat, if it had been any other game.
But for game like "Second Live Goddess"? That's a disgrace.
A sign that I should've stopped wasting my time on such a frustrating piece of shit long ago.
Yet, I didn't.
Why is that?
It's not like I have some personality syndrome that forces me to keep playing.
Neither am I one of those ever-complaining incels.
To begin with, I'm a rich third-generation with no intention of taking part in the succession war.
I'm a person with modest ambition.
I'm satisfied with what I have, a limitless bank balance, a lavish apartment in a place like Paris. I don't desire anything more, especially not something I can't take with me after death.
It's an endless struggle.
Though heaven for some, my situation comes with some pretty frustrating downsides.
Like having no drive to achieve anything.
I'm a high-profile person, so I can't work anywhere. And even if I could, the reward, my salary wouldn't be worth it.
Women aren't my drive either. In today's time, they're too cheap to really care about.
I don't want to change for anyone.
So my life is filled with endless boredom and a lack of drive.
I pass my time watching series, anime, or playing games. And when I get too frustrated, I just pay prostitutes to satisfy and entertain me.
It was going pretty good.
Until one of the whores introduced me to this shitty game.
With player base entirely made of woman,
I still wonder how she convinced me to even try it out,
Maybe it was her whole vibe,
"Try it and I am sure it will help you find your purpose someday,"
That's what she said,
All happy, laughing and sweet.
I wonder what made her get in such a line of work.
Not that I care much about it,
It was the game that mattered to me throughout till this very moment,
"Second Live Goddess"
It was the game's title, and equally said to be the summary of the game also.
It is an RPG game, following the ambitious girl Alina, her goal and ambition is to climb the ladders and become the very goddess of the world,
Called Mother of the World in the novel adaptation.
Though at first her dream might sound too ambitious and impossible but knowing her golden fingers even putting a fraction amount of effort sounded too much,
She is a piece of Halmaikka herself,
One of the four cardinal goddesses,
It was alone enough to consider as overpowered, but not only that, the game really made sure she has every possible cheat that losing while playing her would be impossible,
Alina is a regressor, disciple of the 7th Generation of Watcher, extremely blessed and talented, possesses a system with a shop feature which unlocked after her transmigration,
She has a harem of many influential and talented young master who are ready to die for her,
If all that was not enough, she has a dragon as her pet,
The game really favored her,
The game followed the concept of feminism and empowering woman, and also gave life lessons to motivate woman,
I don't have a problem with that, it was a nice idea, but for a man like me such an unchallenging game was boring,
That's when an idea struck me, why don't I play this game opposite, instead of making the heroine win, what if I made the villainess win,
Now that would be challenging, and thus, finding the ending where the villainess would win, I played this game countless times,
Increasing my playing hour,
My energy,
I came to hate the protagonist and this shitass game too, feeling empathy for the villainess along the way,
"Her life was so pathetic, she deserved a better ending than this."
And thus I explored many sorts of endings, it was a similar end each time.
Heroine would win and ascend while the villainess would die a pathetic death.
This game had an open system, thus many endings were possible, so I decided to take a last bet and try every possible thing I could do from the very start.
All for the pixel character which I had grown closer to emotionally,
A villainess who had no one to depend on,
And as expected I lost, instead of reaching a bad ending I cleared with the best possible ending.
It was frustrating, but what could I even do now,
It wasn't like the villainess was right and this game made a bad person win instead,
No,
In reality, it was my biased perspective that glorified her.
At the start, when I was playing casually, I too hated her.
Sigh!!!
Whatever,
I tried my best,
Comforting myself, I grabbed the phone. I was feeling down and wanted to burst my frustration, and who would be a better person than the one who introduced me to this pain for bursting out,
"Ohh, you mean Miss Emma? She committed suicide a month back,"
"What?!"
It was indeed shocking,
For that evergreen, laughing, positive girl to do such a thing,
"May I ask why?"
"Sorry, the company forbids us from sharing any personal details of the employee, thanks for calling sir."
It was unfortunate, but not something I cared much about,
She was nothing more than a prostitute for me, but I wonder why I feel more depressed,
What is this I am feeling?!
A droplet of water touched my palm,
It came from one of my eyes,
Am I crying?
No, it's just a build-up of frustration.
That's when the end credits ended and I rose up to turn it off and delete the game,
But a video started playing,
An end credit which I never saw before,
A woman floated on the wide empty sea, as it got closer I was able to identify her, it was the villainess.
Her face showing faint emotions of sadness,
As tears from her eyes mixed with the endless sea,
"Why is this world so against me?"
"Why is there no one on my side?"
Her expressions changed, her pretty face turned ugly, she was crying, "If only you were still here, brother."
Wait,
Brother?
She had a brother?
And that's when, before I could think anything. My body momentarily froze and seconds later, only darkness surrounded my consciousness.
I could no longer feel any part of me.