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nBut...

nWhat about the black-haired girl?

nWell...

n...as it should be obvious – in that sort of game there's a need for some obstacles - in Kampf um die Liebe it was just one person.

nYeah, guess who!

nThe cute girl with short black hair!

nAnd no, surprisingly, she did not possess the darkness attribute!

nShe wielded wind just like Reo!

nShe was the daughter of a very powerful duke, and her name was Miriette Lisea Espine.

nShe was the villainess.

nYou can't even imagine how disappointed I was...!

nAnd she wasn't just the obstacle messing with the player for one or two of the capture targets - oh, no!

nShe was the villainess in every single route!

nMiriette was the fiancé of prince Horeo and loved him very much.

nWhy did the heroine decide to hit on an engaged man?

nBeats me.

nI can't understand it, but when Miriette was using various methods to discourage her it was even misunderstood as her bullying the heroine!

nIn the good ending, the heroine became the queen and Miriette was stripped of the title of the nobility and exiled.

nIn the bad end, Miriette stabbed the heroine and was sentenced to death.

nIn the route of the second prince, Miriette wasn't a love rival per se but as a daughter of the duke she was against the second prince of the kingdom marrying a commoner and was piling up obstacles for the heroine.

n...again, it looked like bullying for the outsiders...

nGood ending, heroine marries the second prince, Miriette's engagement with the prince Horeo is broken and she is sent to the monastery.

nBad ending, the second prince can't bear being the inferior one and attacks his older brother and Miriette takes the fatal blow for Horeo, the second prince is sentenced to life in prison while Miriette dies!

nI'm not exactly sure but the other routes seem to be similar...

nI tried to avoid the spoilers as much as I could but I just couldn't help myself to look at the fanart made by various talented fans.

nAnd I accidentally saw a comment under the extremely good artwork of Miriette looking prideful.

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/Why the hell Miriette end in miserable ways in every route!? The frick is wrong with the creators to not include her get happily married even once!?

nI felt my stomach squeezing in pain when I saw it. What's more, the comment had a lot of dislikes and angry responses like:

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/Fuck that bitch she deserves that!

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/You just got a ** taste, Slutiette deserves everything for trying to slut away every boy!

nBut it seemed that Miriette also had some fans who weren't going to let her be abused.

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/Fuck the creators, they have some fetish or something, every final artwork includes a detailed depiction of punished Miriette!

nAfter reading that I started playing the game religiously hoping for finding some hidden ending or route that would save the black-haired girl that everyone else had missed.

nBut after finishing five routes in both good and bad ways I was only presented with the artwork the comment mentioned.

nBroken-hearted Miriette in rags in another country.

nA sword aiming at the neck of kneeling and crying Miriette.

nLonely Miriette in the cell-like room in the monastery.

nMiriette's chest pierced by the water spear.

nMiriette getting stabbed.

nMiriette getting strangled.

nMiriette getting sold off as a slave.

nKidnapped and married to an old ugly and fat duke of the neighboring kingdom.

nExpelled from school and confined in the castle's prison...

n|That random on the forum was right! Those **ers just MUST have some weird fetish!|

nMy heart ached every time I saw the horrible ending that awaited the character I became unusually attached to.

nI wouldn't say that I have an obsessive personality but...

n...there was something different about this girl...

nThe things that happened to her were all so unfair!

nIn the route of the royal magician son, Arisu, it was so bad that they expelled her from school because her magic went haywire in the room next to the room the heroine was in and hurt her completely by accident.

nAnd, and, AND!

nMind you!

nThat was in the magic tower MADE for experiments with magic!

nEven so, I still had some hope.

nThere still was the route of the fire-wielding Grazio. Maybe, just maybe, the person who left the comment about Miriette's exclusive bad endings hadn't played his route yet or they did something wrong!

nWith the tiniest inkling of hope in my heart, I went to the convenience store to buy some energy drinks to pull me through one more sleepless night of gaming.

nThat game was taking over my life in a big way, but the only thing on my mind was saving Miriette.

n|I will protect her! I will make her happy no matter what!|

nThere wasn't much traffic at all, and few guys on motorbikes were playing around doing wheelies and recording their stunts.

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"Whoa, that's so cool!|

nI thought to myself as I passed them before entering the store.

nI grabbed and paid for an eight pack of energy drinks and some snacks and exited the store in a hurry.

n...or at least I was supposed to...

nAs the automatic door opened before me I saw an unmanned motorbike flying right at me.

nI had no time to react!

nZero, null, nada!

nThe front tire slammed into my neck and both me and the motorbike crashed into the shelves full of various pastries.

nWhile feeling an unbelievable amount of pain I tried to move but my body didn't even budge.

nMy throat was feeling like it was crushed – probably because it was, duh - and I couldn't breathe at all!

nThe people in the shop were screaming in terror and I tried my damn hardest to breathe while laying between the crushed bread loaves and chocolate-filled buns.

n|Oh god...! It hurts! It hurts so much..!|

nEach time I tried to suck some air I could only feel some sort of warm liquid pouring into my lungs.

n|Oh god, no..! Please no..!|

nMy eyes must have been bulging but I couldn't even see properly, everything was getting out of focus and my field of vision was gradually swallowed by the darkness.

n|I need to save her! I can't fail again..! I must make her smile!|

nAnd then...

nThe pain stopped.

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