I Became a 6★ Gacha Character

Han Se-ah was fired up.

Not in any lewd sense - she simply had no interest in leisurely exchanging cryptic riddles with this witch maintaining her mysterious and bizarre atmosphere.

True to someone who'd die in battle royale games from car crashes while insisting sleep was for the dead and brakes were for game overs, she seemed to enjoy a strange kind of speed. After cheesing through Katie's quest, she'd apparently developed a habit of trying to speedrun both tower climbing and quests.

"...What do you mean by that?"

"I'm not trying to interrogate you or arrest you for the temple. I'm just curious why you claim to be a witch."

It could have been seen as a rude question, but Han Se-ah's face showed not a hint of hesitation as she asked.

Unlike the village girl Grace and temple-bound Irene, the modern Han Se-ah knew how to wield 'Hero Hanna's' authority. While country girl Hanna might have been intimidated by her suddenly elevated hero status, the modern Han Se-ah knew how to throw around what you'd call "connections."

So her attitude practically shouted: What can you do if I, the hero, directly confront you?

Han Se-ah brazenly probed Elize's identity with such confidence. She wasn't uncertain at all but acted like she already knew everything, forcing Elize to sigh heavily as if cornered. What else could she do when questioned so directly, without even basic pleasantries?

"Ah, how did... perhaps the Goddess whispered something to you?"

"Huh? You're not actually a witch...?"

Elize sighed deeply and sank into a chair at the table without losing her elegance, lazily propping her chin on her hand as she observed our party. Katie was shocked by her languid movements and the seductiveness melting through them.

Katie's eyes went wide as if told Santa wasn't real, having been quite excited about meeting an Imperial witch.

Seeing Katie's round eyes looking betrayed despite not having spoken yet, Elize slowly removed her gloves and began speaking, apparently realizing our party meant no harm. When she took off her white gloves, revealing her body tightly wrapped except for nose to chin, there was some kind of tattoo on the back of her hand.

"Though I'm not sure how you knew... yes, I'm not actually a witch."

At that moment, a quest window popped up on Han Se-ah's stream.

[For Elize]

[A mysterious Imperial woman claiming to be a witch]

[But she held an unimaginable secret...]

Between Butler Sebastian, Maid Emma and now this, BB Games seemed to have some rather clichéd developers. Anyway, Han Se-ah's direct approach immediately triggered the side quest "For Elize."

True to her 'Fake Witch' title, she wasn't actually a witch.

More precisely, she was a witch's apprentice.

"When I was young, I had a master who took me in."

While witches were madwomen who'd jumped beyond the line, they weren't definitively evil beings. Some witches killed people indiscriminately, but others only experimented on criminals or monsters to avoid harming humans.

Though they were generally crazy either way, Elize's master had been that latter type. She was the kind of witch who used murderers, thieves and sex offenders who invaded her territory as test subjects while gently sending innocent humans back to their villages.

While murderers and raiders bubbled away in the witch's cauldron, the orphaned Elize found happiness as the witch's apprentice. Until the day her master died from another witch's curse.

"A witch's curse?"

"So witches fight and kill each other too."

Elize's master had been a kind witch who lived near a village, traded with humans, and even took in an orphan as her apprentice. To some deranged witch wanting to use an entire village as her experimental grounds, she must have been an eyesore interfering with her experiments.

And so Elize's master was defeated by this crazy witch who appeared suddenly without warning, losing her life while the village burned cleanly and Elize barely escaped, affected by the curse's aftermath.

Hmm, just the right amount of generic tragedy for a side quest.

That might sound cold, but this wasn't even my Kingdom's story of 11 years, just some Empire stuff randomly added in Season 2. While the emotionally sensitive Grace, Irene and Katie were already deeply invested in Elize's gentle voice... modern humans familiar with tragedy porn could only shrug it off.

Unlike our other companions with teary eyes, Han Se-ah was chatting casually with viewers about how familiar this felt.

"So what I want is just one thing."

"Revenge."

"Yes. To kill the evil witch who treats humans like toys."

"We can't ignore this. A witch who disregards life is no different from dark mages or the Demon Lord."

And so Han Se-ah's first Imperial side quest began with everyone except the two modern humans solemnly making their resolve.

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Imperial Side Quest: For Elize

To very briefly summarize the quest - it was about a mad witch living in the Empire's outskirts where monster waves had been cleared but law enforcement hadn't yet taken hold. The goal was to eliminate an evil witch who used pioneering farmers as experimental subjects and toys, contributing to Imperial stability.

Setting aside the obvious story, from a gamer's perspective it was quite a rational quest.

Since that evil witch would be on the frontlines of clearing monster waves, players would naturally get to experience Imperial monster waves, and since it was an unexplored area beyond law enforcement's reach, the hero party would inevitably get involved with the margrave. It wasn't just killing monsters and collecting loot - it was a quest that would entangle us with Imperial nobles.

"Come to think of it, finding a witch in remote areas might be harder than finding tower bosses? The Empire's territory is how many times bigger than the Kingdom... Goddammit, stop with the Yeouido conversion! Kingdom is 100 Yeouidos so Empire is 500 Yeouidos, what bullshit!"

-Yeouido is actually like Monkey King's staff, the area is just ridiculous ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Even Seoul people don't know how big 1 Yeouido is

-Isn't Yeouido measurement basically the same as yards/pounds that white people use ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Going to hunt an evil witch but saying 'witch hunt' makes it feel like we're doing something really bad

-So what's the difference between fake and real witches? She learned sorcery as an apprentice but still fake?

But as Han Se-ah said, this wasn't a quest we could easily cheese through.

There's a saying about finding Mr. Kim in Seoul, but this quest was even harder. At least Mr. Kim in Seoul had an address and hints... but how could we find a witch hidden in Imperial backwoods with no address or clues about what she was doing?

Unless Elize's nemesis went completely nuts and suddenly charged into an Imperial city, we'd have to wander the Empire's vast outskirts searching for one witch.

"An evil witch hunting pioneers - we have to stop this."

"But how do we find this witch? I heard from pilgrims that the Empire's lands are vast."

"Don't you roughly know the location? Using villagers as test subjects means there must be something nearby. Even if she abandoned her research lab quarters, we should find clues."

"Right, Hanna can track mana!"

Despite these expected challenges, our party members naturally discussed helping Elize. Though the minimap cheater Han Se-ah accidentally got dragged in, she nodded without hesitation at helping others, making Elize mutter in surprise.

"The hero and companions... truly advance without hesitation."

"Too much lack of hesitation is the problem."

"Ah, that's true."

They lacked hesitation because they were polite - or in other words, they didn't think things through. More harshly put, viewers' comments about having no backup plan or being like an 8-ton truck with broken brakes would work too. Elize herself had been asked "You're not a witch, right?" as the very first question.

Before we knew it, they were huddling together whispering. As Elize and I watched their little heads gathered in a row, she slightly leaned toward me when the camera caught the composition.

Though "leaning" just meant slightly tilting her head since she sat across the table, somehow every movement from sitting with chin propped to nodding was strangely elegant. Not because of her beautiful figure visible despite being completely wrapped up, but truly like a well-trained noble.

"So... does the holy sword's owner want something from this witch?"

"I do."

"Hehe, I see."

The way she leaned forward naturally resting her ample chest on the table seemed more fitting for a seductress than a witch. The problem was I couldn't say what I wanted was my lost memories, not her body.

Please, please let this quest's reward be...!

Enjoy the chappy!