How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 59

Episode 59.

The suffocating ferocity of flesh began to ooze out. His humanoid body couldn’t beat him. Even if he returned to his true form, it didn’t seem hopeless, but Pecua unraveled her transformation. Pecua’s humanoid body bubbling up and transforming into her demonic form.

“What’s the difference when you change like that?”

She pointed her finger down at Pecua as she tried to stand up, and her legs began to fall against her will. I trembled and tried to resist, but it was not enough.

Hakan’s power could hardly be attributed to a single man. He had expected it to be stronger when the curse was lifted, but when he returned to his original form, he couldn’t get his fingers on it.

“Aaa

He screamed and shook off his strength, and Hakan clicked his tongue as if he didn’t like it. He flicked his fingers lightly from top to bottom, and Pecua’s arm fell off.

“Aaa

And when you try to raise your hand again…….

“Cool!”

“Reese!”

Isota rushed over and slumped down in front of her.

[P… Delis?]

[Why, why that?]

Fidelis vomited blood profusely and continued to flow from his mouth. And the red began to spread around his heart.

“Why, why? Why is the heart….”

Hakan had left Pecua alone and hurried over to Fidelis’ side, wiping the blood from her mouth as he cradled the pale Fidelis into his arms. It was the same as then.

As in the case of Sarha, the focus gradually disappears, and it takes your breath away.

“Lee, Reese…. Why?”

“Cool, cool.”

She vomited blood again. Isota unbuttoned Fidelis’ nightgown with a trembling hand and bit her lip tightly. With trembling hands, he gently rolled back his nightgown, and blood was gushing from where his heart was.

In the spot where Sarha’s fingernails had been lodged.

“Pooh.”

Pecua’s laughter came through the gap between them, bewildered.

“Squeak.”

Holding one of her fallen arms, Pecua staggered to her seat.

“What, you.”

Isota’s eyes filled with tears, but there was a spark of anger in his eyes as he looked at Pecua.

“You’ve heard that this mansion is a ‘game.'”

“What?”

“Don’t talk nonsense, speak straight. Before I let you say anything again.”

The sound of this muffling sound was eerily heard.

“No matter how many times you die in the mansion, you come back to life. But is that really possible? It’s not possible for the dead to come back to life!”

Pecua laughed maniacally and pointed her finger at Fidelis’ heart.

“It’s a piercing wound from Sarha. Now that the curse has been lifted, the wound has come back to life.”

“Well, then….”

“I told you.”

Forcing her arms together, Pecua sneered at them and spoke.

“There can never be happiness at the end of you.”

With that, Pecua sprinted to gather his mana and teleport as far as he could. There was no way he could catch it. According to her, Fidelis would not come back to life this time, but would die.

Fidelis moved his trembling hands to touch the jewel in his pocket. For a moment, a faint light was absorbed into Fidelis’ body. But no one noticed.

“Oh, no. No, no….”

“Reese, please. Reese….”

Holding Fidelis’ hand, Isota continued to beg and Chester grabbed their shoulders as he watched Hakan hug her and called her by name.

“Hey, wait….”

But Chester couldn’t continue. Their voices didn’t reach their ears. The breath he had managed to hold on to was cut off again. It was the second death. Isota’s grip on Fidelis’ hand fell helplessly to the floor. She was limp in Hakan’s arms.

“No, I’m lying.”

“… It can’t be.”

A voice sounded like a sigh. She trembled, but her pursed lips didn’t want to open. Hakan and Isota, who were out of focus, as if they were about to collapse and explode at any moment, seemed to be breathtaking enough to make the viewer feel anxious.

I won’t come back to life this time. I can’t expect that. There’s no hope.

Is what is happening in front of us real? If I put a curse on the mansion again, I wonder if it will come back to life. No, compensation…. Yes, the reward!

Hakan and Isota’s pupils stopped, staring at Fidelis’ corpse.

“There’s Hart! This is all there is to it…. Ahh Alas!”

A desperate groan escaped Isota’s lips as he spoke hopefully. Fidelis’ body began to disappear back into ashes. This time, Edu and Essie disappeared together.

“Ahh Oh no!”

He hurriedly unleashed his magic to stop Fidelis from scattering, but the ashes slipped away as if to tease him.

“… Hedging. Stop it at all costs, alchemy, black magic, or whatever!”

The magic didn’t work. Holding on to the ashes as they scattered, Hakan cried out desperately. Chester shouted, slapping the crumbling Isota and Hakan in turn.

“Wait!”

“You’re kidding me now….”

“What did Fidelis say? Tell me.”

Chester’s face crumpled angrily and shouted again at the two of them.

“What did Fidelis say? Wake up and answer me.”

Hakan and Isota’s gaze shifted to Fidelis, who was disappearing from Chester.

‘No matter what happens in the future, I will never leave my sister and Hakan’s side. Even if something unexpected happens, trust me, I’ll show up again.’

Staring at the ashes as they departed in vain, the two of them spoke like machines.

“I’m not leaving….”

“I beg you to believe me….”

“Yes. If you say you won’t leave, if you want me to trust you, then we can do that.”

Before I knew it, Edu and Essie were reduced to ashes. Shion bit his lip as he stared at the ashes of Fidelis that had disappeared. Chester forced them to their feet and recalled the conversation he had with Fidelis. Before Hakan and Isota came to Fidelis, she had asked him urgently.

‘Chester. If I die after breaking the curse, tell Hakan and Isota not to worry and to wait. I’ll definitely be back.’

‘Are you dying?’

‘I don’t know… Anyway. I’m begging you.’

She was somehow sparing in her words.

‘Why don’t you tell me directly?’

‘I’m going to talk to you. But maybe if they lose me again, they won’t be able to think normally… If you experience it yourself, it will be different again… So please hold Chester so they don’t fall apart.’

There was no reason to refuse her plea. And, as she expected, Hakan and Isota did not have normal thinking. In spite of what Fidelis had said, they were falling apart all too easily.

“Fidelis said he’s coming back. So wait.”

“…….”

“There are no corpses left. Like I was in a mansion.”

Chester gripped his arm tightly to support the two staggering. In the ruined mansion, where Fidelis was, Hakan and Isota were immobile for a while. I felt like I was sinking into the abyss.

“Reese isn’t dead.”

“Wait, I’m gone.”

Isota and Hakan said to themselves. The curse he so desperately wanted was lifted. At the same time, Fidelis also disappeared. But they couldn’t laugh.

4. Caught Happiness

The curse on the mansion has been lifted. The black energy that had been emanating from the mansion had vanished. More volunteers survived the mansion than expected, but only one of them, Chester, who had broken the curse, received Hart.

The emperor immediately tried to tear down the mansion, but Hakan and Isota prevented it. If she ever comes back, it will be there.

Angered by the emperor’s insistence that the ominous mansion could not be left alone, Isota and Hakan paid a large sum of money to buy the land. It wasn’t bad for the emperor. Ever since the curse fell on the mansion, the people who lived around it have moved their sites. The surroundings had turned into a wasteland.

Lifting the curse didn’t make the bitterness go away, so no one moved to the ground. As a result, Hakan and Isota could easily get their hands on the land.

It was a lot of money, but it wasn’t that much money for them, so the loss was not significant. Even if it was for Fidelis’ sake, there was no way they would feel sorry for him.

“Hart, sell it to me.”

Hakan’s insensitive face looked somewhat tired. Chester let out a small sigh and glanced at the haggard Isota next to him.

“You can’t raise the dead without a body. And Fidelis wait….”

“That’s not what I’m asking for.”

Interrupting Chester’s sermon, he blurted out irritatingly.

“So what?”

“I’m going to wipe out the devil from the world.”

Chester, who had been fiddling with Hart in his hand, suddenly began to rack his head wildly, and let out a long sigh.

“… I got this because of Fidelis, so I’m not going to take much.”

I thought I should just give it to him, but I couldn’t give up the money for the alchemist’s research.

“I’ll sponsor you.”

“What?”

Isota’s words made Chester’s eyes widen in surprise.

“The Alchemist, backed by the Swald family.”

“The tower uses our own tower.”

As Isota and Hakan spoke, Chester squinted as if trying to grasp their intentions.

“If you win, don’t take it.”

“Oh, no!”

Chester yelled in denial. The unexpected harvest made Chester feel like he’s flying. After receiving Hart, Hakan left for the Demon Tower, and Isota began to push out his father, the current head of the Swald family, in earnest.

While in the cursed mansion, Isota’s servants had made all the preparations, waiting for her to come out. So much so that she could push him away as soon as she broke the curse.

There was no need to create a corruption that didn’t exist and push him out of his position. He had reached out to the slave market, which was now forbidden, and he did not hesitate to siphon money by manipulating the books. That alone was enough to push him out and send him into exile.

Even so, Isota made sure to visit the cursed mansion at least once a day. When I stopped by that day, I ran into Hakan for the first time.

Whenever he came at dawn, the lilies, blue roses, and shoes he had left were in pristine condition. Every day, Isota would bring her shoes and a bouquet of flowers that fit her feet.