Chapter 7

As if he were looking at something completely unknown, he simply stared at me with his black plastic eyes.

Smiley remained silent.

“……”

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Smiley’s claw hand gently lowered me to the ground.

A moment later.

As soon as my feet touched the floor, intense drum and bass music began to play.

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You have promised death to Smiley.

A system window appeared before me.

It was the music that announced the start of the final boss battle of HasFac.

◆ Main Mission: Grant Smiley eternal rest.

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You think you must defeat Smiley no matter what.

Perhaps because the story was no longer following a normal progression, even the system window was acting strangely.

If you do not fulfill your promise, you and your companions will die will die will die death will die will die.

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The truth was that there were still many stages left to complete and a lot of toy affinity left to earn before facing the final boss.

In other words, I had been thrown headfirst into the battle without any help.

I exhaled softly.

I didn’t even have a weapon.

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Even if I wanted to follow the normal order, I no longer could.

And although it wasn’t a HasFac item.

But the situation had already gone completely off the rails.

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I took a Bolt Candy out of my inventory and unwrapped it.

The kind Smiley was patiently waiting for my first attack.

I had obtained something quite useful.

The attack and physical ability enhancement from Bolt Candy lasted 180 seconds.

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Thirty-five seconds for the second.

Thirty-five seconds for the first phase.

I had to clear Smiley’s three phases within that time.

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It was a rather tight distribution.

Sixty seconds for the third.

And twenty-five seconds for the transition scenes between phases.

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An electrifying taste ran across my tongue.

“Ugh…”

I put the Bolt Candy into my mouth.

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But personally experiencing a flavor that until now I had only seen described in system windows was strangely fun. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

It stung as if I were receiving static shocks, making my face scrunch up involuntarily.

I made a small jump.

As soon as I checked how my body responded, several strategies appeared in my mind.

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Smiley was still watching my every movement while waiting for my first attack.

But in the first phase, you won’t get a turn.

Sorry, Smiley.

I chose one of them and looked at Smiley.

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I swung my handcuffed arms backward with all my strength.

I swung the articulated handcuffs and struck Smiley’s left eye.

“Eat the Bolt Candy!!”

“Captain Mo Haein!”

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The plastic eye shattered.

CRACK!

‘It worked!’

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I thought they might work as a weapon.

I knew they had much greater durability than most items.

Those handcuffs were a special item manufactured by the Trial Response Agency to restrain Compatibles.

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But it was still a gamble.

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While counting the seconds in my head, I tore away the fragments of broken plastic.

The thrill of succeeding made my blood boil.

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The force of the movement sent me flying through the air.

Smiley violently shook his body.

Rainbow-colored blood gushed out.

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Without meaning to, I had regained my freedom of movement.

The hinge connecting the handcuffs had broken.

I ended up landing quite far away.

When I looked at my hands, I noticed something.

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It was the sound that announced the transition into the second phase.

I listened carefully to the music.

Static noises had begun mixing into the background track.

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The earth trembled.

The floor split open.

Smiley, with rainbow-colored liquid pouring from one of his eyes, slammed a claw hand into the ground.

‘That saved me four seconds.’

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They abandoned the production lines and ran toward us.

Incomplete toys that were presumably being manufactured by the employees also appeared.

Small toys began emerging from the cracks.

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They seemed as though they wanted to play.

Among the sea of toys, block bullets began flying.

But if they hit me twice, I would receive an immediate death sentence.

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As I staggered, a toy fish opened its mouth and leaped straight at my face.

A burning pain ran through my leg.

One bullet I failed to dodge grazed my thigh.

They were being fired by toy soldiers.

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The Black Moon Blade split it in half.

However, its sharp teeth never reached me.

“You idiot!”

The fish pieces flew away like freshly sliced sashimi.

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Mo Haein shouted at me, the veins standing out on her neck.

“Sorry, Captain.”

“Are you completely insane?!”

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Fortunately, Mo Haein didn’t have time to keep yelling at me.

I kept that last part to myself.

But I survived, didn’t I?

She immediately turned her head back toward the battle.

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Mo Haein and I ran forward.

“To finish the second phase, you have to attack the left eye!”

Using one of the fragments of Smiley’s eye as a shield, I spoke quickly.

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The earth surged upward violently.

Both Mo Haein and I were launched into the air.

Then Smiley’s claw hand came crashing down directly on our position.

Bullets and toys slammed into the improvised shield, making my entire body shake.

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She placed it beneath our feet.

But here, we had literally ended up on top of an enormous pillar of earth raised by the impact.

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In the game, it was only a simple obstacle mechanic.

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The toys running toward us couldn’t match our speed.

As soon as we touched the top of the pillar of earth, we began sliding down using the fragment like a sled.

“Hold on!”

I grabbed her around the waist.

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They crashed into one another and fell into complete chaos.

The claw hands continued slamming into the ground to intercept us.

The moment we reached the bottom, we threw away the shattered fragment and ran toward Smiley again.

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As soon as we entered range.

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But they were no longer difficult to dodge.

Mo Haein jumped.

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The spear tip penetrated deeply into the place where the plastic covering was already gone and only rainbow-colored liquid remained.

The Black Moon Blade stabbed into Smiley’s left eye.

A mechanical voice accompanied by children’s laughter began sounding from inside Smiley.

Even though he was a plastic toy, it felt as if she were piercing soft flesh.

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Mo Haein pulled back the spear and landed.

The gigantic fifteen-meter-tall Smiley began shrinking with a series of creaks.

“Die! silence Let me die! meadow Die! harbor Let me die! acid Die!”

Again and again.

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He remained motionless.

As if he were broken.

He returned to being barely one meter tall.

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Rainbow-colored liquid continued dripping from his eye.

The third phase had begun.

The music filled with unbearable static noise.

Rainbow mist began spreading everywhere.

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‘We lost about five seconds.’

But there was still some margin left.

I sharpened my senses enhanced by the Bolt Candy.

Getting hit by the rising terrain had cost us time.

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Reaction speed was the key to this phase.

Rumble.

The mist greatly reduced visibility.

The ground trembled.

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Debris started falling.

The toy factory was collapsing.

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Within seconds, the ground was covered with huge stone blocks, mechanical parts, and broken toys.

And even if you avoided them, they became new terrain obstacles.

If they hit you, you died instantly.

Massive objects emerged through the mist.

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Amid cheerful laughter came the sound of plastic chains rattling behind us.

Smiley finally began moving in earnest.

When the stage transformation ended.

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Thunk.

Thunk.

Thunk.

Thunk.

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Mo Haein, standing close beside me, spoke in a low voice.

Heavy footsteps echoed one after another.

But we still couldn’t move.

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I explained what I planned to do during the final phase.

Mo Haein frowned.

“There’s no trick here either?”

“No. abandon We have to run it honestly. atom But at the end…”

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Then a signal sounded.

“One, two, Happy Smile!”

But there was no longer any time to continue talking.

The factory speakers, which were playing the background music, began crackling.

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The restriction disappeared.

Mo Haein and I ran like mad.

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Smiley’s final third phase was a chase sequence.

And also the claw hands that suddenly appeared from behind the debris.

Unlike Smiley, who destroyed everything blocking his path while pursuing us.

The players had to dodge every obstacle on the stage.

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Even with the physical abilities enhanced by the Bolt Candy, I felt short of breath.

“Gunbam” was pronounced so drawn out that it almost sounded as if they were saying “roasted chestnut.”

“Announcement. canvas Important. airport Happy Smile Factory employees. acquire Employees. abstract Employees. arrow Must stop immediately. beacon Immediately. canvas Stooooooop.”

Amid the distorted music, an announcement sounded through the speakers.

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The rainbow mist slowly began to dissipate.

However, the remaining time was dangerously short.

That meant the artificial space created by Smiley was nearing its end.

They kept calling me again and again, but I never turned around to look back.

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The tension of knowing it could still drag on longer made my skin tingle.

‘5 seconds.’

The chase had lasted longer than expected.

‘8 seconds.’

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At last, I could see the end of the mist.

‘3 seconds.’

I gathered the last bit of strength I had left.

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A sharp pain pierced my thigh.

Just before emerging from the mist.

I hadn’t seen a steel beam protruding from among the stone debris.

“Argh!”

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The enhanced physical abilities disappeared.

The buff’s effect ended.

And to make matters worse, it had struck exactly the same wound again.

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‘Just one more step and I would have made it out.’

My hand passed uselessly through the mist. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

Feeling my body suddenly become heavy, I stumbled and rolled across the ground.

Then a claw hand grabbed the back of my clothing by the neck.

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It was Mo Haein, who had extended her toy arm to catch me.

It wasn’t Smiley.

The instant she dragged me out, all the mist and obstacles covering the area vanished.

I had emerged outside the factory.

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And also Smiley, ruined and battered, chasing us until the very end.

Mo Haein threw me to the ground.

She gripped the Black Moon Blade tightly and drew her arm completely back.

I could see the toy factory collapsing.

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The spear shot forward like a projectile.

“I don’t waaaant toooo—!”

It pierced through Smiley.

Smiley fell face-first onto the earth while emitting the cry of a child.

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The final boss battle of HasFac had ended.

You have defeated Smiley!

The background music, which until then had been deafening, disappeared.

“Haah… haah…”

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Mo Haein’s eyes wavered briefly.

I also regulated my breathing and staggered to my feet.

After putting away the Black Moon Blade, Mo Haein dropped to the ground while catching her breath.

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Hearing my voice mixed with groans of pain, Mo Haein muttered in disgust.

“Captain…”

It was the look of someone wondering whether she should allow me to do what I was about to do.

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But she didn’t try to stop me.

“What the hell are you trying to accomplish by healing the boss?”

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The candy melted into light and was absorbed into Smiley.

I unwrapped a Nut Candy and placed it on what appeared to be his mouth.

Limping, I approached Smiley alone.

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Slowly, he stood up.

“Because I wanted to keep my promise.”

Smiley’s shattered body began repairing itself.

He remained motionless while looking at me.

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A twin brother separated from him after losing his memories during childhood.

That was the player’s true identity.

The only person capable of killing Smiley was someone who shared his blood and flesh.

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For Smiley, death was the real Happy Ending.

I truly wanted to grant him rest.

And that was why he had lured the only person capable of granting him death to the factory.

After obtaining immortality and his powers, Smiley recovered his memories of the player.

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Then a calm voice was heard.

That drawn-out childish voice was not a mechanical voice.

“Why-did-you-come-so-late?”

The black plastic eyes stared at me for a long time.

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So I simply apologized.

Even so, it seemed we were still moving toward the True Ending.

Everything seemed to have diverged drastically.

‘But that wasn’t his original line…’

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I gently stroked the smooth plastic surface.

I hesitated for a moment.

“I’m sorry.”

Then I placed my hand on Smiley’s head.

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And Smiley said something I had never heard before.

Then he slowly extended a claw hand and grabbed the end of my uniform sleeve.

“I-don’t-want-to-die.”

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He sounded exactly like a small child pleading.

“Let’s-go-together-Gunbam-together-forever.”

If it had been up to me, I would have taken him with me immediately.

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But he wasn’t an item.

Smiley and the toys wish to become ■■ ■■ ■■.

At that moment, a system window appeared.

And there wasn’t any method to do so. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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— Yes!

And the choices that appeared afterward were even worse.

The text was covered by strange ■■ symbols, making it impossible to understand.

You wish to gladly accept their request to become the ■ and the ■ of ■■ ■.

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I sighed.

No… seriously…

— Yeaaah!

— Of Course

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With a cheerful notification sound, a new window appeared.

If I didn’t accept, I wouldn’t be able to see the ending.

I had no choice.

I selected “Yeaaah!”

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Announcing an ending I had never seen in my life.

— Banquet Ending ■■ ■■ ■■.

Completed.