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The Vermilion Prequel · The Scarlet Seal

"Scarlet Prequel: Scarlet Seal" is a Chinese-language visual novel produced by Hollowings, centered on a boy ordered to assassinate a young girl. To carry out tasks, one must first gain the other person's trust, causing the process of approaching the goal to conflict with the emotions that gradually develop within the character.

Work information
Title of the workRed seal
Chinese nameThe Vermilion Prequel · The Scarlet Seal
The publication date listed in the materials2012-05-27
PlatformPC
GenreA romance ADV of destruction and redemption
Also known asVermeil Prologue: Crimson Imprint
DevelopmentHollowings、YAMAYURI
Key animationNiu
MusicZhang Qi, Akan Eromi
Game engineKrKr2
Website address recorded by the sourcehttp://www.hollowings.com/ci

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The secret mission of the transfer student

Du Lin received orders from a mysterious organization to transfer to a high school in Danbai City, targeting his deskmate Li Xiye. The jutsu he masters has usage conditions, so the mission requires him to enter the girl's closed heart. When Li Xiye heard him claim to come to kill him, he still smiled, making the originally clear commission hard to understand.

Target the people around you

Li Xiye is the daughter of entrepreneur Hong Wanlei, who lacks trust in others and is also involved in controversy at school. Senior Jiu Fang Kong is responsible for supporting Du Lin, with abilities different from Du Lin's; Classmate Cheng Nan kept pestering Li Xiye. Family relationships, campus circumstances, and organizational tasks all influence this closeness.

Narrative and author explanation

The product descriptions included in the resource site list this work as a long-form AVG with no options, and the story progresses in a predetermined order. In the interview, the CEO mentioned that the work involves questioning the judgment between superficial goodwill and good and evil. The organization and power system in which the characters belong also limit the problems that individual resistance can solve, a point from the author himself.

Two abilities in the mission

Du Lin was adopted by his adoptive father from a young age and studied jujutsu in the organization; You must first gain the target's trust before you can use this ability. Senior Jiu Fang Kong was responsible for support, but he couldn't cast spells; he acted with telekinesis. Li Xiye is the daughter of Hong Wanlei and does not use her father's surname; Cheng Nan, a fellow student, repeatedly pursued her but was always rejected.

Mandate, will, and nominal family

Hong Wanlei publicly referred to Li Xiye as his daughter, but after investigation, he admitted there was no blood relation between them. Li Yu's will and previously sealed information gradually reveal the criminal background of the assassination commission; Cheng Nan's kidnapping pushes the conflict to an abandoned factory in the suburbs, and Jiufang Kong uses spatial preset magic to support Du Lin in going to rescue him.

From tasks to living together

Du Lin and Li Xiye shared their experiences of losing their mother at Li Yu's grave. The trust originally built for casting a spell begins to turn into romance, and the girl's closed attitude gradually loosens. After Act One, In the Concrete Forest, the two leave Danbai City and live together in Pureland; In Act Three, Elegy brings this temporary peace toward farewell.

The world level of the original and PLUS

Author CEXO replaces Chiyin with Violet and Violet rE into the real world, while Chiyin PLUS, Violet Li, and Xuehua into the inner world. The cross and the garden are connected to the concept of consciousness entering the inner world, giving the original and PLUS different experiences.

Li Xiye's performance

Reilin Xin sees Sayo as a strong, love-yearning girl who is emotionally fragile and dependent. She recalled that at the end of the original work, the recording entered the character's state of happiness; It was only after visiting in person that I felt regret from the perspective of the viewers. This interpretation juxtaposes death with the character's inner feelings at the time.

The second level of commission after death

Li Xiye's background is connected to the mayor of Danbai City, and Hong Wanlei uses him as leverage to control others. After leaving Danbai City, she lived with Du Lin but gradually fell seriously ill. Du Lin used sorcery to conceal the cause of death to the outside world, gaining Hong Wanlei's trust; The organization's real goal then shifted to Hong Wanlei. On Du Lin's birthday, Hong Wanlei hosts a banquet, and the organization prepares to take action at the banquet. However, Du Lin acts prematurely because children are injured at the banquet, turning the mission from a secret assassination into a public conflict.

Lin and Lin

After the banquet, the organization covers up the incident, and the girl Lin rescued by Du Lin is adopted by him. When the child said the name, he thought of his childhood friend Ma Lin, who had passed away. This rescue continues his previous loss of Li Xiye and distinguishes the girl at the end from his childhood memories.

A collaborative production of the original work

In a 2016 interview, CEO recalled that Chijin was his first game working with Kya, which took ten months to develop. Li Xiye's trauma was originally only mentioned in the confession, and Kya wanted to develop it into a separate chapter; The two sides disagreed on the presentation style and ultimately decided to add CG without adding extra content. Shortly after the work was released, the CEXO left Kya's company.

Three outer chapters with different narrative ranges

In addition to the three main acts, the first edition also includes three standalone side stories. Before The Age of 12 reviews the hurt Li Xiye suffered before he turned twelve, then unfolds experiences not directly depicted in the main story; Dream presents the night through imaginative picnic outing clips; Jiufang Kong's side story supplements the worldview. These stories unfold within their respective narrative scopes alongside the main story's assassination missions, living together, and birthday parties.

Awareness of the direction of distance

Du Lin observes others' inner thoughts through the outline of his outer consciousness. Awareness distance is a one-way relationship; trust from one side does not guarantee the other is equally close; This makes honesty, observation, and building trust in tasks play different roles.

Old phone and clues from the Cheng family

Li Xiye's lost old phone preserved contact information for thirty-two male students at school. Besides Cheng Nan, these people have gradually transferred schools or gone missing, with unusual connections to Tonghei. Based on this, Du Lin and Jiu Fang Kong demanded that Hong Wanlei confess the truth about the commission. Cheng Nan's grandfather, Cheng Yixing, is Hong Wanlei's rival, and the jewelry store owner Xin Ying also appears during the investigation.

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