How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 60

Episode 60.

“This overlaps. You’ll be responsible for figuring out what to wear when Reese arrives later?”

When Isota yelled at her in a futile voice, Hakan ignored her words and placed a bouquet of flowers and shoes on the floor.

“Hey!”

“… Huh.”

He sighed in annoyance and ran his hair through his flowing hair.

“What do you want?”

“… I’ll prepare the shoes. You can bring me a bouquet of flowers.”

“Yes.”

He agreed without hesitation. Isota glanced at him. Her face was still beautiful, but her face was just as bad as mine. After that, no words were exchanged between the two. They stood still and took their places, and by the time the sun went down, they had returned to their positions.

In its place lay still gorgeous lilies, blue roses, and a pair of neat, luxurious shoes. They were still waiting for Fidelis. No, they will wait until she returns, no matter when.

At the same time, they still haven’t found a trace of the demon Pecua.

* * *

It’s been a year since Fidelis disappeared.

The cursed mansion, which had risen and emitted an ominous aura, collapsed. The curse on the mansion had been lifted, but the ruined mansion was no different from it had been a year earlier.

The area around the mansion was quiet and desolate.

There was no one passing by, only a gentle breeze. The ceiling of the huge hall, the last place, had collapsed. In the middle was a combination of white lilies and blue roses, and a pair of luxurious-looking shoes.

For a year, Hakan and Isota had been in and out several times a day with flowers and new shoes, so the flowers were fresh and beautiful, and their shoes were spotlessly clean.

Even after all these years, my heart for Fidelis has not changed. On the contrary, she missed her more and more day and often stayed up all night crying.

Today, as usual, Hakan and Isota’s shoulders did not straighten as they slowly left their seats in the morning with flowers and new shoes. A few hours after they left, the air stopped and began to distort.

Even the gentle breeze stopped, and the sun shone on the shoes and flowers. Someone popped out of the gaps in the distorted space.

[Eyes… Smash.]

[Sun, sun.]

“That’s a good thing, it would have been a bit hard to find at night.”

Someone jumped out behind Edu and Essie, smiling brightly.

[Lee… S.]

“Hey, now you’re going to the bar, go right away, right?”

“Absolutely!”

Fidelis still had long clean white hair and warm red eyes. She was adorable with a bright smile on her face and even a small blush. As he looked around at the ruined mansion, which was bathed in sunlight instead of the dark mansion, something caught Fidelis’ eye.

“… Flowers and shoes.”

Fidelis sat down to examine it and saw a small note. The handwriting, strewn across in cursive, was unfamiliar to Fidelis.

[What, what do you write, what do you write?]

[Read… Uh-huh.]

“… Mmmm.”

Fidelis’ father, who was Swald’s matriarch when she was young, forbade her to receive any education. He was afraid that even his extraordinary head would resemble Sarha, and he did not like her resemblance to Sarha. The emotion he felt for the young Fidelis was bordering on hatred.

Isota taught him the letters whenever he could, but when his father found out about it, Fidelis was the only one who would scold him. In the end, he was kidnapped by Pecua without even realizing it.

He had no trouble hearing or speaking, but he knew only a very simple name about the letters.

Luckily, she didn’t have much trouble speaking and listening, but here she was a stranger who didn’t know anything about this empire, including the written word.

The note from the mansion had also been patched in Korean, and in her eyes, it was in Korean. But now that the curse had been lifted and the game had ceased to exist, such a fluke could not be expected.

“… Blood, blood… Dell…. Oh, Fidelis!”

Fidelis barely read his name, smiled broadly and tried to finish reading the writing next to it, but gave up before he could read it.

[Wooh… Riga.]

[This, read, give!]

When he showed the note to Edu and Essie in plain sight, they both looked at Fidelis at the same time.

“Why, why?”

[Bo, I want to see it…]

[Earl… Ren stone… Aora… There is a tongue.]

“… I can’t wait to see you.”

Fidelis smiled faintly, holding a lily and a blue rose, and glancing at the shoe next to her. Neat beige shoes looked very luxurious.

Fidelis raised his hand to stroke and tried on his shoes. As if made just for her, the shoes fit her feet just right.

“… I think Hakan and my sister put it there.”

The two of them had been waiting for each other. Fidelis buried her face in the flowers and smiled widely, her eyes folded as if she was happy in the world. The sweet smell of flowers stimulated his sense of smell.

A cool breeze was brushing Fidelis’ hair. The sun seemed to continue to shine on her, not cold. Fidelis stood up with her shoes on, holding a lily and a blue rose in her hand.

“Now, shall we go?”

[Joe, alright!]

[De… Dear.]

I said it cheerfully, but I didn’t know where to go. The surroundings were empty, with overgrown weeds and a large ruined mansion.

Looking around, I saw that the mansion was nothing more than a ruined mansion with no power at all.

As if everything that had happened there had been a lie, the darkness did not exist. The dreaded monsters and ghosts had vanished without a trace. While he was contemplating it, Edu and Essie tapped Fidelis’ foot in the face.

[Oh, aren’t you going?]

[Sucker… Don’t go there… If the day comes… It’s dusk.]

“I have to go, I have to go….”

Scanning the open space again, Fidelis cried.

“Where to go….”

Once with Edu and Esie, Fidelis moved his legs to get out of the mansion. Just leaving the mansion took up quite a bit of time.

As soon as I stepped out of the mansion, I realized that the curse had indeed been lifted. Even if he came out through the open door, ghosts and monsters didn’t attack him.

“The curse has indeed been lifted.”

[Sun… Years and years… Now that I’ve been born.]

[Uh, hurry up, let’s go.]

“… Which way should I go?”

Even as a child, I never went outside, so I didn’t know where to go. There was no one passing by, so I couldn’t even ask. Edu and Essie closed their eyes and listened. In the distance, he could hear the sound of a commotion.

[I, live in that direction, people.]

[There is… Everything.]

“Then let’s go over there.”

All I had to do was meet people and ask them about Isota Hakan. Isota was an aristocrat, so he would know it, and he was also famous from the ones he had traveled with Hakan, so he could have known. Hakan is a skilled mage, so he’s famous.

Following in Edu and Essie’s footsteps, Fidelis began to walk not in a dark mansion, but on sunlit ground. At first glance, she passed through a series of dreary-looking vacant houses, and then a man surged past her.

As I walked again, I saw a crowd of people bustling about, in contrast to the cursed mansion. It was the heart of the empire.

The wandering crowd was busy looking around in bewilderment, glancing at the strangely dressed Fidelis and the weirder Eduwa Essie beneath them.

“Daddy, weird head!”

“Whoops! You can’t see that!”

[I… Run it….]

[P, look at Fidelis, look at him, do you say?]

“…….”

Trying to avoid Edu and Essie’s gaze as they looked up at him, Fidelis looked forward again. The medieval attire, the unusual hair color, and the old-fashioned buildings were enough to distract Fidelis for a moment.

The breeze smelled a variety of foods that stimulated the sense of smell, and the crisp breeze was warm. He slapped his bruises and looked around, until Fidelis came to his senses. I couldn’t waste my time being distracted by something like this.

Looking around was something I could do slowly later. I couldn’t wait to see Isota and Hakan. Fidelis looked for someone to ask, and then approached the lady at the fruit shop.

“Oh, hello. Lady.”

“Welcome! What kind of fruit do you want to give?”

“It’s not that… If you’ll excuse me, may I ask you a few questions?”

She smiled as politely as she could, and she glanced at Fidelis. He was dressed in an unusual outfit and had something even more unusual next to him.

But the shoes she wore were luxurious, and she even carried a rare blue rose. She was a strange girl in many ways. However, the fruit vendor smiled and replied kindly.

“Absolutely.”

“Do you know Isota Swald? That… With white hair and golden eyes like me…”

“Oh, I know, I know.”

Fidelis interrupted by an eager explanation, and the fruit vendor nodded.

“You mean the new owner of the Swald family?”

“What? Oh, yes!”

He was skeptical of the new owner, but getting to know Isota was enough of an accomplishment.

“But why do you ask about the nobleman?”

Come to think of it, they looked alike. I wondered what the relationship was, but I soon put my curiosity aside. I didn’t want to create the possibility of getting caught up in something unreasonable.

“May I know where to go to meet him?”

“If you go to the wagon rental over there, you’ll be there in half a day.”

He glanced at the place where several wagons were parked and shook his head. Fidelis had no money. But she didn’t think to sell shoes or flowers.

“I’m about to walk, can you give me directions?”

At Fidelis’ cautious question, the lady waved her hand in flagship.

“If you walk, you can walk all day!”

Just as I was wondering what to do with the lady’s nailed no, Fidelis asked again.

“So do you know Hakan Declan? Sound… She’s a wizard, but she’s beautiful…”

That’s all he knew, so Fidelis ended up crying.

“I know!”

“Huh? Do you know?”

Fidelis, who was crying, asked with a half-hearted face, and the lady smiled at how cute it was.

“You know, the owner of the Demon Tower. But how do you pick and choose such big names?”