How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 40

Episode 40.

Not as much as that monster, but it was certainly stronger. Tears clouded her eyes, and Fidelis wiped her eyes away. The corners of his eyes quickly turned red and weighed down. Now wasn’t the time to cry. She bit her lower lip tightly.

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Time is running out. It was time to take a gamble. Fidelis gripped the boomerang in his hand. To be honest, I can’t say that there are any gems out there, but there was still a high probability of it. Time is running out, and you won’t be able to look anywhere else.

My hands kept shaking, and it was hard to hold the boomerang. A fight broke out between the ghost and the monster in front of him, and Fidelis’ eyes seized the opportunity. Fidelis dared to reveal his hidden body and boomerang at them.

The small boomerang grew in volume again and charged furiously at them, its sharp blade.

* * *

“Give it to me. I’ll carry you.”

Astin came to the side and spoke to Shion in a commanding tone, but he frowned slightly, not pretending to hear him. Harold clicked his tongue when he saw Astin. In the midst of all this, it was clear that he had taken his brain out.

Alvin was feeling the same way. The boy was busy studying Isota’s complexion from the sidelines. She blinked a couple of times, dazed and unfocused.

“Hey, give it to me!”

Alvin flinched at Asten’s yelling. Isota’s eyes had sharpened. As if to suppress her anger, she bit her lip and buried her face in Shion’s shoulder. Zion’s cool scent seemed to soothe her heart, and it pressed against the nape of his neck even more.

Shion felt sorry for her to the point of going crazy, but Astin didn’t care about her and just threw a tantrum.

“Isota, come here.”

Looking at Astin, who still treats Isota like a subordinate, Shion’s mouth twists. As he pursed his lips to say a word, Isota’s expression turned cold as he lifted his face from the nape of his neck.

“Hey.”

“Isota, come here.”

“Hah.”

Isota’s face contorted in a flash, and he wanted to stop Astin’s breath right away. Beth’s face glinted over Astin and he couldn’t resist the urge to kill, but it wasn’t enough, and it kept him upset.

“Don’t you understand the situation? Do you want me to cut your throat instead of your hands this time so you can shut up?”

“I don’t know why you’re so sensitive-.”

“Because of your brother!”

In the end, Isota, who couldn’t stand it, interrupted Astin’s words and screamed. The string of reason that he had barely held back was pulled taut and was on the verge of breaking.

If only I hadn’t had Beth with me… If only I had killed her as soon as I saw her… She couldn’t keep her mind off the flood of regret, and her body trembled with anger as her brother, the child she hated, was flirting in front of her.

“What’s wrong with my brother?”

Isota, who knows acutely what grief is like losing a family member, wanted to say, “Your brother is dead,” but his mouth couldn’t get out of the way.

“Shut up and get out of here before you get the nasty words out.”

“I don’t care what happens to him.”

After all, I lived worse than others. In the family, Asin was the son of his first wife, and Beth was the daughter of a wife who remarried Delphine after his first wife’s death. He grew up like a boy, especially after Beth showed a talent for magic. We didn’t particularly like each other, so of course we didn’t make as much of a connection as possible.

He came here entirely for Isota, not for Beth. I wasn’t impressed when I heard that I was going to enter this mansion from which I could not return alive to break the curse. After all, I’ve been living my life thinking that I don’t have a younger brother.

‘What if he died?’

After a moment of contemplation, Asin shrugged involuntarily. I wasn’t impressed either.

“So come here.”

“Please, please!”

Isota screamed in disgust. The tears that had stopped flowing down her face again.

“Please leave me alone, before you really kill me.”

There was a madness in her gold that threatened to engulf Astin. Astin spoke again, and Hakan, who was running ahead of him, grabbed him mercilessly in the face and slammed him against the wall.

Bang!

“Ugh!”

A groan of pain escaped Asteen’s lips. No one sympathized with Astin either. There has been a streak of progress. Not to mention what he did to Isota, Astin was a nobleman with high self-esteem who didn’t even treat commoners other than nobles as human beings.

“Don’t bother me.”

A insanely low voice rang in Asten’s ears with a hint of eeriness. Nervous, Hakan threw Asin into the distance like a bug and started walking again.

The back of it looked sad and painful, so Harold involuntarily bit the delicate flesh in his mouth. It must have been the first woman he had ever met here, and Hakan was in pain like a man who had lost the world. The same goes for Isota.

The presence of that one woman was like a tidal wave that could not be ignored. There was no time to interject, but Harold was not about to give up. The woman worse than the tidal wave had already died. It wasn’t meant to be, but if Hakan was struggling so much because of her, there was no reason for him to give up on him.

“I just need to stop making you sad and start over.”

Harold made up his mind and moved closer to Hakan’s side. He glanced up and saw nothing in his face, but Harold, who had been observing and watching him for so long, could feel how miserable he was.

“Mr. Hakan….”

“…….”

There was no answer. He was walking with his eyes straight ahead. Harold’s gaze gradually fell as he looked up at him, and he just walked quietly beside him.

“Hakan.”

“…….”

Isota called, but there was no answer. After twitching his fingers for a moment, Isota let out a voice of contempt.

“Pecua.”

Pause.

He was the first to react and stopped. Hakan turned his head and stared at Isota. The corners of her eyes, which were crushed by how much she cried, showed no signs of healing. Isota’s eyes still filled with tears.

“Are you going to kill him?”

“Yes.”

“Ha, but the power of the devil in this mansion is absolute!”

Harold hurriedly interrupted the conversation between the two, who asked questions calmly and answered calmly. There was no way Harold didn’t know how strong they were. But Harold, who knew the most about demons of all, knew that their strength wouldn’t work against demons in this space.

If you wanted to kill a demon, you had to either break the curse on this mansion and kill it, or you had to kill it in a place that wasn’t the devil’s space. Otherwise, there was no chance.

“Then we can break the curse, right?”

“Isota-sama!”

This time, Shion was uncharacteristically angry. To break the curse, the manor’s veins would have to bleed. Isota was saying that he would break the curse and slay the demon even if it meant shedding his own blood.

“If you’re talking about sacrificing, put it away. It’s not worth listening to anymore.”

Hakan was the same as he was before he met Fidelis. No, it was even colder and colder than before, and the pent-up anger and deadly grief were affecting those around him. But no one was upset.

He didn’t listen to Isota any more than that, and then turned and started walking again.

“You want to avenge Reese, don’t you?”

Isota’s voice filled Shion’s tears. He didn’t know that there was nothing he could do right now, that he would be so miserable. He didn’t want to just sit back and watch Isota’s sacrifice. I didn’t want to tell him not to think about revenge.

“If you sacrifice yourself and take revenge, Reese will love it.”

“… I….”

“Isota-sama, please!”

Eventually, Shion began yelling and beating her.

“Fidelis wouldn’t want it! You’re going to blame yourself! If you sacrifice yourself so much, what is left? Are you going to die like that without finding Fidelis?!”

Hot tears dripped down Shion’s cheeks and landed on the back of Isota’s hand. Isota, who had been following the trajectory in a daze, looked into his eyes filled with tears. Tears welled up in his eyes, which had always smiled brightly, and Isota twitched his fingers, not knowing what to do.

“… Zion.”

A hesitant hand circled the air and wiped the tears from Zion’s cheeks. Then, as if realizing something, Isota pinched Shion’s cheek tightly. At the same time, Hakan’s eyes were widening.

“Ouch, it hurts, Isota! Why are you doing this all of a sudden! Am you taking revenge because I’m angry?”

Even as he pinched his cheek to the point of tears, Isota looked even more surprised. Shion tilted her head. Harold gently called out to Hakan, his arm suddenly changing.

“Mr. Hakan…?”

“Corpses.”

“Corpses!”

Hakan and Isota uttered a word at the same time and looked at each other.

After Fidelis’ death, there was no body left. Humans are supposed to have corpses, and when Beth died, they didn’t turn to ashes, but Fidelis turned to ashes in an instant.

For what? How so?

“Corpses?”

“Yes, corpses. Reese is not a ghost. But does it make sense that the corpse turned to ashes and disappeared?”

“… Come to think of it.”

Isota’s calm tone made Shion’s eyes widen in surprise as he pondered those days. Apparently, the corpse was gone. In front of your eyes.

Hakan’s eyes sharpened. There was something about this. Fidelis was a normal human being. Then the corpse turned to ashes and vanished.

“The devil certainly wouldn’t have tried to kill Reese so easily. Someone who used Beth to separate us from us couldn’t have killed Reese so easily.”

There was definitely something more. There was something elusive about it, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Isota began to bite his nails. The furious pounding of his head seemed to be heard by the others.

Everything Hakan said made sense. There was no way Pecua would have killed Fidelis so easily and let him go. Pecua said it was definitely to have fun.

Why did they even let the corpses disappear?

“Isn’t it Fidelis who has a pierced heart?”

Harold cautiously commented, and the three of them shook their heads at the same time.

“There’s no way I can’t recognize Reese.”

Hakan’s resolute line-drawn attitude made Harold hesitate a little. On the one hand, there was envy and curiosity about Fidelis.