A Hero's System to Freedom

A Hero's Escape From Illusion Hell - 8

'Alicia', the name attached to every main heroine in my lives. If anything it was a word to trigger past trauma... especially the first run. At the mention of it my mind will shiver without fail.

Without warning, a dark, murky aura covered the Goddess, being filled with eerie mana.

"Hmmmm... maybe I shouldn't have made that my 'name'," The Goddess sighs with a forlorn expression, completely different to her usual tone.

She was 'different', that child-like temperament vanished and was- just gone. The 'Goddess' descended upon my confused figure, her signature silver hair replaced with a pitch black hue.

"Hey hero, would you mind calling my name just for me?" The voice was laced with irresistible sweetness.

My ears experienced heaven-

'Wait! What is this level of Charm!'

'Hey System!'

[System is currently unavailable.]

'Dammit! Something weird is happening!'

"Hmmmm?~" She raises my floored face with her hands.

"Alic- No! What are you doing!?" This isn't the same Goddess!

"Who are you!" My question fell on deaf ears.

"It's fine~ don't worry about anything, just entrust your everything to me, okay?" The words enticed me to accept.

['Destined Hero' attempts to resist the divine coercion.]

Her face inched closer, raising the warmth and heartbeat of my body. But, my soul and will would not accept this.

['Destined Hero' successfully resists most of the Charm!]

[Danger! Haruto is currently facing an unknown Goddess! Escape at once!]

I swept away her hands, reaching out for my sword.

"You think you can escape me?~" Her coquettish voice resounded in this closed off room.

The room distorted, changing and turning until a nostalgic sight appeared.

'My room...?'

"Japan...! what the hell did you do!" Once again she moves, but instead onto the familiar bed.

"Ignore it, just sit right next to me, 'My Hero'," My body could no longer follow my orders and it arrived right next to her.

['Destined Hero' Has failed to resist the brainwashing.]

"You bas-!" The words escaping were sealed not by her hand or order, but her lips.

This b**ch, her tongue tries to pierce my barrier of teeth. Realising it wasn't possible to breach my defence she instead pushes herself onto me. The feeling of being under control without any ability to resist was horrendous.

'System I beg you come online!'

[Haruto, the only way for the system's functions to come back online is through a source of mana. You will have to provide enough of it so it can offer a teleport scroll outside of this place. However you will have to do it in a way this existence won't notice, to which the system recommends catching it off guard. For now go along with her demands until an opening occurs.]

That was exactly what I just thought as well, there was no other option but to go along with it. She didn't seem to be able to read minds, something I could take advantage of.

"Hero, comfort this lonely me," The ear pleasing voice once again rings in my ears.

I wrap my arms around her body, listening to her order instead of resisting.

"Now, call my name and I'll reward you~"

"A-ah, Alice," I pretend to forget, and prepare mana in a small part of my finger.

"Silly Hero it's Alicia okay?" She smiles lovingly.

[Haruto, the System warns you to not call her name more than three times or you will be completely charmed.]

"Yes, Alicia-," In that moment I was overloaded with feelings of love, infatuation, and pleasure.

It was taking all I had to resist it internally.

Accepting my response as an okay, she once again closes in on my lips with her own.

'System! Now!'

I discharged the mana into the restricted air, to activate the system.

"What?!" The 'Goddess' yells in confusion.

[Teleportation Scroll has been bought for 2500 Item Points!]

I reacted immediately and jumped away from her onto the materialising scroll. With my fingertips on the fully generated Item I yelled with a burning a passion to escape.

"TELEPORT!!!" Screaming the incantation at the top of my lungs, I was surrounded in blue and white fog.

Before I completely disappeared her hair slowly reverted back to a familiar silver.

"Hey kiddo! You okay?" Burd brought me up from the wooden floor.

My head was spinning in circles, I could barely think.

"What happened in there Haruto?" Calvin guides me to a round circle table within the Inn's diner area.

Deliriously I sit down and decide to give a brief and twisted story, the perpetrator was a divine being after all.

I decided to explain it as a freak mana outburst from my sister, saying that she has had the problem since birth. They seemed to have accepted the explanation especially after Calvin recounted the Goddess' figure, which was surrounded by unconscious bodies.

The presence of the unknown entity couldn't be felt anymore, so it was fine to move on.

"We should check up on her later, if she detects anything close she'll snap again. We should go register myself as an adventurer for now," I calmly explain my lie to them.

"Well considering it's a mana 'problem' it makes sense to do so," Ursa accepts my future course of actions.

"Case settled then, lets go introduce you to the guild!" Calvin brightens up the mood just from standing with a smile.

"Kiddo follow us and make sure not to get lost," Burd stands up and follows his brother's lead.

'He may speak rough, but he's not a bad guy.'

We exited the dark inn leaving me flabbergasted. I was met with a flourishing, lively city. People bustling about buying items, talking to each other, stall owners cheerfully selling their stocks, and adventurer-like people wandering about. It was like a passage was ripped out of a fantasy novel. I never had the chance to wander about within the home of commoners despite my redone lives.

I felt a push and looked backwards, it was Calvin.

"How long are you going to stand there?"

He walked ahead forcing me to follow.

Not too long after we found ourselves right in front of a enormous building. It was furnished with a massive plaque displaying two-swords overlapping each other.

"The Adventurers Guild, right?"

"Yeah sign up at the general reception, there's three lines so choose the shortest one," Burd answers crudely.

"We'll be going to the quest reward area so be careful," Ursa and the rest leave me behind inside the huge hall.

Witnessing their absence I stare ahead, "Ah well, so the general reception. The signs should just be above... what?"

'I can not read. I completely forgot.'

"System, is there a translation skill available that I can afford by any chance?"

[Unfortunately, there is not.]

'Guess I'll just ask around then.'

"Ah hello!" I greeted a man only to be ignored and pushed away.

It was tougher than I thought it would be and I just sat down.