How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game - Chapter 49
“Can you tell me how to survive in a place like this?”
Despite the unexpected words, Cynthia nodded her head repeatedly to hear my sweet tip.
She looked that desperate.
I could understand her fear because she almost died.
Especially the sight of her lying there covered in blood, barely catching her breath…
I shook my head to shake off the image I saw then and opened my mouth.
“If you let go of your curiosity, you can live a long life.”
Usually, in horror movies or novels, they do things they shouldn’t do out of curiosity, watch videos they shouldn’t watch, or open boxes or doors they shouldn’t open out of curiosity, and all of them end up being possessed by ghosts or dying.
So look at me.
I try to avoid everything, you now.
Yet the system doesn’t allow that.
“Don’t just go anywhere because you’re curious.”
But I have to go. I have to find an escape gate or a hint and go all the way.
“Ah, what is this? While saying so, don’t open it and look.”
But I have to open it. I have to rummage around like an attention seeker because I don’t know what’s inside.
…I’ll be the first to die.
“Yeah, I’ll do that.”
Cynthia nodded obediently.
Good for her. She can move as she pleases.
This damn system makes me do things I shouldn’t do in horror movies.
I’m not in the position to lecture people.
“But why are you so curious, Sister?”
“Curiosity won over fear.”
“It doesn’t seem to win.”
“Let’s ignore the little things.”
“Why?”
I don’t have any excuses, so why/
After watching Holloway and me bicker for a while, Cynthia opened her mouth.
“It seems like I’m seeing an unexpected side of Evelin.”
“Now?”
If it was an unexpected side, I would be me coming in here and acting like an idiot all along.
“You’re a little relaxed… Although it’s funny that you’re relaxed here.”
Cynthia laughed self-deprecatingly. Yet her eyes were shaking with fear.
Of course, I know it’s a horror game, so I’m mentally prepared and acting under thorough calculations, but these people here don’t know anything, so it’s even scarier.
No, maybe it’s better not to know.
“I found you. Miss Evelin!”
Moran shouted happily when she found me as I turned the corner. The moment Holloway saw Cleta, he hugged my waist tightly.
Cleta glanced at him and let out a small laugh.
Maybe it’s because he’s a child and looks cute.
[Holloway’s murderous intent toward Cleta has grown stronger.]
Cleta has bought the murderous intent that is easiest for Holloway to have.
[Be careful for it not to get any stronger.]
Why are you telling me to be careful?
“M-Miss Evelin!”
At that moment, Werner, who was behind Cleta, bowed his head as if he was sorry.
“I apologize. I attacked you in the infirmary without knowing it…”
“It’s okay.”
Werner wasn’t the only one.
Alholf, who had been hiding behind Moran, crawled out slowly.
His face brightened when he saw me and Cynthia, but he pretended not to know and hesitated, perhaps because his conscience pricked him.
Cynthia and I ignored him cleanly. Although tears welled up in Alholf’s eyes, I didn’t care.
To be honest, Alholf had put in a lot of effort. He would never have thought to call me, but he had improved a lot by calling me and telling me where Cynthia was.
However, if you look at it that way, Cynthia had also saved Alholf’s life. So no matter how Cynthia came out, Alholf had nothing to say.
I just wanted to do that. It was better to keep this attitude so that I wouldn’t be disappointed in Alholf, who ran away without looking back like that.
Especially, having someone like Alholf next to me is bad for my mental health.
With this, all the members of the group that would carry out the group project gathered.
Everyone was awkward with each other because it was the first time we were all together since they came in.
Just like the leader of this group (whoever decided it was), Cleta spoke first.
“We should talk while we’re here. We don’t know when we’ll get separated again.”
Everyone tacitly agreed to that.
***
After moving, we sat in a circle. No one spoke, but Alholf spoke tearfully.
“This hotel is dangerous!”
“Everyone here knows that.”
Mmhm, that’s right.
When I naturally started to tease him, Alholf quietly kept his mouth shut.
“There’s no way out, and there are many monsters. Above all, it’s confirmed that there are others here besides us.”
Everyone became quiet at Werner’s words. It was Celyr who injected Werner with a syringe, and since we met Suriel, it was proven that the two of them were suspicious.
At that moment, Cynthia grabbed my hand. I tried to pull it out, yet I couldn’t because of Cynthia’s shaking hands.
“… That man in strange clothes. No, he wasn’t even a person. I think he’s a monster living in this hotel.”
Cynthia’s voice was filled with fear, even though she tried to speak as calmly as possible.
Alholf agreed with her words.
“R-Right! I saw it too. That horrible sight…”
He described Suriel, who had horns on both sides and black eyes.
Everything about his powers, movements, and energy that were different from those of humans.
“It was just like a d-demon!”
Alholf screamed and trembled. At that time, it seemed as if they didn’t even want to imagine that.
Everyone’s faces hardened at the mention of the word ‘demon’. Among them, only Holloway was relaxed.
Honestly, I wanted to stop them from making inferences while talking like this, but since I had already given them all the hints, pretending not to know would only make them suspicious, so I had no choice but to watch.
The fact that he appeared in the form of a demon meant that his will to kill Cynthia was so strong that he had no intention of hiding it.
If she wasn’t careful, she might be dying again at the hands of Suriel, or another demon.
Cynthia could be the second victim.
And yet, only one person died after so much time.
Since this was an unexpected result for the demons, they might be a little more swayed.
“A demon… For whatever reason, it doesn’t make sense that a demon would settle down here. Why would they do that when there’s the demon realm?”
Cleta denied it outright.
I’m sorry, but something absurd is happening.
A demon is an existence that doesn’t try to come up to the human realm.
Furthermore, they denied the existence of the demon itself because they didn’t understand why such a strong demon would be in this hotel.
Werner also agreed with Cleta.
“I agree. A demon, you say. It’s just a monster living in this hotel. It looks similar.”
There’s a demon here.
Look! There’s a demon right next to me!
There’s no way they could hear me screaming inside.
Moran shook her head and trembled slightly as she recalled the appearances of the monsters she had seen so far.
“Cleta is right. Why would a demon that should be in the demon realm… And the monsters are a bit strange. They speak incomprehensibly, and their appearances aren’t very different from the monsters we know.”
My mouth was itching to tell the secret of this hotel that only I knew.
“In the case of that man, he seems to be a monster who can think with his head… Why don’t we have a conversation?”
Cynthia was startled by Cleta’s opinion and refused.
“Absolutely not! That monster tried to kill me! If he gets upset, he’ll kill me again. I’m telling you, he won’t give you a straight answer.”
“What about that woman? She didn’t kill me anyway, so we can talk, right?”
I disagree with Werner’s opinion.
That woman is even less talkative than Suriel.
Back then, she seemed to have used Werner as bait to bring me in.
Now, if she were to appear in front of me, she’d probably cut my face off…
Cleta muttered quietly, softly sighing.
“Then did that woman and the monster trap us here?”
Half-right, half-wrong.
As I was answering in my head, Cleta asked me for my opinion.
“What does Evelin think?”
“What?”
“About our opinions.”
Finally, it was Genius Evelyn’s turn to speak.
Just as I was about to open my lips, Holloway answered for me.
“No, Sister is too busy playing to know.”
“What am I playing about? I’ve realized the horrors of this hotel long ago, and I’ve been running around here and there, busy, you know.”
“…”
No one believed me.
In the meantime, Cynthia held my hand tightly and argued for me.
“Evelin risked her life to protect me. She’s the most trustworthy person here.”
That’s right.
Cynthia knew that I wasn’t just playing around.
“No.”
What do you know.
“Kids be quiet, Holloway. If an adult does that, that’s what happens.”
“Are you a boomer?”
“Of course.”
Holloway closed his mouth when I readily agreed.
I should make today a special day for making that annoying mouth shut.
“Then what should we do? We can’t keep avoiding you like this…”
Moran asked cautiously. Cleta thought about it and decided to step forward himself.
“I’ll ask the man and woman when I meet them. We can’t just avoid them like this.”
Cleta opened her mouth repeatedly with a serious expression.
“We’ll be able to escape if we find some clues.”
“T-That’s right. I’ll help you too!”
Moran actively agreed and Werner followed suit.
“Then I’ll find a weapon first. We need to have a weapon to fight back anyway.”
Before leaving, Cleta briefly summarized what she had learned so far.
“First, we can’t leave the hotel and we can’t use the aura. Second, there’s a monster living there, we can talk to him, and he has sensitive hearing. Third, for some reason, they’re trying to kill us. That’s all we have so far.”
He looked at us one by one as if asking if there was more, but we all shook our heads.
“Still, I think we can do something about this.”
Werner spoke hopefully.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
Didn’t I say so?
This isn’t a horror game, and this hotel was built for slaughter.
The demons have no intention of letting us escape.
Monsters?
Perhaps to the extent those monsters are cute now.
Based on the situation, the story is probably halfway through.
When we enter the middle, it will unintentionally become a running race day and night.
What this means is that the monsters become much stronger.
In the beginning, there weren’t that many monsters, but as we enter the middle, the sleeping monsters start to wake up.
And the signs that signal that danger.
Rumbleeee! Rumble!
“Kyaaaaak!”
“A-An earthquake?”
“What is it?”
“E-Evelin!”
A huge earthquake.
A huge earthquake that was so big that objects that were placed fell and broke and the floor cracked lasted for about a minute, and when it stopped.
As if it had been waiting, system windows burst one after another.
[You have entered the middle of <The Child’s Secret>.]
[From now on, the hotel difficulty is fixed until further notice.]
[The current hotel difficulty is ‘Survive Well’.]
—Grrrrrr.
—Kiiekh, kiekh…
The howling of various monsters echoed.
[I hope you survive.]
[Because Holloway only will not kill you!]
[Even if your body is damaged… Not sure!]
[و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩]
[و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩]
[و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩و(ˋ▽ ˊ )٩]
Even if I damage you… Not sure!
Storyteller Lipzoldyck's Words
hope you enjoy it! if there's any typo, please do tell me
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