I Married the Beautiful Female Protagonist In Order To Survive

56. I’ll Kill Him Myself! (Vote Please~)

The flow within the chessboard hadn’t stopped, but… I shifted my gaze away from it at that moment.

After all, what was about to happen between Uncle and the Madam didn’t need a “pause,” and I also didn’t want to spoil the mood by continuing to admire some “live drama,” or explore philosophical questions like “how Kefir came to be.”

Besides, even to maintain what was now happening within the chessboard, I wasn’t planning on letting what was happening in Uncle’s era be disrupted so brutally, because…

I looked up, and the gaze of “Hope Fairy” Horus had long since left the chessboard, having been staring at me for who knows how long! Black and white intertwined, shifting, as if mirroring the fairy’s inner thoughts.

“Using the remaining power of ‘Order’ to change the outcome at that moment… While not exactly ‘cheating,’… in my domain, in my game, I must commend your audacity…”

“Same to you.”

In the first round, Horus used “outsider” Ludwig to screw me over, and now I used the power of ‘Order’ to change Uncle’s original strength as a “chess piece.” Everyone did things unbecoming of humans, turning the game into a superpower battle, so what was I panicking about?

Moreover, as things stood, the relationship between Uncle and the Madam had stabilized. Ludwig’s stolen power aside, at least… the foundation between them was there. This could be considered giving my side a chance to catch our breath.

“Time to admit it, Hope Fairy. After the attack turned to defense, the second move was mine.”

After the first successful “sneak attack,” the chess piece Horus took was Ludwig, who in that era, compared to Uncle and the others, was indeed “invincible.” Perhaps Horus, having gotten Ludwig, felt victory was in hand, that I would suffer a crushing defeat, so she didn’t bother with my various attempts to salvage things, believing all efforts were futile in the face of absolute power.

But… so-called “invincibility” is only relative. She was too complacent, forgetting that the power of ‘Order’ was enough to change everything, even… within her domain, within her game.

This move, Horus lost due to her arrogance. That being said, my win wasn’t easy at all, and wasn’t even earned by me alone. After all, if the “Order Fairy” hadn’t found me at the last moment, giving me back the power of the script… on this night within the chessboard, no matter how much Uncle unleashed his inner cosmos, he wouldn’t have been able to win.

Pausing for a moment, I said quietly, “What? Your win is a win, but someone else’s win doesn’t count?”

If this fairy really intended to play dirty, then… I wouldn’t mind using a brute force approach to resolve the terrible impact this fairy had brought to the entire era!

As far as I could see, my reply was met with the fairy’s long silence, but… Horus’s reaction was far from limited to that.

Finally, she reacted.

“Euclid, can you wait a few minutes for me?”

Immediately after, before I could even understand what those strange words meant, some kind of… reaction, one I couldn’t even describe for a moment, erupted from this fairy!

In a flash, black and white shifted, consuming each other. Horus, her eyes now vacant, seemed to have forgotten Phiro and I were even there, as she began to mutter to herself!

“‘Order’ has already won. Let’s end it here~ Wouldn’t calling it quits while we’re ahead also be a kind of hope?”

The moment she uttered those words, the black and white sprite before us was completely washed with white. As if in sync with this change of color, her demeanor became slightly…“amiable.”

“In a normal situation, there’s no chance of winning against ‘Order’~”

But in an instant…blackness completely “stained” everything about the sprite. Her attitude, her actions, reverted to the way she acted not long ago, when she’d tricked me.

“Hee hee hee…are you scared? This is our domain, this is our game! We have many more chances to make ‘Order’ disappear completely!”

Though both conveyed animosity, they were completely opposite attitudes. Seeing this…the unfolding script made me realize: Horus’s current reaction was clearly a manifestation of both “Hope” and “Despair”!

[Horus is Switching Between Hope and Despair!]

Under the influence of Hope, she was at least capable of reason, even willing to retreat when faced with insurmountable odds, though her intentions remained malicious. But under the influence of Despair, she was simply a maniac driven to eradicate “Order” from this era, tirelessly.

To put it more simply: either chaotic good, or chaotic evil. These two alignments, and the two faces of this sprite…what a fitting combination.

Just as Horus herself had said: this state didn’t last long. The next moment, a change occurred on Horus that I didn’t know whether to be relieved or wary of.

Her original black and white hair, along with her entire outfit, was gradually dyed black. When I looked again, every element of the sprite’s appearance had become black, with no further changes in sight.

And this time, the sprite before us could no longer be described with “Hope.” She deserved the title of “Despair” sprite.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Euclid.”

Her voice hadn’t changed, but her attitude now contained only obsession and madness towards winning the “game” and “eradicating” Order.

“I concede your victory in the second game. Now, let’s begin the final round!”

Her toes tapped the ground. At the same time, the chess piece in her hand turned pitch black, but instead of placing it on the board, she…threw it away!

“You’ve already regained a significant amount of ‘Order’s’ power. You’re familiar with my ‘game’ as well. Naturally, ordinary moves won’t be able to contend with your Order. So…”

Saying this, the sprite smiled eerily, and then did something even more outrageous!

She flipped the chessboard directly! The castle within, symbolizing Uncle Zerola’s era, floated up, slowly growing larger!

All of this, combined with the black and white chessboard that seemed to distort space and time around us, made me feel for a moment as if I was already standing on the board!

The next moment, that thought actually came true! Because!

“This time…the piece I’ve chosen is…me!”

[Horus has Chosen Herself as the Piece!]

“I’m going to enter the chessboard myself! I’m going to personally suppress your ‘Order’! Using a ‘god’s’ perspective to manipulate that era had already become a meaningless cheating game. So…I’m going to reconstruct a sense of ‘fairness’!”

Saying that, the sprite beckoned to me!

“Euclid, do you dare to come!? Without the power of Order, Order cannot empower you! You’re just an ordinary Sprite User! Do you dare to make yourself a piece like I have?”

“Do you dare to continue in such a hopeless environment!?”

“Hee hee hee hee…if you don’t, how about you concede!? Let me see just how desperate you truly are!”

“Order is already gone, the game’s outcome has been decided! I won’t let you get it back, hee hee hee ha ha ha! Even if it means betting myself!”

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A belated Valentine’s Day blessing, though a touch late.

No bonus chapters this time, the plot’s at too crucial a juncture.

A fresh week, remember to like and vote, everyone!