I Became a Stalker in a Yandere Dating Sim

9. Crisis and Enlightenment

Isaow, who possessed Rokseo, gulped down saliva as he faced the sunset.

In this game, because Rokseo constantly stalked,

From what he knew, the protagonist’s feelings for Rokseo defaulted to ‘hostility’.

When he played the game, he himself tightly grasped Rokseo, who was the protagonist.

Seeing the protagonist who abruptly approached, he broke into a cold sweat.

He had not possessed the protagonist just before he was going to do something to draw the protagonist’s wrath, like other possessed characters.

Rokseo always brought an entourage, like an unlucky fellow.

Like an outstation buffet, he always had plenty of followers.

Of course, the cost of all this and the followers were directed at the person who was possessed.

So Jane’s action against Rokseo.

It was akin to a hitman asking if his target had any last words.

Of course, Jane didn’t mean that.

But her sharp eyes, which made even her pretty face look sinister, were misunderstanding.

Even to the passing students,

‘Is she going to execute justice? Is she going to take care of him before he recovers?’

“Just, just get rid of him…! But why is she so close to him?’

‘Has Jane ever been so close to a guy?’

Jane seemed to be trying to execute justice on Rokseo.

But Jane was so excited that she clung to Rokseo.

Because her sense of distance was so unusual, she had been told not to approach boys since she was a child.

She, who accepted it and approached only girls with an unusual sense of distance, was subtly naive.

Several female students fell for the sharp but beautiful and peculiar sense of distance.

Jane, who approached only female students in normal times,

For the first time, she approached a man to solve an unsolvable problem.

Of course, with her peculiar sense of distance from her naivety.

Thanks to this, Rokseo’s rising heart rate became addictive, and he could not tear her away from himself with his hand.

Rokseo, who thought all this was a trap of the protagonist, opened his mouth at the end of spinning his head like a hamster spinning a wheel.

“I caught it with a sword… Right?”

He responded with a silly face as if he was asking an obvious question.

Even though a fight against the protagonist, who has an overwhelming difference, would bring a joy that makes the heart crazy,

If he’s already caught up in the strange thrill and suddenly has to fight, making his heart rate rise even more,

At that time, he might not know what he would do to the protagonist, so he answered obediently.

Addiction to heart rate really drives me crazy.

He swallowed his admiration for the addiction to his heart rate, which forced him into an event like a visual novel.

Meanwhile, Jane, who heard Rokseo’s obvious words, had an earthquake in her pupils and fell into thought.

“With a sword…”

No matter how hard she thought, no matter how strong an attack or technique she used, she could not destroy the jewel golem’s core.

Even after the Jewel Golem Raid Test was over, she continued to worry, research, and practice alone….

In the end, she couldn’t find the answer.

Although she did not have any friendship, she was so curious that she came to Rokseo, who had proven the answer in person.

Although Rokseo’s reputation wasn’t good, so she was a little hesitant, but where would she be choosy when seeking learning?

“I see…”

Because she had the courage to find him, she was.

At that moment, when he heard the clear and obvious solution, which he had forgotten about while drowning in his own thoughts, he began to realize something.

As the protagonist of the game, thanks to the unique and powerful traits he possessed, such as ‘Sword Over Vertex’ and ‘Infinity Sword’.

The blanks created by his worries and questions began to fill, as if matching pieces to a puzzle, with the clear answer provided by Luxur.

It began to become a realization, forming into one big picture.

“So, the essence of a sword lies in cutting something with a point and a line after all.”

Luxur was startled by Jane’s sudden deep thought.

“You’ve come running to fight me, and now you’re acting as if you’ve had a moment of realization?”

No, he was shocked.

As the difficulty had increased in this game, a few advantages were given.

But out of all, Jane, seemed to have greatly surpassed those benefits.

While glaring at the bastard Stalker who stole her first-place position, she even had a moment of realization.

“If she realized something just before our fight…”

Luxur shivers as he suspects it might be about defeating him.

He wondered if he should take her down now, as she is lost in her thoughts, but…

“What are they doing?”

“Why is Jane standing still?”

“I thought they were talking about some gem golem…”

Too many people were watching.

And, she seemed likely to act up due to the surge of adrenaline from her reckless behavior.

Fortunately, she was immersed in her own thoughts.

“I need to work harder.”

He swallows hard and stealthily leaves Jane who is lost in her realization.

It was going to get weird, due to the strange sensation he felt by staying too close to her. To forget about it, Luxur decided to focus on the battle.

Observing all this from the classroom, Rika had a ‘dead’ look in her eyes.

The crazy Stalker who didn’t keep his promise in the past, mentioned Jane out of the blue.

Despite not knowing what the two were talking about, Luxur was interacting far more closely with Jane than with her.

“Were they…touching each other? Without me?”

Jane recklessly approached Luxur and he did not object.

It was as if they were dating.

That bastard was the one who had run away, saying he would “never” stalk Jane when asked.

As expected, her suspicion was justified.

“I’ve never seen Jane talk to a boy before! What did they talk about?”

Erin adds fuel to the fire, scraping at Rika’s heart further.

“Did he knock the gem golem down just to garner Jane’s attention, forgetting about the promise he made to me?”

Rika’s cold face seemed slightly swollen.

She didn’t want to get close to Luxur in any way, but still…

She had kept her promise with him, and waited until he returned to his original state…

After all the care she had taken of him, he was now blatantly ignoring her and getting close with Jane.

It made her understand why wives castrated their unfaithful husbands.

The promise she kept, only to be betrayed, and now he isn’t even grateful but is with another girl.

She had an irresistible urge to smash everything.

It was an extreme thought, but considering Luxur’s previous actions and the current situation.

It was justifiable.

“Huh, I don’t care.”

Rika was seemed disinterested, still she kept an eye on Luxur, who was rushing into battle, not using spatial movement.

But there was a small part of her that wanted to talk to him later.

“Such a jerk…”

She swallowed the anger from her face. Enraged, she gripped Erin’s cheeks, who was looking excitedly at Rika.

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Luxur, who was running wild in a village where orcs and goblins cohabited, till the moon shone brightly.

Although a large cudgel flew from an unavoidable direction, he was able to react in time and convert it into an opportunity to strike a serious blow to a strong enemy.

With a whooshing sound, he fluidly evaded a massive cudgel strike over his shoulder, sliding on a diagonal line.

Fluidly, as a river flows, he rode the inertia to swing his sword at the giant’s green-skinned wrist.

A scrape sounded as his body skidded across the ground, dust and blood splattering his vision.

“Suppression duty for C-class really is on a different level from F-class.”

His vision was so drenched in blood, it seemed as if the moonlight had turned a ghastly red.

With a sense of enjoyment palpable in his actions, he nimbly avoided a huge fist raining down on his head.

Lockser swiftly distanced himself from the heavy vibrations of the thud. His grip tightened on his sword, his heartbeat fluttered more intensely than his reddened eyes showed.

“Grrraahhh!”

The oversized orc chief, muscular and savage personified, roared threateningly, trying to exert his dominance over Lockser, even as arterial blood gushed from his severed left arm, but the human’s bravado caught him by surprise.

When standing before stronger beasts or monsters, it was normal for one’s fighting spirit to wane, feeling their deadly presence, or even faint in severe cases.

Yet, the clearly weaker Lockser had his heart pounding madly.

“Heh, don’t scream so carelessly.”

‘This is getting too fun.’

With a sly smirk, he pointed his single-edged sword, ‘Big Dipper’, brighter than the moon itself, right at the orc chieftain.

The orc chieftain, eyebrows narrowing at the audacity of the human, raised his club meticulously carved from a colossal rock, aiming to bodily send him flying with a shockwave.

But.

“What?”

Despite the superior regenerative abilities of the orc, the gushing artery from the severed wrist neither stopped nor healed.

Lockser quickly closed the distance upon noticing the vulnerability. He slashed straight through the Achilles tendon of the orc chief’s right foot, blood pooling below.

“Grrraahhh!!”

In a panic-stricken frenzy, the stumbling orc’s right torso was the newest target of the relentless sword strikes.

As his sword swung back and forth, his technique and speed improved. Like a serpent persisting even with its head severed, he aimed at each exposed vital spot.

Inside arm of the right, major muscle of the inner calf, and below the right side of the abdomen, he struck at everything, wringing out the last bit of strength, relentlessly, almost brutally slashing.

Normally, injuries of this magnitude would have healed promptly.

“My eyes are a tad bit special, you see.”

Taunting the orc chief proudly, he dodged an incoming swing from his left hand, simultaneously severing the artery in his left wrist in another swish.

Normally, injuries of this magnitude should have healed, posing no problem at all.

Lockser’s vision revealed a delicate web of crimson, violet, and weak spots on the orc’s body.

Now that a spatially cutting sword had passed through the already weak spots, there was no chance of recovery.

“Time to finish this off.”

Walking towards the orc chieftain slowly, he scanned through multiple futures with threads of blue, seeking the optimal path.

“Grraaahhh!!”

The orc chieftan was a formidable foe, and sensing his underestimation, exploded with raw power, his body flushing a deep crimson.

A moment of berserk healing recovered his open wounds, but it was a simple trigger for Lockser to end the battle definitively.

Just as when he had targeted the jewel golem’s core, he targeted the thick heart of the orc chieftain, visualising threads of blue, violet and crimson wrapping around it.

Although the orc was weaker than the jewel golem, he was not as still as one.

“Kyaaa!!!”

With a hefty thud-!!! the Orc chief charged, swinging his club wildly.

Matching his tremendous focus, Rok-Suh too swung his sword after drawing out his strength in one perfect motion.

In that moment, the Orc chief’s thick heart shattered to pieces, almost reducing him to a state of death.

But, the huge club, already being swung towards Rok-Suh, was falling atop him like a landslide.

Spotting this, Rok-Suh pulled back slightly, while tilting his sword’s body on his back.

He let the fiercely descending giant club slide down the body of his sword.

Because he didn’t take it head-on, rather let it slide away, the difference in their strengths didn’t matter.

With a hefty vibration, the club stuck in the ground and a thick cloud of sand dust.

“Tsaa-! As expected, it’s a stretch with just the basics…!”

Only now, Rok-Suh, who had barely reached the first year cadet average at the academy, clicked his tongue as he left the sand cloud.

Although he enjoyed the insanely thrilling battle.

He looked at the fallen orc chief with a regretful expression, realizing his self-objectivity.

If he had been a bit faster, the club wouldn’t have flown at him.

“This attack takes too much time.”

Brushing off his white sword, Rok-Suh, who painted a red crescent, fell into deep thought.

Though it was an attack capable of ending his opponent, it consumed too much time.

To solve this, he could either use time acceleration or practice more to compensate.

Feeling like he was about to grasp something, he fell on his sleeping spot with a face full of thoughts….

“Rok-Suh? Cadet Rok-Suh? Are you unwell?”

… For several days, he went to the academy with a face that seemed to indicate he was on the verge of obtaining enlightenment.

He completed his solo mission while swinging his sword.

Then suddenly, to wrap up the ‘Investigation’ request of the solo C-Class mission he received.

“Now, as you all know, a skill is a routine that optimizes your body’s strength! You need to use these skills or such techniques to carry out efficient battles, which will be advantageous for your stamina!”

While listening to the Monster Studies class taken by Professor Kling, he suddenly had an epiphany.

“That’s it! I need to acquire a skill! In the category of time acceleration!”

A light bulb went off in Rok-Suh’s head, he wore an expression of feeling refreshed.

He concluded that he had to learn magic, similar to mastering a spell.

The very next session was about learning buff and healing magic.

He walked around the academy during lunchtime with a satisfied look.

The cadets were whispering, surprised to see him who used to run out to increase his heart rate during lunchtime.

Regardless of what they said, Rok-Suh was humming away, his mood lightened with the enlightenment that swept away his gloominess.

The problem occurred when he went past a corridor.

“…….”

“…….”

Running into Rica, who he used to hang out with Eryn every day.

Was this the mood when gunslingers in the west dueled?

At the exact moment when Rok-Suh was wondering whether to pull the trigger… ah no, whether to time-stop.

“Hmpf.”

Rica, who was clearly pissed, huffed and walked past him.

Of course, it wasn’t just a simple walk-by. She also delivered a punch to his side chastising him for not keeping a simple promise.

“Uh.”

Knowing that if he dodged, worse would follow, Rok-Suh repressed a scream.

‘She hit me even though I ignored her, unlike the original work…’

In the original work, if you ignored the heroines, they would naturally fall out. However, in this version, maybe because of the reality patch or because the difficulty level had increased.

An unexpected blow was landed on Rok-Suh’s side.

‘Still, isn’t this a cheap shot?’

But since it wasn’t a yan-dere full course like abduction, confinement, rape, or naive murder.

And all she did was hit him once in the side as she walked past, he thought the situation was pretty okay.

But such thoughts crumbled immediately during the next magic practical session.

Especially when he was grouped with Rika.

Furthermore, next to him was the protagonist Jane, who had picked a fight with him before and held him in her chest.

‘I’m going to get killed…!’

Lockser, who was tensely wound up, could only wish for this time to pass without incident.