Episode 2

Me, who wanted to try the game, was now drowning in it.

Reaching the ending was easy even though it was the first time playing these games.

I agree, it was fan. However, normal mode was way too easy even for a beginner like me.

From the start, all the male characters interests towards the heroine started with 30%.

It was to the point it could be called easy mode, not normal mode.

I saw every character's ending within three hours.

Then a card popped on the screen which said 'Hidden Ending' with a drawn lock on it.

"A hu-- hundred dollars?! Are they crazy? Why is it so expensive?"

To see the hidden ending, you needed to either pay a crazy high price for it or finish the hard mode of each character.

"S***... It's already midnight though."

I thought about the early morning class. However, that didn't last long.

"Ahh, whatever! Let's finish it!"

I was insane, being controlled by the game like that. I wouldn't have done anything like this before.

Excitedly, my finger clicked on the hard mode button.

A different video played for the prologue, the time was a grand BGM.

"Ooh, the protagonist changed to her."

The protagonist unexpectedly changed in this mode.

She was the villainous of the normal mode, the fake young lady of the duke family.

The story was set before the heroine appeared in the normal mode so it felt like a completely different game and story.

"Maybe this is why the game is so popular."

The appearance of the hard mode protagonist's detailed illustration on my screen woke me up for good.

The unique game system wasn't like any other. This made me more interested in the app.

The villainess who was evil to the angelic heroine was now the one who was winning the hearts of the strict love-guarded male leads now.

It gave me the excitement and thrill that I couldn't quite explain.

I proceeded to the main story of hard mode. I was overly confident about it since I finished all the normal mode routes.

Even though it was called hard mode, I expected the choices would be just a bit more difficult and that's all.

However, that was just a bad guess.

"Ack! Ack! Why did I die again!?"

Hard mode was extremely difficult.

The protagonist who was the villainess in the first place. It was set so that raised the character's interest was freaking hard.

It wasn't only that.

The interest raised with my hard work all dropped to 0% until it was 'game over' after just one mistake.

Not just a normal game over, but a very disturbing 'death' of the protagonist.

"Why did it have to be so extreme?"

The illustration was so realistic and cruel.

I frowned at the illustration of the protagonist getting sliced on the neck by the crown prince.

"This crazy game..."

I died several times due to the difficult choices I sincerely made in the game. Frustration filled my heart from this horrible system.

What was the producer thinking, making hard mode like this?

I died so many times that I started to feel stressed playing this.

"Please let me live once, please!"

My goal at first was to unlock the 'Hidden Ending', however that goal was forgotten long ago.

I needed to see this poor pitiful villainess not die and live happily with at least one of the male leads.

'What makes the villainess the guilty one? Honesty, it was the author who made her the villain!'

Unlike the heroine from the normal mmode who had received everyone's love no matter which choice I made, the villainess who was only abused and mistreated no matter how she begged for love reminded me of my life before.

"I'm seeing the endings to this no matter what."

I was killed again due to those bastard older brothers. The sound of my teeth grinding was heard in my room.

I don't remember how many times I died here now.

My two hands, which clenched my warm phone, trembled.

I thought that I was getting too emotional about this, but I couldn't stop my fingers from clicking the reset button.

I started all over again, from the start.

I chose the lines, slowly raised their interest, and received fame, glamour and money to open up the new route.

"Ack! Why!? Why!?"

But I died again.

I was annoyed to the point that I thought of just buying the interest using money.

If the producer's goal was to make others pay for the damn thing, they greatly succeeded.

Since they made me, who treasures money like no one else, want to use my money for this.

I didn't end up using my money 'till the end, but the whole night I was on fire to see the ending of at least one of the characters.

Die, start over.

Die, and start over again.

Die,

Die,

And die again,

I kept dying until sunrise.

However, I still wasn't able to see the ending of any of them.

"F***... Again..."

I, who almost pressed the reset button again, couldn't handle it anymore as I fainted from sleep with the phone in my hand.

And when I opened my eyes.

"Penelope Eckart."

Said the man with the blank bar and sparkling letters written 'Interest 0%' above him.

"We'll withdraw our name 'Eckart' from you for some time."

I was the villainess in a game which I never got to see the ending of.

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