Tales Saga Chronicle - 5

Have you heard of the game called Tales Saga Chronicle?

Wow! You know about it!

It's really a god-tier game.

 

 

[Game Over]

 

 

"Alright. Should I quit?"

 

 

Tales Saga Chronicle.

A game with a name that sounds unusual, which can be translated in a rather strange way as 'Story Story Story'.

This game is the work of the Game Development Department, often called the Game Dev Club, who are the main characters of Blue Archive's main story Vol.2 'Clockwork Flower Pavane'.

 

 

I heard that it won 'Worst Game of the Year' in the story, so I was curious and played it.

 

 

After playing for a few hours, I came to the conclusion that this isn't a game that 'might' be bad like Blue Archive.

This is a bad game that is impossible to defend.

It's a bad game that makes you want to smash it with a shield.

In the story, it was said that this game even caused robots to malfunction, and after experiencing it, I can see why.

 

 

'Reboot. An emotion that cannot be explained in the text has occurred.'

'I think I know what that is! It's like excitement or anticipation. That kind of emotion!'

'No matter how I think about it, it seems like anger or confusion...'

 

 

The lines of the Game Dev Club members flashed through my mind.

I'm only human, so I can't memorize the lines perfectly, but I remember the gist of it.

A game that makes even a robot, who couldn't even speak properly, feel anger and confusion.

A game that even causes an error in the robot's processing due to dizziness.

A game that makes the robot say 'Just kill me already' after clearing it once...!

 

 

After experiencing it, I understand.

This is not an emotion that can be explained away as anger or confusion.

I've played a lot of games, to the point where I can say that I'm a hardcore gamer.

My main game was a pretty girl gacha game, but I've also experienced all sorts of absurd indie games.

But even I feel an 'indescribable emotion' boiling up inside me due to this insane absurdity.

 

 

First of all, the fact that it's set in 'Cosmos Century 2354' even though it's supposed to follow an authentic fantasy setting is mind-boggling.

Even though I forgot the details of the Clockwork Flower Pavane, it took me an hour just to get through the beginning.

My gamer's pride wouldn't let me look at a walkthrough.

It told me to press the B button, but when I did, it was game over. To get through, I had to press the A button.

I'm holding a sword, but some guy who looks like a level 1 mob is holding a gun and instantly kills me.

 

 

Is this human? Is this something a human would do?

The game is full of misleading guides that you would see in a troll map in a certain plumber maker game.

And you get instantly killed by a gun that wouldn't kill you in real life, so you have to aim for a no-damage clear that makes Dark Souls look easy.

 

 

What's even funnier is that this isn't a 3D game where you can move in all six directions, but an SD retro game. The directions you can dodge are limited.

 

 

"Ugh... I think I'm going crazy..."

 

 

In the middle of the game, Momoi and Midori's lack of vocabulary caused words that seemed similar but had completely different meanings to suddenly pop out without considering the context, which was an added bonus that made the player uncomfortable.

 

 

As the story progressed, not only the insane difficulty and absurdity of the game, but also the strange vocabulary that made me want to call grammar Nazis to give them a taste of their own medicine, and the story that would never be understood by someone in the 3rd dimension, were shattering my mentality like a cookie.

 

A vegetative state male... a friend from another parent...

The mother is the heroine or the wife from a past life...

 

"E...error..."

 

I think even the most determined Korean would have to give up...

No...I am a determined Korean...I can do it...

 

 

"Re...Reboot..."

 

 

Due to the repeated mental pain, only words, not sentences, came out of my mouth.

Even if Aris could speak fluently from the beginning, I think she would have forgotten her language because of this game.

 

 

"I am a gamer...a descendant of Koreans who can do anything when it comes to games...a person who shouts 'totally possible' when no one else shouts 'possible'. I am Korean!"

 

 

I'm a Trinity student now, so I shouldn't be boasting about being Korean. It would be more appropriate to boast about being British.

I had a moment of weakness, but I pulled myself together with self-suggestion and put my hands on the keyboard.

Would it have been easier if I had played with a controller?

No, this absurd game would have been difficult no matter what I used.

 

 

"There's not much left. Let's do our best."

 

 

I remember Aris saying that she passed out when she encountered the insane word 'friend from another parent', and the green and pink haired girls next to her said that it was almost the climax and to hang in there...

Just a little more.

 

 

(3 AM)

 

 

"Ha...haha...ha...I won..."

 

 

I think Aris said she cleared it in 3 hours with the help of the creator...

I cleared it at 3 AM.

The playtime is...about 9 hours...

 

 

There were no hints about the guide's absurdity, so I had no choice but to try different methods, and I had to memorize the distance, trajectory, and attack patterns of the bullets that flew at speeds that were almost impossible to avoid, and predict them with the big data in my head.

But I did it.

I did it! Midori, Momoi! I won! This crappy game, I cleared it!

 

 

I don't know what I won, but an unknown sense of victory enveloped me.

I looked around with excitement.

 

 

A keyboard that was half-destroyed from being hit in the middle.

A mouse that was dented from being pressed too hard due to a failure to control my anger.

Energy bar wrappers piled up in front of the computer.

My haggard appearance from sitting in front of the computer for 9 hours.

4 hours until school.

 

 

When I faced reality, I suddenly became calm.

 

 

It turns out that it was the game that I won.

I won the battle, but reality was ruined.

 

 

I'm screwed.

This girl's body has been living as a well-behaved child, so even though it's only 3 AM, I'm exhausted after the 9-hour-long journey, and I feel sleepy.

If I sleep now...I won't be able to wake up tomorrow...

 

 

"Haaa..."

 

 

I know in my head that if I sleep now, I won't be able to wake up.

Even if the alarm goes off, I probably won't be able to wake up.

Rationally, it's better to hold out for the remaining 4 hours, then hold out in a dazed state until lunch, and then pass out for an hour during lunch. I know that.

 

 

It's better to sleep for 30 minutes to an hour than to sleep for 3-4 hours when it comes to recovering from fatigue.

It's called the law of inertia. The longer you sleep, the harder it is to wake up.

 

 

But the temptation of the bed behind me was too strong.

The bed is...beckoning me to lie down...

 

 

My reason is warning me not to lie down. It's warning me that I'll pass out as soon as I lie down, but my body won't listen.

I staggered towards the bed and

 

 

-Thud

 

 

 

I ended up lying down.

The last thing I remember was the soft sensation that enveloped my body when I finally gave in to the temptation and lay down.

 

 

"Snore...snore..."

 

 

*********

 

 

I woke up in the morning and looked at the clock.

 

 

(11:09 AM)

 

 

I'm completely screwed.

I'm already disliked, and now there's one more thing to hold against me.

Truancy.

If I don't want to get caught, I have to behave properly, but now the kids who hate me will say things like

'Wow, she was also truant. She must be out of her mind.'

'How rude to be absent without even telling the school.'

'You couldn't come to school because you couldn't control your sleep schedule because you were playing games at dawn? It's shameful that such a stupid person attends Trinity. As a fellow student, I'm ashamed.'

I'm going to hear such harsh words.

Just imagining it makes me not want to go...

 

 

I heard about this in the Azusa chapter. These girls are elegant ladies, so they don't bully with force or directly.

However according to Hanako, they bully in a more underhanded way.

 

 

I'm afraid to go to school.

How am I supposed to go to school from now on...

What if Hifumi gets tired of me and leaves...?

 

 

If only I was in Gehenna...or a school where only a handful of students come to school!

I wouldn't have worried like this. I would have lived as a member who proudly skips school.

Why did the person who sent me here send me to Trinity when they hate me so much! I don't want to go to school either!

Why did they put me in a high school, which I've already been to, and in a ladies' school where the atmosphere is so uncomfortable?

 

 

Was it because I'm a urine? Did I have no choice because I'm a urine?

This is honey-like discrimination!

 

 

While lamenting my fate, I organized my thoughts and changed my clothes.

It would be better to be late than to be truant... That was my thought.

Even so, I didn't forget to take a morning shower and brush my teeth to make myself look presentable.

 

 

I'm already going to get caught for being late, but if I don't look presentable, I'll get hit even more.

Even if I'm late, being even later won't get me hit more, but if there are other factors, I'll get hit more.

It's best not to expose any more weaknesses.

 

 

In the mirror stood a girl who looked like she was a little clumsy, but still had a cute and pretty appearance.

The clumsy grooming seemed to highlight the girl's airheadedness and make her look even cuter.

That description is about me, so it's objectively self-absorbed...

I was just looking at myself from a male perspective. It's not self-absorbed.

And if I'm this cute, isn't it okay to be self-absorbed?

 

(12:13 PM)

 

It took me over an hour to get ready, even though I'd never done it before.

Even so, I wasn't mentally tired, so I guess "Tales Saga Chronicle" made me mentally stronger.

It's a really great game.

Really...I'm so grateful...

 

 

Due to the long period of concentration, I had a mental shield against this kind of grooming, but reality is reality.

The current situation caused by 'Tales Saga Chronicle' is hitting me mentally.

Is this the famous saying, 'Give a disease and then give medicine'?

The disease is too painful to be covered by medicine.

 

 

I made up my mind and went to school.

As soon as I entered the front gate, I felt gazes.

Ugh...I think I'm going to get a stomachache...

 

 

As I walked, feeling like an animal in a zoo, Hanako spoke to me.

Hanako...the former Trinity student with perfect scores in all subjects. The current maker of dirty jokes. The character in charge of the laugh track in the story, whose mouth is full of dirty jokes.

I don't know if I was close to Hanako...but since she spoke to me, I should respond.

 

 

"Oh my, Kanshi. Hello."

 

 

"Ah, yes...hello..."

 

 

"I heard from Hifumi. You were very sick this morning, weren't you? Are you feeling better now?

 

Ah. I get it now.

Since I didn't come, Hifumi contacted them for me.

Since Hifumi is a self-proclaimed ordinary high school girl who is favored by the Tea Party, it was possible.

 

Thank goodness...

I let out a sigh of relief in my mind.

 

"Yes. After sleeping until 12 o'clock, I felt refreshed. I think it was a cold caused by lack of sleep."

 

"Oh dear, this is why sleep management is important...yes."

 

"You're right. I think I should be a little more careful from now on."

 

As I was talking to Hanako, I didn't feel anything strange.

Maybe she hasn't become a perverted lady armed with dirty jokes yet.

No way...

 

"By the way."

 

"Yes?"

 

Is my brain rotten because I can predict what she's about to say here?

I tried to interrupt her with a question because I knew she was going to say a dirty joke, but Hanako was faster.

 

 

"I can't imagine Kanshi having a lack of sleep. Ah...! I see... How passionate were you at night? Maybe you're as diligent in your nightlife as you are in your daily life...?"

 

 

"P-Please be quiet!"

 

 

That girl says sexual things whenever she opens her mouth!

I strongly hit the head of the dirty joke machine to physically shut her mouth.

And I tried to run away while Hanako was still in shock...

 

 

Hanako shouted loudly.

 

 

"Kanshi~! Call me when you catch a cold! I'll rush over to stick a green onion in your pretty butt...urk"

 

"Please be quiet!"

 

After that, I reported Hanako to the Justice Task Force for sexual harassment, and she was arrested.

The gazes around me were quite different today, and they were gazes of compassion for me, who was being harassed by Hanako.