I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7
“….”
Smiley fell silent.
As if studying something unfamiliar, those black plastic eyes simply held my gaze, unblinking and still.
A moment passed.
Smiley’s claw-like hand lowered me gently to the ground.
The moment my feet touched earth, an intense drum and bass BGM erupted. It was the music that heralded the beginning of Haspack’s final boss battle.
A system window materialized before me.
◆Main Quest◆
: Grant Smiley eternal rest.
You have promised death to Smiley.
If you fail to keep your promise, you and your
comrades will face death.
You must emerge victorious in battle against Smiley.
The system window itself seemed corrupted, likely due to the abnormal progression.
I exhaled softly.
In truth, there were still numerous stages left to clear and toy affinity points to earn before I should face the final boss.
I didn’t even possess a weapon item.
In short, I was about to bash my head against the wall with nothing to show for it.
But the situation was already corrupted. Even if I wanted to proceed in order, I couldn’t.
And while it wasn’t a Haspack item….
I had managed to obtain something reasonably useful.
The kind Smiley waited patiently for my first strike. I retrieved the Volt Candy from my inventory and tore open its wrapper.
The Volt Candy’s attack power and physical enhancement buff would last for 180 seconds.
I had to clear all three phases of Smiley’s fight within that window.
Thirty-five seconds for phase one, thirty-five for phase two, sixty for phase three, and twenty-five seconds each for the phase transition cutscenes.
The time allocation was cutting it close.
As I placed the Volt Candy in my mouth, a tingling sensation spread across my tongue.
“Ugh….”
The sharp, electric-like sting made me involuntarily grimace.
Yet experiencing the taste directly, rather than merely reading it in system text, was exhilarating.
I launched myself upward in a light leap.
The moment I felt my body responding far better than I’d anticipated, several viable strategies crystallized in my mind.
I selected one from the cascade of possibilities and fixed my gaze on Smiley.
Waiting for my opening move, Smiley tracked my every motion with those unwavering eyes.
I’m sorry, Smiley, but you won’t get a turn in phase one.
“Captain Mo Hae-in!”
I yanked my shackled hands back with all my strength.
“Take the Volt Candy!!”
“Have some Volt Candy!!”
I slashed the hinge cuffs across Smiley’s left eye.
Crack!
The plastic eye shattered.
‘It works.’
A specialized Sidaecheong item designed to restrain Aptitudes.
I’d theorized it could serve as a weapon given its durability far exceeded most items, but it had been a gamble nonetheless.
The rush of a successful bet flooded my brain with euphoria.
Counting seconds in my head, I tore away the fractured plastic shards.
Rainbow-colored blood erupted as Smiley convulsed violently.
The recoil sent me flying, and I landed at a distance.
Noticing my movements felt lighter, I glanced down to find the hinge connecting the cuffs had shattered.
Having unexpectedly regained my freedom, I listened to the music shifting.
Static noise crackled through the background track.
The sound of transitioning to phase two.
‘Saved four seconds.’
Smiley, leaking rainbow liquid from one eye, slammed its pincer down onto the ground.
The earth trembled as the floor fractured.
Small toys crawled up through the cracks.
Unfinished toys the workers had been manufacturing broke free from the production line and rushed forward.
They came at us as if eager to play, but two hits from any of those toys meant instant death.
Block bullets flew through the shower of toys from all directions—fired by soldier toys.
A bullet I failed to dodge grazed my thigh with searing pain.
As I staggered from the agony, a fish toy with gaping jaws flew straight at my face.
But its pointed teeth never sank into me.
“You absolute lunatic!”
The black crescent blade sliced the fish apart. The toy scattered like fresh sashimi.
Mo Hae-in screamed with veins bulging in her neck.
“Are you insane?!”
“My apologies, Captain.”
At least you’re alive, aren’t you?
I kept that thought to myself.
Fortunately, Mo Hae-in had no time to be angry with me and quickly turned her attention forward.
Using the eye fragment I’d torn from Smiley as a shield, I spoke rapidly.
“To finish phase two, you need to attack the left eye.”
Mo Hae-in and I charged forward. The impact of toys and bullets against the shield shook our bodies.
Then Smiley’s pincer came down where I stood.
The ground heaved, lifting both Mo Hae-in and me into the air.
In the game, it would have been a simple obstacle mechanic, but here we found ourselves perched atop the suddenly risen earth.
Mo Hae-in snatched the eye fragment I’d been using as a shield and used it as a foothold.
“Grab on!”
I grabbed Mo Hae-in around the waist.
The moment we touched the jutting earth, we slid across it like a sled made of debris.
The toys that had been rushing toward us couldn’t keep pace with our speed and collided with each other, tumbling down in chaos.
As soon as we descended rapidly, I hurled the broken fragments away and rushed toward Smiley again.
The claw hands struck the ground in succession, targeting us, but evading them wasn’t difficult.
The moment we entered striking distance, Mo Hae-in leaped high into the air.
The black crescent blade pierced Smiley’s left eye.
Where the outer casing had been stripped away, leaving only iridescent liquid pooling, the blade sank deep.
Despite being a plastic toy, it felt like piercing soft flesh.
From Smiley, a mechanical sound repeated—a child’s delighted laughter and cries.
“Die!-Kill-me!-Die!-Kill-me!-Die!”
Mo Hae-in pulled the blade free and landed, while the fifteen-meter-tall Smiley began shrinking with a creaking sound.
Reduced to one meter, Smiley stood motionless like a broken machine, iridescent liquid dripping from its eye.
The surroundings filled with hazy rainbow-colored mist. The BGM mixed with a piercing noise distortion loud enough to grate on the ears.
Phase three had begun.
‘About five seconds lost.’
I’d lost time when I failed to avoid the surging earth at the start.
But there was still room to spare.
I sharpened my heightened senses from the Bolt Candy. With vision limited by the mist, reaction speed was the key mechanic.
The ground trembled with a deep rumble—the sound of the Toy Factory collapsing.
Debris began falling.
The heavy falling objects appearing through the mist meant instant death on contact, and even dodging them turned them into terrain obstacles.
The floor was instantly covered with massive stone fragments, mechanical parts, and broken toys.
Once the terrain shift ended, Smiley began moving in earnest.
Along with cheerful laughter, I heard the sound of plastic chains rattling as it approached from behind.
Thud, thud, thud, thud—heavy footsteps striking down.
But I still couldn’t move.
Mo Hae-in, pressed tight against my side, asked in a low voice.
“Is there no trick to this?”
“We just have to run honestly. But at the end….”
I told Mo Hae-in what I would need to do at the final moment. She furrowed her brow but couldn’t continue the conversation.
The factory speakers that had been playing the BGM crackled, then a signal tone dropped.
“One, two, Happy Smile!”
My bound feet came free. Mo Hae-in and I sprinted forward like madness.
Smiley’s final phase three was a chase.
Unlike Smiley, which destroyed everything blocking its path while pursuing, the player had to dodge the obstacles on the floor while running.
All while evading the claw hands that suddenly jutted out from behind large obstacles.
Even with my physical abilities enhanced by the Bolt Candy, my breath came ragged.
An announcement echoed through the tearing BGM.
“Attention. We are. Speaking. All Happy Smile Factory em-ployees. Em-ployees must stop immediately. Immediately. Stooooop.”
I was drawing out the name “Gunbam” in a long, almost roasted chestnut-like manner.
She kept calling out to me, but I refused to turn around even once.
The rainbow mist began to fade gradually. It meant Smiley’s virtual space was coming to an end.
But the remaining time was precarious. The chase had lasted longer than expected.
‘8 seconds.’
The tension that it might stretch even longer made my skin prickle.
‘5 seconds.’
Finally, the edge of the mist came into view.
I squeezed out my last ounce of strength.
‘3 seconds.’
Just before breaking free from the mist.
A sharp pain throbbed through my thigh.
I hadn’t seen the steel beam protruding between the stones. Of all places, I’d injured the same spot again.
As the buff duration ended, my enhanced physical abilities vanished.
My body suddenly felt impossibly heavy, and I stumbled, tumbling forward.
My hand cut uselessly through the mist.
‘Just one more step and I’d be out.’
That’s when a pincer hand seized my collar.
It wasn’t Smiley. Mo Hae-in had extended her toy arm and caught me.
The moment she pulled me out, the mist and obstacles surrounding everything vanished.
I emerged outside the factory.
The collapsing Toy Factory came into view. Smiley, mangled and broken, continued pursuing me to the very end.
Mo Hae-in, who had thrown me to the ground, gripped the Black Moon Blade and drew her arm far back.
The spear shot forth like a javelin, piercing straight through Smiley.
Smiley collapsed onto the dirt with the cry of a child.
“I don’t want to—!”
The ear-splitting background music vanished. The Haspack final boss battle was over.
You have achieved victory against Smiley!
“Haa, haa.”
Mo Hae-in, having sheathed the Black Moon Blade, sank to the ground and caught her breath.
I steadied my breathing and staggered to my feet.
Mo Hae-in’s eyes flickered briefly. They were conflicted—uncertain whether she should allow what I was about to do.
“Captain…”
At my pained call, Mo Hae-in muttered with displeasure.
“What exactly are you trying to do by reviving the boss?”
But she didn’t stop me.
I limped toward Smiley alone.
I unwrapped a Nut Candy and placed it where its mouth should be. The candy melted like light, seeping into Smiley.
Smiley, its shattered body restored, rose slowly.
Smiley stood motionless, looking up at me.
“To keep my promise.”
Only a being who shared the same blood and flesh could kill Smiley.
Twins who had lost their memories in childhood and parted ways.
That was the player’s true identity.
Smiley had gained power alongside immortality and remembered the player, drawing the only existence capable of killing me into the factory.
I genuinely wanted to give Smiley peace.
Death was the happy ending Smiley deserved.
Black plastic eyes held my gaze for a long moment. A quiet voice emerged.
“Why-come-now?”
The drawn-out, childlike voice was not mechanical.
‘But this wasn’t the original dialogue….’
Something felt deeply twisted, yet it seemed to be leading toward the true ending, so I remained silent and apologized.
“I’m sorry.”
I hesitated before placing my hand on top of Smiley’s head.
As I gently stroked the smooth plastic, Smiley spoke in another strange line.
“Don’t-want-to-die.”
Then, with a soft sound, Smiley extended a claw hand and gripped the cuff of my work uniform.
“Come-with-me-roasted-chestnuts-together-forever-.”
It was like a child pleading. I wanted to take them with me immediately, but they weren’t an item, and I had no way to do it.
Then a system window appeared.
Smiley and the toys wish to become ■■ ■■ ■■.
You gladly wish to accept their request to become the ■ and ■ of ■■ ■.
The text was covered in strange ■ characters, making the content impossible to read properly.
Moreover, the following choices were absurd.
– Yes!
– By all means.
– YEEES!
No… sigh.
If I didn’t accept, I wouldn’t be able to see the ending, so I had no choice.
I selected ‘YEEES!’ A cheerful notification sound rang out as a system window appeared.
【Happy Smile Factory】 Cleared!
– ■■ ■■ ■■ Banquet Ending.
Announcing an ending I had never seen before.

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