How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game Chapter 52

 

[The ‘Secret of the Island’ story ends.]

 

[Pieces of ‘Secret of the Island’ are complete.]

 

When the pieces of each different picture were combined into one, the original pictures disappeared and an abandoned hotel appeared.

 

The hotel wasn’t the luxurious hotel it once was, but the current hotel that was in disarray.

 

[The story is shared with everyone, including you.]

 

[A gift has arrived for you who has come one step closer to the unfortunate and miserable story.]

 

[Of the off-limits rooms, the 5th room, Casino ‘What About a Game?’ has been unlocked!]

 

[Of the off-limits rooms, the 7th room, Room 102 ‘Shh, Hide (1)’ has been unlocked!]

 

[Of the off-limits rooms,  the 27th room, the Banquet Hall (1) ‘Enjoy the Festival’ has been unlocked!]

 

Ding, ding, ding.

 

I couldn’t stand the continuous ringing of notifications.

 

“Stop! Just let me be sad and shocked!”

 

Damned annoying!

 

In other novels or movies, they give me that much time, but why are you so impatient!

 

Those who are too impatient are useless!

 

I screamed involuntarily at the continuous ringing. I sniffled and wiped away my tears, yet they didn’t stop easily.

 

It was a hidden story that appears in a common horror game. It wasn’t anything new.

 

Although I expected there to be a big twist, there wasn’t.

 

However, it was terribly realistic.

 

That’s why it was even more miserable.

 

It was different living in a world where the truth exists than in a game.

 

The problem was that these people had experienced it themselves.

 

Even the despair they felt at that time was conveyed to me.

 

I don’t know if it was the game’s ability or what…

 

I took a deep breath, calmed my tremors, and looked at the notification window.

 

This system itself could have been created by the island’s victims.

 

I didn’t know that the pieces called ‘Existence’ meant that there were still victims here.

 

And they wanted to escape this island with complete death.

 

Yet they couldn’t because of the island’s curse…

 

They don’t want me to do anything, do they.

 

I don’t have that much power hidden inside me.

 

It would be bad if they treated me as a hero and had hopes for me…

 

The burden that was coming down on me made my sadness disappear. The tears just disappeared.

 

“Excuse me, it’s not true, is it? What am I… Not true, right?”

 

The window that used to answer when it wanted to was silent.

 

Damn it. Why are you making people anxious?

 

I wiped my wet face.

 

Ah, my eyes hurt…

 

Although I found out the island’s secret, there were still a lot of stories that were locked away.

 

It’s probably about those who caused the trouble on the island.

 

It was heartbreaking to see the cruelty that only humans can commit.

 

The ones who were sacrificed here…

 

No, sacrifices don’t even make sense. They were just victims of human experiments.

 

Now that I know the secret, I feel sorry for the monsters.

 

They died painfully because of human greed, and even their body shells were taken away, and they couldn’t die, that’s why they lived.

 

However, they wanted to die. I could clearly feel that.

 

The fact that they wanted to die even though they were dead meant that their souls still couldn’t escape this island.

 

Their bodies were taken over by monsters, and their souls were bound.

 

When I look at it this way, it seems like there’s no god. There’s a temple, and they’re quite influential, but when I see things like this, I don’t really understand.

 

“Whew…”

 

I sighed involuntarily.

 

Since it said that the story of the island is shared by everyone, I don’t think I need to explain it in detail.

 

Given the circumstances, I don’t think they would believe me even if I told them.

 

I got up from my seat. The hotel has become even more dangerous and I finally found out the secret of the island.

 

There are many rooms unlocked.

 

I somehow feel rich, but I am not happy because I have a variety of deaths.

 

I turned on the map to check my current location and decided to go to the closest room among the unlocked rooms.

 

“So… the closest room…”

 

27th room, the banquet hall. What does ‘Enjoy the Festival’ mean?

 

It’s not like the monsters are in there enjoying the festival.

 

It makes me not want to go, but anyway, the longer I put it off, the worse it will be for me, so…

 

I am currently on the 3rd floor and the banquet hall is on the 4th floor.

 

There are two banquet halls, so I thought I should go to the one that says ‘Banquet Hall (1)’ on the map.

 

Though I don’t have a weapon, I have armor, so I’m very safe.

 

It’s been a long time since I’ve had freedom, but it’s sad that I can’t enjoy it.

 

I got up from my seat and picked up a hand mirror. I could block whatever appears if I had a mirror.

 

Creak…

 

As I opened the door and went out, the hallway became even more eerie, like the difficulty had increased.

 

I could often hear a small noise, as if monsters were scattered around. I couldn’t even tell where it was coming from.

 

I slowly stepped out, then came back in and put on my slippers.

 

These damn shoes.

 

They’ll disappear if I do something, the shoes.

 

I couldn’t go through the disaster of stepping on something soft again.

 

Once I was ready, I went out with confidence in my heart. My body was so scared that it wouldn’t listen to me and trembled.

 

“You’ve been here for quite some time, can’t you get used to it?”

 

Yeah, I can’t.

 

I asked myself as I searched for the stairs leading up to the 4th floor.

 

By the way, would I be able to escape after learning the island’s secret, or would I be able to escape if I found the gate before that?

 

I don’t know. Even if I find the escape gate, isn’t it impossible if I can’t collect all the stories?

 

There’s no need to leave any unsettling elements.

 

I decided to collect stories while trying to find the escape gate.

 

What if a hard and difficult quest comes, huh? I’ll just avoid it a little.

 

I want to choose quests too. I want to accept only easy ones.

 

I wish you would understand my wild desires.

 

***

 

I came up to the 4th floor panting, cursing my cursed stamina.

 

“Sister?”

 

Do I really smell or something? You find me better than the rascal in my house.

 

Anyway, I was glad to meet the person who would protect me the most here.

 

Though unconsciously, it was better than nothing.

 

“Holloway!”

 

I hugged him and spun him around.

 

“Don’t do this…”

 

He stopped talking and put his palm on my face.

 

His expression was somehow unusual. Was I spinning him around too much? Even thought was a sign of my happiness.

 

“Did you cry?”

 

That seems not to be the case.

 

Thank goodness.

 

“A little.”

 

“That’s not a little.”

 

“A little much.”

 

“…”

 

Looking at Holloway, who was silently staring, I finally confessed honestly.

 

“I cried and snotted as much as I could.”

 

He swept my eyes and furrowed one eyebrow.

 

“Because you found out about the island?”

 

“Yeah…”

 

I answered sullenly, then opened my eyes wide in surprise.

 

I almost forgot to act.

 

“You saw that too?”

 

“Yes. Why are you crying when it’s someone else’s business?”

 

“I’m naturally very empathetic.”

 

“…”

 

He silently wiped my swollen eyes.

 

“Because you’re caught up in unnecessary emotions.”

 

That must be how it looks to Holloway, a demon.

 

Honestly, if I hadn’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t have been this heartbroken.

 

I would have just sympathized and let it go, like listening to someone else’s story.

 

But I saw it with my own two eyes.

 

That horrible scene.

 

“If I didn’t know, then I wouldn’t have. Now that I know, I can’t just laugh.”

 

He looked at me silently.

 

“Would you be sad even if someone else did it?”

 

“Yeah. Nothing changes.”

 

At my firm answer, Holloway met my eyes, gently turning his eyes.

 

“You’re kind.”

 

“I hear that a lot.”

 

[Halloway regains peace of mind at your kind heart.]

 

[Favorability increased by 2%.]

 

[Attachment increased by 1%.]

 

[Possessiveness increased by 2%.]

 

[Obsession increased by 3%.]

 

[Obsession reached 50%. No matter what you do, Holloway begins to desire you.]

 

It’s not just Ectenron, Holloway has also planted the flag with all his might.

 

This is fine, isn’t it?

 

I was a little uneasy.

 

To think that it’s an obsession…

 

It’s nice when a handsome, tall man is obsessed with you, but I hesitate to like it when the final boss in a horror game does it.

 

“Where were you going, Sister?”

 

He asked as if nothing had happened.

 

“To find Holloway.”

 

“Then you found me, that’s enough! Right?”

 

“Now that something is here, we need to find it. We’ve known the secret of the island, there must be something else, right? We need a weapon, too.”

 

Although I answered seriously, Holloway asked me a strange question.

 

“Do you like all good-looking people, Sister?”

 

What kind of nonsense is he saying, all of a sudden.

 

I answered steadily, even though I was puzzled.

 

“I guess so.”

 

But have I ever shown my covered face here?

 

“What else do you prefer?”

 

“Why are you suddenly asking that?”

 

“Because I’m interested.”

 

How brash, you punk.

 

What else, you say.

 

I opened my lips as I thought about it carefully.

 

“Someone whose shoulders are so broad to the extent they’re never discouraged….”

 

“Mmhm, mmhm. And then?”

 

“Affectionate, and not saying they’d kill me… “

 

“Um…”

 

[Holloway decides to cut down on the word ‘kill’.]

 

Don’t do it.

 

Not the ‘cut down’ part.

 

“Funny, and…”

 

“Sister, you’re funny so just let that slide.”

 

Why are you just letting it slide on your own?

 

“You’ll let that slide, right?”

 

“I’ll let that slide flexibly.”

 

Although it was comfortable, it wasn’t that I wasn’t scared. The demon can kill me if he doesn’t like it.

 

I can’t let my guard down until he’s fully attracted to me.

 

But can I get the demon’s heart to save me, I wonder…

 

Yeah. I can. I’ve been treated so badly by him in the beginning. I want you to regret it.

 

If you had treated me well, I would have felt really bad for using you, but since you’ve done something, let’s do it together.

 

I made that promise in my head.

 

[Someone broke into the hotel. The number of people in the hotel increases to 22.]

 

Someone else came in.