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Chapter 9: I Only Need 72 Hours To Fall In Love With You (IX)
The moment he was hit, Shang Ke’s soul had immediately separated from his body, but he didn’t immediately return to the System Space. However, it wasn’t going to take long. At most, he would need to wait another ten or so minutes to completely separate from this world.
“Save him. I don’t care what method you use, but you have to bring him back to life!” Ravel grabbed Banny’s wrist, his eyes so coldly terrifying. Banny didn’t pay attention to the pain from his wrist and patiently told him, “Your Majesty, please let go of your grief. It is already impossible to save Cage now. If we forcefully save him, then we will only damage his remains. Is this what Your Majesty wishes to see?”
Ravel slowly released his hand, his gaze once again falling down to the boy on the ground. Within the transparent ice, the boy wore a smile, his eyes as gentle and vivid as before. A few minutes ago, he was still standing by his side, holding his hand and offering flowers with him. In the next second, he helplessly watched him die in his own arms.
This idiot, he couldn’t even walk well and yet still tried to save him!
Ravel’s mind continued to replay the scene from when Cage jumped in front of him, and his icy blue eyes seemed to be covered in a layer of mist.
If his reaction was a bit faster and his movements a bit quicker, he…would he not have died? If he had known earlier, no matter what, he wouldn’t have let Cage participate in this memorial ceremony. Until the end, he didn’t have the chance to even say a word to him.
“Your Majesty.” Kahn walked over and said in a low voice, “This place isn’t safe. This subordinate will escort you back to the government mansion.”
Ravel remained silent for a while before telling him, “Bring an ice coffin over.”
Spirit Shang Ke crouched by Ravel’s side and thought to himself, This guy wasn’t trying to forever keep Cage’s dead body in cold storage, right?
He jabbed at the ice corpse on the ground, his finger directly passing the ice and touching the dead body’s skin. Immediately after, he felt an sucking force. Before he even had the chance to react, he was sucked back into Cage’s body.
【Congratulation to Host, additional mission completed along with your successful resurrection. System will gift you fifteen detained days.】
Such fraud! He could live even like this?
He had originally thought that his hands and legs being paralyzed was miserable enough, and he didn’t expect there was something even worse. Staying for another fifteen days as an ice corpse? I would rather go!
Shang Ke wanted to cry but had no tears. He could only hate his own hand, just why did he have to jab at something he didn’t need to jab at!
His eyes met Ravel’s eyes through the ice. The emotions in Ravel’s eyes stirred, his body moving forward before he called out in a soft voice, “Cage?”
Hehe, I’m very sorry, this humble self’s hands cannot move, mouth cannot speak, eyes cannot blink, and head cannot move. There is no way to respond to your call.
“What’s wrong Your Majesty?” Banny saw the change in Ravel’s expression and couldn’t help but ask.
“I don’t know why,” Ravel observed Shang Ke’s eyes and said, “but I think he still has consciousness.”
“That’s impossible. Ice devil will freeze even the brain, so how could…” Banny hadn’t finished his words when he also noticed Shang Ke’s eyes. Just a moment ago, they were stagnant, but now they looked as if energy had been poured into them, brilliant and rippling, clear and lively.
Banny widened his eyes, his expression filled with disbelief.
Ravel turned his head to look at Banny, and used a serious and strained voice to ask, “He’s still alive, right?”
Banny was speechless.
“Save him.” Ravel’s voice became stronger as he ordered, “Save him!”
Banny looked at the Cage who was encased in ice, before clenching his teeth and nodding. “I will do my best.”
Cage’s strong vitality was something he had seen rarely. Perhaps he could create another miracle. The success rate for defrosting him depended upon how long he could persist.
However, in that moment, the ice coffin was brought over.
Because bodies that had been hit by ice devil became especially weak, they had to use special methods to move it in order to guarantee they would remain in good condition.
Ravel ordered the men to carefully lift up the frozen Cage. Hope once again lit up his heart, and he could only think of moving Cage to the hospital as soon as possible.
Banny stood on the side, using his cell phone to notify the hospital to make preparations to treat Cage.
When the reporters outside saw this scene, their hearts couldn’t help but give birth to a brazen guess. Perhaps Cage still had a chance to be brought back to life? This was big news!
They heaved up their cameras one by one, and regardless of the surrounding confusion and strict precautions by the guards, they made use of every second to film.
Cage’s body was moved into the ice coffin while the guards pushed it toward the shuttle car. Ravel and Banny followed behind closely.
【Additional mission 2: Help Ravel avoid a bomb attack. As long as this mission is completed and Host does not die, then Host can chose to stay in this world and live freely.】
System, I have suffered with you for a long time! Are you not done playing around yet?! You f*cking go try to help Ravel avoid a bomb attack as a corpse for me to see!
Shang Ke was utterly incensed while lying in the freezer. A living person has dignity, and a dead person does too!
Just at this moment, there was suddenly a clamor coming from outside the ice coffin. Someone seemed to have fallen, causing a chain reaction.
Following that, the ice coffin was heavily hit several times, making banging sounds. Immediately after, he heard Ravel bellow, “Don’t!”
Shang Ke was certain that this was definitely the most passionate word Ravel had ever yelled in his entire life.
Subsequently, the world swirled and his body fell. Along with it was the sound of shattering, before his consciousness fell into darkness.
Finally, he was free…
Ravel watched with his own eyes as Cage’s ice coffin was overturned and he tumbled out, falling onto the ground and shattering into pieces of ice crystals mixed with blood. Under the sunshine, they flickered unpleasantly to his eyes.
It was as if everything around him stilled, and Ravel stood stiffly in place, his pupils losing focus.
Just when he was about to move, he suddenly heard a great trembling sound from not too far away. A shuttle car was wrapped in a blaze of fire caused by an explosion.
That shuttle car was the one that was supposed to be used to transport the ice coffin. Because they were in a hurry, they did not spend time inspecting it. Ravel would have certainly sat in it as well. If it weren’t for this unexpected event, he and the ice coffin with Cage would have both exploded into fragments.
“Your Majesty, Cage saved your life again,” Banny heavily spoke, “I think, this was his final wish.”
A shredded body and crushed bones, all to protect the monarch.
Everything before Ravel’s eyes turned fuzzy. The only color in his eyes, along with that Flaming Red Sky Flower, had both withered and disappeared.
His world, once again, remained only black and white…
【Congratulations Host, mission complete. Although your end was a shredded body and crushed bones, and you’re unable to resurrect, you still obtain three times the reward.】
“I’m really too thankful!” Shang Ke was almost ready to cry. This mission only lasted twenty days, and yet he actually died with not even a bit of his body left. “System, don’t tell me that every mission I take after this will be so cruel?”
【That is not so, this happened because the first world has extra preferential treatment. Therefore, you could pass it so easily. Furthermore, you were able to successfully display the art of dying to the pinnacle.】
“This is extra preferential treatment?! And even an easy pass?” Shang Ke simply could not believe it.
【Of course, you can complete the first world’s mission while sitting, you can complete it while standing, you can even complete it lying down.】
Shang Ke’s expression was completely blank. Weren’t his three missions just completed “sitting,” completed “standing,” and completed “lying”?
Receiving torture while sitting, blocking a bullet while standing, and lying down and shattering into small pieces…hehe, he really did die shockingly and artistic enough.
【Starting from the second mission, this kind of extra preferential treatment will be gone. To complete missions, you will have to go court death yourself.】
Why do those words sound so unpleasant to his ears? What “you have to go court death yourself?” Did it think he liked to court death? Furthermore, how hard was it to court death?
【Please remember Host, your death has to be in line with the “heroic” condition. A normal, accidental death will be viewed as failure. If you choose to suicide or die of old age, going against the two doctrines, the System will give the corresponding penalty.】
“Isn’t the penalty just increasing the number of missions?”
【Please do not become complacent. If missions are consistently failed, then the penalty will continue to accumulate. Host may possibly enter an unlimited death cycle.】
Shang Ke: “……” Alright, this consequence really is severe.
【For now, may Host please receive your reward.】
Finally, something that would make someone happy.
【Your have completed one main mission and two additional mission in your first world. Constitution +10 (+5 +5), Memory +20 (+10 +5), Spiritual Power +15 (+5 +5), Beauty +15 (+10 +5), Life Span +5 (+1 +2). The numbers in the parenthesis are the reward from the additional missions.】
“Aren’t there skills too?”
【Yes, you can choose two types of skills to begin learning.】 The System revealed all the skill for him to chose. There were a total of seventy-seven types, some skills he had never even heard of before.
He thought for a bit and decided it was best to promote his strength. So he chose “martial arts” and “magic.”
【Sorry, Host’s constitution has not reached the required level for learning martial arts and magic.】
“What? There’s even a constitution restriction?”
【Among all the choices, only those that are lit up can be chosen. The skills that are grey means that the host has not met the condition to learn them.】
Shang Ke once again looked toward the skills. Among the seventy-seven skills, only “musical instrument”, “cooking”, “drawing”, “acting”, “racing”, “makeup”, and “swimming” were lit up.
He asked, “Can I look at my body’s data?
【Because Host is still in spirit mode, you cannot look over your body’s data. Only when Host returns to your own body will you be able to detect your basic profile.】
【Has Host chosen which two skills to learn?】
Shang Ke carefully thought and finally chose “cooking” and “musical instrument.”
【Selection made, Host will now enter the hundred training space.】
“Hundred training space?”
【All skills must be learned and trained within the hundred training space in order to completely master them.】
Shang Ke felt that this arrangement was very reasonable. Skills without a strong foundation will never be reliable.
However, what Shang Ke didn’t expect was that when he entered the hundred training space, he actually used ten years. Although the System explained to him later that time ran differently in the hundred training space compared to the outside world, it still made him terribly depressed.
Who can endure ten years of learning cooking and a musical instrument?! In addition, before he reached the great master level, he was not allowed to leave. Cooking was still manageable, and his time was mainly spent on his instruments. Fortunately, he only chose the piano and flute. If he were to choose a couple more, then he likely wouldn’t have even come out in ten years!
After ten years of harsh training, Shang Ke formally entered the second world.
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Imagine the only person you’ve ever love died tragically right in front of your eyes, torned to ice pieces mix with blood… okay, if Ravel go mentally insane by this, i would not be surprised…
*drowning in sea of tears*
…So many tissue used…
Thanks for the 1st Arc chapters’ batch!
Now, I need to mentally prepared myself if this kind of ending is going to continue for the next arc too.
no not even that he saw his only loved one saved his life, thought he was dead, suddenly saw live in his eyes, was given hope that he could live and they could be happy with each other ONLY TO SEE HIM DIED AGAIN AND THIS TIME THERE WAS NO WAY HE COULD BE REVIVED AGAIN
Hahahaha! Good choices! I personally love to cook and play flute~ ah~ I already love this novel!!!
Thank you for the translation!
Snowy-sama, I worship you for translating this!
Poor Ravel, I bet he received heavy mental and emotional trauma.
Thank you very much for trablasting this story!
Lolol, I thought it was copy+paste ?
don’t worry guy’s it may be a sad ending now but later it get’s better meow
“Receiving torture while standing, blocking a bullet while standing, lying down and shattering into small pieces…hehe, he really did die shockingly enough, artistic enough.” In this, isn’t it “Receiving torture while sitting…” not “Recieving torture while standing…” ?
oops, typo. Thanks for the catch
Thanks for the hard work?
Ravel…. are you okay?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME! ! !
I read this at my breaktime.
After my break, a coworker asked
‘Did you take a nap?’
‘…well, yes, kinda…’
‘Ah, is that so! Your eyes look teary, like you just cried your eyes out’
*cough*
Thank you, for translating this. I really like this story!
xDDD Hope there wasn’t anything else that needed you in front of the public afterward
I can’t thank you enough, translator-sama, you are amazing!!!! I loved the main characters, and loved reading this bittersweet first arc! As of now, I’ll be stalking three of your danmei novels’ updates: Heroic Death System, Reborn as My Love Rival’s Wife, and The Daily Task of Preventing my Disciple from Turning to the Dark Side hahaha. HDS is a truly awesome episodic novel, it gaves us all sorts of feelings – I felt sad over MC’s poor circumstances, I felt warm and happy at ML’s care of him, I laughed because of MC’s funny inner monologues… -, and then left us pretty satisfied at the end of the arc. It was an worthwhile journey, I can’t wait to read more, and hope you will be translating the full novel!
* Translator-sama raises his/her hands high and we-readers send energy to muster a veryyyyy big Genki Dama and give you the strength to keep translating lol *
P.S.: I didn’t understand how MC managed to save ML from the explosion as a frozen body… Can someone enlighten me?
As System Says: First Mission Special Treatment, Easy Mode Hahahaha
It’s probably too late but it’s something like this ~ Cage body got frozen so they put him in a ice coffin, then a group of people carried him to a shuttle car to be transported to the hospital BUT suddenly someone in that group of people carrying the coffin fell, which lead to imbalance and thus the coffin unturned, and then imagine a frozen Cage body shatters to pieces upon impact. While all this happen and Ravel panic cause of his “Oh no, my Cage!”, the supposingly shuttle car to be board explode before their very eyes. The part where Shang Ke save Ravel is PROBABLY by accident as instead of having a smooth journey back to the hospital and kaboom, he kinda died before they board the shuttle car and thus “saving” Ravel… The part how someone fell is probably by accident or Shang Ke did something or maybe that brave guy just wanted to touch Shang Ke?… who knows? (All these is based on my understanding. SORRY IF IT’S WRONG *kneels for forgiveness*)
Ok Ravel is officially the system’s son seriously!
tho I know the doctor is called Banny but I couldn’t help keep reading it as Bunny >.<
Thank you for making me tear up in the middle of the night *sniff sniff*
ah, spoke too soon
..Ah, I’m not sure if I’m ready to read this.. Probably going to drop if it’s continues with sad endings, what most surely is going to happen. I was not made to shed so many tears!
But then there is fated to have one story with a good ending when not die 3x.. ?????
It was a slap in the face reading this.
I mean he got a nobel beautiful death where his name was cleared and his body preserved with his last beautiful expression.. and then he was sucked back, they got hope that he might live and then he got smached into bits in front of ml.
Poor Ravel…
I feel like they all are getting btsd..
That being said, I still love this one and appreciate the fact that you are translating it! ♥️
(Maybe I’m a bit of a M.. ) ?
This system is so unfair!! I thought he was going to live HEA with Ravel ?
Tears. Tears. Tears.
MOAR TEARS.
I can’t even say I didn’t ask for this!!
*corn wailing*
This system is too cruel ;–;
omg this is the saddest death ever. it’s like ridiculously unlucky that i laughed like are you kidding one unfortunate event after the other XD and poor ml has to deal with mc suffering and dying twice in front of his eyes to save him. i think the guy saying “your Majesty cage saved your life again” probably felt like a face slap to ml.
Ah can’t wait to read more XD
I would have chosen acting…but cooking is a skill needed to live. Lol
Am I the only one who laughed at the way he died? Sorry about that but for me it really is funny.(≧∇≦)
so funny when he became an ice corpse.. lolololol but he still manage to save Ravel and even has another mission lol
i thought protagonist has golden thigh..but this one, maybe author-sama is an S. anyways, i’m torn between reading it further for a bit or just drop this and pick another story. this is so nice but tragedy is not a favorable genre to me. thanks for the nice translation.
same. i also don’t like shedding tears 😀
Shang Ke!!.😂
That last death tho..*cough*
I thought it would be another 15 long days….Thanks God he finally go in ‘peace’
Thanks for the chapter!
I dont get how you guys are sad over this arc. I was personally laughing my head off. Dude he’s a mfing iced corpse and he still doesnt die until he gets blown up! Nj system +10 points for schadenfreude!
Bless you for translating!
XD We all got morbid sense of humor
I feel the most sorry for Ravel. Poor guy’s lead a very bleak life. Thanks for the trans.
PS: I would have chosen acting over musical instrument. So as to die more heroically. 😆
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I’m not ready for that feels……… I’m so sad for Ravel……a devoted serious type with a lot of patience…….he’s one of a million T_T. In every world he’s going to , I hope he will not break so much hearts.
need to survive at least 2 deaths … need to spend 10yrs to learn 2 skills …. what a “life”!! scarrry! I enjoy reading this translation – smooth reading, clear and expressing the right emotion
Acting would be a more sensible choice but eh.
Just when I was about to cry for Ravel, System came in and made me laugh. Such a savage System! LOL
I feel like Shang Ke’s reaction all the time is OTL.
Thank you for translating!
Ese tipo de sistema me da mucho coraje, puras trabas! X_X
Gracias por el capítulo!
😂 I’m sorry mc, that’s really funny , you gotta save ml while being a frozen corpse…🤣… lol easy mode is like this, then how is normal and up 😓
Oh god I bet ravel is extremely traumatized. I know I would be if I saw a love one die like that. I kinda wish that the author went more into detail about how ravel coped after that tragedy but then again I don’t think my heart could bear reading it. Anyways thank you for the chapter!!
10 years?? Is the author on that Malcolm Gladwell Tipping Point schedule? No cheats, if you want pro status, put in the 10,000 hours 😂 Poor MC, what did he do to deserve such a rough system 😭😭
Thanks for translating!
I don’t usually read novels, u thought this was a manga but then u realised it’s a novel so I gave it a try and I’m completely in love with it. I’m thankful to the author for writing this
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Thanks for the chapter ♡´･ᴗ･`♡
i was kinda hopping he’d learn guqin i mean as we chinese like to say “qin qin shu hua”
Ah! I can feel his pain but yeah good choice of cooking and instrument ah the future for him is gonna be painful I cry weepful tears t-t
Awww… It’s like, Perfect Destiny.
After seeing his one light shatter right before his eyes, Ravel is dead inside.
Hahaha, and this is easy mode. Curious to see what other pits have been dug by the system… ROFL
I like this… I definitely like this! It’s not like other novels that just drop the skills and the baam! You now learned the skill. Such details, yum yum!
The first mission wasn’t really to save Ravel but more to bend the man. Bend his sexuality, bend his mind and bend his personality ; – ;
Although I tend to always nit-pick over isekai protagonists mastering shit easily (those JP harem-isekais) doing this the “Everyone is a Returnee” way is… ah, torturous.
just wat I was saying lol
😅😅ohmg 10 yrs tis is sth new.Usually u get it in an instant,cant imagine how MC feels.Which remind me of a novel where the MC has to spend 1000yrs being left bhind on earth to level up when humanity migrates to other planets,all alone..
Hahaha! I couldn’t stop laughing. This chapter really makes me laugh. 😂😂😁 Host, you completed your mission through sitting, standing and laying. And die artistically. You also horned your skills for 10 years. Wow! 😂😂👏👏👍You really have a hard time.
Thanks for the chapter
Man had to conplete a misson as a forzen body.
The ice coffin part was kinda funny… Ravel was the saddest part… and I would have chosen cooking and racing, for better chances of poisoning and escaping the enemy.
Poor Ravel:(
I’m happy we weren’t so attached to him, or my heart will break even more
I wished Cage died right after he saved Ravel the first time, why give the poor guy a false hope? This is too cruel.
I hope he gets better, I really do
I find the system extremely funny. Poor Shang Ke
And he is making every male lead falling in love with him?? Amazing ! 👏
Maybe its because I’ve only read 2 quick transmigration stories before this but the ending of each world still gets me everytime, I wanna know more about what happens after but alas another day another arc. Poor Ravel he witnessed the person he loved die from saving him from a sniper, then was given hope and not even a few minutes later that hope was snatched away from him as the same exact person saved him again and got shattered to pieces then his world naturally proceeded to turn cold once agin. Somebody hug this poor man. 🥲
Unless failing to “die heroically” will reduce the learned skills and gained abilities – which I don’t believe was mentioned either of the times the conditions of failure were explained – the System actually grants one the ability to live over and over again in all kinds of settings, while knowing some of the details about potential future. Unless the MC is really stuck on returning back to his original world, there is really not many drawbacks. Though, I guess, he would go crazy or mentally retarded from excess of memories, eventually, but it is a light novel and I really doubt that it could happen in that… universe? multiverse?
Author: So how was it? Your sweet moment of hope?
Cage: *dies tragically in front of Ravel*
System: Congratulations in succeeding the mission~! ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜🎉👏
Omg😭😭 poor Ravel
Lmaoooo the skills arent Even really free. He has to learn it himself 🤣🤣
LMAOO
Instead of rewarding him with skills, it’s more like a lifetime of lesson XD