CH 16

There are a total of four characters in the game ❬The Garden of Guardians❭. Two of them were normal, and the other two were crazy.

Belita was confident that if someone asked her which of the two guys she wanted to avoid the most, she would say Noah Elsius, one of the two insane men, without any hesitation.

It is this red man who’s pouring blood right in front of me.

“…….”

Belita wanted to hit her forehead hard. It’s nowhere else, but in this dark alley, she  can’t believe she’s encountered Noah Elsius, who’s bleeding from whatever he’s been hit by.

Has she ever been mean to someone? Maybe someone who has deep regrets about himself is throwing this ordeal at her?

Otherwise, there is no reason for this situation to occur.

“I feel like you know who I am. Haha, then I really can’t let you go. How do I do it?”

He giggled as he continued to pour out dark red blood in contrast to his pale, tired complexion.

Belita, who was thinking about just running like this, became suspicious at the moment. Noah Elsius was the best wizard in the empire to match the setting of a target character.

But why is he acting like this? Even looking at the color of the blood, who can make Noah like that?

Is he really Noah Elsius?

“Ah. I guess I look pretty good right now. You can’t take my eyes off me.”

But as soon as she looked closely at him, Belita hurriedly turned her eyes at his words.

Noah Elsius was the only man in the world who would vomit blood like that and laugh magically enough to distort the tear spots around his eyes, and it was a problem if there were two.

Belita, convinced that he was Noah, lowered her eyes and pressed her hood deeper. She was glad she was wearing a robe. Noah will not recognize her because she is covering her face in the dark.

“It’s nice to see you being obedient.”

Whether Noah laughed at her or not, Belita glanced back. Even if Noah Elsius, one of the male characters, was poisoned, he wouldn’t have died like this here.

So she wanted to jump right away, but her feet didn’t fall off the ground. She had never created a setting where Noah became poisoned as soon as the tutorial started.

In other words, the current situation was not planned.

What if this has something to do with what made her come into this world and what she changed?

So what if there’s a mishap where he dies before the full story begins?

What if she turns a blind eye and eventually he dies?

“It’s changing.”

She couldn’t just wait and see. Noah Elsius dying here wasn’t part of her plan. As a result, it would be a big problem if the story was all twisted.

“[Inventory].”

When Belita, who made a quick decision, shouted the starting word, an inventory window emerged that steadily became her secret warehouse for three years. Inside, there were all the bottles she had packed just in case.

She took out one of the darkest and brightest green bottles of them and threw it lightly at Noah, who looked at her suspiciously.

Tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, rung…….

The sound of the bottle rolling was heard, and soon it hit Noah’s foot and stopped.

“…….”

“…….”

The quiet alley has become so quiet that it is now impossible to fix it.

It’s weird. It’s so weird.

Obviously, she only handed him the bottle with a very good intention of saving him – of course, she threw it too scared to get close to him – but why does she feel like she’s being red-handed? Even the sound was very similar to the sound of a coin rolling.

And it didn’t seem to be Belita alone.

Noah, who was watching what rolled forward, soon smiled at Belita. Very brightly, like a poisonous flower. Like he wants to kill Belita with that poison right now.

“Oh, you want to die?”

Belita shuddered at the creepy voice. It was a misunderstanding. She really didn’t mean it.

“Don’t get me wrong. It’s an antidote, and I’m just throwing it because I’m scared to get close to you.”

Belita raised her hands above her head, saying it was a really good intention.

“I don’t know what poison it is, but it will neutralize it to some extent.”

“Oh, you’re going to make me look pathetic because I’m poisoned? It’s amazing. It’s not like you don’t know who I am.”

“Who are you?”

Belita immediately pretended not to know.

“I don’t know who you are. I was just on my way home, and I found a man who was poisoned and I was just trying to save him. I’m a good person.”

“To give this precious thing to a dying person. It’s dazzling as if an angel has come down.”

“……Yes, let’s just say so.”

He was also not an ordinary man, but his sarcasm was no match to Luger.

So let’s get out of here. She’s now free.

It was when Belita tried to take a step back, looking around.

“Where are you going?”

Noah, who quickly noticed it, breathed out a sharp energy.

“If you don’t want your wings pulled out, stay where you are.”

That meant he was about to break her leg.

Belita was honestly a little scared, but no matter how good Noah was, he was a long way from chasing her with that body.

She doesn’t have a wing, but she actually has a similar one.

“I can’t stay on the ground because I’m scared. I’ll fly to the sky while my wings are still fine, so look carefully. Who knows, you might see me in the sky on a clear day?”

Belita, who is as sarcastic as Noah, smiled at him as he leaned hard against the wall.

Red-brown hair, bright red eyes, and decadent beauty that goes very well with him.

If it weren’t for this situation, her heart might have fluttered without realizing it. At least, should she think it’s a good thing that their first meeting is like this? It seemed that there would never be a good thing for the author in the future.

“Bye, then.”

After talking, Belita turned around and started running away, no matter what Noah shouted. And when the distance widened to some extent, she quietly shouted while looking in the air.

“Rahil!”

With a whispery cry, someone jumped down from the roof of a low building. Even in the dark, amber and blue eyes shone like cats.

“Come on, jump!”

As Belita reached out her hands, Rahill picked her up and started running at high speed. Belita closed her eyes tightly in his arms because it was so hard to open her eyes.

“………Can I not kill him?”

Rahil, who was running without losing his breath, asked quietly. Belita still nodded without opening her eyes.

“Of course. I was nervous that you would run out, but I held it in well. Well done.”

Belita patted Rahill’s strong shoulder.

Since their first meeting three years ago, Rahill and Roxa twins have never left her side. Even if something happened, one of the two always stayed by her side and protected her. Since Olden was a place where only selfish things gathered, each person’s residence was divided, so the twins could protect her without being caught by anyone.

The Tan twins, which were once very scary, now only looked cute like a wolf following her after a few things. Of course, a wolf is a wolf, so she didn’t know when they would bite her and run away.

“If he had hurt you, he would have run away.”

Belita smiled lightly as Rahill grumbled.

“And he’s in danger. If you think you’re going to have a problem, you should rather kill him now.”

“Did you feel his power?”

“…….”

There was no answer. When she opened her eyes slightly, she could see his jaw, which was tightly tightened.

It was understandable that the Tan twins were strong enough to make even the emperor uncomfortable.

He must have hated to admit that Noah Elsius was so strong that he couldn’t guarantee the match against him because he was so proud.

“I can win if I have Roxa.”

When Belita stared at him, Rahill grumbled in the end. Belita held back a burst of laughter.

These days, she has become delighted watching cute twins’ tricks.

Beep beep.

But her laughter didn’t last very long. Suddenly, the sound of the system ringing in her ears hardened her face.

It’s ringing because a new notification appeared regarding the game, but why is this sound coming now?

As soon as Belita opened her eyes wide, a white system window popped up in front of her.

[Hidden quest] 

[You encountered Noah Elsius, who was poisoned at Gallen’s back alley. The conditions for the hidden ending have been met! 

[A new route where you can see the ending of “Noah Elsius” will open!] 

“Oh my god.”

Rahill, who was running fast, stopped when she swallowed her breath without realizing what was unbelievable. But Belita was in such a state of shock that she didn’t notice it.

‘Hidden Ending? A new route? ‘What is this?’

No matter how many times she reads it, the content never changes. Instead, the window moved slowly and wrote a new text under it.

As if her fate had been decided, a bright red letter resembling the man.

[Opening the hidden ending] 

[❬Noah Elsius❭ The route has been opened! You can see the hidden ending according to the user’s choice!] 

“Noah Elsius’s… Root?”

“Belita?”

At her strange appearance Rahill grabbed her arm and shook it, but Belita didn’t notice it. The system window is only visible to her, so he may not have understood the situation.

But Belita was in no mood to answer his questions.

It was three years ago when she met the ‘conditions’ of the new route.

‘It was just a condition then, but now the route is open.’

So, the root of the conditions at that time was Noah Elsius’s?

“It’s crazy.”

Belita’s mouth spat out a curse. Of all things, of all things, it’s not anyone else, but the root of Noah Elsius?

Why, why the hell!

‘No, I didn’t mean to tie him up with Margarita, there are still two decent guys! Why, why, why one of the crazies!

Belita barely swallowed what she wanted to scream and tore her hair off.’

What do you mean, Noah Elsius?

He’s… He’s…… !

‘Even in the happy ending, he’s the villain who kidnaps and imprisons the heroine!’

The ending of Noah Elsius Route passed in front of her eyes like a lantern.

At this point, Belita didn’t scream, she just wanted to cry. It was the first time she was so shocked since she entered the game.

“It’s ruined, it’s ruined.”

Belita eventually covered her face with her hands and sat on the floor. Next to her, Rahill was flustered, but she couldn’t bear to care about him.

Belita thought. She must be really here in this world because of a deep regret.

It might be the regret for creating this kind of world.

(t/n: I’m so curious who’s going to be the ml for this story. I thought it was Austin at first, but could it be Noah? )