Of All
Things, I Became a Crow: Chapter #108
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
*Rainelle’s POV
"But I succeeded!!
Ahahahaha! Namuel received the Crobanlock!"
I nodded at Aria’s excited
smile.
Yeah, I am happy too when you successfully made
progress with Namuel’s route! Karmeut is mine, then!
"Thank God---!! Do
you remember the development afterward?"
"Of course, of
course! What happens afterward is---!!"
Aria paused. Then her
complexion began to turn white.
"What? What is it?!
Aria, what’s wrong?!"
"...what should I
do...?"
Aria's head turned slowly,
and her eyes were in tears.
What?!! Why all of a sudden?! Why? Why? Why?
"What’s wrong?! Why
are you crying?!!"
"---I must be
crazy... I must be crazy! Seriously! If I set a goal, I have to fix my habit of
looking only at it and rushing forward without hesitation!!"
After she said that, Aria,
who had pulled her hair random, shouted to me,
"Rainelle! Do you
remember anything about Namuel’s route?!"
"...huh? No? I played
this game a few years ago, so I can’t remember. And then I became a crow, and I
lost my intelligence. Oh! But I remember this. Some characters die depending on
the route."
"That's it!!"
"---Uh?"
"Depending on the
route, a character can die! There are two routes where a character, one is the
hidden Sedarun’s route, the other one is…!!"
Aria’s hesitation made me
feel like my blood went cold. I really don't want to make sure, but I still had
to, so I willed myself to barely open my mouth,
"...the other one, is
Namuel’s route?"
"I'm sorry, I'm
really sorry---!! I was too focused on how to deliver the Crobanlock to Namuel
and---!!"
Alas, I'm a fool, I’m a fool---!!
As I shouted that in my
head, I asked a question that made me sweat,
"...that, the character
who dies..."
"...Kar, meut."
I felt like my mind was
going blank at the worst answer...
"...You didn't tell
me on purpose, did you?"
The word popped out without me realizing it.
After saying that, I felt my inside boiling.
"Answer me! You don't think I'll help you
if you say that, so you didn't say it on purpose, did you? Answer me,
Adriana!!"
At that, Aria's blue eyes
shook, and I became angrier at her appearance that could not answer.
"Why can't you speak?
No way, did you really use me? Do you think I’m easy to manipulate because I'm
a crow and my intelligence has fallen? Hm? Is that it?"
"That's not---! It's
not like that!!"
Aria responded in high
volume. She then said as if to calm me,
"If I really deceived
you, I would have not said anything and just move on like there’s no problem. I
really didn't mean it. I couldn't think of anything else in my head because I
just wanted to get along with Namuel. I’m so sorry. I have nothing to say. But
I really, sincerely, seriously, didn't try to deceive you. Believe me. "
My heart became a bit calm
at that, because Aria's words were not exactly wrong.
If she really meant to deceive me, she wouldn't
have said it. It's just after she gave Namuel the Crobanlock today.
There’s no merit for her to talk about it in such a situation.
I can even coax Karmeut so that he can take the Crobanlock
from Namuel because she told me this.
I tried to calm down as I let out a long sigh.
Aria, who kept looking at
me, spoke carefully,
"...Did you calm down
a little?"
"...Yes."
"I mean ... do you
believe me?"
"I believe that you
wouldn't have talked at all if you were deceiving me. The rest, honestly, I
don't know."
Karmeut's life is hanging
here. I understood Aria’s words, but it didn't mean that I wasn’t angry.
"I understand. But
I’m still angry."
Aria's eyes drooped as she
nodded without rebuttal at my attitude.
"I made a mistake. In
the game and the real world, Namuel is not a person whose walls of the heart
are easy to break into, so I didn't think about anything else. Because I was
struggling to get over it. ---If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have
given him the Crobanlock for now."
I felt a little, just a
little bit relieved by seeing her behavior of covering her face with one hand
while muttering that with a discouraged face.
"...I can tell Karmeut to take
the Crobanlock."
Hearing that, Aria looked at me. After
hesitating, she said,
"---If it’s like the game, the
target character who had received the Crobanlock won’t give it away."
"This is a reality."
"Yes, of course. It's also true
that we can't predict how Namuel will behave. How about thinking of the in-game
story as a strategy book and referencing it? As long as Rainelle is here,
things won't go completely the same as the original. We have to hold on even to
straws now."
Her reluctance made a sigh leak out of
my lips.
"---Right. Then?"
"Think about it a little bit. The
urgent thing is that we make sure Karmeut doesn't
die."
"...Does that include
keeping your connection with Namuel?"
"...I value Namuel as
much as Rainelle value Karmeut. Of course I want to be a couple with the person
I like."
Even in this situation, I
was relieved by Aria's actions of answering me honestly.
...At least, she didn't lie.
"...Yeah, okay. The
reason I helped Aria was so that you can be together with Namuel and no one can
interfere in my relationship with Karmeut."
"...You’re being
honest, aren’t you?"
"Aria is also saying
honestly that you didn't want to give up Namuel, right?"
Aria laughed at that. I
also did not endure my laughter.
"The thing is, can we
save Karmeut without taking the Crobanlock from Namuel?"
"That’s the best
case. But if there’s no way, it's better to get rid of it, even if there's a
limit to stealing or destroying the
Crobanlock."
“…Is that alright?”
"A person only has one life, but
there is always a way to make up for the favorability of a gift. It also won’t
erase the fact that I have given the Crobanlock to him as a present."
As Aria said “So our focus should be
Karmeut’s life”, she was looking at me with seriousness. Sensing Aria’s
sincerity, I opened my mouth,
"How did Namuel’s
route continue based on the game?"
Aria thought momentarily and replied,
"As is the case with all target
characters, Namuel eats the Crobanlock. Of course, he thought a lot about
whether to use it for research or consume it, but when Namuel’s favorability of
the female lead continues to increase, he decides to eat it."
Aria and I moved to the sofa. It was
because the story seemed to be long. I listened to
her as she poured a cup of drink until she finally ask,
"Do you remember
anything more of Namuel’s route?"
"…The only other
thing I remember of him is that he is a noble."
"That's right. The
lineage. His father is the younger brother of the previous Emperor.
"Yeah. Huh? Then what
about his mother?"
"...his mother is the
problem. No, technically, she's a victim, too."
"...?"
What do you mean, ‘the mother's a victim,
too?’...?
When I stared at her
because I didn't know what she meant, Aria opened her mouth after gulping down her drink,
"Do you know Succubus and
Incubus?"
"...? I know. They’re the kind of
demons who make things labeled as "19-rated" just by them appearing,
right? They have the personality of sexual indulgence."
"They're the problem."
"...What?"
"In this game, Succubus and
Incubus borrowed others to get offspring. So... if an incubus is doing it with
a woman in her dream, she will be pregnant."
My mouth gaped at that.
"What is that?!!"
"To be exact, should I say that
they create mixed blood of demon and human by putting in their energy? ---Of
course, Incubus itself is not a high-ranking demon, so even if the child is
mixed... but it became a problem when the father is a figure of the Imperial
Family with wolf blood. And at the same time when the couple wrestled on the
bed… "
I had no choice but to
scream.
"What is that crazy
development!!"
"--- Let's blame the
story writer."
"Story writer you
XXX!!"
There can be such a coincidence?!! At the time
when the couple had a relationship and had a child, an Incubus did this and
that with Namuel's mother in her dream?!
"Of course, Namuel's
mother can't say she did that with an Incubus in her dream. No, did she even
realize it was an incubus?"
"That's not the
point!! So?! What will happen?!”
"...The blood of the
wolf and the magic energy of the incubus is a terrible combination.”
Oh, my head!! Don’t tell me what I imagined
will happen!
I reflexively grabbed my
head and groaned. Then I raised my eyes because of my crazy thoughts.
"Then! What if Namuel
eats Crobanlock?!"
"If the route is
successful, he will awaken as a wolf whose magic energy runs wild. Then, he
will kill Karmeut while he was berserk. When two wolves fight, they will attack
until one of them dies."
"Why?! Why?! Aren’t
there Guards? And Knights?!"
"First
of all, the blood of the wolf flowing through the Imperial Family is the blood
of an animal that assisted God, even if the blood is faded. In addition, Namuel
is a wizard, so he was used to magic. What happens?"
Aria's
eyes were empty as if all hope had vanished. Maybe I'm the same!
Damn it! Crazy! What is this? Aghhh!!!
"...it's
chaos, destruction, and oblivion!!"
"Let's
curse the writer again. XXX story writer should get bugs in their mouth!"
How can you make up such a crazy story?! You're
crazy!
"...Anyway,
in the end, with the magical power of love, Namuel comes to his senses and
calms down. And then Namuel takes over the vacant throne and becomes the
emperor."
"What
about Sepia?"
"Sepia? ---Oh, she
couldn't awaken..."
"I see."
The more I thought about
it, the more absurd it was, so I looked up at the ceiling at the absurd development.
Wow, the ceiling is gorgeous. Ha ha.
"---Rainelle? Don't escape
reality."
"…You really won’t let me take it
right now...?"
I was
even more devastated by Aria’s silent reaction.
Argh! What is this!! I want to avoid
mines, but I faced nuclear bombs instead!!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Why is it
like this!! Karmeut, noo!! Karmeut can't die!! "
"Now, calm down for a
second!"
"I can't calm down! How can I
calm down when the person I love is at stake?!"
"There is still some time left!
It's not going to happen right now! And that's a story of the game route, while
this is reality! So get a grip! Come to your senses!"
Then she said, “Even if you are caught
by a tiger, you will survive if you keep your cool1!”, so I replied to Aria,
"If I come to my sense, I will
die terribly, so wouldn’t it be better to faint?"
"Oh, seriously!! Don't interpret
it like that!!"
"Then take the Crobanlock right
away! We still have time, so we can do it through force!”
"Ahhhh! It's not
happening yet, so calm down for now!"
I
hit the cushion with my fist while shouting, "If it were you, would you
calm down?"
And suddenly my head was
clear at the thought that came to my mind.
"Myrdin-nim!"
"…What?"
"Aria, I will look
for a way, so you look for some ways too! It's better for both of us to have a
good ending, right? If I don’t think anything will work anymore, I’ll go take the Crobanlock. Do you really
agree with that?”
Aria hesitated, then she finally
nodded her head.
"...If it comes down to it,
that's better in many ways."
"Okay, I'll go now. I won't take
the Crobanlock without your consent, so rest assured.
Okay?"
I did not listen to her
answer as I turned into a crow and started heading to the Imperial Palace right
away.
Myrdin, and the crow who is over 60 years old.
I have more questions now. And more reasons why
I must gain power.
***
Notes:
1 A Korean proverb, meaning: Even facing the most dangerous situation or difficulty, one can survive if they keeps their composure and does not lose their cool. This proverb teaches people to be courageous and not to despair even in the most desperate situations.↩
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