I had just finished one of the best games I have ever played, only to look up and find I was no longer in my room, but kneeling in the bloody sand of a colossal, sun-baked fighting arena.

How did this happen?

How did things go from playing a video game to being transported into the body of a background character within the game, who was exonerated and abandoned due to not having as much magical potential as the rest of the family?

…A character who was doomed to die a very horrible death right at the beginning of the game?

I let go of Celeste's dead body and it fell to the ground with a dull, sickening thud.


"She… she killed herself?… Why? Why did she…"


Just as I was still in the shock of what had just happened, a notification appeared to my side.


[Available Karma points: N 2,355 / P 150]


I snapped my gaze to the notification. Though surprised, I suspected it was because of my act of trying to save Celeste that I earned the positive Karma points. I turned back to look at her corpse one last time. Though it made no sense that she had just suddenly killed herself, I couldn't dwell on it, because I had no time to. 


Turning away from her corpse and quickly returning my attention to the battlefield, I reached into my inventory and pulled out another mana elixir. Bonds used the mana of their bearers, and since Aika was fighting nonstop, I was running dangerously low again.


Chapter 46 - Aziz’s Beautiful Garden [14]