How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 28

Episode 28.

Again, I saw a man’s face that had been severely mutilated. This time, the writing underneath the portrait was clearly visible.

<Merwin, 1st Czar of the Family of Merwyn>

“It’s known that Merwen has a long history, but it’s amazing to see the portraits listed.”

Alvin slowly looked around at the portraits with a small admiration. Fidelis also stopped and took a look at the framed portrait. When I reached the end, I saw a familiar face.

I felt Alvin glance at me.

Fidelis lifted the candle and held it to the face of the last portrait. It was more roughly cut than the other portraits, but I knew who it was.

“Sarha….”

She had red eyes, white hair, and a smug look, just like the one she had met in the past. There was no writing underneath, unlike the other portraits. He carefully raised his hand to touch Sarha’s portrait.

“Huh, blood, Fidelis!”

His fingertips were stained with red blood. Fidelis stiffened of her own accord as she stared at the portrait with ominously flickering eyes, and blood and flesh began to drip from the sliced area. Alvin and Asin held their breath at the same time.

Blood dripped down the wall and reached Fidelis’ closest, soaking her feet. Creepyly warm blood envelops her feet. The foul smell of blood and rotten flesh mingled from the blood, irritating his nose.

He flinched back, squeaking with blood.

Fidelis raised his hand and covered his nose and mouth. A fear I hadn’t felt in a long time began to wash through my body. Even with Alvin, he was so different from Hakan and Isota, who were so supportive. There were no more action captains who had slain the demons for me.

I felt the tears that had stopped welling up again. There was an eerie aura about it, and the surroundings were somehow so quiet. The sound of blood dripping and the warmth of blood did not allow him to think normally. Alvin took Fidelis by the hand and pulled him away from the portrait.

Chop puck.

Fidelis curled his toes as he walked on the constant flow of blood. The tactile sensations were so eerie.

“Hey, get out of here.”

“Sounds like a great idea!”

As soon as they heard Alvin’s answer, they turned their backs without hesitation, but their bodies stopped again as they were barely moved by the transparent figure seen in the darkness.

Squeak, squeak.

The floor seemed to scream as it got closer. Fidelis stepped back involuntarily.

Boom!

When his heel touched the pool of blood, he got goosebumps all over his body. I felt like I was standing on the edge of my feet. He didn’t want to stop.

Fidelis and Alvin clasped their hands together and shivered at the foul smell that was flowing and the transparency that was getting closer and closer.

Asin had already flinched. That was the case, and the person in front of me wasn’t out of the ordinary. After a series of monsters, Astin’s face crumpled.

[… Tea… Float… Are you going to do it?]

At the sound of his words chopped, Fidelis fixed his gaze on the transparent figure approaching in front of him.

[Cold… What? Two… Mine ta… I mean. meaning.]

Unable to control himself, he began to stagger and repeat his last words.

[Ta… Meaning… Work… What?]

His palms were soaked with sweat, and goosebumps ran down his spine. His pulse began to pound endlessly, and his breathing was uneven, and he exhaled in staggered rhythms. His muscles were so stiff that he couldn’t escape.

[… You… Weak and weak. All of them… Well, you, you, you, you, you, you!]

Tilting its neck unusually, it screamed and sprinted toward Fidelis at a frightening speed.

* * *

That was before Beth ran into Fidelis and the others. He had dared to kill Chess and Ruri, and was on his way to a leisurely walk down the hall, using the blood as a springboard. Sneaking around Beth, who looked relaxed, Pecua searched for her.

Beth made her way through the dark hallway. She didn’t blink an eye at the ghost that suddenly jumped out, and she even looked relaxed.

“That’s good.”

Pecua, who had been secretly watching Beth, slipped away.

Beth walked at a steady pace and squinted to get a closer look at what she saw at the end of the dark hallway.

Even so, I couldn’t see it, so I walked with a bigger stride to narrow the distance a little more. As the looming figure drew closer and closer and she could barely make out of hers, Beth stopped.

A strange feeling engulfed Beth and stopped walking. Pecua and Beth stood facing each other. No one was thinking of making the first move.

Beth scanned Pecua. Her hair color darker than darkness, her red eyes shining in her dark eyes, and her strangely mysterious appearance somehow seemed surreal. None of the volunteers had such a face, and none exuded such a dark aura.

It felt distinctly different from the mysterious ones I had encountered up to this point. That’s not a good thing either. Beth reflexively gripped the handle of her sword.

Looking at Beth’s wariness, Pecua let out a hilarious laugh. The empty hallway filled with Pecua’s high-pitched voice, then vanished.

“There’s nothing to be so wary of.”

Tap-crunch.

As Pecua got closer to Beth with a steady footsteps, she took a step back, not taking her eyes off him.

“Don’t come close, if you have something to say, you’d better say it there.”

With a furrowed eyebrow, Pecua obediently halted her steps at the words of warning.

“Yes. I’m going to tell you here, well, I don’t think it’s fun to run away instead.”

Her smiling face seemed foreign.

“Make a deal with me, Beth Delphine.”

Her shoulders jerked as her name came out from between her red lips.

“There’s nothing wrong with you.”

“You didn’t come in because you applied. Who are you?”

“Oh, I’m late to introduce myself.”

Pecua’s eyes folded in a strange way, and the corners of her mouth were pulled up to her ears, sending shivers through her body.

Can a person laugh like that? Is it possible to harden your body with just a smile like that? How can you frighten me with just one look?

All sorts of thoughts swirled through my head. I couldn’t take my eyes off the disgusting look on his face.

Watching Beth look at her in a complicated way, Pecua took a step closer to her. The candle on the wall illuminated Pecua’s face even more.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Pecua.”

As she continued to be vigilant, Pecua covered her face with her hands and resurfaced with a peekaboo. The grotesque look on his face was gone.

“Are you okay now? I’m not afraid of ghosts, but I’m too scared of one of my faces, isn’t it?”

Pecua smirked teasingly. Beth looked like she was about to spew venom. Brushing Beth’s cold gaze at her, Pecua spoke again.

“The race is a demon.”

“…….”

Beth didn’t believe her. He kept an eye on her every move, keeping a watchful eye. Smiling as sweetly as she could, Pecua patted me on the cheek.

“Don’t be so vigilant. And without a doubt, I’m the devil. I’m the devil who cursed this place.”

Beth looked incredulous, and Pecua thought a little, her jaw smoothed, and her eyes lit up. A shiver ran through his body, and before he could get ready for battle, Pecua disappeared from the front.

‘Duda!’

Beth hurried to turn around, but the big hand grabbed her by the throat and slammed it against the wall.

“Ugh!”

“Look at me, Beth.”

With a groan of pain, Beth barely opened her closed eyes from the impact of the collision against the wall. Beth gasped in surprise, surprised by the human-like Pecua in front of her.

Two black horns rose above his head, and his skin was black all over. His eyes were red and flashing, and his long, black fingernails were sharp enough to tear a man to shreds with a single swing.

“Do you want to believe me now?”

Pecua returned to her first appearance in a long time, and turned her neck once as if to warm up. There was a chilling thud.

“Mi, I believe you, so I’m a little … Let it go!”

“Ahh I’m sorry.”

At the same time, Pecua was back to the human form she had seen at first.

“Kolok, Kolok!”

Beth clenched her teeth as she let out a series of nagging coughs and choked her throat. There was a sharp pain in his neck.

“… You’re here to disturb me.”

“Me? Firmly? You?”

Beth’s brow narrowed at the seemingly blatant sneer. Pecua’s goal was only Fidelis. It was a bizarrely bad obsession.

Pecua had already watched Fidelis and felt that she was nothing like Sarha. But once Pecua got into it, she couldn’t stop tormenting Fidelis.

It wasn’t about Sarha anymore. Intrigued by Fidelis itself, Pecua couldn’t miss her as a fun toy. Pecua was a demon. It’s no different from a beast that moves only by instinct. There was no way the common sense of ordinary humans would work.

“I’ll be grateful if you lift the curse here.”

“…?”

Pecua mumbled something she didn’t understand, and Beth narrowed her eyes.

“No one can beat me in here. It’s a space I created. But….”

A heavy sigh escaped from between her parted lips.

“Is it because it’s old? I can’t control the mansion anymore-”

Pecua closed her eyes and pressed her eyes tightly, her hands dropped. As she lifted her eyelids, there was a hint of annoyance in her eyes.

“I can’t even break the curse.”

It really was. At first, I was able to control everything in my hands. It was he who had locked up all the people, servants, animals, and plants of the Sward family, including Sarha, in the mansion and brutally slaughtered them all.

But maybe it was because he cursed so strongly.

He could leave the mansion and move freely, but he couldn’t lift the curse of the mansion on his own. The mansion grew stronger and stronger than Pecua could handle, but she didn’t stop him.

The reason was simple. It was uncontrollable, but her power was even stronger within the mansion, so of course she didn’t have to stop it from growing stronger. And as long as there was an offering, the curse could be lifted at any time.

“Unable to break the curse” literally meant that he could not use his own power to break it. He had to break the curse only in the way it was written on the note. Other than that, there was no way to break the curse.

Perhaps because the mansion was getting stronger, the monsters that Swald summoned when he killed all the people in the mansion, as well as the people and animals that died there, were all transformed into strange forms. As time went on, they grew stronger together.