I Became the Snow Woman I Made

2 – Rebirth of the Snow Woman (2)

What comes to mind first when you think of a snow woman?

It may be different for each person, but most of them probably associate a scene with a blizzard or a woman with a cold expression in a white suit. And if you are interested in the story of the snow woman, you will be able to draw a detailed anecdote in addition to that.

Appearing in front of travelers caught in a blizzard and taking their lives with cold breath, or conversely, deliberately inducing them to get lost and freezing them to death themselves. One might wonder if the snow woman is being portrayed as a bad existence, but in many stories, the snow woman is portrayed as an evil being.

It was relatively recently that the snow woman was portrayed as a beautiful and kind being in the mass media. Presumably, it is the result of improvements made to make it easier for people to accept. I also took the basic frame from a folk tale, but added various attractive elements to it, so it seemed that everything people thought of was there.

Still, if I had to choose the most beautiful snow woman, I would point out the quilière I made. Even though my subjective standards were added, she was definitely the best snow woman.

“There’s no comparison anyway.”

In the Four Seasons War, there is no race called Snow Woman. Therefore, in this world, the undeniably best snow woman was right. It was an honor alone that meant nothing. It was just self-satisfaction comforting my situation, which one day became a snow woman.

I stretched out her arms and tried to tear off the shape of the overall clothes, starting from the hem of the sleeves. It was the same as the white suit I designed. It has no special pattern, so it is plain, but it goes well with Snow Woman more than any other outfit.

“As expected, the root is the best…”

I looked up and looked around the dressing room. Precious costumes that I got hard or made myself. Since the base was plain clothes, there were many small clothes with various colors and patterns, but the number of other clothes was not small.

Looking at them, my heart slowly trembled. It wasn’t obvious, but for some reason, it seemed that even my hands were trembling slightly. The pressure to dig out the types of clothes and try on right now. Even when I was playing games, the sensations I sometimes felt came closer to me, probably because they became reality.

Common sense made it a bad choice to spend time here. Even if there is no danger nearby, there is always one thing, and even if it is not, the castle is wide and there are many places to investigate. It was foolish to look around for a costume that wouldn’t help me in that situation.

But, but.

“…How can a deceased person stand up for a rook daughter?”

It was like instinct. Even if I don’t have an avatar, or if I become the avatar to wear that costume. I took out nearby clothes with a flushed face.

I closed the door and came out of the dressing room. It was quite a pleasant experience. No, it was the most enjoyable time since I came to this world. It’s obvious, but what I saw on the screen and the real world were on a different level.

I tried on a variety of clothes, but I think it was more fun because none of them didn’t suit me. Well, it was inevitable because I only left the costumes I carefully selected. The hanger was so good that it looked good no matter what I was wearing.

“Do women choose their clothes this way?”

Suddenly, I had an idea. Even if he had become a woman, he had been a man until earlier, so he was completely ignorant of the general behavior of women. Still, women tend to be more active than men when it comes to grooming, so I naturally think about it.

I heard that well-dressed women have dozens of clothes at home. Only my body has changed, but my mind is still a man, I don’t know why, but when I recall the moment before, when I was diligently rummaging through clothes, I doubt that I may have done something similar.

“…No, no. I just played it like a game.”

He shook his head and denied his suspicions. Yeah, it was no different from the game. Quilière was my character, and most gamers have a hobby of appreciating new costumes and weapons on their characters. It was just a minor difference that I possessed that character.

It was a customizing mindset that decorated the character rather than adorning myself, so it was far from that of a woman. In the first place, as long as I have the memory of a modern person who has lived my whole life, my identity was a man. Even if the body can’t help it, there will never be a change in the way of thinking.

“Ehh. If I’m going to possess it, I’d rather do it as a man. If it was the Black Knight, I’d have welcomed him with dual arms.”

I looked out the window with a sigh of regret. I don’t know how much time has passed, but it was already dark outside. Even though it was dark, it was unreasonable to guess the time because it was originally a snowy field where sunlight did not shine. Still, I tried to calculate for a while, but I gave up.

This was no longer the world I knew. The environment around me had all changed, so I didn’t have to worry about time like before.

“If it were normal, I would have despaired of that fact.”

For some reason, I didn’t mind. Instead of frustration, I felt only a little relief that I could no longer live chased by the hour and minute hands, and that was all. Did I go crazy after all? Or does the setting of the snow woman even affect the mind?

I didn’t have to find out. Because it would be better for me to accept it right now.

“It was a thousand years before the Four Seasons War…”

‘War of the Four Seasons II: The Beginning of Disaster’. To play the long-awaited work in this way from the moment the game news confirmed its release. It was something the world really didn’t know.

I, who belonged to the deceased in the Four Seasons War, was an outsider in the Four Seasons War II. Of course, that play time doesn’t go anywhere, so if you collect past information you’ve heard here and there, the amount will be quite large, but if you ask me if that’s enough, my answer is no. So, what do you want to say?

“What should I do now?”

Usually, in a novel about possessed objects, the writer or a being equivalent to a god would assign a goal to the possessed person, but why do I have nothing? In works where no one gives instructions, there are devices such as the main character intervening in the development to survive, knowing that the ending of the original story ends in ruin.

Ruinous ending. Of course, even in the Four Seasons War, there is an existence called the final boss or darkness. The catastrophe, so powerful, spreads darkness all over the world and causes countless events, and if the player fails to stop it, the world will be destroyed.

“But that’s after a thousand years anyway.”

Yes. The starting point of the original story is a thousand years from now. In addition, even in the original game, unless the player is horribly pushed back, they are not immediately destroyed. So even if it rolls in all directions, it means that the world will be fine for the next thousand years.

“I don’t feel threatened at all.”

There is a movie called Tomorrow. The original title of this film about destruction was actually ‘the day after tomorrow’ in English, but it went through a deliberate mistranslation when it came to Korea. The reason was that Koreans thought that the day after tomorrow, if the Earth were to perish, they would not think so urgently.

Of course, this is quite an exaggeration. But what if the earth perished after a year or a thousand years, let alone the day after tomorrow? I can assure you that the life of Koreans will not change at all. Because of that, my heart was just calm.

“Let’s go outside first.”

I haven’t been able to look around the castle yet, but that’s something to do slowly, and I wanted to look outside the castle now. There’s nothing urgent right now, so I’ll do what I want. I walked slowly and headed downstairs.

Even though it was a wide and tall castle, it didn’t take long to move along the stairs. I reached the first floor and went out the gate. After leaving the castle of snow, this time the spectacle of snow unfolded. Dusk had already settled, but the momentum of the blizzard was not much different from before.

“There really is nothing.”

Regardless of whether it snowed or the wind blew, I was able to look around in a casual manner. There is not a drop of grass. There were no trees, no insects, no people. Just an endless field of snow. I expected it, but seeing it in action, I was at a loss for words.

“I really couldn’t have endured it with my sober mind.”

For this moment, I was grateful for the endless snow and the fact that I was possessed by Quilière. In a land without even insects, climate change was the only sound, and the loneliness that ordinary humans could not endure was all right with Snow Woman’s cold reason. Anyway, I didn’t even have the taste to appreciate the scenery outside.

“It’s strange that there are beings who live in a place like this.”

Even in this unexplored area, there was a living being. Rather than living, I am more like the owner of this place. Even if they weren’t human, they would still have emotions, but I wondered how they had been alone for so many years. Is there some setting I don’t know about?

Actually, I don’t know much about its existence either. However, I was a person who was crazy about the Four Seasons War, and I had a history of thoroughly reading all the short settings written by the developer. In it, there were characters from the past who did not appear at the time of the original work, and the guardian of the snowy field also appeared.

So I know she’s not an evil person. So even though she is in the same snowfield, she doesn’t worry too much. I wonder if a strong person of that level would even notice my existence, but seeing that they haven’t come to me yet, I wonder if they’re not particularly interested.

“Rather good.”

I hope you keep paying attention. It’s just that I hate getting caught up in troublesome things. A castle was built out of nowhere, but since the snowfield is vast, won’t you allow me to live? As for her believing so, she decided to shove her breasts on her side.

“Let’s see… Can I do this?”

I erased my random thoughts and tried the contents that immediately came to my mind. As usual in fantasy, magic and mana exist in this world, and the snow woman could handle them due to the setting. Mana is one of the few weapons and means of defense, so I went straight into verification.

Hwaaak-!

“Oh… Oops!”

Mana exists in the atmosphere, and all of her lifeforms also contain mana. Perhaps that’s why, following his instincts, he succeeded in generating mana through the medium of mana in his body. However, a change occurred immediately.

A blizzard raged all at once, thick fog obscured the view, and a stronger gust of wind engulfed the venue. Embarrassed, I quickly withdrew my mana.

“What is this?”

I was just going to try and build a snowman. Suddenly, as if something exploded inside, it burned and an anomaly occurred. The hands that looked down became transparent like flickering lanterns and repeated to come back.

Seeing the phenomenon and the frantic beating of the heart, I soon began to understand the situation.

“Mana drain… No, not that much… Overload?”

Anyone with mana could experience these phenomena, so they were probably right. In the setting of the snow woman I made, there was also a content that if you use a lot of mana, your body becomes transparent. It would be understandable if the body was overloaded with the rapid use of magical power, and reactions such as turbulent heart rate appeared.

Then why was it overloaded even though I didn’t use much mana? I understood this part.

“If you think about it, is it natural?”

In the first place, magic was greatly influenced by talent and was difficult to train in a general way. Even those who are naturally gifted need hard work to properly handle magic, but it was only natural that I, who had just arrived in this world, could not use it right away.

In a word, it is out of control. It was a situation where he couldn’t even take a step before he could count the amount of mana he had and his magic turnover rate.

“It will take some practice.”

I had nothing to do, but it worked out better. For the time being, I thought I would be able to spend some time doing mana training. Unlike studying at the desk, it was really fun to use the magic that I only saw in games. The blizzard slowly subsided as the uncontrollable mana disappeared.

I heard that when one’s mana gets out of control, magic can be activated at will, so maybe the blizzard was created because I’m a snow woman. It could have an impact, but compared to other aggressive magic, it didn’t seem very threatening. Thanks to that, I’m less worried about getting hurt, so I should like it.

“Huh?”

Just before the blizzard disappeared, something strange caught my eye. A blue fragment that looks like a bunch of ice crystals. Instinctively, I was able to grasp that my magical power was dwelling.

“…A spirit?”

Those were the words that suddenly came to mind. Because the spirits that are formed by gathering pure mana actually appear in the game. However, strictly speaking, it was not a spirit. It was reasonable to regard it as a fragment of a spirit or a crumb that did not become a spirit.

As evidence of that, the crystals that glittered for a moment quickly scattered like snow melting. Looking at that mysterious scene, I confirmed a certain possibility.

“How did the spirits originate?”

Spirits, remnants of the main god, are very rare. In a world where gods disappeared, the number of spirits decreased day by day, and at the time of the original work, they were almost an endangered species. Everyone knew that, but there was no way to increase the number of spirits.

A spirit is a spiritual body made of pure mana, and only a god or a spirit king can handle that pure mana. No one on earth could artificially create spirits.

“Then I…”

I needed to go through the settings again. Among the settings that I hadn’t considered before, there were definitely things related to this.

‘Snow Woman is neither a living being nor a mental body, but a phenomenon’, ‘She has pure mana that does not contain any impurities.’ Looking back, it seems that there was such a setting. Apparently… It was to make her snow woman shine through her snow or winter itself, not confined to a certain race.

It was just aimed at creating an atmosphere, and like the other settings, there was no substance, so I forgot about it.

“This is how it goes.”

I just used magic for the first time, and I didn’t do any tricks. Even so, fragments of the spirit were created. ‘Pure mana without any impurities’ can create spirits simply by combining magical powers.

Create a spirit. To come to this world and experience content that even I, a deceased person, have never heard of or even reported about. You don’t know what’s going to happen in the world.

“It’s a spirit…”

But if there’s something moving, I won’t be lonely. It seems that there is more to do for the time being.