I was raised in the simulator, and I’m really not a bad woman in Ark!

[But as the rainstorm fell, you lost the blood-stained white rose on your chest. ]

[Slowly putting on his black silk robe and carrying his bloodstained cane, he left the manor where you had placed several guillotines.]

Here, on this night, you let them know that you are not a harmless sheep, but a hungry wolf. A hidden demon.

[Such an evaluation is actually a bit excessive in your opinion. After all, you did not use violence. You just let their guards faithfully perform their duties. When you pressed them on the guillotine, you handed over the crimes and evidence they had committed over the years to the foreign knights and police bit by bit. That's all.]

[The crime they committed was punishable by death. You just freed them within the legal scope and even provided them with instruments of torture and a place of execution. This shows how kind you are.]

[But unfortunately, the world's perspective is somewhat one-sided. When you assisted the police in confiscating the property of the families behind those people, you also dismembered the guy who blew up your parents, and your notoriety spread among the aristocratic circle.]

[This makes you a little sad. After all, you have not committed any crime, nor have you actively hurt others, but you have gained such a bad reputation. This makes you a little distressed. ]

【You didn’t sleep well all night. 】

[However, the next day, the knight who exaggerated what you did and accidentally spread the story got drunk and drowned in a mud pit for unknown reasons.]

[Well...he drowned. He drowned because of being drunk. That makes sense, doesn't it?]

[And those ladies and petty nobles who had deliberately spread these exaggerated stories because they were jealous of your former beauty and wealth also kept their mouths shut and stopped spreading these bad rumors.]

[This made you feel relieved, because you didn't want to be labeled as a kinslayer. After all, those scums were not from your family.]

[Fortunately, everyone around you is kind enough and did not continue to spread these things. ]

[Although soon, you were inexplicably known as the 'Blood-stained Silver Duke' in the Royal Academy. ]

[However, considering that this nickname is quite nice, and it was given by the eldest daughter of a duke's family, you can only reluctantly accept this nickname which actually has a sarcastic meaning.]

[Although afterwards, the daughter of the Grand Duke was inexplicably infected with Originium disease almost every other day, and the Duke's family business suddenly suffered a huge deficit. ]

[But this has nothing to do with you. After all, you are so kind and you only have the title of Duke. How could you possibly do all this? So this has nothing to do with you, right?]

[I think the Duke's family must have done something bad, and that's why they are being punished! ]

[It has absolutely nothing to do with you and your Originium skills that were awakened by Originium disease! ]

Well, keep making it up, I’m almost believing it.

But... Originium Technique? So what exactly is the Originium Technique that I awakened in the simulation?

Is it also related to 'dreams'?

Never mind, let’s just keep watching.

[In short, these things that have nothing to do with you did not affect your normal campus life. Your life quickly got rid of the shadow of the past and returned to peace. ]

[Everyone treats you very well. Although some noble ladies and masters in the academy don't like you, you can all become good friends in the end.]

[As for whether it is sincere or not, it is unknown. ]

[However, your style of doing things has earned you many people who are truly obsessed with you. ]

[But you don't care about them, and you don't care about the marriage hints from the families behind them. As for them, you play them around, and even willingly let them be anchored by you with the Originium technique, becoming your tools, just like a bunch of barking puppies longing for their master's love.]

[No, they are worse than dogs. After all, dogs can be hugged by their owners, but they can't even talk to you.]

[However, there are some people who may really like you. For example, Feilin, who got rid of his inferiority complex with your unintentional help, once said that he would marry you.]

【But you naturally don’t care about this. 】

[In addition to these trivial matters, you also operated a certain small industry within the scope allowed by the Aslan Royal Family, and used the people who were previously anchored by your Originium skills to successfully enrich your small treasury. ]

[At the same time, when you were eighteen years old, you officially inherited the title of Grand Duke of Manchester as the last bloodline of your family.]

[Contrary to what many people expected, your succession ceremony was not attended by only a few minor nobles.]

【Instead, unexpectedly, almost all the Londinium families sent messengers to offer congratulations and gifts, including the Aslan royal family.】

[This was beyond everyone's expectations and was published in the newspaper the next day, letting many Victorians know that there was such a duke family with only one person in their country and its current duke.]

[Everything is going well, as if it indicates that your family will rise again. ]

[But you understand, this is actually the limit, and it is also the limit that the Aslan royal family can tolerate, unless the implicit threat in the congratulatory message given by the messenger who symbolizes Aslan is false.]

【But this is obviously impossible. 】

[So you wisely gave up further expansion of the family business and lived a peaceful life instead. After graduating from Victoria Royal College, you finally won the hearts of several lovely young ladies. After arranging your own business, you took a large sum of wealth and left Victoria. You began to travel around Terra, enjoying the mountains and rivers while looking for a way to curb the Originium disease.]

[But obviously, Originium disease is an incurable disease in this era, even if you have a certain amount of Drak's blood in your body. ]

[But you don't care. After all, if it weren't for the help of Originium disease, you wouldn't have been able to live so smoothly these years. ]

[Your Originium skills have always been of great help to you, so even if you fail to find a way to curb the Originium disease, it doesn't matter to you. ]

[After all, there is no one left in this world that you care about. ]

[At the same time... no one will care about the real you. ]

[You know that for so many years, you have been living in people's eyes with different disguises. Therefore, even if there are people who really care about and love you, after all, what they care about and love is just a false shell.

But... in fact, aren't you the same? For a long time, you have been pretending to deceive others, and naturally deceived yourself. Now you know that even you can't tell which one of you is the real you among the many false selves. 】

[Perhaps you didn’t care about these things because of revenge. ]

[But... after getting rid of the shadow of the past and successfully avenging your parents, you are alone again and have to start facing it all. ]

[You are not a truly cold monster after all. ]

[All of this makes you feel lonely and confused while wandering alone on Terra, and gradually becomes numb to the things around you. ]

[So much so that you did less and less of your actions of flirting with girls, taking away their sincerity, and supporting gamblers, watching their desperate expressions in the end, and finally you were too lazy to do it.]

[After all, those things can no longer fill the emptiness in your heart. ]

【And your journey gradually turns into aimless wandering. 】

[But even though you begin to feel numb, your journey continues.]

[Unconsciously, you gradually traveled across most of Terra, and finally wandered to the land called Kazdel. ]

[Originally, you just wanted to take a look at the local customs and culture, pick up a few Sarkaz girls, and then leave this barren and dry land.]

[But, perhaps it was fate. Here, in a black market in a small town on the border of Kazdel, you saw the figure that made your soul feel a surge of evil in a cage next to a human trafficker.]

[——She was a lovely girl with cherry-white shoulder-length hair. Although her pretty face was stained with dirt and mud, it was still easy to see her beauty. The clothes made of rags of linen wrapped the girl's tender body, but the exposed skin was still eye-catching and made you stop.]

[To be honest, you don't know the reason for this evil impulse. You have seen many beautiful women, but this is the first time that your numb and calm heart has been so eager to get the girl in front of you, eager to grasp the source of this evil impulse.]

[No, not only that, the moment you looked into the girl's eyes, you saw the girl's hidden emotions, which were the desire for freedom and the concealment of her inner self.]

[This reminds me of your younger self. At that time, your eyes were so similar to that of this Sarkaz girl.]

[The difference is that you have completed your revenge, but she has not yet started.]

[This caused ripples in your empty heart and soul. ]

You are longing for her.

[Not only do you want to possess the other person, but you also want to arrange the other person's life, let her walk the path you walked in the past, and then find her true self. ]

[When you first see that Sarkaz, you should feel that he will understand you. ]

[After a moment of stunned silence, you smiled, which was rare for you after such a long time. ]

[However...what was aroused was not pure desire and greed, but a beautiful smile with a hint of danger.]

[So, in the year 880 of the Terra calendar, which was the year you were twenty years old.

You bought a pink-haired Sarkaz ball from the human trafficker, and were given its skinny brother as a gift.

[And the story between you and her also begins at this moment. ]

……

“Ah? Theresa?!”

"No, I'm going to train Theresa this time? What the hell is this? Am I going to train the gentle prince into a villain?!"

Look at the portrait of the loli that suddenly appeared in front of you, and the portrait of the loli when she grew up.

Looking at the Sarkaz woman with long silver-white hair, dressed in plain robes and gently gazing at everything with her light golden eyes, as gentle as the Virgin Mary.

Ikaros was deeply shocked!

After all, this is a third-rate development... Although, Ikaros inexplicably wants to continue to see how the story develops...

……

Chapter 4 Slave Girl Theresa

[Ding~ Friendly reminder, the simulator plot is about to enter an important node, do you want to start the first-person observation mode? ]

[Note: If the host enters the first-person observation mode, he will be able to make small-scale changes to the plot through options, thereby affecting subsequent developments and reward settlement. Do you want to enter now? ]

"First-person observation mode?"

"If I choose this, will it have any impact on me? System, for example, after I enter this observation mode, if I get injured in the simulation, will the injury be synchronized to my body?"

Ikaros looked at the function suddenly given by the system. Although he had initial trust in the system, in order to avoid risks, the girl still raised questions.

[No, host.]

[When you enter this mode, you will observe from the perspective of 'you' in the first person. In addition to being able to influence the simulation when options appear, you can understand that you are watching a fully realistic movie. ]

“Like in VR?”

[Almost the same, but the actual experience is countless times more real than VR. ]

"So how long does this mode take? I have something else to do later. If it takes too long, forget it."

[…Is this system so low-level? Really…But don’t worry, the problem you are worried about is not a problem. ]

[In order not to affect your normal life, the overall duration of this simulation is fifteen minutes. During the first-person simulation, the time flow rate will be adjusted subjectively with the outside world, so this simulation will definitely not affect you and your childhood sweetheart, so you can rest assured. ]

"Then there's no need to hesitate, first person, start!"

Since the problem he was worried about would not occur, Ikaros would naturally give this function a try.

This includes curiosity about the system functions, as well as curiosity about the characters in the game as a former Zhouyou player!

Ikaros really liked this prince in his previous life, but unfortunately this year is the 1090th year of the Terran calendar, and the Kazdel Civil War has been going on for nearly three years (Note: According to Arknights Wike, the Kazdel Civil War officially began in 1087, the same year the Tower of Babel was established, and before that it was a war for the throne.)

In addition to his identity as a Lateran, Ikaros didn't think he could go there to meet His Highness.

As for changing the ending of Theresa's death, I have even less confidence.

Ekalos is very clear about his own strength and level.

Besides, his love for Her Highness was just the love that an ordinary otaku had for his two-dimensional paper-figure wife. It was fine if he just said it, but he couldn't really sacrifice his life for Theresa.

Right now, she needs to take care of her childhood sweetheart and think about how she can keep him if she is expelled from Lateran in the future. Or she can simply start saving money now and plan her future wandering life all over Terra with her childhood sweetheart. This is what Ekalos really needs to consider.

As for the rest, I can only say let it go.

Taking care of yourself and the people around you first is what is really important.

As for meeting His Highness, it’s better to meet him in the simulator!

These thoughts flashed through his mind quickly. Although Ikaros felt regretful that he could not see the real Theresa, that was all.

Then, her vision blurred for a moment, and the next moment she came to a wilderness and entered a body that was similar to but different from her original body.

In front of her was Theresa who was locked in a cage, and Theresis who was curled up in a ball and protected by Theresa behind her.

Great, great, I met two heavyweights of the Sarkaz at once.

Moreover, the smell around here is really pungent, it is so real that it can be said to be completely like a real world. However, Ikaros also felt the breath of her Originium skills, which reminded her that all this was just a "dream" and also a false "simulation".

This completely wiped out the girl's last bit of vigilance.

It seems that the system did not lie to her.

But before Ikaros could observe and think for long, she looked straight at Theresa in the cage and spoke:

"How much is this Sarkaz? I'll buy it."

The unquestionable tone coupled with the girl's exquisite outfit fully demonstrates the girl's temperament and financial resources.

Her name is 'Ikaros', the Grand Duke of Victoria, the blood-stained Silver Duke of Londinium, the last bloodline of the Manchester family, and also the Ikaros in the simulation.

At this moment, she was wearing a gentleman's suit popular in Victorian upper society, a tall silk black hat, a black lining on her upper body and a thin triangular silk scarf of the opposite color. An egg-sized dark blue gem was inlaid on her collar.

At the same time, her main dress was a close-fitting dark blue long swallowtail coat, which made her look heroic and conservative while highlighting her well-developed figure.