After Failing the Strategy, I Was Imprisoned by the Villain - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Hearing the notification that my Favorability had been reset to zero, I felt utterly dead inside.

This was already my third time attempting to capture Demon Lord Pei Ji.

The previous two capture attempts… had, of course, ended in failure. Total, crushing failure.

I had originally been an ordinary office worker. After I died unexpectedly in a car accident, the System told me that as long as I could successfully capture Demon Lord Pei Ji and raise his Favorability to 100%, I would be able to return to my original world before the accident happened and change the outcome of my death.

The System said that, considering I was a novice-and considering Demon Lord Pei Ji’s capture difficulty was 3S+-it could make an exception and give me a Newbie Gift Pack, which contained three conquest attempts.

My first capture attempt…

When I was transported into the world, the Immortal and Demon Clans happened to be at war. I had only just arrived and hadn’t even managed to steady myself when an arrow formed from demonic energy shot out from who-knew-where and pierced straight through my heart. I died so thoroughly I couldn’t have been deader.

“…”

Even thinking about it now still leaves me speechless.

Then I began my second capture attempt.

That time, I was an Immortal Clan member abducted by Pei Ji’s Protector. Because I was good-looking, the Protector presented me to Pei Ji.

Pei Ji’s attitude toward me… was like that of a scumbag: he neither accepted me nor rejected me.

However, everyone in the Demon Clan believed I was Pei Ji’s person, so they were fairly polite to me.

Since my whole purpose was to capture Pei Ji, whenever I had the chance, I would act obedient and docile to please him. He still didn’t reject my advances, but he never gave me any response either. Every time, he would only look at me with those calm, unruffled eyes, while his Favorability toward me stayed at around 20%.

20%-how should I put it? It meant… we knew each other, but we weren’t close.

I had originally thought I could take the long-game approach and wear him down slowly over time, like boiling a frog in warm water. But later, when the Immortal-Demon War reached a standoff between the two clans, he was the first to drag me out and make me the chicken killed to warn the monkeys-ugh, no, the immortal killed as a warning to the other immortals.

And then I failed again.

After that second failure, I completely lost confidence.

I was already dead anyway. Why keep courting death?

This Demon Lord was simply impossible to capture. Otherwise, his capture difficulty wouldn’t have been 3S+.

Besides, asking someone who was Single Since Birth to capture a target of this difficulty was like expecting me to kill the big boss before I’d even left the newbie village. How was that possible?

I decided to give up and let things rot. In any case, I was already dead in my original world. At worst, I’d just die again, and again, and again. I didn’t want to go looking for more suffering.

But the System wouldn’t allow me to give up and let things rot. It directly threw me into the transmission channel.

Only this time, perhaps its conscience had finally awakened, because it sent me in exceptionally early-so early that Pei Ji at this point was still just an ordinary little child, and had not yet fallen into demonic corruption and become the Demon Lord.

This was my final chance. If I died again, I would truly be dead.

Humans, after all, still want to live.

Fine. Actually, it was because I still hadn’t spent the money I’d worked myself half to death earning as a corporate slave in my original world. If I died just like that, it would be way too much of a loss.