The Maid In The Reverse Harem Game Wants To Quit - Chapter 110
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 110
Despite Edith’s sharp demeanor, as if telling her to stop being annoying and get to the point, Irene was unperturbed.
The reason she was here was pretty obvious.
“I’d like to ask you something. Even looking at the research records, there’s something that I still don’t understand.”
As she said so, Irene flipped through the research papers on the table. Within a few pages, the content she wanted was at her fingertips.
It was a study of Elios.
To be precise, the study of transforming Elios into a weapon and how to make it capable of erasing existence.
Elios was, to be precise, a shattered save record.
Fragments formed when Irene’s memories — her save records — were shattered as a result of her death. That was why Elios contained her emotions and why there were occasional broken records.
‘Perhaps the more I die, the more the amount of information accumulated in the fragments increases.’
The first time she died, it was only a record of the games she had. However, the next time she died, Irene’s feelings and her memories were captured together.
Edit took advantage of the fact that Elios was in contact with the foundation of the world and processed it into a weapon before using it to erase its existence from the record. In that way, she would be able to stop the system by permanently erasing the existence that endlessly reset the world or the existence that controlled fate, forever.
So, a question arose.
The part where Rodion has been using Elios to kill.
“Madam Edith put Elios into the hands of the Third Master, but the people the youngest master killed didn’t disappear from the world.”
Elios had been well utilized as a weapon of mass destruction.
And as far as she could remember, the people Rodion had killed in any life never disappeared from the record.
It wasn’t difficult to deduce the reason.
“Do you need something more to use it for the purpose Madam Edith mentioned, don’t you?”
Only by breaking the true seal of Elois with something that only Edith knew, something that even her research records couldn’t reveal, could she use it for her own purposes.
Edith, who had been silently listening to Irene’s words, raised her sharp glare and looked at her.
“So, you’re asking me to tell you that now? What are you trying to say?”
“Of course, I have nothing, but doesn’t Madam Edith need my help? Even with all your grand plans and brilliant mind, there’s nothing you can do if you’re stuck in a small room like this.”
It was only in the lab that she could possibly catch her off-guard, but the current Edith definitely had nothing.
“You don’t want to be locked up here waiting for death.”
“You really do care about me.”
Edith’s sarcasm didn’t faze Irene, and she called out to her in a more subdued voice.
“Madam Edith. We’re hoping for the same thing.”
To stop this tiresome game.
“I don’t want to let time go by any longer. I don’t want to be at the mercy of the system or fate anymore…”
The game had already changed a lot. Irene’s very existence was unwritten, and as a result, everything in this life was very much out of the game. The first chance she got at the end of her life was when she didn’t feel like giving up on life.
‘And maybe, it will be the last.’
She didn’t want to die… but she didn’t even have the confidence to repeat this life in exactly the same way.
It may be in the past that she misunderstood as being possessed here, but even more so now that she had remembered everything from the moment she accidentally died to the moment she chose to die of her own volition.
“You may think you can aim for the next life, but not me. This life is my last chance.”
“Is that because you’ve been through this life so many times, or is it because you’re a time manager?”
“…Did you know?”
“I couldn’t help but notice, because there’s someone who loves you so much.”
She was talking about Ahibalt.
Irene’s brow furrowed.
There was no way that Edith, who was sitting directly across from her, could’ve missed it, but she didn’t seem the least bit bothered.
“Even if it weren’t him, it wouldn’t have been difficult to guess. Isn’t it strange that you can read my password in the first place? Even if you don’t know how to read letters.”
Aside from that, in hindsight, it wasn’t hard to infer that Irene was a person who had been through time.
That unorthodox maturity, indifference, and affection were especially so.
Remembering Irene standing there with the basket of flowers, Edith turned away bitterly.
“I’ve always believed that the manager, if they really exist, must be an emotionless creature, because if they had emotions or if they had recognition, they wouldn’t have created this horrible thing… the endless spinning of time.”
But when the lid was lifted, the truth was very different from what Edith had expected. Those who felt their lives no different from a trap around their necks, worn and weathered as much as she was, no, maybe even more than her.
The victims of this world, who were forced to find a reason to live in the midst of it all…
As the thought reached her, Edith vaguely realized why Irene had come to see her. This was not to say that what Irene said was a lie, of course. She clearly came to ask about Elios, and she was hoping for the same thing as her.
Still, the reason why she was revealing it was simple. It was because the way she wanted was a little different from Edith’s.
“Irene, do you remember when I said I would use Elios to kill the manager?”
“…Of course.”
“My thoughts at that time haven’t changed. Are you asking me about Elios now to stop it?”
“No. I was just wondering if there was another way to do it.”
Was the death of one of the two managers really the only way to end this game? Wouldn’t it be okay to get rid of the other components of the system?
What Irene wanted was a way to stop the game without anyone dying.
Since Edith didn’t realize that this world was a game, she might have had the idea of removing the managers from the game altogether, but Irene didn’t think so.
She didn’t want to die. In her life, the early summer day full of the scent of green plums she remembered was still in full bloom. In the maid’s day that started much earlier than most, she couldn’t get over the thrill in her heart every time she greeted the dawn as it peeled away the night through the translucent glass.
Irene was rather surprised to find that her lust for life was more severe than she thought it would be.
‘But, I can’t do that at the expense of others.’
What was the meaning of a life obtained at the expense of others? If that was the person she loved more than life itself?
Irene remembered the night before.
Soon after she went through all of Edith’s research records, she came to the conclusion that I should meet her.
“Young Master, I think I should meet Madam Edith.”
The last time she went to tell Ahibalt the story.
A dull room decorated in dark colors.
Irene stared at the room, which wasn’t in the least bit to Ahibalt’s taste. Since he always entrusted her with all the decorations in his room, naturally, his room was decorated according to her taste.
In keeping with the slightly darker color scheme, the furniture was made of gold rather than silver ornaments, and the cupboards were organized with straightforward covers that didn’t have the usual lace. The scenery that was always the same had only one thing different from the past lives.
The portrait of Ahibald hung on the wall.
‘This is the first time I’ve seen it finished.’
There was always an episode of 「 A Blood Stained Portrait 」 before she saw the finished product, and the blood-covered portrait would be discarded without ever seeing the light of day.
It didn’t happen in this life.
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Translator’s Note: Hello, it’s Nabi! I’m the translator of this novel ପ( ๑•ᴗ•๑ )ଓ♡ If you like the novel and would like to support me, please feel free to click the button below to go to my kofi~! Thank you so much for always supporting the novels I work on, even if you don’t buy me a coffee, I really do appreciate it a lot. ❤︎
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