How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game Chapter 64 - 10# Once I Escape, I Won’t Let Anyone Off the Hook

 

Shall I tell you how I felt after barely escaping from the underground?

 

This was heaven.

 

Not only did I run while carrying Holloway, but I also went up two steps at a time, so my thighs and my whole body were pounding as if they were going to explode.

 

It felt like someone was beating my body like a drum.

 

Holloway swept my back as I was breathing heavily and even vomiting.

 

I swallowed hard and lay down on the floor. Holloway sat next to me and counted the number of hairs on my head.

 

There’s a theory that if you count all of these, you’ll die.

 

I snatched my hair from Holloway’s hand.

 

“Can those evil spirits kill you?”

 

“No.”

 

No, you say?

 

“Then why did you run away? They won’t kill you anyway.”

 

“They will kill you, Sister.”

 

“Ah… Then why did you turn into a child?”

 

I was so tired from running around carrying you that I almost fell over.

 

“You said you wanted to save me. I showed mercy by asking you to protect me.”

 

[Your words are being deleted in real time.]

 

That’s really true.

 

[All the intruders died in an attack by someone.]

 

That someone must be a demon.

 

There was no information to be gained. If they were on death row, they wouldn’t know the current situation of our family, so it didn’t matter whether they died or not.

 

Furthermore, if the information about the missing noble family is accidentally leaked, it would be a big deal.

 

Anyone can see that it’s us.

 

I still don’t know who the noble families that joined the Emperor were, but I started to have a gut feeling that it wasn’t a coincidence that we came here.

 

There could be one of us, or all of us, or none.

 

Or it could be all three, or it could really be a coincidence.

 

The latter was what I wanted.

 

My family’s ancestor did that?

 

I had the confidence to dig up the grave and defile the body.

 

I also had the will to apologize to these demons and the victims…

 

It’s different to live ignorantly and pretend not to know.

 

Especially in a situation where there are this many victims, I can’t just pretend not to know.

 

Anyway, it’s not certain yet, so you absolutely must keep quiet with Holloway until everything is revealed.

 

“Now, move, Sister.”

 

He forcibly made me stand up from where I was lying down.

 

I want to rest a little more, though.

 

Holloway asked in a puzzled voice as I staggered to get up, still not fully recovered.

 

“You’re particularly weak to children, Sister. Even though it’s just appearances. If someone hurts me in this state, you react sensitively.”

 

That’s only natural, isn’t that.

 

I answered without pushing him away, who was naturally hugging my waist now.

 

“Children are originally protected by adults.”

 

That’s how I was raised and educated.

 

“I was a child once too. I was protected by adults, so I just inherited that and be like that.”

 

There was no reason. Although it may vary depending on the time, I wanted to embrace children as much as possible.

 

The most decisive reason of all.

 

“How cute. They’re cute even when they’re still.”

 

Children are cute even when they just breathe.

 

“Am I cute?”

 

“A child.”

 

“I’m a child, am I not.”

 

This shameless rascal…

 

But of all the children I’ve seen, he was definitely the cutest.

 

I didn’t necessarily deny it, but I didn’t want to just accept it either, so I just sat there and nodded my head quickly and pretended not to notice.

 

Holloway burst into laughter when he saw me like that.

 

“Like a fool.”

 

Do you want to fight?

 

***

 

Flinch!

 

“It’s a doll.”

 

“I’m definitely not doing this because the doll is moving.”

 

I moved away from the doll that was shaking and rattling. Yet that didn’t help much.

 

While I was in the basement, there were dolls lined up in a row in the hallway on the second floor.

 

They were all different, including animal and human dolls.

 

They were all stained and black, some had torn cotton, and many had blood on them.

 

And they were all holding the same sword. If they were toy swords, they would have been cute.

 

Although I tried my best to avoid them, they suddenly started to move their bodies wildly, as if they knew I was being conscious of them, and they wanted to show me a performance.

 

Clank, clank!

 

I flinched and tried not to look in their direction.

 

They say dolls are cutest when they’re still. You know what? If it moves, it can no longer be called a doll.

 

Especially in this kind of space, right?

 

That’s horror

 

And wielding a knife?

 

Then this sister’s heart will be crushed!

 

Please don’t create fear with dolls. Leave them for children’s happiness and joy.

 

“Aren’t those toys Holloway used to play with? Would you please tell them to go back to the dollhouse?”

 

I buried my face in my palm and mumbled, yet Holloway said one thing.

 

“Go back.”

 

“…”

 

They’re not going, though.

 

Even though Holloway ignored me, his face was incredibly calm.

 

“You were just saying that?”

 

“I really meant to tell them to go back.”

 

“But why aren’t the kids listening?”

 

“Because of Sister.”

 

“Me…?”

 

What did I do wrong again, huh.

 

He grabbed my index finger and pulled me along, telling me not to stop and to keep walking.

 

“Since my sister came, it’s been a mess.”

 

“This hotel?”

 

“…Yes.”

 

What’s with the silence in the beginning. There’s something else messed up, or what.

 

It would be nice if the system could tell me at times like this. Since Holloway blocked his emotions, his true feelings didn’t come out properly.

 

In fact, when they did, his feelings seemed more stable.

 

At least I could know his inner feelings, so I could be careful, but now I had to be careful without knowing anything, so it was complicated.

 

“What, and how?”

 

“Hmm…”

 

He exhaled as if he was worried. At that moment, the dolls suddenly started shaking like crazy and jumped up.

 

While I hesitated, the dolls right next to Holloway also got up and ran to him.

 

Not to me, but to Holloway.

 

“Holloway!”

 

I let go of my hand and tried to protect him, yet he didn’t move.

 

Instead, he waved his hand in the air once.

 

“…?”

 

—…?

 

The doll and I made eye contact in the air, bewildered.

 

What I meant was that the dolls that had been running and jumping excitedly stopped in the air all at once.

 

How can you look at this awkward sight.

 

—K-Kurarang?

 

What does that mean?

 

Gurarang? Kurarang?

 

I was imitating the dolls’ sounds for no reason when a faint wind brushed my forehead.

 

And then…

 

Thud!

 

—Krong!

 

Their screams were strange.

 

No, that’s not the problem.

 

The dolls that had rushed at Holloway suddenly got stuck against the wall and squirmed.

 

“…”

 

“It’s like they’re charging in so fearlessly?”

 

“Why…?”

 

“Well, I don’t know because I’ve never had anything like this before. The space often gets distorted. Just like how Sister suddenly teleports. The flow of magi is definitely weird.”

 

Now, Holloway didn’t bother to hide how much power he had in front of me.

 

He didn’t make excuses even when he slammed a cute doll with a knife into the wall with a single gesture.

 

The dolls that were slammed into the wall started to squirm and soon started to spurt blood.

 

The torn cotton of the dolls that were sliding down turned red.

 

I held Holloway’s hand and walked quickly down the hallway at that creepy scene.

 

The entire hallway on this floor seemed like this, so I was going to go upstairs.

 

My steps got faster and faster, and the dolls that were left behind also started to walk faster to match mine.

 

Beep, beep, beep, beep!

 

Don’t chase me while making such cute sounds!

 

I held onto his hand tightly and started running. Holloway, who was running quietly with me, asked me as if he was really curious.

 

“Why don’t you ask me to handle it?”

 

“Me, to you?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Why would I…?”

 

These demons had no obligation to protect humans anyway.

 

After seeing the past, I didn’t want to force them to protect me, and I knew that I wasn’t in a position to do so.

 

From the moment I found out that it was a horror game, I had no intention of receiving help from the demons, so that question was unexpected.

 

“…”

 

Strangely, Holloway didn’t say anything.

 

“Did I say something wrong?”

 

“No, not really.”

 

I really like dolls these days… I didn’t know there would be dolls that made footsteps.

 

“Are you slow because your legs are short, Sister?”

 

“Are you pointing out my leg length just now?”

 

The moment I looked at him in disbelief, he suddenly returned to his original form.

 

His characteristic long hair fluttered in the air and he lightly lifted me up.

 

“Huh?”

 

“Because your legs are short.”

 

“Is this revenge?”

 

He just raised the corners of his lips slightly without saying anything.

 

Then he rolled his feet on the floor, and in an instant, we were off the second floor and on the third floor.

 

I was dumbfounded because it happened so quickly, but he carefully lowered me down and grabbed my hand.

 

His large hand lightly wrapped around mine.

 

“Go back to being a kid.”

 

“Now that you say that, I don’t want to go.”

 

“Don’t go.”

 

“Yes.”

 

This isn’t right.

 

I was bothered by the hand I was holding for no reason.