I Made a Game Featuring Constellations-Chapter 127

“Fort...!”

Of all the times to show up!

[Temperance] had arrived.

The one person who should never have appeared at this moment.

“Fortfort...”

Her gaze met mine as she rose from her landing position.

What should I do if she realizes I’m Fort?

Will she feel betrayed by the fact that I impersonated her favorite?

What if I accidentally become hostile with her, triggering a disaster?

Or, as the Magitech Engineer mentioned, she might just kidnap me.

None of these options seem pleasant.

What should I do...?

I bit my lip, unable to come up with a response.

“Can’t feel it... Was it all an illusion?”

[Temperance] wore a bewildered expression, as if she had come for something precious, only to find it gone.

... Could it be?

I raised my hand to my head.

It’s not there.

The fluffy ears I had felt earlier were gone.

I had returned to my original form.

[Temperance] approached me.

“Sniff... sniff...”

She brought her nose to me and began sniffing.

Her head slowly lowered.

She must have come here because she sensed Fort’s energy.

But I, as Fort, had returned to my original state for reasons I didn’t understand.

So now, was she confused because Fort’s energy had disappeared?

“... An illusion?”

“Why are you doing this?”

I tried to sound calm, keeping my voice steady.

“... Fort. Where is my Fort...?”

[Temperance] looked at me with a blank expression and flew away again.

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I could feel her presence fading away.

Thank goodness.

Once her energy disappeared, I let out a sigh of relief.

“I still haven’t smelled it there...! You thief...!”

What is she even talking about?

***

A while later...

“... So, you’re saying I can shift between human and divine forms?”

“According to our analysis, yes. Though we don’t yet understand exactly how the trigger works.”

I had unknowingly returned to my human form again.

My connection to the Constellation was fully ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ restored.

Well done, Rian.Before I knew it, my Constellation, who had been on my back, was gently patting my shoulder as they drifted off to sleep.

Maybe it was because I was so surprised.

As I started recovering my past life memories, my vocabulary skills, which had improved before, began to deteriorate again.

The powers of Dreams also began functioning normally once more.

I had returned to the state I was in before awakening Fort’s divinity.

According to the Magitech Engineer and [Temperance], the unintended divinity of Fort became one of my identities, allowing me to shift between being Rian, the human, and Fort, the divine being.

But wait... this isn’t some game character swap.

God-Embodying Fort?

... Huh?

God-Embodying Fort?

... That could work.

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The Constellation and I had become one, transforming into Fort.

What if we released this as a collaboration character?

Given Fort’s immense popularity, the sales would be insane.

Two of the most popular IPs would be combined.

It didn’t matter if people cared about character performance or lore for Fort—if I just made a quick version and sold it, the sales would surely be guaranteed.

Why not throw in some collaboration products too, and make up for the recent losses?

First, I need to tell [Temperance]...

Wait, what am I even thinking?

I quickly snapped myself back to reality, trying to focus.

So, this ability to shift into Fort... I recalled the times I had turned into a dog to approach [Temperance] in the Dream World.

Ugh!

And then, I found myself transforming back into a dog god.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

I could feel [Temperance]’s divine presence rapidly approaching from far away.

Panicked, I deactivated my Fort form.

Once Fort’s energy disappeared, [Temperance] began retreating again.

This isn’t some horror movie...

That really startled me.

Following this, the Magitech Engineer, who had been observing my situation, spoke up.

“Think about it. You can shift between divine and human forms. Every god will envy this power.”

Gods can’t interfere freely in the mortal realm.

To do so, they must use their divine power, and if it’s overused, it could lead to their destruction.

This is the law of the universe.

That’s also why the Heavenly Realm couldn’t properly respond to the resurrection of the Evil God not long ago.

“A god who can freely influence the mortal world... If such a being were known, the impact would be far greater than anything we’ve seen before.”

“That’s the power of the Crown Prince.”

To have the ability to switch between god and human forms...

What was I in my past life?

And why a dog?

I can’t reveal the fact that I’m Fort or that I can switch between god and human forms.

For now, we’ve decided to seal away this Fort state.

There’s no need for the ability to turn into a dog god anyway, and bringing it out would only lead to a disaster by confronting a rampaging [Temperance].

***

The Fort Incident and [Temperance]’s Sin of [Miserliness] were finally resolved.

With this, the total number of sins erased was five.

I’m not sure how many are left, but it feels like I’ve taken one step closer to the truth.

However, the unfortunate thing is that, unlike before, I wasn’t able to regain my past life’s memories.

It seems our Constellation remembered quite a bit, but I... didn’t get anything.

Instead, I ended up getting caught up in my past emotions and going into a rampage.

...Huh?

Does this mean that if I regain my past memories, I’ll start acting strange like I did when I went on that rampage?

I can't let that happen.

Why?I looked over at my Constellation, who tilted her head slightly.

No.

It doesn’t matter, right?

My Constellation is with me.

And my Constellation declared that she would stop me from repeating the same mistake again.

As long as my Constellation is with me, I won’t make any more wrong choices.

I’ve been through this before, and when I returned to my human state, everything seemed to resolve itself.

With the data from the sins we've tackled so far, [Temperance] and the Magitech Engineer decided to use it to build a system to track the next sins.

While we waited for that system to be completed, a new issue had arisen.

Since the release of the [Guardian] character, the sales of [Akashic Archive] had continued to decline.

The [Guardian] character itself had earned significant revenue, but the subsequent revival of older characters didn’t perform well in terms of both evaluation and sales.

The first reason was that the mighty rival, Fort, had emerged.

The second reason was that since players could only use four characters at once, those who already had a sufficient roster of characters had no reason to focus on the new ones.

The last reason was due to performance inflation.

As time passed, the performance of newly released characters kept improving, a necessary element for character-based gacha games.

To make players open their wallets, they had to feel more attraction from the new characters than from the older ones.

However, it seemed the players felt the impact faster than I anticipated.

They no longer pulled for old characters.

Another problem emerged alongside this.

“No, is this even reasonable?! Those worthless players are calling our Lina outdated? Make the Demon King character stronger! Hurry up!”

“If you improve Kate’s performance without hesitation, there won’t be any bloodshed.”

The old characters were being treated poorly due to the inflation.

The fans—no, should I call them followers—of many old characters flooded us with requests to improve their performance.

In the Empire, they even declared in the name of the Crown Prince to enhance the [Versia] character.

That wasn’t a problem yet.

It could just be ignored.

But the real issue was that each character was an incarnation of our investors from their past lives, meaning their perception was directly tied to their divinity.

If the perception of our Constellations deteriorates, their belief would erode as well.

What I did for the game would negatively impact our investors.

It had to be stopped.

I had considered releasing a separated character, but releasing something like [Swimsuit Demon God] would risk reducing their divinity to a bikini.

Given the unpredictable nature of what might happen, I decided to postpone the release of any separated characters for now.

Before I tackled the immediate crisis, I needed to boost the revival sales.

I had to break the disregard towards our Constellations.

What should I do...?

Hmm?

...Right.

I had an idea that would be worthy of this month's employee award.

What if I add a “Holding Effect” to the investor characters?

For example, since the Magitech Engineer succeeded in bringing a lover back to life after death, we could give them a passive skill like the [Saint]’s: “When health reaches zero, once per game, delay death for a turn.”

Even though only four characters can be equipped at once, if players could gain effects just by holding characters, everyone would want to pull them.

And not only that—what if I added a set effect, where owning both [Saint] and [Versia] at the same time would reduce the damage taken and increase the damage dealt to enemies?

“Oh.”

It was a brilliant idea.

Let’s do it.

As I raised my hand to invoke the power of dreams...

Squeez

A small hand pressed down on my wrist.

Riani, I’ll stop your mistakes...It was my Constellation.