I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4
My heart raced, and I found myself smiling uncontrollably.
Was this an easter egg? Or perhaps an ending route I had never discovered?
Either way, it was something new from the Happy Smile Factory.
There was still something unknown in a game I had worn myself to the bone mastering!
I wanted to tear into it immediately and uncover every secret.
Knowing my current reaction was far from that of an ordinary civilian, I pressed my lips together and suppressed my smile.
Just as the discussion ended, Mo Hae-in discovered the broken Smiley I had been collecting pieces of.
I explained myself with a naive expression to her questioning gaze.
“Well, you see, when I pick up this candy, it apparently repairs toys. Even though they’re just toys, I thought they might be in pain.”
At my words, Mo Hae-in’s expression went blank, while Park Sung-gyeon burst into laughter.
“Ha ha! You’re quite the kindhearted one, wanting to repair them.”
Park Sung-gyeon tapped my shoulder playfully.
“But kindness is forbidden here, okay? You need to be careful. I can’t explain in detail, but this place is extremely dangerous.”
He warned me that the toys could get back up and attack.
I apologized to him once more.
After thoroughly teasing me to his satisfaction, Park Sung-gyeon suddenly stared into empty space and widened his eyes.
“Oh, Captain. But this item description is a bit unusual.”
He was reading the item description for the broken Smiley through the system window.
“Um, sorry to rush, but could we leave soon? I want to get out of here.”
I feigned fear and urged Mo Hae-in and Park Sung-gyeon to move elsewhere.
I was worried they might touch the Smiley doll.
I wasn’t sure if broken toys would recover with the nut candy, but since it seemed the game was progressing along a different route, I planned to keep leaving candy for it.
Of course, Smiley was just a toy item with recorded voice lines, not an actual NPC, but I left the candy anyway.
“It seems meaningful, but since we cut it in half anyway, let’s just focus on clearing with the civilian here.”
Fortunately, Mo Hae-in focused on clearing quickly.
She even drew out the Black Moon Blade, seemingly intent on bulldozing through with pure force to finish in an instant. It was a fitting approach for a collapse ending.
Whoosh—Mo Hae-in swung the massive spear and shook off the iridescent blood, then glanced at me one last time before turning away.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes!”
Park Sung-gyeon’s mood had improved. He kept checking his hands, having already replaced his left arm with a toy arm as well.
Mo Hae-in still had only one toy arm, which was necessary to wield the Black Moon Blade.
Had it not been for the Black Moon Blade, she would have equipped items on both arms first.
I observed Park Sung-gyeon’s joy carefully.
In trials, item farming was directly tied to survival, so it was natural to be pleased about obtaining additional items quickly.
‘But something feels off.’
Mo Hae-in and Park Sung-gyeon had cleared Haspack multiple times.
Even with the new variable that had appeared, clearing shouldn’t be difficult given that Mo Hae-in had drawn the Black Moon Blade.
No, it was guaranteed to be cleared.
So why was he so happy about obtaining just one more toy arm?
“You look young, Go-yo. Are you a university student?”
I set aside my confusion for a moment and answered Park Sung-gyeon’s question.
“Yes.”
At twenty-four, it was reasonable to assume I was a student.
Explaining that I was a former professional gamer who’d retired due to injury and was currently unemployed felt unnecessarily complicated.
“Military service?”
“Not yet.”
Actually, I was exempt….
There was no reason to elaborate on that either, so I simply moved past it.
“How did you end up here?”
“I just fell asleep, and when I woke up…. I can go home, right?”
“Of course. Just trust your older brother.”
As he said this, his crab-like hands clicked together, and something about it felt suspicious—like he was about to cause trouble at any moment.
Fortunately, before the conversation could continue, we entered the second zone: the Research Facility.
Unlike the glittering, fantastical space outside, the Research Facility was a ruin with shattered stone and exposed steel frames laid bare.
Various machines that had no place in a toy factory—the kind used for biological research—were scattered throughout.
◆Main Quest: Awaken the Shattered Prince.
In the secret Research Facility of the Toy Factory, the Shattered Prince sleeps.
You decide that you must gather the scattered fragments to awaken the sleeping prince.
I glanced at the system window while pretending to examine the Research Facility.
I needed to find the hidden fragments of the prince doll scattered throughout, and to obtain the final piece, I would have to face the first boss battle.
Park Sung-gyeon used the elongated toy arm to move the collapsed debris and quickly located a doll fragment, while Mo Hae-in solved a puzzle displayed on a computer screen to obtain a key.
She picked up the limbless prince doll and used the key to unlock the sealed door of the Research Facility.
Beyond the door, which bore a large “Restricted Area” sign, stood a broken glass tank.
It hadn’t been long since it shattered; rainbow-colored liquid was pouring from the cracked tank with a splashing sound.
It was the color of the toys’ blood.
Drip—a droplet fell from the ceiling.
I wiped my wet cheek with the back of my hand, considering an appropriate gesture of surprise. Then I slowly lifted my head.
“Gasp…!”
As I hurriedly stepped backward, Park Sung-gyeon burst into laughter.
“Scared? We’ll catch that thing in no time.”
A massive hole of indeterminate depth had opened in the ceiling.
From the darkness, an enormous spider toy descended along a yarn web.
The spider, with all eight legs made of toy blocks, had a smiling face with four pairs of eyes.
A spider doll far too inappropriate to sell as a children’s toy.
Haspack’s first boss: Princess Tarantella.
“Once our Captain Mo swings the Black Moon Blade, we’ll finish it quickly.”
I glanced at Park Sung-gyeon. His eyes gleamed with greed as he gazed at Mo Hae-in’s Black Moon Blade.
That lustful gaze stirred a memory I’d forgotten.
‘Ah…. Park Sung-gyeon. Now I remember.’
At that moment, a new system window appeared.
You think it would be helpful to have examples to understand what ‘System’ and ‘Registration’ mean.
Just then, I discovered a suitable example right before my eyes!
‘Park Sung-gyeon’ is a registrable sample character. Would you like to register?
The timing was impeccably perfect, as if the system had read my mind. This time, I didn’t hesitate.
‘Register.’
‘Park Sung-gyeon (Sample)’ registering….
When you play Archive’s games, a post-credits scene appears after the ending.
In the post-credit scene, it typically shows a brief exchange between a player who has exited the Trial and an Archive character, though occasionally the location would shift.
In those cases, I’d find myself wandering through South Korea within the Archive.
I primarily visited the Trial Response Agency.
I had stopped by Mo Hae-in’s office there and read official documents regarding the judgment of an incident that occurred within a Trial.
It was a fatal incident triggered when a teammate who had entered the Trial with me targeted the Black Moon Blade and attacked Mo Hae-in.
Mo Hae-in cleaved the attacking teammate in half with the Black Moon Blade.
…This incident was triggered by the unilateral attack of Second Lieutenant Park Sung-gyeon, and the counterattack of the attacked party was confirmed as an immediate response to the preemptive strike.
1) The fact that it occurred during a boss battle
2) The absence of time for judgment due to chaos at the scene
3) The fact that the attacked party also sustained severe injuries
Comprehensively considering the above factors, the attacked party’s counterattack is determined to be legitimate self-defense rather than excessive retaliation.
Despite being a fatal incident, legitimate self-defense was recognized, and the punishment was light—merely a written report and brief suspension.
The teammate who attacked Mo Hae-in at that time was Park Sung-gyeon.
Since he appeared only as a single line in the official document, it was understandable that I hadn’t remembered him.
‘It seems he caused trouble at Haspack.’
The toy limbs obtainable from Haspack grant superhuman strength while simultaneously providing tremendous range.
‘Today seems to be the day he plans to cause trouble.’
Park Sung-gyeon appeared to plan obtaining the toy arm before Mo Hae-in, seizing the Black Moon Blade, and then either murdering Mo Hae-in or turning her into a factory worker to commit the perfect crime.
His actions posed a significant risk of obstructing the true ending.
I was also displeased that he intended to harm Mo Hae-in, a character I favored.
‘Besides, if he kills Mo Hae-in, he won’t leave me, a witness, alive.’
Therefore, I had no intention of leaving Park Sung-gyeon alone either.
Registration complete!
You feel the urge to check the sample’s status window.
I’d been thinking about it for a while now—the system window’s tone was strange.
In the original game, the system window had an extremely ordinary manner of speech.
Just a standard System Message like any other game, guiding the player.
But now it seemed to deliberately speak as if voicing my own thoughts.
‘Could this be related to me becoming the system?’
For now, since our objectives aligned, I decided to go along with it.
I checked Park Sung-gyeon as the system window instructed.
‘Park Sung-gyeon status window.’
– Park Sung-gyeon (Sample) ♥x3
– Employee of the Happy Smile Factory
– Items: Cherry Picker (3), Nut Candy (12), Flashlight (1).
The information I could confirm through the system was remarkably sparse and meager.
The moment dissatisfaction crossed my mind, an additional system window materialized.
You harbor discontent with your own simple and meager abilities.
As a system, you believe you must hone your capabilities.
It seemed that my stats would need to grow before additional information could be unlocked.
I examined the sparse entries more closely.
The hearts multiplied by three must represent life, and the items…
“…?”
The Cherry Picker—a toy limb item—showed a count of three. Yet Park Sung-gyeon had only obtained two so far.
There was only one possible explanation.
He had brought an item he’d acquired from clearing Haspack previously.
The Trial Response Agency prohibited the use of items obtained from prior iterations of the same trial, absent exceptional circumstances.
This restriction, like the ban on using items from other trials, was meant to minimize variables within the trial.
Furthermore, the Trial Response Agency verified all items acquired after clearing a trial, and such items fundamentally belonged to the Agency itself.
There was no reason for them to have surrendered the Cherry Picker to Park Sung-gyeon—he had clearly obtained the item through illicit means.
‘He must have done something reckless because of Mo Hae-in.’
I became certain that Park Sung-gyeon would cause an accident in Haspack today.
You grow curious about the influence you can exert as a system over ‘Park Sung-gyeon (Sample)’.
You wish to examine the options listed below the items section.
I checked the entries written beneath the items as instructed.
> Message
> Execution
Only two options, and I couldn’t fathom what either meant. I decided to try the more approachable one first—Message.
You contemplate what message to send to ‘Park Sung-gyeon (Sample)’.
Could it be that I can actually display a system window to Park Sung-gyeon?
As I pondered the function’s purpose, the screen of an old computer tucked in the corner of the Research Facility flickered to life, and cheerful chiptune music filled the air.
The 8-bit BGM announced the beginning of the boss battle against Princess Tarantella.
Tarantella’s laughing face split into four directions, revealing densely packed teeth.
“—-!”
An incomprehensible shriek erupted from the gaping maw, piercing my eardrums.
Simultaneously, musical note-shaped toys cascaded from holes in the ceiling in rhythm with the rapid, driving music. The note toys were a gimmick that appeared only in the collapse route.
Mo Hae-in slashed through the notes and defended against the eight legs attacking from Tarantella.
Park Sung-gyeon, watching the black moon blade dance gracefully, spread both his pincer hands wide before closing them slowly.
A faint clicking sound emerged between the chiptune notes.
While I was checking the system window, Park Sung-gyeon had equipped the third Cherry Picker on his leg.
Park Sung-gyeon leaped skyward using his right toy leg.
He bounded through the falling notes, extending his pincer hand to attack Mo Hae-in in that instant.
I sent a message to Park Sung-gyeon.
A system window materialized before Park Sung-gyeon’s eyes.
Haha.
Park Sung-gyeon’s hand wavered as the system window suddenly obscured his vision.
The pincer claw missed Mo Hae-in and merely grazed her shoulder.
Mo Hae-in, who had nearly been shoved into Princess Tarantella’s mouth, let out a scream.
“Park Sung-gyeon! What the hell are you doing!”
Park Sung-gyeon, stumbling as he landed on the ground, wore a dazed expression.
He cursed under his breath and immediately tried to swing the toy arm again.
But he froze mid-motion, his hand raised halfway.
Hahaha.
Hahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Park Sung-gyeon’s face, buried beneath layers of system windows, turned a sickly pale blue.
They were the messages I had sent.

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