Holloway was now leaning against the wall and chuckling.
I must have looked like a fool, begging for my life after starting the fight first.
Holloway wiped his smile and asked while rubbing his lips.
“What do you say you should do in that case. Sister?”
“Fucking run.”
Cynthia, lying on the bed, almost dead, opened her eyes wide and reached out her hand to me.
…The hell is that.
It’s a total mess!
She was covered in blood all over her body. It was so much that I couldn’t even bring myself to approach her.
No, I mean,she’s still alive, right?
Although bewildering, Cynthia stretched out her bloody hand and called my name desperately, as if she thought I would leave her like this.
“E—cough. Evelin!”
A-Are you going to run away from me?
It sounded like she was saying something like that.
I swallowed my saliva. I fiddled with my bulging pocket.
I was still in a daze, impressed by the cheerful sound of the frying pan, and I slowly passed by Suriel.
Then I stood in front of Cynthia and poured out the potion that was in my pocket.
“E-Evul…”
Evul, you say.
I’m Evelin, ma’am.
I poured it all over her wounds and spread it with my hand. Although the wound slowly healed, we didn’t have time to wait.
“You can run, can’t you?”
“Tch! Of course.”
She didn’t spit out, ptooey! like a gangster. Cynthia answered while spitting out the blood that had gathered in her mouth.
Although the wounds hadn’t completely healed, Cynthia gritted her teeth and staggered to her feet.
Just as we were about to run away, Suriel grabbed my hand.
“Hey, where are you going?”
“Run away!”
He was speechless at my confident words.
When I just raised the frying pan, Suriel flinched and let go of my hand. I pushed Cynthia away.
“Run, run! We don’t have the time to be dazed!”
“Mm—Mmhm!”
“Holloway, hug me!”
“Yes!”
I ran over and jumped up, picked up Holloway in my arms, and started running quickly with Cynthia.
Map, map…!
I turned on the map and looked for a place to hide.
It said the elevator was working, right?
I was planning to take it and head to the guest room on the second floor. Let’s hide in room 205.
It was a ‘This Room is Very Safe’ room. He could come in, but he might not be able to hurt us.
We got on the elevator right away and pressed the button for the second floor repeatedly.
The hallway was dark, so I couldn’t tell if Suriel was chasing me.
But I didn’t have time to pay attention to that.
Ding—
[2nd floor.]
Without even a moment to catch my breath, I went straight to room 205.
Just in case, I squeezed myself into a corner and caught my breath.
“Huft, huft…”
“Ugh… ah.”
“D-Does it hurt? Are your wounds open?”
I don’t have any potions anymore, though…
Instead, I unfolded the bandages I brought just in case.
And I bit my lip as I turned Holloway around and wrapped the bandages around Cynthia’s body.
Just looking at the zigzag-ripped flesh was painful. It was a miracle that she was alive.
Finally, after wrapping a bandage around her hand, Cynthia put on her torn clothes.
“…Thanks, Evelin.”
I wonder if it was because she had lost her strength or because she felt relieved that she was alive.
Cynthia smiled faintly, her face pale and sweating.
I think we should rest a bit…
It was my first time failing a quest, so I was anxious. I didn’t know when the failure window would pop up and I would be moved.
“But Evelin… How did you know I was there?”
“Alholf told me.”
“It seems that he ran away well.”
“Did you let him run away?”
“Because they were only targeting me.”
But that’s not easy.
Cynthia looked different all over again.
She looked so cool that I wondered if she was the Cynthia I knew from the horror game who was blinded by jealousy.
“Since he’s not with you, I guess he ran away in the middle.”
“I understand because it’s scary.”
I really wanted to run away too.
I don’t know why Suriel suddenly lost his cool and acted like this to Cynthia…
It’s finally starting. The demons’ patience has reached its limit.
Because he tried to cut off her fingers. I don’t know, but their bad ending has already begun.
In terms of the game, it’s now heading into the early-mid game, so their lives will continue to be in danger.
“But where did you get that frying pan?”
“In the kitchen.”
If you can’t get a weapon, you can make one.
Of course, it’s significantly less powerful than the weapon I get from the quest, but it’s better than nothing.
I put the frying pan in Cynthia’s hand before I was moved.
The failure screen didn’t pop up, whether it thought it still had a chance to kill Cynthia or was watching me.
“Then what about the potion?”
Ah, the potion…
That was because it was marked as a pill on the map.
Before coming here, I was lucky enough to find some paper piled up, and I was able to level up the map to level 3 with it.
Then, all the first aid supplies, including the potion, were marked as pills on the map.
It seems to be constantly generated, so even if I took one, a newly created potion appeared in a different location on the map.
At the same time, the location of the original potion also changed.
I don’t know what the criteria is, but even though I found the potion right in front of me, it suddenly disappeared, so I was barely able to collect that much.
“I was lucky to find it. There was a lot of blood on the floor, so I took it all just in case.”
And I made a final request.
“Don’t ever leave me and Holloway.”
She can leave me, but if she just stayed next to Holloway, she would be able to survive Suriel.
Because there’s no way Holloway would kill her carelessly if I saved him like this…
There is.
But I don’t have enough time to leave her to someone else…
[Quest failed ᕕ(ꐦ σ Д σ)ᕗ]
Ah.
I guess it knew from those last words that I would never kill Cynthia.
Then I should have just walked around with her without saying anything.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t fail again.
[You failed the quest. Penalty will be activated.]
[The difficulty of the current hotel will be upgraded to ‘Die Once Somewhere.’]
[At the same time, you will be immediately moved to another place.]
As expected.
I calmly grabbed Holloway and Cynthia’s hands.
I thought we might move together…
[The location to move to is random.]
Swoosh!
I was alone in the pitch-black darkness.
***
Suriel got up from his seat, stroking his head that had been hit with a frying pan, although it wasn’t hurt.
The bed was soaked with Cynthia’s blood, yet the main character had already been taken out by Evelin.
He tried to follow her right away, yet Holloway ordered him not to chase her, so he couldn’t leave.
“…That’s because you still don’t know who that woman is.”
Suriel, depressed, lowered his head.
If he knew, would he kill her?
He would kill her. He probably would.
But he wasn’t sure if he would do that if he was with Evelin. Holloway had changed since he was with Evelin.
Just looking at Celyr and Ectenron hiding in a state of disgrace after being attacked by Holloway…
Originally, it didn’t matter if one human died or not.
More than them… It should have been like that.
What should they do now?
They had to kill her. That woman is evil.
The moment Suriel raised his head, brushing his hair back, he was surprised by Dilaph appearing in front of him and swung his fist.
Dilaph lightly blocked the punch.
“Why are you swinging your fist out of nowhere?”
“Who suddenly showed up?”
“What’s that blood? You killed someone?”
“I failed.”
Biting his lip, Suriel explained everything that had just happened.
Dilaph, who was as indignant as he was, burst into laughter as soon as he heard that Evelin had hit him on the head with a frying pan.
“Crazy! I told you that woman was fucking crazy!”
“You like it?”
“It’s so fucking funny.”
“It’s not funny.”
He thought she was extraordinary from the moment she swung her nunchakus.
Now Evelin was starting to get a little scary in a different way.
This frying pan didn’t hurt, but if she had hit him with the same force she used to hit him with the nunchakus, his head might have been shattered.
‘…It’s actually kind of nice when she hits me like that.’
The incomprehensible misunderstanding actually came rather well without Evelin knowing it.
“Anyway, if that princess is with the boss, should we go again?”
“Not that you want to meet that crazy woman?”
“What? Not that, you know.”
I’ve been watching you for so long,though.
There was no way Suriel couldn’t read Dilaph’s expression.
“That’s because a fun human came in for the first time. That’s why the boss is like that. He’s naturally interested in unusual things.”
Watching Suriel mumbling, Dilaph deeply agreed.
Not knowing that curiosity was the scariest thing.
“I’ll play for a while and then throw her away if it’s not fun. This is the first time one has been so capricious.”
Suriel wanted to believe that. Dilaph lightly replied.
“It’s probably not a big deal.”
He knew Holloway well, who never got deeply attached to anyone.
There was no way he would be more attached to a mere human than to the ones he’d been with for a thousand years.
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