I Give Up on Conquering the Heroines

14 – Episode 14. Runaway

“In the past, I worked as a guard for a saint. I just quit because I didn’t think I was suited for it, and we really didn’t have anything to do with it?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“······.”

Yerina stares at me silently.

If you make even the slightest mistake, you could freeze on the spot.

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Not a metaphor, but literally, my whole body freezes.

Thinking like that makes my head hurt.

“It’s really nothing. It seems like the saint thinks so highly of my skills that she wants me to return.”

“Really? Then, shall we read the contents of the letter? I was wrong, Eugene. I’ll do better. I’ll be a good boy. I can’t survive without you. Hmm. There’s no need to read any more.”

Now it hurts like her head is splitting open.

“Tell me honestly what’s going on. If you tell me, I’ll take care of it.”

It’s a lie.

I know very well who wrote Yerina’s lines.

If you say something, you will be screwed.

“If you keep doing this, we will inevitably suspect you of being a spy for the enemy country. Cooperate, Eugene. If not, I will have to detain you.”

I know you don’t doubt it.

If you look at your ears, it shows that you trust me.

The problem is that Yerina’s ‘trust’ is somewhat different from other people’s trust.

Yeri I doubt her partner in order to trust her.

And once she harbors her doubts, they last endlessly, perhaps forever.

“Yerina. Can I go to the bathroom for a moment? It’s urgent.”

“Even if you have to do some business here, please answer right away.”

This means that the way to proceed with the harem route has disappeared.

Confirming that there is absolutely no hope, she closes her eyes tightly.

Then she dropped the smoke bomb she was wearing at her waist.

Boom!

“Eugene!”

A small mana bomb explodes, scattering smoke around.

And at the same time, a chill rushes through her and everything freezes.

Yerina started to run away.

“Huh?!”

In an instant, the shiny ice floor turns into a rough surface with thorns sticking out, freezing my legs.

My feet do not fall off.

Countless times, Yerina had to take off the boots that had been given to her and step out with her bare feet.

“Why are you running away?!”

A creepy voice flies through the smoke.

Why are you running away?

Isn’t this completely crazy?

‘The smoke screen lasts quite a long time. ‘We have to run away from this gap.’

No matter how much Yerina uses her magic to disperse her smoke screen, the smoke bombs I prepared fire one after another, and her smoke screen continues to increase.

In this gap, she completely escapes from her ice cave and runs away.

Of course, I am a remote part of the remote world, completely detached from her outside world.

Yeri, she will soon escape the smoke screen and come after me.

Of course, there is a way.

In preparation for situations like this, we have carefully established an exit strategy.

“f*ck…”

It’s cold.

I’m hungry.

I feel like I’m going to die.

As she drags the boat alone in the snowy wind, I feel like my whole body will break at any moment.

‘It doesn’t seem like he’s chasing me.’

I succeeded in escaping safely from Falana.

Yeri and I are probably just persistently searching for her overland route.

Of course they would think that I was trying to escape down the mountain road and catch the transcontinental train.

They thought she might be hiding near the platform and holding out until the train came, so they were searching the area.

But I chose the sea route rather than the land route.

A sea route where ships never travel except for regular shipping that comes once a month or external ships.

From the first day I came here, I asked my craftsman to build me a boat.

He looked at me like he was looking at some crazy bastard.

The boat I completed without Yerina’s knowledge was filled with winter supplies, drinking water, food, and all my belongings, and I kept them hidden until now.

And today, they faked running away by land and immediately launched a boat.

Generally, you wouldn’t even think of sailing the North Sea in a small boat other than an icebreaker.

I decided to attack that blind spot.

This boat is designed to glide well like a sled on ice.

If it gets stuck in the ice, we plan to drag it, and when it reaches the water, float it again and head south.

“What kind of hardship is this…?”

I feel sorry for taking off my shoes.

I didn’t think I would run away barefoot, so I didn’t prepare any boots.

I hurriedly bandaged my foot, but it still hurt like my toe was going to be cut off at any moment.

I sigh deeply as I look at the endless ice field.

Ah. My mouth doesn’t freeze.

I need to stop sighing.

After about 15 days of sailing, I was able to reach a beach on the northern continent.

The weather felt so warm just by coming down a little bit.

Even though it was still below freezing, it felt like it was a sweltering summer.

It seems like Yerina’s evil spirit has spread all the way to this place, and there were a lot of wanted bounty letters with my face on them all over the place.

In the end, I immediately bought a transcontinental train ticket and came down to the southern continent.

I thought it would be safe to run away to a place where Yerina’s influence does not reach.

After coming to the warm south, I succeeded in escaping from Yerina’s pursuit.

-Arrest warrant

-Name: Eugene

-Crime: Treason

“What the f*ck is this?”

The Vatican is chasing me here.

The noble saint prosecuted me.

I tried to rape her and then ran away.

Let’s say that’s true.

“What is all this?”

I happened to stop by the post office and saw it.

Hundreds of letters with ‘Eugene’ written in the recipient field piled up.

The addresses are all different.

I secretly opened several letters and found that the contents were all identical to the letters I received from Falana.

“You didn’t know where I was.”

Jill didn’t find me.

They were just sending out the same letter to every address across the country.

I wonder if I will return to Hamelin after receiving the letter.

It means that they did this with only that possibility in mind.

You’re crazy.

-Eugene. If you see this message, please come to Hameln. When you come, I will cancel the indictment. We will pretend that there was no treason.

“Wow. What a surprise.”

I stopped by the bank and when I saw this note stuck in my account, I was so shocked that I ran away.

I never thought they would have touched my account too.

If I had withdrawn money without thinking, the soldiers of the Vatican would have come in and taken me away in an instant.

It’s scary just to imagine it.

There is nowhere to go.

In the North, Yerina’s breath is so powerful that if I even reveal her face, she will soon be tied hands and feet and dragged to Falana.

In the South, the power of the church is so strong that there is nowhere to hide.

But there is only one place.

I know where the power of the two forces cannot reach.

“Wow, you’re a completely famous person. What on earth have you done to make the church follow you around with their lights on?”

“That’s right…”

A panoramic view unfolding outside the window, resembling an alien modern city.

As I was looking out the window as raindrops continued to hit, I heard laughter coming from behind me.

She must have just finished washing up, so Julia puts on her gown and puts her tray on her table.

It looks like he brought alcohol.

“Oh, I was very surprised.”

“I’m sorry. I came to you unexpectedly.”

“Ah, no, it’s okay. Staying here. You don’t have to feel too burdened. Eugene is my precious friend…”

Yulia willingly agreed to hide me when I returned unexpectedly.

On the day she left Hameln, she stopped in Pettenburg for a while, but then she committed the insolence of leaving immediately.

I am taking advantage of Julia’s favor.

She is exploiting Yulia by taking advantage of the fact that she is the only one who knows her true colors.

From the beginning, I was trying to return to reality by deceiving and deceiving all the heroines.

As I face Yulia, who accepted me without asking for anything in return, her guilt gradually increases.

“Thank you.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Saying thank you is a lot better than an apology.”

I guess I didn’t think about the listener’s perspective.

Julia smiled and accepted the glass of alcohol she offered.

The scent is unique.

Is this the drink Julia mentioned last time?

A drink that is not popular with the public but is highly regarded by experts.

“Rumor… Is it true?”

“You mean I tried to rape the saint? Of course not. I had a bit of a falling out with Jill. So I resigned and went on a trip, and when I came back, I found myself in this mess.”

Today’s tip.

If I announce a breakup with the attack rate higher than a certain level, the child will chase me by any means necessary.

Whether it was a frame-up or something else.

Jill would have probably noticed by now that Yerina was searching for me in the North.

The harem strategy has already passed.

The first round was a complete disaster.

Now there are only two options.

Are you going to challenge the final boss like this and try to achieve escape condition 2?

Or go back to Jill, clear it, and start the second round.

‘I just hate dangerous things.’

Even though I know the story well, I have no idea what will happen in the dungeon.

It wouldn’t be strange if you died from a common dungeon gimmick before even reaching the final boss.

Yes. Let’s go back to Jill.

The strategy has progressed almost to the stage right before dating Jill, so if you go back now, you will be able to kiss and clear within three days.

“Heh, heh.”

“Why are you smiling?”

“It’s just… My wife, ever since I first met her, I somehow felt like it would end up like this. Saints aren’t normal people, either. They copy other people’s techniques and act shamelessly.”

“From then on, you thought I would quit being an escort?”

“Yes, yes. The day Mr. Eugene stopped by Pettenburg and left again, a saint came in. She told me to give Eugene up right away… I noticed it right then. The saint said “I thought I made a mistake and the relationship broke down.”

“hahahaha. Thank you for siding with me.”

“Well, I’m not taking sides. Mr. Eugene is really not guilty. If he is guilty, maybe it’s just that he’s a bit of a womanizer, Joe?”

It was hot.

He clinks glasses with Julia, who covers her mouth and laughs, and pours the bitter drink down her throat.

“Yu, Yujin, you don’t discriminate between races, right? Humans, elves, and beastmen…”

“Huh? They’re the beast people?”

“Didn’t you go to Falana to seduce a woman from the beast tribe?”

Julia gives a puzzled look.

But soon after realizing my mistake, my expression gradually hardens.

Palana.

Why is that place name coming out now?

I didn’t tell anyone that I took the transcontinental train to Palana.

“Ap…”

It was too late to cover my mouth.

All the puzzles had already been put together.

With Petersburg’s intelligence, he would have easily been able to find out that I had purchased a ticket for the transcontinental train.

Julia knew everything about where I was and what I was doing.

If you know all the information, predicting the future is not difficult.

No, with Pettenburg’s power, it would be possible to manipulate the future as desired.

The hangover cure Jill took when she went sightseeing in Pettenburg.

Who gave it to you?

Jill, who didn’t even know about the existence of hangover cure on the first day, couldn’t have suddenly bought it on the second day.

Someone must have prepared it for me and told me to eat it before drinking.

If the relationship between Jill and I becomes strained, it is the action of those who benefit.

And the postal logistics network that covers the entire continent belongs to a company owned by Pettenburg.

This means that it was Julia who approved the scattering of inquiry letter bombs across the entire continent.

She probably gave her approval because she expected that I would be kicked out of Falana because of that letter.

‘For some reason, I felt like this would end up like this from the first time we met.’

This was not just a simple intuition.

Julia really knew.

My future, being chased from the South and the North and eventually escaping to Pettenburg.

My future, where I cannot rely on anyone else and have no choice but to ask Julia for help.

That would be obvious.

Because Yulia herself designed this future.

“Oh, I found out by chance. It’s true. Please believe me.”

I can’t believe it.

I sincerely prayed that Julia would remain a perfect good person.

I’m probably a little drunk, so I’m putting down my drink.

I want to end this.

“I understand. I’ll believe you. But are you serious about what you said earlier?”

“Yes, yes?”

“That I am a precious friend.”

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“I’m serious.”

“Do you really want to remain just friends?”

“······.”

A moment of silence.

Julia’s eyes become blank as she gets drunk and a blush appears on her cheeks.

She then knocks over the bottle, climbs up onto the table and starts crawling towards me.

“Yu, Yujin seduced me first. Even if you’re surprised and freaked out, I don’t know.”

“······.”

The moment when Julia grabbed me by the collar and brought her face closer.

Suddenly, time stops and Julia stops.

Julia froze as if time had stopped.

I slowly loosened Yulia’s grip and stood up to see a large system window floating outside her window.

[Congratulations. You have cleared the game.]

[Escape Condition 1: The attack rate of all heroines must exceed 95%.]

[Escape Condition 2: You must defeat the final boss ‘Draken’.]

[Settlement is in progress.]

[Number of monsters hunted: 12]

[Class A Boss: 0]

[Class B Boss: 0]

[C-Class Boss: 0]

[Hunting score: 315 points]

[Heroine attack rate]

[Jill Diner: 80 percent]

[Julia Pettenburg: 100 percent]

[Yerina Frost: 87 percent]

As expected, the game was cleared with Julia’s ending.

It is impossible to achieve the escape conditions.

For both Jill and Yerina, the attack rate is far below 95%.

I knew this a long time ago, but when the numbers are thrust before my eyes like this, all I can do is sigh.

[Escape conditions failed to be achieved.]

[Move to the starting point after 10 seconds.]

The first episode ends in vain like this.

When I glance back, I see Yulia still climbing on the table, staring into empty space.

The person who ruined the first episode is frozen there.

Grinding my teeth, I approach Julia and whisper in her ear.

“Stupid b*tch. Anyway, the reason I tricked you was to return to reality. You are nothing more or less than a trophy for clearing the game.”

“······.”

I take my timid revenge only after everything is over.

Anyway, you won’t even remember when the second round starts.

But it seems like Julia’s eyes moved slightly just now.

I guess it’s my mood.

[Return to the starting point.]

My vision went dark and my consciousness disappeared.