Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 104
Chapter 104
Translator: Yonnee
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“Are you shy?”
The child pondered for a moment then tugged on my skirt.
“What’s wrong?”
The child boldly lifted his chin and opened his mouth.
What is he doing?
‘Huh?’
There was a pattern on the child’s tongue.
…What is that?
It was then.
Knock knock.
“Charlotte, are you there?”
Dietrich was knocking on the door.
* * *
“It’s a silencing spell.”
Dietrich answered for me.
At first, I wondered how he knew where I was.
Then Dietrich explained.
—I heard your voice.
—Your hearing really is no joke.
I hadn’t spoken loudly, had I?
The sound insulation in the mansion wasn’t bad, so how could he hear my voice?
—Then you must have heard our conversation too?
—I just arrived, so I didn’t really hear anything… Would it be a problem if I did?
—No. You came at the right time.
After a brief explanation of the situation, I showed him the child.
—This child… is that small creature?
Dietrich was surprised, but he quickly accepted it.
—Yes, but it seems he can’t speak. Oh, now that I think about it, there was something drawn on his tongue?
—…I should take a look. Little one, are you okay with that?
The child, seemingly disliking Dietrich, tried to hide behind me, but there was no chance to hide completely.
I pushed the child in front of Dietrich. Anyone would think we were at the dentist.
Dietrich examined the inside of the child’s mouth and seemed to realize something.
“A silencing spell?”
What’s that?
“It’s a spell that prevents you from speaking. Judging by the formula, it seems to be a spell that’s over a hundred years old…”
“But it seems this child isn’t completely unable to speak, right? He did say a few simple words last time.”
“A curse is a curse in its own right. There are silencing spells that prevent only specific words from being spoken. It looks like we’ll have to observe more to understand this child’s case.”
“Can it be undone?”
“…Well, normally, you’d need to call a sorcerer or consult a cleric who is knowledgeable about curses.”
Dietrich spoke as if troubled.
That wouldn’t be possible here.
“This is a forbidden spell. Why would anyone cast such a spell on such a young child…”
So that was why he couldn’t speak.
“Can’t he just write instead?”
“The very purpose of ‘silencing spell’ is to block the expression itself.”
“…Why would someone cast such a spell on this child?”
“Such curse spells are usually cast to keep a secret. For example, if someone possesses information that must not leak out.”
“……”
That means…
I looked at the child still clutching my skirt.
It sounds like this child knows ‘an important secret of the mansion’.
Now that I think about it, he appeared on the first floor during a dangerous emergency.
On the second floor, he appeared as a human, saved me, and brought me one of the paintings.
“Come to think of it, this child drank a potion for resistance against curses.”
It was one of the items from Penny on the first floor.
The Ring of Fire and a potion for curse resistance.
They were missing from their proper place. Moreover, I had already found the Ring of Fire on the child’s body.
“You drank it, didn’t you?”
Nod, nod.
The child readily admitted it.
“Maybe you drank it to try to break the silencing spell.”
“I don’t know about that. There could be more than one curse.”
“What?”
“You said he turned from that little ball of fur into a human.”
Dietrich spoke as if he was onto something.
“If his true form is human and he was cursed to become that small creature, perhaps he drank the potion to revert back to human.”
“……”
“That’s uncertain.”
Now that I listened, it made sense.
It’s unfortunate that the silencing spell was cast on him, but I felt that this child could be the key to this mansion.
Then the child hugged me tightly, as if to rely on me.
“This child seems to follow you well.”
Indeed. It’s strange.
In the game, he followed you well, too.
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