I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5
Park Sung-gyeon’s lips trembled as he uttered a terror-stricken murmur.
“What, what is this…. Why is this happening….”
He stumbled backward, trying to evade the system window thrust before his eyes, but his back quickly collided with the wall.
Knowing that physical force would be useless, he still flailed his hands, attempting to dispel the system window.
I approached Park Sung-gyeon, feigning ignorance of the situation.
“Are you alright?”
“Gah!”
Park Sung-gyeon, trembling violently, flinched and swung his pincer hand wildly.
Having already anticipated his reaction, I narrowly dodged his attack.
“Second Lieutenant Park Sung-gyeon!”
Mo Hae-in cried out, her eyes blazing like fire.
But Park Sung-gyeon was already beyond reason. He screamed and lunged at Mo Hae-in.
“Aaaahhhhh!!”
Normally, Mo Hae-in would have evaded with ease, but now she was simultaneously dodging Princess Tarantella’s attacks and the musical note gimmick.
“Ugh…!”
She clenched her teeth tightly. Red blood seeped through the gaps and trickled down the corner of her mouth.
Mo Hae-in, her abdomen pierced by one of Princess Tarantella’s toy legs, suppressed her agony and swung the Black Moon Blade.
A long gash opened across Park Sung-gyeon’s chest from the blade.
Park Sung-gyeon collapsed to the floor, struck repeatedly by the musical notes pouring from the ceiling, his body dented and warped in multiple places.
As dissonant sounds continued, Park Sung-gyeon’s screaming body was painted in vibrant rainbow hues.
And then, with a crash.
He scattered as toy blocks across the floor. He was dead.
‘With three hearts, he’ll resurrect.’
Since I hadn’t set a separate save point getting here, he would likely resurrect at the Lobby.
“Damn….”
Mo Hae-in gazed at me with wavering eyes. She too would soon receive a death judgment and lose a heart.
In Mo Hae-in’s eyes, as she looked at the civilian left alone before the boss, despair, frustration, and helplessness were etched.
Mo Hae-in spoke rapidly, like machine-gun fire.
“Listen carefully, civilian! Dying doesn’t mean you’re really dead. You’ll resurrect, so just stay put where you revive, and I will…!”
But she couldn’t finish her words before crumbling into toy blocks. Her concern for me stirred pangs of conscience.
I’m sorry, Captain Mo Hae-in. I’ll treat you well when you return.
Upon resurrection, she would prioritize civilian protection over tracking Park Sung-gyeon.
I calculated how long it would take for Mo Hae-in, waiting at the Lobby for my resurrection, to sense something amiss and return to the Research Facility, then looked upward.
Princess Tarantella loomed above me.
Ding! A system window materialized.
◆Main Quest: Appease the Angry Princess Tarantella.
All allies have perished. You are alone.
You are the only one to face the enraged spider.
You wish to appease Princess Tarantella. To do so, you must achieve victory in combat.
The boss’s target had shifted to me.
Musical notes cascaded from the ceiling as eight legs came rushing at me.
The attacks rained down in a dizzying barrage, but they weren’t difficult to track visually. This was a section I’d cleared on no-death mode in the game.
‘The movement feels manageable.’
The trial granted the minimum physical capabilities necessary to clear it.
I marveled at how smoothly my body responded to my will.
“–!”
Princess Tarantella shrieked in a high-pitched wail, having failed to land a single attack.
Phase two had begun.
The cascade of notes vanished as Princess Tarantella began spewing silken webs in all directions.
The webs severely restricted the player’s movement, and getting caught meant instant paralysis and death. There was no escape.
‘I wonder if the bug exploit will work here too.’
Time was limited. I intended to attempt a speedrun using the game’s glitch to clear it quickly.
Of course, the success rate was low.
It had worked in the game, but whether it would work here was another matter entirely.
I charged directly at Princess Tarantella. The key was to move before the webs were fully deployed.
I trampled across the eight legs and jumped upward, reaching the top of Princess Tarantella’s head.
Ugh.
Just a hand’s breadth below where my feet landed, a gaping maw bristling with teeth came into view.
If I failed, I’d plummet straight into that mouth.
‘But I still have a heart left, don’t I?’
I jumped with all my strength toward the darkness of the hole in the ceiling.
Everything was pitch black.
My body, which had risen to its limit, began to fall slowly.
A faint chill crept across my skin.
The thought of the pain I’d endure if I failed sent an icy shiver down my spine.
A brief fall.
My feet touched solid ground.
“Phew….”
I exhaled the breath I’d been holding. I looked down below.
Princess Tarantella, having lost her target, flailed about before spewing webs.
The bug exploit exclusive to phase two was hiding on the platform inside the ceiling hole.
If you waited on this ceiling platform—a bug that shouldn’t exist—Princess Tarantella, having lost her target, would perform erratic actions before granting the player victory.
Princess Tarantella, who had been spewing webs in one direction as if malfunctioning, suddenly raised all eight legs in unison.
Then she expelled a cocoon, and her four-way split mouth closed as she returned to her smiling face.
“—….”
A child’s crying sound echoed as the spider toy collapsed to the floor like a broken doll.
I had won the boss battle.
You have achieved victory against Princess Tarantella!
I descended once more, using Princess Tarantella as a stepping stone.
The cheerful chiptune music had now shifted into a melancholic tone.
The cocoon Princess Tarantella spat out crumbled away, revealing doll fragments.
They were the limbs of the Prince Doll.
I collected the doll fragments and placed them in my inventory.
“….”
Throughout this time, Princess Tarantella remained completely still.
It was when I pulled out a Nut Candy and slid it toward Princess Tarantella.
Suddenly, Princess Tarantella’s legs twitched.
The pincers at the ends of her legs clattered weakly as she tried to grasp the candy, but kept missing.
I cracked open the Nut Candy and placed it on what appeared to be her mouth.
Her smiling face split slightly as she swallowed the candy. Princess Tarantella, who had been drooping moments before, seemed to regain her vigor and lifted herself up.
The chiptune music had also begun flowing with a soothing quality.
Princess Tarantella looked at me and stretched her legs upward.
The spider climbed the wall with her toy legs and slowly disappeared into the darkness of the ceiling.
In the place she had left behind was a yarn cocoon.
‘But I already obtained the doll fragments?’
Puzzled, I picked up the cocoon. As the yarn unraveled, a small candy appeared.
Volt Candy: Bzzt bzzt, toy upgrade in progress….
It was the Volt Candy, a hidden item concealed within Haspack.
The Volt Candy temporarily greatly increased attack power and physical abilities.
Unlike the Nut Candy, it could be used without equipping toy limbs.
It could only be obtained once in Haspack, and only through a secret quest.
It was also the hidden item I had been searching for before Mo Hae-in returned to the Research Facility.
But Princess Tarantella had given me the Volt Candy….
This was the first time a boss had handed over a hidden item.
The toys in Haspack despise adults.
In the true ending route, the toys do hold favorable feelings toward the player, but it essentially amounted to ‘not disliking’ them.
Gestures of affection like giving gifts in this manner were impossible.
‘Now that I think about it, Sad Smiley also asked me to become his owner.’
The words about being together forever were unsettling, but strictly speaking, they were a statement of affection.
I pocketed the Volt Candy, picked up the Prince Doll that had fallen to the floor, and reattached his limbs.
After placing the completed doll in my inventory, I farmed an additional triangular flask containing rainbow-colored liquid.
I moved forward while lost in thought.
‘What if there’s another ending besides the true ending?’
When I reviewed my playthrough, there was only one unique difference.
My blood staining Sad Smiley.
In games, unless it’s a specific event, items don’t get stained with blood from wounds.
‘First, let me do what needs to be done.’
This was an opportunity I had worked hard to create to separate myself from Park Sung-gyeon and Mo Hae-in. I had no room for idle contemplation.
I left the Research Facility and headed to the Warehouse, the next stage.
I scanned the Prince Doll’s eyes to open the Warehouse door and stepped inside.
The Warehouse contained a hidden space.
It was a space that could only be found by collecting scattered sketchbook pages from throughout Haspack to craft an item, then deducing its location based on the item’s clues.
The contents written on the sketchbook pages were as follows.
Unknown Paper #1
To save the princess from her illness, the prince summoned an evil demon.
Unknown Paper #2
The princess, empowered by the demon’s strength, became healthy! But she transformed into a terrible monster.
Unknown Paper #3
The princess, trapped in the Tower, lives an eternal life. She despises what she has become and wishes to die.
Unknown Paper #4
But no matter what she does, she cannot die. Forever….
Unknown Paper #5
Enraged, the princess pushed the prince from the Tower.
The prince shattered into pieces and died.
The princess watched the prince’s death and envied him.
Collecting all five papers transforms them into a fairy tale book item.
Unknown Fairy Tale: A crude fairy tale book drawn with crayons on sketchbook pages. It appears to have been made by a young child.
And one additional page is added at the end of the fairy tale book.
I want to die I want to die I want to die I want to die kill me kill me kill me die die die
It was content that pierced through the main story of Haspack.
However, since I already knew all the clues obtainable from the fairy tale book, there was no need to wander through the factory collecting papers.
Instead, I farmed tarot cards depicting the crown and Tower—symbols from the fairy tale—within the Warehouse.
Then I approached an old, barely visible cabinet tucked away in a corner.
When I pulled the door of the elongated metal cabinet, it made a clang but wouldn’t open.
It seemed to be locked….
In the game, a system window would appear at this point.
But if I persistently attempted to open the door more than ten times.
The cabinet door broke!
The door opens along with a notification sound.
This time, instead of a notification sound, I heard the lock mechanism breaking.
Doll fragments tumbled out of the opened cabinet. They were all pieces of the Prince Doll.
I emptied out the doll fragments and instead placed the completed Prince Doll and items I had collected from the Research Facility and Warehouse inside the cabinet, then closed the door.
A glimmering light seeped through the cabinet’s cracks. I waited for the light to fade before opening the door again.
Inside, all the other items had vanished, leaving only a single Volt Candy sitting there.
‘Now I have two Volt Candies.’
It was an item I had never possessed two of before. Pondering its proper use, I summoned the system window.
‘Park Sung-gyeon status window.’
Checking the status window, I found no significant changes other than having used one Nut Candy.
Come to think of it, when I sent a message to Park Sung-gyeon earlier, I was able to see the system window.
Normally, I couldn’t see other people’s system windows, but since I had created the message myself, it seemed visible to me.
‘But if I’m the system, shouldn’t I be able to see everything from the start?’
As soon as I voiced this reasonable question, a box materialized as if it had been waiting.
Your ability insufficient.
The system’s response was remarkably half-hearted, as if it couldn’t be bothered repeating itself.
Since I’d learned what I needed to know, I let the system’s indifference slide.
I began preparing the groundwork while waiting for Mo Hae-in to arrive soon.
There was a running mechanic that started from the Warehouse and extended to the next stage.
Since players would be sprinting to avoid falling debris from collapsing buildings, I cleared away obstacles in advance to prepare.
When I moved the last chair, Mo Hae-in appeared.
“Haa, you… how did you…?”
She was gasping for breath, as if she had run with all her might.
Mo Hae-in, gripping the Warehouse door frame, scanned me from head to toe with a vacant stare.
After confirming I was unharmed, Mo Hae-in clenched her teeth and approached me, her hand gripping the Black Moon Blade.
The dark obsidian blade drew close beneath my chin. Mo Hae-in looked up at me and asked.
“Civilian.”
“Yes.”
“Can you see your system window?”

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