Ellando Symphonia
It started with a Tsukuru game made with tools.
A humble little hobby game made by me and two close friends.
But the response after release was explosive, and people couldn’t believe it was a game made by just three people.
At the time, I was working at a game company, but after going independent, I started one of my own.
The business I started with the grand goal of breaking Ellando Symphonia free from the framework of Tsukuru flourished day by day.
And ultimately, Ellando Saga, elevated to a packaged game, had been received well at first. The problem came when it was expanded into online.
[Review Comments][Review: Mostly Negative]
-Anon: It was fine as a single-player package, but when it went online they got super money-hungry.
-Anon: I dunno if this BM is right. I know the company president from his Tsukuru days. He’s totally lost his original vision.
-Anon: Online expansion was really a self-own, yeah.
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Mostly Negative reviews.
Honestly, I admit it.
I’d lost my original vision.
But money making you do that was an unavoidable thing in a capitalist society.
That was the self-justification I told myself.
“Huu…….”
My head throbbed.
Today, too, the review comments kept pouring in.
The comment section was almost entirely split between half the comments cursing the game and half the comments begging us to just release an adult version; looking at it was endlessly exhausting.
“Try being in my shoes. I have to keep the company running and the game servers online.”
That aside, what the hell was with all the comments demanding an adult version?
No matter how money-hungry I’d become, there was something I couldn’t give up.
It was the conviction that I couldn’t waste the characters I’d poured my soul into on H-scenes.
Of course, if I released an adult version, I could make more money.
But a character who was like my own child being violated—or even if it didn’t go that far, having her virginity snatched away!—that’s a bit much, right?
“I said from the very beginning that I’d never give up on the all-ages version…….”
This was a conviction I’d nailed down since my Tsukuru days.
“By the way, tomorrow is the balance patch day…… haah…… I hope there aren’t any bugs or crashes again?”
Balance patch.
Tomorrow really did seem like there would be a lot to do: a balance patch for the abnormal attack power of Erscha, the dual-blade character; buffs to the components of the random gacha system; and fine balance adjustments for various other characters, and so on.
“Overtime is confirmed.”
I said overtime was confirmed, but the truth was I’d already been unable to go home for a week.
My dark circles were nearly touching the floor.
To top it off, one friend who was a core developer had just gotten married and gone on his honeymoon, so not only was I spearheading the dev team, but I was handling almost every major issue myself. I was practically surviving on caffeine alone these days.
“I need to catch some shut-eye for a bit. It’s going to get busy from tomorrow…… huh?”
I’d gotten up from my chair intending to sleep on the makeshift bed, but the moment I stood up my vision began to spin.
“I haven’t been sleeping enough……”
Thump-!
I tried to regain my senses, but my body collapsed forward all the same, and that was my last memory of the original world.
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Splash-!
“Blurgh! Blurgh! Uwah! What?!”
“Wh-what?!”
I clearly remember my vision spinning and collapsing forward, but what is this?
“Where am I?”
“A m-man?! Who are you?!”
Judging by the surroundings, it seems like a hot spring. But why am I in a place like this?
“A dream?”
“Hey! Can’t you hear me?!”
Since I’m conscious in a dream, does that mean it’s a lucid dream?
That thought crossed my mind.
So I pinched my cheek.
“Oww!”
“Is he crazy?”
Even in a lucid dream, a dream is still a dream. There’s no way you’d feel pain.
But right now, that pain was distinctly felt.
“Then does this mean it’s reality?”
“Listen to me!”
This makes no sense.
Did someone kidnap me while I was unconscious?
But what kind of insane kidnapper dumps their victim into a hot spring?
“But someone’s been making noise next to me since earlier……”
I couldn’t continue my sentence.
While I was trying to grasp the situation, someone had been shouting nearby. I turned to look, and there was a woman.
The reason I couldn’t speak wasn’t because that woman was in the hot spring with only a towel wrapped around her.
Of course, even that would have left me tongue-tied, but there was a bigger reason.
‘E-Eldina?!’
Because it was the person I knew best… or rather, the character.
Eldina Procheshu.
One of the romanceable heroines of Ellando Symphonia.
And the very first character I had ever designed.
‘Why is Eldina……?’
Wait, let’s think.
Think about why Eldina is in front of my eyes.
‘Could it be……’
Suddenly, this thought came to mind.
Something like an isekai transmigration.
But it wasn’t that.
Then is this one of those game possession situations you’d only see in novels?
‘What the hell……’
While I stood dumbfounded at the absurd situation, Eldina shouted at me.
“How…… how did you get in here?!”
Even if she asks how I got in, I don’t know either.
If I knew, would I be standing here like this?
If this really is game possession, then I’m facing a catastrophic situation.
And for good reason: Eldina is…… what you’d call a misandrist character.
Despite being a romanceable heroine, Eldina was the most divisive among all the heroines.
The reason was not only her fiery personality, but her disposition.
A so-called misandrist disposition.
Eldina just hates men.
There was a favorability system, so raising her affection enough would make her open up to the protagonist, but since she was fundamentally that kind of character, she always ranked dead last in heroine popularity polls.
‘I’m fucked.’
Knowing this wasn’t a dream, I was in a truly fucked situation.
She was already a misandrist character, and wasn’t this situation structured exactly like I’d invaded the women’s bath?
That meant my future was plain to see.
“So you’re going to keep your mouth firmly shut like that? Fine. I doubt it’s worth listening to anyway.”
Fireballs began forming around Eldina.
It was Eldina’s Fireball, as she was a flame mage.
“W-wait! Can’t we calm down and talk about this slowly?”
“Save the conversation for the afterlife with your mother! Shut that filthy mouth and just die!”
My mom is alive and well, what do you mean talk in the afterlife?!
No wonder she always ranks last in popularity polls with that personality!
Perhaps because it was close by, the heat radiating from that fireball was no joke.
The moment it hit me, I’d turn into a handful of ash, wouldn’t I?
‘Wh-what do I do?’
Dodge?
No, that’s a Fireball with splash damage.
Even if I dodged, I’d still meet my end from the aftershock.
Grovel and beg?
No, looking at those eyes, she seemed dead set on killing me no matter how much I begged.
No matter what method I thought of, my ending concluded with a death ending.
‘Damn it……!’
I wondered if I really had to die like this.
An ending where I get killed by a character I created—could there be anything more miserable than that?
It was the moment I despaired in that life-or-death crisis.
[User verification in progress……]
[User: Verified as Han Ijun.]
[Act: Lie has been unlocked.]
[Abl: Alteration is now available for use.]
‘Huh?’
A transparent system window rose before my eyes.
‘An Act was unlocked?’
Act is the unique trait setting of Ellando Symphonia.
It is a unique trait meaning Action—a trait tied to a specific action—while Abl refers to the unique ability stemming from that Act.
And now, a system notification had appeared stating that the unlocking of an Act and the use of an Abl had become available.
‘For now, this might be my lifeline.’
The Act called Lie probably meant I just had to commit the act of lying, and as for the Abl called Alteration, I wasn’t sure, but just from the name, it felt like if I lied, Alteration would become possible.
‘But what lie should I tell?’
It was a situation where that fireball could come flying at me any second.
Since I could end up a crushed lump of charcoal if I didn’t think of something quickly, I decided to just say whatever came out.
“I-I’m actually your husband!”
I don’t know why I said something like that.
Did I think that would somehow hit the mark with the misandrist Eldina?
[Abl: Alteration is activating.]
[Alteration Content: Han Ijun is Eldina Procheshu’s husband.]
[Alteration in progress.]
[Alteration complete.]
[In accordance with Alteration complete, Eldina Procheshu’s Act is being altered.]
[Act: Hatred -> Act: Obsession. Change complete.]
[Abl alteration in progress due to Act alteration.]
[Abl: Fireball -> Abl: Purgatory.]
[Eldina Procheshu’s Favorability towards Han Ijun is fixed at MAX.]
[Eldina Procheshu -> Han Ijun Favorability (♥): -100% -> 100%]
[Eldina Procheshu’s disposition is altered by the correction of Act: Obsession.]
[Eldina Procheshu’s Disposition: Misandry -> Yandere (Hard).]
Many notification windows popped up.
‘But her disposition is Yandere?!’
Yandere disposition…… in Ellando Symphonia, Yandere disposition was problematic.
And if it said Hard in parentheses, that obsession was no joke.
In short, this was a fucked-up story where the way out I’d sought to survive was actually a noose.
“Husband…… right, you were my husband. What was I trying to do to my husband?”
The fireballs floating around Eldina disappeared.
But if that had been the end, it would have been a relief……
I tried to slowly back away, but Eldina moved faster.
Thud-!
She suddenly tackled me, causing me to fall backward, and she climbed on top of me.
“You were going to abandon me and go to another woman, weren’t you?”
“U-um, can you calm down so we can resolve this with words?”
“I can’t give my husband to another woman. I have to mark you completely.”
Her eyes were crazed.
She was an Eldina with the eyes of a yandere who seemed ready to kill me and turn me into a taxidermy specimen if I forced my way out here.
Riiiip-!
“Gyaaah!”
A scream escaped me without realizing it.
Because she had roughly torn my clothes off.
“Wh-what do you think you’re doing?!”
“Haa……♥ Haa……♥ Husband is mine.”
It seemed like words wouldn’t get through.
This is an all-ages game.
So why is a scene directed like an H-scene playing out?
If I stayed like this, my chastity was in danger.
I was in danger of having my chastity stolen by my former-misandrist, current-yandere wife(?).
Contrary to that danger, my body reacted.
For my dick to stand erect even in this situation…… is it a man’s instinct?
Eldina began aligning the entrance of her pussy with the tip of my glans.
“C-can’t you stop there?”
“No.♥”
‘Fuck……’
And so, I ended up not only becoming the participant of an H-scene in an all-ages game, but I was also plunged into a crisis where my chastity would be destroyed by a character who was no different from my own daughter.