I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Although a certain mustachioed man has done a very good job reforming his country, there is still no shortage of turmoil.

Some innocent and not innocent people were implicated in the changes in the country, some losing their lives and others losing their entire families.

Well, unless Gray and Karl are the kind of people who sell bread for 500,000 marks and can't even fit it in a carriage—the kind of people who will suffer future retribution—they will most likely be affected by some upheaval from time to time.

Unless they are targeted because of their special circumstances, then it would be an unexpected event if nothing unexpected happened.

"Hey, Mercury, have you heard about the recent vampire incident?"

In a Berlin shop that sells fortune telling and other interesting trinkets, Razer and Mercury, rather than acting like gods, were lounging on two deck chairs playing PSP games. While playing different games, Razer suddenly sensed the strange atmosphere that had been lingering near the city lately.

I felt that he must have been told that some pre-arranged actors had offered themselves up.

"I heard that. If you count the time, that little vampire who was raised as both an older sister and a mother should have grown up by now."

Mercury Serpent stared intently at everything displayed on its game console screen, its face practically pressed against the wallpaper and game images of Mario.

Mercury Serpent knew exactly who Lei Zhe was referring to regarding the vampire incident: a certain arrogant young man with some vampire traits whom he had his eye on as an actor aspiring to be.

"Hey..."

Mercury, with a silly grin on his face, played the text-based game that Rezhe had specially created for him. He innocently and foolishly tried to win over the game character on the game screen, whose face and voice were exactly the same as Mary's.

To cater to this guy's tastes, Rezhe created a game that this guy wanted him to know how to get closer to Mary.

To put it bluntly, let Lei Zhe, who has experience, teach this guy who is unexpectedly innocent and foolish when it comes to the person he likes, some advice.

Rezhe refused immediately. Why? Because Mary was as immature as a child.

Giving Mercury advice on how to seduce Mary? It's like teaching a pervert how to lure an innocent and pure young woman.

Lei Zhe's reason was very valid: he couldn't bring himself to make a move on a woman who wasn't mentally mature. Even when he was with Xiao You, who was like a child, he hadn't done anything out of line.

Now, at the sunset beach, Tohka is playing with Mary. Mary learned about the differences between boys and girls from Tohka, so her relationship with Suigintou is not the same as before.

This was incredibly painful for Mercury, who was also jealous of the playmate his best friend had found for Mary. The fact that Mary wouldn't talk to him was worse than the sky falling down, so he started pestering Razer relentlessly.

Although he was narcissistic, he couldn't be narcissistic with Mary. Later, Rezer couldn't stand it anymore, so he built a game console for him, so that this socially awkward guy could learn how to get along with girls.

The way Mercury Serpent was devastated and furious after playing the game almost made Reiji laugh to death.

The game that Mercury created, created by Razer, featured incredibly human-like changes and a deductive growth code for Mary's personality.

Simply put, although you are the protagonist in this game, the game is very close to reality. Razer maliciously added a "Lotus Charcoal" to the game to allude to Mercury Serpent.

Mercury Serpent, who seems clumsy in his attempts to win over Mary, is known to those familiar with him for his eccentric and annoying personality.

After being "minoed" by a certain game character named Lian Tan in the game, the entire snake was in bad shape.

Anyway, Lei Zhe vividly remembers Mercury Serpent being so angry that she cried blood and muttered something like, "Why can't you even give me a hug? I clearly..." and "Mary ahhhhh..." and other such broken words.

"You're exactly the same as the future you were shown back then."

Turning his head to look at Mercury Serpent, who was playing the game with a perverted grin, Lei Zhe gave him a sarcastic remark and then turned off his own game console.

"Aaaaaah!! Why has my beloved Mary's affection for me dropped so much again? My dear friend, this game must have a bug!!!"

Suddenly, Mercury Serpent, who was playing the game with a perverted grin, froze and started screaming in despair.

Because Mary in the game inexplicably rejected and disliked him, the affection he had painstakingly built up suddenly dropped to the crisis level of being just friends.

He angrily handed the game console to Lei Zhe, wanting an explanation from him.

Lei Zhe raised an eyebrow slightly. How could a guy who specializes in playing and creating games allow a game to have bugs?

After taking the game console and checking it to make sure there were no problems, I looked at what Mercury Serpent had done in the game and was so angry that I laughed.

"Besides Mary, all the characters in the game have a completely negative feeling towards you, and you actually killed Mary's friends who could talk to her behind her back! Even though my game has a lot of freedom, it can't withstand this kind of messing around!"

Reiji gives Mercury a very high degree of freedom in the game; there are almost no dialogue options, and you have to fill in the dialogue yourself to complete it.

As a result, this guy Mercury Serpent, besides trying to increase Mary's favorability, treated other game characters very badly, and even killed a certain minotaur's "Lotus Charcoal" multiple times behind Mary's back.

It's said that the game has a high degree of freedom, and the characters in the game also have their own interactions. Mary learns about Mercury Serpent's actions from others, so it would be strange if her favorability rating didn't drop.

Although she didn't say anything to Mercury or blame him, her silence was the most damaging and emotionally manipulative thing she could do to him.

"Huh? The other guys are just decorations to embellish the time Mary and I spend together. Why should we care about their feelings?"

Mercury Serpent responded with a disdainful and arrogant expression. This guy was really nasty to everyone except Razer and Mary.

It's said that Yoru's personality in Kagura: The Curse of the Gods is very similar to that of a young Suigintou, and it seems that's true; aside from being narcissistic, he really is self-centered.

He didn't dislike anyone; in fact, he viewed all living beings in the world with equality and respect, except for Mary and Razer.

"Heh, if Mary develops a friendship or something similar with the mortal she looks down on, and you sabotage that relationship, Mary will be caught in a dilemma. One is an old friend who has been with her all along, and the other is a new friend who was killed because of her. With Mary's naive and kind nature, she will definitely keep her grief to herself."

Seeing Mercury Serpent's arrogant and cocky attitude, Lei Zhe chuckled and sighed, lamenting that this guy's interpersonal relationships were indeed a complete failure.

Almost everyone in the original story dislikes this guy. Given his awkward and self-centered personality, it's really unrealistic for him to win Mary's heart.

Mercury Serpent's face slowly darkened upon hearing this, as he recalled the Minotaur's "Lotus Charcoal" in the game.

Lei Zhe's words were very similar to those of Lian Tan, who had a good relationship with Mary in the game and had yelled at him harshly, saying that he was arrogant.

Saying it's for the goddess, but it's all just for personal satisfaction, ignoring the feelings of the person you like is really awful.

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Chapter Forty-Nine: The Pure White Killer, Wolfgang Schreiber

"Karl, when you like someone, you have to think more about their feelings, even if it means making some changes to yourself. People who like each other will be considerate of each other's feelings. This kind of mutual confiding is very complicated, and love cannot be explained in just a few words."

Lei Zhe tossed the game console back into Mercury Serpent's arms, then patted the other's shoulder, offering a slightly meaningful warning.

If you continue to be so self-centered towards the people you like, the process and consequences won't be good.

Lei Zhe is willing to do things he hates and make changes for Xiao You and Xiao Sheng, whom he likes, and Xiao You and Xiao Sheng are equally capable of doing the same.

Love is mutual, not for self-satisfaction. Sometimes it is precisely because we cannot satisfy each other that we want to pour out more feelings.

The deeper meaning behind Rezhe's words can only be understood intuitively, not explained in words. Only by experiencing it firsthand can one truly comprehend what it means. The Mercury Serpent only fulfilled half of the first condition Rezhe mentioned.

He did change some things for Mary, but his essential nature remained largely unchanged. Thinking of this, Mercury Serpent sighed silently and said:

"My infatuation with flowers is unstoppable. Perhaps my dear friend is right, part of my love for the goddess is for my own self-redemption."

Mercury's life motto is to turn all the unknown into the known, and meeting Razer and Mary is the greatest unknown in Mercury's life.

The former is dazzling and alluring, while the latter is warm and pure.

"Let's not talk about romantic relationships for now. The people you've been looking at lately are almost ready to be picked, and your self-destructive factor, Reinhardt, is almost exhausted."

Reiji told Mercury Serpent about the person the other party had chosen, as well as the matter of the self-destruct factor. Mercury Serpent also knew about Reinhardt's situation and had secretly observed him.

"And in the past month, that vampire has committed dozens of murders, and all of them have had their blood drained. You didn't actually turn that guy, who only has some vampire traits, into a real vampire, did you?"

Wilhelm Ereberg, also known as the vampire boy in Reiji and Mercury's words, is someone who, despite resembling a vampire, is merely a person with some vampire traits who cannot bear the light and craves darkness.

Mercury Serpent smiled with a strange, amused expression. "After all, the interesting alternate worlds you brought, my dear friend, are not lacking in vampires. With the Grand Secret of Eternal Destruction that you modified, this place probably won't be able to stand up to the challenge without some enhancements."

Indeed, Razer brought Mercury many interesting alternate dimensions, and he didn't care at all whether those worlds had vampires or not.

The Black Round Table spell's mercury is already prepared for Reinhardt; his role as the actor is meant to put pressure on the goddess.

Although Mercury Serpent viewed Reinhardt as a friend and son he wanted to befriend, he believed that both were worth sacrificing for the goddess.

After all, it was his self-destruction; fate and karma had already been predetermined, so why not take advantage of it?

"That's true. This country, which is undergoing a life-or-death transformation, is not lacking in 'talent' at all."

A smile suddenly appeared on Reizer's face. The current business environment in Germany is very bad because the war has caused great suffering to the people in the country through expansion.

Germany, situated on the line between life and death, faced either madness or annihilation.

Even in the deep darkness of night, pedestrians still wander outside the windows of small shops, though there are many more homeless people among them.

Suddenly, a pair of scarlet points of light appeared in the shadows inside the shop. The blood-red eyes, which looked like eyes, were very bright, and the owner of the red eyes slowly emerged from the shadows.

It was a ghostly ninja with blue-gray skin, wearing a black ninja outfit, and having a pair of evil red eyes.

It came from a certain shadow kingdom in a certain plane. After Reiji obtained this shadow plane and understood its essential structure, he directly gave it to Liselotte to use as his army.

Mercury Serpent was not surprised by the sudden appearance of the ghostly ninja. Although the ninja had combat abilities, he was only used by Mercury and Raize as an intelligence scout.

Once Raiji and Suigin activate their omniscience, they will know everything. However, the two people who are currently enjoying themselves will not do anything that is both overpowered and unfun. Therefore, these Shadow Ninjas are needed to deliver the information.

The Shadow Legion's soldiers can transform into shadows and move freely across any ground or wall.

They move silently in the world of shadow space, and under the guidance of soldiers, summoners can travel through space using the shadow dimension.

Each shadow soldier possesses agile movements and martial arts skills, and also has the ability to conjure weapons from their shadows.

Because they are formed from shadows, and each of them has red eyes, they never need to eat or sleep.

The ghostly ninja who appeared beside Rai Zhe handed a scroll to his master and then disappeared into the shadows without a word.

These ninjas have no language system. Apart from the master of the Shadow Kingdom and his generals who were killed by Raize, the others are just soldiers who obey their masters' orders.

Lei Zhe felt more comfortable using such a convenient and efficient tool as a subordinate on Earth.

"Hmm, it seems like another suitable guy has come knocking on our door. Want to come with me to check him out?"

After glancing at the information on the scroll, Razer suddenly sensed something that night, stood up, turned around, and invited Mercury, who had already restarted the game, to join him.

Mercury Serpent glanced at the night view outside the window, then at the game in its hand, and finally decided to get down to business, replying:

"Hopefully tonight won't be too boring."

After closing the shop door, Rai Zhe and Mercury moved towards the shadows of the room and sank in, just like the Shadow Ninja before.

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Because the vampire rumors have already caused a great deal of trouble, and in addition to the casualties caused by vampires, there are other beings that roam the night and harm lives.

Even though the life in the metropolis should not be over yet, the nights in Berlin are quieter than usual.

Apart from homeless people huddled in dark corners, there weren't many guys actually taking a walk at night.

Two men, using the aliases Gray and Carl, walked into a secluded alley near the slums.

Dilapidated buildings, foul smells, and anarchic-like security are the defining characteristics of this place.

Lei Zhe and Mercury didn't care about their surroundings. No matter how prosperous or declining a country was, it couldn't give them any sense of novelty or unique unknown moments. It was no different from the present.