How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 45

Episode 45.

“Hands?”

He held out his hand, and Fidelis shook his head.

“Not that hand. It’s kind of like a contract. It’s not a bad thing for Chester. I’m here to help you get your rewards. The curse of this mansion can be broken by Chester.”

It was another aspect. There was no way Chester didn’t know he was terrified, even though he pretended otherwise. I could see that he was flinching at the slightest sound, pretending not to care about the subject.

She had been shivering and breaking into a cold sweat since she had arrived, her eyes looking at Chester with hope. His words were so different from his fearful demeanor, and his eyes were strangely glazed over.

“Shall we get away from here for now?”

“Well, is that so?”

Fidelis’ face lit up and she stood. In fact, just being close to the portrait was hard because it reminded me of that time. It wasn’t far away, but it was better nonetheless. Her shivering appearance remained the same.

“… Don’t you like it?”

“Hmmm.”

He looked at her as if he were worried. Fidelis didn’t expect him to say yes right away. I had to hurry up and join hands with Hakan and Isota before I could meet him. This method was not known to Hakan and Isota.

“You want a reward? I know how to break the curse, and I have all the materials to break it.”

To be honest, I was a little uneasy about the scythe, but I had never seen any other scythe. Perhaps the scythe is the only one, and if so, it must be the material to break the curse. It wouldn’t hurt to take a tour of the mansion just to be sure, but Chester came first.

“But why don’t you release it?”

“I can’t.”

“Why?”

“You’ll see that when I explain it. And one of the ingredients is my blood.”

“… What?”

The completely unexpected answer caused my brain’s circuits to pause for a moment. Fidelis took a slow breath and began to explain to Chester step by step.

Combined with hints to break the curse, she explained everything to him. This mansion belonged to his ancestor, and he needed the lineage of this mansion to break the curse.

“And I’m in that lineage.”

“Isota? Come to think of it, they look quite alike. What’s your relationship?”

“Hmm… My lost sister….”

“What?!”

To Chester’s surprise, Fidelis gave him a brief explanation. That’s not the important thing now, so I tried to explain it briefly so that it would be understandable, and then hurry back to the original topic.

Chester didn’t have time to be surprised when he returned to the original topic and asked her back.

“So I’m going to cut you?”

“That’s right.”

[An… become!]

“Ha, Hakan Ha, Hey, I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it!”

Edu and Essie, who had been listening in silence, got into a fight and slapped Fidelis in the leg. She patted them on the head to calm them down.

“Please listen to the end…. It hurts.”

Wondering if he was going to really cut Fidelis down, Edu and Essie stood in Fidelis’ way. They snarled like hounds, baring their teeth in a sign of hostility toward Chester.

He didn’t have the heart to cut Fidelis, so he scratched his cheek in frustration.

“I don’t want to cut you. Even if I leave like that, it’s just a shame. I don’t like that.”

“To be precise, please make a doll that looks exactly like me, not me. And I’m going to use this blood, not me.”

He held out the glowing blue test kit to Chester.

“Isn’t the amount of blood too low?”

It didn’t matter, because if he touched the portrait, his blood would surely fill again. Sarha, who will come out accordingly, was a problem, but… Still, I had to do it. This time, he had to think of a way to deal with it. Attacks didn’t work, so there had to be another way.

When she talked about the portrait despite her exhaustion, Chester, who had been staring at her from afar, laughed.

“It’s more embarrassing than I thought, isn’t it?”

“Thank you….”

Fidelis blushed slightly at the compliment she had never heard before.

“But what are you going to do with the screams?”

“… Hmmm.”

In fact, the very word “one person” refers to the veins of this mansion, so if you scream at the same time as slashing the doll, you might be able to fool yourself.

It was just a gimmick, but it didn’t seem impossible. When I listened to the explanation of the shape of the mansion and the game, there were many loopholes. So much so that even this kind of trick can easily break the curse.

“If it doesn’t work, I can step in.”

He bowed his head slightly and patted Fidelis on the shoulder, as he said cheerfully:

“Don’t worry.”

“What?”

He grinned, pulling out a palm-sized box from inside his robe.

“What?”

“What do you think it is?”

“… Well….”

Chester asked with a mischievous grin, then smug and began to draw something with his fingers on the box. A magic circle in white, just like when he made a shoe, was drawn, and something popped out of it.

At the same time, Fidelis’ heart sank, and his complexion began to turn white. The fear that came out of nowhere made him speechless. It was a monster.

The monster that killed something on the stairs and searched for humans.

Whether or not he knew the frightened Fidelis, Chester thrust the open box at the monster that pounced on them. Then the monster was helplessly sucked into the box.

“Uh, well, what….”

Surprised, Fidelis stammered. Chester placed the box over his fingers and twirled it around.

“It’s a box that traps souls and monsters. Alchemists are good at making things. It’s because we don’t have enough money for research.”

The box was brought simply because of Chester’s desire to research. This is because he wanted to imprison an unknown creature in a box, break the curse, and take him away to experiment with this and that.

This was in case they didn’t get a reward. If you discover something for the first time, the alchemist’s prestige will increase, and the cost of research will increase even more.

“Put here the soul of Sarha you mentioned, and if you cut it with your scythe, you will also cut it, and you will scream.”

“Oh, but Sarha….”

It didn’t cut. Material things don’t work. Remembering the image of Sarha who had killed him, Fidelis’ complexion turned pitifully white.

“Fidelis? Are you okay?”

Chester asked worriedly. Edu and Essie patted her for not answering.

[Room… There is a law… Everything.]

“… What?”

[Ha, Hakan is he, her cow, with her fingernails.]

[Don’t… Poke at it… It was a good idea.]

Fidelis’ complexion, which he roughly understood them, darkened slightly, and then flailed. The sensation of being pricked by his horribly sharp fingernails seemed to come back vividly.

“So, you can touch your nails.”

“I think I can stick my fingernails on a scythe.”

“… Will you join hands with me?”

At the end of the story, Fidelis asked him again for his opinion. He shrugged and nodded willingly.

“It’s nice to have no one sacrificed. And that’s all but I’m going to have a reward. There’s no reason for me to say no.”

Fidelis bowed her head in gratitude for his answer. Fidelis and Chester laid out their plans one after the other. First, wake up Sarha.

Then he cuts off her nails and hurries to put them in a box. Then, when they make a doll that resembles Fidelis, they put the box and the blood together and then put them together. Nails are secretly glued to avoid people’s eyes.

“Can you make a doll quickly?”

“I need some of your hair and blood, but if you make a gap, I’ll be able to make it in no time.”

“Then I’ll give it to you in advance.”

If you give it in front of Isota and Hakan, they might all get caught. With that, Fidelis handed him his blood and hair. He took it and put it in a small glass jar.

“But you said you had to scream as a pool of blood formed, honestly, isn’t that a gimmick?”

“That said… The mansion itself is unideal. Even if it doesn’t work, there’s another way, so please do it.”

“Okay. Why don’t we just act like we normally do and run it in the last place?”

“Yes.”

She nodded. When you go to the final place, the Radiant Hall, Pecua will be waiting for you, and as long as Pecua is there, you won’t be able to break the curse so easily. He was sure to get in the way. In order to do so, Isota and Hakan had to divert Pecua’s attention.

Pecua’s nerves were focused on the two of them. Fidelis sends Chester an autograph, and he hurries to make a doll out of alchemy. At the same time, Fidelis hid where she couldn’t see him, and Chester had to slash the doll with his scythe.

“What do you think?”

“Good. But why do you have to keep it a secret from Hakan and Isota?”

“If you want to deceive your enemies, you have to deceive your allies. If you tell Hakan and Isota everything, Pecua will definitely notice something strange.”

No matter how much he acted, he wouldn’t be able to make it feel real. If I tell them about it, I’ll act out to stop Chester from slicing up a doll that looks like me, as planned…

It was impossible to expect realistic performances from the two of them. The keen-eyed Pecua would surely notice. To be honest, I didn’t care if the doll noticed.

Before you know it, Chester will break the seal of the box and cut it open, and it will bleed with Sarha’s screams in the box.

When it came to executing the plan, Pecua was an unsettling factor. The one and only strong man in this mansion who can play with Isota and Hakan with one finger.

I couldn’t tell the doll was Fidelis by a quick glance, so I didn’t have to miss it at that time. By the time you’ve already slashed and noticed, it’s the end of the situation.

I’m sorry, but it was better not to tell Hakan and Isota as much as possible. Of course, I was going to say everything else.

“I don’t know. They can’t really act either. It’s better not to know. I don’t want the devil to notice at all. It’s a smart idea.”

Chester nodded and vehemently agreed. Even if it’s a gimmick, we have all the ingredients and circumstances to break the curse.

Fidelis smiled a little as Chester stood up and walked toward the portrait. I was so lucky to have met Chester.

“Do you want to stay a little farther away?”

“… Well, can I do that….”

He nodded, and Fidelis grabbed his pounding heart and moved a little farther away from Edu and Esie. I pretended to be nonchalant, but I was still scared and scared.

Chester touched the portrait, and blood began to seep out. He deftly took the blood, looking around.

[… Off. Off.

Sarha’s condition was a little different. She was told that she had been thoroughly beaten by Hakan, and her condition was a mess.

Blood was constantly flowing from one of his eyes, and he couldn’t bear to open his mouth, only moaning occasionally.

He hadn’t even thought to attack Chester. It was almost a shame that he would not disappear into ashes. In spite of his appearance, Fidelis shuddered as soon as he saw Sarha, as if convulsed.