This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1131 Divine Game Quiet Mountain 14
Quiet Mountain, Year 6796, November 12
Today’s Demon Game was unusually calm. We ended up talking about the versions of ourselves in the other world.
Years ago, some of us started dreaming about another self. It stopped being a secret a long time ago, and this topic is soaked in malice.
It is hard not to feel malicious, isn’t it?
The Demon Game makes us stronger by forcing us to relive pain again and again.
So what about our originals? Have they already forgotten the pain and moved on with new lives?
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6796, Month 15, Day 2
QM Rita is getting stronger and stronger.
Two Demon Games a day. She is basically turning it into a single player grind. The Demon Game should put her on some kind of daily limit.
She is getting more extreme by the day. Colder. Sharper. Like her whole body has grown thorns.
Nine months ago, when a mandatory task forced me to kneel on one knee in front of her, even though she was already growing distant back then, she still turned aside to avoid it. That interrupted my task progress, and I had to drag her back into it.
When the task flow finally ended, she crouched down to look at me and asked, "Do you ever feel like crying?"
But today, when I was once again forced to kneel and swear in front of her, she lifted my chin with the tip of her sword and asked, "You should cry a little."
After the game ended, I stormed into BS and fought her. Because of the world rule that apostles cannot kill other apostles, I could not finish her, but I still drove her health down to 1.
She quietly healed herself to full, then gave me a provoking smile.
Another player driven insane by the Demon Game. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, February 4
QM Rita is so irritating.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, March 14
I am going to kill QM Rita!
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, April 6
Cicada and I have decided we are going to get rid of QM Rita!
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, May 13
Cicada, Maple Syrup, and I swore together that we are going to get rid of QM Rita.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, June 8
Cicada, Maple Syrup, Frenzied Shark, and I started planning how to get rid of QM Rita. Apostles cannot kill each other, but inside the Demon Game there are plenty of rules we can exploit.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, July 11
SmokeTune, the gentlest tempered person in Quiet Mountain, decided to join our plan.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, August 19
She hit Tier 16.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, September 6
We only found out today that Frost Deer, Mojie, Kessa, and JE, who never joined us, had already formed their own alliance.
The alliance was literally named Kill QM Rita.
The two alliances merged.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, October 15
Shocking. She has twenty eight SSS tier survival skills.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, December 5
Unbelievable. She has five divine escape skills.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, Month 13, Day 21
Today’s loyalty target was QM Rita again. Ever since she descended into Quiet Mountain, eight out of ten times it has been her. The other two times, it was those copies from the other world.
I thought I would have to listen to more of her infuriating remarks. I suspect she does it on purpose. Only if I hate her will my next in game target likely be her, and my loyalty becomes a huge advantage to her.
But instead, she bent down and studied my expression. I could see my own wary, rejecting face reflected in her black eyes.
She said, "The more you hurt, the more it proves what you care about is still there."
I asked her, "Do you still hurt?"
"No."
A lie. If she truly stopped hurting, her nightmare would change. If nothing could stir her at all, her task difficulty would become terrifying. At least one third of the apostles have disappeared for exactly that reason.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6797, Month 16, Day 19
Cicada, stop being mad for a moment. Put the revenge plan on hold. She is Tier 17 now. Why does the Demon Game still not have a daily limit.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, January 1
Congratulations to Rita for taking first place in this year’s Winterveil event, Who Is the Most Annoying Apostle.
Unbelievable. She actually asked us for a prize.
Even more unbelievable, Cicada actually gave her one.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, January 2
She knocked on my door early in the morning and handed me a ruby. The gemstone was called Tyrant Game, the same name as the SSS tier god given talent she evolved not long ago.
She asked me to process it into earrings.
Me: "What?"
Her: "This is yesterday’s event reward. Also, from now on, when your loyalty target is me, I can keep my mouth shut."
I agreed. That promise was too tempting.
But I have decided we are never hosting that event again next Winterveil.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, January 7
She awakened Nightmare Prison.
This demon relic suits her pretty well. If wearing it also made her talk less, it would be perfect.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, February 21
This is a beautiful world in a sick way.
Beautiful refers to Quiet Mountain.
Sick refers to us apostles.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, March 14
I drew the task to betray her again.
By now, everyone understands the pattern of her nightmare’s mandatory tasks.
In the first half of the game, she must unconditionally give and trust her teammates. In the second half, she must be betrayed, and she cannot kill the betrayer. In the end, the betrayer receives double the settlement rewards from that Demon Game.
We have all enjoyed being the betrayer. But starting with this game, it changed.
When the game ended, she charged at me with her sword, trying to seize back the rewards the Demon Game had assigned to me.
She lost.
But I know this is the beginning.
Every apostle knows this is the beginning.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, May 18
She reclaimed the double rewards the betrayer received.
She is trying to defeat her own anger and nightmare.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, May 19
She failed.
In the first Demon Game after she reclaimed the rewards, her nightmare updated. The player who draws the betrayer role can now also gain the skill she comprehends in that game.
You cannot seize that back.
I was in that game too. Very fortunately, I was the betrayer who received that synced skill.
That night, just from the look on Rita’s face when she got the notification, I fell asleep without drinking any potion for the first time.
Unbelievable.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, May 5
Today Rita and Cicada argued. Rita smirked coldly and stuck out her pinky at Cicada.
"You are this."
We all went silent.
Does she even know what that means?
Cicada looked like she wanted to say something, then decided to pretend she did not see it. Maybe she was afraid that if she explained, Rita would explode in embarrassment and go out of control.
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Quiet Mountain, Year 6798, May 21
Today we discussed an interesting question.
If one day we meet our originals, what will we do?
Will we care whether she is doing well, or will we take revenge and make her taste the same pain?
For once, everyone was in perfect sync. We gave the same answer.
We no longer see ourselves as copies. The one who disappeared is the fake, the defective one.
We have no past. We no longer need a past.
